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It's the only Reuben Wilson LP I've flogged because I thought it was crap. But I've made many mistakes in the past and this might be one. In the light of Mike and Shawn's comments, I'll try this again. MG I like it ! Definitely worth picking up the Reuben Wilson - and the sound on the CD reissue is really outstanding. I can sort of hear the similarity in style with 'Moon Rappin' that SS mentions. Definite 1971 groove.. I just listened to it this week, and found it abysmal. May be the worst Blue Note album I've ever heard.

Dusty Springfield's version is my favourite. It was a Top-3 hit in the U.K. in 1964. She was a great singer. Yes she was. Also knew how to pick a great song for her voice. Only top 40 charting version of "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" here in the USA was Dionne Warwick's, which went to #26 in 1966 (which I think was the same year as Springfield's version). BTW, back on Springfield, Shelby Lynne's tribute album from this year, "Just A Little Lovin'", is amazingly good. Dusty Springfield recorded the song two years before Dionne Warwick did. Dusty's version was a U.K. hit in the summer of 1964. It entered the U.K. charts in July of that year and reached #3. Scepter released Dionne's version in the summer of 1966. Interesting stuff. Springfield hit in the US with "Wishin' and Hopin'" (yet ANOTHER great Bacharach/David song) that summer ('64). During the "British Invasion" of 1964, a lot of songs which had already hit in England during the previous year charted in the USA at that time. That's how the Bealtes came to hold down the top six positions on the US Singles chart one of the weeks that April. I wonder if that's the case with Springfield, or if the record company just chose different songs for US and British release.

Dusty Springfield's version is my favourite. It was a Top-3 hit in the U.K. in 1964. She was a great singer. Yes she was. Also knew how to pick a great song for her voice. Only top 40 charting version of "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" here in the USA was Dionne Warwick's, which went to #26 in 1966 (which I think was the same year as Springfield's version). BTW, back on Springfield, Shelby Lynne's tribute album from this year, "Just A Little Lovin'", is amazingly good.

Great stuff. Loved it then, love it now. In general, the earlier the better on that material for me. Some great stuff on Sceptor in that period. Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, Maxine Brown, Tommy Hunt. B.J. Thomas. Great production by Luther Dixon as well as Bacharach/David. Magical stuff. I'm not sure how Bacharach/David's "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" missed being a smash hit for somebody. Tommy Hunt's version is especially good. The songs that Bacharach/David/Warwick let other people have the hit with are also pretty impressive ("What The World Needs Now" for Jackie DeShannon and "Make It Easy On Yourself" for the Walker Brothers also come to mind immediately) There was supposed to be a biopic on Florence Greenberg, the suburban New Jersey housewife who started the label to record her high school daughter's friends the Shirelles. It was to have starred Bette Midler, but doesn't seem to have ever been filmed. But the music from that label is stunning (also includes the Kingsmen, "Louie, Louie"!). There are many treasures buried in the Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, Maxine Brown, and Tommy Hunt catalogs from then also, as well as the amazing wealth of stunning Warwick material.

PM sent on the Mel Rhyne.

Don't know that this ever has come out on CD, but I also didn't think that Garnett's 'Journey To Enlightenment' had either, but I'm here listening to a Sony CD of it right now. LP was originally released on Muse in 1975. Any leads on getting 'Melody' on CD would be greatly appreciated, as I always really liked these two Garnett albums, which included an interesting vocalist named Ayodele Jenkins (Garnett also sings - very well, in harmony). As Dusty Groove would say, they they were very spiritual, and were landmark recordings for me. The best comparison I can think of is a cross between the early 70's Gary Bartz recordings where he sang and the Doug and Jean Carn albums on Black Jazz as well as the Norman Connors version of "Mother of the Future", but they are a little different than that rhythmically, with a Hubert Eaves/Reggie Lucas/Anthony Jackson/Howard King/two percussionist rhythm section on 'Journey'. Eaves and King of course played with Bartz around that era, but there is less of a funk and more of a Carribean feel in the rhythm (Garnett comes from Panama). Anyways, thanks for any leads on the 'Melody' CD.

