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Dusty Groove is showing a CD box set "with bonus tracks", ETA 9/15. I thought the original release was pretty light on playing time, so the bonus tracks must be significant? After reading the link posted by the OP, looks like one short (40 min) CD of the original album plus one CD (unknown duration) of the 2 live "Harvest Time" bonus tracks (the studio track was about 21 min). Definitely some semantic games being played. 🧐 In the label's defense, their only title I own is the outstanding Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane.

Very much agreed. I used to read a lot of critics for jazz and "new music" / "modern classical", and those ideals were seldom achieved. Nowadays I rely more on discussion forums like this, and on certain blogs I've come to trust. I listen to relatively little rock / pop / whatever, and most of those critics tend to bewilder me. They often seem self-parodic, and I'm left with a nagging feeling of having fallen for a hoax. Here's an example from Perfect Sound Forever (which sometimes does have reasonable content, however): https://www.furious.com/perfect/supremedicks.html And (of course), congratulations to Allen on the unexpected review. Surely a bonus.

Yes, on a second listen Breath is very good indeed. Agreed on dream team, Togashi actually gets more space in the trio w/o bass player.

Obscure Horace Silver tune from an old Lou Donaldson album. Always enjoyed it, spun it this week for the first time in a long while.

This one is really good. It's more post-bop style, not really free. But the playing is outstanding. I need more time to evaluate this one. It's a bassless trio, as opposed to Silver World (or Ginkai), the quartet with Gary Peacock, which I very much enjoy. I will need some more listens to get used to the absence of bass. In the meantime, I can recommend this one from the batch. First I've heard of Kako. Takagi's playing is freer and noisier than his previous recordings I'd heard (the 4-CD solo Nadja box). The whole of Breath is on Youtube. I could only find Youtube clips of one tune from each of the other 2 albums, so rolled the dice on those. The Takagi/Kako disc IMO is better than the one tune on Youtube indicates (I prefer the other tracks).

The only Ike Quebec Mosaic released was the 45 sessions. They could do the LP albums. Not completely absurd in light of the Henderson and Clark precedents. But I don't know if it'd sell. I already own all the individual CDs, as probably do many IQ fans.

Just received an order from CDJapan.

The "why does Mosaic no longer do vinyl?" question has been discussed to death on various interminable hand-wringing Mosaic threads, but...🤨 If this set was released on vinyl it'd sell like hotcakes and could be priced at bubble-like levels. 🤣

There was an earlier thread just after the Sonny Clark set was first announced, which I'm too lazy to search for. Chuck (I believe) pointed out that the new Mosaic contains no previously unreleased tracks, and that everything is available on fairly widely released CDs (I think Standards, with old trio material, is currently hardest to find).

You probably don't need the Quintets album. I figured out that I don't. Two of the five tracks were included as bonus tracks on the RVG Cool Struttin' CD. The other three appear on the BN Conn CD My Conception.

I'm a major fan of Sonny Clark, enjoy pretty much anything he plays on, but I essentially agree with you. "Personal stuff" (emphasis added) was likely a factor. Though his last release as leader (Leapin' and Lopin', 1961) is my favorite Clark album.

Pass. I generally don't go for sonic upgrades. Have all the material on individual CDs and prefer that format anyway.

Thanks. Going to watch this later. I noticed there are also Episodes 1 and 3. But will go for this #2 first.

Definitely agreed on Brian Lynch, but he's just over a year older than I (who am 65), so "younger" would have to apply in a rather restricted sense.

Since you asked... I made it through a couple of minutes, thought it was mind-blowingly, surrealistically weird and bad...then switched to the Youtube link with comments. 🤣 Pass on the original, thanks. Thank goodness I never saw it.

I was able to read it by opening a new incognito window, but then got paywalled when I clicked a link to another story.

I have a lot of Nimbus West CDs, not just Horace Tapscott but a variety of other artists (I particularly like Nate Morgan). As the collection got larger, I decided not to go the completist route on the non-Tapscotts because I was accumulating multiple recordings (though varying performances) of many tunes. This release has been oop for quite a while, so I never considered it before. But looking at the track list, I'll pass (even if it's released on CD) because most of the selections are already familiar.

I think there was more discussion here: I have a couple of albums on which he appears. Dadisi Komolafe, Hassan's Walk and Gary Bias, East 101. I bought the CDs for $9.99 apiece from Dusty Groove, who for a long time stocked a lot of Nimbus West releases. Not sure they still do. Bandcamp has a pretty big Nimbus West page, you can DL, research and hear some samples there.

Really enjoying this so far. Have some vague ideas, but #8's got to be early Hank with Horace and Blakey, maybe Hank's Prank. I know I have a recording, but not sure of album/take.

Perusing this on bandcamp. Having recently acquired the excellent Alan Skidmore box, it definitely appeals. A sensational, previously unheard session by legendary British free jazz saxophonist Mike Osborne, recorded in December 1970 at London's famous 100 Club. From Osborne's personal tape collection. Features two compositions currently thought to be unrecorded in any other setting. Lineup: Mike Osborne - alto sax Alan Skidmore - tenor sax Harry Miller - double bass Louis Moholo - drums

I think #6 sounds like McPherson (now that I've been told), but didn't recognize him in real time, which is my bad since I have and listen to some fairly recent recordings. Number 4 was an even worse miss; clearly Blue Note hard bop but I'd never heard it, my Hank '60s listening being confined to the Mosaic. Agreed I'll have to check out the album. Thanks for the BFT. I didn't chime in earlier because I didn't have anything bright to say re. IDing the tunes, but I enjoyed listening.