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PNC Park is really nice, and from memory, there's pretty much always tickets available... Here is the most iconic moment in Pittsburgh sports history:

Well done!

And those are really good albums!

Not a real big city (300K in the city itself, 68th in USA, though 2.4m in the metro area), and more midwest than East Coast.

Best wishes for your move to Pittsburgh. With the savings in rent, you'll feel rich! Lots of colleges near where you will be (Pitt, Carnegie-Mellon, Duquesne, Point Park, Chatham, Carlow, Allegheny County Community College, so lots of book stores!). So much of Pittsburgh is very hilly, so I'm glad you'll be in such good shape for the walk. Hoping and praying for a good move and good weather for the move. And do study up on the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pitt Panthers, it's a football-crazy town.

Nobody is trying to ban vinyl talk. I gave a suggestion on how to avoid comments that do not fit your narrow definition of what is acceptable. Post what you want where you want, but grant others the same rights.

I would suggest adding "vinyl only" to the title when posting about a new release which is not being made available via CD or download. That way, those who don't/can't collect vinyl ( many do not have the money/space/lifestyle to enable collecting vinyl) can skip over the posting rather than opening it, reading it, getting enthusiastic, researching it, and finding out that it is only being made available on vinyl. The type of consideration being requested in this topic works both ways. An alternative is to just post the posting in the The Vinyl Frontier sub-forum, which those who don't collect vinyl won't even look at.

Listening to the two back to back, this is so similar it could almost be an edit of the take from the MI&BB album. Historically quite intriguing, but musically doesn't seem to really be anything particularly new. BTW, I really enjoy that Kawaida album put out on the same label. I first heard it on a Trip reissue in the mid-70's. It's rough but bracing. Available on CD via recent budget label reissues. https://www.discogs.com/master/163798-Kuumba-Toudie-Heath-Kawaida

My favorite by them, a superior cover of an already-great Isley Brothers song:

The AWB album with 'Pick Up The Pieces' was released Aug 1974, and the first Sanborn solo album came out in 1975, so 'Pick Up The Pieces' likely came first. 'Pick Up The Pieces' was the #1 pop single in the USA for the week of Feb 22 1975.

And dirt cheap, $4 on bandcamp. Highly recommended if you like the cut I included. Great story! I "got" 'Meditations' when I first bought it, the ones especially lost on me were (are) 'Om' and 'Expression', though 'Ascension' and 'Live in Seattle' remain tough listens also 50 years on, though I'm more at peace with them due to adjusted expectations.

Especially since we can't safely determine price to order from CDJapan. I would have bought the Hannibal and Harper from them pre-tariff.

1 – Highly enjoyable, especially enjoying the bass player and piano. **** 2 – Funkier than I’m used to from Dan! Electric sax(es) wear, as does wah-wah guitar Composition and arrangement don’t anything for me. Dave Sanborn? * 3 – Things ain’t what they used to be, indeed! Back on the enjoyable good foot. ***1/2 4 – All the things you are. I like the bass player, but the whole thing is pretty ragged, though still enjoyable ***1/2 5 – Who Can I Turn To. Nicely done all around, love the pianist’s work! Enjoyed the guitar. **** 6 – Things… again. Good blues playing, but I enjoyed the approach on the first version more. *** 7 – Killer! This is the one cut I need if I don’t already own it! I should be able to ID the song, but am going blank on the title. I bet the whole album is good. ****1/2 8 – Who Can I Turn To, in a comatose version. Not doing well with this cut and especially this tenor player, though it’s probably someone you love. Sorry. ** 9 – All The Things You Are, slowed down and on clarinet. I like this tune fast, though I don’t hate on this the way I did the previous cut. But I also don’t need to hear it again. **1/2 10 – See comments to #2, although at least the sax isn’t electrified, and the conga solo is kind of cool. *1/2 No artist ID’s, a range of responses, and I look forward to the reveals on my favorite cuts (1,5,7 especially, but also 3,4), and I expect I have one or two of them on the shelves already. Have a safe and prosperous 2026, my friend!

thanks so much, really enjoyed your responses! Thank you, HNY, glad I could introduce you to some new stuff! Grab that Hannibal album (and the Santana! Thanks Tom. I've had Callier on two other BFT's ("Dancing Girl" and "Alley-Wind Song", but it's been a couple of years. I knew I would eventually use all three songs, so stretched them out across years. As per Cowell, I whiff on cuts I already own all the time on BFT's! 🥲 'Caravanserai' is my favorite album in the whole world, ever, by anybody! Glad you got the Hannibal - I also bought it pre-order from Da Bastids, along with Billy Harper's 'Trying to Make Heaven My Home'. Both were pricey, but were dream-come-true CD releases. Agreed on Alicia Keys, this and 'Fallin' from her first album are the only two songs by her that stick with me.