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Definitely. Elmo Hope's composing is still profoundly underappreciated. People who want to catch up on/to it are strongly encouraged to do so.

Anytime I see an old Bird Verve LP cover, I get super thankful for the Complete box set(s). Those old LPs were just not quite "right" in terms of logic. It was all we had, of course, but so glad not to have to depend on them any more.

yeah, Rhino proper fell off my radar a few years back. nothing for me there.

Did Rhino send an email about this? I looked at the last...hundred or so and it's all tired boomerrock crap, not a mention of Mingus. Or is this a different Rhino?

Now I'm afraid that if I take it out the Discman to play it I'll stop liking it.

Yeah, pre-ordered already, just not with absolute certainty...the jam lp still seems like an odd choice for a release, and if it was the best they got that might... Also, Carnegie Hall jazz records from this time did not seem to be too carefully recorded. Too much room, not enough music.

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No lp, thx, will look at Amazon, thanks. Actually a bit hesitant tho...not sure if this was at all recorded well and that the band was yet to gel. But we'll see!

Do you have to order this thru Rhino?

Another point of reference, imo, is Andrew!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only of course no Bobby and no RVG to smooth it out (so to speak). Same kind of time as fulcrum for various inching patterns of punching instead of as a beat to play. I really like this drummer here, too. Not Max, who could be, but he gets it and is not at all hesitant or other type of wrong. If you want attitude like this today, there's certain hip hops. If you want music like this today.. buy this or the few other records.

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I'm still trying to figure out what would make putting a poster up on my wall of a naked man taking a dump seem like an attractive thing to have.

The OG was pretty much ignored then, so this one would have been equally ignored. I'd like to know what the first pressing was. Pretty sure it was small, and that there wasn't a second. Finding a copy used when I started looking for it (in the late 1970s) was damn near impossible, as was finding anybody who had had it, or, really, anybody who had actually heard it. I knew one guy - one. I've actually gotten two LP copies over the years, and both are cutouts. It doesn't even belong on Atlantic, it's more like one of those sub-underground Savoy records. It's a cult record, then and now. The only Max Atlantic record that had any staying power in the catalog was Drums Unlimited. A more germane point, though, has nothing to do with 1966, and eerythng to do with 2021 - if you walked into a club and heard a band playing like this (on either album), what would you think? I'd be, like, damn, IT LIVES!!!! Only, you know, it doesn't, not really, not this, not anymore.

The more I listen to this, the more I like it. I like music that brings it like this.,.

Maybe she got a way a little more and then came back. Offices have secrets, you know. The Post Office don't tell all they know.

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Getting my first run-through this morning, and so far, it's as I hoped/expected. Biting/Bouncing piano trio music with tenor as a lead melodic voice. The real action is in the trio, which is very much carrying on as before. Dramatic, percussive, and the compositions every bit as distinct as their predecessors. I'm not finding it at all over-hyped, it's exactly what I was wanting, expectations happily met. I think it's very much of a piece with the trio abum, and when the Andylasherans put them together into a single package at some point, do not be surprised. It's a unique type of jazz, they done packed up and moved to the outskirts of MonkTown, same as early Cecil, Andrew, later Elmo Hope, "all" those guys who had definite notions of form and function and of bebop being and existential linguistic literary foundation and not a greeting card gig. I love it that there are no "standards" on here, or anyting that could pass for a "standard". Oh, ok, "Metaphysics" is "Confirmation" changes, but hey...metaphysics, kinetic energy in action, not a Happy Hallmark. I guess the only thing I could ask is, ok, Odean was already in Philly and getting his Max connect together, but...maybe Bill Barron? Just wondering if? And oh, by the way - Art Davis.

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Dinty Moore Sleepy La Beef Stu Miller

Erhu Master: Zhu Changyao (Cradle Records) No idea what this is other than "traditional" Chinese music played in an orchestral setting. My daughter picked it up for me out of the $2 bin at Half-Price, said it "looked like something you would like"...and she's right. Took me over a year to finally get to it, but fresh now that i have.

That first solo, on "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me", my god...perfect is not too strong a word, in fact, it might not be strong enough!

Hibler was the only one I had no real exposure to, outside of a few 40s Ellington things. I read reviews of the record and they kept referring to his "eccentricities", which I really did NOT understand in the context of this record, he just sounded like a REALLY deep singer of perhaps slightly advanced years who would just have whatever way he wanted with syllables and vowels and shit, and I LOVED that, still do. I've since heard his from earlier days, and, ok, "eccentric", but BFD, right? This is a glorious record, imo. Although...CDs don't have Sides 1 + 2, so going straight from one to the other on this record, which, yeah, I would jam just the Hibbler side for hours - DAYS - on end before flipping it over...this is different. But still, you get to that 1-2 of "I Didn't Know About You" and "Something 'Bout Believing", ok, now I can just loop the CD instead of an LP side. Maybe it slips under the Kirk Radar these days, I don't know. But, yeah, I will reach for this one any time, no hesitations, especially now that I have a CD and now know that memory was accurate about what gets stirred when it gets played.

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