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Directdtep and Flood are excellent Headhunters-band albums and Dedication has "Nobu", which was WAAAAAY ahead of its time:

Herbie was making good-selling poppies records then. Columbia had no interest in a solo piano record. They got Sunlight instead.

That's enough! But it's worth doing a deep dive just to be sure

Great! There's a lot of good music there! Does anybody keep in touch with Jeff Crompton? IIRC, he was the first centralized administrator. He might have kept the ones he got?

If any record deserves the vault excavation treatment to bring out alternate takes, it's this one. What I've heard has been levitational.

"Flute" is a thing that is so ancient and universal that using it to tap into SOME kind of "vibe" shouldn't be too difficult with a little bit of purpose. Keyboard in general, and piano specifically...not so much.

Quite. But he owned it.

Not sure the musical number was called for, but otherwise, yeah

On many Best-Of lists!

Skitty Hallorigan - Surfside In TV Land!!!

How about a Bobbi Humphrey Comeback Tour, a duet with Andre 3000 on piano?!?! Shipp...he makes noise to get attention. He admitted as much after he went after Herbie Hancock so viciously. I'm very much a believer in looking for what you can get and not wasting time looking for what you will never get, unless you're willing to do what it takes to get it.

Nothing wrong here...but I feel like I'm still hungry. Great trio, though, outstanding!

Ah, I had forgotten that SACD can hold 110 minutes. That a long time!

I don't see why they even need to bother with it at all. It's not relevant to them of them to him. I guess it's one way to get "attention". But that's not going to sell them more records or lead to better paying gigs. If Andre 3000 dropped dead right now, what impact would it have in them. None, probably.

Joe Newman says bring it on!

What I've been wondering is if it can all fit on one CD, why did they just release it on two? What is the TT?

The dog dug, dig,?

I know what you mean. I don't watch movies on discs or TV either. It's not the way they were.want to be seen.

Bandcamp has her whole digital catalog (17 releases!) for under $60 if purchased as a whole.

I listened to as much of the YouTube videos as I could take and think that it's not as horrible as the Poobahs are ranting about. But it's not very good either. At least not by my standards. It sounds like any number of people who learn a little bit of piano and then play at parties full of people who don't play any piano, who are then dazzled by a few non-triadic chords and non-diAtonic modulations. Wow! But still and all... it's amateur, but it's not incompetent. Those are two different things. People just need to chill out and everybody play their own gigs. You choose your own path and then do your best to maximize it. Andre 3000 is not stealing audiences from Matthew Shipp and Ethan Iverson. They should be happy about that, actually...

Oneilotra Soxell - Paper Dogs Of Fire!!!

It's a great date, but like I said, unissued here until 1992, and not well known domestically. Maybe the allegedly surreptitious nature of the original recording held it back here? But internationally it's had a good run. Well worth scoping out and imo the best representation of that edition of the Messengers on record Make mine Chico!!!

At times, quite audible!

That's the one. Didn't see a US release of any kind until 1992 on RCA Bluebird as Paris 1958 and then just as a single disc. This is the session that Benny Golson recounts as showing up for the gig and seeing recording microphones set up, asking Blakey what was up with that, and never getting a straight answer - or any extra money. Maybe that was one reason for the fire, along with Hazel Scott!