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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...

yep, I have it -- same music as the Ogun but with very different, hotter mastering and IIRC some change in track order.

Yeah, I am not sure where to put this behemoth! Too tall for even my oversize bookshelves. Beautiful book, and I like the quotes from contemporaneous reviews. I thought I had a pretty good handle on British jazz LPs (and the fine CD reissue programmes of 15 years ago), but quite a few of the titles in here are totally unfamiliar to me. And I also was surprised to see Jack repeating the internet error that Alan Shorter appears on "By Contact." He had nothing to do with that session. Surman plays cornet (in addition to reeds), and the record was originally supposed to come out on Turtle.

Nice. I understand that Terry Martin had many Swaggie releases in his collection.

Yes, it is a different track. I have the Habiliment LP for (partly) that reason. Surprised Lord got this wrong but the Japanese LP is extremely rare, so he may have just assumed without hearing.

https://www.kyokokitamura.com/the-case-of-robert-bob-rusch/ I am thankful for Cadence and all the things that the label and magazine did, and he was the founder. He was also a very good writer and in later years he championed my writing. That felt like real validation, since I never knew or met him. He was also a very fucked up individual. It would not shock me at all if he was abused as a young person, but I do not know. I feel empathy towards those whose lives he wrecked. I think one can hold the truths of his accomplishments and his terrible actions at the same time.

definitely recognize the name. Looks like he was a Bohannon regular.

Cool!

All praise due to Mr. Kart!

yep. Fair assessment.

Damn, that's too bad. He did so much for this music. Definitely complicated... but that legacy, whew!

Denon, Baystate, Horo, Fluid, Victor, Soul Note is what I have for Max of that period. don't forget the two Bridgewater Brothers LPs... very nice Denon sessions in great sound.

I suppose as these are benefiting musician charities it's hard to completely mock Al (especially given the fact that COVID UBI here was pretty short-lived), but it is still goofy.