Suggest one obsure album we all should hear

@whart

I fell hard for your recommendation of Kahvas Jute – Wide Open.

Have to ask if you have the OG and or the German Re-Issue. There is really not much out there hence my query..

@djohn- at this point, I have the German reissue, which is fine and gettable for around $60 or so US. The OG is a big leap--there is one on Discogs now, asking 4 figures. I usually don’t pay that kind of money for any record. I’ve found that if I’m patient, I can sometimes land such a record much cheaper-- but I don’t like noisy or scratched records. So, at this point, unless you won the lottery or similar, I guess I’d recommend the German reissue from 1994. You will see a comment on Discogs from someone who said the OG is far more vivid. That would not surprise me. Great record, eh? Good hunting. This is part of the fun. :)

PS: stay very far away from the Akarma reissue-- those records are of questionable provenance and are uniformly bad sounding. 

@whart

Thank You for the explanation. This is all that I desired to hear that the Geman Re-Issue is Fine. Off to the Hunt.

There is a typo in your rec since it should be Kahvas Jute - Wide Open. I found the LP using Wide Open solely on discogs to find it.

Thanks again.

My 2 cents: 'That's the Way I Feel Now', a Thelonius Monk tribute double album from the 70's. Most of the artists covering Monk tunes, or should I say re-imagining them, are well known (eg Joe Jackson, Todd Rundgren, Peter Frampton, Dr John, NRBQ), but the album appears to be a rarity. There is a good CD too, also OOP, but it omits some of the wilder efforts of John Zorn and others.

Tony Bird of Paradise