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Studio albumwise, "Darkness on the Edge of Town' is my favorite Springsteen album. Everything up to "The River" is wonderful in my book. And very little since then does all that much for me. "Letter To You" is my favorite from the last 40 years, with "Lucky Town" coming in second. Other albums have a cut or two (love "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"), but don't hold up overall for me, and I don't like the production style introduced with "Born in the USA". My absolute favorite is the Live In New York City, with Live 1975-1985 also wonderful. And a lot of the authorized live bootlegs ca. 1978-1980 are stunning.

Don't think I am. guess I'll find out!

Worth the hour to watch if you like the genre?

I actually love the old TV Playhouse stuff. Rod Serling's "Requiem for a Heavyweight" is my favorite.

#2 - The Singers Unlimited ?

1 – Solid organ combo. Would guess this is older vintage, 50’s or early 60’s. Jimmy Smith influence. Good stuff. 2 – Assume this was recorded shortly after the Tokens had their moment with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”. Humorous enough, and actually sounds pretty good. 3 – Assume this was recorded shortly after Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd had their moment with ‘Jazz Samba’ . I actually like it quite a bit. Organ reminds me of Walter Wanderley, but I don’t remember him ever recording anything this straight ahead. The drummer had me at “hello”. 4 - Assume this was recorded shortly after the Billy Joe and the Checkmates had their moment with “Percolator Twist”. Cecil Payne on baritone sax? It’s actually a pretty interesting cut, though the vinyl fidelity is horridish. 5 – “Music of Humpback Whales”? Totally lost on me. 6 – It’s an interesting cut, glad I listened to it, though I don’t expect to revisit it. Surprisingly NOT lost on me, though in theory I would have expected it to be. 7 – Well all right then. I was with him for a while, but it got awfully strange toward the end. But at least Mantan Moreland, John Coltrane, and others get their due. And “live people and dead people should never mix” is sound advice. And the music behind the narrative is really good, sounds like a prime ESP-Disk session. 8 – “Two Different Worlds”. Sounds like Johnny Hartman with strep throat, OD’d on Nyquil. Good tenor solo. OK piano solo. Still pretty lost on me overall As always, quite a stimulating BFT, thanks. Much more interesting than 40 minutes of mainstream classics, and as always, it gives me great cover for my December BFT to sound “normal” by comparison, even with my musically offensive choices (“That’s not REALLY jazz, how dare you!”).

Used to have it. It's excellent.

Asking $39 shipped in USA or interesting trade. Please PM if interested.

I'll wait for a cheap used one of this at some point. Sounds like something I would listen to once then file away. If they ever do the Electric Jungle Band, THAT will be an immediate pre-order.

It's excellent, fully equal to their earlier stuff on balance (Jansch and McShee are at full strength), and the same label has a spectacular collection of their earlier work, "The Albums 1968-1972". Both sets have a ton of bonus cuts and great remastering and packaging, as well as being attractively priced. They also did a similar set of John Renbourn solo work. Wish they would do Bert Jansch's solo work in the same format.

Yes, and for board member @Gdgray also. Blessings through this trial.

I have several of Ragin's CD's, and appreciate him a lot.

Osby and Osbourne aren't overly similiar... Ozzy Osbourne (original lead singer of Black Sabbath, reality TV star, and all-round weirdo) Greg Osby

Love the Earland album and the other one he did on Milestone.

Saw him at the Philly Jazz club 'Just Jazz' in the 70's, just after the Elevation album had been released. He and the club manager were not seeing eye to eye on set length, so while the music was great, it wasn't a wonderful experience. Pharoah was one angry, sulking guy that night, as was his bass player, who remained on the stage and played a long solo, glaring at the manager, after the rest of the group walked off. Saw pre "Breezin" George Benson there around the same time, and that went better.

RIP

Please let me know if you have one for sale at a reasonable price or for trade. Otherwise, I'll just wait it out on ebay. thx.

Video blocked. What is the album?

It made the Billboard Top 200 album charts, as did Thembi.

A great artist. RIP.

The Jones/Lewis and the Hubbard from the sale items. And the MIngus and the Larry Young from their overall catalog.

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I'm also thinking it's 18-19 year old Azar Lawrence.