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Great price on the RRK box, a prized possession in my household.

Second Clifford on Tenor, in my opinion it's the greatest of them all. I'm glad it's getting a reissue, hopefully it will get some attention, though I'm going to assume that Black Magic Man will be the one people want to talk about most. Variations On A Blue Line and Graphics are two other excellent early McPhee solos on Hat Hut. As Serious As Your Life is incredible, but it's not strictly saxophone. That FJB list is pretty thorough but I would especially call out Lone-Lee as an essential listen, particularly in its unedited CD form. This one just really gets my mind humming. I like Ken Vandermark's solo music quite a bit. Furniture Music might be the place to start, but A Knife In The Water and The Field Within A Line are strong as well. Charles Gayle's Unto I Am is mostly sax/reeds and is great. Seymour Wright's Seymour Writes Back is a masterpiece Kang Tae Hwan – Live At Café Amores and Makoto Kawashima – Homo Sacer are both fascinating Ab Baars has a few very good solo albums (Verderame, Time To Do My Lions, And She Speaks) Haven't listened to too much solo Mats but Torturing The Saxophone is a blast. The Steve Lacy tribute is also deep.

Correct, + Lyons, Grimes, and Cyrille.

Not linking it, but for interested parties there is a European CD of this performance around now, inexplicably crediting Donald Byrd, Steve Lacy, Denis Charles, and Wendell Marshall as the group. Tells you rather all you need to know about the credibility of the pressing but carpe diem if you see fit. (inexplicable in that it's clearly not true, but this is a mish-mash of credits from the 1957 Newport recordings)

I'm a big fan of this one, however for some reason or another I got rid of it at one point and it's not so easy to replace for the amount I bought it for the first time:

I find the Mooscius 2xCD to be fine enough, I certainly didn't notice anything when I listened to it. Like all of these Revisited endeavors, this pairing makes little sense and is redundant, especially given the very handsome 1990s Impulse! CD edition of Three For Shepp which was of course remastered from the original master tapes.

I came across the first two volumes over the last couple years and really enjoy them. I should seek out the rest.

Yes, all in the US. I have them all as well, so I don’t think I will be getting this either. It always surprised me they didn’t do this one in the 90s before some of these were reissued, it would’ve been major. But I’m likewise glad Michael committed to getting all of this music released into the general market.

Throwing my 2 cents in to agree with Clifford. Flaherty is definitely an American original. I personally feel that the first Dragonfly Breath CD is one of the greatest free improv discs of the last 20 years. His two duo CDs with Marc Edwards on Cadence are both great and might scratch an itch for someone who's not all the way on board with Corsano's approach. Fat Onions is another good Cadence title that you could test the waters with. Also agree with mjazzg re: Jumala, very good record.

His debut Score is sort of evenly split between excellent burning hard bop and very corny proto-jazz rock, but it's worth a listen for the strength of the former. And he is heard extensively on the Pendulum Mosaic Select, which is incredible up and down. Some others I can think of: Everything Is Everything - Just Flash In The Cosmic Pan (Columbia Japan) - more free than straight ahead (don't forget he was in the JCO!). Desperately needs a reissue. Horace Silver - In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note) Hal Galper - Reach Out (Steeplechase) Marc Copland Quintet - Stompin' With Savoy (Savoy) Marc Copland/Randy Brecker - Both/And (Nagel Hayer) John Scofield - Quiet (Verve) Lew Tabackin - Tenority (Concord) The Mingus Dynasty - Mingus' Sound of Love (Soul Note) Richie Bierach - Some Other Time: A Tribute To Chet Baker (Triolka) Miroslav Vituous - Universal Syncopations II (ECM) And I agree his playing on those great Grolnick albums is excellent.

Pretty silly & inconsequential article that doesn't really say anything much at all. I've tried to listen to her playing as widely as I can. Sometimes it really clicks, other times it doesn't. Bahkti is a strong recording, and I've particularly enjoyed some sets from YouTube with gabby fluke-mogul as a foil. I saw her play a truly stunning duet with Joe McPhee a few months ago that proved she has an advanced ability to listen. It just doesn't seem like she puts herself in the position to do that very much right now. I will just say that what I heard of the Beings album did not do a thing for me and leave it at that.

