[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Albert Ayler - The Last Album (Impulse). This LP is kind of a mess - it's basically the outtakes from Music is the Healing Force of the Universe. But I wouldn't want to be without "Water Music" - just beautiful, and some of my favorite late Ayler.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Wilson Picket - Hey Jude (Atlantic). Some fiery Duane Allman guitar playing is scattered through this fine album.

 

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

Gerald Wilson's big band on various labels:

Cruisin' With Cab/Pammy (Black & White, 1946)
The Saint/The Moors (Black & White, 1946)
Smada/The Black Rose (Excelsior, 1947)
Salute to Jimmie Lunceford (My Last Affair)/Dissonance in Blues (United Artist, 1947)
Mambo Mexicano, parts 1 & 2 (Federal, 1954)

The two Black & White records are pretty worn, but the others are in excellent condition. Great musicians on all the discs, but the honors go to Melba Liston's composition "The Moors" - almost on Ellington's level -and the blues "Smada," with a very nice Buddy Collette alto solo. And the bassist on "Smada" is David Bryant, who many years later played with Horace Tapscott's ensembles.

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

Listened to this for the first time today. It's a very good one and I hope that others will check it out.

Thank you, Paul. I generally don't promote my own music here, but I'm proud of this one - it's the best thing I've ever done. Four duets each with percussionist Stuart Gerber (Stockhausen collaborator), Atlanta pianist Chris Case, and San Diego-based trombonist Peter Sloan. Cover design by Grammy winner Susan Archie. Some ballads, but in the avant-garde camp for sure. Available on Bandcamp and CDBaby now, all over the place soon. PM me if interested.

Oh, and the first issued recording of Steve Lacy's saxophone / trombone duet "Dues."

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

 

Ornette! - programmed as originally issued from the Atlantic box set.

Bill Evans - The Paris Concert, Edition One (BN). I admire this, but I'm not loving it tonight.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

6 hours ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

10 band- jeesh- thx ill go back and read it all- wow.   im on a crosley like player which has that jukeboxey type aura to it but what you have is what i want!

If you really want the kind of setup I have, this is the  turntable I use - or the next generation of the one I have. It has variable speed, so it plays at 33, 45, 78, and beyond. It has a switch to change the polarity in order to play vertical groove records like Edisons. I have two headshells - one with an LP cartridge and one with a 78 cartridge. I also have different size styluses for the 78 cartridge, but I wouldn't recommend going down that road right away - start with a 3 mil stylus; you'll get pretty good results.

https://www.esotericsound.com/turntableD.htm

Correction: looking at the specs of the new version of the turntable, it looks like they've added a couple of features, bur removed the vertical switch. So Edisons are out.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

On 2/1/2019 at 1:01 AM, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

do you have the ability to listen to 78s without RIAA curve?  someday id like a pro setup with a bypass switch n stuff!

I've described my setup earlier in this thread - probably several times - so I won't subject everyone to that again. But, yeah - Clunky, who started this thread, impressed on me the importance of having a 10-band equalizer as part of your 78 rig. I keep it set more or less to the reverse of the RIAA curve, and adjust as needed to reduce surface noise on worn discs.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

21 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

This thread is a bad influence, as this weekend I purchased two 78s, even though I'm not set up to listen to them. Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons, Walkin' the Boogie and Boogie Woogive Man on Victor. Also, Big Bill and His Chicago Five (Big Bill Broonzy I assume), I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town and Hard Hearted Woman, on Okeh. They looked like they needed a safe home.

Welcome to the dark side, my friend. I'll provide further bad influence by pointing out that the Broonzy record has the great New Orleans trumpet player Punch Miller on board.

I said this somewhere online recently - it might have been here: I look at my 78 shelves and think, "This is madness." Then I play one and think, "This is magic."

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Miles Davis - Bootleg Series Volume 2: Live in Europe 1969 (Columbia). Disc 3, with the Stockholm concert where Chick Corea's electric piano fails him a few notes into "Bitches Brew." He joins on acoustic piano ten minutes later, after the stage crew wheels one in and gets it mic-ed up.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five - Heebie Jeebies / Muskrat Ramble (Okeh). This is my first original red-label Okeh by the classic Hot Five lineup, and it was a bargain. Someone was selling this online for a very low price, because they graded this record as between F and G - which would mean it would hardly be worth having, except as a wall hanger. But the pictures were pretty clear, and showed the surfaces of both sides - and they looked considerably better than that. So I took a chance and bought it. It arrived today, and I was right.. "Heebie Jeebies" is on the high side of V, and "Muskrat Ramble" is a solid V+. Until I find a mint copy from unsold store stock, this will do very nicely.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Ken Colyer - Club Session with Colyer (London). Colyer's band is the one European trad band that I might mistake for a New Orleans band in a blindfold test. And that remains true no matter the vintage and no matter who was in the band. One could argue about whether that is a good thing or not, but it at least speaks well for his vision as bandleader and his ability to get that vision across to his musicians. And yet there's a subtle personal spin to the music. I like this stuff.

 

[What music did you buy today?]

6 hours ago, JSngry said:

Taking the road less traveled on this one...not sure if it's a dirt road or just some place where grass won't grow.

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total
Various __________________________________ CD     2.99          1     
2.99
  America's Millennium Tribute To Adolphe Sax Vol 3 -- Francois 
Daneels/Royal Conservatory Of Brussels
  Item: 907025, Condition: Used (NOTE: Out of print.)

Various __________________________________ CD     1.99          1     
1.99
  America's Millennium Tribute To Adolphe Sax Vol 4 -- Claude 
Delangle/Paris Conservatory
  Item: 901377, Condition: Used (NOTE: Out of print.)

Various __________________________________ CD     2.99          1     
2.99
  America's Millennium Tribute To Adolphe Sax Vol 5 -- Jean Yves 
Fourmeau/Harvey G Phillips/Cergy Conservatory Paris
  Item: 907027, Condition: Used (NOTE: Out of print.)

New York Woodwind Quintet/Alec Wilder ____ LP     4.99          1     
4.99
  Alec Wilder Sketches The World's Most Beautiful Girls
  Item: 899719, Condition: Near Mint-

Sessions/Lees ____________________________ LP     4.99          1     
4.99
  Symphony No 3/Concerto For String Quartet & Orchestra -- Igor 
Buketoff/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  Item: 672694, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: RCA Red Seal stereo 

I've thought about getting those Millennium Tribute to Sax discs at various times, but I already have more classical saxophone recordings than any sane person needs. The Alec Wilder/NY Woodwind Quintet LP is not for everyone, but I think you'll like it. Call it  very well-done light classical/salon music with a touch of bachelor pad vibe. I spin it occasionally.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Tony Scott (Verve). An interesting and enjoyable hot mess of a record.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

 

Paul Bley & Scorpio (Milestone)

Rev. Gregory Sutton - The Card Game of Life (Beth). This afternoon I attended a funeral officiated by Rev. Sutton - forty-something years after he recorded this sermon.

[Jazz, early popular music redheads?]

Red Norvo, when he had hair.

I hope all the examples we think of are not folks nicknamed "Red."

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: Northern and Central Italy (Columbia). Edited and mostly recorded by Alan Lomax.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Archie Shepp - Kwanza (Impulse)

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Donald Byrd - Free Form (BN NY mono)

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Horace Parlan - On the Spur of the Moment (BN/Music Matters). One of the few (three, I think) of those expensive 45 RPM two-record MM reissues that I have. They do sound good, but I can't see myself going any further down that road.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

4 hours ago, paul secor said:

The R.L. Burnside and Houston Stackhouse sides are decent, but the Joe Callicotts are forever.

Love that album. Different ears - to me the Burnside tracks are as good as the Callicotts. The flavor is very different, of course.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Joe Callicott - Blues Master Vol. 6 (Blue Horizon). One of my favorite Mississippi hill country bluesmen.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

The December Band, Volume II (GHB). I bought this album in Preservation Hall in 1990, on my first visit to New Orleans. It's legendary among New Orleans music fans, mostly for the contributions of alto saxophonist Captain John Handy (1900-1971; not the John Handy who played with Mingus).

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

19 minutes ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

you have Fletcher Henderson on Edison disc + eqipment for playing such disc?  you are the ultimate dawg for 78s (and 82's ) around here. 

Just the most certifiably insane dawg....

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

   

Eric Dolphy - Musical Prophet (Resonance). The alternate takes.

Lou Donaldson - Quartet Quintet Sextet (BN). The sextet session, originally a 10" LP.

Duke Ellington - The Duke Box (Storyville). The April 3, 1943 Hurricane broadcast.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

I made the few adjustments needed to play Edison Diamond Discs on my turntable for a few days. I spun these jazz and near-jazz Edisons (I won't list the less-interesting flip sides by other artists):

Golden Gate Orchestra (actually the California Ramblers, that pioneering hot big band): Sing a Little Song
Golden Gate Orchestra: Manhattan / Oh Say! Can I See You Tonight

Chas. Matson's Creole Serenaders - I Just Want a Daddy (I Can Call My Own). A very interesting proto-jazz band that made two sides (issued on different records) for Edison in 1923.

Ellen Coleman (actually vaudeville blues singer Helen Baxter) - Cruel Back Bitin' Blues / You Got Ev-ryThing a Sweet Man Needs. About as bluesy as Edison ever got, with accompaniment by Lemuel Fowler's band.

Fletcher Henderson - Shake Your Feet & Linger Awhile. Henderson's only two Edison sides, one two different records.

Original Memphis Five - A Bunch of Blues / Jelly Roll Blues. The best of the lot. "Jelly Roll Blues" is excellent, and interesting as an early Jelly Roll Morton cover.