Dub Modal

Via the Complete 2 CD set...then, Love the trio moments here. which segue into horn accompaniments accenting the rhythm. Really, really nice record.

Ha, the balance shifts opposite for me. The nonsense gets too deep to glean the insight!

Yeah, it's a hobby. You should see some of the rods/reels of fishermen I know. Just one will catch a fish of course, but situational analysis and all...

Wait, hybrid SACD over the XRCD?

Milt Jackson's The Prophet Speaks

I purchased an LP from them to be shipped to the US and had no problem back in 2019 and their rep at that time was good. I know others that have never had issues with them too. Hopefully you get an answer soon.

I bet that music is great. Those patches on Mbenza's jacket are interesting. I wonder what the story is behind those Oyster ones is.

Those are some great titles. I broke down and got the download via iTunes (Capitol Classics series or something like that, the one that basically puts out the Mosaic sets). Waiting is by far my favorite but the whole thing is full of great stuff.

This was posted relatively recently elsewhere in this thread. Very enjoyable album.

Even those other records he did in the 70s on BN: Waiting Game, Knucklebean, The View From the Inside - none of them got a second domestic pressing until that Mosaic Select...and that didn't come until '07.

Discs 2 & 3

Great stuff all around. Thanks again for putting this together and HNY!

All right, just when I wondered what the hell I was going to be doing on NYE this year! 1 - Sounds like a version of Ray Charles' I've Got a Woman but probably not explicitly so (Some passages are really similar). Good tune, nice upbeat organ driven R&B funk. 2 - Touissant? Maybe not, but it's got a bayou feel to it. It's in the shuffle or something... 3 - Love the stop and go of the rhythm section with the trumpet sailing over them. Nice tempo on this funky tune. 4 - This pianist is crazy. Wow. Seems like everyone else is trying to catch up or stay with him. 5 - This is a familiar song. Can't name it or the artists but very nice. 6 - Great sax player. Like the stop and go aspect of the arrangement. Bass sounds a bit like a 70s or early 80s style recording. 7 - I dig the organ and the guitar on this one. 8 - This is nicely chaotic. Lots of bass craziness but the sax player is going off too. Lo fi recording maybe? Enjoyable for sure though. 9 - Dig the ensemble on this one. I like that first sax solo too. Guy is all over the horn. I like all the reverb too. 10 - Yeah, this is the stuff. I like the sax and bass playing off of each other in the start of this one. Familiar tune but can't name it...this one has the lope. 11 - Live recording I think...and I like the way it's mixed. Drums coming through and hitting hard. Love this drummer btw. Great ensemble all around. 12 - Wait - wasn't this played earlier as well? And this one is live...? Like the piano flourishes here. 13 - Good lord 16 minutes! Sounds like a Rhodes but with more traditional 50s bop style horn playing. Killer sax. Intense song. 14 - Lol. Who dis? Lots of 7+minute tracks. Enjoyable on this melancholy NYE. Thanks for putting this together!

Did Stanko ever make a bad album? Even if he's a sideman I'm down for it.

Gotcha. And good way to put it.

Because these dudes not only talked a lot of shit but also endorsed some harsh actions toward some well regarded and revered artists, artists that were still contemporary and definitely had some contemporary, dedicated fans. And because they did so, fans might have said fuck all their shit I don't want to hear any of it. It just seems tighter wound with the emotional aspect of it because from what I can tell, jazz fans felt like they were being told to like certain things, etc. I don't know, not saying that it's a definite that people wouldn't be able to discern good from bad. Sure, plenty of shit talk all through the ages, but modern era press, payola and other things make it seem like this was more of a divisive issue.

Happy new year everyone! Ditto on 2021 being a better year for all.

Does the baggage of trash talk and hard line musical perspectives (from some of these artists) taint some of this work from decades past? Honest question because I'm not sure although it seems like part of the equation. I think it does for me in some respects, although I enjoy some records from one of the biggest trash talkers of all - Branford M. - who to this day can't stop slinging mud at current jazz artists. Sometimes I wonder if listening to these tracks divorced from that baggage would possibly open it up a bit more to those who may have sworn it off...again, not sure. I didn't get into this music until much later, so that hindsight helps a bit with that separation of the two.