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  3. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by Pim

    1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

    Primary

    Joe Henderson - The Elements [Milestone, 1974]

    and before

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    John Haycock - Dorian Portrait [Second Thoughts Records, UK 2023, 2nd pressing]

    Sound tactics @HutchFan, my partner's even stopped raising her eyebrows...but if she does I'll just show her @Pim's recent post about his Japanese delivery 🙄

    So now @mjazzg’s wife knows me as that looney from that jazz forum… 😑🤪

    Oh and that Henderson 😍

  4. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by Pim

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    i enjoy this boxed set very, very much. Jimmy Garrisons introduction to My Favorite Things is one of the most intimate parts in jazz I know. The almost hour length version of the Coltrane classic still leaves me breathless. It gives spiritual feelings to a non spiritual person.

    21 hours ago, HutchFan said:

    I think this is something that many of us here on the board have experienced as well!  :D

     

    That's a comforting thought Hutchfan! I always tell her the real loonies are at a place called Steve Hoffman Board where some people own five pressings of one record and pay a 150 euros for another one. I could see the disbelieve in her eyes...

  5. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted

    4 hours ago, david weiss said:

    Hi Pim, Glad you are enjoying the record. If I remember correctly, I think covid cancelled us in Rotterdam in 2020. I guess they owe us a gig. We have a few dates in Europe this coming November but nothing yet in your neck of the woods. Hopefully next year.....

     

    Thanks for responding David. I really hope to see you guys next year. Big fan of all of you!

  6. Billy Harper

    in Artists

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    5 hours ago, cliffpeterson said:

    Not to sidetrack this thread, but I want to give a shout out to Francesca Tanksley, Harper's pianist of choice for the last 30 odd years.  Francesca is a great musician. 

    Yeah she’s a very good pianist. Love here attributions on the Steeplechase records. A gifted musician and like many of Harper’s side(wo)men a little obscure.

  7. Mal Waldron

    in Artists

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    19 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Picked this up recently -- fascinating resource, though it only covers up through the 1988 publication date.

    https://jazzrecordcenter.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_11&products_id=487

    That looks interesting. Are there any surprises in the book or is it comparable to jazzdisco.org? Never seen that book before. 

     

    12 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

    All of the Enjas are worthy.

     

    Imo only Mingus Lives is a little less interesting. All the others are indeed very, very much worth listening to. The 70’s was a great decade for Mal

  8. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

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    So today my Japanese order arrived after only 3 days. Gave them all a wash first on my good old Knösti washing machine. I always find it a very meditative occupation. Sometimes my wife comes in with a look that is somewhere between pity and diss appointment like I am some kind of compulsive maniac… maybe she’s right but anyway:

    I gave these two a first spin and man they sound amazing. I love Japanese vinyl. A nice detail on the Pepper: it appeared to be the limited edition instead of the regular edition as it was advertised. Now I am going on holiday to France the day after tomorrow and I am not able to spin some more. I thought I might suggest to stay home but then decided these records were not worth a divorce. I’ll be back for the rest in two weeks :)

  9. Billy Harper

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    34 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    I was wondering if I’d also seen him with Gil Evans in the early 1980s. Likely not - I think it was Don Weller covering the tenor chair.

    My memory of that Strata-East night is that Charles Tolliver’s lip was a bit ‘iffy’ at times on the high stuff (totally understandable)  but Harper was absolutely on the ball. They also covered some nice Stanley Cowell tunes such as ‘Effi’ as well as Tolliver’s ‘Emperor March’. A memorable night. Jean Carne was good too on her numbers with the band.

    Still need to frame up the souvenir poster. Very glad to have caught my only appearance by Stanley Cowell that night.

    Wow that must have been one hell of a night. All musicians that I hold in very high regard.

  12. Billy Harper

    in Artists

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    1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

    I'm surprised -- but yeah, doesn't seem to be a thread here solely on this great tenor player and composer.

    apart from the Cookers I am more familiar with his output from the 70s and early 80s. He was more popular in Japan and Europe than in the US for sure -- and unless I'm mistaken, the Strata-East LP was the only album he did for an American label until more recently. Like his music a lot -- powerful and full of heart, accessible but able to go into the outer reaches. I think the only vinyl release I am missing is the Poljazz set, which is somewhat challenging to track down these days.

    Yeah that’s the only one I miss too. Plus the DIW date but that’s the only Harper date I don’t really dig. 
     

    The Japanese releases are my favorites: Knowledge of Self and Love on the Sudan especially. The recent Antibes live date on Sam records is also very good. 

    50 minutes ago, felser said:

    I believe I have all of his leader sets in some form.  Can't speak highly enough of what his music means to me, and he has great personal dignity when you see him live.  Hearing "Capra Black" from that last Lee Morgan double album was a stunning experience for me, and I just played it over and over again 50 years ago,

    Yeah that opening solo is so powerful. A musical landmark on Blue Note I would say. I love that whole album by the way.

     

    36 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

    I’m booked to see him with The Cookers in November. Last time I saw him was with Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell around 2016-ish. One of those players who always delivers, in performance.

