What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[kh1958]

Bobby Timmons--The Soul Man (Prestige, blue label)

[king ubu]

I have the US edition of this album with different cover art. I like this record!

Yes, it's very enjoyable!

[BillF]

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Dexter Gordon - Piss off - BN DMM

Don't remember the French releasing that one..

Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off?

Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD).

MG

Ah, just got it!

[webbcity]

Stanley Cowell - Brilliant Circles

[clifford_thornton]

Jemeel Moondoc & Muntu - The Intrepid: Live in Poland - (Poljazz)

[clifford_thornton]

Rod Levitt - Solid Ground - (RCA-Victor, mono)

[sidewinder]

Monk 'Straight, No Chaser' (Columbia 2-eye, stereo)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

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Dexter Gordon - Piss off - BN DMM

Don't remember the French releasing that one..

Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off?

Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD).

MG

Ah, just got it!

Oh, you thought I meant this one

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Mixed bag of LPs this morning

MJQ - Blues at Carnegie Hall - Atlantic

Jimmy Witherspoon & Jack McDuff - The blues is now - Verve mono promo

now

Rev W Leo Daniels - The answer to Watergate (sermon) - Jewel

MG

[BillF]

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Dexter Gordon - Piss off - BN DMM

Don't remember the French releasing that one..

Shouldn't it be Pissin' Off?

Surely not! The LP would have had to have been called "Goin'" - as in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' "Pissin' off to the meetin'", to which (coincidentally) I've just been listening (on CD).

MG

Ah, just got it!

Oh, you thought I meant this one

MG

I now realise you meant Go! My original comment just referred to the fact that it almost seemed obligatory for jazz album titles in those days to include - - - in'

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Bein' as 'ow it's 'is birfday...

Thornel Schwartz - Soul cookin' - Audio Odyssey by Argo

MG

[sidewinder]

Kenny Graham & His Satellites 'Moondog & Suncat Suite' (Trunk Records). Dennis Preston/Joe Meek production - Trunk have done a very good job indeed with this one.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Kenny Graham & His Satellites 'Moondog & Suncat Suite' (Trunk Records). Dennis Preston/Joe Meek production - Trunk have done a very good job indeed with this one.

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve. But Dennis Preston & Joe Meek?!?!?!? When was this? Before "Johnny remember me" and "Telstar"?

Was it a Lansdowne production issued on Columbia UK?

MG

[sidewinder]

Kenny Graham & His Satellites 'Moondog & Suncat Suite' (Trunk Records). Dennis Preston/Joe Meek production - Trunk have done a very good job indeed with this one.

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve. But Dennis Preston & Joe Meek?!?!?!? When was this? Before "Johnny remember me" and "Telstar"?

Was it a Lansdowne production issued on Columbia UK?

MG

It was a Dennis Preston production recorded by Joe Meek. Issued in UK and US on MGM - before Dennis's UK Columbia days (recorded in 1956). So a few years before Telstar etc. - probably when Meek was first starting out.

And yes - the Joe Meek effects are there in abbundance. Weird sound effects, spooky echos, B-movie horror filmish wordless female vocals. Stan Tracey on accordion, even duck quacking noises on side 2 ! On the whole, not disimilar in sound to those Gil Melle Blue Note 10"s and even hints of 50s Sun Ra exotica.

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve.

Artwork by Jean Miro ! Unfortunately, they couldn't use it on the reissue due to copyright/costs.

Edited May 30, 2010 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Kenny Graham & His Satellites 'Moondog & Suncat Suite' (Trunk Records). Dennis Preston/Joe Meek production - Trunk have done a very good job indeed with this one.

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve. But Dennis Preston & Joe Meek?!?!?!? When was this? Before "Johnny remember me" and "Telstar"?

Was it a Lansdowne production issued on Columbia UK?

MG

It was a Dennis Preston production recorded by Joe Meek. Issued in UK and US on MGM - before Dennis's UK Columbia days (recorded in 1956). So a few years before Telstar etc. - probably when Meek was first starting out.

And yes - the Joe Meek effects are there in abbundance. Weird sound effects, spooky echos, B-movie horror filmish wordless female vocals. Stan Tracey on accordion, even duck quacking noises on side 2 ! On the whole, not disimilar in sound to those Gil Melle Blue Note 10"s and even hints of 50s Sun Ra exotica.

I remember seeing that; nice quaint sleeve.

Artwork by Jean Miro ! Unfortunately, they couldn't use it on the reissue due to copyright/costs.

Jean Miro! Wow!

Just finished

King Curtis plays the great Memphis hits - Atco

now

B B King - King of the blues guitar: Guitar instrumentals - Modern material first issued by Ace. Personnel unknown, except for the lead guitarist But it's BEAUTIFUL.

Astoundingly, NO image of this LP on the web.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

More R&B instrumentals - going north to Detroit

Todd Rhodes - Dance music that hits the spot - King (Swingtime, Denmark)

For those interested in such matters, Todd Rhodes was a founder member of McKinney's Cotton Pickers in 1923 (and the reason I got interested in that band a couple of years ago). He stayed with the band until 1934. Formed an R&B band in the late forties and had a #1 R&B hit with "Blues for the red boy". Great little band. Halley Dismukes on alto was a great fan of Jeep and "Red boy is based on "Jeep's blues".

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some Reggae from 1977

Winston Wright & the Aggrovators - Jump the fence - Third World (quate nace)

Tommy McCook - Hot lava - Third World (very good)

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Bobby Ellis & the Professionals meet the Revolutionaries - Black unity - Third World (brilliant! Well, it usually is )

MG

[kh1958]

Billy Butler--Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Prestige, purple label)

Art Blakey--The Witch Doctor (Blue Note, Liberty blue and white)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some saxy R&B

Bill Doggett - Monster party - King (Odeon France)

Lynn Hope & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Pathe Marconi France)

Maxwell Davis & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Official Demark)

now a bit of gospel

Willie Banks & the Messengers - Heaven must be a beautiful place - Peacock (ABC)

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Junior Parker - Like it is - Mercury UK

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Soul classics

Etta James - Etta James - Chess

Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man the way I love you - Atlantic (Canada)

Marvin Gaye - What's going on - Tamla (TamlaMotown UK)

MG

[jeffcrom]

Gary Burton & Stephane Grappelli - Paris Encounter (Atlantic mono promo)

[clifford_thornton]

I was just reading about that record in an old issue of Cadence today. Made me want to hear it, even though I'm not generally a fan of Gary Burton (have the first few on RCA and kept it at that).

[brownie]

Duke Ellington 'The First Carnegie Hall Concert, January 1943' (Prestige/Musidisc Europe), LP 1

[jeffcrom]

I was just reading about that record in an old issue of Cadence today. Made me want to hear it, even though I'm not generally a fan of Gary Burton (have the first few on RCA and kept it at that).

I like it. Burton and his rhythm section sound good - more straight-ahead than usual. Grappelli sounds fantastic - some of the best playing I've heard by him (although there are tons that I haven't heard).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Some more modern jazz, but on vinyl

Randy Weston - Blue Moses - CTI (Pye UK)

Larry Young - Contrasts - BN Liberty

John Coltrane - Coltrane - Impulse (Jasmine)

Charlie Parker - Bird symbols - Dial (Summit cheapo, but who cares?)

Pharoah Sanders - Karma - Impulse (French edition)

Jack Wilson - Jack Wilson quartet - Atlantic (Discovery)

Think I've had enough of that, now...

MG