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Sorry for the confusion -- my wording was garbled. What Chuck posted -- the "this" I was referring to -- is the original sleeve art; the Polydor/Storyville art was used starting in the late 1960s.

yeah, Trio is worth the price of admission alone. the Storyville reissue uses the International Polydor cover. This is the original sleeve art, which first appeared on a heavy folkways-style sleeve and then was issued in a thin flipback by Sonet.

What do we know, if anything, about the bassist Donald Bailey?

^ I'm with you. It's not an album I "need" but it's cool and seems genuine.

Nice one. Have a Japanese pressing from the 80s.

Interesting... I have all of this on CD but would welcome the Tone Poet.

Mine has shipped; I wasn't expecting it to fly so quickly, and am glad to have gotten the restock. Looking forward to spending some time with this music. I only have a smattering of his recordings on LP.

yeah, this is excellent. Thank you for passing it along.

we should be complaining about wage stagnation and the cost of housing relative to the cost of our jazz.

Hope more makes it to YouTube...

Has anyone seen the remaining 13 minutes? Excellent performance and crystal clear footage.

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yeah, I've heard it -- the moans and groans probably inspired him.

Pretty much only one (or two) reasons to own that!

I have the BAT LP set from the 1980s. Excellent music, not the greatest sound but I've heard worse. There was a CD bootleg issue or two at one point as well. I guess I could ask Eric if he is running the estate but it seems to me he is highly focused on his own music, so I'd be surprised.

Awesome~

I love the harmonica (or harp) and banjo, but not the former in this context. It's got that Toots Thielemans treacly sound, not a deep blues harp sound.

Had the original LP and noticing both that it had gotten to be a $150-$200 record in NM condition and that I couldn't deal with the harmonica track, I traded it. Agree that it's a more conservative date than the Blue Notes and less interesting than the Mainstream albums.

First two Bob James LPs (Mercury, ESP) and the Resonance set are pretty incredible.

Gotcha. The singles were spread over The Art of the Trio and Blues in the Night, both of which I have, as well as the other JP-only LPs. So I think I've got all those.

good to know, thanks!

I have that one. Very good stuff.

How many non-LP tracks are there? I have all of these on various US and Japanese pressings. But I do love Sonny Clark!

yeah, I like reading some of the pithy and occasionally dour reviews of now-expensive and hard to get albums.

yeah, I have a Japanese pressing of the Alternative Rollins and it's probably my favorite of his in the racks too...