Maybe my favorite Jackie Mac record. Full blown. Now I am begging BN to release Jackie's 1968 date where Norman Conners drummin' was shitty; I don't care, issue the tapes!
Maybe the real coming out party is this record
Haven't listened to Action+3 in 6 years, and now I'm wondering why I haven't. Great stuff!!!
PS Stunning sleeve art, Reid Miles!
Love that exchange Monk has with Johnny Griffin on the tour bus when he was looking at Johnny's threads, like Monk said, "man, those are some bad ass motherfuckers"
This conversation wouldn't even exist, if it wasn't for the fact that BN thought it was a good idea to record them in the first place. So, yep. I have both sets and keeping both sets. Nothing's perfect, but glad to have them than nothing at all.
Peter,
Thanks to that incredible run of RVG's in the early 2000's, I was able to buy some of those early, hard-to-find McLean BN's; I get your sentiment precisely with how great these early Jackie Mac's are; they are! For example: