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Great stuff! Still need to pick this one up. Do you also have the Holy La? Same trio, same period, same greatness NP:

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I agree it’s pretty confusing. I always have to check out Discogs when buying a new Steve Lacy record.

I have a pretty modest collection with around 800 cd's and almost 600 LP's. I think I sold around 300 cd's and about 100 LP's in the past 3 years as I became more selective in what to buy and what not to buy. I used to go to a cd/record fair and i took home 30 cd's or even more as they were only 5 euros a piece. But I found that I only listened more than once to two or three cd's. The rest was okay but was mainly taking up space. I now use Spotify, SoulSeek and YouTube to try records out. From there I make a selection what I want to hear again. If it clicks the second and third time, it ends up on my Discogs wantlist. That's what I want to buy. There are now 48 items on that listen, half of them cd and half of them LP. I don't do impulse buys anymore. Dissapointed too many times and selling them is mostly a money losing game. I think I have room for another 100 cd's. That's probably enough for the rest of my life. Unfortunately I am reaching the maximum capacity of my LP shelves. Probably room for ten more or something like that. I am saving up money the coming two years for a beautiful new LP closet. That's going to give space to another 500 and that's probably the maximum I could keep in my music listening room. The ridiculously thick LP sleeves in some of the current series like the Tone Poets and the Verve AS series are pretty annoying. They are beautifilly done of course but take up as much space as 2 and sometimes even 3 regular LP's....

Steve Lacy - Prospectus This was such a strong period and those Hats are absolutely stunning. This one’s with Steve Potts, George Lewis, Bobby Few, Jean Jacques Avanel and Oliver Johnson. Plus Irene Aebi who’s singing I still don’t enjoy where I do dig her cello playing. Essential Lacy: powerful, very energetic and complex music with all those awesome Steve Lacy compositions. Great interaction between all band members too. Plus the sound of these Hats is amazing. This was reissued as Cliches on cd but that misses three tracks the LP version does contain. Weird choice to omit tracks on a reissue. It’s mostly the other way around.

Hearing Tapscott play Equinox is a lovely experience. Not the best one of the series but it’s very good.

I don’t have any but for what I’ve heard they are mostly good.

Yeah is see what you mean. I dived into the ECM disco on Spotify a few months ago listening to albums that were rated highly on RYM. Lots of those more unknown Scandinavian names. I didn’t run into any records that I truly disliked but also not into one I wanted to listen to again. Well just one record by guitarist Jakob Bro. The only Tord Gustavsen I like is with singer Simin Tander. I like it more for here presence than for Tords who I find a pretty dull pianist to be honest.

these two will keep me busy the coming time I think

Excellent pick 😍 Nicolas Simion plays some excellent tenor here!

Yeah the MU records are great. Essential Don (and Blackwell of course ) enjoy!

Yeah that whole period is my favorite Don Cherry. The Blue Notes plus the ESP's and the BYG. Lovely side appereances with Albert Heath on Kawaida en with Clifford Jordan on 'In the World'. Mostly recorded between 1965 and 1970.

this is one highly enjoyable record. Early Hutch is always nice to hear but the whole band kicks ass!

Haha it was hard. So many interesting and rare records. That Jefferson is on my radar! Your recommendation brings back my memory: I saw it a few months ago on the Sam website and it sparked my interest No Cecil Taylor on that one it’s actually Jimmy Lyons and Sunny Murray with John Lindberg on bass. Intense and highly recommended music!

Saved up monthly for the big record fair in Den Bosch and I did manage to pick up some great records. Prices seem to get a little more reasonable too. These items were all on my 64 piece wantlist so I felt very lucky. And I didn’t make even one impulsive buy. The discipline of me. I’m getting better at these things.

This might be the best sounding recording I have. It’s the Tone Poet version. The clarity, detail, seperation: it’s amazing. Plus this is one hell of a record. My number one Chick for sure