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SU did a fair number of Beatles covers on these discs. Also Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, and others. BTW, listed the set on Ebay yesterday, will remove it from availability here if it gets bid on there. If someone here wants it before it is bid on there, I'll then remove the ebay listing.

Right up your alley, perfect music for sipping adult beverages and chilling with Mrs. TTK.

7 CD set contains 14 albums, great condition. $60 shipped in USA or mutually beneficial trade. PM if interested, thanks,

So what may end up being the best reissue of the year has sold 102 copies? Sad. Seems like half those sales (exaggeration for effect) are occurring to board members here, so well done in that regard, team!

I onlt know Hastings from his excellent work in his little brother Pye's group, Caravan. What was his jazz work like?

Great album. Norman Whitfield, Gwen Dickey! Somebody please explain to me why their version of "Wishing on a Star" wasn't a huge hit....

Chief offender was MCA in the early CD days.

He is 88, can understand some vacant looks, great that he can still play so well. Powell passed at 41, along with his demons.

Allows me to get rid of all those single CD's of his I have:

Would make sense for them to do so, not give away more of the margin.

Pre-ordered, no-brainer for me. Thanks so much for the heads-up. Great to see new activity from Nimbus West!

Excellent 1971 solo album by the true creative force (guitar, vocals, songwriting) on those great 1968-1971 Keef Hartley Band albums. I have the new Esoteric CD reissue with 9 bonus cuts and gorgeous sound. That's an amazing album!

Honest question - should I care about anything other than the Mingus/Roach recordings? That's all I've ever heard by her, but like them quite a bit. BTW, Acrobat has great liners/discographical info, put the majors to shame. I'm a big fan of the label.

Yes. Also with Art Blakey.

I'm in, love that series of recordings, and love Sanders.

RIP, really appreciated his playing, writing, and conception. Those 70's Muse albums sounded like nothing else, and "Mother of the Future" will always be on my desert island playlist.

I saw Keezer live with Blakey at Penn's Landing. He was 18 years old. I was not crazy about him, the guy who blew me away that night was Brian Lynch. Rest of the group was Steve Davis on trombone, Dale Barlow and Javon Jackson both on tenor (I much preferred Barlow that night) and Essiet Essiett on bass.

RIP to a true giant!

BFT 228 1 –9, Very laid back, a lot of standards, #7 is my favorite performance in the bunch. I’m not turned off by these, but not drawn to them either (they sink comfortably into background music for me), and don’t have anything very interesting to say about them. 10 – What I enjoy on this cut is the bass player accompanying the sax player (bass solo doesn’t do as much for me). 11 – Just not my thing. 12 – I do like this, first one I could see myself returning to. Ted Daniel did some things like this. 13 – Finally some familiar territory in my wheelhouse, lovin’ the cut! Pretty sure I have it, will have to think of what it is. Everything about the cut is great from my point of view. Grant Green? Blue Note? 60’s? 14 – Works for me, post-Bitches Brew obviously. Like it a lot, and looking forward to the reveal. Love the trumpet. Not as sold on the keyboards, but it works overall. 15 – Like this, also. Having trouble placing it timewise. Some elements of the sophisticated 50’s arrangers, but the Rhodes places it likely in the 70’s. 16 – Grew on me as the set progressed, I enjoy that style of bass and drum playing so much. I could see picking this up, and doubt I have it. All’s well that ends well, sort of a progression of styles as the cuts went on, and I got on the bus at cut 12 and stayed on. Looking forward to the reveals on the last five cuts. Postscript after Thom's ID's: I have #13 and #16, and so glad I do.

Thanks so much for the stimulating BFT, and for turning me on to that Essence All-Stars CD with Gato (which I now own!). I may be the most openly Christian (anti-MAGA variety) regular on the board here, and I was not offended by #14. Didn't agree theologically with what he was saying, but that comes from somewhere (his experiences, his upbringing, his culture, his hopes and fears, etc.) and Lord knows, we all need to learn to listen to and care about each other when we don't agree, rather than getting offended and attacking and cancelling each other. Thanks again.

A certain fascination, like it's being piped in from another galaxy somewhere. Both musically and sonically.

This is the unreleased 1981 album produced by Rodgers/Edwards. It sounds like a cross between Chic album and a good Al Jarreau album (Rodgers/Edwards/Thompson play all the songs, and Rodgers/Edwards wrote them all), and it's pretty great. Columbia buried it against Mathis's objections (he really liked it), and it was not rediscovered for a quarter century. Columbia released it as a RSD special in 2018, and Real Gone Music released it on CD in 2019. I have it in the giant Columbia Mathis box (which is a stunningly beautiful set). Would have been interesting to see what would have happened had Columbia released it in '81.

That Cecil Taylor set is foundational to any jazz collection. Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, and Sunny Murray redefining creative music in real time at the Cafe Montmartre in 1962.