What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Chuck Nessa]

Side 4 not on cd:

[sidewinder]

Sonny Fortune 'Long Before Our Mothers Cried' (Strata-East)

[mjazzg]

BOTTLE BREAKING HEART LEAP - John Butcher & Gino Robair

Extended techniques? Hell yeah!

I bet that's good

[Leeway]

BOTTLE BREAKING HEART LEAP - John Butcher & Gino Robair

Extended techniques? Hell yeah!

I bet that's good

I'll take that bet. I love Butcher's aesthetics. I'm inclined to consider him the finest avant saxophonist on the scene these days.

WP:

OpenMouthRecords#40 I Can Repay You Steve Baczkowski-baritone and tenor saxophone Bill Nace-electric guitar, loops, voice > Side A: Worn in the Grass Side B: Folded > Recorded January 11 2014 by Bill Sack Buffalo NY > 12" LP Edition of 50 Tour Only

Ecstatic, Mind bending.

[paul secor]

Bateria Nota 10: Vol. 8 (Top Tape)

Brazilian percussion

[soulpope]

Side 4 not on cd:

!!!

[jcam_44]

Last night:

Abdullah Ibrahim w/ Carlos Ward - Live at Sweet Basil vol.1 (there was never a vol.2 right?)

and

Jackie McLean - A Ghetto Lullaby (Inner City pressing)

[paul secor]

The Cool Sound of Albert Collins (TCF Hall)

[JSngry]

The Cool Sound of Albert Collins (TCF Hall)

OMG, memories... growing up, I knew a kid my age in Kilgore, Tx that had that record.....he got it from his older brother, who was a guitarist...this was before Albert started recording for Alligator and was still very much a "cult figure"...

Does your copy have any scratches on it? My friend's copy was damn near all scratches, yet you could hear Albert and the bass player like they were right there in the speaker with you. The rest of things, not so much. But this kid lived with his granmother kinda out in the country, still in Kilgore but back off out of the way just a bit...his brother had given him a lot of records, shit I had never heard of before like Willis Jackson records with Pat Azarra, stuff like that, and they were all scratched all to hell and his record player had no pity on the records either, if you know what I mean. But dammit, they played, and few played louder or prouder through the scratches than this one...I still have memories of "Frosty" just SCREAMING right after dinner time (his grandmother cooked SERIOUS old-school meals, you didn't get bread unless you were having a sandwich, otherwise, you got cornbread), through the scratches and the screens and out onto the front porch into the almost night...probably not meaningful to anybody else, but damn, just seeing that cover took me all the way back to a whole 'nother time and place all of a sudden.

You know, those types of records were not mastered like other records. Those types of records knew what they were in for even before they were born.

[paul secor]

The Cool Sound of Albert Collins (TCF Hall)

OMG, memories... growing up, I knew a kid my age in Kilgore, Tx that had that record.....he got it from his older brother, who was a guitarist...this was before Albert started recording for Alligator and was still very much a "cult figure"...

Does your copy have any scratches on it? My friend's copy was damn near all scratches, yet you could hear Albert and the bass player like they were right there in the speaker with you. The rest of things, not so much. But this kid lived with his granmother kinda out in the country, still in Kilgore but back off out of the way just a bit...his brother had given him a lot of records, shit I had never heard of before like Willis Jackson records with Pat Azarra, stuff like that, and they were all scratched all to hell and his record player had no pity on the records either, if you know what I mean. But dammit, they played, and few played louder or prouder through the scratches than this one...I still have memories of "Frosty" just SCREAMING right after dinner time (his grandmother cooked SERIOUS old-school meals, you didn't get bread unless you were having a sandwich, otherwise, you got cornbread), through the scratches and the screens and out onto the front porch into the almost night...probably not meaningful to anybody else, but damn, just seeing that cover took me all the way back to a whole 'nother time and place all of a sudden.

You know, those types of records were not mastered like other records. Those types of records knew what they were in for even before they were born.

My copy is near mint. I hadn't listened to it in a few years but, listening today, I know what you're saying. The record sounds ALIVE. Glad to bring back some good memories to you.

Great story.

Edited May 27, 2015 by paul secor

[NIS]

[HutchFan]

Earlier today while at work, I listened to a few tracks from this recording via YouTube.

Now I'm at home, and I'm listening to the entire LP. (It's Cobblestone vinyl from '72.)

My son just walked by and said, "Hmm, that sounds good."

[HutchFan]

And now this again:

(Flying Dutchman, 1976)

Jackie McLean - A Ghetto Lullaby (Inner City pressing)

Great record!

Edited May 27, 2015 by HutchFan

[Homefromtheforest]

Enrico Rava "jazz a confronto" (Horo). Never was in a hurry to buy this title over the years but just recently found it for a cheap price. It's good but not nearly as nice as some of his Japo or ECM sessions from the same era. Typically stale Horo production values don't help.

