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If the Harper is the Live in Brooklyn one I'm thinking of, I sprung for the digital download on Bandcamp. Only the third time I've ever done that (the other two were the Hannibal Peterson album on MPS through Amazon and the Elvin Jones Town Hall album on PM through their website.).

Charmingly is the key word for me. I am much more enamored of the 60's "excess" (L.A., S.F., London, and other locales) than I am into the "mature" music of the 70's. Give me this over any Jackson Browne album or whatever.

RIP. He was the best at what he did, regardless of what one thinks of the genre (I've steadily grown into it over the decades, adore it now). Though I've never heard it, I'd jump at a domestic CD issue of that title, even with "Honey" and "Lady Madonna" onboard.

Sounds great on this rainy Sunday afternoon. This series is by FAR my favorite Braxton. Didn't know he had it in him. And the rest of the quartet (Kevin O'Neil-G, Andy Eulau-B, Kevin Norton-D) is outstanding, though previously unknown to me.

And the physical production costs of CD's are much lower. I'd jump at a CD set of the Nathan Davis, and likely at one of the Blakey. And I have to think we're far from alone on this. But the market seems to have swung to the vinyl fetishists, who will pay the outrageous prices. Yes, I'm still just whining.

Understood, I'm just whining.

Which means a CD version could sell relatively well.

This is a great use of $15, broought to you by the good folks at BGO Records in the UK (legit licensing):

Totally agree. To me, Furay was the best singer in the group, though his writing wasn't up to Young or Stills (nothing to be ashamed of). Love the group and that cut. "Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing" is another where Furay's vocal enhanced a great song by Young.

works for me...

Good, thanks, I thought the Dorn mastering on the 32Jazz Left Bank material was fairly atrocious. Walton, Getz, Hubbard, Stitt come immediately to mind. Not sure if I have any other Left Bank 32Jazz material. That whole label was a mess in some ways, from the reimagined cover art (especially "The Moontrane", but lots of others. Muse did some great album covers until they decided half-naked women was the way to go) to the anthology track selection (anthologies aren't a good modern jazz idea anyways, and to make a Carlos Garnett Muse anthology be only 40 minutes, and burn 1/3 of that on "Taurus Woman"? Really?). Yet they did things like reissue "The Free Slave" which were amazing.

Really backward looking repertoire compared to some of the other Blakey groups from the era, who included Billy Harper, Woody Shaw, Carlos Garnett, Joanne Brackeen, etc.

Amazing life well lived. Here is Washington Post link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-singer-dies/

One great album, 'Strong Persuader', which is very special. Agree that the rest of his catalog is lukewarm at best.

60's Paul Butterfield, Stevie Ray Vaughan, 60's Johnny Winter, Louisiana Red, Roy Buchanan, early Fleetwood Mac, early John Mayall, Bloomfield/Gravenites., 60's Savoy Brown, early Ten Years After, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson.

I picked up the McGuinn error, and it certainly clashed with the bit earlier in the piece about the band's lifestyle, and I don't agree it's their best album (that would be either 'Mr. Tambourine Man' or 'Younger Than Yesterday') but it is an album that hangs together and flows really well, the whole stronger than the sum of the parts, and the writing did make me want to go relisten, which tends to be my acid test for an album review. I was born in 1954, fanatically plugged into rock music at 9 from the British Invasion, and benefitted from one of the very early free-form rock FM stations (WEBN in Cincinnati - their "Jelly Pudding" programming), so I was "sort of there in some ways as a junior member". I was aware of these albums in pretty much real time, though I didn't have the budget to buy/hear them all at the time. Had a friend who did, and spent a lot of hours listening in his basement. Saw the albums in the many hours I spent flipping through record store browsers/cutout bins, and heard cuts on the radio. Not sure at what point I started reading Rolling Stone and other rock magazines (Creem, Crawdaddy). Bought Lillian Roxon's "Rock Encyclopedia" very early on and wore it out.

How's the sound quality? That is my main concern with Left Bank material.

"Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" is a desert island disc for me, may be my favorite jazz album period, and I agree it is Mariano's (as well as Mingus's, and one of Jazz's) most memorable work.

TTK and all, check this new review out: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/the-byrds-the-notorious-byrd-brothers/

I like this one a lot, as well as the aforementioned Toshiko-Mariano Quartet album on Candid.

No Art Blakey/Jazz Messengers.

If it's "Duke Ellington's Sound of Love", that's Jackie Paris, who has allways been lost on me. If it's "Moves", that's Doug Hammond (more a drummer than a singer) and Honi Gordon.

I just subscribed for Vols. 2-11. No-brainer for me. If I'm not going to spend $225 on this, what music would I spend it on instead? This stuff is my musical wheelhouse as much as anything is. And if I am not pleased for some unforeseeable reason, shouldn't be a difficult resell, with the limited quantities being produced. Plus it gives Matt & Co. seed money for this and other projects - this music needs to be preserved and available. Clear win in every aspect for me.

They'd have a lot to talk about