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My first listen, casting from Tidal. I can actually hear both sides of the bass debate. It is audible, less so in the full on quartet passages but very definitely when it breaks down to a piano trio. And yes, it is a bit boomy but that doesn't detract too much for me, I'd rather it that way than thin or non-existent. Overall I'd say its SQ is one of the better recently discovered live recordings. The music itself is pretty spectacular. I'll be buying this.    

Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Hot House. Novus PD83098 [Germany 1991] Signed by Steve Lacy Artwork by Jacqueline 'Jackie' Murphy Senior Art Director at RCA Records January 1987 - January 1996 Creative Director at Sony Music Entertainment/Jive Records January 1996 - January 2011

Life experience in music ....

Late to the game in this thread, so ... First of all, I understnad your "early R&B" wants to cover roughly the 1945-55 period, or at any rate the PRE-Soul R&B years (i.e. some of the stuff from the later 50s falling alternately into the R&B or R'n'R category, depending on how you classify your music "historigrpahically" - an approach I sympathize with because I tend(ed) to adopt the same, but am not afraid of wading through ). I am not sure what you refer to as "shit that stinketh". (Any examples of what stinks to you? ) I'd venture a guess it is more of a matter of taste than anything else. At least to those who dig deeply into this and who are prepared a) not to be turned off by less-than-perfect fidelity of ultra-rare 78s being reissued, and b) to take the tracks as unpretentious dance and entertainment music for the "average man" (and woman ) of the target audience of those days back. As for the COMPILATION recommendations (I take this to mean Various Artists anthologies and not so much single-artist reissues) and looking at vinyl in the first place, I'd second ALL the SAVOY recommendations. Their twofers were great and numerous. The Atlantic box (that in its later twofer voloumes goes into Soul) is excellent too. Though mybe with less "new finds" than the Savoys. Beyond this, the Ace, Charly and Krazy Kat labels from the UK had plenty of interesting compilations. Ace drew heavily from the Modern/RMP catalog, Krazy Kat did a lot on the Gotham label. P-Vine from Japan did some very nice "themed" vinyl comps too, but they are likely to be very rare and expensive to source sedocndhand these days. At least in Europe. With you being UK-based, in case you come across R&B compilation series titled "SAVAGE KICK" or "STOMPIN'" (even though they may look sort of grey-area-ish ) at good prices in specialist (underground) record shops, pick them up! They were done with the hardcore R&B and Black R'n'R collectors (and deejays and dancers) in mind in the 90s (and as CDs a bit later on) and circulated mainly at the concert record stalls. https://www.discogs.com/de/label/341528-Savage-Kick?page=1 https://www.discogs.com/de/label/59225-Stompin?page=1   As for the CDs, I'll do a separate post later on. There is sooo much there, particularly off the beaten tracks of the usual suspect labels ...