clifford_thornton Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Rod Levitt - Insight - (RCA Victor, stereo) Quote
kh1958 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Art Farmer, Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic mono, Japanese) Quote
Leeway Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Amanaz - Africa - (Now Again, US reissue) great remastering although the pressing could be better. Still, what a great album. I picked that up on RSD but haven't spun it yet. Which version do you prefer? Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 I actually like the version with less reverb - which surprised me. Had the crappy Shadoks boot, which was pretty dim-sounding. Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. It was originally a 10" album by New Orleans trombonist Jack Delaney on the Southland label. By the time it got reissued on GHB (Jazzology's "New Orleans" label before they aquired American Music), it was given a new cover with Pete Fountain's name and picture. And while the GHB is a 12" LP, it still only has the original four tracks on each side - about 24 minutes of music total. But like I said, the music is really good. Side one has a 1955 session with Alvin Alcorn on trumpet and Pete Fountain at his Irving Fazola-inspired best. Side two is a 1953 session with Raymond Burke on clarinet and the great Lee Collins on trumpet - his last recording, I believe. I sound this at the late, lamented Magic Bus on Conti Street in the French Quarter back in the 1990s when I was trying to get as complete a Lee Collins collection as possible. Quote
HutchFan Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. ... Not "grim" at all! What's not to like about traditional music from New Orleans?!?!?! Edited May 5, 2015 by HutchFan Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. ... Not "grim" at all! What's not to like about traditional music from New Orleans?!?!?! Oh, everybody here knows that I love New Orleans music. I just meant that the title is pretty off-putting, and the abitrary credit to Pete Fountain, who is only a sideman on one side, is misleading and annoying. Quote
johnblitweiler Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Jeff, Magic Bus is where I found some American Music CDs that I used to cherish. Did anyone (apart possibly from LA Music Factory) ever take Magic Bus's placer? Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Jeff, Magic Bus is where I found some American Music CDs that I used to cherish. Did anyone (apart possibly from LA Music Factory) ever take Magic Bus's placer? No, and there are really no decent record stores in the French Quarter now. (The Louisiana Music Factory is still great, but they have moved across Esplanade to Frenchmen Street in the Marigny nieghborhood.) Magic Bus has been gone five or six years now; I think that the space was still vacant the last time I walked by. The incredible Record Ron's (Ron had two French Quarter locations) disappeared when Ron died in 1996. There was a messy, disorganized store, the name of which I can't think of right now, on Decatur Street near Esplanade that I visited for nearly 20 years, but they are also now closed. Magic Bus was always my second favorite New Orleans record store, after the Lousiana Music Factory. Probably my best score there was a complete Bix Beiderbecke CD set on the Italian IRD label for 60 bucks. Besides the Music Factory, there are still a couple of good record stores in New Orleans. There's a branch of Euclid Records in the Bywater neighborhood. And Jim Russell's Rare Records on Magazine Street is an experience not to be missed, for those with a certain degree of patience. The arrangement and pricing of the records is totally random and arbitrary. But I've found some incredible stuff there, and their selection of New Orleans R & B 45s is jaw-dropping. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Listening to a new OJC 150 gram reissue of Monk's Brilliant Corners. Just dandy, though the cover could have been done better. Edited May 6, 2015 by Chuck Nessa Quote
Clunky Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Duke Jordan--------Jazz laboratory series, Do it yourself Jazz Vol.1-------(Savoy) Side 1 one has the piano trio (Duke Jordan, Oscar P. & Klook)and is pretty pointless given that a soloist is obviously missing. The soloist in question is Gigi Gryce who is added on side 2. From the liners it appears that Gryce's contributions were overdubbed. If you ignore side 1 you have some nicely recorded and played hardbop. Gryce is superb playing in his earlier style which is less bluesy than it became as he moved to Prestige. Next up will be DIY Vol.2 which has Hall Overton on piano and Phil Woods on alto. A better combination would be the quartet sides on one LP. IIRC it has been issued in that way ( possibly on the original Signal edition) Quote
mjazzg Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Sakata, Parker, McBride, Herndon - In A Babble [Presspop Music] Quote
mjazzg Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Brotzmann, Adasiewicz - Mollie's in the Mood [bro] Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Good record. Also the only Mollie I ever knew well seemed never to be in the mood... Quote
