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Good question, I'm just reporting, not trying to explain: Shopping cart Product image Description Quantity Price 1 Various Artists - Strata–East: The Legacy Begins (Digital Anthology) Digital 1 Free Description Price Total USD $0.00 Subtotal $0.00 Mack Avenue Music Group Thank you for your purchase! Order #xxxx Thank you, John! Your order is confirmed You’ll receive an email when your order is ready.

A couple things I noticed on the Mack Avenue website: 1 - The Pharoah Sanders album will be available on CD on April 25. 2 - The Tolliver Slugs looks to be one CD from the artwork, and the bonus cuts aren't mentioned. 3 - The huge digital sampler is free! I ordered it, received confirmation, awaiting delivery. The site also has the CD's available for preorder, $15.98 each.

Musically, the whole is way less than the sum of the parts, but it's a fascinating cultural artifact. Definitely would have benefitted from more rehearsal time and better recording fidelity, but it is what it is, and I'm thankful for that. The great musical treasure of the MIA S-E titles is the Keno Duke/Jazz Contemporaries 'Reasons In Tonality' with the Clifford Jordan/George Coleman/Julius Watkins front line, Harold Mabern on piano, and two great 20+ minute tracks.

Different strokes for different folks 🙂.

There was a comprehensive Strata reissue campaign a few years ago,and I picked up several of them. Mixed bag, but some gems by Kenny Cox, Bert Myrick (I owned that one back in the day on vinyl thanks to hearing it at Third Street Jazz), Lyman Woodward. I am aware of the S-E albums reverting back to artists, remember Chuck sharing that several years ago on a board discussion. Some of them (Fortune, Shirley Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, and others) have made it out on other stray reissues through the years in addition to the titles that Bellaphon released in the early 90's, which seems to correlate with the titles which appear to be part of this reissue campaign. I fear that some of the other ones such as the Keno Duke/Jazz Contemporary titles, the Cosmic Twins, and the Mtume are not going to ever be available for reissue, which is a loss.

Byard Lancaster - Mother Africa. Great album!

Sign up for USPS Informed Delivery (it's free), and you get a daily digest of USPS mail arriving that day and all packages inbound to and outbound from your address; https://www.usps.com/manage/informed-delivery.htm?os=io__&ref=app That will show the tracking # for packages, and you can do a USPS search on the tracking# for its origin and current status, and also set alerts to be informed of changes in status (I usually set an alert for delivery).

I've not heard a word from Nimbus-West, but my USPS tracking shows a pre-shipment shipping label creation from Albuquerque, so looks like they are going to be coming my way.

If the contents of the digital sampler indicate what recordings they have rights to, then it would appear that there's some good news (Harold Vick!, remastered Billy Harper!, we maybe finally get a full digital release of the first Piano Choir set, some scarce Bill Lee-related albums become available) and some bad news (no Mtume, Keno Duke/Jazz Contemporaries, Sonny Fortune, Charles Sullivan, Cosmic Twins, Charles Davis, Juju, etc.). We shall see, and give thanks for what we do get. @JSngry , thanks for the insight on Mack Avenue. I always thought they must just be another Concord based on their releases which I am familiar with, but now know better.

Thx, have never heard them!

Quartet with Lester Bowie, Alan Silva, Andrew Cyrille.

OK, just received a lot more information on the Strata-East reboot via Nate Chinen's 'The Gig' Substack: Pharoah's 'Izipho Zam' part of RSD. Vinyl/CD reissues of Tolliver's 'Live at Slug's albums with bonus cuts (presumably already on the Mosaic Select?), Rouse's 'Two Is One' and Cowell's 'Musa: Ancestral Streams' with four bonus cuts on April 25. And THIRTY Strata-East albums receive digital reissue on that date. Surprisingly, Mack Avenue is the company behind all this activity. I'm in for all of the CD reissues, which sound like serious upgrades on the versions I already own, and likely for several of the digital downloads (look forward to seeing what the titles are). I tend to be very price-conscious on the vast majority of my music purchases, but not on these - bring them on. Never expected to see this reissue series in my lifetime.

https://www.amazon.com/Soft-Machine-Out-Bloody-Rageous-Revised-Updated-ebook/dp/B00P0USPG6 Very good though exhaustive (586 pages). First kindle book I ever bought, $6 instead of $100+ for a hard copy. I read most of it, up through the changover to the Nucleus guys taking over the group (they also made some excellent albums as Soft Machine). It was a decade ago I read it, so many of the book's details have faded from my memory, though I still know their original albums inside out from them being a meaningful part of my life for 50+ years.

I'm in for the Thornton, Kuhn, and Burrell, bought the Bley, Lyons, and Murray in December, already owned the Shepp, AEC, Moncur and Cherry titles. The Moncur is superb, and the Shepp 'Yasmina' is really strong.

Agreed, will pick up all three on CD. Especially that Hubbard (despite 24 minutes of "Bye Bye Blackbird")! I also noticed a 1978 live Talking Heads release buried in the listings - that sounds promising in theory.

Incredibly ironic. Who would have laid odds on that 50 years ago?

Yeah, he doesn't seem like a player who is going to age well, and he has already regressed some the past two seasons. Of course, we in Philly are haunted by the ghost of the Ryan Howard extension, where he averaged about a game below replacement WAR per year over the five years.

RIP, loved his work with Soft Machine, long-time favorites. Had/have all their albums on which he participated. He also seemed to have his head screwed on tight from what I could tell reading their biography. And the look with the shades was iconic.

I have not received the discs or shipping confirmation, just emailed Matt.

I was not aware of this one prior to today, can't wait to hear it. Jackie McLean on a CTI album? Yes please and thank you!

Yes, nice for filling in some missing titles, thanks. The McCord is not really jazz or even particularly close, but a nice enough album on its own terms. More of a talented 17 year old greatly influenced by the likes of 1969-era Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins.