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Wow, I actually thought Tyner was older than that... Anyway, here's to many more. It was a pleasure seeing him in Austin recently.

I hear what you're saying. I suppose I'm in the "under 30" for a month or so longer, as it is. That said, though I do have a 6-eye of KOB, it's not among my desert island discs. I have 3 out of those 10 listed, and have listened to a bit of a 4th.

I wouldn't buy from someone I didn't trust, and this looks a little sketchy in the grading department...

Yeah, an interesting and honest list to be sure. No "hipster" about it - mine would include some oddball ringers and no KOB!

I believe this is Walter Perkins' last recording: Bob Feldman - Triplicity

Yeah, Sel is in on it and they had it remastered and there's an extra track or two on the final edition.

Sel at Paris Transatlantic

Amazing LP, and good to see that this long-awaited reissue is finally out. I didn't think it was all that valuable a record, though, in terms of "eBay wallet damage."

Ditto.

Livin' Not much is "unequivocally" good, but my bias leans toward family, health, music, art, books, a double short Americano with the right amount of crema, and a few other things...

Another great Wilber Morris Trio is the one with Charles Tyler & Denis Charles on Blue Regard called "Collective Improvisations". Thanks! Don't have that one...

I think Aggie's mind was in the gutter for a sec! Valerie has some great stories, and I know what you mean (and that you weren't insinuating any crap)... There is a KD festival in Austin that happens on his birthday. Sadly, I was too busy to make it this time around. Maybe next year!

I can't keep it all straight... that whiskey last night didn't help, either.

The ESP CD licensing fiasco was/is pretty astounding. Stollman talks about it a bit here: Stollman at AAJ I'm not surprised the Abraxas were needle-drops; to my ears, the Calibres I've heard have sounded fine. Of course, the new ESP reissues are great, though much of what they are concentrating on is archival/new material.

OK, I'll give it a shot... Sonny Clark - Leapin & Lopin Jackie McLean - Destination Out Ike Quebec - Heavy Soul Tina Brooks - Minor Move Dizzy Reece - Blues in Trinity Cecil Taylor - Conquistador Bud Powell - Volume 1 Andrew Hill - Black Fire Horace Parlan - Up & Down Jordan/Gilmore - Blowing In from Chicago

Strange there isn't a single CD issue of Prophecy. All I can think of is that 2CD set with all the Cellar material that somebody issued in the mid-90s (can't remember and don't feel like looking it up), and you have half of that on HG. I like Prophecy pretty well; have had it on ESP vinyl for years and it definitely feels different than Spiritual Unity - more open and bled-out, if you catch my drift. Edit: didn't see you got a CD of it. Is this the combined session with "Bells" or some bootleg insanity that I was unaware of?

I didn't know you were part of the whole rap debacle of the late '80s/early 90s...

It's worth it; if you get it from ESP (or on the old Abraxas CD), you also get "Bells," which is a motherfucker...

Bedhead - What Fun Life Was - (Trance Syndicate) Bitchin' full-length debut by one of Texas' finer mid-90s rock bands.

I can't help but chuckle...

Thanks. Yeah, Gillian is really good. I get annoyed with Mark Olsen, thus sullying my readings of Williams' work. Sandy Denny is/was at one time also rather good - Fairport has a fair amount of dreck, but Lief and Liege is a mother.

What do people here think of Emmylou Harris? I haven't been able to "go there" yet, but I wonder what tree I should be barking up?

I think something is getting lost here in the name of historical context (which I used to argue for all the time, but if this is truly living music, then that history is a very fluid thing), and that's personal taste. I can not dig Fuchsia Swing Song, despite some very fine playing, for the reason that it doesn't grab me and for whatever selfish tendencies I may abide by, it's been hard for me to understand why others' undies get bunched. But that's not to dissuade anyone from liking it, or to dissuade me from saying the only Rivers BN I actually come back to regularly is Dimensions and Extensions (feat. Donald Byrd!). My "historical context" only goes so far - sure, the Marzette on ESP is a messy affair and a child of its time, but for whatever reason, I love it. Schlippenbach's Living Music is an all-star aggregation but it bores me to tears. BN was amazingly consistent but maybe that's part of its problem, or at least my problem with the whole thing (my other problem being fetishization of BN at the expense of other worthy fetishes). I think it's important to be aware of context, but what matters equally is a work's ability to hold up to standards that have been created and nurtured since that time. Not in a vacuum, per se, but from a different point of reference. That as much makes the case for the excellence of BN dates that, at the time, went unnoticed as well as making the case for what, at the time, may have been touted but which now seems very, very sub par. FWIW: I love Tina Brooks. I like Mobley a lot. I like the Hubbard BNs - most of 'em, anyway - quite a bit. For my money, DC's music was MUCH better live or at least in concert recordings than in the studio. The endearing ragtag assembly of it was often lost when the studio light was on. Cecil's BNs are great if ill-recorded; strangely I feel the same way about Anthony Williams' dates. Personally, I'll let others make the case for Hill and Henderson because I don't have it in me, though I can get with the latter's sideman BN appearances in a few cases. The LaRoca is the shit.

Reserve must be half that on this'n... ALS