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Yep.

All the material was issued in a set of Taiwanese-only 3 3/4 ips reel-to-reel albums between 1971 & 1973. So if you've got that series (and most serious collectors do), you're covered unless the improved sound quality of Space Age Digital Remastering is of any concern to you. I've also heard rumors of an Argentine-only 16 2/3 RPM box set from 1974, but rumors are all they are.

Vault was the original label iirc.

Is there a secret passageway to be able to search by label?

Seriously, thanks for the feedback.

Uh-oh.... I smell money going out the door...

Is this a "reliable" store? No "surprises"?

Tint it blue, and here's Vol. 3:

My thoughts exactly - they're like the ugly sister you go out with because the pretty one is busy ← Or the dorky brother. Women make booty calls too!

Yeah, and a darn good one. He's one of the Godfathers of Acid Jazz, you know. "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" % "Searchin'" are two classics from the mid-70s that never fail to bring back good memories. His "commercial" work seems to have had an arc where that period was the peak of the creative/commercial intersection. Kinda got over-produced and such for my tastes after that. Check out Virgo Vibes - Charles Tolliver, Joe HEnderson, Harold Land, no BS.

Ingo, yeah, that's the label I saw. Didn't somebody have a boot of it called "A Live Supreme"?

Probably a parallel issue or some such.

I think I maybe first saw it on some non-BYG bootleg label ca. 1975. Don't know if that pre-dates the JApanese BYG issue, though.

Summer's here, and the time is right. No time for a carefully planned conceptualized trip this time out. Just gonna go through the shelves, pull some favorite stuff at random, and slap it on there. Should be some no-brainers as well as some stumpers, and there will most likely be some non-jazz. But not too much, and nothing too far afield. The emphasis is probably going to be on fun stuff, since I'm tired, it's hot, and that's that. Of course, what's fun for me may not be fun for you, but that's life. I'd very much like to handle distribution the same way I did last time - I burn all the initial CDRs, send them in bulk to the various distributors, and then they mail them out. That's ultimately more efficient for me, and lessens the burden of the distributors. All y'all gotta do is send'em out and pay for the postage. I pick up everything else. Since we got a whole month to play this game, and since July 4 is a big holiday for the US members, my goal is to get things out on either side of the 4th (probably just to the far side, but you never know, at least I don't), so discussion can begin after everybody's sunburn and flash wounds have healed. Non-U.S. participants can (and should) feel free to get drunk and dangerous around this time, just to get into the spirit of the season (and, quite possibly, of the test itself). To sign up, send me an e-mail at musicaconcarne@yahoo.com. Make the subject "BFT 27". Be sure to include all information needed to get you your discs. If you'd like to help out with the distribution, please make the subject "BFT 27 Distribute", or something like that. I'll respond in a timely but not necessarily immediate manner. Like I said, I'm tired, and it's hot. No PMs, please! My PM box is almost always on the verge of fulldom, and I'm very lax about clearing it out. Ok, let's roll!

Not....going...to...say it.... Too...easy... AAARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the kind of matchup that could go 100 games and end up 50-50. Two excellent teams competing "in the moment", and who wins on any given night has absolutely nothing to do with who's likely to win the next time out. My kinda series!

The Spanish things are cheap, good-sounding, but ugly. Consider them the booty calls of the BN catalog and use them until the real thing comes along, with no lies or pretense. Everybody wins that way.

Giant Steps was out before 1964, I'm certain.

Don't think that's accurate. Coltrane's Sound, maybe, but not Giant Steps.

'65 Trane, especially the live stuff, is in some ways the "ultimate".

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Those Dave Burns Vanguard sides are deeply satisfying.

Of course, there's the Half Note broadcasts...

C'mon Jim you know music ain't a competition! I heard a nice version of Giant Steps by Javon Jackson. He seemed to just take the changes as they were and do something that HE would do over them. Didn't really sound like Trane at all to me. Anyway, that's kind of beside the point. I guess I would just say as a set of changes, they seem like something that would be fun to improve up over the years. I don't plan on breaking this stuff out anytime on a gig in the next 50 years...but at home it's nice for kicks. ← My only competition is with myself, and, as much as I hate to lose, sometimes I do.

Fun? Yeah, sure, until your head hits the brick wall for about the 500th time... Actually, all of Trane's work is like that for me. I can't go there while playing, because it takes over completely (or at least tries to), and I find myself tryiong to "play Trane" more than trying to "play Jim". Listening, of course, is a whole 'nother matter, and that leaves a "spiritual" influence that works a lot better for me than does a specific stylistic one. Maybe it's just a hump I need to get over, but jeez, I look around, and far better people than I have been trying to get over that same hump for the last 40 or so years, and to what end? If it was going to happen, shouldn't it have happened by now? I'm playing the odds on this one.