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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

Mine thankfully arrived today. Clunky, sometimes USA post offices don't scan outgoing mail, so you may not see an update until it arrives at its next destination (which in your case may well be the dreaded Jersey City bermuda triangle of postal service, where packages go to hibernate. They eventually make it overseas, but it can take a week to move through that facility).

She was 93. Talented and charismatic. R.I.P.

I'm in, though I'll wait to order from somewhere like ImportCD's or DeepDiscount, which I suspect will be $15-20 cheaper than Amazon. I have all of these albums on CD already, but the remastering and packaging are enough for me. Don't really care about the outtakes very much. I love "Moves", both "Changes", and the title track side of "Cumbia". The other three albums are interesting artifacts and very good in places.

MIne's currently lost in the mail ☹️. Matt at Nimbus was very responsive, and the issue is with USPS, not them. But this is the last CD I would want to not arrive, as I may never see another copy!

RIP, great legacy. He was 92, recorded for like 70 years.

This seemed to be RCA's idea of what to do with a good tenor player at that point:

Fascinating article! Two questions: how could RCA be in play for a Miles/Trane album, when they didn't have either under contract. And did RCA really have more money than Columbia at that point? I thought Columbia was the biggest record company in that era.