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A thing of wonder, thank you to Cheryl P. who did a ton of work to make this happen.

Pullen also played organ on Maceo Parker's Roots Revisited.

Dyke & the Blazers, Funky Broadway, the original

Thanks, and either option is ok by me.

I would love to take part.

You're right, make that I'm happy to get some 3 Sounds reissues in either series.

Happy to hear we'll be getting some 3 Sounds Tone Poets. I enjoy the early work very much and wouldn't mind a further expansion of Live at the Lighthouse if the tapes still exist.

FWIW, I don't generally care much for his singing although I don't always have quite the negative reaction Mr. Lowe does. Mostly it's just meh for me. I like his early guitar playing fine, pre-CTI as a sideman. He could still play some later but lost a step or two. He had always sung all the way back to when he started performing as a child. To my ears he always sounded more like Grant Green than Wes, but then I listen to Grant more than Wes. Here he is covering Chuck Berry and Fats Domino in 2019, is this the last thing he put out? I find this mildly entertaining but that's all, the fact that he did it is more interesting than the actual result.

I may have said this before, but since I already own perfectly good versions of most of BN's catalog, I haven't bought many Tone Poets and no Classics, but the 4 I got have all been very good - no pressing flaws and very good sound. For the records, BM, Bring It Home to Me; HV, Steppin' Out; DP, The Phantom; and HM, Curtain Call. There are 2 in the next batch I'm thinking of getting. I would buy 3 Sounds I don't already have but I don't do upgrades generally. Keep up the good work Joe. And yes, I definitely noticed the wonky piano sound on the samples of Black Fire I heard online, not so much elsewhere.

I think so...

I like Kofi at least as much as the stuff from that time that was issued initially, Kofi didn't come out til long after.

Winnipeg 70

Soul Finger, the Bar Kays

I totally agree with you here.

Wish him all the best. Saw him a few years back, had lost a step but still an imposing presence. Made some of my favorite recordings.

When Lou gets to 100 they should declare a national holiday - working musicians day. PS my favorite LD albums are Natural Soul and Gravy Train, so relatively early but greasy. Of the later era my fav is probably Say It Loud 'cause it's got James Brown and Gershwin and Ellington and original tunes too.

I don't think I ever had a life plan, but music did get me through some very dark times.

New Rolling Stones album, surprisingly good. It ends with the Muddy Waters blues they got their name from. Be a good place to end.

Gene Ammons & Red Garland, the Xmas album they never made is what I'm listening to in my head.

I've been recently enjoying Red Garland's two solo albums, Red Alone and Alone With the Blues, both cut the same day in 1960. Hard-ish to find hard copies of but easy to find online. Not that different from his more common trio playing, but a little different.

Hackneyed Diamonds by the rolling Stones, or what's left of them. Surprisingly good and they end it with the Muddy Waters blues they got their name from. It would be fitting if that was indeed the end,

Condolences, we lost our aged kitty last week.

In any case, looking forward to this publication.

Ska Christmas music? That could be either brilliant or torture.

Given that I love Sonny, it would be easy to overreact to this. Suffice to say I respect your opinion but don't agree. I find Rollins work to be both uneven throughout his career and all of a piece. He always struggled to get his mojo working in the moment and always tried many different approaches to get there. And I enjoy his later work more than many even as I acknowledge that it has issues but struggling with them can be an artistic statement of its own. He could be guarded and was not immune to getting hung up in any number of ways, but to me there is always something very human in his playing that I just love for that very reason. I even love his playing on the Stones' Tattoo You, certainly better than Miles' cameo with Scritti Politti.