    Where do they perform? I don’t see any touring schedule on their website.

  15. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    This afternoons playlist before going out for a walk with my two boys. 
     

    This Cookers album is so freakin good. I hate the fact that I had to miss these guys in Rotterdam. They were about to perform there and then there was COVID. I never got the chance to see them :(

    @david weissif you ever got the chance please visit us in Holland! Belgium or the western part of German would be fine as well. I’d take a long ride to see you guys perform. 

  16. Billy Harper

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    I searched but couldn't find a threat dedicated to this tenor giant. I think he deserves one. Harper is one of my musical heroes. One who speaks directly into your soul. You could feel every single note. It's hard to describe but it's just there. I've got the same thing with John Coltrane and Mal Waldron. Harper seems to have peaked to late, when jazz was much in decline. But his '70's early 80's output remains his best imo. Those Black Saint, Denon, Baystate and MPS lp's and of course the stuff with Max Roach. 

    This group man:

     

    Still don't really know most of the personell from other works besides Harper but this was an excellent band. Harper managed to produce the finest jazz with relatively unknown and obscure bands. 

    I'm a Billy Harper nearly completist. He is more easy to collect than Mal. I really enjoyed almost everything he has put out. And he is still with us of course :)

  18. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

    in The Vinyl Frontier

    Posted · Edited by Pim

    13 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

    Yeah, if they have VAN GELDER in the dead wax people will pay through the nose for them. Personally I can't imagine paying more than $20 for any of 'em, but times have certainly changed. When you factor in that even blue/white Liberty pressings of certain titles are going for hundreds of dollars, $100 for a 70s pressing seems downright reasonable. Insanity for sure!

    I'm a bit too late in the hole vinyl race. I don't have any original Blue Note record and I am curious to hear one in good condition. I am not in the financial position to pay a thousand euros for a single LP nor am I interested in doing so. The 3000 pounds True Blue copy: that's what I spend on vinyl in 3 years..... The two single LP's I spent most money on were Nathan Davis' Jazz Concert at a Benedictine Monastery and Mal Waldron's Spanish Bitch.

    I do have some older Blue Note records: a Liberty pressing of Jackie McLean's 'Bout Soul and an early 70's copy of Lee Morgan's last album. I have to say they sound amazing. Also a near mint copy of Lee Morgan's The Gigolo early 70's US press that sounds flawless. I do love the idea that something that old could still sound so beautiful. My oldest LP is a Gerry Mulligan mono pressing from the Netherlands from 1956. I always think: my mom and dad were 5 and 6 years old when this was pressed. And who has owned it since then?

    But with Blue Note vinyl I mostly own Japanese versions and those pressings sound so incredibly good to me. Especially those King pressings are really up into that Tone Poet league. I bought most of those Japanese pressings for something around 30 euros a piece which is of course more expensive than a cd but I am more a vinyl than a cd guy (though I still own more cd's than lp's).

    I am also not a pressing fetishist or real audiphile. One pressing is good enough for me (as it sounds good of course). Not interested in buying multiple pressings from the same record as there's so much music yet to explore. One exception are my Blue Note 75th series of which I really dislike the sound. I gladly sold my copies of Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings and Hendersons Mode for Joe for 50 euros combined and be happy to replace them. I only have one of them left: Free for All by Art Blakey which sounds louzy as well.

  20. So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

    It´s a very good album but the best stuff was still to come. My favourite albums of him are from 1965-1967, his most creative period. If I should choose only two of them it might be "All Seeing Eye" and "Schizophrenia". 
    The next Shorter I have is only from my favourite group "VSOP" . 
    I saw him live in 2005 but it was a more subtile music, it didn´t have that power that I love. 

    When I started listening jazz I had trouble connecting to his sound. But a few years ago there it was and I love his whole Blue Note output. All Seeing Eye and Etcetera are my favorites but I learned to love them all. 
     

    I had a similar experience with Jackie McLeans music. Evidence that it’s good to revisit those artists you don’t really dig.

  25. What vinyl are you spinning right now??

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    7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    Enjoyable, predictably good sonics and some good playing from Manne, Preview and Mitchell.

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    King Japanese issue. 

    Absolute masterpiece !

    Oh yes those King LPs sound so incredibly good.

    6 hours ago, sidewinder said:

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    This one gets reissued in the Classic vinyl series. I am happy because I have a 75th anniversary that sounds meh and has serious paper sleeve scratches that are audible in the last two tracks

    9 hours ago, mjazzg said:

    Side one is fairly full on with the horns playing loud and fast a lot of the time over and alongside the percussion. As with much of Graves's music there's such musicality and interest in his drummimg that it's almost the lead instrument. Side two is a contrast, Graves on piano and vocals, as Clifford points out brings a whole different perspective. The music's not as fast or as loud but intensely musical and focussed, a quiet storm.

    great album, so pleased to have a copy, finally

     

    They most certainly are. i find him an endlessly fascinating musician in whichever context i come across him

    Sounds interesting thanks!

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