Clunky

I'd agree regarding the bassists - the session with LaFaro is very different from the rest with LaFaro seemingly making it so.

Johnny Glasel--------Jazz session------(ABC Paramount) DG Spiritely playing by Glasel with Dick Garcia on guitar on the majority of tracks. No piano ,so the whole session feels light and nimble. There's even an early cover (1956) of Monk's "Ruby my dear". Lovely set all round.

Hopefully this will be recorded/released as it sounds like a pretty amazing lineup.

Indeed , welcome !

this sounds excellent

Steve Coleman on Novus

Arthur Blythe on Columbia

Ancient Ritual !!!!!!

Lee Konitz on RCA Victor ( Sound Lee) Mal Waldron on RCA Victor ( a stunning album with a stellar cast)

Received my CD today on my return from work. Excellent sounding so far. Bev's not alone in that assessment. Please keep it going , I love hearing new things or even new takes on old things.

The full session of Marsh/ Pepper wanders a fair bit. I think the tracks selected for "The way it was" were the core of session , with much of the rest lacking the same coherence. Still worth hearing

Kampen went OOP pretty quickly. Small run like the rest of NB's vinyl but a sign surely that the jazz cognoscenti have alert antennae for Bradford ( I hope)

RIP - I'd like to hear that Savoy, I have a very decent set by him on Mainstream. He brought something different ( from Rouse ) to latter day Monk

I'm after a physical copy of this. i think I'll try the label directly once I've worked out how to navigate their Italian only website.

Mike Osbourne / Stan Tracey---------Tandem-------(Ogun) Not too sure that Stan has mastered the idiom. He follows Osbourne around in an unconvincing manner. The whole thing is more of a curiosity really . It's better when freer passages give way to form.

Sounding good. Email sent, I'm a physical listener.

Hampton Hawes afternoon here, The Sermon- 1958 recording , 80s Fantasy "digital issue" The Green Leaves of Summer- 1964 recording, 70s issue on very thin vinyl I'm all smiles- 1966 recording , 1973 issue (original?) I wasn't impressed by Smiles, perhaps the material but it did very little to float my boat , so it goes on the sale pile. The other two were better with Green Leaves perhaps the more interesting. Sermon is more boppish whereas Green Leaves seems more transitional to his later style.

Sometimes, when I'm listening to an older record, I think about how it sounded to me when I first heard it and how it's impossible to recapture that impression. To me the true sign of a really good recording is , me being as interested/ excited to hear it once again no matter how many times I've played it in the past. Recognising that a recording will have a long shelf life is hard ( for me at least). What makes a recording durable and how to hear that on first acquaintance is why we need good music journalism. Who knew that "People in sorrow " would still capture the imagination 40 yrs on? Did Chuck? I'm guessing he must given the extraordinary strength of the Nessa catalogue. I find it fascinating hearing what pundits and public made of recordings at the time of initial release . I think I recall correctly that Chris Albertson didn't think much of Bitches Brew. It doesn't matter so much that he was wrong but it helps to understand the context of the music.

I must be lucky as the two I have sound just fine, (Dragon Hill and Baptised Traveller)

I've some of this material on 78s which are very much clearer than LP issues. The later vary enormously but generally sound very dull. Commodore 78s are bright with quite a lot of surface noise., which probably why they've been scrubbed excessively on LP issues .

Ray Russell Quartet-----------Dragon Hill---------(CBS Realm) Good session

Ok . Sticking to three Sound- Delmark Snurdy McGurdy - Nessa Air Time--Nessa Tough to exclude Noonah, People in Sorrow

Thanks , really enjoyed this

I wasn't going to get any of these but I've just played my only copy of "Three four Shepp" and it's developed digital jitter in a variety of places . It still plays through which is just as well , it's just such a fabulous session.

Ornette Coleman ------------Shape of Jazz to come-------(Atlantic UK) mono Inspired by the other thread pulled this one out