What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JSngry]

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Watazumi Doso - The Mysterious Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute (Everest). Unfortunate album title; the improvising by Watazumi is stunning.

I have that album too! Bought it in a college bookstore cutout bin...did Everest ever show up anywhere else?

Agree about the music as well. Stunning indeed.

[jeffcrom]

George Freeman - Franticdiagnosis (Bam-Boo). With brother Von on board. Thanks to The Magnificent Goldberg for introducing me to this album.

[brownie]

Candido 'The Volcanic' (ABC-Paramount, mono)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And MG, I heard first heard George and Von at the same time, on George's Delmark album Birth Sign.

Oh yes - wasn't it you who put 'My ship' on a BFT?

I first heard George on 'Groove' with Les McCann, Groove Holmes & Ben Webster. Later with Ammons and McGriff. He popped up in lots of odd places on my map

Nice vinyl day today.

Jaws - Hey Lock! - Roost (Vogue Pye UK)

Sonny Clark - Leapin' & lopin' - BN (Pathe Marconi)

Don Patterson - Why not - Muse

Lou Donaldson - Sunny side up - BN (King Japan)

Lonnie Smith - Keep on loving - GM

MG

[clifford_thornton]

Mars - Live at Irving Plaza - (Feeding Tube Records)

[clifford_thornton]

Leo Jones - Fire Engine & Crossover - (Mirrosonic)

[jeffcrom]

Jackie McLean - Jacknife (BN). Sides one & two, conveniently spread over two different records. Dang - I wish I had a big-ass console stereo with an automatic record changer.

[colinmce]

Maybe this necessitates its own thread but can anybody reasonably explain the A/D B/C thing that was oh so popular in the 70s? I've wondered this for a very long time.

[JSngry]

It was for changers, whre you could put a stack of records on the spindle and they'd drop down and play one at a time.. Then you could flip 'em over and play the other sides. So in a 3 record set, say, you'd have album 1 = Side A & F, Album 2 - sides B & E, Album 3 - Sides C & D .

To represent vertical, load like this

[TOP of stack]

C (w/D on reverse)

B (w/E on reverse)

A (w/F on reverse)

[bOTTOM OF STACK]

When Side C is over, you leave the stack intact, just flip it over, and then you have

[TOP of stack]

F

E

D

[bOTTOM OF STACK]

Voila, properly sequenced music with minimal exertion.

Also good or just putting on a bunch of unrelated LPs for several hours of uninterrupted play. Every notice how a lot of albums had one side stronger than the other? Well, yeah. Not accidental. Great for long parties of dancing, romancing, tripping, all sorts of things.

Edited August 17, 2012 by JSngry

[vinyltim]

The Three Sounds - "Good Deal"

Blue Note 4020 mono - 47W.63rd NYC - 1st pressing

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/the-three-sounds-good-deal

[tomatamot]

Branford Marsalis Quartet - Four MF's Playin' Tunes

My today`s arrival.

[tomatamot]

Roscoe Mitchell - Old Quartet

[jeffcrom]

Jim Hall - Jazz Guitar (PJ). The rough condition of my copy became easier to take when I learned that the original tapes are gone, and that subsequent issues had edited tracks and overdubbed drums.

[colinmce]

Huh, good to know.

Anybody have recommendations for good sources beyond the original LP?

[jeffcrom]

Hank Mobley - Hard Bop (Savoy)

[jeffcrom]

Jazztime U.S.A. (MCA). Sides two & three, which are, of course, both on record two. (See JSngry's explanation above.) This record has 1952-53 live recordings by Hot Lips Page with the Marian McPartland Trio, Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Pettiford on cello with the Billy Taylor Trio, Terry Gibbs, Coleman Hawkins, Stuff Smith, and more.

Hot Lips Page is one of those musicians who just makes me feel good. I thought of The Magnificent Goldberg when his tracks were playing. Are you a Page fan, MG?

[jeffcrom]

Fletcher Henderson/Bill Harris/Sidney Bechet - First, Last & Only Concert From Kimball Hall, Otterburn - Flint, Michigan (Big Chief-Jerollomo)

There are actually two old threads (both started by chewy) about this album, which is actually a 1947 concert from Kimball Hall in Chicago, recorded by John Steiner.

[jazzbo]

[kh1958]

Steve Kuhn/Gary McFarland--October Suite (Impulse mono, orange and black).

Modern Jazz Quartet--Concorde (Prestige, W. 50th)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Jazztime U.S.A. (MCA). Sides two & three, which are, of course, both on record two. (See JSngry's explanation above.) This record has 1952-53 live recordings by Hot Lips Page with the Marian McPartland Trio, Mary Lou Williams, Oscar Pettiford on cello with the Billy Taylor Trio, Terry Gibbs, Coleman Hawkins, Stuff Smith, and more.

Hot Lips Page is one of those musicians who just makes me feel good. I thought of The Magnificent Goldberg when his tracks were playing. Are you a Page fan, MG?

I'm going to be, but haven't got a round tuit yet.

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Don Patterson - Tune up - Prestige (purple label)

next

Lou Donaldson - Sassy soul strut - BN

This may have been one of the ones he said he phoned in, but I still like it.

MG

[jeffcrom]

Eureka Brass Band - The Music of New Orleans Volume Two (Folkways). The greatest of all New Orleans brass bands, recorded in 1958. The long dirge "Eternity" got to me tonight, for personal reasons. I think that this is the only recording of this dirge.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

A few LPs this morning

Jimmy Smith - Crazy baby - BN (Pathe Marconi DMM)

Ray Charles - Yes indeed - Atlantic (WEA France)

now

Lou Donaldson - Coleslaw - Argo (Cadet GRT)

next

Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This afternoon

Clarence Wheeler & the Enforcers - Doin' what we wanna - Atlantic

MG

[kh1958]

Roy Ayers--Virgo Vibes (Atlantic stereo, blue/green label)

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and His Inter-Reformers Band (Obey/Decca (West Africa). For some reason, 1970s West African pressings rarely turn up at Half Price Books in Dallas, but this one did.