What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Leeway]

It was Art Pepper that got me interested in jazz. I recall a wonderful performance by Art a year or two before he died that galvanized my interest. So I am always on the lookout for Art albums. Despite that interest, I've never come across the albums that make up the "Hollywood Sessions" box set - until recently. The most recent pair to fall into my hands are:

Bill Watrous Quintet: Watrous, Pepper, Russ Freeman, Bob Magnason, Carl Burnett. FUNK 'N FUN. Yupiteru Jazz Label. My copy even has the big, honkin' gold OBI, "Yupiteru 4 Beat Jazz Best Selection." Great vinyl. The back cover has a priceless picture of the band. Have never seen the Watrous or this label before, which probably doesn't mean much.

The other album:

"Jack Sheldon & his West Coast Friends." ANGEL WINGS." Sheldon, Pepper, Milcho Leviev, Tony Dumas, Carl Burnette. Atlas LP.

Dusty Groove has this for a very reasonable price at the moment. A nice piece of vinyl.

[paul secor]

Here's Lee Morgan (Vee Jay)

[Chuck Nessa]

"Jack Sheldon & his West Coast Friends." ANGEL WINGS." Sheldon, Pepper, Milcho Leviev, Tony Dumas, Carl Burnette. Atlas LP.

Dusty Groove has this for a very reasonable price at the moment. A nice piece of vinyl.

A lovely date and fantastic cover shot.

[Leeway]

Thanks Chuck. I also picked up the Marty Paich and Pete Jolly albums in this series recently, all at different stores. Strange.

Hadley Caliman. CELEBRATION. Catalyst Records.

Edited December 6, 2013 by Leeway

[jeffcrom]

Count Basie - Kansas City Suite (Forum stereo). My battered copy, which I acquired used when I was a high school senior, is like an old friend. Not sure why mine is on the Forum label rather than Roulette.

[tomatamot]

Nice one. My 'Fellini 712' is a French MPS pressing from the late 1970s. Courtesy of Mole Jazz deletions rack.

Oeff.......................For me it`s about 40 years ago I visit The Mole Jazz shop for the last time.

[Chuck Nessa]

Count Basie - Kansas City Suite (Forum stereo). My battered copy, which I acquired used when I was a high school senior, is like an old friend. Not sure why mine is on the Forum label rather than Roulette.

Forum was the $2 budget series for Roulette.

[jeffcrom]

Thanks, Chuck - figured you would know.

[Homefromtheforest]

Where's the best place to start with Om, Leeway (or anyone else)? I've often flirted with the idea of buying one of the Japos

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Leimbgruber's doing a show in London soon of duets with Roger Turner and Evan Parker. - I think I'll take the opportunity to make his musical acquaintance

I would start with "Kirikuki" myself..if you like that you can explore further. They are all good though...none are radically different from the other so...

There's a pre-Japo title called "Live at Montreaux" too but either of the Japo titles would do for a start...

[clifford_thornton]

Rolf Kühn Group - Devil in Paradise - (MPS, GER)

[king ubu]

Where's the best place to start with Om, Leeway (or anyone else)? I've often flirted with the idea of buying one of the Japos

.

Leimbgruber's doing a show in London soon of duets with Roger Turner and Evan Parker. - I think I'll take the opportunity to make his musical acquaintance

I would start with "Kirikuki" myself..if you like that you can explore further. They are all good though...none are radically different from the other so...

There's a pre-Japo title called "Live at Montreaux" too but either of the Japo titles would do for a start...

Actually the ECM CD compilation might not be a bad starting point ... love the recent "Willisau" on Intakt (CD only) ... they did a few more reunion concerts (actually two, I think? would need to check my files at home) that were broadcast on Swiss radio (as was Willisau, before it came out officially).

The best I've heard of Leimgruber's was a live set in trio with Christian Weber on bass and Christian Wolfahrt on drums ... gorgeous, very quiet yet intense stuff - but then I only know a small fraction of his large work.

[Homefromtheforest]

Rolf Kühn Group - Devil in Paradise - (MPS, GER)

Excellent album! Love that one...

[Leeway]

Where's the best place to start with Om, Leeway (or anyone else)? I've often flirted with the idea of buying one of the Japos

.

Leimbgruber's doing a show in London soon of duets with Roger Turner and Evan Parker. - I think I'll take the opportunity to make his musical acquaintance

I would start with "Kirikuki" myself..if you like that you can explore further. They are all good though...none are radically different from the other so...

There's a pre-Japo title called "Live at Montreaux" too but either of the Japo titles would do for a start...

Actually the ECM CD compilation might not be a bad starting point ... love the recent "Willisau" on Intakt (CD only) ... they did a few more reunion concerts (actually two, I think? would need to check my files at home) that were broadcast on Swiss radio (as was Willisau, before it came out officially).

The best I've heard of Leimgruber's was a live set in trio with Christian Weber on bass and Christian Wolfahrt on drums ... gorgeous, very quiet yet intense stuff - but then I only know a small fraction of his large work.

