What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[kh1958]

Jimmy Smith, Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note, mono, NY USA)

Horace Silver, Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note, mono, NY USA)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just got the new turntable set up, thanks to Dave, the plumber. It took even him two hours. I'd have taken two months. So I tested it with

John Patton - The way I feel - BN (NYUSA stereo)

Bleedin' fantastic. Even Dave was impressed and he's a rock fan.

Now on

Milt Jackson - Milt Jackson Quartet - Savoy (Oriole Realm)

next

Lionel Hampton - CHicago jazz concert - Columbia (CBS I heart Jazz)

MG

[jazzbo]

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Lon, say it isn't so! If you're looking at vinyl again, digital must be dying. :lol:

[jazzbo]

No, it's not like that at all. I love digital and will always find use for my more than 15,000 musical discs. But a friend asked me to help him put together a vinyl system again with a nice budget and it was a very successful venture, we started listening to his records, and it sparked something in me. I went through all my remaining lps, about 500, and realized there were many that I hadn't heard in ages and hadn't replaced with cd. I just got the hankering and so I'm putting together a vinyl wing to my system: Rega RP3 with TT PSU and a PS Audio GCPH. Some cables and the table are still on the way. It's going to be fun. I've always felt vinyl sounded wonderful, I was just concentrating on the digital releases that were pouring out and really couldn't afford the quality vinyl set up I'd like to have nor the time til now, in retirement, I at last have the time. In the last few years I've put together an insanely satisfying system, and now it's time to enjoy analog on it.

It's fun to have something new to explore. Right now

In the early '70s in the Cleveland area I was probably one of the only young men in love with Flora.

Edited June 2, 2012 by jazzbo

[BillF]

[JSngry]

No, it's not like that at all. I love digital and will always find use for my more than 15,000 musical discs. But a friend asked me to help him put together a vinyl system again with a nice budget and it was a very successful venture, we started listening to his records, and it sparked something in me. I went through all my remaining lps, about 500, and realized there were many that I hadn't heard in ages and hadn't replaced with cd. I just got the hankering and so I'm putting together a vinyl wing to my system: Rega RP3 with TT PSU and a PS Audio GCPH. Some cables and the table are still on the way. It's going to be fun. I've always felt vinyl sounded wonderful, I was just concentrating on the digital releases that were pouring out and really couldn't afford the quality vinyl set up I'd like to have nor the time til now, in retirement, I at last have the time. In the last few years I've put together an insanely satisfying system, and now it's time to enjoy analog on it.

I hear ya' on the fun part. I've started working from home over the last year or so, and now have time to play music all day. I find myself more and more going to the LP sleeves, just because it's fun. I've got a relatively shit system (more than relatively, most likely), and a lot of my LPs are less than pristine. But it's ok, it's is the music as I grew up with it, and as much as I like hearing an ultra-cleaned up CD with full frequency response, etc, sometimes I just as much like hearing a funky LP mastering with surface noise and other weirdness. Both are enjoyable in their own way, although for entirely personal/subjective reasons.

I'm also finding that in today's hipster-driven marketplace, you can find older LPs in pretty good shape selling for a really nice price just because the cover's been written on or stickerized or gotten a cutout hole/cut corner some such. Like I can listen to the cover... $4.95 for a great LP just because Daddy Boo or somebody liked to write on the cover? Hell. I'll do that deal any day of the week!

Tell you what, though - if you ever get tempted to play vintage 45s on your system - don't do it. I mean - do not do it. Those things were mastered for maximum visceral punch, and believe me, they still pack it. You'll be rurnt for good!

[jazzbo]

Yes, I'll stay away from 45s, don't have many anyway. Those sound great on cd, such as the Rolling Stones collection and the killer ABC Ray Charles set.

You're right about fun, and the noise doesn't matter. Just listened to an Ohio Players lp that was beat to all get out but it put that fun right into the living room. And now I'm playing one that is close to my heart, and I have the cd and SACD but this lp is just spinning real memory.

[Chuck Nessa]

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Lon, say it isn't so! If you're looking at vinyl again, digital must be dying. :lol:

He's just run out of things to buy.

[jeffcrom]

Noah Howard - The Black Ark (Bo' Weavil). A wonderfully produced limited edition LP reissue. I loves me some Earl Cross on trumpet.

[jeffcrom]

Don Pullen - Tomorrow's Promises (Atlantic)

[jeffcrom]

Tony Williams - Life Time (BN). What a wonderful album. Mine is a UA pressing, but with Van Gelder's stamps in the dead wax - it sounds pretty damn good.

[sidewinder]

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Slippery slope, Jazzbo. You'll be down at the vinyl emporiums pouring over the crates before you know it.

Nathan Davis 'London By Night' (Hot House) - short lived 80s off-shoot of Mole Jazz.

Edited June 3, 2012 by sidewinder

[Kevin Bresnahan]

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Lon, say it isn't so! If you're looking at vinyl again, digital must be dying. :lol:

He's just run out of things to buy.

That is somewhat my reason for getting back into vinyl. I found that I hadn't bought any CDs for months and one day I was in Stereo Jacks and saw some Van Gelder Blue Note vinyl in the LP bin so I figured I'd give it a try.

Yes, it is fun. However, all the reasons I left vinyl in the old days are still there. The mint LPs that play like shit. The crappy sound on some pressings (unrelated to the vinyl itself). The scratched "new" records. The having to get up every 20 minutes to flip the record. Having to figure out which pressing is the best (and then finding a clean copy). I am having fun, but this feeling may not last forever.

[kh1958]

Joe Sullivan, New Solos By an Old Master (Riverside, blue label)

[colinmce]

Tony Williams - Life Time (BN). What a wonderful album. Mine is a UA pressing, but with Van Gelder's stamps in the dead wax - it sounds pretty damn good.

