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That Criss disc is fantastic imho. Great composing by Horace Tapscott.

Yes. Really looking forward to that one.

Bit the bullet today and ordered something I've been salivating over for a few weeks:

"Complete Bud Powell on Verve"

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It's a high quality set with a great booklet and insight to Bud's playing and mental health at that time.

While its not one I pull out that often due to the all of the false starts and aborted takes there is a lot of great music on it (disc 1 is particularly impressive) but I wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Bud as there is lot of tunes where Bud is not at his best as pointed out in the booklet and how it affected his playing. I think if Bud had a say in it this would be a 3 disc set but its still a fascinating set for us Jazz geeks.

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It's a high quality set with a great booklet and insight to Bud's playing and mental health at that time.

While its not one I pull out that often due to the all of the false starts and aborted takes there is a lot of great music on it (disc 1 is particularly impressive) but I wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Bud as there is lot of tunes where Bud is not at his best as pointed out in the booklet and how it affected his playing. I think if Bud had a say in it this would be a 3 disc set but its still a fascinating set for us Jazz geeks.

Thanks for that WB3. :tup Judging from the write-ups, I knew it was going to be a warts-and-all set. But I'm sort of at the stage with Powell where I want to listen to the warts, so to speak, as well as the inspired playing.

In honor of Lester Young's birthday, I ordered "Pres and Teddy" today.

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In honor of Lester Young's birthday, I ordered "Pres and Teddy" today.

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Excellent disc Paps, one of my favorites of his. It's a Lester Young day for me today as well. In the mailbox today:

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Complete Savoy Recordings

Ordered today because I need to compliment vol. 1 and I found a new/sealed copy dirt cheap:

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A Fine Romance, Vol. 2

I think I have a lot of this stuff elsewhere but it's nice to have it all together.

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"The Best of NRBQ/Stay With We"----I found this was the way to get the songs I wanted from the their first album. It has most or all of their Columbia stuff and a few odds and ends. Certainly the first part of the title is a joke, but there's some great stuff here.

Also got some Yo La Tengo...

Electr-O-Pura

Ride the Tiger

And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

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24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday (Numero/Stax) (Vinyl)

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Levon Helm - Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music)

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Sam Baker - Cotton (Music Road)

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Sun Ra - Continuation (Atavistic Records)

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Sun Ra - Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (ESP Records)

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Sun Ra - Live in Helsinki 1971 (Transparency)

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Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Art Yard Records)

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Sun Ra - Sound of Joy (Delmark) (Vinyl)

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V.A. - String of Pearls International 78s (Mississippi) (Vinyl)

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24-Carat Black - Gone: The Promises Of Yesterday (Numero/Stax) (Vinyl)

35138.jpg

Levon Helm - Electric Dirt (Dirt Farmer Music)

514BoSACMRL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Sam Baker - Cotton (Music Road)

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Sun Ra - Continuation (Atavistic Records)

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Sun Ra - Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold (ESP Records)

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Sun Ra - Live in Helsinki 1971 (Transparency)

sunRaHelsinki.jpg

Sun Ra - On Jupiter (Art Yard Records)

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Sun Ra - Sound of Joy (Delmark) (Vinyl)

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V.A. - String of Pearls International 78s (Mississippi) (Vinyl)

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Sam Baker is great (all 3 of his CDs), not to say your others aren't.

I bought Anthony Braxton: Moscow 2008 (Leo CD).

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YES, this is one of my all time favorite Maynard albums. Issued in the mid-1960's on the short-lived Mainstream label. It was originally issued on LP under the title "Color Him Wild". There is something about this album that keeps me coming back; I think it is the nice balance/mix of material. Not only does he show off his inimitable solo chops on tunes like "Airegin" but there is a great version of "Three More Foxes" here that fascinated me back when I was a young trumpeter in highschool. However I think it is the warm ballad artistry of the sax section (Lanny Morgan, Willie Maiden, Ronnie Cuber) on Maiden's composition "Tinsel" and the easy going loper "This Night" that really sunk in and hooked me.

It is a real shame that this album has not been more widely available during the CD era. Hopefully it will see new light in the download era. I was able to nab a used CD copy in it's reincarnation as "Dues" sometime ago.

Don't let this one pass you by!!!

Maynard Ferguson, Dues (Mainstream)
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