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FWIW, I probably have a bit of bias towards Power To The People. It was one of the first two or three jazz albums I ever heard (after KOB, of course). Back in my college days, a buddy of mine taped "Mode For Joe" on one side of a 90-minute cassette, and Power To The People on the other. I must have played that sucker night and day for two months (along with KOB backed with Nefertiti). Those two tapes (those four albums) were my entire jazz collection for about 2 or 3 months. IMHO, "Power To The People" is a GREAT place for some people to start on the their jazz journey. Kinda 'inside', kinda 'outside', kinda groovy, kinda dark, kinda funky, and not too traditional -- but not too much of any one of those things so as to make it "off-putting".

I've drifted away from Steve's work over the last few years (like since about 2000/2001). But I've owned lots of it for going on 15+ years, and there's a funny thing about me and Steve Coleman albums. They really wear me out quickly. I usually put his dates on and rarely get more than two or three or four tunes into them before I decide to put something else on. Another interesting observation -- I do better with my half-dozen Dave Holland albums that feature Coleman as a sideman -- I usually get through them all the way. I think that's some of Steve's finest work. I think the best jazz is about tension and release. And I think Steve's music often (or at least as I recall) has way more tension (and for much longer periods of time), than release. It's fantastic music, but I'm always mentally drained halfway though his leader-dates.

No slight (nor even a "slight" slight) intended towards "Power To The People" as compared to Joe's BN work. IMHO, "Power To The People" is as good as anything Joe ever recorded, period.

FWIW, I think "Power To The People" is just about Joe's finest hour (well, after his BN days). Might well be one of my all-time favorite "top-20" jazz albums.

As far as I know, the only CD issue of this title was a mini-LP style import from Italy. A little digging would net the reissue label's name, but I'm almost late to work as it is. I don't have one (I dislike mini-LP packaging), but if it ever came out as a single here in the US in a Jewelbox, I'd grab it for sure. (I already have the material as part of the box set.)

Wow!!! Hadn't heard that the enja "Impact" was due out on CD. Only discovered this date very recently (probably about six months ago), when I stumbled on one on eBay (on LP) for about $10. I thought I knew and had every Tolliver-lead date there was -- but this one somehow was under my radar all these years (because of having the same title as the totally different "big-band plus strings" date also called "Impact" - on Strata East). I will definitely be getting this on CD. Any idea if there will be any bonus material?? If I remember, the LP is about 44 or 45 minutes long, at most.

Thanks Jim!! Other than Rosewood and Stepping Stones, all those covers were new to me before today. Thankfully I've had the music for ages though -- one of the first Mosaics I ever purchased.

Oh, it's part of the Mosaic. I've got that. Just hadn't ever seen the cover before, and I'm hardly aware of the titles of the specific releases in the set - since I experience the thing as just one big release, if you know what I mean. Can anybody post covers of all the dates in the Mosaic?? I think before today, "Rosewood" was the only cover I'd seen before.

Wow, a Woody Shaw date I've never heard of. Has this ever been released on CD?? (Probably not, or I'd know about it.)

Thanks!!

I'd be curious to see this myself (even just a thumbnail-size one), being from Kansas City and all. Thanks!!

Holy crap. Over two hours of unreleased Andrew Hil??!!!

I'm a huge Tolliver fan (can't get enough), but I'd call it more like "quite good" than "one of his very best". I'm sure I'll buy it shortly after it comes out on CD finally. But IMHO, it's not nearly as "great" as the list of sidmen on the date might imply. (It's a good date, but not quite the "holy grail" I was hoping for, personally.)

First CD issue due out "hopefully somewhat soon" (take that as you will) according to first-person insider reports here on this board. Should have a couple bonus tracks, if I recall right. Never been issued on CD before anywhere on the planet. I've heard it (from LP), like it, and welcome its release on CD.

Yes he is!! No he isn't!!

Got mine in the mail from Chuck yesterday - and I plan to spend some quality time with it on Monday. Really looking forward to it, as I've heard far less AEoC over the years than makes much sense. Thanks Chuck!!

Granted, I'm taking a "the glass is half full, not half empty" approach to "Hi-Nology"... ...but seriously, I still think it's one of the coolest discs I've bought any time in the last year or two. I went into it without any overblown expectations (I always try to take everything Dusty Groove says with a grain of salt), and it more than exceeded the expectations I did have.

This past February I bought two of the larger sets (Mobley and Turrentine), plus four Selects (Amy, Patton, Tolliver, and Carmell) -- all on the same order. I also got half-a-dozen Conns on the same order, because they were $5 off on each one when you bought one or more of the big Mosaic boxes. The total damage was something a shade over $400, if I remember right. I'm sure I won't buy another Mosaic set of any kind for at least 2 or maybe even 3 years.

Well, now I'm sure as hell pissed off. Does that mean, by chance, that we're neighbors slide_advantage_redoux??

