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Are we getting a reveal?

It's not all bad to have newbies checking out Max Roach. If pink vinyl enables that, bring it on (but not to my house).

That's awesome! Got a couple of really nice Sonny Greenwich CD's from your dad on ebay a few years ago, and he knows his stuff!

Absolutely true!

Crystal Comments is interesting with the two keyboards. Mays on P. Broadbent on EP.

Absolutely.

The Natural was an abomination for anyone who read the Bernard Malamud book. They utterly destroyed the total meaning of the book by so drastically changing the last part of the story. So much for the concept of the "antihero".

That was intentional on my part. That's what I'll always think of when I hear Liotta's name.

Enriquez was an annoying showboat, at least on the Cole Muse Village Vanguard record (I never heard his own recordings as a leader). And Cole had Harold Mabern, Mickey Tucker, and John Hicks on previous records, doubling the atrocity of Enriquez (nicknamed "The Wild Man").

He'll always be Shoeless Joe Jackson to me. RIP.

This is a good one on the label:

RIP, I thought he was a much better fit than Bill Bruford, who he replaced when Bruford went off to King Crimson. Played with John Lennon before that (the great "Instant Karma" single, and the 'Live Peace in Toronto' and 'Imagine' albums.

It was such a fine and natural sight.

Then I know who you aren't voting for in the PA governor election this fall...

A formalism seemed to enter his playing when he returned to the USA. The stuff he made in Europe in the late 60's and early 70's is adventurous and marvelous, and that's the work by him I pull off the shelves most often. Have most of what came before that and a smattering of what came after.

And are still married. I also have little interest in her music (it's not offensive to me, just, sort of, there, without making any impact) but I am eternally grateful to her because I believe the 40,000,000 combined sales of 'Come Away With Me' and 'Feels Like Home' probably funded a lot of classic BN reissues. Do we even dream of seeing things like those CD reissues of the 10" albums without the Norah Jones sales money in the BN coffers?

Especially "Effi"!

This. I liked his initial albums quite a bit, they sounded very fresh in the context of the 70's. Then he hit a rut and then went off in unfortunate directions. Saw him live in 1988 at Penn's Landing, and it was a great show. He and Vic Juris were telepathic with each other. Never heard Juris sound nearly as good on recordings as he did at that gig.

I had the Trip vinyl back in the day. My inclinations towards thinking it was Mtume's project because he has sole compositional credit on all the songs, but I do see what you mean about the original issue being in Tootie's name.

Yes, if I see Bertrand offering it on the site, I'll cancel my Amazon pre-order.

Thanks for the heads up! Just pre-ordered on Amazon, don't see a pre-order option on the Dark Tree website. Harbour, I share your frustration on vinyl-only issues.