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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.

Count me in!

I got a lot of BYG titles out of cutout bins in the 70's. Didn't know what to make of most of them at the time, but immediately fell in love with Moncur's 'New Africa', and appreciated some (not all) of the Archie Shepp titles, especially 'Yasmina, A Black Woman'. Saw Richie Cole at Penn's Landing in the late 80's in a quartet with Vic Juris on guitar. The band was "on" and I thoroughly dug the show. I remember 'Trenton Makes, The World Takes' causing a stir at 3rd Street Jazz in Philly when it came out, and I generally enjoyed his recordings through the years, while nonetheless admitting his stylistic limitations.

We shall see..., but agreed this was a good one.

No offense taken, just had/have a "danger, Will Robinson" sense. And I was thinking about the rants rather than the Sri Chimnoy stuff. But I can't think about him without remembering Robert Christgau's capsule review of the 'Love Devotion Surrender' album.

Have we entered out of music and into religion/politics here?

Talk about your low bars.... 🙂

Have always found his discussions to be too whacked out, though I do love much of his music, especially the Columbia albums from the debut through Borboletta.