Holy Grail Found; Searchers Await Second Coming, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Holy crap. Blogger Fat Toro has ripped and posted this rarest of rarities. But I'm gonna make you work for the link: You can find it in the comments here. Be sure to thank this incredibly generous blogger when you snag it.

Strata-East Discography

Here's how it works. Click the catalog number for the entry on the specific album. (IN PROGRESS).
Feel free to add details, info, review, links, etc. in comment fields. I'll update/complete the entries as time and info permit.

from Wikipedia:
SES 1971 - Music Inc.
SES 1972 - Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. - Live at Slugs Vol. 1
SES 1972-0 - Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. - Live at Slugs Vol. 2
SES 1972-1 - Clifford Jordan - In The World
SES 1972-2 - Jazz Contemporaries - Reasons In Tonality
SES 1972-3 - Composer's Workshop Ensemble
SES 1972-4 - Mtume Umoja Ensemble - Alkebu-Lan: Land of The Blacks
SES 19730 - The Piano Choir - Handscapes
SES 19731 - Brother Ah - Sound Awareness
SES 19732 - M'boom - Re: Percussion
SES 19733 - Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam (My Gifts)
SES 19734 - Cecil Payne - Zodiac
SES 19735 - Juju - A Message From Mozambique
SES 19736 - Charles Brackeen - Rhythm X
SES 19737/8 - Clifford Jordan - Glass Bead Games
SES 19739 - Billy Harper - Capra Black
SES-19740/1 - Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. - Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
SES 19742 - Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson - Winter In America
SES 19743 - Stanley Cowell - Musa: Ancestral Streams
SES 19744 - The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe - A Spirit Speaks
SES 19745 - Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. - Live in Tokyo
SES-19746 - Charles Rouse - Two is One
SES 19747 - Dick Griffin - The Eighth Wonder
SES 19748 - The John Betsch Society - Earth Blossom
SES 19749 - Weldon Irvine - In Harmony
SES 7410 - The Cosmic Twins - The Waterbearers
SES 7411 - Muriel Winston - A Fresh Viewpoint and...
SES 7412 - Shamek Farrah - First Impressions
SES 7413 - Charles Sullivan - Genesis
SES 7416 - Keno Duke/Contemporaries - Sense of Values
SES 7417 - Cecil McBee - Mutima
SES 7418 - The Ensemble Al-Salaam - The Sojourner
SES 7420 - Juju - Chapter Two: Nia
SES 7421 - Jayne Cortez - Celebrations and Solitudes
SES 7422 - Composer's Workshop Ensemble - We've Been Around
SES 7423 - Sonny Fortune - Long Before Our Mothers Cried
SES 7425 - Charles Davis - Ingia!
SES 7430 - Shirley Scott - One For Me
SES 7431 - Harold Vick - Don't Look Back
SES 19750 - The Piano Choir - Handscapes 2
SES 19752 - The Brass Company - Colors
SES 19754 - Billy Parker's Fourth World - Freedom of Speech
SES 19757 - Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. - Impact
SES 19758 - Milton Marsh - Monism
SES 19759 - Larry Ridley - Sum of the Parts
SES 19760 - John Gordon - Step By Step
SES 19761 - George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature 1980
SES 19765 - Stanley Cowell - Regeneration
SES 19766 - The Heath Brothers - Marchin' On
SES 7610 - The Warm Voice of Billy C - Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?
SES 19771 - Shamek Farrah/Sonelius Smith - The World of the Children
SES 19772 - Bruce Johnson and Rodney Jones - The Liberation of the Contemporary Jazz Guitar
SES 19780 - John Gordon - Erotica Suite
SES 8001 - Charles Tolliver - Compassion
SES 8002 - John Hicks - Hell's Bells
SES 8003 - The New York Bass Violin Choir

Additional Recordings
0000 - The Warm Voice of Billy C - A Heavy Message
SECD 9003 - Charles Tolliver - Live In Berlin At The Quasimodo/Vol.1
SECD 9004 - Stanley Cowell, Billy Harper, Reggie Workman, Billy Hart - Such Great Friends
SECD 9011 - Charles Tolliver Music Inc - Compassion
SECD 9013 - Charles Tolliver - Live In Berlin At The Quasimodo/Vol.2
SECD 9016 - Music Inc. - Live At Historic Slugs' - 1992
SECD 9018 - Larry Ridley & the Jazz Legacy Ensemble - Live at Rutgers University
0000 - Charles Tolliver - Right Now (issued?)
0000 - Charles Tolliver - In The Trenches (issued?)

Compilations
SJR LP19 - Soul Jazz Love Strata-East
US LP6 - Strata-2-East
MS-020 - Charles Tolliver Mosaic Select

Katonah's Holiday Gift

Just in time for New Year's Katonah has gone and posted one of our last missing albums: "Where Have You Been Billy Boy?" from The Warm Voice of Billy C. I haven't listened to it yet...I wanted to get this update up as soon as possible. Katonah has the same lukewarm opinion of this album as I voiced last month of Billy C's other entry. Still, it's a rarity, and I'm very grateful for the share.

With Arkadin's kind share of the missing Charles Tolliver Live Quasimodo vol. 1 set (see the comments here), this leaves M'boom as THE missing holy grail of our Strata-East collection. (The two Charles Tolliver mysteries listed seem ephemeral beyond Strata-East's website). Wouldn't 2009 be a good year for "Re:Percussion" to re:materialize?

In other news Ensemble Al-Salaam's "The Sojourner" is apparently set for CD reissue in January, according to our favorite shop Dustygroove, exciting!

Best wishes to all for holidays and the new year. Thanks again to all the generous bloggers for your shares and friendship. Remember to support the Strata-East musicians should you have an opportunity to buy one of their CDs. Strata-East lives forever! Peace & Blessings.

Winter Update - The Warm Voice of Billy C

Many many thanks to Arkadin for unearthing one of the last untapped Strata-East items here, The Warm Voice of Billy C: A Heavy Message. It's in the comments of the entry for this album. Billy C does indeed have a warm baritone voice, very much in the Billy Eckstine mode, though, it must be said, Billy C is a bit of an acquired taste, with a unique warble and some other vocal affectations that are either the mark of a highly developed song stylist or an utter lack of singing ability and actual talent. You be the judge! Don't forget to leave some thanks for the opportunity of hearing this lost slab of wax.

Fall Update

Things a bit slow around here, cuz miraculously this blog is almost full! Just a handful of missing known items.

One of them Katonah's putting up Milton Marsh's Monism on his new blog.

That leaves just a few mysteries out there:
First still missing is the big holy grail, of course, M'boom.
Others still out include the two Billy C's. Not so great rumor has it, but still us Strata-East completists can dream. Feel free to raise your hand and volunteer one of these recordings in any comments box!

Peace!

June Update

The discograhy is slowly getting full! This month blogger El Goog has posted one of the missing links on his blog. Jump over to the Composer's Workshop entry for info on where to find this super rarity.

Don't forget to check out the comments. I've seen a couple related album links posted here and there recently, as well as links to a certain trumpeter's live boxed set.

Stay tuned for another super-rare missing album, courtesy of a blog reader. You won't want to miss it.

May Update

A little bit of news here at the Strata-East Fan Club. Courtesy of the El Goog Ja blog you'll find a download link to another Charles Tolliver set, Live in Tokyo, in the comments of that entry.

Meanwhile new blog Never Enough Rhodes is offering a new and improved download of Billy Parker's Fourth World with impressively researched background info. Never Enough Rhodes also has direct links to a couple items previously posted parenthetically in other blogs' comments section (rarity-hunters take note! check those comments and don't forget to say thanks).