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The album was a throwaway for me when I first had it, but I came across a cheap CD of it in recent times, and I liked it a lot more than I remember. But not to where I would recommend buying a pricey vinyl set.

I might be tempted if I could replace the entire Chronicle box with these (and anticipated 1956 set) but starting in 1954 leaves a hole for the 1951-1953 recordings. I do have the Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions box (pretty much a perfect set) along with the Chronicle box, which covers everything for me with the Quntet box being upgraded duplicates. My ideal would be another 4-CD box covering the sessions not on the Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions box. They got it right for Coltrane, with the leader, co-leader, and sideman boxes. Those were perfect boxes to me. Fantasy was starting to do great reissue work right before they sold out to Concord.

Product. In how many forms has this material been released on CD? Isn't this just another collation/configuration of the same old material?

I have the Noah Howard and the Clifford Thornton, both of which were very helpful. Also the Horace Silver live one, which is the best collection of that material. Strange approach as the parent label, Hat Hut, is certainly not a PD label.

Just hit the wire services.

I really like early-mid 70's Stan Kenton:

Great set at a great price!

And that label tends to do a really bad job at it, so often lopping tracks from classic albums, and reissuing parts of two classic albums together on one CD (their "Revisited: from.... t..." series. There is value when they include two full albums, and I like their design, but I wish the label would think. I thought everyone learned their lesson when MCA was doing that nonsense 35 years ago.

EU copyright laws changed for post-1962 recordings so that Beatles recordings would not go PD after 50 years: https://webgrafikk.com/blog/uncategorized/the-beatles-and-cliff-richard-law/

Seems to be tougher for post-1962 recordings, though some of the Enlightenment sets go up to 1964.

Sadly, you're absolutely right. I'm still grateful to Norah Jones for selling so many millions of BN CD's so that they had the capitol to do all those dream-come-true reissues.

Please educate me/us on what those are!

My clear choice !

We'd have a LOT of questions for him!

I put a cut from Priestess on one of my early BFT's, and it was widely praised, though no one could identify it apart from Harper's work. It's like getting a Billy Harper big band album.

Could Washington have just been a temporary sub for Garnett, rather than preceding or replacing him? Just speculating.

Even for the Japanese market?

https://newworldnjazz.com/mark-masters-ensemble-ft-billy-harper-dance-eternal-spirits-dance-capri-records/ Look great to me! Their 1990 collaboration, Priestess, is quite wonderful.

I was horrified when first I heard his work on this. I was an 18-19 year old, new to jazz, in the early 70's. Thought I was getting nice extended versions of two pretty songs with Coltrane and the guy who did "The Creator Has A Master Plan".

In another six months, she will have outlived her father. But he was an ancient 71. I'm a fan of her classic and later material, the work she did after she found her own voice.

Agree with that assessment. It'll come around, us old-ish guys just need to stay around long enough to see it 🙂.

Not me, I also read "You'd be amazed at what has already been mastered...and pleased."

The India Navigation album? That's a good album, but stylistically pretty much stands on its own in his catalogue. If it's the ESP-Disk album, that also sounds like nothing else he ever did.

These albums are less out there than you would expect from his earlier (and some of his later) work. Theresa was absolutely not pushing the envelope with their catalog.