PM sent on the following: Vandermark 5 -- Simpatico (atavistic) - $6 Vandermark, Ken (Sound in Action Trio) -- Gate (atavistic) - $6 Young, Lester -- In Washington D.C. Vol. 1 (OJC) $6 Young, Lester -- In Washington D.C. Vol. 2 (OJC) $6 Young, Lester -- In Washington D.C. Vol. 3 (OJC) $6 Young, Lester -- In Washington D.C. Vol. 4 (OJC) $6 Young, Lester -- In Washington D.C. Vol. 5 (OJC) $6 (or all five for $20) Coltrane, John -- "My Favorite Things" (Rhino) - FREE WITH ANY TRADE / SALE

The Gloria Coleman is nice, an B3 organ quartet with Grant Green and Leo Wright (forget the female drummer's name), early 60's Impulse release. Not sure why Coleman didn't get to record more, she certainly sounds the equal of someone like Shirley Scott to me.

I also consider this one to be his best.

I actually would make the case that the Catalyst is worth $53, as it is a 2 CD set containing four full albums. That being said, it should be available for a good bit less than that if you are patient (I sold an extra one on ebay for about half of that earlier this year). They were a great early 70's group from Philly, Odean Pope was a monster with them. Eddie Green, the great Tyrone Brown (also a wonderfully kind person), Sherman Ferguson. Classic stuff on their first three albums, though the fourth drifted too commercial, probably in frustration to them being ignored in the marketplace (as was Cobblestone/Muse in general, a crime). $250 for the Kloss is another matter altogether, as much as I like him...

and I want to trade my old slide rule for a scientific calculator!

1 - It's been a long time since they released an interesting package now. Not totally sure when they acquired the catalog, but don't think it was two years prior to those releases. 2 - Hope I don't have to listen to another "downloads are the future" lecture here. We, the small minority, are the people who make this catalog viable beyond the same couple of titles being rereleased over and over and over and over....

I hear ya and don't disagree. I do. Complete 5 Spot was the sort of thing that Fantasy was starting to do beautifully (Evans Vanguard and Garland Prelude and Monk/Trane sets as well as the Stitt, Miles and Trane boxes) before they sold out to the clueless crew at Concord. weren't all of the box sets you mention released after the sale to concord? My understanding from a board member in the know (Chuck, I believe, if I remember) was that all the work on those was done by Fantasy, and they were already in the pipeline when Concord took over, and that Concord then got rid of the people who developed those sets. I hope I'm wrong, but I believe that is the story.

I hear ya and don't disagree. I do. Complete 5 Spot was the sort of thing that Fantasy was starting to do beautifully (Evans Vanguard and Garland Prelude and Monk/Trane sets as well as the Stitt, Miles and Trane boxes) before they sold out to the clueless crew at Concord.

Understand that Inner Space was poorly done in that it left out two of the selections from "Tones For Joans Bones", though what is on there, originals from that album and extra material, is outstanding. You need both "Inner Space" and "Piano By Four" (or whatever that CD was called with cuts by Corea, Tyner, Hancock, and Brubeck) to have the entire "Tones For Joan's Bones". To their credit, Collectables reissued "Tones..." as a twofer with Miraslav Vitous' "Mountain in the Clouds", but to their discredit, left off a cut from the Vitous. Why no one has just reissued "Tones" and the extra cuts from "Inner Space" as a two CD set is beyond me.

I think you've uncovered the business plan. Disagree - We'll get a poorly selected 36 minute compilation, "Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Play For Lovers".

PM sent on the Eddie Daniels.

Just Another Singer to my ears. I've heard 'Confessin The Blues' in the past couple of years. The great underrated singer of the era to me was Lorez Alexandria.

Agreed, marvelous. Box is 8 CD's, split between Ella performances and Ellington performances without Ella.

You can ascribe whatever meaning you want. I'm sure his many fans would say he was incapable of producing an inferior recording. I made a rather arbitrary choice and sold the quartet recording which is perhaps more typical for Tubbs. Pete, you'll find on further reflection that this is one of Allen's many posts which don't warrant a serious response! BTW, will you be contributing $1 to Margaret Thatcher for each Tubby Hayes CD sold?

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Ezz-thetic, sorry.

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I'd like the Jordan if available, thx.

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