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Listening to the set now, inspired by the thread. Starting with disc 3...Western Thing (to appear on the next installment) is a cool bonus track!

I love this Select. I knew nothing about Zeitlin when I purchased it from Mosaic long ago, but it's one of my very favorite Selects. I've bought several other Zeitlin recordings since then, and they're not bad but didn't turn me on the way the Select did. I've never thought about the bonus vs. regular tracks, but I'm most impressed by the selections with more percussive and free/outside style. Dormammu in particular was a real surprise.

+1 to both. RIP, speak no ill of the dead, and Meat Loaf had a good career, but I (b. 1957) could never stand either his music or stage act. Saw Rocky Horror Picture Show a couple of times (c. mid-'70s in cinema, c. late '90s on video), but either didn't notice or didn't recall (until reading this thread) that ML appeared in it.

FWIW, I hadn't the slightest idea who/what BTS is. Had to google.

I have that Chess reissue. Agreed, it seems to include the Ramsey Lewis Trio. Was it Fresh Sound? I have a CD on "Jazz Beat" with Breakin' it Up and Burnin'. Breakin' it Up is a trio session, and the pianist sounds kinda like Barry Harris to me. OK, I see now. Fresh Sound had a different reissue, with Burnin' and the Argo Larry mentioned. I was confusing the Jazz Beat and Fresh Sound. Not that any of this is relevant to "Reflections on Jazz in the 1980s"...

I've listened to all the discs. Agreed on disc IV, my favorite so far and the sound seems excellent (I'm not too picky in that regard). Disc I has by far the wonkiest sound of the set.

I have two single CDs on B.Free: Hans Koller Free Sound Nome (1974) and Marion Brown Quartet Five Improvisations (1977). Both seem to be either live performances or radio broadcasts, but are oddly vague about recording site/venue: the latter merely gives a date, the former a date and "Cologne, Germany" but adds "From the original tapes in pristine sound". So bootlegging / piracy is possible, but I can't say for sure. I did recently order a box set from the 1970s (can't tell yet whether the order will get filled)...now feel slightly bad about it.

[Hans Koller Free Sound Nome] I like it a lot. But I've only recently started to explore this area [Euro jazz-rock/fusion] and am no expert. FWIW, it's mostly live performances of tunes from Kunstkopfindianer, which oddly has the same cover art (1974, long before Hellraiser). You can find both albums on Youtube; I don't know about streaming services. They've been reissued on Be! Records, which may be a questionable operation (see the Balver Höhle thread under "Recommendations").

I believe you are correct, it's a confusing situation. I have a couple of Be! single CDs. Like you said, they appear to just be distributed by Bear Family. I also saw some material on discogs indicating it's a bootleg label. But I wasn't aware of all the negative reactions.

Damn, really surprised your order is still processing. I ordered much later than you (12/23), and will get it tomorrow according to UPS tracking (see above post).

Mine shipped 12/30, expected Monday 1/3. A little spooked by sound quality reports, but will soon find out...

If Oldies.com happens to have it at a decent price, there'll be free shipping.

I'm thinking seriously about the Burg Altena International Jazz Meeting 1972-1973 and Born Free 12th German Jazz Festival releases. Super interesting but not cheap. Has anyone heard these? Thanks.

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Also Hank Mobley. I recently listened to the Mobley '60s Mosaic and was mildly surprised to hear Tyner on some of the sessions.

I'm less than 40 pages in out of slightly over 200 (relatively slim volume and the numbering includes photo pages). There's also a discography and index. This book is basically a transcription (from taped interviews) of an oral autobiography. I find it excellent so far, to the extent that I'll likely finish within a couple of days. If you prefer something more researched/academic, the only other Tapscott book I've read, and also recommend, is Isoardi's The Dark Tree. That may be harder to find. OTOH, this was inexpensive, $16.95 new paperback (domestic US) from Dusty Groove. I'm happy to have both. If you only want one, maybe this, because it's in Tapscott's voice and seems (subject to my opening disclosure) to be pretty comprehensive and objective (much less, um, extravagant than, say, Mingus's Beneath the Underdog). The Dark Tree came with an outstanding music CD, which is a plus.

+1 Seems like there's a pattern developing of significant new variants/mutants every couple of months, with corresponding surges and declines in case numbers. I definitely expect that to continue. Beyond that, uncertain...I can't pretend to forecast how hazardous the mutants will be, whether existing vaccines will work against them, or whether comprehensive vaccines will be developed. Hope is that the cycles will gradually dampen.

I'm not in on this one, but no reason to think it wouldn't be good, by analogy with the Barbara Thompson release. I sprung for the B T set and enjoy it. None of the individual discs in that box are weak.

It's also on Youtube, surprisingly for a new release.