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I stumbled across autographed CD's of Joey DeFrancesco - 'Project Freedom' and Buck Hill - 'Capital Hill'. Autographs don't really do anything for me, so If either or both of these are of interest to you, let me know what you would be willing to send me that consider a fair trade for them, and we'll see what we can get done. Both autographs are on the front of the CD booklets. The DeFrancesco is his signature in black sharpie, the Hill says "To Woody Buck HIll 1992 in black thin line sharpie. PM if interested, thanks.

Had a "newbie" who has never posted here who then pointed me to a "friend", who wanted to charge me for a scan of the booklet and get me into a negotiation on price. Beware of similar tactics coming your way.

The Desmond set is marvelous, highly recommended!

I own and recommend the Steve Miller and the Rundgren boxes.

I went out to Discogs, and threw copies of the Bluiett CD from four or five sellers into my cart, to explore adding other CD's to an order of it to optimize postage. I came back some hours later, and two of the copies of the Bluiett CD had sold in the interim! Surely other members here jumping on it 🙂. BTW, I agree with Thom that I'm not always in onh Bluiett's recordings. He had a tendency to go self-consciously retro/gimmicky at times, and I found those to be tedious. But when he was good, he was very good!

Great BFT, thanks. Glad to report I own a lot of these, a fair # of which I did not ID. Eight of the 13, do need to keep an eye out for the Bluiett and Griffin discs. The others I don't have are the Blues Minus You, the Zoot, and the mysterious Old and New Dreams audience tape, and wouldn't mind having any of those either, though the Zoot is the only one which may happen in my lifetime. I remember liking Claudia Acuna, but placed it on my secondary shelves, and need to go back and revisit it!

Has to be Bluiett. I've never heard the song or album, but I would guess it's cut #6 from this. The trumpet player's writing style is pretty unmistakable from his time with the great bass player in the 70's. BTW. if I'm correct, I need to pick this CD up!

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PM sent on Lennon box.

PM on -Wadada Leo Smith- Great Lake Suites Excellent condition $12

I first encountered his work as a kid on the 'That Was The Week That Was' TV show. Had no idea he was still alive - 97 is quite a run. These are the songs of his that always stuck with me:

Could have been, or else may have been a timing thing, depending on when your crowd started buying rock albums. From what I see, Paranoid (released 1970) went 4x platinum, Masters of Reality (released 1971) and We Sold Our Soul (released 1976) each went 2x platinum, and nothing else went more than single platinum. We Sold Our Soul was a double album, which I think was specially priced (I never owned it), so it probably looked like the better "deal" back then.

Saw him live once in the mid-70's with his quartet/quintet (forget which) and Esther Satterfield at one of the venues in Fairmount Park. Really good show from what I remember.

Thanks for sharing, good article!

I saw him twice, once in the 70's at Keystone Korner (that spectacular triple bill, Hutcherson's quintet along with Max Roach's quartet featuring Billy Harper/Reggie Workman, and Dexter Gordon playing with Eddie Henderson and Hutcherson's rhythm section of Cables/Leary/Marshall), and in 1988 at an outdoor concert at Penn's Landing in Philly, a quartet with John Hicks. Spectacular both times.

RIP. 97 is a great run. I'm only vaguely familiar with her work, but have been aware of her for decades. Married to John Dankworth for five decades.

If were a great group. Not sure when I discovered them, but it was after they had disbanded.

Also on this small-group messengers album, with Keith Jarrett (!) on piano, the mysterious Frank Mitchell on tenor, and Reggie Johnson on bass. Seems like there should be more tapes from this gig availalbe.

Which would make a great Mosaic set.

RIP, I love "Land of Make Believe" and am a big fan of his early 70's Mercury albums.

Great seller, buy with confidence! PM sent on -Horace Silver- Retrospective $14 -Peter Erskine- (ECM) As it Was- opened, played once. Overall condition is excellent. $15 $12 $10

I have the Dolohy book by Simosko & Tepperman from the 70's, but it's also mostly analysis of his recordings. But that was of great benefit to me at that point in my journey, and it has an excellent annotated disvography.

A review posted on Amazon seems to confirm your fears.

R.I.P. The first three albums were musically enjoyable to me (along the lines of the first few Grand Funk Railroad albums), though some of the lyrics on the first album were troubling (though cartoonish, and "The Wizard" is really muddled). The second and third album were in a different light, with "After Forever" lyrically being outright gospel. The fourth album was so horrible I checked out at 18 and never bothered to pay attention again. But 'Paranoid' was a landmark and will always have a place on my shelves.