Andrew Hill "black fire" (blue note, mono "ear" USA). For nearly 20 years dealt with an ugly dark blue 70s label issue; finally found a nice original mono copy that did not break the bank. Roy Haynes!!

[Clunky]

Enrico Rava "jazz a confronto" (Horo). Never was in a hurry to buy this title over the years but just recently found it for a cheap price. It's good but not nearly as nice as some of his Japo or ECM sessions from the same era. Typically stale Horo production values don't help.

Andrew Hill "black fire" (blue note, mono "ear" USA). For nearly 20 years dealt with an ugly dark blue 70s label issue; finally found a nice original mono copy that did not break the bank. Roy Haynes!!

I must re listen to Rava's Horo, I recall being very impressed with it.

[soulpope]

Earlier today while at work, I listened to a few tracks from this recording via YouTube.

Now I'm at home, and I'm listening to the entire LP. (It's Cobblestone vinyl from '72.)

My son just walked by and said, "Hmm, that sounds good."

believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad ....

[Clunky]

Earlier today while at work, I listened to a few tracks from this recording via YouTube.

Now I'm at home, and I'm listening to the entire LP. (It's Cobblestone vinyl from '72.)

My son just walked by and said, "Hmm, that sounds good."

believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad ....

My only ever experience of something like was playing my then ten year old some Cecil Taylor. I asked him what he heard . After listening for several minutes he said that at first it sounded entirely random but he realised there was underlying melody with an ebb/flow. ?

He didn't say whether he liked it. My guess was not ?

[HutchFan]

Earlier today while at work, I listened to a few tracks from this recording via YouTube.

Now I'm at home, and I'm listening to the entire LP. (It's Cobblestone vinyl from '72.)

My son just walked by and said, "Hmm, that sounds good."

believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad ....

My only ever experience of something like was playing my then ten year old some Cecil Taylor. I asked him what he heard . After listening for several minutes he said that at first it sounded entirely random but he realised there was underlying melody with an ebb/flow.

He didn't say whether he liked it. My guess was not

My son is 19 now, home for the summer after his first year of college. He's a guitarist, inspired by Hendrix especially. But he also likes jazz, and his interest in it seems to be growing.

My wife likes jazz too. I'm lucky.

[soulpope]

Earlier today while at work, I listened to a few tracks from this recording via YouTube.

Now I'm at home, and I'm listening to the entire LP. (It's Cobblestone vinyl from '72.)

My son just walked by and said, "Hmm, that sounds good."

believe that`s always a good experience for "collector" dad ....

My only ever experience of something like was playing my then ten year old some Cecil Taylor. I asked him what he heard . After listening for several minutes he said that at first it sounded entirely random but he realised there was underlying melody with an ebb/flow.

He didn't say whether he liked it. My guess was not

[mjazzg]

Cecil Taylor - One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye [Hat Art]

Edited May 27, 2015 by mjazzg

[JSngry]

Buster Williams playing those grooves on wood does make a difference.

And Side 2, all straight-ahead, visual sound stereo jazz, unambiguously.

[JSngry]

1967 Gospel from Checker. This guy is not at all a good singer, more than one note and things start getting iffy, but - album supervised by Ralph Bass, and most interestingly, produced, arranged, and mostly written by Sonny Thompson. So the tracks are solid as hell, more than the singing itself would seem to justify.

And I swear to god (pun intended), The Dells are singing background on one track here, the "jazzy" Dells.

Gotta be a story here, somewhere.

[soulpope]

1967 Gospel from Checker. This guy is not at all a good singer, more than one note and things start getting iffy, but - album supervised by Ralph Bass, and most interestingly, produced, arranged, and mostly written by Sonny Thompson. So the tracks are solid as hell, more than the singing itself would seem to justify.

And I swear to god (pun intended), The Dells are singing background on one track here, the "jazzy" Dells.

Gotta be a story here, somewhere.

can`t find the release date of this platter, but must be around 1967 - as the Dells signed with Cadet 1966 and and inter alias became the touring vocal backup group for Ray Charles, it is possible they also were "moonlighting" on the O W Brown release .... their first Cadet LP "There Is" was released in 1967 ......

[clifford_thornton]

Enrico Rava "jazz a confronto" (Horo). Never was in a hurry to buy this title over the years but just recently found it for a cheap price. It's good but not nearly as nice as some of his Japo or ECM sessions from the same era. Typically stale Horo production values don't help.

I must re listen to Rava's Horo, I recall being very impressed with it.

I like it quite a bit.

[Homefromtheforest]

I listened to it again; I still prefer the Japo and ECM material from this vintage

Something about the production sort of bugs me...sounds muffled/flat.

Oh well different strokes...