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I'm a big fan of both, too!

Like Chuck, bought the Atlas LP when it came out. I was happy to see the CD release which added one track and four alternates.

Excellent session!

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Freeman is highly under-rated, I think in part because his life didn't have the kind of drama that someone like Art Pepper's had (though he had been, as he told me a few years before died, and to my great surprise, a junkie "like everybody else.")

I hope there's a good interview out there with him, because we never got it together to do this, and he was nice, smart, and articulate. He spent his last years working out in Los Vegas, and he seemed fine with it. Though he does, I think, make an interesting appearance in a documentary, though I can't remember if it's about Chet Baker or Pepper (I'm sure someone out there knows).

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Whenever I listen to this recording, I wonder why I don't listen to it more often. It always strikes me as strange to read in the liner notes (written by Freeman 19 years later) that it was his last recording. He sounds so good on it that it's shocking that he didn't record in the final 20 years of his life. I'd love to see some kind of private treasure trove of Freeman recordings get released.

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