What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Cootie & Rex 'The Big Challenge' (Jazztone)

Still have mine too - and the Big Reunion.

Got that Big Reunion somewhere too!

Now enjoying:

Johnny Griffin 'The Kerry Dancers' (Riverside Japan)

[Leeway]

Lyons, Raphe Malik, Karen Borca, William Parker, Paul Murphy. September 1983. Black Saint.

[Leeway]

[TWilson]

Moe Koffman - Solar Explorations

[brownie]

James Moody 'Feelin' It Together' (Muse)

[kh1958]

Sunnyland Slim--Slim's Shout (Prestige, blue label). There's some nice playing from King Curtis on this one.

Coltrane--Meditations (Impulse, orange and black)

[BillF]

The Dizzy Gillespie Story (Ember)

[Leeway]

Braxton-Bailey Duo, 1, Emanem LP:

[Leeway]

May 29, 1973, Tokyo

Edited September 18, 2011 by Leeway

[Teasing the Korean]

Fela - Army Arrangement - Yaba

This must be one of the only albums that I own from that most dreaded of decades, the 1980s.

[Teasing the Korean]

Lalo Schifrin - Enter the Dragon OST - WB (German pressing)

[Chuck Nessa]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

[paul secor]

Snooky Pryor and the Country Blues (Today)

[jeffcrom]

Playing some of my New Orleans acquisitions:

George Girard - Dixieland Jazz From New Orleans (Imperial 10"). A really nice album by an ill-fated Crescent City trumpeter I like a lot.

Buck Clayton Jam Session - The Hucklebuck & Robbins' Nest (Columbia). This seems to be a first (or at least very early) pressing. It has a brick red "pre-eye" label. It's in decent shape and sounds pretty good.

Wardell Gray - Way Out Wardell (Crown). I had been looking for a good copy of this; it also seems to be an early pressing, and it's also in good shape.

Edited September 19, 2011 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

I was just poking around the web, trying to find out more about my copy of Way Out Wardell, and came across this:

CLP-5004 - Way Out Wardell - Wardell Gray [1957] Issued in monaural only. Reissue of Modern 1204 with "Sweet Georgia Brown" deleted, leaving only four songs. Some of the Crown LPs list "Sweet Georgia Brown" on the back of the jacket, however. Modern 1204 had a blue cover with a photo of Wardell, while the Crown reissue has a red cover with a different pose from the same photo shoot. Blue Lou/Just You Just Me//One O'Clock Jump/Tenderly

Well, my copy is Crown CLP 5004, with the blue cover (but definitely with the Crown name and logo) and the earliest Crown label style. And it has "Sweet Georgia Brown." I'm guessing that this is the very first Crown pressing of the album.

[clifford_thornton]

"Sweet Georgia Brown" is lengthy, too - a shame to miss it!

[JohnS]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

[mjazzg]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

keeps reminding me of LPs I wish I owned/had heard/need to hear

Edited September 19, 2011 by mjazzg

[BillF]

[mjazzg]

thanks to Clifford T for pointing this my way. Mighty pleased he did

[brownie]

Junior Cook 'Junior's Cookin' (Jazzland/Japan)

[Clunky]

Bobby Jaspar 1956 New York

[BillF]

[Leeway]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

keeps reminding me of LPs I wish I owned/had heard/need to hear

Thank you friends. Always glad to do my part

Now playing:

Steve Lacy Quintet: TROUBLES. Black Saint. May 1979

[Leeway]

The playing lives up to the title of the album. The liner notes talk about "wild and naked perfection." I had a chance to talk a bit with Trevor Watts earlier this year, and it was easy to see the admiration he still has for John Stevens. Spotlite LP London 1977.