What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

The Blues Box (MCA Coral Germany) = LP 2

[vinyltim]

Glad you like the blog Leeway--thanks! I just edited the post noting that the LP is mono and the CD is stereo--I wrote the post pretty hastily last night and wasn't very clear. Check them out on headphones if you can, both sound good...

I'm more interested in the old/original pressings as well, but I ended up with several of these MM titles as part of a collection I purchased. I really enjoyed them so I picked up this Lee Morgan when I saw it for a decent price. I think it's a very good option for Blue Note titles that are exceptionally expensive, so I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for more. One of my local records shops had a bunch of these in stock for months, including some Mobley and Grant Green stuff I'd love to have, but they are expensive LP's (for me anyway), so I passed. They ended up selling most of them on ebay--oops....

Also the couple Liberty blue/white label pressings I have seem solid, maybe that's a good option too. Also starting picking up the old Blue Note CDs when I see them cheap--usually $4-$7--can't go wrong there.

Edited January 4, 2012 by vinyltim

[brownie]

Mal Waldron/Jackie McLean 'Like Old Times' (JVC)

[mjazzg]

a very successful shoppping trip this morning means...

McPhee/Fine/ Guitka [Hat Hut]

next up. bought in the same haul

Joe McPhee - Black Magic Man [Hat Hut]

[clifford_thornton]

Anthony Braxton and the Three Rivers Tri-Centric Ensemble (Pittsburgh) 2008. SSS Records, limited to 300 numbered copies. Just issued. Grab it.

Hmm.

[paul secor]

The Blues Box 1 - LP 3

Found a better image.

[jeffcrom]

Khan Jamal - Infinity (Jam'Brio)

[jeffcrom]

George Barnes & Carl Kress - Guitars, Anyone? (Carney) This later showed up on Audiophile, with the same awful cover.

[Leeway]

Kenny Dorham: "MATADOR"-- Japanese issue Liberty. Jack Mac pretty much steals the show.

[Leeway]

Doubling down on Jackie McLean and Kenny Dorham. INTA SOMETHIN'. Pacific Jazz/King Records Japan:

[paul secor]

Fats Waller Band featuring Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden/James P. Johnson Trio with Omer Simeon and Pops Foster (Folkways)

[Shawn]

For the most part, this album just did not work for me. It cries out for Miles tough genius:

I love it, but then again I'm a fan of Holdsworth so that has alot to do with it I'm sure.

[clifford_thornton]

Tony Coe, Tony Oxley, and Chris Laurence - Nutty (on) Wilisau - (Hat Hut)

[paul secor]

Blues Box 1 (MCA Coral Germany) - LP 4

[jeffcrom]

Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan - Colours (Black Saint)

[Hardbopjazz]

John Coltrane's Soultrane

[jeffcrom]

The Right-to-Profit State and All That Jazz. This not-very-promising-sounding promotional LP, recorded in 1967 and put out by the Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry, is one of my favorite New Orleans albums of the 60's. The band is fabulous - Alvin Alcorn, Jack Delaney, Harry Shields, Armand Hug, Danny and Blue Lu Barker, Chester Zardis and Louis Barbarin. Harry Shields, unlike his more famous brother Larry, never left New Orleans for any appreciable length of time, but I think that he's a far superior player to Larry; one of the greatest of all New Orleans clarinetists, in fact. He has a hair-raising solo on "Tin Roof Blues;" its impact makes me think of Sonny Rollins' "Misterioso" solo from Volume Two.

Blue Lu Barker sings one song: "Basin Street Blues." She told me that she had to leave the session early to close on the Sere Street house where the Barkers lived the rest of their lives. I spent a wonderful morning there in 1992.

Edited January 5, 2012 by jeffcrom

[brownie]

Lou Donaldson 'Blues Walk' (BN/King Japan)

[sidewinder]

Inspired by the Gerald thread (God bless him !)

Gerald Wilson Orchestra of the 80s 'Jessica' (Discovery/Trend)

Edited January 5, 2012 by sidewinder

[jostber]

Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage (Blue Note reissue)

[Clunky]

ARNE DOMNERUS MED SIN ORKESTER MUSIK UNDER STJARNORNA (Music under the stars) RCA Sweden 1964 rec. reissued 1980

This is such a great record, Highly recommended

[jostber]

Larry Young - Heaven On Earth

[Leeway]

For the most part, this album just did not work for me. It cries out for Miles tough genius:

I love it, but then again I'm a fan of Holdsworth so that has alot to do with it I'm sure.

That's cool. Holdsworth, and Alan Pasqua too; thought this would be killer, especially since I love so much other Tony Williams music. But in this case, it sounds to me like Electric Miles minus Miles. Difference is what makes the world go round. Speaking of which.....

Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan - Colours (Black Saint)

This is definitely my least favorite Sam Rivers album. You need not tell me I am wrong, as my friends have already done that I just don't enjoy it very much. I think SR is mostly (not always) at his best in trio formations. At least that is where I like him most.

[Leeway]

[jeffcrom]

Difference is what makes the world go round. Speaking of which.....

Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan - Colours (Black Saint)

This is definitely my least favorite Sam Rivers album. You need not tell me I am wrong, as my friends have already done that I just don't enjoy it very much. I think SR is mostly (not always) at his best in trio formations. At least that is where I like him most.

Wouldn't dream of telling you you're wrong - although I seem to remember that I may have done just that a few months ago about something, but I don't remember what. To me, though, Rivers' writing is as important as his playing. I'm listening to Inspiration by the All-Star Orchestra right now, and am enjoying it more than ever.