vinyltim Posted December 9, 2014 Report Posted December 9, 2014 Art Blakey - Free For All (Music Matters reissue) I have a 70's pressing with Van Gelder stamp that I'm going to listen to as well--curious how they compare. Quote
paul secor Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 The Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmin Tree (Apple) Quote
B. Clugston Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 Richard Abrams, Level and Degrees of Light (Delmark). Great album. Digging the heavy reverb which was removed for the CD reissue. Quote
jeffcrom Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 Gary Clark, Jr./Son House (Daytrotter No. 14). Small-run vinyl of Clark at South by Southwest, 2012 on one side and House at the Ash Grove in LA in 1968 on the other. Quote
Clunky Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 John Stevens-------Chemistry-------(Vinyl) excellent white hot date. lovely , not listened to this in a while. Quote
mjazzg Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 John Stevens-------Chemistry-------(Vinyl) excellent white hot date. lovely , not listened to this in a while. fine one ideed Mike Osborne & Stan Tracey - Original [Cadillac] Quote
paul secor Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 Chicago Piano Plus (Atlantic) Quote
JSngry Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 Plowed all to hell, but with good reason. Good GOD is this a fine record! also plowed all to hell, and also with good reason...apparently Gene Ammons made it happen for the disc's previous owner MANY times, or at least twice for a veeeeerrrryyyyy long time. Quote
paul secor Posted December 10, 2014 Report Posted December 10, 2014 Art Pepper: Intensity (Contemporary) Quote
paul secor Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 Clifford Gibson: Beat You Doing It (Yazoo) Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 Richard Abrams, Level and Degrees of Light (Delmark). Great album. Digging the heavy reverb which was removed for the CD reissue. Indeed, love that one. Now: Cage - Freeman Etudes I-VIII (Zukofsky) - CP2 Quote
JSngry Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 Question - if we are to deny Quincy Jones any real credit for anything good with his name on it, to whom shall we attribute such trite uninspired dreck as the arrangements found here? I really want to know, because Vaughan herself is in incredible form here - but the arrangements nullify all of that. and I'm pretty big on listening past bad production choices. Can't do it here, Boo! I love Brass Fantasy. It's pop music, it really is. Exceptional pop music by one of the grandest thinkers of our time, RIP. Quote
jeffcrom Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 (edited) Wadada Leo Smith - Divine Love (ECM). There's a lot of controversy here about the "ECM sound." All I'll say tonight is that I love how this record sounds. And dinner with Dwight Andrews in a couple of weeks, apparently. I'll try not to embarrass myself. Edited December 11, 2014 by jeffcrom Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 I love the ECM sound! Sure the first few releases were more "experimental" but it's still a very credible label in my book to this day. That Leo Smith album is fantastic. Right now I am listening to "waves" by Terje Rypdal on German vinyl. Earlier was listening to my CD of it but right now the vinyl is sounding much better...I guess it helps that I have a nice little tube preamp for my turntable! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not. Quote
paul secor Posted December 11, 2014 Report Posted December 11, 2014 Ran Blake - Jaki Byard: Improvisations (Soul Note) Quote
mjazzg Posted December 12, 2014 Report Posted December 12, 2014 Jimmy Giuffre Three - River Chant [Choice] each time I listen to this and its partner session I realise just how strong they are. I get the impression they're somewhat overlooked Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 12, 2014 Report Posted December 12, 2014 yeah, I think you're right. Quote
JSngry Posted December 12, 2014 Report Posted December 12, 2014 Choice didn't get a lot of distribution back in the day, at least not where I was. But they had a good catalog, small label, good offerings. The first Giuffre album, the Mosquitoes thing, got a 5-star review in Down Beat, might have even been offered as a subscription premium, but i never saw it in a store, not even in a Peaches. Finally found it used, in the 90s. The second one, I didn't even know about it until it got reissued on CD! Quote
clifford_thornton Posted December 12, 2014 Report Posted December 12, 2014 Kiyoshi Takunaga is a very underrated bassist, and Randy Kaye was quite a special drummer. No reason these records wouldn't be top shelf! Quote
colinmce Posted December 13, 2014 Report Posted December 13, 2014 A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not. As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted December 13, 2014 Report Posted December 13, 2014 A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not. As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Really? How so? I have a mint German vinyl issue and it sounds excellent to me... Quote
Clunky Posted December 13, 2014 Report Posted December 13, 2014 A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not. As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Really? How so? I have a mint German vinyl issue and it sounds excellent to me... Like wise , fine sounding German edition Quote
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