Somebody has finally figured out that you can market unmarketable jazz if only the price is right. If we are talking about the Art Ensemble of Chicago, a very uncompromising avant garde institution, the price is about two bucks an album. I'll download Reese and the Smooth Ones for that. Yeah, it's nutty music, but I'm a collector.
Amazon has a small offering of Affinity discs for similar prices, and some of it is seminal jazz. You can get Archie Shepp's Yasmina, A Black Woman, for example. It's a very hard driving blues based work and it will round out your Shepp. Or just stroll through the 'under five bucks' jazz at Amazon. I nailed Jackie McLean's New Soil, a marvelous album.
ps. If you don't have Grachan Moncur's album New Africa, you should. You can get it from Amazon for under four bucks.
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