Dub Modal

I enjoyed this. Good music, gets slotted as “jazz” because it’s mostly instrumental but seems a lot of music is like that these days.

I have the same question

Joining the chorus of well wishes. I hope the procedures go well and you're able to recover fully.

Bottom line is that this is a fantastic record. Highly recommended

That Azymuth record is the bomb. Leaning toward picking up that reissue from Jazz Dispensery. Glass Bead Games is always excellent and Moon Rappin' has groove. Not sure how the Moody Blues crept in here, but the listen was better than expected. Hayward has some nice solos and as a psych period piece it's a fine album. The overt enthusiasm for acid that permeates the entire record is entertaining.

Playing Looking Ahead now and had to look up the vibes player. Surprised to see such a limited discography but he may have unfortunately passed too soon as noted above. Really enjoy him on this album

Another helpful tip for getting by those pop ups is to not allow temporary files from specific websites via your browser’s settings. That seems to work well with Twitter

While I don’t really enjoy what I’ve heard of that big band album, there’s 3 others I don’t have and the improved SQ, potentially informative liners and support for Mosaic put me in the market for this. Blue Spirits is a sneaky good album that I’d like to hear the Mosaic treatment on. Should be better than the RVG CD I have.

One case where the reissue is better by miles IMO. Smokin’ & playin’ with style

Holding out hope for 1 or 2…

Hopefully more info on bonus/never before released tracks will be forthcoming as well

Wasn’t Sun Ship originally released on Impulse? So the ability to dip into that catalog may have been there since the pre-UMG days but maybe that set was a special case…?

Great read, thanks for sharing the link. Also a nice comment from Barry Diament underneath.

Hell I've caught that barb while they're hooked and that ain't fun either.

Tyner's excellent Sahara. Love this album. Valley of Life on which he plays that Koto is outstanding

Exactly

I don’t think they’ve done any digital comps in near 10 years or more. Playlists have probably made them obsolete at this point.

They should try to expand these covers to take up more of the shirt and not just use the square box pic literally. Some good designs could come out of these Reid Miles covers…esp something like Sam Rivers’ Dimensions & Extensions

Great read. Streaming platforms give BN the ability to tie in legacy albums and artists to new ones and I think that’s why sublabels don’t and/or won’t exist. Their monthly playlists do just this, as do their (and Impluse as well) artist-selected playlists. Was seems to be taking a big tent approach and while I haven’t looked at BNs bottom line among other Universal products, it’s probably doing decent enough.

Great doc @Late. Thanks for sharing.

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America Watched last night on Netflix. Highly recommended. https://thewhoweareproject.org/

Anyone give the Night Flight subscription a go yet?

Great thread. I’m familiar with basically nothing listed. Just listened to the Gunter Hampel Heartplants album (thanks @mjazzg) and now on the Smoke record

Listening to these, that Kenny Cox might be my favorite of the bunch.

Ha, listening now. This is that r&b funk flavor I mentioned. That “Tony” track - c’mon! Not quite smooth bc it’s got edges but there’s no focus on changes like I heard in that Myrick record.