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Because it's only acid and free jazz that fuck each other up?

Dusty Groove will come to your house and pack it all up? Note to Brenda - when I die, call Dusty Groove...or call Laurie. Seriously, always glad to see happy endings in situations like this. Many of us here shop at DG often enough that the odds of the collection being "kept in the family" (so to speak, in the extended sense), are pretty good. Laurie, you're not disposing of the collection, you're merely making it available for wider circulation. It's a good thing.

You gotta look for old fake books, ones that essentially compile old, original sheet music lead sheets.

Me either. I just don't care for that record too much.

Yeah, glass half-full, glass half-empty, optimism/pessimism determined by the level of thirst at any given moment.

Musically, no argument. But in terms of "collecting" or even just simply acquiring, Braxton, Cecil, and especially Lacy...it's like all those labels, all that product, if you're not there in real time, it can be a bitch of a retro-fit, and even if you are/were, there's only so much money at any given time. Say what you will about the 70s, but shit, motherfuckers had contracts, deals. Easy collation for historical reissues...if I tell you that I'm bygod thankful for so many the BS/SN boxes becuase at last I'm getting to replace my oldass cassette dubs, can you feel my painful joy? Because I don't mean high-end Maxell CrO2 blanks, I'm talking generic ass K-Mart store brand blanks, because that was all I could afford to get all I desperately wanted to hear from the 1-2 people I knew who could get it where Iw as at that time. You think that retro-collecting Sonny Stitts or Lee Konitz can lead you down some dark alleys, try collecting Steve Lacy or Braxton or Cecil. And then try finding time to listen ot it all and digest it all AND eat three balanced meals a day, with or without dessert! Shit was a lot easier when there were cutout bins, too, I'll tell you that right now! People should buy all the Hat stuff they think they might even someday sorta like, becuase right now, it's still semi-plentiful. But that's an exception, a supremely Carpe Diem exception.

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That would have sealed the deal for that series, afaic. Best unified collective documentation of time/place HOF, for sure. Pretty damn close to that already.

The only originally-released BN that I feel lukewarm about is 'Bout Soul. Right time, wrong place, or something like that. Other than that, there's always something there for me, a lot of something, actually. As far as the latter-day "reissues", Tipping the Scales, I just don't get that one. And I might have enjoyed High Frequency as a quintet, rather than quartet date, maybe somebody to fill the gap between Jackie and the rhythm section, sometimes it strikes me a s a little too "this then that" in terms of overall group sound. Sometimes, not always. But other than they, no worries when it comes to Jackie McLean and Blue Note, none at all.

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So....Red Sox in Win Now, Win Forever mode, perhaps? http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/11/24/7276173/red-sox-pablo-sandoval-hanley-ramirez

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Was Dixon going/trying to release it through Fontana?

It's never really created a sense of urgency in me to own it, but hell, 50 bucks? I know it's got 50 bucks of good in it, that's a value! And besides, Pete is a prince to deal with!

Yes, everything is true. This is a great band doing great work at the upper end of their great, perhaps the uppermost end of their great, which is to say as great as anything by anybody that has been or will be great. Nobody's really mentioned Dresser yet, but me, I'm a bass guy, and when I get to really analyzing this stuff, I'm gonna focus on Dresser first. But really, this is band music, and ceez, this is a band that started on fire and only got hotter. Thanks to Ervin for handling the business on his end. This one is special among special. I truly feel lucky to have gotten the opportunity to get this.

Well, let's do that, then.

Forces In Motion is one of the great music books, period. Suggestion - read the Postscripts first, then join the show, already in progress. As for Mosaic v. Black Saint, that's easy - both. Seriously.

Let gif that bad boy!

Thanks for upping this. It's been reavailabled at Amazon. Glad to have had 1 finger with which to 1-Click.

I think the first J-Mac albums I heard were, in sequence, Jackie's Bag, Destination...OUT!, Bluesnik, and "Let Freedom Ring". All of them gut-grabbingly intense listens, but only Destination...OUT! sounding really settled, like the search ends and goes forth from here. Not how it happened, as it turns out, but the McLean/Moncur pairing was, and remains, magic to me. However - the title tune of Bluesnik...that head is so deliberately reductionist, like could you really break it down any more than taht,no, don't think so,left a totally wide-open canvas upon which to paint, and listening to Jackie's back and forth, his internal monologue if you will, going one place and then all of a sudden catching himself, breaking it off and immediately taking it somewhere else, to me, that's not necessarily a "perfect jazz solo" but it's about as bared-bones a look at wheels-turning in real time as anything out there. And the way Freddie takes the handoff, you can tell that all of Jackie's darting about was getting Freddie primed to jump in and get going. All the best BN records had that sense of timeless immediacy, but the best McLean BNs,...maybe a tad more than most.

$50.00? I'll take it, please.

The Barry Altschul side listed in on his site is very fine. If memory serves, he's had an excellent Cadence oral history done on him within the last 20 years. If not there, somewhere. I know I read an interview with him somewhere where he talked about how just playing changes wasn't enough for him and he needed to explore different concepts of harmony.

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"Bain Street" closed one side of the LP. Closing the other side was this:

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