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Not jazz, but great music: Complete Motown Singes, volume 11B - 1971. CD5, "Ball of Confusion" by the Undisputed Truth. GREAT Norman Whitfield work!

Mine too, though five of the six sessions are now available elsewhere. But when it came out, it was like a dream come true.

I've always been surprised that more of the complete Woodstock sets weren't released. Seems like they would have been good sellers in years past, moreso than they will be at this late date. All we've really had was Hendrix's set, which was pretty awful in pure musical terms.

The Santana Woodstock performance, complete except for "Evil Ways", was on the Legacy Edition of their first album. Unless you're an utter completist (which I'm not unsympathetic to in the case of Woodstock Santana), the Legacy Edition is the better bet as it contains nine other bonus cuts in addition to the Woodstock cuts. I believe some of the Jefferson Airplane Woodstock cuts were on the Jefferson Airplane Loves You box set from many years ago, but looking at the new Woodstock Experience CD listing, their set was 14 songs, so that one is a must buy for me, as are the Joplin, Johnny Winter, and Sly. The most annoying thing about these releases is that they drop the bonus cuts which have been on previous later CD releases of the studio albums, so you can't just replace the older CD's without losing valuable music. In the case of the Johnny Winter, Janis Joplin, and Sly, that's only a few minutes of material, but in the case of the Santana and Jefferson Airplane, that's a good bit of really interesting stuff. Also, I have the Sly and Joplin albums as parts of box sets by those artists, and won't break up the box set. But the good thing here, in addition to these Woodstock performances seeing the light of day, is that the list price for the two CD sets is only $19.98 (available for $14.99 at Amazon - or you can pre-order the whole 10-CD box for $67.99), so overall, while I would have done it a little differently, I'm really glad to see this.

I'd even be willing to spring for the cost of a can of Rustoleum if they did reissue it in the rust box. Feel free to make me an offer on mine - nice music but I HATE the packaging! I'd rather just gather/wait on the individual session issues.

Colin, Send me a PM, I can do it for you if they are still available. JF

Agreed. Fantasy was doing great stuff at the time of the sale, and Concord put out what was in the pipeline, but then pulled the plug and went to slop. A pity we never got the third Coltrane Prestige box to finish the set.

Listening to it right now, sounds great to me. May be identical to '96 (I never heard the old one), but they were able to do a fine sounding CD by 1996, came a long way from the 80's and early 90's. Incredible bargain even at the correct price, let alone at $13.99, and nice packaging. Maybe Nonesuch can buy the Fantasy catalog from Concord and do it right :-).

McIntosh is a really good choice. Also, Billy Harper, Charles Tolliver, Gigi Gryce ("Minority" alone would be enough to make him an all-time great). And, as well-known as he is, Wayne Shorter's writing in the 60's is so stunning it still isn't fully appreciated (and the same applies for Herbie Hancock, though I think for Shorter even moreso). And I'll take abuse for this one, but Chuck Mangione did some great writing in the early 70's up through "Land of Make Believe" before the sell-out.

Got mine. Thanks, what a deal!

Got mine, thanks! Thank you for the fine bonus discs you include!

Yup, gorgeous day for a walk in Valley Forge Park (King of Prussia is right on it's eastern border) or strolling around downtown Philly (20 minutes to the east of us). And for rainy days we have King of Prussia mall, which recently was (may still be, I don't know), the biggest shopping mall in the USA in terms of number of stores (over 400). The mall and Lockheed-Martin pay almost all of our property taxes for us, so we have outstanding schools and municipal services, and very low taxes. King of Prussia contains the busiest traffic corridor in the state of Pennsylvania, where the Schuykill Expressway (which goes into Philly), the Pennsylvania Turnpike, Route 202 (contains the suburban Philly high-tech corridor goes through the major western suburbs and down into Wilmington, Delaware), and Route 476. the notorious Blue Route (goes from the northwestern suburbs to I-95 south of the airport, creating bypass of the city for traveling north-south from the suburbs to Baltimore, Washington DC and other points in the mid-Atlantic corridor) all converge. A lovely place to raise a family, as long as you don't mind traffic and don't expect to be able to see stars in the sky at night (too many lights). Philadelphia's charming Main Line area, with it's fine, unaffordable universities and huge, unaffordable houses, is just a few minutes away, as is the more gritty existence of Bridgeport and Norristown (just across the Schuykill River). And we have real Philly-style cheese steaks, which alone is reason enough to live here!

