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We're human beings - we wallow in contradictions ! 🙂

Well, that would make an interesting poll, wouldn't it?

I like OP, but own the majority of this on old Verve CD's, and can't justify the cost of the upgrade (same with their many BN boxes of recent years - I prefer BN's with original artwork and track listings anyways, better to recreate the magic of the time and place). But I'm sure it's a nice set.

As far as Emergency, my longstanding understanding is that the recording was botched, no remastering is going to make it sound good. Yet it remains essential listening despite the sonic flaws (and Tony's "singing").

PA (in this case U.K., not Andorran) label to the rescue if you are so inclined:

Jazz Eyes was the original album title, changed to Star Eyes when reissued a couple of decades later.

Live at Montreux 1973

I'm thankful for the Noah Howard and Clifford Thornton Ezz-thetic releases, which each contain two full albums (the Thornton has the BYG Arthur Jones on it), and have the Horace Silver, which seems to be the best version of that material. But so many of those Ezz-thetic sets are botched by having cuts missing from the albums they include, which is a sure fire sign of not understanding a serious jazz consumer. I thought we had escaped that after the early days of CD's with all of those botched Impulse and Argo releases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ligertwood Examples of his work:

Enjoyed his work with Auger and Santana. RIP.

Great books at an amazing price. I have both already (and paid a lot more for them), or else I'd be all over this.

There have been a few Francis Wolff photography books. Can you post pictures of the two books to be sure which titles are in play? Thanks.

It's all been pretty underwhelming so far unless one is really juiced for the Tiberi stuff.

Me too!

Amazon has surprisingly good prices on the Zev RSD CD's. I ordered the Henderson, Jamal, Cecil, Lateef, plus the Terry Callier. All due in between tomorrow and Sunday.

Off the top of my head: 1 - Complete Village Vanguard 2 - Live Trane: European Tours 3 - Concert in Japan (complete 4 CD version) special mention to 'Live at Birdland' and 'Selflessness', which have superior quality but are lacking in quantity.

Thank you! Glad you are enjoying them!

Amazon physical media music prices were competitive at one point, but have not been the past few years.

Yeah, they did a nice job repackaging some CBS/CTI titles, such as Blythe, Hubbard, Farrell, Turrentine, Laws into very efficient sets with good sound (their mastering tends to be excellent). They also have a good package of John Surman's first three albums.

And also to Winwood/Capaldi/Wood. 'Alone Together' and 'John Barleycorn' were classic unified albums. The first couple of Traffic albums were somewhat schizo collections of songs. Incidentally, amazing how much stronger the US version of the first traffic album is than the British version (out: "Utterly Simple" and "Hope I Never Find Me There" in: "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Smiling Phases"). Weird fact: 'Low Spark of High Heeled Boys' did not chart in UK, despite going Top 10 in USA.

This.