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I was only a teenager in the 60s and wasn’t interested in jazz in those days, not until the late 90s, so never saw them.

I was way more into rock bands when Miles last toured and I was a kid when Coltrane died. My parents didn't even have any Brubeck LPs, much less Coltrane. We used to sing along with Mitch Miller.

There was an article in the NYT last week or so how Argentine fans are doing whatever they can, including going into debt, to go to the Cup. Crazy at those prices.

Tilaye Gebre - Tilaye's Saxophone with the Dahlak Band First listen. It sounds very similar to Hailu Mergia, with basically the identical saxophone licks played. I enjoy Mergia and Astatke but I'm not sure why this needed a marquee reissue.

I have the 1998 one (as well as the RVG) and I think that’s probably enough for me although I’m sure yours sounds really good.

I've listened to two of these so far and the sound is excellent. IF your system allows SACD to shine I would say these are worth pursuing. CD layer sounds great too, but on my system the SACD is better sounding still.

That's right - from the point of "age". But stylistically speaking, it seems to be a different matter. Like I said in a previous post, it is amazing that bebop of the 40s (i.e. some 80 years ago by now) has been considered part of the natural continuum of jazz for a long, long time. Whereas the "avantgarde" of the 70s and afterwards (i.e. after the first Free Jazz generation of the 60s - Coltrane, Coleman, Cherry etc.) that is now some 50+ years old too is still causing controversy (and some of the music of the first generation too, possibly). So maybe I am not the only one who feels that at some point a limit of what can immediately or instinctively be grasped as "jazz" has been exceeded somewhere. What I also find surprising, seen from today, is that most discussions of avantgarde keep focusing on the period from the 60s ONWARDS. So what about 50s "avantgarde" musicians in jazz, like Jimmy Giuffre or George Russell (and others)? I can see and hear where they came from in jazz, but - to me anyway - there is a lot in what I've heard of their music (not nearly all, of course) that still is challenging to listen to. Because it IS "far out". But how come Jimmy Giuffre et al. seem to have fallen by the wayside within the avantgarde narrative? Taken for granted? Artists that are not "Black" enough? I'd be surprised if the general consensus were that their avantgarde work is far too accessible to today's avantgarde listeners' ears to warrant the "avantgarde" tag anymore. (But who knows ... )

Another Miles Davis SACD in lp packaging from Universal Japan, with Tone Poet mastering from Kevin Gray. Great sound. Miles Davis “Volume 1” Blue Note Japan SACD

I strongly recommend Peter Peuker´s gorgeous album "Skylark" that he recorded in 2003 for the Pirouet label (Munich). Aside from his trio the German altoist added a string quartet for this set.

An exciting new release from Japan, and SACD in lp facsimile gatefold packaging. The sound is excellent. I still love my “Special” 24 bit by RVG lp facsimile release from Japan with its meatier sound, and the “Complete” US Capitol release from 2019. Music I have no issue having several versions of.

well, a lot of what people call ”avantgarde” is pretty 50 years old, or more ? I can´t say that any of that music of geniuses they rote books about, is older or newer for me. Bird maybe was 70years ago, Ornette Coleman 60 years his classic recordings, Alice Coltrane 50 years or so...electric Miles, Aghartha or so, 50 years. Old old stuff really, so I can´t feel a difference of time.

I do understand you, and no need to being made to feel sorry. There are so many (still-fresh) approaches and perspectives even to styles of music that some may consider old hat. One man's meat ... And yes, that 1957 Newport track is nice (and indeed "free", in a way, within the mainstream swing idiom). Don't know how often and why I've passed up that record in the shops. Time to remedy this, I guess.

May 20 Victor Lewis - 1950

The "Business Meetin'" sides w/Gerald Wilson

Lol. Be pretty boring if we all liked the same things. Cool stuff. Thanks.

Miles, in the 80s. It was "different" then, but only in some ways. Didn't bother me at all. Trane - I was not yet 12 when he died

Sounds free to me. The people do.

Curious about how many members caught either/both live.

Sorry.

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The music was moving him, eliciting an emotional reaction. I find that with bop, hard bop, soul jazz and blues. Avant garde does not elicit any reaction in me other than to change the music but what appeals to one person doesn’t to the other and vice versa.

1955 appearance.

I was once unwilling to listen to any post-atlantic Coltrane. Then I bought a 3 CD Impulse sampler which blew my mind. And there it began 😆

The most easily lsted are: Bill McGuffiePiano Bobby OrrDrums John McLevyTrumpet I'm a big Benny fan in part because my Dad was (and played a bit of clarinet and bass clarinet) and in part because I heard him give a talk and play while I was at the University of Chicago, and then listened to and collected over the years. He was an early integrator of races in his band and with his arrangers and he did keep up with all the swing changes and dipped his toes gingerly around the perimeters of other jazz realms. I think he's an excellent soloist, from the start and into his late career. This 2 cd/2 LP set has some modern touches on the arrangements and McLevy in particular has nice solos.