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+1. My seven year old grandson (who lives with us) and I have frequent philosophical discussions on the relative merits of snow.

Could be. Where's Pete when we need him?

Thanks Mark. You're a brave man to publish those sidebar lists! I'm so glad to see love for 'Transition' and 'Crescent', and such an eloquent description of the transcedence of 'A Love Supreme' (which was my sudden immediate gateway in jazz in 1972 when I first heard it).

I often find them prohibitive in terms of both space and cost. I tend to do cost/benefit analysis as far as buying them and keeping them. I only kept a handful of the big Mosaic sets in my collection as the music became available in other CD configurations(though I've kept a lot Selects). Yet things like the 90's Atlantic boxes on Trane, Ornette, and Mingus and the Prestige boxes on Trane, Rollins, Miles, and Dolphy, and the Milestone Joe Henderson box are perfect for my needs. I tend to work straight through a box set when I listen to it, regardless of size.

Slightly 😝? Typical Concord fail.

+1. I have so many of those great Kent anthology CD's on my shelves, and they now put out maybe 1-2 discs a year that is of interest to me. May be that the market is pretty dried up for that sort of release.

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/eternal-journey--the-arrangements-and-productions-of-charles-stepney-1 This should be interesting, though they missed badly on the Terry Callier selections (How do you not select "Dancing Girl", which is Stepney's masterpiece, and "Alley-Wind Song" for this set?), and on the Dells ("I Can Sing A Rainbow/Love is Blue" is inexplicably absent).

Pre-internet, I bought a Japanese book on the Riverside discography from Tower Records. It was invaluable to see even the album covers and personnel for albums I never knew existed. But as Lou Reed sang "those were different times". I'm too old, tired, and sated for all of that!

That would be a great book for me if I could read Japanese!

Be sure to bring your warmest clothes. Pittsburgh in February gets COLD!

Makes sense, thanks. If someone writes an equivalent high-quality "spiritual jazz" book, I'm all in even at a crazy price.

Timely stuff, thanks. BTW, his 'Land of Hope & Dreams' EP from last year is magnificent.

I've been doing a concentrated Jessica Williams listen the last few days. Glorious stuff.

It's good - I like the first Lookout Farm album even more. It goes for three figures on CD, but is available as an Amazon download.

I have the DVD, it sounds really good to me, as do most DVD's from Montreux I have.

Indeed there is, thanks!

RIP. Loved his work with Liebman in Lookout Farm and Pendulum.

This is the gem I was not aware of until this series came out last year (I ordered it immediately then), apparently has never been released outside Japan in any form. Farmer/Jackie McLean/Cedar Walton/Sam Jones/Billy Higgins live in 1977? Yes, please!

The fate of a particularly rhythmically-challanged drummer? A cliche-ridden sax player? A pianist too busy on his comping? A bass player taking overly-long solos?

Agreed, also Gracham Moncur III, New Africa.

Philly is "youse guys", I don't remember hearing "youse" without "guys". Pittsburgh was/is "yins", Huntsville, Ala. was/is "y'all". Don't remember what it was/is in the other places I've lived (Cincinnati, OH and West Palm Beach, FLA).

Thx. I do have 'Dreams and Explorations' and 'Metamorphosis'. Thx!

Was not familiar with 'The Horizon Beyond', but it looks great!

I was listening to Zoller's 'Dream Bells' album yesterday. The first side of that one is awesome.