Clunky

I found the electric side of Royal Albert Hall LP to be very poor audio and I don't generally consider myself fussy. Can't imagine wanting more of a similar quality. Nothing in the Miles sets come close to sounding as bad. In jazz terms you've got to go to Bird in France or Sweden to get comparable in terms of dodgy audio as this.

I vacillate about this date. At times I’ve played it and thought it as good as any Monk date. When I played it the other day it struck me as being quite a bit of a mess. Still well worth hearing.

Tiny Grimes with Coleman Hawkins —————-Blues Groove———-(Esquire) A fine and mellow set in a very relaxed groove. Red Cross it isn’t but plenty to enjoy on a relaxed Easter Sunday morning .

It must be a joke , surely?

Played these two again tonight.

I was surprised that Jan Johansson wasn’t identified. That made me wonder if I was wrong. He’s not a minor figure in Swedish jazz so he ought to have been named.

👍 same here, the perfect club date complete with occasional distortion. All adds to the magical vibe.

Yes sourced from Vulcan HQ

Shirley Scott----------Great Scott!------------(Esquire) Prestige trio date from 1958. Decent if not special.

Carlos Ward———Lito———(Leo) interesting date with Woody Shaw plus bass/drums.

I recall getting Our Thing on CD. I’d never heard of any of the musicians at that point but it was on Blue Note...., I remember being forcibly struck by Andrew Hill’s playing and thinking wow! That’s different, I want to hear more by this guy....

Great set , part of what at the time seemed an endless stream of amazing Verve Elite releases.

JackMcDuff————-The Soulful drums of Joe Duke———-(prestige OJC)

I’ll be waiting a while longer for mine to ship with the Savory set📀. It’ll be worth the wait.

I’ve briefly compared the Paris set to the sound from the 2CD Laserlight/Delta (2002) set. The new Sony set is properly in mono and seems to have fewer audible tape flaws. The laserlight CD is a stereo transfer from the mono tapes ( I think ). Overall the new set sounds a bit better.

Disc One sounds very good on first spin. Liner notes make the point this is the first legit commercial issue of any of the material with "the proper permissions' i.e. not just asking grandma if it's ok. As per usual nice package from Sony.

Thanks to MG’s recommendation in the Vinyl forum, Johnny Lytle The Soulful Rebel/ People & Love just arrived. Very impressed. It’s the first I’ve heard by Lytle and also the first for me on Real Gone Music. Whole package most impressive.

The London sessions sound excellent on the Mosaic. The Paris 1954 solo sessions sounds very murky compared to the Vogue CD issued over a decade ago. That CD in turn has been significantly better by the most recent reissue which adds extra tracks but has much better sound

Oddly I recall this reaction previously. On this occasion I had to lift the needle as I could withstand it no longer.

Great minds.... I was playing this very title earlier today. Althea Young's vocals sounded particularly dreadful on this Liberty pressing, I don't recall is sounding as bad an the Mosaic set. Possibly because you can hear what she's doing more clearly on the LP. 🔥

Thanks MG , your soul jazz ( or whatever term one uses) are of the highest order. My Achilles is that I like or love most styles of quality music and so from time to time some grease is called for. I was spring cleaning today and had two Groove Holmes LP targeted for passing on ( Living Soul and Soul Message). I played them both and changed my mind even if neither is a masterpiece. I think we are incredibly lucky here to have your expert ear .... although it's always costly

Thanks for that Lytle recommendation. Ordered the CD , should be here for the weekend. The prices for the LP seemed OTT but a silver disc will do fine.

I've never heard any of the Johnny Lytle Riversides, listened randomly to a few tracks on the streaming service as wasn't too excited by what I heard. I'll admit it's no way to any music you care about but it serves as a screening process. NP a couple of favourites...neither new.. Air------Air time-------(nessa) I noticed that Threadgill has a new one coming out soon on Pi Annette Peacock-------I'm the one ------( RCA) I've been listening to a few recent reissues ( Bamboo) with Paul Bley

Don’t know those two- will checkout 🔍

The Gravity Project looks very interesting and Andrea Keller trio ought to be 👍