> Just wanted to thank you for this series. I didn't comment while it was posting, but I read every one, and really enjoyed your exploration of a composer who I knew very little about. This final list is great and will help guide me to explore some of his work further. Thanks so much for doing doing the research and sharing it with all of us!

Many thanks for the kind words. Like the MV/RC and Hisaishi efforts in the past, it started as just a quick personal project (it was only gonna be film scores at first) that soon spiraled out of control, pushing my curiosity into new realms, and if nothing else it seemed a tad rude not to share all that I'd learned.

Or most of what I learned rather, as this was on track to be be twice as long before I tried paring down the posts to their bare essentials hahaha. Do people really care what I think about Decisions, the terrible album he did with The Winans? Gosh, I hope not!

It also helped that the wife dug a lot of the albums - "Austin Powers!" when Big Band Bossa Nova comes on and whatnot.

And hopefully the recent posthumous album re-releases (The Slender Thread, Twilight Time) are a sign of things to come on some of his LPs getting wider availability once again. Quincy said Julius Watkins' French Horns for My Lady was one of his worst-selling albums; would that lovely but obscure record do better on streaming?