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Always happy to encourage those who want to explore this wonderful music!

Preston was fully credited on both US Jazzland LPs. Joe Meek also received credit for the one session he produced.

Oh, that Zen stuff. Yeah. Didn't bother me as I found it more generically "spiritual" than anything "religious". YMMV, of course. Bob was one of the very, very few "jazz musicians" I knew at the time who were following Miles' music's growth & evolution and who actually got it. I'm not aware of any codified, published commentary by him other than liner notes, but the first time I read the Enrico Merlin thing, I swore it was written by him. Of course, he denies it completely, but...

Also, if you can find it/them, there were two late 70s articles in Down Beat by Greg Tate(?) that sort of sounded the clarion call for "critical reevaluation" of Miles' electric music. Those are well worth a read, not so much for musical analysis, but just to get a flavor as to what more and more people are coming to appreciate in the music that at one time was not generally acknowledged by the "critical community" or many "jazz fans". Guy - I don't recall any of the author's "spiritual beliefs" in the book. What am I forgetting? Also, I tend to agree that the 73-75 period was the zenith of the pre-retirement electric period. I still think that in many ways it's the most personal music Miles ever made.

Sometimes the boat needs to be rocked, and sometimes the waters need to be stilled. That's why we have Miles and Pres. Both of whom utilized John Lewis rather effectively at one time or another...

The book by Paul Tingen is pretty good overall. Good chronology, and a not bad basic understanding of the actual music If you really want to get into the nuts and bolts breakdowns of how it was musically put together, go on over to the Miles Ahead site and read the thing by Enrico Merlin (I gotta think that's a pseudonym for somebody...).

I've just gotten the new Ursula Rucker album (DL only!), and I gotta say that it's much more engaging and relevant to things in general than either Howard Mandel or Randy Sandke.

Thus cometh the Digital Age.

Nah. It's too big a book for that.

But on the page, nevertheless.

Here we go: I could've gotten all up in this if they've wiped the vocal tracks and put damn near anybody else (except maybe Speedy Relief and/or Rusty Warren, including Edye Gorme and/or Sebastian Cabot) on instead. Big props to Haskell for that chart, but it's not his album, ya' know? Too bad.

That's no excuse for sucking!

My condolences to his sons Jan & Rick.

"Look here motherfucker, you are NOT the Kenny G who's gonna play in my band. Now get the fuck outta here before I stick that soprano so far up your ass you'll have to cough to make it play." "Bitch."

Sometimes the boat needs to be rocked, and sometimes the waters need to be stilled.

I seem to remember P.D. on Board Krypton saying that the Southern Horizons material was originally released in the UK as two different Columbia EPs. Only one session was engineered by Meek, btw. The other half was done by Dick Lazenby.

Mercury Morris Wings Buffalo Soldiers

I have considered them and...I guess I just don't get her.

There's a market then! C'mon Free Enterprise, fill that void!

That's no excuse for sucking!

Is there not software that can do that? If not, there should be!

In fact, I'm giving Haskell some major props here for doing the whole "psychedelic easy listening" thing that TTK notes so admiringly in other works, and doing it very, very well here. But Morganna King ain't happening here.

I'll entertain arguments about her Donovan, although that's probably more to Jimmy Haskell's credit.