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OK, here's current status: 2,3,5,6,9 - Fully ID's 8,10,11 - artist and song ID'd, album not 1,4 - artist ID'd, song and album not 7 - vibes player ID's, group, song, and album not (and they won't be)

Hard to respond to this without getting flagged for political content!

RIP, enjoyed his work with Tull, Blodwyn Pig, and his early 70's solo albums.

Beautiful song, a Stevie Wonder-penned gem. Bought the album for that cut alone (sort of hate the title cut).

Finally got around to decorating our tree, and as always, this was the go-to music for that activity, going back to my childhood:

Yeah, both that one and this one. And don't sleep on this amazing archival release from last year, with Pharoah and Archie Shepp:

I had a cut by Circus Maximus, "The Wind", on an initial version of my current BFT, but decided I'd take too much grief from certain quarters for including it along with the other vocal cuts. Very 1967 (in a good way):

I have them both on CD. The first is excellent due to the vocals of Dorothy Moskowitz and the violin of Gordon Marrone. The second is less interesting. Byrd's vocals are actually an annoyance, but credit him with the project conception.

The Paisley Underground was the last musical development in rock that really spoke to me, and this group was the best of all from it:

Flying Dutchman was a fascinating record label in a fascinating era. The drone thing doesn't make sense for my neighborhood with our quarter-acre lots, maybe somewhere more ex-urban where the houses are father apart.

RIP, tragic stuff. And one of the notworthy high profile responses to it was sickening. The Princess Bride is by far the most quoted movie in our household.

Hard to keep the list short...

I have greatly appreciated Tad's contributions to this board, hope to pick up the paperback eventually.

+1. especially the early version with all those guys who ended up migrating to The Soft Machine.

I saw him twice in the later years. Once with Philip Harper/Toussaint/Benny Green and a bass player, and that was great. And near the end of his life with Brian Lynch/Steve Davis/two tenors - Dale Barlow and Javon Jackson/Geoff Keezer/Essiett Essiett, and you could tell some decline at that point. And Jackson and Keezer were weak, though Lynch was fantastic.

Always go with the gut on these things!

Looks sort of like the Bears playbook with Ben Johnson at the helm.

I don't like downloads, but am certainly not going back to vinyl, so have started buying them for items where CD's are either not available or priced in the stratosphere. But I'm so physical product-collector oriented that I actually burn the downloads to CD-R, print off copies of the front and back covers, stick them in a thinline jewel case, and store them on my shelves along with my CD's.

Not really a "jazz" album, but lovely and moving on its own terms: