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Interesting, but not sure I'll bite. I fear it might be bottom of the barrelish, with the Muriel Winston vocals and all. Will wait for reviews. But I have enjoyed the other two recent Hasaan releases.

Hard no here. Just a couple of alternate versions. I'll stick with the CD

For the right price, I'd jump.

1 – Guessing 60’s vintage and vinyl source? I do like it, very atmospheric. Wouldn’t be surprised if this was something on Verve records. Maintains a fluid rather than static pulse despite the extra percussion, so great credit for that. The tune is a good one. Bass Clarinet over the percussion is a nice touch. Pianist takes the solo honors to me. 2 – ‘Perdido’ of course. Also sounds vinyl-sourced. I wanted to think it could be a JATP thing, but I believe I heard a small snippet of Pee Wee Marquette’s voice at the end? Anyways, no ID’s for the artists. Competently played by all, for sure. 3 - Works for me! Ted Curson/Bill Barron? Whatever it is, sign me up. 4 – It’s good, though I like #3 better. This drags in the middle, despite the bass player’s best efforts. This is a later vintage than #3? 5 – You’re really setting a mood with the horn(s)/bass/drums configuration. This again sounds like it could be vinyl-sourced. I like this OK, but suspect that based on names involved, I would expect more. It does not outstay its welcome, which is good. Not a big fan of the bass/drums on this. 6 – OK, we just re-entered my wheelhouse! Surely I have this on a Blue Note CD or something? Whoever is on it has studied Wayne and Herbie closely. Suspect this one will be ID’d quickly. 7 – You’d think a bass player put this BFT together or something. Pleasant enough, but not a biggie for me, as I’m not really a fan of this sort of thing. Mathematically, it should probably be Ron Carter, as he has done so many of these sorts of albums in his later years. I’ve made no effort to keep up with them. 8 – Back in another region of my wheelhouse. Surely 70’s vintage? I don’t believe I have this, and believe I probably need it, depending on some factors (sometimes I like one cut I hear, get a CD, and am disappointed in the rest of it, especially if it is European musicians). I especially like the guitar on this. 9 – I assume someone stole the writing credits from Bronislaw Kaper on this (sounds like a very slight twist to “On Green Dolphin Street” to me). Very pleasant and masterly, yet fades into the background for me. Lots of excellent pianists have extinguished much of the fire from their playing in their old age – Hal Galper, Kenny Barron, etc. 10 – Certainly masterly, though I’m not a fan of the solo sax format. 11 – Yet another track to fit into my wheelhouse. I love this one! Could be anywhere 60’s-80’s, and I’m sure it’s a heavyweight quartet all around. I surely must have this, and if I don’t it becomes my #1 search priority. This is awesome! Suspect it also will be ID’d quickly, maybe even by me as I think about it some more. This is my favorite cut on the BFT by a mile, much as I really like some of the others. 12 – This is going to polarize a lot of listeners here – me, I dig it! Got to be from the 70’s, doesn’t it? Whoever it is listened closely to the Herbie WB albums and ‘Headhunters’ and ‘Thrust’, I suspect. The soloists don’t do it for me, but the groove is the thang! Some fascinating stuff. I greatly look forward to reveals on #’s 1,3,6,8, 11, 12, with some interest in other cuts also. Thanks Tim!

Thx, will look fir it.

What's the music like? Gospely with vocals or avant-garde organ/drums freakouts or something inbetween or all of the above?

Never ever underestimate Johnny Mathis's body of work! Chock fill of treasures.

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I'm in, eventually. I own these already, but like the mastering and packaging on these sets.

Thanks so much, that David T. Walker is quite a find, though the CD era has not been kind to him (the Japanese $40 P-Vines, sometimes dubbed from vinyl, notwithstanding). I've been looking for that Jarrett CD for a while, but have never heard it. And that Buddy Terry cut, wow (also not on CD).

Great album!

Defensively, no question about it, he was the greatest by a good stretch. And I lived in Cincinnati in 1970 and watched him (on TV) destroy our Reds in the World Series. IMO, Mike Schmidt was the best overall due to his incredible bat/glove combo (I watched him here in Philly his entire career), and Eddie Mathews, Wade Boggs, and George Brett contributed so much with their bats, that they are there with Brooks overall. But no one ever fielded 3B like Brooks.

This is definitely supplemental to that box rather than a replacement for ti, especially given the annoyances of the BBC announcers (thankfully given their own tracking, so you can program around them), but there's some great stuff on this one also, and it's different enough from the Torrid Zone box.

Yes, wouldn't want to bruise or offend their precious little audio psyches.

I like the older ones mentioned above, but this one has always blown me away:

And some characters are composited. The Phil Spector character is obvious, as is the Berry Gordy character, though the label reads as Vee Jay rather tha Motown in the later parts of the book. Not sure who Mark Donovan is based on, and don't know enough about country music to ID those characters. Book does great job of describing payola.

So I was correct on #7?

Not that I'm aware of. Amazon doesn't show any releases of this since 2005.

One of the first 5-10 jazz albums I ever bought (thank you, my benefactor sales clerk at Franklin Records), 20-25 years later replaced by the two OJC CD's, the Quintet and the Bud Powell at Massey Hall. Good enough for me. I owned the big Mingus Debut box twice, but once the smaller Euro Mingus Leader Debut box came out, I got that and a few other single CD's, some of which I already had inhouse (Bley, Hazel Scott, Miles, Thad Jones, 4 Trombones, a $3 John Dennis) and sold off the box, which was too bulky for me and had too much filler for my tastes. There's a lot of gold in that box, but also a lot of dross.

His first Milestone, 'Next Album', was quite hailed when it first appeared, and I found 'Horn Culture' , 'The Cutting Edge' , and 'Don't Stop The Carnival' interesting in their own ways. But the only other one I bothered to keep besides those three (and my favorite of the bunch) is 'G-Man'.

As were so many early CD releases. The distance CD release quality came in every aspect (sonics, bonus cuts, liner notes, packaging) from the 80's to the late 90's was stunning and gratifying.