What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

I don't have that one. Will have to nab it sometime.

[JSngry]

I don't have that one. Will have to nab it sometime.

Got mine from Dusty Groove for $8.99. Not a bad deal at all.

Do you know that label at all? This is #6...just wondering what else they came out with.

[jeffcrom]

I don't have that one. Will have to nab it sometime.

Got mine from Dusty Groove for $8.99. Not a bad deal at all.

Do you know that label at all? This is #6...just wondering what else they came out with.

The only other Kharma LP I have is #7, which is an interesting one, in a cool-idea-that-doesn't-quite-work kind of way - Unexpected by Kenny Davern. The trad jazz clarinetist/soprano saxophonist goes avant-garde, with Steve Lacy, Steve Swallow, and Paul Motian.

[jeffcrom]

I should add that Unexpected has two Steve Lacy compositions which I don't believe have appeared anywhere else: "Swirls" and "Loops."

[clifford_thornton]

I have several that I enjoy... Jerome Cooper/Kalaparusha/Frank Lowe trio Positions 3 6 9; Sunny Murray Charred Earth (Burrell, Lancaster, Bob Reid); Frank Lowe Doctor Too Much (Dara, L Smith, F Williams, P Wilson) really stick out.

[JSngry]

I don't have that one. Will have to nab it sometime.

Got mine from Dusty Groove for $8.99. Not a bad deal at all.

Do you know that label at all? This is #6...just wondering what else they came out with.

The only other Kharma LP I have is #7, which is an interesting one, in a cool-idea-that-doesn't-quite-work kind of way - Unexpected by Kenny Davern. The trad jazz clarinetist/soprano saxophonist goes avant-garde, with Steve Lacy, Steve Swallow, and Paul Motian.

You ever heard Roswell Rudd's Blown Bone? Davern and Lacy and Tyrone Washington!

Kenny Davern seemed to have pretty big ears.

I have several that I enjoy... Jerome Cooper/Kalaparusha/Frank Lowe trio Positions 3 6 9; Sunny Murray Charred Earth (Burrell, Lancaster, Bob Reid); Frank Lowe Doctor Too Much (Dara, L Smith, F Williams, P Wilson) really stick out.

Those all sound like ones to look for, especially that first one. Thanks!

NP:

Knowing how time is curved and shit, I dream of a time when this one and Percussion Bitter Suite and Straight Ahead all get recorded on the same day at the same session with the same bands and singers all in the room at the same time, and for the same reasons.

Far more unlikely things could happen as time curves by.

Edited December 3, 2012 by JSngry

[clifford_thornton]

I do have Blown Bone in its Emanem CD incarnation. Good stuff.

[jeffcrom]

You ever heard Roswell Rudd's Blown Bone? Davern and Lacy and Tyrone Washington!

And Louisiana Red. Yeah, I've got that nice Emanem reissue.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Freddie Roach - Mo' greens please - BN Liberty stereo Van Gelder

MG

[clifford_thornton]

My Dad Is Dead - The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get - (Homestead)

[JSngry]

The Upfront (aka Springboard aka Trip) issue of the Winley side w/Howard McGee. Very nice to hear Jug w/o a whole lot of reverb. Nice to hear him with it, too, always nice to hear Jug, but, just sayin'...

And "Waco" on "bongos"..the whole damn city?!?!?!?!

[jeffcrom]

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy - Journey Without End (Japanese Victor)

[paul secor]

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy - Journey Without End (Japanese Victor)

I've written this before, but it bears repeating. If you read Jeff's posts, check out his blog and his web site and the links on it. Fascinating stuff.

[jeffcrom]

Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy - Journey Without End (Japanese Victor)

I've written this before, but it bears repeating. If you read Jeff's posts, check out his blog and his web site and the links on it. Fascinating stuff.

Thanks, Paul. Right now some of the links to rare 78s are broken due to a website meltdown, but I'll have that fixed in a couple of days.

[jeffcrom]

Frank Wess/Bobby Jaspar/Seldon Powell - The Spirit of Charlie Parker (World Wide)

I found this mysterious 1958 LP, on a label I had never heard of, a couple of days ago. As I looked at it more carefully before playing it tonight, I saw all sorts of things that screamed "Savoy" - Ozzie Cadena was the producer, Van Gelder did the recording and mastering, World Wide was located in Newark - even the typeface looked like Savoy's. A little research revealed that World Wide was indeed a Savoy label - there were about 20 releases, mostly non-jazz. My guess (I couldn't find any confirmation of this) is that World Wide was formed as a stereo specialty label - the front cover makes a lot of the stereo angle, and the back cover notes devote as much space to "The Story of Stereo" as to the music.

