What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[BillF]

Due to a recommendation in another thread:

The Jazz Couriers - Live In Morcombe 1959 – Tippin'

Glad to know there was once something live in Morecambe:

Mind you, the view out to sea is lovely:

No wonder Ronnie made jokes about small towns he played in:

"I played a gig once in Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch."

"Last night they nuked Stockton-on-Tees. It caused £3 worth of damage."

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Due to a recommendation in another thread:

The Jazz Couriers - Live In Morcombe 1959 – Tippin'

Glad to know there was once something live in Morecambe:

Mind you, the view out to sea is lovely:

No wonder Ronnie made jokes about small towns he played in:

"I played a gig once in Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch."

"Last night they nuked Stockton-on-Tees. It caused £3 worth of damage."

How many of those jokes did he have? Seems it was the same two all the time.

I went to Morecambe in 1957 - or maybe 58 - it wasn't memorable.

MG

[brownie]

Earl Hines 'Hines Comes In Handy' (Audiophile)

[BillF]

How many of those jokes did he have? Seems it was the same two all the time.

OK I get the point. Let's switch to Alan Barnes:

Told in North Manchester a couple of weeks ago on the Titanic centenary:

"All the musicians who went down playing on the Titanic got paid right up to the last moment. They all got the same amount, except one guy who got more. He had a Dizzy Gillespie trumpet."

Told in Wigan:

"A chap said he couldn't get through when phoning the Incontinence Help Centre. Asked where he was ringing, he replied 'Everywhere from the waist down.'"

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Edited May 14, 2012 by BillF

[kh1958]

Michael White--Pneuma (Impulse promo)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Oh, I lurve that one. I was a young teenager in Leeds. 'Sright.

MG

[sidewinder]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

[A Lark Ascending]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Like my favourite Alan Barnes quip:

"This is a Horace Silver tune called 'Yeah' (said in a hipster whisper). You can't imagine a British musician calling a tune anything as assertive as 'Yeah! More likely to be called 'Perhaps'"

Edited May 14, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Like my favourite Alan Barnes quip:

"This is a Horace Silver tune called 'Yeah' (said in a hipster whisper). You can't imagine a British musician calling a tune anything as assertive as 'Yeah! More likely to be called 'Perhaps'"

Bird was there first.

[A Lark Ascending]

Bird was there first.

OK. Perhaps Alan said 'Maybe'!

[paul secor]

The Kampala Sound - 1960's Ugandan Dance Music (Original Music)

[jeffcrom]

MEV - United Patchwork (Horo); disc one.

[brownie]

Count Basie 'At Newport' (Verve, mono)

[BillF]

Count Basie 'At Newport' (Verve, mono)

Never heard the Basie band swingin' more than on "Swingin' at Newport" and that's sayin' somethin'!

[paul secor]

James O'Gwynn: Star of the Louisiana Hayride Volume 1 (Cattle)

[paul secor]

Randy Weston: Berkshire Blues (Arista Freedom)

[jeffcrom]

The Allman Joys - Early Allman (Dial). Only three years before the Allman Brothers Band's first album, but worlds away. It's not bad for a 1966 Southern blue-eyed soul band working with the musical resources available to them at the time. Their cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" shows what they were trying for, but it doesn't quite make it. The most successful track is, surprisingly, the one furthest from rock or blues - their version of "Old Man River" is pretty good. It sounds like an arrangement Elvis would do, and Gregg's vocal is strong. But the track I went back and replayed when the album was over was Gregg's original "Changing of the Guard." A pretty good song, for 1966, even if it sounds nothing like the Brothers' later music.

[brownie]

Charlie Mariano (Bethlehem/Polydor Japan)

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp: Montreux Two (Arista Freedom)

[mjazzg]

such a great groove throughout this one.

and then...

[paul secor]

World Saxophone Quartet: Revue (Black Saint)

Listening to this brought me back to the days when exciting new releases seemed to be coming out every month on Black Saint, Hat, Nessa, Emanem, FMP, Sackville, Arista Freedom - just to name a few - along with releases on a host of smaller labels. I used to walk into Tower Records on E.4th and Broadway, knowing that I'd have to make some hard choices, since there was so much to choose from.

Days gone, won't come again.

[paul secor]

Joe McPhee: Glasses (Hat Hut)

[jeffcrom]

World Saxophone Quartet: Revue (Black Saint)

One of the very few groups/artists for which I've bought every release, from Point of No Return to Yes, We Can. Revue was their first really great album, in my opinion, and is still one of my favorites.

[paul secor]

World Saxophone Quartet: Revue (Black Saint)

One of the very few groups/artists for which I've bought every release, from Point of No Return to Yes, We Can. Revue was their first really great album, in my opinion, and is still one of my favorites.

The only negative about this record is Stanley Crouch's liner notes. He seems to have felt that he had to build up the WSQ by knocking other musicians. Ironically, I doubt that he has much use for this record today.

[jeffcrom]

The only negative about this record is Stanley Crouch's liner notes. He seems to have felt that he had to build up the WSQ by knocking other musicians. Ironically, I doubt that he has much use for this record today.

Standard operating procedure for Mr. Crouch. Which brings me to what I'm listening to now:

Conrad Silvert Presents Jazz at the Opera House (Columbia). A 1982 two-LP set drawn from a concert in San Francisco. I bought this back in the day, but haven't listened to any of it for awhile, and I'm surprised at how good most of it is. On hand are Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Haden, and Tony Williams, among others. There's some great music here, and your comments about Crouch are interesting in light of the excellence of young Wynton M.'s playing here. If Crouch hadn't decided that that Marsalis was The Savior of Jazz, would his music developed differently?

It's also interesting that the group shot on one of the inner sleeves pictures several musicians who don't appear on the album, like Pat Metheny and Carlos Santana. Jaco Pastorius is in the picture; he's not listed among the personnel, but he's on "Footprints," and even has a solo.

Edited May 17, 2012 by jeffcrom