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Here's one that's well worth a read: An Unsung Cat: The Life and Music of Warne Marsh (Scarecrow Press, 2004) by Safford Chamberlain

Bobby Hutcherson - Knucklebean (Blue Note, 1977) as heard on:

More John Patton.

More Fathead. Both discs.

Ugh. Awful. A tragic and mystifying death.

Prompted by discussion on another thread: Disc 2 - with Fathead Comes On and House of David

Oh hail yes. And Rahsaan! (on both Atlantic and Warner Brothers) And Eddie Harris! EDIT: I suppose Collectables reissued some of these Atlantic guys too. But the 32 Jazz reissues were friggin' Cadillacs compared to Collectables' CHEAP-O-RAMA reissues. Good call.

I didn't know about those, mjzee. Glad they're OUT there! IIRC, I first heard Play It Now via emusic -- but I must've missed the others.

NP: Disc 2 - Originally released as Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz All Stars and The Jazz Interactions Orchestra's Jazzhattan Suite Love Joe Newman's trumpet work on these sides! Earlier: Prime late Jaki Byard with Michael Marcus.

Back to duaneiac's original post. What's about Al Cohn's recordings on Xanadu? Two of them have never been issued in digital format: Al Cohn's America and No Problem. Arguably, the best of the bunch -- Play It Now -- was only briefly available in digital format. It's a doozy! ... When Elemental did their recent Xanadu reissue series, they did scoop up Cohn's duo record with Jimmy Rowles, Heavy Love. I was happy about that. Just wish they'd done Play It Now (and the others). Speaking of Jimmy Rowles ... His LP for Xanadu, We Could Make Such Beautiful Music Together, deserves a wider hearing. It's easily one of Rowles' best dates, IMO.

LOL ! Didn't realize that it had to be a career-spanning, ALL-ENCOMPASSING set!

There's still a ton of excellent Muse stuff that's MIA. Rooster has already mentioned the Woody Shaw titles. I also think of Pat Martino's seminal work for the label, which -- like Shaw's discs -- were reissued on 32 Jazz. And those two are just the tip of the iceberg. Unlike Rooster, I am grateful for the 32 Jazz label -- poor package design and all -- because, otherwise, even more of that music would never have been available in digital format. ... Have you noticed that the only issues that have been available for download were the ones digitized for 32 Jazz? Everything else is just sitting in the vault. The least they could do is make it available for downloading! Some "important" (or at least interesting) artists whose Muse releases have never seen the light of day in the digital world: - Bill Barron (Jim's favorite!, 3 LPs ready to packaged up in a two-CD set!) - Eric Kloss (his best record, Essence) - Carlos Garnett - Richard Davis - Buddy Tate - Arnett Cobb - Groove Holmes - Don Patterson - Charles Earland (already mentioned above) - Mickey Tucker !!! - Joe Bonner - The Visitors - Mark Murphy - Sheila Jordan - Melvin Sparks - and many others And I'm just focusing on the 1970s, not even touching the later, 80s and 90s stuff Jim mentions above.

From Stuff Smith to J.-L. Ponty: In a jazz violin mood tonight. 🙂 Hooray for Booker Ervin! 👍

For sure. 👍 Many of these Argo/Cadet recs have had Japanese reissues. Harold Land's The Peacemaker, for example. But think about how much more well-known that recording could've been if it were more readily available in the U.S. and Europe during the heyday of jazz CD reissues. Then again, maybe it wouldn't have made any difference. I don't know anything about the way the music biz works (or worked back then). The music lover/collector in me just wishes they were more readily available, easier to hear -- both for me and other jazz fans too.

Sad to hear this news. R.I.P.

duaneiac, I've often thought the same about the Argo/Cadet catalog. It's been woefully under-served in terms of digital reissues, particularly in the US and Europe. A quick scroll through the Argo/Cadet discography shows many artists who recorded for the label whose recordings have been overlooked. These are all in addition to the three that you mentioned -- Ahmad Jamal, Ray Bryant, and Ramsey Lewis. Consider ... Dorothy Ashby - Several Kenny Burrell - The Tender Gender Lou Donaldson - Several Art Farmer, Benny Golson, and the Jazztet - Several (not counting the Mosaic set, of course) Bunky Green - Several Al Grey - Several Barry Harris Trio - Breakin' It Up Willis Jackson - Several Illinois Jacquet - Several Budd Johnson - Several Hank Jones, Kenny Burrell, Milt Hinton, Elvin Jones - Here's Love Harold Land - The Peacemaker Jack McDuff - Several (including one of his very best records, The Heatin' System) James Moody - Many (an egregious oversight, IMO) Shirley Scott - Several Sonny Stitt - Many (no surprise there) Baby Face Willette - Mo' Rock and Behind the 8 Ball I'm know there are others that I'm missing. I suppose someone at some point decided that mining the Argo/Cadet catalog for reissues wasn't worth it from a dollars-and-cents point of view. But I know that decision often had little or nothing to do with the quality of the music.

Stuff Smith - Dizzy Gillespie - Oscar Peterson (Verve, 2 CDs) Disc 1

Originally released as two Fantasy LPs: Stormy Monday and Sky Street

Fun to hear Joey D with Big George.

NP: A beautiful record. One of MMcP's best, I think.

Joey Calderazzo - Amanecer (Marsalis Music) and John Lewis - Private Concert (EmArcy)

More Don Patterson: Originally released as two Prestige LPs: Opus De Don (1968) and Oh Happy Day (1969)