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agree, that one is a favorite.

All these years later, that Fabulous Slide Hampton quartet album with Joachim Kühn was purchased and is greatly enjoyed. I also really like Exodus, which I've never seen as an LP (very rare) but the CD reissue was easy enough to find.

got mine yesterday and working through 'em. I'd say we are getting quite the overview of what these PAPA concerts were like overall. Some peaks, some not-so-peaks, but it's all interesting.

ah! yes, I love those beardo-era photos too.

Mine have been dispatched. Looking forward to diving in.

HBD (Jun 10) to Mr Stevens!

Damn, that's too bad. He was superb.

Atavistic/UMS rather than Evidence. New liner notes by David Toop, in addition to more music.

My guess is that the license ran out. That being said, all musicians/bandleaders owned their music & publishing with Strata-East, so I'd think that to do a program like this properly something would have to be worked out with the artists as well.

That's too bad. RIP, and a life well-lived.

right, right -- thanks for that. Two chords.

and Sonny Clark on one tune, correct?

I had the John Gordon originals and sold them -- didn't get too inspired by the music. I think I was able to get nearly a grand for Erotica Suite, and that was pre-pandemic pricing. Would like to get World of the Children at some point -- it's a very nice record.

Bought an original Mike and Phoebe sealed years ago in New York City. It is a great Strata-East record.

a Joos record I am missing!

Les Diaboliques! Incredible. She's definitely up there for me as far as pianists go, though admittedly I've probably spent much more time with the LP era material (on up through the early Intakt duos) than some of the CDs.

Oh, haha, yeah that is another story. But most of those artists I mention were actively performing and recording in both 1987 and 1995. I suppose they weren't in the mainstream, but the work was definitely getting done.

in the CD era, cover art has become less important anyway. Not unimportant, but less of a reason to pick something out of the racks. I don't mind the seriality of RogueArt's style though I am of course somewhat biased.

Checking my discogs collection and while I still don't have all the CDs entered, all of the LPs are in there and I can see tons of great 1987 titles by (among others) Steve Lacy, Bill Dixon, William Parker, Ellen Christi, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Beaver Harris, Marion Brown, Mal Waldron, Peter Brötzmann, Marilyn Crispell, Michael Stuart, Dennis Gonzalez, Charles Brackeen, Per Henrik Wallin, Andrew Hill... not to mention scads of fantastic punk and indie rock of course. Seems like a good year to me (I was 10 at the time).

Intakt cover art has't been very good for many years. That being said, there is a lot of excellent music on the label. Niklaus Troxler's graphic design is probably too expensive now.

Al Cohn, Zoot Sims -- Al & Zoot -- Coral US orig

That will be fun.

I assume the Dusty Groove copy is just recycled from when they carried the Dusk Fire release. I reviewed that CD back in the day for some publication, can't recall which... it's excellent.

I probably haven't fully digested -- i.e., completely grasped on all levels -- most of my collection!