What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[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...

[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.

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 ......

Yeah, 1967 sounds feels exactly right. The Dells are on just one cut, but they're...obvious, if you know what I mean. Those guys would take the gigs, money in the bank. Hits are not guaranteed, session fees are, math FTW, and ideally, both. As it was for them. I love The Dells, truthfully, just as/because The Dells. Weren't but one The Dells, and they were always them.

Also of "collector's interest" on this one is the presence of a Chess/Checker Gospel inner sleeve, one side all C.F. Franklin albums, the other,, not C.F. Franklin albums. I've neither seen nor had one of those before, so...very cool "object", and valuable-ish as document, I might think. A lot of gospel music records just get lost/forgotten about, and that is inevitably a distortion of American Music in general, Great Black Music in particular. Inner sleeves like this are that many that won't be completely forgotten, not just yet.

But this O.W. Brown cat...not really happening at all, and on a label where pretty much everybody was happening...not sure what that was all about. But...Sonny Thompson!

[Homefromtheforest]

Anthony Braxton "four compositions 1973" (Columbia, Japan)

[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 ......

Yeah, 1967 sounds feels exactly right. The Dells are on just one cut, but they're...obvious, if you know what I mean. Those guys would take the gigs, money in the bank. Hits are not guaranteed, session fees are, math FTW, and ideally, both. As it was for them. I love The Dells, truthfully, just as/because The Dells. Weren't but one The Dells, and they were always them.

Also of "collector's interest" on this one is the presence of a Chess/Checker Gospel inner sleeve, one side all C.F. Franklin albums, the other,, not C.F. Franklin albums. I've neither seen nor had one of those before, so...very cool "object", and valuable-ish as document, I might think. A lot of gospel music records just get lost/forgotten about, and that is inevitably a distortion of American Music in general, Great Black Music in particular. Inner sleeves like this are that many that won't be completely forgotten, not just yet.

But this O.W. Brown cat...not really happening at all, and on a label where pretty much everybody was happening...not sure what that was all about. But...Sonny Thompson!

the Dells indeed are/were special and IMO one of the vocal groups who mastered the crossover from 60`s to 70`s soul in style ....

[Clunky]

Manny Albam -----Jazz New York------(Dot)

Typical Manny arrangements with snippets of Gene Quill and Eddie Costa to make it worthwhile.

[sidewinder]

Art Farmer 'Maiden Voyage' (Nippon Columbia)

[Clunky]

John Carisi ---- The New Jazz sound of Show Boat------(Columbia)

Guitar 'choir ' plus Phil Woods. Carisi on trumpet. Interesting arrangements but ultimately not really too challenging. Carisi plays delicately but it's the massed guitars you tend to remember.

[jcam_44]

Jug and Dodo!!!

[kh1958]

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse) and Music of Richard Rodgers Played by America's Greatest Jazzmen (Moodsville 35).

[clifford_thornton]

Alice Cooper - Pretties for You - (Straight, US orig)

[Homefromtheforest]

I watched that Alice Cooper documentary not too long ago; was pretty interesting!

[clifford_thornton]

I bet; the first three LPs are rad, but I have a hard time being interested after that.

[HutchFan]

[optatio]

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Now this:

[sidewinder]

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis 'Potpourri' (Philly International)

Edited May 31, 2015 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis 'Potpourri' (Philly International)

Did you get a clean-ish copy of this? If so, is it an American pressing?

Over the last few years, I've gone through three looking for one that's not making popcorn while the music plays and have pretty much given up.

[BillF]

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis 'Potpourri' (Philly International)

Did you get a clean-ish copy of this? If so, is it an American pressing?

Over the last few years, I've gone through three looking for one that's not making popcorn while the music plays and have pretty much given up.

Bought mine used in the seventies (American pressing) and it's fine.