1 - Indeed I have the Dolphy box, and that will likely end up being what I have when I go to the grave. 2 - But I like to whine at Concord, it's therapeutic for me and they are deserving targets of the whining. 3 - As far as the Japanese CD's, I'm way in the other half there, never buy the things if the music is available otherwise. 4 - Good for my budget if all we see is "sure fire" reissues. If there isn't sufficient value added, I'm not buying them. I managed to pass on all three of the 2008 Kind of Blue packages.

Freakin' no-brainer to just put the 3 LP's and the 'Here and There' tracks into a 2CD set 'Eric Dolphy Complete Live at the Five Spot', as was mentioned at the very beginning of this topic many moons ago. Instead we get this, and probably a 34-minute 'Eric Dolphy Plays Flute for Lovers' next year at Valentines Day,while the Andorrans will no doubt do it right in 2011 (and will do another right 2CD set of the 'In Europe' LP's). This stuff ain't rocket science, amazed they refuse to get it right. Fantasy was doing really nice work along these lines when they sold to Concord, the Red Garland at the Prelude set, the Monk/Trane set, the Evans Vanguard set, the Miles Quintet set, the Trane boxes, etc. I had really hoped Concord would just keep on that path, as they did release some of those initally, but they went to the Dark Side. BTW, "Status Seeking" was always my favorite cut from the Five Spot recordings.

PM sent on Ken McIntyre - In the Wind (Passin' Thru) $10 Riverside Reunion Band - Mostly Monk (Milestone) $5 Bobby Watson - Quiet As It's Kept (red) OOP $10 Arkham - Arkham (Cunieform) $6 And someone needs to grab that John Lee Hooker, which may be the best album he ever made!

That's my pick, though I'm biased because it was my introduction to Bird, the 2LP Prestige reissue in the early 70's that had the Bud Powell Massey Hall sides (not a favorite of Powell's for me), on the other LP. Bird, Diz, Bud, Mingus, Max. Wow.

PM sent on following: Jean-Paul Bourelly- Fade to Cacophony- on Evidence Bobby Previte- Setthe Alarm for Monday, on Palmetto Sonny Sharrock- Live in New York, on Enemy

And Freeman was a monster player back in those days. Not sure why he lost the fire in the 80's, but he did.

Ornette was on Atlantic. The others are all Sony/ Columbia, and these are part of their Legacy bells-and-whistles reissues. Bingo--that's why no mention of GIANT STEPS either. I'm sure WEA/Rhino are watching closely. Would Ornette sell enough for them to see it as feasible in this market? I certainly would never recommended 'Change of the Century' as a starting point to someone who's "not sure if they like jazz", the way I would the Miles, Trane, and Brubeck titles under discussion here. Wouldn't recommend the Mingus title either. I guess that Ornette would sell on the same level as a Mingus? Just ruminations at lunchtime...

I believe I read somewhere that they've used the Mark Wilder 20 bit remastering from the 3 cd box set. I thought that mastering was really good, would certainly not be looking to pay for just a remaster.

Does the Mingus have anything on it which wasn't on the great 3CD set that came out several years ago? Is there really any reason for me to buy it or Sketches if I already have the Mingus box set and the Davis/Evans box? thx

1 - Agreed on the Priester, amazing. 2 - To me, 'Timeless' is Abercrombie's masterpiece by a longshot. 3 - Chewy wants to know which of these Hank played on.

PM sent on the Jon Blum and the Laboratorium. PM sent on the Bobby Patterson and the Marisa Monte - Mais .

PM sent on the Jon Blum and the Laboratorium.

"The Coaster" off of Grachan Moncur III's great 'Evolution' album - with Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Bob Cranshaw, and Tony Williams. Recorded 11/21/63, the day before JFK got shot. Talk about timeless music that hasn't aged!