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I know, this one isn't a classic cover (it's from 1996), but damn - it sure looks like a classic BN cover to me!!

Again, these might be very familiar to all of you - but I hadn't ever seen them before today.

And, in particular, the version of "Poppin" shown above, is different than the Japanese one (GXF 3066) that I see on page 278 of the most recent BN Cover Art book (the small-format book, 7"-square footprint). What's the story on the two different covers for "Poppin"?? (PS: A couple of these are in the BN Cover Art book, so I guess I have seen them - but most of these are unfamiliar to me.)

What's the link??? - what's the link????? :o ( )

I think I have an extra Ornette "Foxhole" Conn, but I'll have to check. (Actually, I know I used to have an extra one - but don't remember if I traded it away, or gave it to a friend maybe.) I'd be interested in one of the Sonny Clark discs, but I'd have to remember which one(s) I already have, and don't have. (I'm pretty sure I don't have both of the one's you're offering in trade.)

By far the best ones (IMHO) are the 2 different Tolliver dates, and the 2 different Cowell dates. The sound quality on Cowell's "Brilliant Circles" is only so-so (and that's being very polite about it), but the music is absolutely top-notch. "Brilliant Circles" has some of the best 'adventuresome'-type playing from Woody Shaw, plus a rare appearance by Tyrone Washington!! All four are 'must-have' items, IMHO.

the NEW Radiohead CD. (Supposedly it's gonna be called "Hail to the Theif", or so I'm told.) ( Got a burn of it about 3 hours ago, and it's not supposed to hit the streets until June 10th. )

I might add that "Boogaloo" is my all-time favorite John Patton album. It's heavy, deep, baddd!!, phatt!!! -- all rolled into one!!!! :rsly: :rsmile: B) !!!

(Gary Thomas plays flute on a few tracks, on the album I mentioned up above. Still, the album is mostly tenor/alto.)

I was just thinking about Grant Green's "Solid" - with Joe Henderson & James Spaulding, and that got me thinking about other great alto/tenor combos (without trumpet, nor sacbut), but with just one tenor and one alto as the only horns, backed by whatever else - piano trio, maybe vibes, maybe just drums & bass. One other that sprung to mind was an excellent album by Gary Thomas (tenor) with Greg Osby, called "Pariah's Pariah" I'm sure there are hundreds of others, and a couple dozen I'm forgetting. What other great tenor/alto albums are really outstanding???

If that's the case, what could ever justify releasing the Candido????

Wallace Roney

Well, Bruce, did they have it??? I'm on spin #4 in less than 24 hours. The 3-part horn arrangements are really sweet.

I'm not the seller, and all the usual disclaimers apply. This one has been OOP for some time, released on CD in 1995. http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid...75&meta_id=null

I should have also said that there really hasn't ever been any kind of decent release of any of this material (prior to the Conn release in 2002). Overlapping releases, on many labels - and nearly a dozen reissues on other labels (most gray-market), with even a more confusing collection of some of these tunes. Mislabeled, crappy sound, everything you could ever fear... I had very low expectations for this release ("IS") when I first heard about it coming out as a 2CD Conn. How I ever took the plunge, I really don't know - and can't really remember either. I may have sampled it in the store, is my only guess. I sure wouldn't have bought it without giving it a spin first. That said - it turned out (for me) to be the very best of all the Conns released in 2002. (I already had the McLean Mosaic.)

The Corea "IS" 2-CD set is the only way to go for this material. Both in terms of Sound Quality (which basically sucks on nearly all the previous issues), as well as completeness of the material. Here's the track listing... ===================================== 1. It (Corea) - 0:30 2. The Brain (Corea) - 10:10 3. This (Corea) - 8:18 4. Song of the Wind (Corea) - 8:05 5. Sundance (Corea) - 10:02 6. The Brain [alternate take] (Corea) - 7:26 7. This [alternate take] (Corea) - 11:49 ===================================== 1. Song of the Wind [alternate take] (Corea) - 6:46 2. Sundance (Corea) - 12:28 3. Jamala (Holland) - 14:07 4. Converge (Corea) - 7:59 5. Is (Corea) - 28:54 6. Jamala [alternate take] (Corea) - 8:57 7. Converge [alternate take] (Corea) - 7:59 ===================================== The alternate takes are particularly significant (on disc #1, in particular), because (if I remember right), most of them feature Chick on electric (Fender Rhodes, I think) on one version of each tune, and then on accoustic piano on the other version. Maybe not every pair of alternates, but I think this is true on several of them. I used to have one of the many gray-market CD issues of some of this material (I think it was called "The Brain"), and it was a mish-mash of about 30-40% of the material, at most. That said, anybody with one or more of the incomplete prior issues are certainly encouraged to participate - if I should happen to pick the Corea "IS" discs, which I am (kinda) leaning towards, maybe... (At least at this moment.)

I'm on my third spin of this disc since I bought it 7 hours ago. IMHO, it's almost as exciting (at least to me), as ANYTHING else recorded in 1963, and that should be saying a lot, considering all the Andrew Hill albums from 1963, and the piano-less albums Jackie McLean did in '63. I don't have my BN discography handy, but there was a lot of heavy shit happening in 1963, and "Conflict" is right up there with the best of it. All you other progressive-minded people NEED this album, trust me. It's not all that 'out', not at all. Just very adventuresome, within it's own context.

Thanks Vibes. Even though the Chick hasn't gotten a lot of votes, it sounds like quite a few people here have it (everyone who's responded to this thread, except Big Al). So, at this point I'm slightly leaning towards the Corea "IS" discs, but I haven't decided completely yet. I'll decide soon, probably within the next 24-to-48 hours. ( I figure if there's that much interest in the McLean (and there clearly is!!), then someone else will pick it for their Album o' the Week. ) ( If Tolliver were on the whole McLean album (and not just half), I'd be more inclined to pick it. And I agree that it's one of Jackie's finest recordings. All three of the McLean dates with Tolliver are outstanding, IMHO. Absolutely some of the very best work in Jackie's entire catalog. )

The only "mini-LP" I've bought, so far, is Andrew Hill's "Hommage" - which I got cuz I love all of Hill's solo-piano work. I've been this close to buying a couple others ("Conflict" in particular"), but every time I think to myself... ...overpriced... ...no bonus tracks... ...not at all my prefered packaging format... Awfully damn glad I held out for the U.S. one, especially in this case. Shit - $25, $30, or even some places want $40 for this title from Japan. And at only 37 minutes (without the bonus tracks) that comes out to almost $1 per minute, or at least a lot closer than I ever want to get.

Chuck, I too thought the sound on the CD was a tiny bit lacking, almost as if there were a couple boom-mikes in the room, and things were not individually miked. I know, I know, close-miking probably wasn't done all that much in the early 60's (or maybe it was?? - I really don't know). I guess I mean to say that I noticed the "roominess" of the sound was a bit more than usual. But the music on "Conflict" is glorious!!! And I the sound is still very good, if not quite "breathtaking".