What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[aparxa]

[paul secor]

Michael Hurley: Fatboy Spring (Mississippi)

[jeffcrom]

Sun Ra - Oblique Parallax / Journey Stars Beyond (Saturn). Lots of label and cover variations on this one. Mine has this label in a plain black sleeve. Besides Ra, hornist Vincent Chancey is the star of this record.

[jeffcrom]

Sun Ra - Media Dream (El Saturn). Again, lots of cover variations. The only usable picture of the one I have is turned sideways; lean your head to the right to see what it looks like. I love the music, which is from the 1978 quartet tour of Italy.

Later, toward the end of side two: This album is so bizarre. Bizarre is good; I love it.

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Outings (Ismez/RAI). Solo/overdubbed soprano sax from 1986.

Later, toward the end of side two again (sorry): Side one, "Labyrinth," is very good. Side two, "Island," is just amazing.

Edited December 23, 2015 by jeffcrom

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

3 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

 

 

 

--- re the saturns....nice

Edited December 23, 2015 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez

[paul secor]

Coltrane (impuse) mono

[BillF]

15 minutes ago, paul secor said:

Coltrane (impuse) mono

I always remember that as a winning Trane album!

[jeffcrom]

Joanne Brackeen - Ancient Dynasty (Columbia/Tappan Zee)

[ghost of miles]

The Herbie Nichols and Art Pepper Mosaics (picked up used last weekend).

[jeffcrom]

 

I was feeling tired and logy, so I decided to spin a bunch of jazz 45s - singles and EPs - to get me stirring and on my feet every three to six minutes. It worked, and I heard some great music.

Chico Hamilton (Sesac Repertory). A 1959 EP with Eric Dolphy.

Tony Scott - Swinging in Sweden (RCA). A nice little EP I picked up in Copenhagen. Some of the best work I've heard from Scott.

Benny Carter - Cruisin'/Lullaby in Blue (RCA Victor, 1952)

Shorty Rogers & His Giants (RCA Victor). Excellent music in excellent condition, from 1954, with Giuffre, Jolly, Counce, and Manne.

Edmond Hall - Edmund Hall with Gustav Brom Orchestra (Supraphon). Hall in great form in 1960 with a Czech big band. But I hope Brom's band was never asked to swing their way out of a wet paper bag.

Edmond Hall (Argentinian Columbia). An even better EP with a good Argentinian rhythm section, recorded in 1957 while Hall was on a South American tour with Louis Armstrong. My copy is inscribed (in pencil) by Hall to his doctor, O. A. Fulcher.

George Lewis with Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band (Storyville). Lewis is near the top of his game on these 1959 Danish recordings, and Papa Bue's band could nearly pass for New Orleanians.

Ken Colyer's Jazz Men (Storyville). A 1953 EP by the classic early lineup of Colyer's band, with Chris Barber and Monty Sunshine. I found this in a tiny record store in a city I really love, Malmö, Sweden.

 

[kh1958]

Stanley Turrentine, , Don't Mess with Mr. T (CTI)

[sidewinder]

5 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

The Herbie Nichols and Art Pepper Mosaics (picked up used last weekend).

Nice find !

[jeffcrom]

Red Callender - Swingin' Suite (Crown)

[paul secor]

Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys (Rounder)

[aparxa]

[jeffcrom]

Introducing Jimmy Cleveland

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Introducing Jimmy Cleveland

Always liked this track:

Cleveland could be lovely on ballads. When I bought this album as a high school sophomore back in 1957-8,  the clerk in the record department of the stationary store (an attractive and seemingly very grown up senior girl) said to me after I'd played this track that she really liked it, doing so with a certain romantic vibe that suggested she liked me too for playing it. I walked out of that store on a cloud. 

Getting back to Cleveland on ballads, check out his "If You Could See Me Now" and "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" with Gil Evans.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnxt8AK69iY

[JSngry]

She might have been dropping a hint...what time did she get off work?

[Larry Kart]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

She might have been dropping a hint...what time did she get off work?

Too late now.

[JSngry]

No doubt, but let's revisit the story from the angle of "record department of the stationary store"...they had that where you grew up, did they? I swear, records used to be everywhere!

[Larry Kart]

Yup -- L&A Stationers in Winnetka, Il.; they had a nice stock, jazz was popular then. Actually, there were very few record stores per se in my area in the '50s. Another place where I used to get 45s was a TV and appliance store. Remember buying the Basie-Joe Williams "Smack Dab in the Middle" there -- "Gimme oodles of butter, gangs of meat, gallons of coffee, and somethin' sweet..."

 

[JSngry]

Yeah, we had furniture stores and a Firestone that sold records, the era of the small town rack jobber, must've been a wild life...In a town of about 7,000, I can think of at least 6 places where you could buy records of one kind or another, some current, some old, some off-brand, but all of them there and ready to be bought, drug stores, dime stores newsstands, grocery stores, seems like you could buy records any time you left the house, go out for a gallon of milk and an Elvis 45, or something like that.

[jeffcrom]

And every Woolworth's and SS Kresge had a rack of cut-out LPs. With patience, you could find some amazing stuff.

Now playing:

Sam Rivers - The Quest (Pausa). This could also go in the "Great LPs which never made it to CD" thread, but there's already several Sam Rivers mentions there. In any case, I would hate to have to pick a single Sam Rivers album to take to a desert island. But if I did, this might be it. Maybe.

[Chuck Nessa]

Got my first 12 inch lp from a wire rack in a Super Value grocery in Story City, Iowa (population 1500) in 1956.