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I don't consider the majority to be unlistenable either (though five or six discs are). And agree that the music is an experience. We all have varying, but limited, amounts of time, money, shelf space, and listening energy, and each of us need to make our own decisions on how to invest those. My decisions are different than yours, but I don't know that I am therefore a "lazy listener" with "lazy results". I also experienced lo-fi Bird bootlegs and stuff like that (we're basically the same age, got the bug for the music at basically the same time), and decided not to go there moving forward except for certain selected cases (such as the Coltrane 1961 Sutherland Lounge recordings) . There's good stuff each of us is never going to hear or re-hear, and we each need to decide what our own parameters for that will be. YMMV, which is fine.

A good portion of that set is unlistenable due to poor bootleg audio quality (it was a copyright protection set), but it tends to be very inexpensive for its size. Do go for an expanded Cutting Edge set (I have the six-CD version).

I have dozens of various Northern Soul anthologies, which are dirt cheap and filled with great 60's music.

I saw the same group. Others can describe Roach's firey personality, but I'm sure none would deny his intellect and style.

This. And unfortunately, apart from the duets with Roberta Flack, he never crossed over to pop audiences the way he should have. The Live LP did OK (#18) on the pop charts, but everything else inexplicably stiffed. BTW, these are great 4 CD set basically containing his full Atco output including a lot of unreleased material:

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Gotta say, Tranemonk's question resonates with me a lot more than Late's does. If even Tiberi and Verve have concerns about the SQ,, then those of us without a financial (or as potential buyers,a negative financial stake🙂) surely should. I love Trane, but I'm not optimistic about this coming down well. Benedetti Parker's seem like a reasonable best case secenario. We'll know more in April, can assume that the RSD release with be the ceiling for SQ.

Rhino Handmade and Hip-o Select did good work a couple decades ago,

From the 'Nimbus' collection on Esoteric, which contains their three Vertigo albums and more. That's a nice record (trivia note: Written by Lennon/McCartney, first recorded by their labelmate Cilla Black). Three Dog Night were good and exciting until they weren't. I like the first two studio albums and the first live one. "Easy to Be Hard" from "Hair' is a gem, and "Eli's Coming" sounded great until I heard the original by Laura Nyro.

I got to see Towner in duet with Gary Burton at a free outdoor concert at Penn's Landing in the late 80's - superb.

The music on this 4 CD set has aged marvelously.

I would love t I would love to have seen/heard this. To me, Cacavas was the secret sauce that made Green on Red stand out, and I was a big fan of their work with him ,and of Dream Syndicate. And Cacavas's solo albums are very interesting indeed (much more so than what Green on Red did without him).

Good point. I think I only have three copies of the original 'A Love Supreme' on my shelves (Complete Quartet box, complete Impulse Albums box, expanded version with the Shepp/Davis outtakes and the Antibes live ALS).

The Yusef is an automatic "yes" for me, can't wait! Not so sure on the Waldron - I'm less intrigued by the idea of 1979 Waldron and 1979 Stitt together, though that part is only seven minutes . The bigger concern is an (almost) all standards program with a pickup rhythm section - doesn't sound overly inspiring, though I realize lightning sometimes strikes these sorts of things. I guess we'll find out soon enough.