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Yes, that's a great box set. If you like the original albums, don't hesitate to grab it.

I received the June 24, 1979 and Feb. 25 1979 sets today!

Not aware of a Tyner bio - I'd read it. Agreed on the majesty of his Milestone catalog. 'Sahara', his first on Milestone, is a desert island disc for me. 'Expansions' and 'Extensions' on BN and 'Sahara' are the ultimate Tyner for me, but he did so many great albums on BN and Milestone. Saw him in the 70's at the Bijou Cafe, and was stunned live and on record at how he could just eat alive such powerful saxophonists as George Adams, Gary Bartz, etc. Sonny Fortune and young Azar Lawrence seemed to do the best holding their own.

Al Stewart tomorrow night at Upper Merion Concerts Under the Stars. 2 blocks from my house!

PM sent on the Art Pepper

Looks great, can't think of two better horn solists! I'll pick it up if I ever see one at a reasonable price. Sorry I missed the release pre-order from CDJapan.

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General comment, not specifically directed at HutchFan: Look up Candomble - it's very very dark and troubling. Spirit possession, animal sacrifices, etc. Same with Santeria. Spirit world exists or it doesn't, right? But saying you believe it isn't so doesn't necessarily make it that way. Denouncing Candomble isn't crazy, regardless of what you choose to believe.

I like those Shawn Phillips albums quite a bit, and they did a good job with Joan Baez.

Correct, and it scraped the bottom of the USA Top 40 (#31), though they didn't play it in Huntsville, Alabama, where I lived at the time.

Amazingly enough, The RC's "Ruby Tuesday" got airplay for a few weeks in Cincinnati, and was jarring when it came on.

One of the really interesting groups on the label was the We Five, who were caught in between the label's Brasil '66 model (see their cover tunes) on one hand and early Jefferson Airplane (check out their originals) on the other. They made some pretty great folk-rock/proto-psych records which were largely and unfairly ignored (they didn't look the part, and A&M didn't have that rep - compare the music of the first cut with the album cover), plus the justly lionized "You Were On My Mind".

I stopped with the early ones - what are the best of breed?

I always found the Elektric Band to be slog through the muck, and is some of the only Chick I have fully excused myself from ever needing to explore further.

1983 if I am doing my google searching correctly. He would have been 21. It is a fine solo. I loved his early sideman work with Blakey and with Herbie Hancock, and I'd buy a CD of this performance in a heartbeat. I thought he had reached a peak as a leader with the Live at Blues Alley album, and was so disappointed when he then turned all academic/historic/pretentious on us. He has occasionally through the decades since then put out releases that sound good to me, but they are just teasers. He always returns to his unlistenable "big statements".

Incredibly overlooked/underrated album:

I think the Brooks is pretty celebrated, but I fully agree with your general point.

Or was. Turns out they moved a few years ago. Can't speak to the new space at all.

Hi Mark, I don't, that went to another board member a few years ago.

I've never been interested in streaming, and it looks like that market is on the brink of economic calamity (streaming services' financial losses are staggering). I use it to preview things I am interested in buying but not convinced on. I own 5000+ keeper CD's (no heart to try to count them) in addition to what I have designated to my huge "sell" pile. I lost interest in vinyl when CD's proved to be viable long-term, and have been seeking to clear out all remaining vinyl, with mixed results. I sort of hate selling vinyl, because of the subjectivity of condition grading (have had two very unhappy experiences with that as a seller, though have had dozens of happy experiences), but do want to be free of the vinyl, which I will likely never play again I'm surprised that my BN vinyl hasn't sold any better than it has, where other labels (Mainstream, Muse, etc.) have. Retirement has given me some bandwidth to concentrate on selling, and my buying is decreasing, though still large by "normal" standards.

What has always struck me about Wynton's fall from grace is how self-inflicted it was through his own hubris. I still greatly enjoy his work with Blakey and I do like some early albums like the live set from Blues Alley. And his approach seems to have influenced and done in Terence Blanchard, who, despite overall better results through the decades, has often fallen into the same pretentious traps.

Cut out/used copies of those passed through my hands back in the day. Both were interesting organ/vocal approaches. No CD reissues. The first Pierce album was actually on Cobblestone, the precursor to Muse.

There are a bunch of worthy candidates. I think my choice would be Jimmy Heath's Love and Understanding, followed by Louis Hayes's The Real Thing.

And the movie actually was really interesting.