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It's spectacular, Carpe Diem!

Happy Easter, everyone, He is risen! My cut was "Sir Galahad" from Billy Harper's 'Capra Black' album, released on Strata-East in 1974. The album cover has been my avatar on this forum since I joined in 2005! Harper is joined by Jimmy Owens on trumpet, Julian Priester on trombone, George Cables on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums on this beautiful cut. Classic debut album by my favorite musician! Responses to this cut ranged from positive to ecstatic with one notable exception 😊. Thanks for listening and participating, and thanks to Mr. Notable Exception for coordinating this BFT, and to Thom for hosting/posting it.

Surprised we didn't hear more about it! To me, the premier jazz vocalist.

Yes, thanks for the remembrance and the video link!

Just finished watching 'The Intruder'. Very jarring movie even now, can't imagine how it must have hit viewers in 1963. Had no idea Shatner had that in him.

Thank you!

Just looked at that label in Discogs. Some really interesting looking late 70's releases, none of which I was familiar with! We can only hope....

Loved his work with Mingus, and when I saw MIngus Dynasty live in the early 90's at the Painted Bride Art Center, he was highly visible, seemed to be leading the gig that night, incredible performance (Walrath, Alex Foster, Michael Formanek, don't remember who the drummer was, and filling in (I believe for George Adams and Don Pullen) were Josh Redman (who was amazing that night) and John Hicks. I have not been as happy with Walrath's leader work, which gets pretty quirky (and I can't stand David Fiuczynski on guitar).

Thanks,not familiar with either of those. The first one looks really good, the second, uh, "interesting", though I'll pass on it. Would like to see the first one.

Mine too. Very poignant, you end up really caring about the guy. Only downside is that the monster on the wing looks like a giant muppet!

Yes, one of their few glaring oversights. Others include Gary Bartz - 'Home' and Sonny Simmons 'Rumasuma'. But it's amazing how much Fantasy did get out on CD before selling to Concord, who has basically mothballed those catalogs.

I also have picked up a lot more of them on CD than on LP. My limited LP money in the 70's was spent more on building library of Coltrane, Tyner, Blakey/Jazz Messengers, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, etc. But I did have some Pablo's that I got at good prices, especially a lot of the 1975 Montreux recordings (they also recorded there in 1977).

That's my memory of them in the 70's. Pablo didn't have "hits", but their releases were solid and dependable. You knew you were getting a good album by master musicians with long playing time (45-50 minutes) and beautiful artwork. No compromises on quality in any regard for great mainstream artists who had often been treated shamefully on record in the previous decade.

The three volumes of that desperately need CD reissue!

Finishing this up. Here's your likely best album release of the year for 2024. Shocking that something this magnificent would see the light of day this late in the game (I know there was a bootleg of one track from it some years ago). Don't understand why Impulse didn't put this out back in the early 70's, it would have sold as well as a lot of what they were releasing, and would have been a cultural landmark. This CD release would have fit on one disc instead of two (though barely), and the sound isn't the best (though perfectly acceptable, better than several of the John Coltrane archival releases), but otherwise, this is a gem.

Used copy of the Summer of Soul soundtrack CD.

Could have been $4.5 million what? My imagination is only so good.

Same here. How good is sound quality on 1940-1942 recordings going to get?

I voted for the Booker Little, though thankful for all of the albums listed.

Yep.

And if the interpreter is taking the bullet to cover for Ohtani's gambling, does he realize he's likely headed to jail with the way the public story currently stands? Gets interesting here with a shame/honor culture slamming up against a truth/facts culture. Wonder how the Dodgers are feeling about their billion dollars worth of FA signings (Ohtani and Yoshinobu) at the moment? So much more to come on all of this yet.

This has all been out many times previously on CD, including good-sounding versions with many bonus cuts on Esoteric (the same Cherry Red family label doing the box set here). This box just bundles those Esoteric releases, which I already own, but I may well spring for it anyways, as the boxes they do have beautiful presentation and very generous pricing. Great music.

RIP, loved his work on the early Caravan albums, supporting brother Pye & Co.

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