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I like these two a LOT: - Dave Holland Quintet - Seeds of Time (ECM, 1985) - Freddie Hubbard - Outpost (Enja, 1981)

Me too, much more than the concurrent studio releases. Nathan Davis! Also noticed that Alphonse Mouzon performed a set that year. Wonder if that is worth release?

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Produced and arranged by Bugs Bower (did a bunch of kids records later on) and Joe Abend (V.P. of Pickwick International). Abend also produced this obvious gem the next year. If it features Alberto on the marimbas, it has to be great! Amazingly enough, it saw CD reissue in the past 10 years in Japan and South Korea.

I'm another who has never been knocked out by 'Five Live Yardbirds'. I'll take the Jeff Beck version of the group, thanks.

Confirmed the link works beautifully in Firefox! A few other thoughts: #2 - surprised you didn't name this guy in your roll call of guitarists, since he's much better known than any of them! #4 - Sometimes it's best not to overthink these 😊. #5 - You guys circled around it enough I would have given you at least partial credit!. Not trying to fool people with this as much as to get them to re-listen with open ears. #6 - Your commentary on the sax player was priceless! #11 - One of those artists everyone's heard of but no one's heard (except on other people's work). #14 - Interesting comments on church.

Do a right click, "open in new window", then refresh the new page and download will start. I didn't know that, just figured it out. Watched it start to finish, and it was a blast! And good chance to get you know you and Tim better. We do need to get together and listen to some music. Great room you have there! BTW, #12 was a Vietnam-era Christmas carol, hence the theme of old man or young man being the first to die.

I read some of the sample on Amazon, and the writing is solid. Interestingly, the author's other two books are on Lou Reed and Patti Smith rather than on jazz musicians.

Is it well-written?

I also have that box set. Glad to have anything and everything he did over his first 15-20 years.

I realize I fail the "cool factor" test, but I find his first years of records to be beautiful:

This is the one I put on my Christmas List rather than the other one. Marcus is the best writer about Dylan IMO, and is a delight to read no matter what he is writing about:

Not too sure it's "rock", but it's great music, and was certainly revolutionary at the time.

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WEBN in Cincinnati for a few years (1968-1970) for me. From Wikipedia: When it initially went on the air on August 31, 1967, it was owned by Frank Wood Sr., a Cincinnati attorney. WEBN broadcast classical music daytimes and an all-night jazz program. The night programming was managed by a bank of 10½-inch Scully reel to reel tape machines in an early instance of station automation. However, in the late evening hours of Saturdays and Sundays it also broadcast a program hosted by Frank's son and EBN's 1st-ever DJ Frank Wood Jr. or known by his on-air name as Dr. Michael Bo Xanadu, that show was called "The WEBN's Jelly Pudding Show". The show featured many album cuts by both popular and somewhat obscure artists, other than the recognized hit songs or radio edits, tagged "rock, jazz, folk and ragas." The program and its music proved to be so popular that the station eventually made this album oriented rock show the bulk of its programming, much to the chagrin of Frank Sr. himself.

Great buy for the two live doubles! The two studio albums are strange, but kind of interesting.

I like the extended "Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never" off that same double album. Good guitar players in that iteration of the group. I listen to Love a lot, they are (he is?) a favorite.

Correct - amazing album.

'Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" from 1969. "Cowgirl in the Sand" and "Down By The River" ! Great stuff. Yeah, 'Forever Changes' is a desert island disc for me!

The title track of their 'Love Peace and Happiness' album was also extended, a full album side long. Hampton Grease Band came out in '71, and no one bought it. Guitar playing on it is really good, but the "singing"? Well... I actually like the Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop (and the Paul Butterfield) solos on "East West" quite a bit. And no one "knew" how to do them, it was unprecedented in rock. Good call on "Sister Ray" from that VU 'White Light White Heat' album. At some point it would be interesting to talk about John Handy's "Spanish Lady" from the 'Live at Monterey' album, and what influence that may have had on all of this.

Yes!

Really a different era, but great records (two 2LP sets from Fillmore East). One of the great wastes of an album side in the history of Rock, as Bryan MacLean had so many good songs already written that did not get used. I love Arthur Lee, but this was his nadir, a horrible ego trip.

"East/West" by Butterfield was the first monster, and it's great. "Live/Dead" by the Grateful Dead, "Happy Trails" by Quicksilver Messenger Service and the first Santana album are the San Francisco album's I'd call out. 'Projections' by the Blues Project (out of NYC) had "Flute Thing" on it. It did go to #1. Gotta admit, it's a very fun listen, if not exactly a masterpiece.

Yes. Jefferson Airplane,Santana, Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, It's A Beautiful Day, Sons of Champlin, Electric Flag and other lesser groups all had a lot of extended improvisation. Not so much for Steve Miller Band, Country Joe & the Fish, and some others. Kicked off bigtime in '67-'68 for a few years, petered out in the very early 70's for the most part (though the Dead went on and on and on, of course).

Thought of that, but not sure I'd call it "extended improvisation". It's a mess, as is "Revelation" by Love, but they are indeed looong messes.