What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JohnS]

John Lewis; Improvised Meditations and Excursions. Atlantic

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Clare Fischer - Surging ahead - Pacific Jazz (Fontana UK mono)

MG

[kh1958]

Eddie Davis Trio Plus Joe Newman (Roulette mono)

[jeffcrom]

Rev. James Cleveland and the Houston Mass Choir - For the Prize (Savoy)

[Chalupa]

More Yazoo...

Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied

Bo Carter - Greatest Hits 1930-40

Big Bill Broonzy - Young Big Bill 1928-35

Cripple Clarence Lofton & Walter Davis - s/t

[jeffcrom]

Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (El Saturn)

[sidewinder]

Soft Machine 'Fourth' (UK CBS, stereo)

Edited March 7, 2010 by sidewinder

[brownie]

Thelonious Monk 'Misterioso' (Columbia, stereo)

Edited March 7, 2010 by brownie

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Sonny Cox & the Three Souls - Dangerous Dan express - Argo (repress with Cadet label)

No bass player on this one, their first LP. But a bongo player

MG

[kh1958]

Terry Gibbs--Mallets-A-Plenty (emarcy)

Archie Shepp--Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime (Impulse, red and black)

[JohnS]

Grant Green; Solid. Blue Note rainbow.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Stanley Turrentine & Shirley Scott - Common touch - BN

Thanks to Big Al for the reminder about this. An altogether lovely session.

MG

[Teasing the Korean]

Cannonball Adderley - Country Preacher - Capitol (green and purple label).

Featuring Jesse Jackson.

Every record on the green and purple Capitol label kicks ass. Including the Mel Torme album with Spinning Wheel.

[Teasing the Korean]

Gene Ammons - Greatest Hits Volume 1: The 60s - Prestige (OJC pressing stereo).

Gorgeous version of "Canadian Sunset."

Edited March 7, 2010 by Teasing the Korean

[jeffcrom]

Reminded by the valve/slide trombone thread:

Brad Gowans and His New York Nine (10" RCA Victor). 1946 recordings, but all but two were unissued until this 1954 ten-incher (in a nice gatefold cover.) It's excellent music - somewhere between small-band swing and Condonesque dixieland, with Billy Butterfield, Joe Bushkin, and Dave Tough, among others. (It was Tough's last record date.) It sounds very fresh 64 years later.

[jeffcrom]

Another 10-incher, from 1952: Hot vs. Cool on MGM. This is a fun album, based on a gimmick: Jimmy McPartland's dixieland group (including Ed Hall, Vic Dickenson, and George Wettling) and Don Elliott's modernists (with Buddy DeFranco, Max Roach, and guest Dizzy Gillespie) each play the same four tunes. The silly concept results in some excellent performances.

[clifford_thornton]

Taj Mahal Travellers - August 1974 - (Columbia/P-Vine)

I still think this band has a strong "you had to be there" vibe, but that probably goes for a lot of communal psychedelia...

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

A 45

Mr Dynamite/The Dynamite Orchestra - Sh' mon pts 1 & 2 - Sue UK

Don't know WHERE this comes from or who it is. Side 1 is a poor man's JB imitation. Side 2 is instrumental with raving tenor solo.

MG

[JohnS]

Donald Byrd; Chant. Blue Note rainbow.

Some very fine Byrd and Doug Watkins here.

Edited March 8, 2010 by JohnS

[brownie]

Jimmy Lyons 'Push Pull' (Hat Hut), LPs 1 and 2

[jeffcrom]

Okay, many of you will think this is weird: Heritage of the March, Volume 73 - US Naval Academy Band. There seem to have been at least 100 volumes of this series, featuring various bands and intended for band geeks such as myself. I found a few volumes in a used record store a couple of weeks ago and bought one that looked interesting - the marches of Charles Zimmerman (bandmaster of the Naval Academy band from 1862 to 1916) and Michele Lozzi, an obscure Italian-American band composer.

Marches are easy to write, but hard to make interesting. Most of the Zimmerman and Lozzi marches here are really good - melodic and original. I'm enjoying this one so much that I'm going back to pick up the other volumes I saw.

[thelbc]

Okay, many of you will think this is weird: Heritage of the March, Volume 73 - US Naval Academy Band. There seem to have been at least 100 volumes of this series, featuring various bands and intended for band geeks such as myself. I found a few volumes in a used record store a couple of weeks ago and bought one that looked interesting - the marches of Charles Zimmerman (bandmaster of the Naval Academy band from 1862 to 1916) and Michele Lozzi, an obscure Italian-American band composer.

Marches are easy to write, but hard to make interesting. Most of the Zimmerman and Lozzi marches here are really good - melodic and original. I'm enjoying this one so much that I'm going back to pick up the other volumes I saw.

Why in the world would you admit to this, for all the world to see??? Is it a cry for help? Or a cry to locate another BAND GEEEEEEEEEEEEEK like yourself?

Dude, start your own thread for crap like this....or, just say what vinyl you are spinning and let Nessa comment on it.

Thanks

[clifford_thornton]

I dunno, Jeff's tastes are pretty respectable so far. His BFT was really swell.

[brownie]

Red Garland 'Bright and Breezy' (Jazzland Japan, stereo)

[JohnS]

Booker Little 4 and Max Roach. United Artists (Japanese King)