What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[kh1958]

Duke Ellington--Bal Masque (six eyes red and white promo)

[paul secor]

Gerry Hemingway: Tubworks (Sound Aspects)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished: Miles - Cookin'

On now: Kenny Burrell - Bluesy Burrell

Inspired by another thread.

Nice coupling of Taylor's Tenors and Taylor's Wailers

Inspired by this thread, I picked up a copy of this today.

[paul secor]

Piano Interpretations by Bud Powell (Verve Japan)

[BillF]

[Clunky]

Forefront - Incantation -this is an odd one from Chicago, trumpet heavy front line over rhythm section, not too much improvisation to my ears, one really nice funky track.

[brownie]

Johnny Griffin 'Studio Jazz Party' (Riverside, mono)

[kh1958]

Joe Wilder--The Pretty Sound (Columbia six eyes)

[jeffcrom]

Jeremy Steig - Temple of Birth (Columbia). Trippy 70's fusion.

[insert wry Chuck Nessa comment/emoticon here.]

[jeffcrom]

Raymond Burke - A Self Portrait (Land o' Jazz). An obscure 1975 album by the New Orleans clarinetist - I couldn't find a picture online. Burke plays mostly clarinet, but also bass clarinet, tenor sax, tin whistle, and harmonica. Nice stuff.

[BillF]

[brownie]

Woody Shaw 'Song of Songs' (Contemporary, stereo)

[BillF]

[JohnS]

UK Egmont budget issue

[JohnS]

One from the collection I'd overlooked for a long time. David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Olu Dara.

[BillF]

UK Egmont budget issue

Well remember that one, John. Actually saw the movie in Paris on its release in 1959!

[brownie]

Gerald Wilson 'On Stage' (Pacific Jazz, stereo)

[JohnS]

Japanese pressing

[JSngry]

Picked it up thinking it was going to be a big-band backing, took a few tunes to adjust to the fact that it wasn't, as well as that there weren't going to be any real solos or obligattos by either Carmel Jones or Teddy Edwards, as well as that Ernie Freemans' organ was just going to hold those chords on and on, but - after making those adjustments, Sarah's in great form here herself, and hell, it is her album after all.

[Mark Stryker]

Picked it up thinking it was going to be a big-band backing, took a few tunes to adjust to the fact that it wasn't, as well as that there weren't going to be any real solos or obligattos by either Carmel Jones or Teddy Edwards, as well as that Ernie Freemans' organ was just going to hold those chords on and on, but - after making those adjustments, Sarah's in great form here herself, and hell, it is her album after all.

Hmm. Never seen that side before. Interesting set list -- populist stuff (Taste of Honey/What Kind of Fool/Sermonette, etc.) but also some very hip standards (In Love in Vain, Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out).

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Poking through the used bins at a store not normally known for Jazz records, much less Blue Note Jazz records, I tripped over a "VAN GELDER" stamped Liberty pressing of Wayne Shorter's "Schizophrenia" for $12. Nice.

[JSngry]

Picked it up thinking it was going to be a big-band backing, took a few tunes to adjust to the fact that it wasn't, as well as that there weren't going to be any real solos or obligattos by either Carmel Jones or Teddy Edwards, as well as that Ernie Freemans' organ was just going to hold those chords on and on, but - after making those adjustments, Sarah's in great form here herself, and hell, it is her album after all.

Hmm. Never seen that side before. Interesting set list -- populist stuff (Taste of Honey/What Kind of Fool/Sermonette, etc.) but also some very hip standards (In Love in Vain, Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out).

There is some stuff on here that is jaw-dropping casually freakygood, all the more so because of the somewhat somnambulistic backing.. "Midnight Sun" is just SICK!

Now spinning

[Chuck Nessa]

Willis Jackson with Von Freeman - Lockin' Horns (Muse). When I was at the Jazz Record Mart in Chicago last week, they put this on the sound system right after Warne Marsh's All Music on Nessa. I bought it right off the turntable.

Agree this is a great session

I remember my old friend Bob Porter complaining about having to edit out all the Freeman (unaccompanied) codas. Bob just didn't "get" Von.

[paul secor]

Panama Francis and His Savoy Sultans: Gettin' in the Groove (Black and Blue 2 LPs)

Nice set of jump/swing jazz played by some good musicians who didn't get much chance to be heard much by the time this was recorded (1979).

[jeffcrom]

Doc Evans/Knocky Parker/Jax Lucas - Classic Jazz at Carleton (Soma). An excellent recital, recorded at my wife's alma mater, 30 years before she graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.