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That sounds a lot like The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, or titled something like that. It's the exact same concept. I bet the whole series was designed by the same guy or organization. Though I don't have data to prove this.

Yes, a very, very nice one. I got it recentlish (maybe last year) and like it a lot.

That's one I have too. That Super Bit Jazz Classics were great. Mini LPs too.

I have this in an old domestic CD release. I think from the 90s, but previous to the Japanese in any case. I think Rare Groove.

I love Burrell soloing as much as comping and playing chords.

Carl Craig - More songs about Food and Revolutionary art

That one's excellent. Listened yesterday night to Night Fever. And now again. It's excellent! The music of my coming of age in 1977-78.

I loved their first one when I was 14 or 15. Ah no, I see now it's their second, called Ultravox! from 1977. And it's considered less punky than glam. It does in fact stem from that. But maybe it was their debut, and produced by Eno.

I have both. I think the Japanese mini LP sounds better but I've never compared it to the other. Plus it's a K2, I think. Oh, and I must add the album is very good.

Just placed an order. I know I am late to the party, but I took advantage of the 40% discount Rooster mentions. Reading an excerpt from the book on Kenny Burrell convinced me I needed to read this. I tried with a promo code from when the book first came out, but it was no longer valid. But thanks to Rooster's suggestion I took advantage of a similar arrangement.

I like that one very much. Specially the bird. But who's the lady?

Count Basie: The original American Decca recordings

To not speak about this one, the thread made me think of. There was a fifth element, the drummer, of course. But as he was from somewhere else he's not mentioned. He was Kenny Clarke.

Forgot how great Elmo Hope is.

When I listen to Dylan it's mostly Highway 61 or Blonde on Blonde. But I like Desire too. From when I was just 13 or 14. Or The Frewheelin.

Me too.

Porcupine is incredingly good. I added it the other day to a playlist of 80s music in Spotify. I think I never had it. But the song that stands out for me is The Cutter.

The other day a friend, well a friend who's 15 years older, and who likes very much dixieland, sent me a song by them. Tuba Skinny. I still haven't listened to it (though I'm sure it's good), but will do so quickly.

Yeah, I guess it must be that, because the operating start from PRS is 1985. And The Blow Monkeys are my favorite 80s band, despite of what I said. That's in hindsight but I remember how The Blow Monkeys (I heard some REAL blow monkeys in jungles later) blew me away in 1985 or so. With their first, Limping for a generation. After that they were not as good anymore.

To me the two bands that best define the 80s for me are The Smiths and Talking Heads. From Talking Heads I prefer their four first over the later, when they were already mainstream. But the best for me is Remain in Light, from 1980, the fourth. It's produced between David Byrne and Brian Eno, and presents a very interesting African influence and polyrythms. Another album I like very, very much from the same time period (80/81) is My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, which the pair also did together. Look up the list of samples it contains. It is overwhelming. From African Bushmen, to chants from Ethopia, to lebanese mountain singers...

“Reynolds masterfully captures the excitement of this period, when every week seemed to bring a new musical advancement”--The Tampa Tribune That's something I remember very clearly from the period. All the times there was a new thing or current. But seriously. Every year was quite different to the one that preceded it. Maybe that's why I like so much David Bowie and his Ch, Ch, Changes.

That must have been an early PRS, because the headstock is bit akward and because it still doesn't carry the bird inlays. I really like and discovered U2 with the following album, October. It's their second, produced by Steve Lillywhite and it's my favorite U2. This one's also great as it was their first and from the beginning. They did a later album with the same boy on the cover. Some years later and a bit bigger. I also like very much Echo and the Bunnymen.

Thanks for mentioning this again. I remember there was some additional info about the book. But I didn't know if I'd read it or not. Now I know I didn't. It was new to me.

Oh, I didn't know there was such a thing. The album that made me fall in love with them is their first, Blondie I think, when I was 15 or so. It sounds very 60ish, very girl group.

Yes it's a great book, and I was after the UK edition as opposed to the US, because of what you said some time ago. But I ordered it from my local bookshop and didn't know what I got. Specially since the cover was different. But now I know it's a reprint of the UK edition and can be calm. But it was logical they were ordering from the UK. I'm in Europe after all.