One of one. The history of recorded jazz music as we know it today would be incalculably different without his contributions. RIP.

Great set musically and quite possibly the total apex of the 1990s haute design phase in CD reissues.

Miles @ Plugged Nickel and Bill Evans & Coltrane at the Vanguard '61 seem a little too on the nose, so excepting those: Anthony Braxton - Quartet (Willisau) 1991 John Coltrane - Live In Japan Chick Corea & Origin - A Week At The Blue Note Miles Davis - In Stockholm 1960 Complete DKV Trio & Joe McPhee - The Fire Each Time The Ella Fitzgerald And Duke Ellington Côte D'Azur Concerts On Verve Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz – Two Not One Pendulum - Mosaic Select 32: Live At The Village Vanguard Cecil Taylor - In Berlin '88 The Braxton and Marsh/Konitz each have some studio sessions, but I think they meet the spirit. One that doesn't quite, but comes close, would be the Mingus 64/65 Workshop Mosaic, which would certainly rate as my favorite live box set of all. Per the Jarrett Blue Note box, another one that I find equally interesting and equally exhausting is Bill Evans' Turn Out The Stars

Young's book will be necessary.

What a fine sight. Came away with the Holman/Russo Charts, HRS, and Illinois Jacquet boxes and will surely be back for more.

5 minute drive from my work. I’ll be keeping an eye on those Mosaics.

Nelson plays on The Pawnbroker but it was composed, arranged, and conducted by Quincy Jones.

+1, the Cook doesn't hurt to read, but won't tell you much. Reading Cuscuna and Blumental is the way to go.

I've never heard the Gunter Hampel album they released, but the rest are all fantastic. Unreleased sessions aside, the existing catalogue could fit nicely on a 5-6 CD box set.

Adding some different titles from artists listed in the OP: Jack Teagarden - Think Well Of Me (Verve, 1962) - an all-time favorite album of mine, period Henry 'Red' Allen - Feelin' Good (Columbia, 1966) - so fresh, though there is a lot of singing and your mileage may vary there Pee Wee Russell - New Groove (Columbia, 1963) - a great companion piece to Ask Me Now! Louis Armstrong And The All Stars – Satchmo At Pasadena (Decca, 1951) - a great concentrated blast of the All-Stars band Some of these may lean more 'swing' than 'dixieland' but it's in a similar spirit for me: Gus Hoo And His Dixie Stompers – New York Land Dixie (RCA Victor, 1956) - "Gus Hoo" is Billy Butterfield, the Fresh Sound CD is under his name Tyree Glenn - At The Embers (Roulette, 1957) - are there any bad LPs from The Embers? I haven't found one yet Various - Session At Riverside (Capitol, 1957) - Coleman Hawkins, Milt Hinton, Peanuts Hucko, Charlie Shavers, Lou McGarity, et al. (the previous companion volume, Session At Midnight, is also excellent but much more in a swing/East Coast vein) Bobby Hackett - Creole Cookin' (Verve, 1967) - a midsize group with a handful of modernists on board, excellently recorded & deeply swinging George Wein & The Newport All-Stars (Impulse!, 1963) - everybody should hear this one International Jazz Group (Columbia, 1956) - Arvell Shaw, Taft Jordan, Vic Dickinson, Budd Johnson, a.o. Charlie Shavers - Charlie Digs Dixie (MGM, 1959) Ruby Braff & His Men - Easy Now (RCA Victor, 1959) - Ruby Braff deserves his own thread really, all of his LPs from the 50s are wonderful (and of course the ones from after are too, especially the underheard 70s group with George Barnes-- I don't think more than one of these made it to CD) I don't know how heartily I can recommend them, but any of the Red Nichols Capitol LPs from the 50s are a good listen, maybe in smaller doses Keeping in mind your box set allergy, Mosaic put out a lot of fine examples and none of them will put you out more than a few bucks or less in LP form: see the Condon Mob Sessions, Teagarden Roulette & Capitol, Hackett Capitol, and from the Singles series: Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny Jonah Jones - At The Embers George Wein & His All-Stars - George Wein Is Alive and Well In Mexico Bud Freeman - Chicago/Austin High School Jazz In Hi-Fi and again, the Columbia Small Group Swing, Capitol Classic Jazz, and Buck Clayton editions will give you something close to this style. Anyways, this is a fun rabbit hole to go down, and as a vinyl buyer in 2024 it's just amazing how far your dollar can go with these kinds of titles. Very refreshing.

