TS - Impulse! orange and black spines or Black Saint rainbow spines

oooh - good question! as an import cd pricer/buyer, i used to totally get psyched for black saint spines, and also for soul note (italian blue note) spines, because the music was great 3/4 of the time, and they were always worth more than we had paid for them. we had BOXES AND BOXES of those soul note/black saint cds just languoring in huge boxes, unsorted for years. one summer, i just asked to be the one to organize the entire back room, and i just sorted thousands of OOP and awesome cds everyday for a couple months, listening to whatever struck my fancy.

agh. this thread makes me pine for my old job.

Impulse!. I only have a few Black Saint titles (two by Cecil Taylor, two by Andrew Cyrille), but I have literally dozens of Impulse! titles.

Damn, Phil, how many times am I gonna have to tell you to check out Henry Threadgill and Air and Muhal Richard Abrams, and there's even some pretty live David Murray stuff out there.

yeah, i mean probably impulse! > BS for me, too. remember that TS thread between impulse and esp?

Impulse. Black Saint is a great label but I never liked the rainbow spines.

austin OTM! muhal RA's Blu Blu is xxxcellent!

I keep meaning to listen to Air. One of these days...