What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Taken as both a purgative of the previous LP and as a delight in its ownself:

The more I listen to this guy, the more convinced I am that he was all the "madmen" of jazz pianists rolled into one minus any mental/behavioral baggage, which makes him the most dangerous kind of poker player, the kind that has all your money before you even play a hand. Jeez, what this guy played...crazymad BRILLIANT.

BTW, my copy of this comes complete with a sticker on the front that says:

From the Collection of

SOCK HETTLER

Winnetka, Illinois

That's about as many "oh MY!"s as come with the music.

That was in Spillers yesterday at fifteen quid. Because I was kinda knocked out by his half LP on Felsted, I toyed with my scruples about it but, in the end, decided to wait for a recommendation before I bought it.

OBO110X!!

Well, maybe it'll still be there when I go in next time.

Earlier

Lynn Hope & his tenor sax - Aladdin (Pathe Marconi)

now

Bobby Timmons - Chicken & dumplin's - Prestige (Transatlantic UK)

next

Joe Liggins - Great R&B oldies - Blues Spectrum (Bulldog UK)

MG

[JSngry]

See if they have this one too (NP). More stealth mad genius solo piano:

Found a still-sealed cut-corner copy of this for a very good price, took it home, opened it up, and got a bit of a surprise -the plain white paper inner sleeve had yellowed, save for the underside of the corner that had been folded over at the factory, which remained its original virginal white.

An inner sleeve with a reverse tan line? Who knew!

[JSngry]

With Daniel Humair!

[jazzbo]

I'm with you on Hines, amazing music, I've been listening to the five lp set "Father of Modern Jazz Piano" (three solo piano lps, and two quartet dates with Budd Johnson). Just such uplifting listening.

[JSngry]

The man had either three hands or two brains. Or maybe both.

That's the only explanation.

[BillF]

[BillF]

[gmonahan]

The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band 20th and 30th Anniversary, Verve MPS.

gregmo

[JSngry]

Yes, I have some shame, just not this much.

Funny, I've never noticed until now how this thing is basically mixed like an MOR record, which I guess in the end is what it is.

Maybe it's one of those "you had to be there" things...and I was...file under Can't Shake, So Reposition.

[JSngry]

1968 studio date produced by Milt Gabler, w/Budd Johnson, Buck Clayton, Bill Pemberton, & Oliver Jackson.

Seems a little "reigned in" to me, but maybe in 1968 it was the kind of record they felt they(?) needed to make. Well, if it was, then they did. Any reservations I have would be about that.

That, and wtf kind of album title is that, anyway?

[Chuck Nessa]

With Daniel Humair!

Great record.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Continuum: Mad About Tadd - The Compositions of Tadd Dameron (Palo Alto Records)

Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter & Art Taylor.

A very polite tribute LP. Nothing to blow your socks off but plenty of good playing. The band sticks to it so if you're looking for new interpretations of Tadd's music, you might want to look elsewhere. But with this band, it's an excellent LP.

[jazzbo]

[paul secor]

That cover looks even more ridiculous today than it did in 1970 - "Hollywood cowboys" posing for a faux The Band photo and cover design.

Edited July 25, 2012 by paul secor

[jazzbo]

I don't care about covers. The music is great imo, still holds up.

Right now, Mono

Edited July 25, 2012 by jazzbo

[jeffcrom]

Phil Woods - "Live" From the Showboat (RCA). I hadn't heard this one since my college days, but recent comments in the Phil Woods thread led me to pick it up when I saw it in a local record store yesterday. Today I played side one, and I admired it more than I loved it. After that one side, I wanted to play something that would really get to me, so I put on:

Air - Air Time (Nessa). Notes by our own John L. I know that Chuck takes great pains in his digital remastering, but this is a really fine-sounding LP - well-mastered and pressed.

[jeffcrom]

Fats Navarro - Fat Girl (Savoy); side one - the Bebop Boys session. I read Ira Gitler's Jazz Master of the Forties 37 years ago, and Freddie Redd's quote about Bud Powell's solo on "Webb City" has stuck with me all those years: "That's Bud Powell!"

[tomatamot]

Air - Air Time (Nessa). Notes by our own John L. I know that Chuck takes great pains in his digital remastering, but this is a really fine-sounding LP - well-mastered and pressed.

I found this album a few weeks ago. Great music and fidelity.

[jeffcrom]

Billy Eckstine - The Swinging Mr. B (Jazz Bird). Airchecks by the great bebop big band, with Gene Ammons, Budd Johnson, Fats Navarro, and Sarah Vaughan.

[brownie]

Phineas Newborn 'Fabulous Phineas' (RCA Victor, Living Stereo)

[JohnS]

[JohnS]

Japanese issue

[jazzbo]

1968 studio date produced by Milt Gabler, w/Budd Johnson, Buck Clayton, Bill Pemberton, & Oliver Jackson.

Seems a little "reigned in" to me, but maybe in 1968 it was the kind of record they felt they(?) needed to make. Well, if it was, then they did. Any reservations I have would be about that.

That, and wtf kind of album title is that, anyway?

I have two lps in the "Father of Modern Jazz" box set with the same crew except for Buck, and they're possibly "reigned" in but it seems all want to play this way, with elegance and beauty. I love 'em!

[jeffcrom]

Jack Montrose - The Horn's Full (RCA Victor mono)

[JSngry]

1968 studio date produced by Milt Gabler, w/Budd Johnson, Buck Clayton, Bill Pemberton, & Oliver Jackson.

Seems a little "reigned in" to me, but maybe in 1968 it was the kind of record they felt they(?) needed to make. Well, if it was, then they did. Any reservations I have would be about that.

That, and wtf kind of album title is that, anyway?

I have two lps in the "Father of Modern Jazz" box set with the same crew except for Buck, and they're possibly "reigned" in but it seems all want to play this way, with elegance and beauty. I love 'em!

Yeah, I mean, how do you not love those guys, right? I hear ya'. But on this particualr album, there's a few cuts where they loosen up and play...uh, looser, and the rest sound kind of..."produced", maybe with an eye towards radioplay. 1968 had to have been a weird time to make a major label record like this. I know it's unreasonable to look at Milt Gabler & a date like this in 1968 and expect a Commodore-type 1940 thing, but still...not a bad record at all, really, just would have preferred just a teence a bit more looseness overall.

What is this 5 record Hines set, btw? What label was it released on? Is it all live stuff? I might need to go a-huntin' for that one!