What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

Ray Russell - Secret Asylum - (Black Lion, UK gatefold orig)

[jazzbo]

[clifford_thornton]

Guess it's a Gary Windo kinda day...

Alan Shorter - Tes Esat - (America)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Shelly Manne - Perk Up (Concord). You would think Manne could have gotten Bill Perkins to play on this one.

Same cut corner as this picture too.

Edited December 29, 2012 by Kevin Bresnahan

[jazzbo]

[Cactus Bob]

Steve Grossman ~ Perspective

Atlantic

[Cactus Bob]

Miles Davis ~ Big Fun

Columbia

[hvbias]

Monk Complete Blue Note Recordings, Mosaic 4 LP

[jeffcrom]

Dodo Marmarosa - Dodo's Back! (Argo mono). It sounds great with my new Audio-Technica mono cartridge - no more

[jeffcrom]

Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet (Savoy mono). Another one which the old Grado cartridge had major problems with.

[brownie]

Barney Wilen 'La Note Bleue' (IDA)

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - The Complete Jaguar Sessions (Fresco Jazz)

Of course, this album really represents the complete recorded output of "progressive dixieland" trumpeter Dick Sutton and his six-piece (no piano or guitar) band. Sutton was kind of ahead of his time; he reminds me a little of Randy Sandke these days - you can hear both Bix and Miles in his playing. Anyway, it's fascinating music. Sutton and Lacy are the best musicians here, and I'm struck by how much Lacy improved between the August and November (1954) sessions. And his clarinet playing, recorded nowhere else, makes me smile.

[kh1958]

Art Farmer, The Aztec Suite (United Artists mono)

Zen: The Music of Fred Katz (Pacific Jazz mono)

[Cactus Bob]

Charlie Parker ~ Bird on the Air (1944-1945)

Sounds Records

[clifford_thornton]

Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet (Savoy mono). Another one which the old Grado cartridge had major problems with.

Still keeping my eyes peeled for an original of that one. Glad to at least have the music, but of course it'd be great to have it in 12" format! That cover is a classic...

[John Tapscott]

Thanks for the reminder. Sounds great.

[John Tapscott]

followed by, naturally,

Edited December 30, 2012 by John Tapscott

[Cactus Bob]

Charlie Christian Live!

with The Benny Goodman Sextet - 1940

Jazz Archives

[Cactus Bob]

King Oliver in New York

RCA Victor Vintage Series

[John Tapscott]

[John Tapscott]

Bought a new turntable with some Christmas money and revisiting some old vinyl. I had forgotten how good this one is.

Edited December 31, 2012 by John Tapscott

[jeffcrom]

Bunky Green - Playin' for Keeps (Cadet mono). This could have been a routine soul-jazz album with Latin touches, but it's more than the sum of its parts - very good stuff.

Red Allen Meets Kid Ory (Verve mono). This, on the other hand, is somehow less than the sum of its parts.

[jeffcrom]

Muggsy Spanier and His Dixieland Band (Mercury). 1950-52 recordings; overall, not the equal of "The Great 16," but there are some nice ones here.

[jeffcrom]

Jimmy McPartland/Dizzy Gillespie - Hot vs. Cool: A Battle of Jazz (MGM 10"). A hoot - McPartland's band and Ray Abrams' band (with Gillespie and Buddy DeFranco added) playing the same tunes at Birdland in 1952. So McPartland's guys have to play "How High the Moon" and the modernists have to play "Muskrat Ramble." This could have been a stupid album, but it's pretty cool.

[vinyltim]

Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington

Riverside RLP 12-201

1st version cover w/white deepgroove label

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/thelonious-monk-plays-duke-ellington