What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Shawn]

[jeffcrom]

Lars Gullin - Baritone Sax (Atlantic) Pretty wonderful. The cover's a little beat, but the record sounds really nice.

[jeffcrom]

Tampa Red - Guitar Wizard (RCA/Bluebird); disc two.

[brownie]

Horace Silver 'The Tokyo Blues' (BN, mono, NY labels)

[jeffcrom]

Interpretations by the Stan Getz Quintet (Norgran). Norgran 1000 - the first 12" LP on the label. Sounds fantastic.

[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

[jeffcrom]

Shorty Rogers - Wherever the Five Winds Blow (RCA Victor).

[jazzbo]

[vinyltim]

Scored this Basie with the Andy Warhol cover today!

[brownie]

Woody Shaw 'The Moontrane' (Muse)

[Ken Dryden]

Frank Wess: Flute Juice

[BillF]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished - Stanley Turrentine's "Another Story". Eh. Good enough to not skip to another record but not enough to make me want to play it again too soon.

Now playing, Sonny Criss "This Is Criss". I have always liked this date. A great rhythm section behind Sonny too.

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Eronel (Horo)

Finally!

This has been on my want list for years. A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by a collector who saw a blog post in which I jokingly asked for this record as a Christmas present. He offered me a copy, as well as several other Lacy records I didn't have, at a very good price. The package arrived today; Eronel is as good as I had hoped.

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Futurities (Hat Art); disc one.

[brownie]

Hampton Hawes 'The Green Leaves of Summer' (Contemporary)

[JSngry]

Always a pleasure to hear Bill Perkins, no matter what the surroundings.

[jazzbo]

One of my oldest lps. Bought this when i first started buying lps because I was wearing my parents' copy out.

Love this material.

[Clunky]

Kenny Clarke and Ernie Wilkins- London

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy Quintet - Follies (FMP)

[jeffcrom]

Stella Chiweshe - Ambuya? (GlobeStyle). Vocals and mbira from Zimbabwe, with bass, drums, and 1980s-style production added. I would probably prefer to hear a "purer" form of this music, but the approach used here is not without its appeal.

[colinmce]

Steve Lacy Quintet - Follies (FMP)

You're not lying about that score! Any others?

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy Quintet - Follies (FMP)

You're not lying about that score! Any others?

The guy who contacted me sent me a list of Lacy albums he had for sale. Some were pretty rare, but I had all of them except Eronel, Follies, Futurities, and Tips. He gave me reasonable prices on all four, but I only sprung for three, since I've been buying a lot of records lately. As he was packing the records, he noticed that the top seam of the Eronel cover had come unglued and felt bad about it, so he threw in the fourth album for free. I told him that wasn't necessary - all Horo covers come unglued - but he did it anyway.

Eronel and Follies had been near the top of my want list for some time, and it's nice to have the original double-LP of Futurities; for some reason volume one has been impossible to find on CD, although volume 2 is fairly common.

After playing Follies tonight, it instantly became one of my favorite Lacy albums from the 1970s.

Edited July 4, 2012 by jeffcrom

[colinmce]

That's the reputation I've heard for Follies. The blog Destination:Out has it for official download so I may yet check that out. I've also questioned whether or not Futurities Vol. 1 even exists on CD! Nice grab. Tips is a winner.