Love Ran. Dave Fabris confirmed on Facebook the other day that ezz-thetics will be releasing a 2006 duo performance at BIMhuis in the near future. I have every record he's made, but I can understand that's it's not necessarily for everyone. I'll also submit both volumes of Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake for curious listeners; all in all maybe his finest recorded work. These used to be very hard to turn up, and I paid a lot for the CDs many years ago, but they are now very cheap secondhand, as well as available on streaming. I also love his recordings with Sara Serpa, especially Camera Obscura. I will take this space to renew my search for The Complete All That Is Tied Sessions that was released exclusively on emusic.com in 2007. I have asked after this high & low over the years, including with the label and with some of Ran's people-- no one has been able to turn it up. It would be great if the label would re-issue the album with the extra tracks, but that clearly is not in the books. I have almost come to doubt it was ever actually released, however there are a few contemporaneous reviews online.

How about an ABC-Paramount small group jazz set? To narrow it down I would focus on small groups (so no Quincy Jones or Oscar Pettiford Orchestra), studio dates (no live Billy Taylor or Don Elliott live sessions), groups (no Dave McKenna solo piano album), no vocals, from the 1955-57 period when they were doing the most in the modern & swing idioms. That would leave something like this, which would fit on 10-12 discs: ABC 101 - Blues and Other Shades of Green - Urbie Green [1955] ABC 106 - Musical Offering by Don Elliot - Don Elliot [1956] ABC 109 - The Four Most Guitars - Jimmy Rainey [1956] ABC 110 - Swingin' the Vibories - Leonard Feather's West Coast Jazzmen [1956] ABC 111 - Lucky Thompson - Lucky Thompson [1956] ABC 112 - Evergreens - Billy Taylor Trio [1956] ABC 114 - Wailing - Buddy Arnold [1956] ABC 115 - Know Your Jazz - Various Artists [1956] ABC 117 - Tom Stewart Sextette/Quintette - Tom Stewart [1956] ABC 122 - Kenny Dorham & the Jazz Prophets - Kenny Dorham [1956] ABC 125 - Candido - Candido & Al Cohn [1956] ABC 126 - Whitey Mitchell Sextette - Whitey Mitchell Sextette [1956] ABC 129 - Jimmy Raney Featuring Bob Brookmeyer - Jimmy Raney/Bob Brookmeyer [1956] ABC 139 - Vinnie Burke All-Stars - Vinnie Burke All-Stars [1956] ABC 141 - Ruby Braff Featuring Dave McKenna - Ruby Braff with Dave McKenna [1956] ABC 155 - Zoot Sims Plays Alto, Tenor and Baritone Sax - Zoot Sims [1957] ABC 162 - Ira Sullivan with Billy Taylor Trio - Ira Sullivan with Billy Taylor Trio [1957] ABC 167 - In Three Attitudes - Jimmy Raney [1956] ABC 170 - Vinnie Burke String Jazz Quartet - Vinnie Burke [1957] ABC 171 - Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford - Lucky Thompson & Oscar Pettiford [1957] ABC 179 - Calm, Cool and Collette - Buddy Collette [1957] ABC 198 - Zoot Sims Plays Four Altos - Zoot Sims [1957]

OK, I wasn't too sure of that one but couldn't find a source.

You can add Roy Haynes, James Spaulding, George Coleman, Louis Hayes, & Charles Tolliver to the sideman list. In the low-credit arena you could also name Hal Galper, Scotty Holt, Alan Silva, and Andrew Cyrille. I'm sure there are others here & there. re: Haynes & Tolliver, a fun fact is that everyone from the It's Time!!!! session except Jackie are still with us. I think that's the highest percentage of any BN album.