Jump to content

What vinyl are you spinning right now??


wolff

Recommended Posts

12 hours ago, Clunky said:

1976613.jpg

 

Walter Zuber Armstrong/Steve Lacy -----Alter Ego, Duets-----(World Artists) rec 1979 BIMHouse

Spinning tonight - and as I suspected, I'm finding more to enjoy than in the past. It's still in the bottom ten per cent of Lacy's output, as far as quality goes, and it certainly makes a better case for Lacy's flexibility and musicality than for Armstrong's. It's two musicians taking parallel paths that never quite intersect, although Lacy takes more steps toward Armstrong's world than Armstrong does toward Lacy's. I agree about the blues content of much of what Armstrong plays - that the aspect of his playing I enjoy the most.

It looks like Armstrong lived and taught in Bellingham, Washington, where some of my wife's family lives, and where I'll probably end up when she retires. I'll be there in a few days, in fact.

I'm glad I listened to this tonight, although it will probably be a few more years before I spin it again.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 55.1k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • sidewinder

    5276

  • paul secor

    4123

  • clifford_thornton

    3855

  • jeffcrom

    2810

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

070142.jpg

The College Concert of Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen (Impulse mono)

 

23 hours ago, paul secor said:

Milt+Hinton+-+Here+Swings+The+Judge+-+LP

Milt Hinton: Here Swings the Judge (Famous Door)

Some great playing by the horns on both of these, but I found myself tuned in to the masterful bass playing on each.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Female Blues Singers - Volume B3 (Fantasy by Selmerphone). A valuable LP, on the predecessor to the Document label. Here are the complete known recordings of Marie Bradley, Evelyn Brickey, Florence Bristol, Ada Brown, Ardell "Shelly" Bragg, and Alberta Brown. Bradley, Bragg, and Alberta Brown are very good. I bought this album at the Louisiana Music Factory years ago after hearing one of the two Alberta Brown tracks on WWOZ. Her only released 78 was recorded in New Orleans in 1928, with a great quartet (trumpet, clarinet, piano, tuba) accompanying. The instrumentalists are often given as members of the Halfway House Orchestra, who recorded for Columbia the day before, but I think it's four of Johnny Miller's New Orleans Frolickers, who recorded the same day, only a few matrices later. That would make them Sharkey Bonano, Siidney Arodin, Johnny Miller, and Chink Martin. In any case, her voice is strong, if a little on the hard side.

Texas singer Ardell Bragg's voice was limited, but loose and flexible. The most interesting of her eight tracks is "Bird Nest Blues," the tune Charley Patton was trying to copy with his "Bird Nest Bound." He misunderstood Bragg's lyrics - Bragg's song is more coherent, but Patton's is more poetic.

I couldn't find a picture of this album online.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

8 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Spinning tonight - and as I suspected, I'm finding more to enjoy than in the past. It's still in the bottom ten per cent of Lacy's output, as far as quality goes, and it certainly makes a better case for Lacy's flexibility and musicality than for Armstrong's. It's two musicians taking parallel paths that never quite intersect, although Lacy takes more steps toward Armstrong's world than Armstrong does toward Lacy's. I agree about the blues content of much of what Armstrong plays - that the aspect of his playing I enjoy the most.

It looks like Armstrong lived and taught in Bellingham, Washington, where some of my wife's family lives, and where I'll probably end up when she retires. I'll be there in a few days, in fact.

I'm glad I listened to this tonight, although it will probably be a few more years before I spin it again.

Jeff thanks for taking the trouble and your thoughts. I perhaps don't have enough Lacy to have a bottom 10%. I listened to both sides several times last night and enjoyed quite a bit  of what I heard. Coming to it as a Lacy album one would be perhaps disappointed that Armstrong's playing somewhat rides rough shod over Lacy. It doesn't have the delicacy of Lacy's finest. In the end I can see where your reservations are coming from but I got sufficient enjoyment to keep the album....

 

Now playing ...

 

141458.jpg

 

Lee Morgan ---Here's Lee Morgan-------(Veejay) dg-stereo

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

R-2947284-1311376109.jpeg.jpg

Howard McGhee---Nobody knows you when you're down and out----(United Artists) mono

Quartet setting with either piano or organ. Some of the latter sound excessively cheesy ( to me at least) but the overall album is good if not quite McGhee's best. All the tracks are short and somewhat uneven in quality. The title might suggest he was in desperate times (perhaps he was) but Howard's playing has a fractured sounding delicacy. Our friends in Spain have reissued this. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

19 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Spinning tonight - and as I suspected, I'm finding more to enjoy than in the past. It's still in the bottom ten per cent of Lacy's output, as far as quality goes, and it certainly makes a better case for Lacy's flexibility and musicality than for Armstrong's. It's two musicians taking parallel paths that never quite intersect, although Lacy takes more steps toward Armstrong's world than Armstrong does toward Lacy's. I agree about the blues content of much of what Armstrong plays - that the aspect of his playing I enjoy the most.

It looks like Armstrong lived and taught in Bellingham, Washington, where some of my wife's family lives, and where I'll probably end up when she retires. I'll be there in a few days, in fact.

I'm glad I listened to this tonight, although it will probably be a few more years before I spin it again.

Walter used to come up to Vancouver to record, teach and busk. I met him a few times and he was a nice guy and quite a character. I've always liked this LP, but certainly it's not in the top echelon of Lacy's works. The CD version has two further duets which appeared on the LP Call Notes.

Now playing... John Coltrane, Offering, Live at Temple University (Resonance). It's late period Coltrane, but compared to the Japan and Olatunji concerts, this one comes across as mellow.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

wish I still had those.

If you want to hear the music, there's a reissue CD on Yazoo - not everything that's on the Swaggies, but a fine selection and excellent sound.

51Y6X6MkelL._SY300_QL70_.jpg

 http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Gonna-Worried-More-1929-1941/dp/B000000G8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1458181485&sr=1-1&keywords=sleepy+john+estes

Link to comment
Share on other sites

25 minutes ago, paul secor said:

If you want to hear the music, there's a reissue CD on Yazoo - not everything that's on the Swaggies, but a fine selection and excellent sound.

51Y6X6MkelL._SY300_QL70_.jpg

 http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Gonna-Worried-More-1929-1941/dp/B000000G8G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1458181485&sr=1-1&keywords=sleepy+john+estes

I am aware. I have memories of John, a son and Hammie at 7 W. Grand Ave back in the day. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

×
×
  • Create New...