BFrank

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Hilton Ruiz!

FYI - that set is ALL good! After hearing the Cowell/Houston/Barbaro tracks for the first time last night, I definitely agree. I actually picked it up without even knowing who was on it, so I'm glad that my blind faith was rewarded. For being a live collection, both bassists were recorded particularly well, which is a blessing given how strong McBee and Houston are. My only Tolliver-led date that I owned before picking up the Mosaic Select was With Love, so I think that I made a great decision in picking up this set. Those original Slugs albums were the first I heard of Tolliver, and became a huge fan after that. Still some of my favorite music.

FYI - that set is ALL good!

One possible way of getting that one is to buy a Miles 'Trumpet Case' box from Popsike when a good deal comes up on it, trade the rest of it and keep the 'On The Corner' box ! One possible way of getting that one is to buy a Miles 'Trumpet Case' box from Popsike when a good deal comes up on it, trade the rest of it and keep the 'On The Corner' box ! That's actually a brilliant idea. The Trumpet Case set can be gotten for $425 on ebay right now, where the Corener box is going for $220 on Amazon. But I'll wait and hope for a relatively low price reissue at some point. That trumpet case is $450 on PopMarket right now, but I think I've seen it there for less. (I want to say around $300, but can't confirm that)

How about Phineas Newborn? Probably not overlooked on this board, but certainly by the mainstream.

You're right, I should probably go. Especially since it's VERY near me! BTW, here's the lineup from the website: Catherine Russell, vocals Matt Munisteri, guitar Mark Shane, piano Tal Ronen, bass

good point. I sorta/kinda knew Mark in the late 70s. he came to the record store where I worked.

I think I saw somewhere that Billy performed with his quintet recently and she was in it.

Mine shipped today - should arrive tomorrow.

Pleased he's still active. Saw him a looong time ago - with Max Roach in the 60s and Woody Shaw in the 70s. I'm jealous - have never seen him. I REALLY would have liked to see the Strata East reunion in London earlier this year! STRATA EAST LIVE SOUNDS SUBLIME AT BARBICAN Cowell and Tolliver are clearly long-term associates. They were both in that Roach group I saw in the late 60s - along with Odean Pope and Jymie Merritt. To turn the clock forward a good deal, Harper and McBee from the Strata East gig also toured with The Cookers which I saw at The Sage, Gateshead in April. Wouldn't have been Pope in that Roach group. He was still here in Philly playing with Catalyst. Pope and Tyrone Brown (who belongs on the list of overlooked bass players) from Catalyst ended up with Roach a couple of decades later. Cecil Bridgewater completed the 80's Roach quartet. Gary Bartz was on the Roach album with Tolliver/Cowell/Merritt. It certainly was Pope. Roach made a point of drawing attention to what he called the "old English names" of his group, suggesting a complicity in slavery on the part of the English audience. The first time I ever saw Roach or Billy Harper was with that great quartet in 1977 at the Keystone Korner. I saw Max a handful of times after that (incl w/Odean) and still see Billy whenever I can. The Cookers most recently; probably 4-5 times total. "Members, Don't Git Weary" is a great album - but much too short!

For me the timing was perfect. My printer died yesterday and I was about to order a new one but decided to wait ... and today it was $25 cheaper! Even better, Best Buy also dropped their price by $25, so I bought from them because I could pick it up today.

Freddy Cole on Sunday at SFJAZZ.

Pleased he's still active. Saw him a looong time ago - with Max Roach in the 60s and Woody Shaw in the 70s. I'm jealous - have never seen him. I REALLY would have liked to see the Strata East reunion in London earlier this year! STRATA EAST LIVE SOUNDS SUBLIME AT BARBICAN

Stanley Cowell. Still active and his new album "Juneteenth" just got a nice mini-review in the NY Times.

A nice collection of photographs taken by jazz legend Les McCann, 1960-80. Worth checking out. Invitation to Openness: The Jazz & Soul Photography of Les McCann 1960-1980

The more I listen to this album, the more I hear Deep Purple, especially with the B3. Good live video:

And some interesting photos. Each one that "dates back to the early '60s and was made for designer Reid Miles for possible album art use."

Yes - that, too.

Bobby Hutcherson Select, disk 2

Tacolicious!

Yes, I've been pimping them for a couple years now. Great band with an above average vocalist. They have a new album coming out later this year called Love, Fear and the Time Machine. Thanks, Shawn. Will keep an eye out for it. How do their other albums match up with this?

Looking at eBay, there are two copies of the NKC set on CD with respective BINs of $899 and $999 and a sealed LP set with an opening bid of $750 and a $1500 BIN. But if you look at the completed listings, all of the recently sold copies of the CD set (at least the ones with visible prices - there are a couple of "best offer accepted" ones) are between $300-400. That would seem to indicate that the real market value is a lot closer to $300-400 than $600-700, significantly less than it was just a couple of years ago. Exactly. Asking prices mean nothing. Take any given "common" title on ebay, and look at the range of asking prices there, and compare those to the asking prices on Amazon and Half, and it's all over the place. What has meaning is what people are actually paying for the item (which can be found on ebay, but not the other sites), not what some occasionally deluded sellers may be asking for it. Yes - when it comes to ebay, you definitely need to look at "Completed" prices, not "Asking" prices. People ask all sorts of crazy prices for many reasons. Usually just wishful thinking.

Well................OK, then. But I still think they were a lousy format. I'm fine with CDs and would never buy vinyl again. Mainly because I have no room for LPs or shelf space for a turntable, but also because I don't miss having to turn over (or change) an album every 20 minutes. I worked both retail and wholesale through the '80s and the cassette sales were completely dominated by the "hot 100". In all other sections of the music biz vinyl killed. In the catalog stores, vinyl outsold cassettes at least 10 to 1. For indie music it was about the same. Thanks, Chuck. That explains it. I've never been a "hot 100" kinda guy.