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Primo Woody Shaw, great album.

I like Sloane also, and agree with your assessment, thanks.

What do you think of it? Bavan has never sounded "right" to me as a replacement for Annie Ross, but I've had limited exposure to the work with Bavan, and it may just be that my expectations were caught short by the differences in their styles.

That whole BN Montreux series has been a mystery for five decades. I know I only ever saw them as cutouts at Third Street Jazz in Philly (Jerry Gordon's store years before he founded Evidence Records), and there is question if those albums were actually released at the time. The CD issues later on were good to have. If course, the Marlena Shaw sample was the retrospectively famous moment, and I assume that and the Norah Jones windfall made their release more viable.

The Blakey and the Byrd were not released during their lifetimes. I am a huge Blakey fan, but have never had access to any back channels, so never heard it before the BN reissue. That being said, the Blakey was pretty underwhelming based on what was already out there in the marketplace. To me, the Byrd is amazingly/surprisingly good and unique, and I'm very glad it was finally released. I have mixed feelings about "the artist's wishes" on that stuff. BN took on the effort and expense to record that concert, and it was quite worthwhile, why should they have to just eat the costs if it is worthy of release? To me, that concert puts Byrd's contemporaneous studio output to shame, is way above anything he recorded from 'Black Byrd' on, including the commercial BN's, Elektra stuff and the "comeback" albums on Landmark.

What was this? Doesn't take keen deductive skills to realize that there's a market for an unissued session from the heydey of BN. And I agree, it's not an album that adds much of anything other than bulk. Much less heralded but much more rewarding is the Donald Byrd 1970's Montreux historical issue, which tells a whole musical story we did not really know (Nathan Davis, Henry Franklin and the Mizell Brothers all on the same recording).

Same here. One of the first jazz albums I ever bought, thanks to the in-store tutelage of a kind and knowledgeable Franklin Music employee.

I bought a ton of those back then, especially the Prestige/Riverside/Milestone ones. Titles I had never heard or even heard of, at a great price. I think their heyday was actually in the mid-late 70's IIRC.

Yes, you are correct!

Ichi-Ban was on Timeless, not Muse, though it is a really good album. And I'm with you on The Real Thing being great. This one was on Cobblestone, the forerunner of Muse, and is really good too:

A lot more than that if you found a good cutout bin! I remember getting things like ABC/Riverside cutouts at Fields for 57 cents, getting Cobblestone titles for $1 at a store in Philly, etc.

$17.96 at DeepDiscount, so one of their coupons will bring it down to $15-16.

Epistrophy... is free-ish jazz (despite the vintage song titles) and quite bracing, though very much a case of YMMV. I found it jarring when I first got it back in the day, as I expected something quite different. To me, the other Muse RD albums are too subdued and cases where the whole is less than the sim of the parts, though again YMMV.

Mrs. Carlos Santana since 2010. That album caused a big stir when it got released, including two grammy nominations. Columbia, having one of their pro-jazz moments, was all in on publicizing it, but it was worthy.

You don't. Journey To Enligjtenment and Let This Melody Ring On are the two essential albums. Mother of The Future is the key track on Black Love, but Garnett did a far superior version of it on Norman Conmors' Slewfoot album(blasphemous as that sounds).

32Jazz did a Carlos Garnett comp from his five albums, and the runtime was only 40 minutes, 1/3 of which was 'Taurus Woman' 😟

Good point. Even CDJapan is coming in at $20 for this Silver.

A Schlitten according to Wikipedia.

And glad you got the Muse issue rather than the hideous 32jazz issue. What were Dorn & Co. thinking? I would pay for a CD upgrade of this one, my all-time favorite jazz album, especially with the Mosaic box bonus cut: My current version is on this. I cashed in on my Mosaic box, a decision I have mixed feelings about. There's so much that could be done with the Muse catalog.

Same here, but it would be nice to upgrade from old CD-R burns from questionable sources. But no interest in $32.98 vinyl. And why THAT Carlos Garnett title, which is much weaker than his first three albums on the label?

A couple of good 70's Charles Earland LP's, some good Joe Bonner albums, some primo Don Patterson, and an Eric Kloss LP with Hannibal Peterson are high on my list if they ever offer them on CD or reasonably priced digital.

DeepDiscount and ImportCDs will likely be substantially cheaper.

RIP to an artist and survivor!

Did a couple of exciting albums at a very young age in the late 60's, turned down the lead vocalist gig with Led Zeppelin (they found a decent substitute, didn't they...) and basically drifted after that, but a substantial talent at his best. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/08/05/terry-reid-dead-superlungs/85532513007/