What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Sarah Vaughan: The Early Years - "The Divine Sarah" (Musicraft)

[paul secor]

James Brown: Live and Lowdown at the Apollo, Vol. 1 (Solid Smoke)

[paul secor]

Leo Smith and New Delta Ahkri: Go in Numbers (Black Saint)

[Leeway]

Classic Records 200g version

[paul secor]

John Lee Hooker Volume One (Ace U.K.)

[paul secor]

Gene Ammons: Nice an' Cool (Prestige Moodsville/Analogue Productions)

[Leeway]

SWEET HANDS - David Liebman, Richie Beirach, Frank Tusa, Badal Roy, John Abercrombie, et al.

Liebman strikes me as a very interesting person and musician. Candid too. Always the hippest guy in the room, that has led to some fine work--and some ephemera.

[paul secor]

Carol Sloane: Live at 30th Street (CBS Sony)

[Leeway]

FIGURE AND SPIRIT - Lee Konitz Quintet: Konitz (as, ss), Rufus Reid (b), Ted Brown (ts), Joe Chambers (d), Albert Dailey (p). Progressive Records (really a misnomer since most of its releases are quite conventional). I like early Konitz, but so much of the later stuff is MEH.

[Hardbopjazz]

Randy Weston Meets Himself

[clifford_thornton]

FIGURE AND SPIRIT - Lee Konitz Quintet: Konitz (as, ss), Rufus Reid (b), Ted Brown (ts), Joe Chambers (d), Albert Dailey (p). Progressive Records (really a misnomer since most of its releases are quite conventional). I like early Konitz, but so much of the later stuff is MEH.

MEH? NAH.

This is a good one.

[Leeway]

FIGURE AND SPIRIT - Lee Konitz Quintet: Konitz (as, ss), Rufus Reid (b), Ted Brown (ts), Joe Chambers (d), Albert Dailey (p). Progressive Records (really a misnomer since most of its releases are quite conventional). I like early Konitz, but so much of the later stuff is MEH.

MEH? NAH.

This is a good one.

Not bad but I just don't love it. I've tried it several times - still meh.

[mjazzg]

Marion Brown Septet - Juba Lee {Fontana Japan]

Edited June 24, 2014 by mjazzg

[paul secor]

Oscar Peterson & Clark Terry (Pablo)

[paul secor]

Ted Curson: Blue Piccolo (Why Not)

[paul secor]

The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn - Guest Artist: Sonny Rollins (Atlantic Japan)

[Homefromtheforest]

Miles Davis "round about midnight" (Columbia 180 gram mono reissue)

Marion Brown "geechee recollections" (Impulse, USA)

[tomatamot]

PAUL GONSALVES - Rare Paul Gonsalves Sextet In Europe 1963 (1978 Italian only 7-track mono LP recorded live in Europe with Ray Nance, Rolf Ericson, Otto Frankler, Jimmy Woode & Sam Woodyard.

[sidewinder]

'Charlie Parker Memorial Album' (UK Vogue). This was critic Ray Horrick's copy and it has sleeve notes by Ray and several other UK critics on the back, inside and insert.

Edited June 26, 2014 by sidewinder

[BillF]

'Charlie Parker Memorial Album' (UK Vogue). This was critic Ray Horrick's copy and it has sleeve notes by Ray and several other UK critics on the back, inside and insert.

Quite a possession! In my youth I read Horricks' book on Basie, as well as the one on modern jazz, co-authored with Alun Morgan.

[jeffcrom]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet (Savoy mono)

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet (Savoy mono)

Was this only released in mono?

[Chuck Nessa]

if that.

[jeffcrom]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet (Savoy mono)

Was this only released in mono?

That's my guess. I think all the early-60s Savoy free jazz I have is mono.

[clifford_thornton]

Mono only, from Dixon's tapes. The sessions were self-financed and he licensed (or as he put it, "leased") the tapes to Savoy. Sadly this record has never seen an authorized reissue since. The story is in Dixonia; I'll dig it out and transcribe later if anyone is interested.

Most of Bill's early sessions on tape were lost in the late '60s because of a storage locker mishap (I believe while Bill was in Wisconsin). A few reference copies exist and I've been lucky to hear some of those early bands with Tchicai, Giuseppi Logan, Rashied Ali et al. Hopefully some of it sees the proper light of day. There is still quite an archive up in Bennington.

IIRC the dates Bill produced in the late '60s for Savoy - Marzette Watts, Bob (Cleve) Pozar, Marc Levin, Ed Curran - are stereo, though not particularly well-recorded.