The music is pretty good, not earth-shattering. There are four long tracks - all Charlie Parker tunes, and mostly featuring flutes. Eddie Costa plays piano and vibes, which was the determing factor in my decision to go ahead and grab this album. These four tracks apparently showed up on a mid-1980s Savoy album called Flutin' the Blues: Bird Lives, with a couple of Herbie Mann tracks added. It looks like that album went out of print pretty quickly - information about it is pretty scarce on the internet. As far as I can tell, only one track, "Now's the Time," has appeared on CD, on a Japanese Savoy sampler.

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

Edited December 4, 2012 by jeffcrom

[sidewinder]

EmCee Five 'BEBOP 61' (Birdland records)

Edited December 4, 2012 by sidewinder

[BillF]

EmCee Five 'BEBOP 61' (Birdland records)

Interesting to see the young Malcolm Cecil there. Tom 1960 tells me he recently resurfaced playing bass at a gig in upstate New York!

Edited December 4, 2012 by BillF

[Clunky]

The Fawkes Turner Sextet- Takin it Easy ( Decca)- not as a Trad a session as you might expect. Lots of blues , no banjo and plenty of modern touches by the Dirty Bopper.

[brownie]

Bunk Johnson 'Early Bunk 1942-43' (Dan)

[BillF]

Bunk Johnson 'Early Bunk 1942-43' (Dan)

Ah, those teeth!

[jazzbo]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The Upfront (aka Springboard aka Trip) issue of the Winley side w/Howard McGee. Very nice to hear Jug w/o a whole lot of reverb. Nice to hear him with it, too, always nice to hear Jug, but, just sayin'...

And "Waco" on "bongos"..the whole damn city?!?!?!?!

One of my favourite Jugs - I like it even better than my Spillers Records/Blue Note mug

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Frank Wess/Bobby Jaspar/Seldon Powell - The Spirit of Charlie Parker (World Wide)

I found this mysterious 1958 LP, on a label I had never heard of, a couple of days ago. As I looked at it more carefully before playing it tonight, I saw all sorts of things that screamed "Savoy" - Ozzie Cadena was the producer, Van Gelder did the recording and mastering, World Wide was located in Newark - even the typeface looked like Savoy's. A little research revealed that World Wide was indeed a Savoy label - there were about 20 releases, mostly non-jazz. My guess (I couldn't find any confirmation of this) is that World Wide was formed as a stereo specialty label - the front cover makes a lot of the stereo angle, and the back cover notes devote as much space to "The Story of Stereo" as to the music.

The music is pretty good, not earth-shattering. There are four long tracks - all Charlie Parker tunes, and mostly featuring flutes. Eddie Costa plays piano and vibes, which was the determing factor in my decision to go ahead and grab this album. These four tracks apparently showed up on a mid-1980s Savoy album called Flutin' the Blues: Bird Lives, with a couple of Herbie Mann tracks added. It looks like that album went out of print pretty quickly - information about it is pretty scarce on the internet. As far as I can tell, only one track, "Now's the Time," has appeared on CD, on a Japanese Savoy sampler.

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

I recall, from reading Michel RUppli's Savoy discography about thirty years ago, that World Wide was also a budget label that LUbinsky used to reissue Russian classical records. But it was a long time ago I read it so I can't be certain. I didn't buy the book because the coverage of gospel music was crap.

MG

[jeffcrom]

Bunk Johnson 'Early Bunk 1942-43' (Dan)

Mine has a different cover:

It still seems like a minor crime to me that this is the only place all four takes of "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" a la Bolden have been issued. There's a lot to be learned/enjoyed by listening to them one after another.

[jeffcrom]

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

I recall, from reading Michel RUppli's Savoy discography about thirty years ago, that World Wide was also a budget label that LUbinsky used to reissue Russian classical records. But it was a long time ago I read it so I can't be certain. I didn't buy the book because the coverage of gospel music was crap.

MG

I've got the Savoy discography, and I can't find anything like that, or any explanation of what the label was. There's a listing of World Wide LP releases on page 427; it's an odd assortment. There's a few jazz albums, some Latin records, a couple by the Charleston Club Orchestra, but only one classical record - a Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto perform by Emil Krauss and the "Regent Symphony Orchestra."

I agree that the coverage of Savoy's massive gospel output is pretty poor.