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I picked up the new Horo sampler today and must say I'm really unimpressed by it. It has no discographical info on any of the tracks! No personnel, not even year. They managed to find room for praise to the compiler, Gilles Peterson, "man who has entertained millions of club goes and radio listeners," as the liner notes say. Worst of all, 2 of the tracks (Roy Haynes and Lester Bowie ones) have been ruined by something called "Scotti re-edit." I wonder when does the time come my poor ears are going to witness Miles' Kind of Blue raped by mindless "re-editing." If this is the standard the allegedly upcoming Horo reissues are going to be measured by, why bother? As a fitting contrast, I also picked up today the new Mainstream records sampler from BGP records, A Loud Minority. That's the real deal, full discographical data, booklet filled with rare photographs, insightful liner notes, even full page original album cover art for some titles. <EDIT> Upon further inspection: the Mainstream compilation makes a funny mistake, though. The Charles McPherson track which is allegedly "Charisma" is actually "Invitation" from the same LP. Furthermore, the liner notes for this track praise the drummer, Elvin Jones. The drummer is actually Billy Higgins (correctly identified in the personnel section.) D'oh!

Don't hold your breath.

I didn't realize "Feio" from Complete Bitches Brew Sessions and "Moto Grosso Feio" is the same composition. Nice! I like both, but they're really different. It's a real shame those Shorter's late albums for Blue Note have been o.o.p. so long. Real under-appreciated gems they are. I've been listening to Odyssey of Iska and Moto Grosso Feio a lot lately. "Montezuma" must be one of Shorter's loveliest compositions. I wonder if this session with Wayne, Miroslav, McCoy etc. from around the same time ever gets released... Wayne Shorter Quintet Wayne Shorter (ts) Barbara Burton (vib, bells, per) McCoy Tyner (p) Miroslav Vitous (b) Alphonse Mouzon (d, per) A&R Studios, NYC, October 13, 1970 tk.3 Pt. 1: The Creation Blue Note rejected tk.4 Pt. 2: B. Because - tk.5 Pt. 3: Cee - tk.7 Pt. 4: Dee - tk.8 Pt. 5: Effe -

Muzak is just the name of the label. If you look at their catalogue, it's really no muzak at all.

This is a good news indeed. If they'd get Arild Andersen's "Lifelines" re-issued as well. That's the one with Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler and Steve Dobrogosz. Meantime, I see Carla Bley's "Tropic Appetites," an absolutely splendid album for WATT / ECM, has gone out of print, and fetches obscene money on amazon shops.

1.Original producer and designer are not mentioned 2.Photo's are credited to "Mr.X" ; Specifically the Sam Rivers photograph was lifted from wikipedia, where it is credited to Tom Marcello. 3.The Black Africa! liner notes contain this telling phrase (quoted from memory): "Exactly why Horo never reissued this remains a mystery..." Bootlegs or not? I'd say they are, But this does not mean I'm not glad Atomic released them. I would have been happy to buy the product directly from Horo, but truth is, they failed to release it in reasonable time, and now someone has beat them to it.