Not to mention charging $90 a pop. Shit, is THAT what they're charging for tickets for this tour??? -- for domestic dates (meaning here in the U.S.)??? $90!!! Damn, I might be inclined to pay that -- but that's an awful fuckin' steep ticket price to be chargin' for a "ghost band"-type tour. I would have expected MUCH more like $40. Hell, Project/Object with Brock and Willis (both!!) was only like $15 or $20 tops, if I remember right. And come to think of it -- depending on Any Way The Wind Blows... $90 might very well price me out of the market. $50 would be a little pricy, but I'd go in a heartbeat at $50. $60, well, that's pricier still, but sure - I'd go. I never would have guessed $90. There better be a shit-load of real Zappa alum in the band at that price. If I'm reading right, they ain't all that much better than Project/Object (with their real Zappa alums too -- and real good ones at that). And with the Ticket Bastard charges, your really talkin' about $100 tickets almost. Yeah, I'll probably go anyway when push comes to shove - but $90 is a lot.

Geez, barely one month until the street date, and this is the first we've really heard ot it?? Where's Jazzmatazz on this?? Don't we "insiders" usually have like 6 months to salivate about these kinds of things?? Are the titles of the tunes in the big-daddy BN discography? (which I own, but my copy is at home as I'm typing this from work). What's the line-up again?? It's 1972, right??

Go back and re-read the press release in the first post of this thread. Is it not the most overblown, hype-filled piece of drivel one could ever imagine?? All for a frickin' jazz sampler CD. Who writes press releases to annouce the release of a jazz sampler CD?? What the hell is newsworthy about that? It isn't worth spending 20 words talking about, let alone something like 150 (wild guess, I didn't count). Instead, how's THIS for an idea... If they really wanna move some "product" - AND really do some good at the same time -- they ought to sell "Kind Of Blue" CD's in every damn Starbucks in the entire country. Now THAT would be a way to sell some jazz, make some money, and motivate some real interest in jazz. Or - let's see 'em market just 6 different full-length classic jazz albums (CD's) available through a small display by every cash register in every Starbucks across the land. KoB, obviously. One big band disc (an Ellington, maybe). One 60's boogaloo thing, probably on BN, so maybe "Sidewinder" or maybe "Song for my Father". One early 70's fusion thing - maybe "Headhunters". One jazz vocals album (maybe Ella?). And that leaves one more - maybe a be-bop date of some sort. The exact titles don't mater (well, they do, but not to my argument). Then maybe rotate 5 new titles in every 6 months (keeping KoB in the mix at all times, year-round, since so many people think of it as the "Citizen Kane" of jazz). Now maybe THAT'S a way to sell some REAL jazz (by selling some really jazz ALBUMS), instead of selling a "pseudo-product" jazz "samplers" of the "culture industry". Sell 'em all at $10 a pop (which should be doable, cuz I see new copies of KOB on sale ALL the damn time for $9.99 in all kinds of record stores). I'm serious. THAT'S a way to motivate some REAL jazz sales (or at least it's a start). It'd be win/win for Starbucks too, I would imagine.

Fuck, I hate it when bands play at the Casinos in this town. Thankfully most of them don't (or at least very few of the bands I'm interested in). The ticket prices are always higher for casino dates, and the performance space is generic as all getout. I saw Joe Henderson (trio) like 10 years ago at a Casino here in KC (on a triple bill with Charlie Haden's Quartet West, and Robert Altman's "Kansas City" big band group. Did I mention, I really hate going to shows at Casinos -- cuz I do. Casino shows suck (well, not the show itself - but everything but the show itself does). I'm not saying the Casinos don't deserve the right to exist - but I'd rather not get any closer to them than I really have to. Why couldn't the Zappa show play the Uptown, or maybe the Madrid (though the Madrid might be a bit small). If their aim is get younger people out to hear some Zappa - playing a casino is definitely NOT the way to do it.

I just don't see jazz samplers being sold in coffee shops as much of a way to develop customers for "real" jazz CD's.. Maybe 5% or 10% of the people who buy this sampler (or other similar jazz samplers that have been sold in Starbucks for a number of years) will go out and buy a one or two more full-length CD's by particular artist or two who they fancy. But it seems to me like the vast majority of people who buy jazz samplers are -- well -- the kind of people who buy jazz samplers. They're mostly not gonna go out and buy even 10 jazz CD's a year. But I guess they'll sell as many as they sell (several thousand probably, maybe more than 10,000??) -- and as long as they're making a buck or two on each one, then more power to them. I'm assuming these samplers are being sold cheap - like $10 a pop. No way they'd move very many if they charged $14 or $15 for 'em. It would be interesting to learn how people who were at one time new to jazz (people who later became much more interested in jazz) -- how they first discovered the music. My guess is through stumbling on some live performance(s), or (perhaps more likely) from other people (friends, coworkers etc...) loaning them CD's. Maybe samplers are part of the equation for developing significant new customers, but I can't imagine they're a very big part.