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That's a great record.How did your kids like it? (The record and the trip)

Frank Fosters Loud Minority - Manhattan Fever. Pretty dull and disappointing record. Gary Peacock - Tales from Another Vignette and the Trilogy suite are amazing. I would dare to say that this excellent Peacock date could do without Jarrets singing.

Again the Pepper box. Music that probably everyone around here already owned and enjoyed for long time but I had a hard time enjoying Pepper for a long time. But I had a similar thing with Jackie McLean who I now regard as one of my favorite sax players. Anyway this excellent Japanese 3LP contain three of the Village Vanguard nights. Excellent compilation in excellent sound. Enjoying it very much. Another cool cat I enjoy very much. This would be a great selection for the Craft Contemporary series. Side A sometimes sounds Third Stream in my ears. Very interesting stuff with great playing by the whole band.

You just made me find another empty spot in my Harper collection. Sounds great

Added them to my Spotify wishlist thanks!

Can’t believe I’ve never seen that one before. What a line up and I love both those tunes so much!

Mal played some more electric piano on this one: https://www.discogs.com/release/752450-Embryo-Rocksession pretty much in the style of The Call. Very nice record also with Jimmy Jackson. I’ve reviewed it here: https://snake-out.blogspot.com/2021/05/1971-embryo-rocksession.html?m=1 equally as good is: https://www.discogs.com/release/2689459-Embryo-3-Featuring-Jimmy-Jackson-Steig-Aus I reviewed it here: https://snake-out.blogspot.com/2021/05/1970-embryo-steig-aus.html?m=1 then finally there’s this one: https://www.discogs.com/master/963637-Mal-Waldron-Candy-Girl Mal is credited as composer only but I am 99.9 percent sure that Mals playing here. Or Frank Abel overdubs himself with the best Mal Waldron imitation I’ve ever heard. It’s a more funky album. Not essential but interesting to hear Mal in this setting: https://snake-out.blogspot.com/2021/01/1974-candy-girl-12.html?m=1

yeah the more adventurous Hutch is more interesting but The Kicker remains a very solid date. And the Tone Poet sounds amazing. I have always liked this version of Bedouin best.

Great stuff indeed. You’ll find these easily for a few bucks in the second hand bins.

Don’t explain 🥰

I have 876 cds. I stopped collecting them and only buy them when not available on vinyl like the new Tapscott recordings. A few years ago my preference changed to vinyl. I have 460 lps and still buy those. But I realize there’s a serious space limit and money limit to buying them so I tend to be a lot more critical in what I really want to own physical and what I could leave without. When I still bought cd I could easily buy 50 cds for 5 euros or less a piece on a record fair. Of those there were maybe 10 I listened to more than just one time. So I sold quite some cds and limited my wantlist. My current wantlist on Discogs contains something like 30 items. I also enjoy it now sometimes to save up some money and then spend a little more on a collectors item I’d really like to have like Mal Waldrons Spanish Bitch for example. Anyway @HutchFans remark on needing and wanting is very true of course. Music collecting remain a very addictive activity. I use Spotify to select what I’d want to buy and what not. Part from that I don’t really feel for it. Pushing a button on my smartphone just doesn’t have to do a lot with that music listening experience I am looking for. I love it to put on a lp, read the liners and sit down in front of my speakers with a drink. I also dislike the fact that Spotify is the one who still really ‘owns’ the music which means I don’t control it: I don’t own it and they could easily remove music I want to keep forever. I used to have a VG collection of MP3s too (when it was the IPod decade) but never listen to them anymore

Yup none of it was released before

Question is: that slightest bit of difference, if you hear it at all, is that worth a 110 dollars 🤔 those AS sound amazing

So now @mjazzg’s wife knows me as that looney from that jazz forum… 😑🤪 Oh and that Henderson 😍

i enjoy this boxed set very, very much. Jimmy Garrisons introduction to My Favorite Things is one of the most intimate parts in jazz I know. The almost hour length version of the Coltrane classic still leaves me breathless. It gives spiritual feelings to a non spiritual person. That's a comforting thought Hutchfan! I always tell her the real loonies are at a place called Steve Hoffman Board where some people own five pressings of one record and pay a 150 euros for another one. I could see the disbelieve in her eyes...

Thanks for responding David. I really hope to see you guys next year. Big fan of all of you!

Yeah she’s a very good pianist. Love here attributions on the Steeplechase records. A gifted musician and like many of Harper’s side(wo)men a little obscure.

That looks interesting. Are there any surprises in the book or is it comparable to jazzdisco.org? Never seen that book before. Imo only Mingus Lives is a little less interesting. All the others are indeed very, very much worth listening to. The 70’s was a great decade for Mal

So today my Japanese order arrived after only 3 days. Gave them all a wash first on my good old Knösti washing machine. I always find it a very meditative occupation. Sometimes my wife comes in with a look that is somewhere between pity and diss appointment like I am some kind of compulsive maniac… maybe she’s right but anyway: I gave these two a first spin and man they sound amazing. I love Japanese vinyl. A nice detail on the Pepper: it appeared to be the limited edition instead of the regular edition as it was advertised. Now I am going on holiday to France the day after tomorrow and I am not able to spin some more. I thought I might suggest to stay home but then decided these records were not worth a divorce. I’ll be back for the rest in two weeks

Wow that must have been one hell of a night. All musicians that I hold in very high regard.

Are you trying to get met jealous with that P3 or what? 😜

Thanks for that. No EU tour still unfortunately:(

Yeah that’s the only one I miss too. Plus the DIW date but that’s the only Harper date I don’t really dig. The Japanese releases are my favorites: Knowledge of Self and Love on the Sudan especially. The recent Antibes live date on Sam records is also very good. Yeah that opening solo is so powerful. A musical landmark on Blue Note I would say. I love that whole album by the way. Where do they perform? I don’t see any touring schedule on their website.