What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[paul secor]

Old Country Blues (Flyright)

Couldn't find an image for the album - guess it's somewhat obscure - but there was one for Lum Guffin, who is one of the artists playing on it.

Edited April 26, 2012 by paul secor

[Chuck Nessa]

I hope to get absolute control of this recording so I can reissue it with a GREAT extra tune. Ira has been bugging me about this.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat and C (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). Good stuff except the flute track where Yusef's deep gasps between runs are audible and somewhat distracting.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Pepper Adams - The Master (Muse)

Up next:

Sonny Stitt - Soul People (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). I love this date on CD. Booker Ervin is smokin'.

[paul secor]

The Carla Bley Band: Musique Mechanique (Watt)

[jeffcrom]

Clark Terry Sextet Featuring Ben Webster - More (Cameo mono). Not a Great Jazz Album, but I sure do enjoy it. Mr. Terry's playing on the title tune is enough to make me enjoy a song I don't like at all.

[jeffcrom]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul (Solid State). An all-violin album, with Brew Moore, Tiny Grimes, and Jaki Byard (among others) on board.

[sidewinder]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

[JSngry]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul (Solid State). An all-violin album, with Brew Moore, Tiny Grimes, and Jaki Byard (among others) on board.

Does that look like LaWanda Page on the cover to you? It Does to me.

[brownie]

Don Friedman 'A Day in the City' (Riverside, stereo)

[paul secor]

Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins and Frank Foster: Monk (Prestige Japan)

[JSngry]

A mixed bag, to be sure, but to hear Buddy on "Superstar", you'd think it was (or could possibly be) Tony Williams on the drums. Buddy playing that faster type rock beat, good lord, there was energy there, energy directed straight to the music at hand.

I might even say that I'd rather hear Buddy play rock rhythm than swing. At times, anyway.

[clifford_thornton]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

Nice score! Bob Downes is great!

[JSngry]

[paul secor]

Paul Williams and his Orchestra: The Hucklebuck (Saxophonograph)

[JSngry]

Mid-80s Dallas jazz featuring (on most cuts) Henry Franklin, Marchel Ivery, Claude Johnson, Paul Guerrero and my long-time aider & abettor Ira Bassett.

And a nice group of Claude Johnson originals. That cat wrote some good stuff.

[JSngry]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade. A very nice blue label LP with VAN GELDER in the dead wax that I found in Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth, NH for $12. I'd never seen used Blue Notes in there before. Glad I looked.

[JSngry]

[sidewinder]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

Nice score! Bob Downes is great!

Cheers. By minor miracle the copy was mint !

Now spinning:

Michael Garrick 'October Woman' (Argo, stereo)

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

T-Bone Walker - Very Rare

Weird record...but plenty of Fathead, as well as a little Dizzy, Mulligan, Al Cohn, Herbie Mann, & Zoot Simms. And oh by the way - Charles Brown and/or James Booker and/or Warren Bernhardt on piano and/or organ. All that, and a big band on some tunes, strings on others, arranged by Dave Matthews, produced by Lieber & Stoller, Bone sounds like he's doing vocals in a booth with headphones listening to tracks. He'd be dead not too much later, if I understand correctly.

Good intentions? Probably. Misplaced priorities? Seems to be. A two-record set's worth! And yet, it doesn't suck. It's just not very good. The road to hell, and all that...

Weird record.

[jeffcrom]

Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers '70 (Catalyst). A nice one, recorded in Japan, with Bill Hardman, Carlos Garnett, Joanne Brackeen, and Jon Arnett.

While looking for a picture of the the cover, I came across this interesting document.