What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

Anthony Braxton - In the Tradition (Inner City)

[clifford_thornton]

Frank Lowe - Out Loud - (Triple Point)

still sounds pretty damn out there... even considering the participants!

[His Boy Elroy]

[Homefromtheforest]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

[paul secor]

Art Pepper: Straight Life (Galaxy Japan)

[clifford_thornton]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

[NIS]

My first piece of new vinyl in over twenty years. Man, there is something about a record.

[paul secor]

Merle Haggard: A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (or My Salute to Bob Wills) (Capitol)

This was my introduction to Merle Haggard over 40 years ago and it opened a door to Bob Wills' music.

[sidewinder]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together !

[mjazzg]

Sidsel Endresen "so I write" (ECM, Germany)

That's a good one. I need to upgrade my trashed copy someday

[clifford_thornton]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together !

Alas, I'll have to wait until next year but I trust you three will have a pint in my absence!

[B. Clugston]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

It's cheaper to fly here than to buy a copy of Lacy's The Wire. Homefromtheforest has an incredible record collection as many of you might have gathered from the recent blindfold test.

[B. Clugston]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together !

Would love to meet up. DM me when you are in town.

[paul secor]

Miles in Berlin (CBS Sony Japan)

[sidewinder]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) enjoyed with the company of B. Clugston who came for a visit!

Ooh - yeah, I gotta make a trek to Vancouver to hang with you guys.

I'll be rolling into Van in December if anyone is interested in a get-together !

Would love to meet up. DM me when you are in town.

Will do. Hopefully we could do a 'group meet'.

[soulpope]

Miles in Berlin (CBS Sony Japan)

those were the days of japanese vinyl !!

[jeffcrom]

World Saxophone Quartet - Live in Zurich (Black Saint)

[Leeway]

West Wind might have been sketchy, but their Braxton "Coventry" and the Lacy and Potts' "Live in Budapest" capture the immediacy and air of the live performance, whatever their other deficiencies. The Budapest performance strikes me as joyful and relaxed.

[BillF]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Various Artists - African sounds for Mandela - Tsafrika

With Julian Bahula, Hugh Maekela & Orchestre Jazira

MG

[Leeway]

A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL - Esko Linnavalli New Music Orchestra. Finnlevy LP, 1976, Helsinki.

[His Boy Elroy]

I don't hate Chet Baker's singing, but I like it better when he "plays" . . . this was a 2-lp vinyl reissue of "Chet Baker Sings and Plays" and "Chet Baker Sings," both originally issued in the mid '50's.

[His Boy Elroy]

'Don't know anything about this label ("Super Majestic"), but I gather it's a (presumably) French import, possibly a knock-off label. Still, this is a pretty solid collection, with surprisingly clear sound (from '72). Comp includes heavies such as Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry, Lightnin' Hopkins, Leadbelly, Memphis Slim, and Jack Dupree. 'Worth picking up if you ever stumble across it (which I did recently)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Earlier

Gene Ammons in Sweden - Enja

now

Donald Vails Choraleers - In deep water - Savoy

MG

[jeffcrom]

Budd Johnson -Ya! Ya! (Argo)

A trip down memory lane: this was the first jazz album I owned. It was a Christmas gift from my mother - Xmas, 1970. She presumably picked it out more or less at random at a local department store because it was by a saxophonist, and I had been playing saxophone about two months at the time. I still love it, and I also think that Richard Davis' atonal, quarter-tone arco solo in "Exotique" had a pretty profound affect on me. I think my thoughts at the time were something like, "Well that's strange, but kind of cool. I guess you can do that."

Thanks, Mom.