I find foreshadowings of Leimgruber's later avant (to use a term) and free work in the work of OM. But I think Leimgruber's post-OM work goes considerably further outside. I really like his hatArt titles: UNGLEICH, L'ENIGMATIQUE, STATEMENT OF AN ANTIRIDER, and LINES. Another more easily available essential Leimgruber is on Jazzwerkstatt with Demierre and Phillips, ALBEIT. Leimgruber has said somewhere or other that he likes his playing to make a physical sensation on the listener, with high pitches, and you can hear that on the solo albums GOLETTER and CHICAGO SOLOS. Leimgruber also has done a lot of lower case stuff, and Ubu has pointed that out. For my money he is one of the most creative sax players today.

[king ubu]

Agreed! I was merely answering the question where to start with OM, I'd not be able to do so for Leimgruber in general, wouldn't feel competent.

[BillF]

[Leeway]

[Leeway]

The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Giuffre, clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Paul Bley, piano), THESIS. Verve.

Giuffre seems to hit the same receptors in my brain as Steve Lacy.

[B. Clugston]

The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Giuffre, clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Paul Bley, piano), THESIS. Verve.

Giuffre seems to hit the same receptors in my brain as Steve Lacy.

Giuffre and Lacy actually played together for a bit not long before this record, but for some reason they didn't quite gel.

[jeffcrom]

Abdullah Ibrahim - Mindif (Enja)

[jeffcrom]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul (Solid State). Ray playing violin only; Brew Moore is on a few tracks. It had been so long since I pulling this off the shelf I couldn't really remember what it was like - it's fair to middling.

[ejp626]

I have been spinning a lot of vinyl but not actually listening to it. I'm in the process of converting over a bunch of LPs that I've picked up over the last year. Some of it is great stuff, but then there is a whole stack of Bud Shank doing pop tunes that I imagine I'll listen to once and that's it. (I got these as part of a lot sale.) Just looking at the titles gives me the heebie-jeebies. I can see maybe doing one or two LPs of this stuff, but he's got at least 5: California Dreamin', Let It Be, Magical Mystery, Michelle, A Spoonful of Jazz...

The last deserves special mention. From the back cover:

First off, be assured, the 'spoonful' of the album title in no way signifies scant measure of jazz herein. ... [but] a most generous serving of contemporary sounds -- of jazz improvisations on and interpretations of the music of The Lovin' Spoonful.

Honestly, my opinion of Shank has dropped based on these records (and I have no respect for the writer of these notes (Patricia Willard) who even mixes up personal and personnel). Three of these tracks are Bud with strings (oh joy). Actually it is quite frustrating as he has some amazing personnel on some of the tracks (Frank Rosolino and Conte Candoli -- with Shorty Rogers arranging the whole album) but the starting material is just so weak.

Anyway, I can't wait for the record store owner to laugh in my face when I try to pass these on to him.

[Leeway]

"Anyway, I can't wait for the record store owner to laugh in my face when I try to pass these on to him. :unsure:"

Those albums are usually denizens of thrift stores and bargain racks. But if they are absolutely minty you might get something for them; I'd try for a trade or store credit. Wish you luck.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Leeway

[jeffcrom]

Bobby Hutcherson - Patterns (BN rainbow)

[Leeway]

Agreed! I was merely answering the question where to start with OM, I'd not be able to do so for Leimgruber in general, wouldn't feel competent.

Oh, understood! I just had some extra Leimgruber stuff knocking around in my head that needed to be delivered

The Jimmy Giuffre 3 (Giuffre, clarinet; Steve Swallow, bass; Paul Bley, piano), THESIS. Verve.

Giuffre seems to hit the same receptors in my brain as Steve Lacy.

Giuffre and Lacy actually played together for a bit not long before this record, but for some reason they didn't quite gel.

I found this very interesting. Thank you. My thought was simply that "birds of a feather do not always flock together." But I found my copy of "Conversations" (with Steve Lacy), (edited by Jason Weiss, Duke U Press), and Giuffre comes up a few times.

In a 1965 interview, Lacy said: "But I played with Giuffre when I was in New York. I like him a lot, he was (!) a good friend, but musically we're not at all on the same track, our kinds of music are incompatible. For me, friendship is very important.

In a 1996 interview, we get more of the story. Lacy tells how Nica, baroness Pannonica, got Monk to come hear Lacy's group playing at the Five Spot with Jimmy Giuffre. "Jimmy Giuffre took my trio and called it his quartet. At the time, he didn't know what to do and found my trio interesting but it didn't work out very well. He fired me after two weeks, but during those two weeks, John Coltrane came and that's where he took notice of the soprano's tonality."

In a 1998 interview, Lacy recalled: There was a parallel between Giuffre and me. When Giuffre got to New York, he had heard all the new jazz. He took over the trio I had with Buell and Dennis Charles and made it into the Jimmy Giuffre Quartet. This is 1960. We were playing Monk tunes then. But it didn't work out between JImmy and me at all. It was awful, so he fired me after two weeks. He was a beautiful guy, a lovely guy, but we were incompatible musically. Also, in those days, I wasn't flexible. I was very doctrinaire about Monk. He was a very easy going guy. It was California versus New York. It didn't work out."

Some interesting recollections. If interested in Lacy, I recommend the "Conversations" book.

Listening to:

Two LPs, hat Hut, A,B recorded live, 1977, at Willisau Jazz Festival. C,D recorded live 1978 Jazz Au Totem. Wild skronky energized music. Love it.

Edited December 7, 2013 by Leeway

[tomatamot]

Benjamin Herman - Café Solo

Edited December 7, 2013 by tomatamot