tomatamot Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 (edited) 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 Quote
brownie Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 Gigi Gryce 'Saying Somethin'!' (NewJazz) Quote
tomatamot Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 Bobby Watson - Appointment In Milano Quote
patricia Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 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. Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 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. Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 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. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 I dig the pre-downtown guitar skronk/turntablism William Hooker LPs. Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 There's energy aplenty, that's for sure! Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 Booker T. gets into a zone on Side 2 of the Hooker thing! Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 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. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 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. Quote
JSngry Posted August 10, 2012 Report Posted August 10, 2012 Better for dancing than for listening. Quote
vinyltim Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) 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 Quote
clifford_thornton Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 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. Quote
brownie Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) 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 Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 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 Quote
colinmce Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 (edited) Charlie Christian, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk et al - Jazz Immortals (Everest) One of four (!) packagings of this material by Everest. Sturdy, worn jacket and thick, pristine vinyl. Sounds pretty good, probably better than the OJC CD. My copy obviously doesn't have the orange edge from this reissue but it's the only picture of this cover I could find. I see they added the O to Thelonius there. Edited August 11, 2012 by colinmce Quote
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 Spurred by the Carl Davis thread, just interrupted Milt at the end of side 1 to play Tyrone Davis - A woman needs to be loved - Dakar (Atlantic UK) Not sure if my memory's playing tricks, but I feel sure that I was prompted to buy this, early in '69, when Charlie Gillette reviewed Davis' first 45, 'Can I change my mind', in his regular R&B column in the Record Mirror, giving it a decent review, then raved about the B side, saying it was an all time Soul classic. It STILL is. I never bought another Tyrone Davis single (or an LP) because, when a guy starts off and has one of the best records of its type as the B side of an A side that spends 3 weeks at #1 on the R&B chart, all he can do is go down. This is POWERHOUSE soul singing! MG Quote
kh1958 Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 Johnny Hammond Smith, Love Potion #9 (Prestige, blue label mono) Gems of Jazz, volume 1 (Mildred Bailey, Jess Stacy, Meade Lux Lewis, Joe Marsala, Bud Freeman) (Decca ten inch) Quote
JohnS Posted August 11, 2012 Report Posted August 11, 2012 US Contemporary mono. Image is of the UK issue. Quote
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