JSngry Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Duke Jordan--------Jazz laboratory series, Do it yourself Jazz Vol.1-------(Savoy) Side 1 one has the piano trio (Duke Jordan, Oscar P. & Klook)and is pretty pointless given that a soloist is obviously missing. The soloist in question is Gigi Gryce who is added on side 2. From the liners it appears that Gryce's contributions were overdubbed. If you ignore side 1 you have some nicely recorded and played hardbop. Gryce is superb playing in his earlier style which is less bluesy than it became as he moved to Prestige. Next up will be DIY Vol.2 which has Hall Overton on piano and Phil Woods on alto. A better combination would be the quartet sides on one LP. IIRC it has been issued in that way ( possibly on the original Signal edition) I may be wrong, but when that series came out on Signal, weren't they positioned as play-along/Music-Minus-One-ish records? Agreed that releasing them in that form to the general audience is kinda ripoffy, but hello Herman Lubinsky, etc. MMO (and at least some of the earlier Aebersold) records were recorded with the soloist in an isolation booth, or highly baffled (hahaha) so as not to be heard on the play-along material. Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Matthias Eick "Midwest" (ECM, Germany). This is such a beautiful album... Quote
Homefromtheforest Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Bent Jadig "Danish jazzman 1967" (Debut/Think!, Japan). One of those deluxe exact replica Japanese reissues..great album and top notch sound and sleeve costing a tiny fraction of what an original would set me back! Quote
colinmce Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Matthias Eick "Midwest" (ECM, Germany). This is such a beautiful album... You've convinced me to pick it up. Also am a diehard Midwesterner who's homesick so that sways me too! Quote
mjazzg Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 I've just ordered it too and I've no mid-western connections. Your enthusiasm is infectious.......I do really like his previous two so it's not such a great leap Quote
sidewinder Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Duke Jordan--------Jazz laboratory series, Do it yourself Jazz Vol.1-------(Savoy) Side 1 one has the piano trio (Duke Jordan, Oscar P. & Klook)and is pretty pointless given that a soloist is obviously missing. The soloist in question is Gigi Gryce who is added on side 2. From the liners it appears that Gryce's contributions were overdubbed. If you ignore side 1 you have some nicely recorded and played hardbop. Gryce is superb playing in his earlier style which is less bluesy than it became as he moved to Prestige. Next up will be DIY Vol.2 which has Hall Overton on piano and Phil Woods on alto. A better combination would be the quartet sides on one LP. IIRC it has been issued in that way ( possibly on the original Signal edition) I'd like to hear the Hall Overton. I have the Gryce/Jordan on Signal and it comes with a booklet for the students. Quote
HutchFan Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) Duke Jordan--------Jazz laboratory series, Do it yourself Jazz Vol.1-------(Savoy) Side 1 one has the piano trio (Duke Jordan, Oscar P. & Klook)and is pretty pointless given that a soloist is obviously missing. The soloist in question is Gigi Gryce who is added on side 2. From the liners it appears that Gryce's contributions were overdubbed. If you ignore side 1 you have some nicely recorded and played hardbop. Gryce is superb playing in his earlier style which is less bluesy than it became as he moved to Prestige. Next up will be DIY Vol.2 which has Hall Overton on piano and Phil Woods on alto. A better combination would be the quartet sides on one LP. IIRC it has been issued in that way ( possibly on the original Signal edition) I'd like to hear the Hall Overton. I have the Gryce/Jordan on Signal and it comes with a booklet for the students. I have this music on the 2 LP set pictured below, reissued by Arista in the 70s: This set also includes Gryce's "Nica's Tempo" sides with Thelonious. These were also originally released on Signal. Edited May 7, 2015 by HutchFan Quote
sidewinder Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Ah yes, the 'Signals' set. Nice one - will have to snag a copy. Quote
Kevin Bresnahan Posted May 7, 2015 Report Posted May 7, 2015 Roy Eldridge - Richie Kamuca Quintet - Comin' Home Baby (Pumpkin Productions) - Recorded live at the Half Note August 22, 1965 & March 25, 1966 but remained unissued until 1978. Eldridge - trumpet Kamuca - tenor Dick Katz - piano Tommy Potter - bass* Eddie Locke - drums * Potter replaced by Don Moore on the 2 tracks recorded on March 25, 1966. This is an interesting date that I bought much more Kamuca's presence than Eldridge. It almost seems like they alternate songs for who's featured. The pianist-turned-producer plays a decent piano, if a little out of tune in places. The earlier stuff is in better sound. I wonder if there is more somewhere? I'd really like to hear it. What I have here is very good. Roy Eldridge-Richie Kamuca 'Comin' ome Baby' (Pumpkin) BTW, I've been looking for this for some time.... Quote
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