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RIP. Always enjoy his records.

Gotcha. Well, I guess at least some tunes from Ra's extensive output should be considered "standards" at this point? Or at least worthy of stuff like this.

Heads up, Mosaic is selling that first disc of their Lester Young/Count Basie box set as an individual CD for $15. This is the Sony material from that OOP box. https://www.mosaicrecords.com/prodinfo.asp?number=263-01-CD

Regarding the box set fatigue, I get that totally. I love the Dial Mosaic set but have always wanted to put together a shorter playlist (or mixtape ) of some of that material to make it more streamlined. Anyway, this Savoy comp CD is a good one:

Sam Records is reissuing a few of their titles, one of which is Chet Baker with Bobby Jaspar: Anyone have this?

Which type of Ra's music would that be? The moog-heavy excursions?

hell yeah I've only been into jazz for a few years so my mixtape days were all other genres. I still have a few. It's now a funny memory of carrying around a big tape case in my car. What a relic of a bygone age. After that it was CD cases and now - an iPod (and I'm still old school with that thing!).

2nd Pfizer didn't bother me at all thankfully. Neither shot did, other than an arm bruise at the injection site each time with the first being the worst. I'm thinking that because I actually got the stuff that my system was ready for whatever those shots had. The friends I have that got it without having the virus all had varying degrees of side effects but none lasted longer than a day.

I saw this clip recently, which has the Zaza Kanto kids from Madagascar singing and that first track reminded me of this. It's not these kids (I don't think, at least I'm pretty sure) but figured I'd post it here anyway. Both heart warming and heart breaking at the same time on various levels: Kendrick Lamar?

Got both Pfizers. Creeping up on 24 hours since the 2nd shot and no signs of symptoms. Didn't get any on my first dose either but I know some folks that got the 2nd Pfizer and it laid them out for a day or so.

Yeah, that was the only one I wanted and it was gone pretty quick.

I don't have any doubt it is, just like all of the Sun Ra reissues on LP have a digital step in the chain. These days it seems safe to assume that unless it's advertised as AAA, it ain't. And for this particular album I think that AAA would be impossible anyway. Yeah, it's a record that deserves everlasting life.

That is an INTENSE record. I didn’t know it was considered an underground classic either. Bought it out of the used bins for a few bucks a couple of years ago, amazed by who was involved as listed on the back.

I don't know about Celluloid, but there's some LPs and vinyl promo singles on Axiom. Looking through that label on discogs now and there's some interesting albums...

No Axiom LP. The Hive Mind 45 was the first to market with vinyl, VMP's came a few months later.

Yeah, that's a good one. Are you playing the Pure Pleasure reissue or the original?

The CD can be had for around $20 these days. I think these vinyl reissues may have brought its price back down to reality, especially because Laswell also offers it as a download at his bandcamp page for $9. Now, there's also a cassette of it. that would be interesting. Probably not as crankable I'd guess.

I'm sure they'll sell all of them, but if the prices on a few of those were about 15% cheaper they'd sell a lot quicker.

My own personal aesthetic preference for the music on the album I guess. Doesn't happen like that all the time, and even though there's a digital step on this one vinyl just seems to fit. And I love 45s. Used to DJ, have a lot of reggae and hip hop 12" & 7" singles and so flipping 45s doesn't bother me. If I really like what I'm playing I can't sit down anyway (which annoys the hell out of my dog).

For sure, agreed 100%. It's just that the sentiment expressed there kind of made the rounds to where it seemed consensus was that Hive Mind's efforts were low quality which I just don't think is true. I'm hoping VMP reissues that 33. this is one title that I would double dip for on LP.

Yep. I just don't get some of the heat this Hive Mind set got from the VMP reddit page in terms of SQ critique. Would've loved to have gotten a copy of that 33 too with the original cover.

This Evidence CD has good sound and this is a great session.

From '77. I sense a good amount of Lee Perry Black Ark production inspiration on this one.

Man, those JM performances with Hicks & Gilmore (and Sproles!) are fantastic. They only did one studio album right? And none of these live sets exist on media other than video???