One of the best albums of the 60s IMO. Absolutely incredible. I treasure this one.

[clifford_thornton]

Buddy Collette - Modern Interpretations: Porgy & Bess - (Imperial Interlude)

Nice find; a $5 clean mono copy. Odd little record.

[Stefan Wood]

Andrew White - Live at the Foolery in Washington DC (volumes 1 - 5)

Edited June 4, 2012 by Stefan Wood

[jeffcrom]

Whenever my wife is out of town for a few days, there is always one night when I drag out the boxes of 45s. I love the rituals of riffling through the boxes, picking the records, and even getting up every three minutes to turn the record over. I think the jazz portion of the evening just ended; I played:

Jack Jenney (Columbia). A four-record box by the great swing trombonist/bandleader. This was also released on 10" LP.

Bob Wilber - Petite Fleur/Atlas #1 (Cub). An obscure 1958 release.

Hank Marr - Easy Talk/I Remember New York (Federal). 1963, with Rusty Bryant. I wish The Magnificent Goldberg was here to enjoy this one, as well as the next few.

Bunky Green - Sweet Inspiration/By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Met). A very obscure Paul Serrano production, not listed in any discography that I've seen.

Leo Parker - Low Brown/Parker's Pals (Blue Note)

Freddie Roach - I Know/Googa Mooga (Blue Note)

On to blues and R & B!

[jeffcrom]

The blues portion of the evening:

Jimmy Reed - I Told You Baby/Odds and Ends (Vee-Jay)

Willie Cobbs - You Don't Love Me/You're So Hard to Please (Vee-Jay)

George "Harmonica" Smith (as George Allen) - Sometimes You Win When You Lose/Come On Home (Sotoplay)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

Eddie Clearwater - Lonely Nights/True Love (Cleartone)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Everyday I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Jessie Mae Hemphill - Jessie's Boogie/Standing In the Doorway Crying (High Water)

The Hollywood All Stars - Long Way From Home/Mary Joe (High Water)

Junior Kimbrough - Keep Your Hand Off Her/I Feel Good, Little Girl (High Water)

R. L. Burnside - Bad Luck City/Jumper Hangin Out On the Line (High Water)

Ranie Burnette - Coal Black Mattie/Hungry Spell (High Water)

I have the complete run of High Water 45's.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Whenever my wife is out of town for a few days, there is always one night when I drag out the boxes of 45s. I love the rituals of riffling through the boxes, picking the records, and even getting up every three minutes to turn the record over. I think the jazz portion of the evening just ended; I played:

Jack Jenney (Columbia). A four-record box by the great swing trombonist/bandleader. This was also released on 10" LP.

Bob Wilber - Petite Fleur/Atlas #1 (Cub). An obscure 1958 release.

Hank Marr - Easy Talk/I Remember New York (Federal). 1963, with Rusty Bryant. I wish The Magnificent Goldberg was here to enjoy this one, as well as the next few.

Bunky Green - Sweet Inspiration/By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Met). A very obscure Paul Serrano production, not listed in any discography that I've seen.

Leo Parker - Low Brown/Parker's Pals (Blue Note)

Freddie Roach - I Know/Googa Mooga (Blue Note)

On to blues and R & B!

I also have the Hank Marr and Freddie Roach 45s. And the LPs they come off, too. And the Leo Parker album your single comes off (no doubt you do, too). Did you know that 'Googa mooga' is a rip off? It was actually written by Lou Bennett and recorded by him on the Dawn label (only a 45) in - oh, just looking for it to find out when, I see I've forgotten to transfer a number of old 45s to my new computer - anyway, it was about '56 or '57, I think. Freddie put himself down as the composer.

The Bunky Green material looks interesting. Not the usual sort of thing he did.

MG

[jazzbo]

Jefferson Airplane, After Bathing at Baxter's.

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Lon, say it isn't so! If you're looking at vinyl again, digital must be dying. :lol:

He's just run out of things to buy.

I know you like to pick on me, but that's just not true, I'm still buying plenty of cds.

First vinyl played in my living room in a long time:

Sounds really good. Cheap Sony turntable right now (Rega RP3 on the way) into a PS Audio GCPH, then tube preamp, tube amp.

Lon, say it isn't so! If you're looking at vinyl again, digital must be dying. :lol:

He's just run out of things to buy.

That is somewhat my reason for getting back into vinyl. I found that I hadn't bought any CDs for months and one day I was in Stereo Jacks and saw some Van Gelder Blue Note vinyl in the LP bin so I figured I'd give it a try.

Yes, it is fun. However, all the reasons I left vinyl in the old days are still there. The mint LPs that play like shit. The crappy sound on some pressings (unrelated to the vinyl itself). The scratched "new" records. The having to get up every 20 minutes to flip the record. Having to figure out which pressing is the best (and then finding a clean copy). I am having fun, but this feeling may not last forever.

Little of that stuff bothered me before, and so far isn't bothering me now. . .

[JSngry]

I know that's right! :tup :tup

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Ray Charles & Betty Carter - ABC (Dunhill clear vinyl)

Gene Ammons - And friends at Montreux - Prestige

just started

Jimmy Smith - It's necessary - Mercury - smashing 1977 live session from Jimmy Smith's Supper Club, with Blue Mitchell, Harold Land, Ray Crawford, Kenny Dixon & Buck Clarke.

MG

[JSngry]

Jimmy Smith - It's necessary - Mercury - smashing 1977 live session from Jimmy Smith's Supper Club, with Blue Mitchell, Harold Land, Ray Crawford, Kenny Dixon & Buck Clarke.

and Teddy Edwards!

That's a fine, fine record.