What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, Homefromtheforest said:

I just love this album but only own the original 6-eye stereo in mint condition.  How's the sound on this one?  

Excellent sound, to my ears. Have no idea if it's on the level of the original, but this includes the extra tracks that were issued on the CD issue.

Should add that I love the album too - some of my favorite Messengers.

Edited November 7, 2015 by paul secor

[paul secor]

Jay McShann: Tuxedo Junction (Sackville)

[kh1958]

Sonny Stitt, So Doggone Good (Prestige). Actually it is, a solid quartet date with Hampton Hawes on piano.

[clifford_thornton]

John Coltrane - Africa/Brass - (Impulse, Japanese stereo)

[mjazzg]

Michael Naura Quintet - European Jazz Sounds [Brunswick/Atelier Sawano]

[paul secor]

Count Basie: Chairman of the Board (Roulette/Classic)

Within the past couple of days I've listened to Atomic Basie and this record. To my ears, Chairman is the better of the two, even if Atomic Basie is better known.

[corto maltese]

On 5-11-2015 22:00:52, clifford_thornton said:

Harth's catalogue is really quite fascinating, though much of it falls outside of the specific 'free improvisation' realm that we're talking here. He's made a lot of CD-R samplers and collections of archival material available, which I'm thankful to have been provided over the years. I interviewed Harth for AAJ and have reviewed a number of his releases.

You're right - MJQK and FMO records can be pricey. I think Position 2000 was the only one that I paid through the nose for, however. It's a particularly excellent date, though I will say that one problem with these early '70s German private pressings is that they're not as audiophile as one might hope. All of mine are M- visually but have some inherent noise. I'd also pick up Eight Science Fiction Stories if you see it, as the music's feel is certainly quite Dixonian in nature.

The first Herbert Joos on JAPO is a cheap LP and certainly worth hearing. That was a gateway drug to MJQK and FMO. 

You might have been unlucky with some copies you got, Clifford, because generally speaking those German records you mention, including the private label issues, are really top-notch recordings ànd pressings.

[clifford_thornton]

Perhaps that's true - they look unplayed and all come from different collections. I mean, they're not BYG-bad but noticeably a little noisy. I'm not sweating it too much though, just one of the perils of buying used LPs... and I consider myself lucky to be able to hear this music, far away from Germany, in 2015.

[paul secor]

Don Cherry: Art Deco (A&M)

Don Cherry, James Clay, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins are no longer with us, but before they left, they gave us this wondrous gift.

[jeffcrom]

   

Three albums which apparently, according to my pictures, get progressively larger:

Muhal Richard Abrams - Things to Come From Those Now Gone (Delmark)

Horace Parlan - Movin' & Groovin' (Classic). A nice audiophile pressing that was a birthday present from my wife

Stanley Turrentine - Mr. Natural (BN Rainbow)

Edited November 11, 2015 by jeffcrom

[clifford_thornton]

Phil Yost - Touchwood's Dream - (North Star, US orig)

[sidewinder]

On 9 November 2015 at 20:45:41, mjazzg said:

Michael Naura Quintet - European Jazz Sounds [Brunswick/Atelier Sawano]

Sawano did a great job on that one.

[jeffcrom]

Hamiet Bluiett - Endangered Species (India Navigation)

[Chuck Nessa]

wish I still had the India Nav vinyl.

[jeffcrom]

The Legendary Buster Smith (Atlantic black label mono). A beautiful copy of a beautiful record.

[jeffcrom]

Bill Jennings - Glide On. Prestige mono fireworks record in this Status cover.

[kh1958]

Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers (Columbia, two eyes)

[Homefromtheforest]

Joe Henderson "inner urge" (blue note ny USA stereo ear) my favorite Henderson blue note along with "our thing"

Akira Miyazawa "Kiso" (Victor, Japan orig) simply amazing...incredible album

[Homefromtheforest]

Steve Lacy/Yuji Takahashi/Takehisa Kosugi "distant voices" (Columbia, Japan). A masterpiece.

[sidewinder]

George Braith 'Extension' (BN NY USA, stereo)

[paul secor]

8 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

The Legendary Buster Smith (Atlantic black label mono). A beautiful copy of a beautiful record.

Picked that one up almost 50 years ago (that's scary to think about). Another one due for a listen after too long a time.

[BillF]

Yes, I remember it from way back then. Gave it another listen recently on Spotify after reading a great deal about Smith in Stanley Crouch's biography of Charlie Parker's early years.

[John Tapscott]

On 11/9/2015, 5:04:29, paul secor said:

Count Basie: Chairman of the Board (Roulette/Classic)

Within the past couple of days I've listened to Atomic Basie and this record. To my ears, Chairman is the better of the two, even if Atomic Basie is better known.

It is the better of the two, no doubt in my mind. Chairman is one of the best albums the NT Basie Band ever made IMO, arguably the best.  

Edited November 12, 2015 by John Tapscott

[paul secor]

Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong (Columbia)

[jeffcrom]

Wadada Leo Smith - The Mass on the World (Moers)