What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[colinmce]

Warne Marsh---------------Ne Plus Ultra-----------(Revelation)

Me too, the last two days.

[sidewinder]

The "Action" lp.

and what a superlative Mosaic set that one is.Especially on vinyl..

Edited April 6, 2014 by sidewinder

[kh1958]

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (Emarcy).

A prior owner wrote, "Too much drum" on the back cover.

I beg to differ.

[mjazzg]

Ahmed Abdullah - Live at Ali's Alley [Cadence Jazz Records]

[tomatamot]

Yim Hok-Man - Virtuoso pieces of Chinese percussion, 30th Anniversary AudioTechnique

[mjazzg]

Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [silkheart]

Such a good band, Malachi Favors, Alvin Fielder and of course, Charles Brackeen

[Leeway]

SAHEB SARBIB QUARTET - UFO! LIVE ON TOUR - Cadence Jazz LP. Sarbib (b, p, shenai), Mark Whitecage (as), Daunik Lazro (as), Martin Bues (perc). 1979.

Talk about outsider artists, Sarbib must qualify. Very elusive figure, but the results on this LP are very real indeed. Love the double alto attack of Lazro and Whitecage.

[Leeway]

CYNOSURE - Trevor Watts String Ensemble - Ogun LP. String ensemble suggests quiet chamber music, but not in this case. It rocks pretty nicely.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

David Murray Trio - Sweet Lovely (Black Saint). This is not for me at all. It was in a cheapie bin so I figured I'd check it out. In a lot of places, it sounds like all three of these guys are playing different songs with different beats. And for some reason, I really don't dig this drummer.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Now on, an album much more to my liking: Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy (Muse). I've always enjoyed this date on CD. To be honest, this sounds great on vinyl. About the only negative would be the twangy bass sound.

[JSngry]

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (Emarcy).

A prior owner wrote, "Too much drum" on the back cover.

I beg to differ.

Maybe he's talking about the cover photo, although if so, I might change drum to cymbal.

Although otherwise, you gotta love any tangible period (probably?) documentation of Max Roach...bothering somebody.

[kh1958]

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (Emarcy).

A prior owner wrote, "Too much drum" on the back cover.

I beg to differ.

Maybe he's talking about the cover photo, although if so, I might change drum to cymbal.

Although otherwise, you gotta love any tangible period (probably?) documentation of Max Roach...bothering somebody.

Yes, I think so, it's an old pressing--Clifford sounds like he's with you in the room on these early EmArcy LPs. Thanks to Max's too muchness, I don't think they played the record very much, it sounds great now!

To end the day's listening, Clifford Brown and Max Roach (EmArcy). No written commentary on this one.

[tomatamot]

We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite

[JohnS]

Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [silkheart]

Such a good band, Malachi Favors, Alvin Fielder and of course, Charles Brackeen

Yes, super session.

[mjazzg]

Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [silkheart]

Such a good band, Malachi Favors, Alvin Fielder and of course, Charles Brackeen

Yes, super session.

Glad there's another fan , do you know the other Silkheart "and the Solomonic Quintet" by any chance? I'd be interested to know how it compares

Edited April 7, 2014 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [silkheart]

Such a good band, Malachi Favors, Alvin Fielder and of course, Charles Brackeen

Yes, super session.

Glad there's another fan , do you know the other Silkheart "and the Solomonic Quintet" by any chance? I'd be interested to know how it compares

Been seeking that one too. The quartet is great.

Just spent a couple of hours interviewing Abdullah the other day - cool guy, of course!

[kh1958]

Ahmed Abdullah Quartet - Liquid Magic [silkheart]

Such a good band, Malachi Favors, Alvin Fielder and of course, Charles Brackeen

Yes, super session.

Glad there's another fan , do you know the other Silkheart "and the Solomonic Quintet" by any chance? I'd be interested to know how it compares

Been seeking that one too. The quartet is great.

Just spent a couple of hours interviewing Abdullah the other day - cool guy, of course!

I have both of those, to my tastes the one I prefer is the Solomonic Quartet release, it is excellent.

[Leeway]

[Leeway]

PARKEN - Han Bennink (d), Simon Toldan (p), Joachim Badenhorst (cl, bcl).

Edited April 7, 2014 by Leeway

[colinmce]

Thoughts?

[Leeway]

Thoughts?

I like it, on first listen, but I don't find the electronic aspects of the group to be all that interesting or extraordinary, but then I think that way about much of the electronic work being done in the field. Having said that, there is a nice feel to the group play, KV sounds good (and instantly recognizable), and his interaction with Daisy provides the real thrust to the music. If you like its predecessor, you'll like this.

[paul secor]

Betty Carter: Social Call (Columbia)

Listening to this, I heard a complete mastery of rhythm and tonality, along with a lack of emotional involvement. Perhaps that lack of emotional involvement is on me - perhaps it's on her.

[Leeway]

I hadn't played this in a while and was really surprised how straight-ahead this session was. Prettily played and all, but still...

[paul secor]

Phillip Wilson (w. Olu Dara): Esoteric (Hat Hut)

[JSngry]

Betty Carter: Social Call (Columbia)

Listening to this, I heard a complete mastery of rhythm and tonality, along with a lack of emotional involvement. Perhaps that lack of emotional involvement is on me - perhaps it's on her.

The great ones make it look easy...and to reach total mastery of anything takes no small emotional involvement, although not always of the "extroverted" variety.

Having said that, I love BC (the later the better, for me, and will fully stipulate to the "eccentricities" found therein), but this is not her best session, not even close. I think it was her first, though, at least as a featured artist? I've always looked at it as "first session hesitation" or whatever you want to call it.

And yet, having said that, the title tune is one of those things that gasses me so much, still, because the tune itself is wonderful, the lyrics are so cool, and she is perfect in delivering them. That, and the concept of a "social call" in general is so quaint in its present day obsolescence and so wonderful in its natural manifestation that its disappearance is one thing that I file under "World Gone Wrong" without any fear of being called nostalgic or whatever.

Hey, if you love somebody, wrap 'em up tight, ok, but if you got friends of any gender (or species), pay them a good old-fashioned social call and reap the rewards of the intangoible feelgood. Drop by chat a while, have a glass of lemonade or a cup of coffee, bid adieu, and then get back on with your day. It's a good thing, the social call is.