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Andrew Hill Trio & Quartet - Shades (Soul Note, 1987) is a really good Andrew HIll album. The Great Friends album has such amazing personnel, it had to be good, though I always felt it could have been even better if it had been less of a cooperative venture.

Dave Burrell when he was with Archie Shepp. He changed pretty drastically later on.

They did some great records! RIP.

LOL!

RIP, anchored a fascinating era for Miles, and sold a lot of R&B records afterwards.

My heirs can sell it. It's a keeper for me.

My system!

The last box set I bought from them was the Clifford Jordan Strata-East in 2013 (and I bought dozens from them in their heyday), and my only other purchase from them since then is the Charles Tolliver All-Stars CD in 2019, so I'm well past the expiration date of feeling compelled to buy things from them to support their work. They aren't ever going to do the Bill Barron, the Hutcherson/Land, or any of those other sets we dream of no matter how many boxes of recycled BN's we buy from them. I much prefer the original cover art on the BN single CD's, part of the "magic" of the BN ownership experience for me. More meaningful to me than a slight sonic upgrade and a new essay I may never get around to reading. Just me, I realize.

Amazing what 5-6 years could change back then. Both musically and personal appearance-wise:

Except this one doesn't average $3.50 a disc or add bonus tracks and original artwork.

Interesting that they chose to omit the live 'Night of the Cookers'. Not that I'm itching to re-hear the seemingly endless Big Black conga solos at the end of the cuts.

As do I. I'm sure many of us do. Or a Max Roach 70's set with Billy Harper. My #1 musical wish list dream.

They do it to get suckers like me buying the same material over and over again throughout the decades. For instance, 'Kind of Blue'. I've owned it on LP, cassette, first CD release, corrected CD release, Legacy Edition 2-CD release, metal spine MIles-Coltrane box set, and now in this big box. 'Bitches Brew' I've owned on LP, cassette, CD, 3 disc anniversary edition, 4 disc anniversary edition, metal spine complete box set, and now this big box. And so on. And so forth.

My very favorite Watson album.

Lundvall re-signed a lot of the classic era artists and his new artists seemed closer to that musical sensibility . Was went much further afield.

There was music after the mid-80's? I had no idea...

Some of the artists BN has recorded in recent years (Roseanne Cash, Suzanne Vega, etc.) are true heavyweights at what they do, but it's a million miles from jazz. I have everything Suzanne Vega ever commercially released, and I file it in Pop. To me, there were really three BN's - The Lion-Wolf/Liberty/UA BN (enough continuity in the UA period that I consider it the same label, especially considering the vault releases, though in other ways it was a very different label than what came before it. Tough call.), the Bruce Lundvall relaunch era, and the Don Was era. The Don Was era holds no appeal to me in jazz terms. The Lundvall era had some good albums, but was a disappointment to me. The craft was there, but the magic was gone. There were still a lot of magical releases during the UA era, and much of it has aged surprisingly well.

Got a bunch of cheap Joey DeFrancesco CD's from a seller on ebay. All betwern $1.50 and $3, and can combine shipping.

Wayne Shorter Quintet Wayne Shorter (ts) Barbara Burton (vib, bells, per) McCoy Tyner (p) Miroslav Vitous (b) Alphonse Mouzon (d, per) A&R Studios, NYC, October 13, 1970

RIP. I got the big BBC box, haven't listened to it yet. Only passingly familiar with her work.

If I could adjust the time controls, I'd put 70's Hannibal Peterson on trumpet.

A lot of the horn players on Ascension were under contract with Impulse! already, FWIW. Hubbard. Brown. Shepp, Sanders

And I have 'Winter' second overall (especially the hauntingly beautiful "Peace Go With You Brother"). And 'The First Minute of a New Day' is the third utterly essential Scott-Heron.