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It's all nice musics, but I don't have much to say about any of it. Sorry.

I don't think that's snotty, I think that's despair.

Didn't Strozier give up sax for piano at one point due to the declining quality of the cane used for reeds? I share his frustration, but that's a little drastic! A great individual voice on sax, he was.

Interesting Item. Interesting guy too. Met him once about 35 years ago.

a fireball

Yes, free jazz and pop of various sorts were often targets. And on organ dates, weirdly enough, other organ players were often dissed.

Those are genius notes, the Monk/Hardin ones are pretty good too. Lee Morgan, If I Were... The worst jazz album notes from the '70s are ones on reissues that piss and moan about fusion when it's totally irrelevant to the subject at hand.

This, or something very like it.

Black Beauty with just Corea but not Jarrett and Grossman is in that timeframe too. I don't know that I prefer Leibman to any of the other post-Shorter sax players with Miles - Grossman, Bartz, Garnett, Sonny Fortune, they are all fine players. As is Leibman, they each brought their own thing.

That's nice, especially the baritone sax. I like the 10" he did for Blue Note, do they even still own that?

I'll be that guy - I find the RCA era, and the Impulse as well, to be kind of a mess. All over the place in approach and the quality of the end results. There certainly are things I love, and they're different than the other eras, but there's plenty that's just not there for me too. FWIW, which may not be much. And as I think I've said here and probably more than once, I'm with JSngry in finding much to love in the last half of his career (Next Album to the end).

Congratulations Allen.

Thank you!

I'm hard pressed to think of 30 albums of any kind from that year that I'd put on a list.

Gato had two albums out that year that I liked, Latin America Chpt 3 with a big band and Yesterdays.