What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Hal McKusick Quartette 'Jazz at The Academy' (Coral, Japan)

[kh1958]

John Coltrane--Infinity (Impulse, black and white promo)

[paul secor]

Magic Sam: Black Magic (Delmark)

[brownie]

Jim Hall 'Live in Tokyo' (Paddlewheel)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finsished: Jane Ira Bloom - Mighty Lights

Now playing: Coleman Hawkins - Blues Groove (actually led by Tiny Grimes). One of Prestige's "Elecronically remastered for stereo" which actually doesn't sound too far from the original mono, unlike many of the horrible Blue Note LPs where this was attempted.

Edited April 15, 2012 by Kevin Bresnahan

[jeffcrom]

Marion Brown - Duets (Arista Freedom). Sides 3 & 4: "Soundways" with Elliott Schwartz. I was struck by how much "compositional" Marion Brown's improvising sounds that composer Schwartz's.

[kh1958]

Darktown Strutters Ball (Prestige, Swingville, red label)

[clifford_thornton]

Siegfried Kessler/Barre Phillips/Steve McCall - Live at the Gill's Club - (Futura)

[sidewinder]

Jim Hall 'Live in Tokyo' (Paddlewheel)

Looks suspiciously similar to a certain Japanese Grant Green cover !

[brownie]

Jim Hall 'Live in Tokyo' (Paddlewheel)

Looks suspiciously similar to a certain Japanese Grant Green cover !

Indeed... Same artist: Toshio Fujiyama

Now spinning:

Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine 'Blue Flames' (Prestige/OJC)

[vinyltim]

Magic Sam: Black Magic (Delmark)

YES!

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Wes Montgomery - Boss Guitar

Riverside (mono) RM-459...

also included a clip of 70's Japanese stereo reissue...

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/wes-montgomery-boss-guitar

Edited April 16, 2012 by vinyltim

[mjazzg]

Otic records. Bobby (or Robert then) Naughton ao

Edited April 16, 2012 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Andrew Hill - Grass Roots (Van Gelder in the dead wax)

That went by fast.

Continuing with Booker

Booker Ervin - That's It (Barnaby pressing)

Edited April 16, 2012 by Kevin Bresnahan

[jeffcrom]

Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon, Volume 1 (Solid State). Dizzy, Ray Nance, Pepper Adams, Chick Corea, Richard Davis, Mel Lewis, & Elvin Jones, 1967. Pretty cool.

[jeffcrom]

I Like Jazz! (Columbia "pre-eye" mono)

Musicbox made an interesting post about this album in a Dave Brubeck thread sometime back, and I've kept my eye open for it since. It's an amusing survey of jazz history, at least up to 1954. Several of the tracks, like Brubeck's "Makin' Time" and Pete Rugolo's "4:20 Blues," are still difficult to find anywhere else.

(Donald, come back and post more often!)

[jeffcrom]

Hal McKusick - Jazz Workshop (RCA Victor mono). What a brilliant album.

[brownie]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet 'Consequences' (Savoy, mono)

[JohnS]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet 'Consequences' (Savoy, mono)

Wonderful record, one of those that changed my listening habits. Still have my copy.

[jeffcrom]

Charlie Ventura - It's All Bop to Me (RCA Victor mono). I just got this 1955 collection of Ventura's late-forties RCA sides, and I just love it. I've always had a soft spot for Charlie V., probably out of proportion to his actual musical value. I bought this when I found that young George Russell did the arrangement of "Caravan" on this album, and that chart is indeed strange and wonderful. The rest of the album is Ventura's genial "bop for the people" stuff, and it's very entertaining.

[brownie]

The Prestige Jazz Quartet (Prestige, mono, 50th St.)

That was my introduction to the talents of Teddy Charles!

[Clunky]

I've avoided Stan Kenton for years but a recent deluge of Kenton LPs in the local Oxfam had me interested, so currently listening to a 3 EP edition of Contemporary Concepts - Capitol UK- I couldn't help notice the extraordinary list of soloists

also the following EP (Capitol UK)

plus Kenton Showcase (Capitol UK)- I noticed that Dave Schildkraut is a soloist

[king ubu]

Sam Musiker - Jewish Wedding Dances (Tikva mono). Wish I could find a picture of this wonderful cover - the second pressing of this great klezmer album from the 1950's. I found some pictures of the first cover, which is much less interesting.

found on ebay:

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet 'Consequences' (Savoy, mono)

Wonderful record, one of those that changed my listening habits. Still have my copy.

I'd *love* to find that one!

[BillF]

I've avoided Stan Kenton for years but a recent deluge of Kenton LPs in the local Oxfam had me interested, so currently listening to a 3 EP edition of Contemporary Concepts - Capitol UK- I couldn't help notice the extraordinary list of soloists

also the following EP (Capitol UK)

plus Kenton Showcase (Capitol UK)- I noticed that Dave Schildkraut is a soloist

The Holman arranged numbers on your first and third albums are my favourite Kentons.

[jeffcrom]

Sam Musiker - Jewish Wedding Dances (Tikva mono). Wish I could find a picture of this wonderful cover - the second pressing of this great klezmer album from the 1950's. I found some pictures of the first cover, which is much less interesting.

found on ebay:

That's the first cover, which is cool, too. The later pressings have a light blue cover with artwork featuring a disembodied wedding couple - only their clothes are visible.