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  1. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    On September 6, 2016 at 6:54 AM, corto maltese said:

    I also have both issues. The "regular" is on Kabell Records (Kabell 1 - blue label) which of course was (is) Leo Smith's own private label. But the one with the silk screened cover (blank back cover; notes included in a small stapled booklet) is on TMS Records (TMS 1000 - yellow label).

    Was "TMS" the originally intended name of his label and did he change this for the second pressing, somewhere between 1972 and 1975 (release of Reflectativity), or is there another story? Anyway, I've never been troubled by the pressing quality of either of these. And I love the music very, very much.

    I've wondered what the story is too. My copy has the TMS label and a Kabell sticker covering up the TMS reference on the cover. There's also a small square of type pasted on the back referencing Kabell. Great music whatever the presentation is.

  3. Steve Lacy

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    On October 5, 2015 at 8:13 AM, colinmce said:

    Not sure anyone else noticed, but earlier this summer Martin Davidson announced a disc of performances from the last Lacy tour featuring the Beat Suite band.  The information has since disappeared from the Emanem site, so I assume this project has been cancelled.  A pity. (I can think of one possible culprit, unfortunately)

    Looks like the Last Tour was released earlier this year on Emanem: http://www.emanemdisc.com/E5039.html

  5. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    Seiji Ozawa, Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, Orchestral Space ( Varèse Sarabende). Stiff reading of Ligeti's "Atmospheres," ring modulator fun with Ichiyanagi, plus fascinating pieces from Xenakis and Takemitsu.

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    Giorgio Gaslini, Gaslini Plays Monk (Soul Note). One of my favourite all-Monk LPs--Gaslini puts a neat spin on Monk.

     

     

  9. Questions: Trends in Jazz Vinyl Sales Circa 2015

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    2 hours ago, Homefromtheforest said:

    So I'm on a vacation with the wife and kids on Vancouver Island and I take a brief excursion to supposedly the best record shop in Nanaimo.  The jazz section is admittedly fairly big but upon close inspection it's stacked with reissues and 70s/80s fusiony crap you could not give away yet it's still priced at $8-15.  I'm on my way out and the owner asks me what I'm looking for and I essentially tell him "something good" and he looks up at me with a dour face and says "anything high end I put on eBay; nobody locally will pay what it's worth".  Well that just  defeats the purpose of shopping at a local record store, no?

    Yet another reminder that record stores, at least around these parts, are dead.

    That's Fascinating Rhythm? I actually found a Chekasin LP and a Delius/Beecham box set with book when I was there, but otherwise it was as you described. On the bright side, at least their reissues and fusiony crap are cheaper than a certain west side Vancouver record store.

  13. Paul Smoker - RIP

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    Sad news. Smoker was a very interesting player. I like his story about how he wound up playing with Braxton, which is in Mixtery, edited by Graham Lock. He saw Braxton in concert in Portland and met him backstage. The next day it turns out they were on the same plane together and they hit it off. Braxton asked Smoker to send him a tape. After much procrastinating, a tape was sent and soon after, Smoker was asked to join Braxton to do a couple of dates playing Composition 98. Braxton told him to get his music released: "You're committing a crime if you don't get it out!"

  17. George Adams, anyone?

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    On April 6, 2016 at 8:50 PM, Mark Stryker said:

    It hasn't been mentioned yet, but "Sound Suggestions" on ECM is a record that holds up -- interesting to hear George with Beirach/Holland/DeJohnette and how the group finds a balance between the pianist's more formal and advanced harmonic language and George's homegrown harmonic "looseness." Rhythmically, everyone is bashing together in a good way. Doesn't really sound like a working band but rather one of those days in the studio with a good cats and a good vibe. Plus, you get Kenny Wheeler in the mix. I used to play "Imani's Dance" with my group in Urbana.

    I love that album. The hand of Manfred is apparent and it sounds more like at a Kenny Wheeler album at times, but all the more fascinating to hear Adams in this context. Heinz Sauer is also part of what is a really interesting group. 

  18. Jimmy Hamilton

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    On April 5, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Clunky said:

    Lucky Thompson's October 1954 sessions for Urania which resulted in his Accent on tenor LP would be some of my favourite Jimmy Hamilton along with Duke's Newport set from 1956. 

    That Lucky LP is a great one. Hamilton really shines on it.

  19. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    On March 26, 2016 at 0:28 PM, JSngry said:

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    Liner notes by Mike Zwerin talking about how his jazz - cynicism was totally defeated by hanging with The Cowsills for a few days and realizing that they were exactly the type of people and act that they projected to the public.

    Musically, anybody can quibble with the"what", bur I'll be damned if there's any quibbles with the "how"... I was surprised as hell to see that the album was produced by Bill & Bob Cowsill. The group vocals...geez, love/hate here, but objectively, as "section work" if the hate cannot accept the love, then further processing is probably needed. 

    Fuck The Partridge Family. Nothin personal, just sayin'.

    I saw this album sitting in a second hand shop the other day. I remember seeing Bill Cowsill performing covers in a pub back in the early 90s during one of the many mini comebacks he had in those days. It was sad and kind of surreal.

     

    Now spinning: Giorgio Gaslini Jean-Luc Ponty...et al (PA USA)

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    Philly Joe Jones/Dameronia, Look Stop Listen

  24. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    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.

     

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