What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oil Hines - Tour de force - Black Lion

GOTTITTTT!

MG

PS - Did he wear that NAFF wig all the time in the seventies, or was it just for the album photo?

[JSngry]

The toupee was a fixture!

But I guess when you have three hands and/or two brains, a little eccentricity is to be expected.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The toupee was a fixture!

But I guess when you have three hands and/or two brains, a little eccentricity is to be expected.

So now we know. The album is still on and is an effin' delight! I'm gaspin' for a cuppa, but can't go downstairs until it's finished.

MG

[JSngry]

The cover is this:

But i pull the LP out, and it's actually this:

Shoulda checked the label in the store, I guess, but I'm not complaining...Rabbit w/Billy Gardner, Jimmy Ponder, Ron Carter, & Freddie Waits? Works for me, especially for $3.99.

I wonder if Clark Burroughs ever worked at that store...

[Mark Stryker]

LOUIS HAYES GROUP - Variety is the Spice

How is that album? I saw a copy at a local store recently and wondered if I should pick it up.

NP Dear John C. - Elvin Jones (Impulse!) stereo "van gelder" pressing.

BUY IT!!!!!!!

Some of Frank Strozier's greatest playing is on this album, especially "Stardust," which he delivers with incredible soul and sophistication (the arrangment, which is probably either by Harold Mabern or Frank, includes Coltrane-derived "Countdown" subsitutions and other harmonic felicities. "Invitation" burns too. Actually, all of the album is really strong. The rhythm section is splashy in a '70s McCoy Tynerish kind of way. I even like the Leon Thomas vocals too ("Little Sunflower" and "Nisha").

Samples on youtube. Search "Louis Hayes" and "Stardust" and that will lead to the rest of the album too.

Edited August 9, 2012 by Mark Stryker

[JSngry]

[tomatamot]

LOUIS HAYES GROUP - Variety is the Spice

How is that album? I saw a copy at a local store recently and wondered if I should pick it up.

BUY IT!!!!!!!

Some of Frank Strozier's greatest playing is on this album, especially "Stardust," which he delivers with incredible soul and sophistication (the arrangment, which is probably either by Harold Mabern or Frank, includes Coltrane-derived "Countdown" subsitutions and other harmonic felicities. "Invitation" burns too. Actually, all of the album is really strong. The rhythm section is splashy in a '70s McCoy Tynerish kind of way. I even like the Leon Thomas vocals too ("Little Sunflower" and "Nisha").

Samples on youtube. Search "Louis Hayes" and "Stardust" and that will lead to the rest of the album too.

I agree on your opinion.

Ordered this album for the presence of Frank Strozier.

It`s one of my today`s arrivals.

So, go for it!

Edited August 10, 2012 by tomatamot

[brownie]

Gigi Gryce 'Saying Somethin'!' (NewJazz)

[tomatamot]

Bobby Watson - Appointment In Milano

[John Tapscott]

Great album!

[patricia]

You're right, Patricia, but what's going to stick with me from your post is the juxtaposition of my last sentence and your first sentence:

I was an idiot.

Certainly agree with your last paragraph.

Thanks a lot!

Well, occasionally being accused of being an idiot about a specific thing offsets your perfect good looks and sly sense of humour, making you bearable.

...seems to have been attacked by wild dogs and is in elegant tatters.

Ah, Sunday sunrises...I remember them well.

Indeed.

[JSngry]

Getting to LP 2 of this one today...what a great session...the material is wholly predictable and formulaic, as are many of the solos, but the feeling and conviction are so pervasive and...convincing that none of that matters. Bootie Wood is a treat as well (although I'm not sure that wood booty would be, but whatever).

It's stuff like this that shows the difference between "native tongue" and "learned language". A story is never better told than in its native tongue.

[JSngry]

I've always liked this record, but the more realistic about life I become, the more I like it. Everybody had jobs to do, and everybody did them as well as could be done, with pride and excellence. And most importantly, the results aimed for and achieved the high end of possibility instead of cynically settling for the middle ground - or lower.

The fact that the concept had a built-in ceiling is rendered irrelevant at some point, just as is the fact that that ceiling was finally reached at as high a level as it could be. My life lesson about this one is this - no matter what you do, don't bullshit with how you do it.

[JSngry]

And speaking of no bullshit...

[clifford_thornton]

I dig the pre-downtown guitar skronk/turntablism William Hooker LPs.

[JSngry]

There's energy aplenty, that's for sure!

[JSngry]

Booker T. gets into a zone on Side 2 of the Hooker thing!

[JSngry]

Some really plowed flea-market "New York USA" copy that I only paid a buck or two for. The first side has so many needle-stickings that it's not funny, but Side Two is actually listenable. In spite of all the noise, both sides sound so much better than the CD (and my already-owned "black b" copy) in terms of presence and visceral OOOMPH that it only reinforces my notions that the outright dissing of these sessions that is afoot in some quarters is something about which I must file a formal protest with the commoner's office.

That Volume 1, though, that's hard to find, always has been. Maybe it's the color scheme.

[clifford_thornton]

Booker T. gets into a zone on Side 2 of the Hooker thing!

Indeedy! He's also on a Denis Charles LP on Silkheart, which I still need to get.

[JSngry]

Better for dancing than for listening.

[vinyltim]

Don Wilkerson "The Texas Twister" - Riverside RLP 332 - original 1960 release

Cool record--I'd like to hear his Blue Note sessions too...

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/don-wilkerson-the-texas-twister

Edited August 11, 2012 by vinyltim

[clifford_thornton]

The BNs are tight soul-jazz, quite airplay-ready, with Wilkerson as the only horn. That said, I like them, though they are quite different from the Riverside date (which I only have on CD). Seems like you scored a nice copy.

[brownie]

Louis Bellson 'At the Flamingo' (Verve, mono, trumpet label)

Beautiful studio session that does not seem to have been reissued on CD.

Really a Harry Edison quartet date (with Don Abney and Truck Parham). An excellent Bellson stays in the background most of the time...

Edited August 11, 2012 by brownie

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The cover is this:

But i pull the LP out, and it's actually this:

Shoulda checked the label in the store, I guess, but I'm not complaining...Rabbit w/Billy Gardner, Jimmy Ponder, Ron Carter, & Freddie Waits? Works for me, especially for $3.99.

I wonder if Clark Burroughs ever worked at that store...

I got 'Rippin' & runnin'' when it came out and was disappointed in it.

Playing

earlier

Shirley Scott - Drag 'em out - Prestige (blue label)

Shirley usually recorded with bass players, though there are several LPs where you can see she didn't need to. But this one, with Major Holley, is wonderful and Major H really adds value.

Now

ALbert COllins - Don't lose your cool - Alligator (Sonet UK)

Next

Milt Jackson/Ray Brown etc Montreux '77 - Pablo Live (UK)

MG

[JohnS]

My copy is labelled Stereo Records.