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Man I wish I had this here in Houston with me. I've not heard this in too long! I can't rate Mingus material because I've collected all I can find and I just flat like nearly all of it. . . well "Three or Four Shades of Blue" I dislike but that's about it. I'm a big fan of all the albums that Mingus made that year and the one before and after, that seems to be "core" Mingus to me. Pepper Adams here is great, and I guess what I really like about this is the careful choice of tempoes and the "feel" of the arrangements. Just an outstanding work, and one that would serve as a good introduction to jazz for someone who really dug blues-rock.

Thanks, I didn't realize that.

I just have a cd version, and I'd echo Bill's sentiments about the date. Melllow. . . organ playing mars the enjoyment. I don't play this often.

Lots of different album styles there too. . . .Wayne probably had his reasons to be upset, but Duke Pearson produced a lot of fine albums.

I have several. One of them (a B&O) even works.

Looks to me as the Japanese version of the upcoming US box set.

Well, I WAS a hippie radical freak, indeed. Briefly. Those were the days. Now I'm just an old fart dreaming of the past!

I was looking through a discography of Evans, and this was Evans' only release on CTI (????). How'd that happen? Didn't think Creed Taylor had that much contact with Evans. This will be a nice pick up though. Surely Evans knew Taylor well from Verve?

Yes, this and "Blows Against the Empire" are my favorites of the "SF Clan" recordings.

cduniverse shows these CTI imports as preorderable at 17.99 each.

I had heard this was scheduled for fall from a thread on AAJ. . . For some reason cduniverse has a preorder link for the box set, but no mention of the "If I Could Only Remember my Name" reissue.

Oh it compares quite favorably. I actually may listen to that more than The Congregation.

YES, those are both great releases, have had them for some time. Ewell is one of those guys who has never disappointed me.

Yes, I think so, that's how I remember it. I probably shouldn't have said anything. . . I can't remember whether I was sworn to secrecy or not! I think that was the one and ony time I talked with Cuscuna for that interview about Alfred Lion, a long time ago it seems.

I'm a big fan of Natural Essence, and it made me seek out his other lps. I feel as Larry and Jim that the tension and melding between in and out and the excellent playing by all make this a special work. I'd love to see it as an RVG! (I just REALLY don't like the sound of Connoisseurs, if it came out that way I'd stick with my TOCJ copy unless it had extra material.)

Yes, Lonehill "reissued" Best of the West. I chose not to mention that. Those guys make me queasy with disgust. They're the worst of the pirates in my book.

I could care less whether rock critics liked BOTT or whatever. What I love about it is two-fold. First, the stories of most the songs have a reality and a mundaneness that is moving to me, and lacking in a lot of his other works. All those songs in Desire about boxers and gangsters, yah yah yah. Turns me off. But "You're a Big Girl Now," "Tangled Up In Blue," "Next Time You See Her," etc. That's stuff I can hear again and again. Planet Waves has those sorts of tunes as well. Secondly, BOTT has excellent musicians and arrangements and sound and flow. It really is genuinely pretty and well-executed and flowing. I just marvel at the atmosphere and mood and beauty. A sort of pinnacle of that sort of Dylan material for me. (Just as Planet Waves is a sort of a pinnacle of the rock sound, texture and execution that was started in the sixties). There are other really good albums after these, but none of them really hit me in the same way. Don't seem as realized or "real." I have favorites (including Under the Red Sky and Real Live and Time Out of Mind) but BOTT means the most to me.

Ha. Should have realized it was a different Junior. I just hadn't realized that for some reason.

Planet Waves is amazing. I like all his collaborations with The Band, but that one is. . . special.

Junior Parker is ON that cd as a vocalist on a few tracks. I think he means he got a different type of Parker performance than he expected. That IS a neat cd. Richard Davis does some astounding work on that one!

Hell if I know either. I'll take Planet Waves any day of the week, and twice on holidays. Honestly, I like Planet Waves, New Morning, and Self Portrait nearly as well as BOT.

It's personal preferrences Clem, and I don't like a lot of stuff you do, and I like BOT best of all the Dylans I have, just because.

GOOD REASON!

Some cool cover art too! World Statesman and In Greece have recently been lp facimile cds from Japan.

OH MY GOD WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN!