[One Classical Recording You'd Like Others To Hear]

Barber's "Adagio for Strings" conducted by Thomas Schippers with the New York Philharmonic, 1965. I first heard this in a record store in 1996 or 1997. I stood there stunned and literally had to wipe away a few tears. Of course, I walked out with the CD, even though at the time I already had three other recordings of the piece.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Anthony Braxton - Four Compositions (1973) (Denon)

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

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

 

tell me you just found that paramount in or around your area like for 50 cents.............oh god!!!!!!

No, but some of those were pretty close to that. The rundown, as far as I remember:

The Paramount and the Jim Jackson I bought from a dealer at a record show. Prices were reasonable, but not amazing.
The Memphis Mose I found in an antique store in Kansas City - paid a few bucks.
I think the Norfolk Jazz Quartet was in the first large purchase of 78s I made when I started collecting - I bought three boxes from a dealer. There was some good stuff in there.
Stump Johnson and Bessie Jackson were from a stack I bought from a neighbor. I didn't pay much because of the condition.
One of the Blind Boy Fullers was five bucks, I think, and the other was free.

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo (BN Liberty stereo)

[Danish tenor sax]

Just adding that one of my favorite evenings of live music was listening to the Jesper Thilo Quartet at a little club in Copenhagen with about six people in the audience. Thilo played as if there were hundreds of us listening.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Kid Howard - Sam Morgan Re-Visited (Jazzology). The meat of this album is a 1962 set of five tunes first recorded by Sam Morgan's Jazz Band in 1927, plus one other tune by the same personnel. The seven-piece band is mostly composed of veterans of the Morgan band, including two musicians (Jim Robinson and Andrew Morgan) who played on the 1927 sessions. It's an incredibly exciting session, and the stereo recording suggests how great the Morgan band must have sounded in person.

In addition to the "Morgan" sides, there four 1960 tracks by a primo version of Kid Thomas Valentine's band.

This was one of the two LPs I bought on my first visit to Preservation Hall (and New Orleans) in 1990, when they still had a rack of LPs for sale in the carriageway - so it means a lot to me beyond the excellent music in the grooves.

 

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Coincidentally:

Thelonious Monk - Monk's Dream (Columbia, 2002 reissue)

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

   

BASrelief (Past Now Tomorrow). Atlanta avant trio of mandolin, cello, and congas.

Improvisational Arts Quintet - The New New Orleans Music: New Music Jazz (Rounder). Didn't listen to Tony Dagradi's sax quartet this time around - just the IAQ.

Jackie McLean - A Fickle Sonance (Japanese BN)

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

 

Jackie McLean - Jackie's Bag (BN RVG)

Dizzy Gillespie / Max Roach in Paris (Vogue/BMG). Just the 1949 Max Roach Quintet session for Vogue. I hate the mastering, but the music is wonderful - maybe the best early Kenny Dorham I've heard.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Joel Futterman / Kidd Jordan / Alvin Fielder - Southern Extreme (Drimala)

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

   

Johnny Dyani - Song for Biko (Steeplechase)

Warne Marsh - Music for Prancing (Mode/V.S.O.P). Some really annoying electronic noise crept in during the tape transfer or mastering of this CD. Somebody should have caught that. The music is great, though.

George Lewis - The Oxford Series, Vol. 1 (American Music). Lewis's best band, in my opinion, was the short-lived version with Percy Humphrey on trumpet. They're caught here in relaxed form at a party in 1952.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

1 minute ago, gmonahan said:

My, my--do you find yourself changing all those things fairly often? That would seem to make listening to the records just a bit...time-consuming?!

 

 

 

gregmo

The stylus slides on and off - a few seconds to change that and the tracking weight. I usually don't change the EQ during a listening sessions.

But, hey - collecting and playing 78s is kind of insane, anyway. Very little about it makes sense from a rational perspective.

[What 78 are you spinning right now ?]

Chuck Berry on Chess:

Maybellene / Wee Wee Hours
Thirty Days / Together
No Money Down / The Downbound Train
School Day / Deep Feeling

78s are so weird and unpredictable. My copy of "Maybellene," which I've had for about three or four years, has a slight warp and some stressed grooves, which has always made it difficult to play. After all this time, I finally figured out what combination of stylus, tracking weight, and EQ works to make it sound good with no skips.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Jackie McLean - Bluesnik (BN McMaster)

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Rev. Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones - Secret Storm (Jewel)

 

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Sun Ra - Media Dreams (Saturn). I'm amazed that I found a picture which matches my cover - there were many different covers, and this one has cutouts or stickers pasted to a plain white LP cover. What great music!

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

12 minutes ago, paul secor said:

I was lucky enough to hear both Wade Walton and Robert Curtis Smith perform in the 1990s.

[Mosaic Wish List]

As long as it's understood that this is a totally unrealistic wish list, I'll play:

Complete Recordings of Jimmie Noone. Depending on the scope (leader recordings or absolutely everything), this would run from five to seven CDs, I think.

The December Band - 1965. Legendary among New Orleans jazz fans, this was an all-star pickup band (including Kid Thomas Valentine, Captain John Handy, and Jim Robinson) that toured New England in December, 1965. There are six issued LPs (on various labels) from the tour (some under Handy's name), as well as some broadcast recordings.

Sun Ra Quartet - Italy, January, 1978. This tour produced two double albums on Horo, as well as Disco 3000, Media Dreams, and half of The Sound Mirror on Saturn, - and some other material.

Delmark - Early AACM recordings. This could get out of hand quickly in terms of number of CDs.

Sunny Murray - Complete 1960s leader sessions.

American Jazz Quintet - Complete Recordings. Pioneering New Orleans post-bop group featuring Alvin Batiste, Ellis Marsalis, and Ed Blackwell.

Boyce Brown - Complete Recordings. This would only take about two CDs, and due to its appeal and relatively low cost would probably put Mosaic on a road to a sound financial future. (Ha!)

Now pardon me while I go see to my pig, which is flying all over the yard.

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Steve Lacy - Capers (Hat Hut). Record two - Dennis Charles sounds so good.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Michael J. Smith - Elvira Madigan... And Other Dances (Horo); record one.

[BFT 178 Link and Discussion]

Download works fine now; looking forward to listening.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

   

Gary Burton - Something's Coming (RCA Victor stereo)

The Chicagoans: The Austin High Gang 1928-1930 (MCA Jazz Heritage Series). These Jazz Heritage LPs are not ideal in terms of quality of the transfers, but this one doesn't sound bad when I run mono, and there are some tracks here which I don't elsewhere.

The Yardbirds - Having a Rave Up (Epic mono). Side one of this US LP has 1965 studio recordings with Jeff Beck on guitar; side two is taken the British album Five Live Yardbirds: live in London in 1964 with Mr. Clapton on guitar.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

 

 

Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton - At the Vortex (1996) (Emanem)

Darryl Adams - Runnin' Wild in Toronto Volume 2 (Jazz Crusade)

[BFT 178 Link and Discussion]

Yes, I tried with two different browsers, including Firefox. I'm going to participate in any case, even if I just stream the music.

[Darryl Adams, RIP]

 

I just learned that New Orleans alto saxophonist Darryl Adams died on December 19, 2018, aged 61. Adams was mostly a brass band guy - he was a member of Leroy Jones' Hurricane Brass Band, a group that was instrumental (pun just noticed) in the New Orleans brass band revival of the late 1970s. When Jones left the band, Adams took over its leadership and renamed it the Tornado Brass Band. He can be heard on the Hurricane's 1975 LP on the LoAn label (if you are one of the lucky brass band fans to have a copy of this rarity), as well on recordings by Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band & Jazzmen and the New Birth Brass Band. In later years he played for a short time with the main Preservation Hall touring band, although he only recorded with them backing up the Blind Boys of Alabama on one of their albums. He made two CDs under his own name: "Runnin' Wild" in Toronto, Volumes 1 & 2 for Jazz Crusade. His playing is exciting and infectious on them, but unfortunately he is backed by a needlessly archaic mostly-Canadian trad revival band.

I loved Adams' exuberant playing. I'm not sure how sophisticated his knowledge of harmony was - he often skated over the chord changes when they got slightly complex. But he was always driving and melodic at the same time. Over the years I heard him with the New Birth BB at the Maple Leaf, at Preservation Hall, and with the PHJB in an Atlanta suburb. And I recorded 30 minutes of him playing with a pickup band in Jackson Square in 2010; I'm listening to that recording now.

I'll miss Darryl Adams. His music was just so New Orleans - eclectic, lively, unpretentious, and honest. RIP.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theneworleansadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=darryl-anthony-adams&pid=191084606&fhid=32214

https://www.wwoz.org/media/89089-darryl-adams-my-new-orleans