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Doug Carn - Infant Eyes (Black Jazz)

Clark Terry - Swahili (Trip Jazz/EmArcy)

Jazz Composer's Orchestra Plays Numatik Swing Band, Composed & Conducted by Roswell Rudd (JCOA)

Louie Bellson - Prime Time (Concord, 1978)

Frank Foster & Frank Wess - 2 Franks Please (Savoy/Arista)

Love this music so much that I plopped for the Pure Pleasure 180 gram LP reissue that came out a few months ago. Not cheap. But it does sound stinkin' tremendous. (No comparison with my old blogosphere-sourced .mp3 files.)

and I agree 100%. I think it's among the finest of KB's whole career, an overlooked classic.

Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Alice Coltrane sits in on a couple tracks too.

Gallery - Gallery (ECM, 1981) with Dave Samuels, Paul McCandless, David Darling, Ratzo Harris, and Michael DiPasqua

Another brilliant Santana album, IMO.

Oh yeah!

Superb.

Rooster - Thanks for sharing those interviews. Very interesting! IMO, Maupin's contributions to Bitches Brew are incalculable. That rumbling, dark, brooding sound sets the record apart from so many others. It's part of what makes Bitches Brew so unforgettable.

More Shepp: I have the 2007 Enja reissue (with a couple nice, long bonus tracks), but the original cover is a much more potent image, I think.

and

Hooray for KB ! ! ! ... I love BOTH of those.

Spinning this again:

My favorite version of the NYJQ -- with Sir Roland, Frank Wess, George Mraz, and Grady Tate.

Another plus for Borboletta: the presence of Airto & Flora Purim. I didn't know until recently that the butterfly design on the cover of Borboletta was Santana's "tip of the cap" to Purim's Butterfly Dreams.

Jim, thanks for all that you do with the forum. It's not right that you're having to pay out-of-pocket. I just donated.

I think of Tim Conway and there are a lot happy memories from my childhood. When you're seven, The Apple Dumpling Gang is a real side-splitter. R.I.P.

More Mal:

I'm not familiar with that one. I suppose I should check it out. I am familiar with many of Kral's recordings from the 70s. The two that she made for Choice -- Gentle Rain and Where Is Love? -- are both ... uh, choice, in this listener's opinion. (Sorry. Couldn't resist. )