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That's the same release I got. Agreed, fine record. The Message from the Tribe disc (2nd version - the first version has completely different tracks than later editions) is also outstanding. There have been a lot of great Japanese reissues of late...I'm going to have to stop looking at Dusty Groove's site in order to keep the budget within reason.🙄

Not sure exactly what type of sleeves you have in mind. The above, which looks similar to inner sleeves used by Ogun and some Japanese reissue labels, are all over the place. The pic comes from Sleevecity site, but they've gotta be on Amazon, eBay and other sites as well.

O. P.

There are some decent record stores scattered around the Mid-Hudson Valley, NY. Big recent growth has been in vinyl, afaict. For instance, I've found reasonably priced OJC CDs every time I've looked in Kingston, NY the past few years. Never left the shop empty-handed, visit about 3 times per year.

True.

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That Nistico CD example is bizarre, because even freakin' eBay 🤔 has the Just Jazz release much cheaper than DG's price. Maybe your theory is right.

FWIW, the set is offered at $60 + $4.99 domestic US shipping on discogs, so that DG price is consistent. (Based on a limited sample. 😄)

Don't think it's been mentioned, but I have a soft spot for Fuchsia Swing Song on the Sam Rivers album of the same title. You know right away it's not a run-of-the-mill Blue Note release, and the immediately recognizable Jaki Byard isn't on many Blue Notes.

I saw BH live when he was 75 and was stunned at how young he looked (didn't even have gray hair then iirc).

Phil Ranelin, The Time is Now! and Vibes from the Tribe

John, I use a "burner browser" (Edge, but it could be any) just to access sites with paywalls. I frequently clear its entire cache (+cookies, etc), which seems to zero out counters of allowed articles. Some sites have hard paywalls (no freebies allowed), in which case this doesn't work, but many allow access to 1 to 5 articles before enforcing the paywall. I just read the article, which would have been paywalled for me on Chrome (my usual browser), that way.

Thanks. Yippee! That means I already have all the material on CD. Granted, I wasn't going to buy the new package anyway...not my kind of thing, no offense to those who went for it.

Not that new a movie...it was at a semi-local theater the first week of December. Unfortunately, I missed it - limited showings and a 1.5 hour drive. Hope it returns to the area, otherwise will try to go the video route. Film is about classical music, btw...the issue is pretty familiar to classical listeners. Wagner, need I say more? 😄 Plenty of recent cases, for instance the disgraced James Levine. With the recent cases, institutional and audience complicity is a serious issue. A lot of the Levine stuff was well-known for decades. During the early '90s, it was pretty well-known to the cognoscenti that Levine had gotten pinched in Austria for shenanigans with a "choirboy" (major strings had to be pulled to get him back to the USA), and that it was inadvisable for young males to associate with him. I still attended plenty of Levine-conducted operas in those days.

Yes indeed. Just got this, did not have high expectations (being more of a straight-ahead trio than a lot of the Nimbus West material), but it's really good!

It's a matter of taste (with which there's no arguing), but I like Way Out West a lot. And I dig the cover art as well, funny and somewhat ironic IMO.

The review [Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe in DownBeat] was not so positive, 1.5 stars. Respectful of Ayler in general (praised earlier LPs) but down on that particular release. I can't copy/paste from the Kindle edition.

Larry, your 1970 Downbeat review of Ayler's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe was quoted in Richard Koloda's Holy Ghost. Strange (almost totally based on reviews, interviews, etc. by others) and rather disappointing book I just finished reading. John Litweiler was quoted a whole bunch of times; Clifford Allen at least once that I noticed.

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Google gives an exchange rate of 6.87 DKK = 1 US $, so about $20.38. You can put it in a cart at Bandcamp, who must use the same currency quote, because the result is "that’s $20.38 USD, plus $5.53 shipping for United States."