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Michel LeGrand's LeGrand Jazz has at least three covers.

I've held off from visiting the darkfunk page for the Corea/Holland stuff in hopes that this period might see Columbia/Legacy reissue ... but maybe I should stop waiting?

Ask Vince. This guy? I guess I don't know the Vince of which you referreth.

Is the Fortune box set on CDBaby a simple repackaging of the Blue Note material — meaning, actual Blue Note cds in a slipcase, or is it an altogether different format? Listened to some sound samples, and while I'm not exactly keen on Fortune's Monk reworkings, I like the other material.

aka — I'd say Bailey's playing is fairly "straight" here, and unobtrusively so (kinda like Jimmy Cobb), but not really boring per se. Tony Williams he isn't, but that doesn't seem the point of this record. The whole album's never really fiery, but Land doesn't simply toss off solos on automatic. The "modal" vein of the proceedings has him thinking, and his improvisations are, at least to me, full of interest. So, The Peace-Maker is not "intense," if you're looking for that, but neither is it dull. Hutcherson, as always, is in good form, too.

What will be next? And what might we anticipate? Will the "lost quintet" stuff actually see release on Legacy?

Don, I dig your current avatar. That's Brignola, no?

Is this a Columbia/Legacy release, or something more murky?

Though I shouldn't trouble the waters with any K2 speak, let me just say that the Japanese K2 (as there never was a domestic edition) of In Action is awesome, both musically (of course) and sonically. I got mine from Hiroshi (1800¥) and don't regret it for a moment. It's a great record — with great cover art, incidentally. The Messengers date with Monk is also a good recommendation. I don't play that one enough. The Penguin Guide gives it a crown, and it's well deserving of one. I think Johnny Griffin understood/gelled with Monk just as well as, if not sometimes better than, Charlie Rouse.

I think I'll wait until 20%, and then clear out their Fiona Apple section.

If you can still find it, I'd pick up the Complete Prestige Recordings box set. It's small (2, 3 discs?) and digestible, and contains some of my favorite Monk. It also has some recordings Monk made with Coleman Hawkins. A big .

Has anyone here heard Carlos Ward's work on the PeullMusic label? (I've never even heard of that label.) Cadence lists two leader dates: "Faces" and "Live at The Bug."

The closest Tower to me is 110 miles away.

Farrell's Outback kicks my gluteus maximus. That last track — thazwh'mtokkinbowg. And Chick Corea's comping is perfect on this one. Mr. Farrell, I didn't know you were on this board, but I really like that record.

Thanks for the photographs, Mark. Is that the bass (in its down parka) that William Parker gave Grimes?

Damn, I think this is a great record. I've never really liked Harold Land's playing, but this side made me revise my opinion. If you like Land with Hutcherson, my guess is that you'll like this one a lot. I actually like the harmonica feature a lot — it doesn't even sound like harmonica on the album, but rather a melodica. I swear you can hear keys being depressed. At any rate, I wanted to give this one a vote of confidence. I think it fits comfortably with a recording like Medina/Spiral. (And I personally find it more enjoyable than Total Eclipse.)

Clifford -- why, all this time, did I think you were from Minnesota?

Yet another saxophonist under-represented in my collection. I have Fortune only as a sideman. Time to check out some of the leader dates. Recommendations in addition to what's already been posted?

Does Spillers allow patrons who browse and eat cereal at the same time? That might be heaven, kind of.

I haven't heard a lot of Garnett, but it seems to me he's somewhat of a victim of context, or rather not the best timing. Imagine if he'd been given the opportunity, as Tyrone Washington did, to record an album for Blue Note in the late 60's. He'd now have a sort of legendary cache. (And I think Garnett's chops were more together in the late 60's than Washington's.) Instead, his work appears to have been wrapped up in the time, and some times are less forgiving historically than others.

I'm slow to the party here, but now I'm looking for a copy of Lito. Checked the usual suspects: Amazon Half.com Jazzloft Squidco Drimala (didn't know they'd folded) Cadence Hotbabespossessingrarejazz.com ... and came up empty. Any leads?

"Unnervingly fluffy?" Gotcha. (OK, I'll stop.)

You mean Unity, the "new" Wright release? (That can be pre-ordered at CDUniverse?)

Black Love — that's the one. The Bards had it for $4.99 a while ago. I passed it by, and now it's not on the site. The Andrew Hill session with Garnett is Lift Every Voice. I'm not sure if you'd like it aka, but it's one of my favorite Hill recordings.

Thanks for those two links, guys. Just cruised through Japan Free — uh oh. $ $ And to think all along that we could have had: Shoji Hanno & Derek Bailey: FISH ... as a long-running thread. Then, instead of humorous rodents, we'd have fish-heads.