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It is indeed, as are the two later sessions (1969 & '75) on one CD I bought for slightly more the same time and place.

The Complete Sonny Criss on Imperial for $3.50 CND at the Vinyl Dinner in S'toon. Yes I know it's a (dbl) CD, but it's too risky transporting vinyl across the scorching hot inter-mountain west in the summer, and good luck finding that material on LP much less at that price. And a short appreciation of the music: the relatively short playing times of the tunes tell you nothing at all about the total commitment of the players here. Also bought some other (later) Crss and some early Ike Quebec, not bad for a trip with other purpose. And my mom gave me some stuff.

As you might guess, people in Sask are NOT happy 'bout how their riders are doing this year.

From Saskatoon, now living in Edmonton, my friend Bill Richards.

I was in the Paris of the Prairies, blissfully unaware of the glories of sax until a few years later.

Truly awful title, almost scared to see the cover...

How 'bout King Fleming?

Overlooked by whom? Once upon a time Sonny Clark was overlooked by the general jazz public, but not here and now. And just overlooked, or overlooked and great or just pretty good? Mose Allison was a pretty good pianist, but once the songs and singing took off that took a back seat.

Man made a career out of writing songs, so I gotta respect that, but I can't say I cared for any of the songs listed.

If a player is really playing, long and short aren't necessarily mutually exclusive - they can make the individual licks stand out and connect 'em up at the same time, if you know what I'm saying. But the 'long lines' thing as a critical cliche, yeah that gets a little overworked sometimes.

Gershwin Prize totally deserved, if kinda obviously so, but if it's a songwriter's prize why are all the recipiants so far (except co-sinner Hal David) more or less also performers? co-winner!

Yeah, this and the quartet date from the day after are sublime, IMHO YMMV. Some of the other late Pres, not so much but it's still him.

mjzee: Do the math, the Bobby Whitlock who played on D & the Ds was born in 1948, he would have been kneehigh to a grasshopper when the Mulligan Quartet sides were recorded.

Nina has made it into the collections of a fair number of non-jazz people, or so I've found - YMMV, etc.

Not what I hear or see in this recording at all, to me Ornette isn't at all aggressive - just going his own sweet way.

Overall Ornette Alumni MVP, IMHO, unquestionably Don Cherry - his BN's are extraordinary and who didn't he play with? Trane, Sonny, Sanders, Gato, Albert, Steve Lacy, James Clay - he made lovely music with all of them. Which particular recording, that's harder...

What he said.

Strongly prefer JH's sideman dates for BN generally: I'd take Unity, Basra, The Real McCoy, Idle Moments or Brown Sugar over any of his BN leader dates which IMHO YMMV are all pretty good but the same difference to me.

Hey, i have a neck strap just like that, probably the only thing my playing has in common with Roscoe's...

Right, I'd have done that or something very much like it instead of Free Jazz - a whole album devoted to one tune smacks of hype and putting a faded out and back in break in it just stops the flow, IMHO. really 20-25 minutes should be enuff to get most anything said. On the other hand, People In Sorrow is a work of genius that totally justifies its length, just wish there was a proper CD version with no break in the middle.

With 3 Stanley cups in the last 6 years they are the dominate hockey team of our time, discuss...

Yeah, First Take says about 90% of Free Jazz in half the time - I'd put that out on one side of an album and some of the as of then unissued things on the other instead of splitting Free Jazz in two. In Dana's Perfect Fantasy World....

OK, Chicago won the Stanley Cup last night so NOW we can talk football!

IMHO, not that I'm qualified but... I thin Lonely Woman and Ramblin' [auto-corrects to Rambling Gambling] are head and shoulders above the generally excellent level of ornette, as compositions, performances, whatever. Hard to pick after that.