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I'm up next week and will extend the memorial even a week further, probably with either 'Members, Don't Get Weary' or 'Deeds, Not Words'.

To paraphrase John D. Rockefeller: Q: How many CD's are enough? A: Just a few more. PM sent on the Jessica Williams.

I feel exactly the same way about Moby Grape and Love. I do like Moby Grape's first album--they caught a compelling mood in the studio while recording it, for me. Other than that, I just don't love their music, although I have tried. All of Love's output is the same way for me. Another group that I want to like from that time, but just really don't, is the group with Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, the Rising Sons. I'm with you on Moby Grape, only the first album really does it for me, and I consider it overrated really, though certainly very good. On the other hand, I think the first five Love albums (through Out Here) are pretty wonderful, with the exception of the criminal waste of the second side of Da Capo with "Revelation". It became even clearer later on what a terrible waste that was when we got to hear all those excellent Bryan McLean demos from the period of cuts Love never recorded. Rising Sons was an early prototype for all involved, would be quite long forgotten if Mahal, Cooder, and Cassidy hadn't gone on to achieve their later high profiles. There's tons of bad prototype blues-rock stuff from the mid-sixties out there.

I agree it's confusing, and I agree that the Strata-East album has lousy sound. Interesting since the earlier "Music Inc. and Big Band' on Strata-East has good sound (and is a GREAT album).

I would think so! Just don't forget to beware of the actual recorded sound, since it's close to unlistenable... :rsly: You must have much higher standards than me, it doesn't sound bad at all to my ears.

Don't remember the Braxton being in heavy rotation on MTV.

Off the top of my head: "I Will Follow" - U2 "Driver 8" - R.E.M. "Runner" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band but I suspect I should really have something by Big Country on that list, just can't decide which one.

The Art Farmer single CD.

PM sent

A GREAT set. Someome should jump on this ASAP!

I also prefer the Yardbirds to Led Zep (overall that is - the highligts of Led Zep can't be touched, but too much posturing in too much of the material for me) and Buffalo Springfield to CSNY. I also prefer the Byrds, the Hollies, Neil Young solo, and the best parts of Stephen Stills solo and David Crosby solo to CSNY.

Any chance that It's A Beautiful Day also got some relief in that judgement? If you're referring to It's a Beautiful Day's self-titled album, that one was reissued on CD in 2001. It's still available from Amazon.com and other stores. There's been a problem with US release of their entire catalog. I've managed to get import CD's of their first two albums plus their live album, but would like to get the other two titles (bad as 'Today' probably is, without David LaFlamme), remastering, bonus cuts, etc. CBS had a 2CD retrospective equivalent to the one they did on Moby Grape in the 90's and were blocked legally from putting it out due to court actions. It's a Beautiful Day and Moby Grape shared the same seemingly unscrupulous (I don't know his side of the story) manager, Matthew Katz, during their tenures with Columbia records, and he has blocked legit US releases of their catalogs for many decades.

Any chance that It's A Beautiful Day also got some relief in that judgement?

Sundazed does a spectacular job in remastering - the sound should be great.

I was never a huge Moby Grape fan, like their first album a good bit, love "Omaha". I'm not a country rock guy (the Byrds totally lost me with 'Sweetheart of the Rodeo'). I've never gotten 'Oar' at all. Sounds to me like what I understand it to be, the semicoherent ramblings of a madman. But I know a lot of people love it.

Listen My Friends: Omaha!

I remember liking those Michael Howell LP's quite a bit. But that's 30 years back.

PM sent on all three titles.

Sony/Columbia could have stopped this release if they noticed/cared. Cool. I was thinking along the line of Granz. . . .I shouldn't have said probably, I was actually thinking "possibly" but wrote probably. You'd think they WOULD HAVE stopped these, or gotten their cut. . . are they just so not paying attention? If anyone noticed (most folks with that info have been fired by the majors) they would have demanded rights, paid "venue rights" and issued it with some payment to the owner of the tapes. It's so hard to believe there's no one around who would know! WIERD. Sad. Shows how little interest, numbers wise, there is in this great music. I always think of those amazing OJC Limited Editions, like the Wlt Dickersons, which apparently never sold their allotted 3000 CD's.

I loved "Progressive Blues Experiment" and "Second Winter"! RIP.

There's also a Miles '63, a Dizzy '65, and a Sassy '71 set coming (description includes Bob Magnussen "groovin' the bass" - they're repeating bad cliches, although at least they got the instrument right this time, didn't have him on cello like they had Rouse on alto). I'm especially looking forward to the Miles, as I really liked George Coleman's work with Miles/Hancock/Carter/Williams. I assume it's Coleman here - not sure when Strozier, Rivers, and Stitt had their spells in the group. BTW, not a thing ablut any of these on their home page or new releases page, you have to go search by artist or label to see the descriptions. How messed up is that?

Parks is a very good post-bop/mainstream pianist. I discovered him when I got a couple of CD's of his in a huge lot of mostly obscure jazz stuff I got from a good guy in Seattle. His CD's were keepers for me, but of course I paid a lot less than $20 a pop for them That being said, the $20 asking price isn't out of line compared to what they're going for on Amazon.

The Ella/Billie/Carmen CD came out many years ago with several unreleased tracks. Nice to have and of great historical significance.

Chuck, maybe you had to be there to really appreciate that one Seriously though, no reason to worry about that recording.

Now this could cause my first order with Mr. Tanno! That's also the one that jumped out and made my day.