What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Jimmy Rushing 'Every Day I Have the Blues' (Bluesway, stereo)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Coleman Hawkins - Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (Prestige dark blue label, VAN GELDER in the deadwax)

Edited May 6, 2012 by Kevin Bresnahan

[kh1958]

Earl Hines Plays Fats Waller (Fantasy red vinyl)

Etta Jones, Love Shout (Prestige, black and silver label)

[JohnS]

Freddie Hubbard - High Energy- (CBS) UK ssue, Freddie in very fine form , out of Miles' electric bag, some tracks not 100% but a pretty good effort. Well worth the £3 it cost me at a record fair yesterday.

Nice find Adrian. There's some good music tucked away in there. I have a US copy.

[BillF]

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Drum Suite (Philips)

[Clunky]

Freddie Hubbard - High Energy- (CBS) UK ssue, Freddie in very fine form , out of Miles' electric bag, some tracks not 100% but a pretty good effort. Well worth the £3 it cost me at a record fair yesterday.

Nice find Adrian. There's some good music tucked away in there. I have a US copy.

Yesterday also found a copy of Rollin' (MPS) - again a good one if more conventional hard bop but well played with no evident slacking

[jeffcrom]

Chick Corea/Dave Holland/Barry Altschul - A.R.C. (ECM)

[jeffcrom]

Rockin' Tabby Thomas - King of the Swamp Blues (Maison de Soul)

[JSngry]

"Tabby"...isn't that a cat?

[vinyltim]

Jimmy McGriff - Stump Juice

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/jimmy-mcgriff-stump-juice

[sidewinder]

[BillF]

[brownie]

Billy Taylor 'With Four Flutes' (Riverside, mono)

[jeffcrom]

"Tabby"...isn't that a cat?

Yes, and that cat is the father of bluesman Chris Thomas King.

Probably scratched Chris when he was a kid.

[JSngry]

Just goes to show...

[colinmce]

Billy Taylor 'With Four Flutes' (Riverside, mono)

To each their own, but this is a nightmarish proposition for me.

[JSngry]

Haven't heard the album, but the cover photo looks like Doctor Billy Taylor is being held inside a jail cell the door of which was designed by an orthodontist!

[clifford_thornton]

Ha!

Well, Seldon Powell is apparently on it, too, though he didn't get front-cover billing.

[JSngry]

I wonder was Joe Williams high or something on this one. He seems mighty....FRISKY!

No matter, he does this mutliphonic high note thing on "It Don't Mean A thing" that I swear to god when it came out the speakers I swore it was Lockjaw. Talk about aural history...

Edited May 7, 2012 by JSngry

[JSngry]

Textbook example of everybody involved being challenged to the point of sparklingly average. Can't ignore either quality. I know plenty "society bands" whose books would be exponentially improved by having charts of this quality. Plus, early-ish stdio appearances by both Mel Lewis & Jim Hall, as well as tenorist Bob Hardaway. Also, Hana's "Bogata" has an opening phrase and harmonization that makes you think you're going to hear "Moon Rays". You don't, but I think Hanna got there first.

But yeah, you can dance to it, and yeah, it is jazz. So...mission accomplished?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Dexter - Ca'Purange

I had this on CD and it is a rarity - a Dexter CD that I dumped back in the day. I now remember why. The title track is pretty bad and the rest of the date is very sloppy. The ensembles are terrible. Bleah.

[jeffcrom]

After spending four hours in Howard Finster's Paradise Garden yesterday, I felt compelled to spend some time with the jazz musician who most reminds me of Finster - they were both driven, visionary prophets whose creations were odd, messy, and off-center, and they both believed that they were sent to help mankind.

Sun Ra - Hours After (Black Saint)

Sun Ra - The Sound Mirror (Saturn)

No point in posting a picture of The Sound Mirror - my copy is in a plain white sleeve. The title tune takes up all of side one - it's a Ra recitation over the monumental riff also known as "Mayan Temples." Side two is from the 1978 quartet tour of Italy which produced Disco 3000, Media Dreams, and two Horo double albums.

[JSngry]

Dexter - Ca'Purange

I had this on CD and it is a rarity - a Dexter CD that I dumped back in the day. I now remember why. The title track is pretty bad and the rest of the date is very sloppy. The ensembles are terrible. Bleah.

Agreed that its one of Dexter's more uninspired albums, but if you can hear it through the dwarfing morass of the post-production reverb and the backasswrds mix, the brothers Jones make some very nice contributions, Thad in soloing (check him out on "Oh Karen Oh"!), & Hank with perhaps his most harmonically "stretched" comping on record.

[BillF]

Dexter - Ca'Purange

I had this on CD and it is a rarity - a Dexter CD that I dumped back in the day. I now remember why. The title track is pretty bad and the rest of the date is very sloppy. The ensembles are terrible. Bleah.

Agreed that its one of Dexter's more uninspired albums, but if you can hear it through the dwarfing morass of the post-production reverb and the backasswrds mix, the brothers Jones make some very nice contributions, Thad in soloing (check him out on "Oh Karen Oh"!), & Hank with perhaps his most harmonically "stretched" comping on record.

Meaning of the album title?

[JohnS]

A marvellous, unassuming, happy album. An all time favourite.

Edited May 8, 2012 by JohnS