What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[John Tapscott]

[kh1958]

Howard Rumsey's All Stars, volume 4 (Contemporary ten inch), and Woody Herman, Ridin' Herd (Columbia ten inch).

[Homefromtheforest]

Kenny Clarke "Bohemia after dark" (savoy, Canadian pressing but has original B&W laminated cover)

[paul secor]

Black Cat Trail (Mamlish)

[John Tapscott]

[Royal Oak]

14 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Do you mean sad/poor or sad/melancholy?

Sorry, melancholy. Wynton Kelly having to play that crappy piano.

Edited March 14, 2016 by rdavenport

[paul secor]

Chicago Slickers 1948-1953 (Nighthawk)

[paul secor]

Milt Hinton: Here Swings the Judge (Famous Door)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

on the way to spin later: 

 

 

there were 12 bids but i got for 17, only like 2 dollars higher than the previous bid-- i guess everyone was bidding, but everybody was also lowballin' cause it was trip, lol.  ive been waitin for a while for this one to pop up on ebay, theres 3 lps total from this famous lee date and this is the one that i havent seen on ebay yet  i was worried cause it was from the esteemed 'funkyousounds' seller (who has everythingggggg)-- but i totally got it.  

 

the other lp is the one w/ the red cover and contains 1 song per side, side 2 being rakin' n scrapin. 

 

the other lp has multiple options--- the japan press, the trip press, and the phoenix press, this one is called 'speedball'. --- for this one i go w/ the phoenix, the vinyl quality is obviosly way better than the trip (i think its from 1980).  SQ is astounding so i never really picked up the trip version, but if i saw it locally id probably get it

 

 

the cd set still i think has a little more material, so that is still necessary too btw, k

[sidewinder]

Whenever I see those Trip lps they remind me of the Jazz wasteland which was the mid 1970s when fusion ruled, Blue Note LPs had gone into semi-permanent hibernation and the likes of Xanadu and Muse were just gearing up. I guess the cover art budget didn't extend beyond loan of a photocopier.. 

[Clunky]

 

Arild Anderson---Shimri-----(ECM W.Germany) rec 1977 with Juhani Aaltonen and Lars Jansson.

 

At its best when Juhani doesn't play the flute. When he does it has a dreamy like effect of being lost in a Norwegian forrest in the depth of winter.  Personally I prefer his more muscular tenor sax playing. Jansson is great on piano.

[aparxa]

 

groovin' high:

 

 

[Clunky]

1 hour ago, aparxa said:

 

groovin' high:

 

 

How's the Zagreb LP. I've hesitated picking this up in the past . Attracted by the cool Jazz Life cover but wary of the image of this being cocktail lounge music. 

 

Currently spinning 

 

Lucky Thompson----Plays Jerome Kern and no more---(Moodsville) not the world's best pressing.....

[Clunky]

 

Walter Zuber Armstrong/Steve Lacy -----Alter Ego, Duets-----(World Artists) rec 1979 BIMHouse

 

New arrival picked up on the basis of Lacy - seems quite interesting so far.

[jeffcrom]

2 hours ago, Clunky said:

 

Walter Zuber Armstrong/Steve Lacy -----Alter Ego, Duets-----(World Artists) rec 1979 BIMHouse

 

New arrival picked up on the basis of Lacy - seems quite interesting so far.

Had a negative reaction to that one and haven't played it in years; I sometimes even cite this as the only Steve Lacy album I don't like. But that's not really fair, because like I say, it's been years since I've heard it. I need to pull it off the shelves and give it a spin soon. I suspect it's a lot better than I remember.

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Had a negative reaction to that one and haven't played it in years; I sometimes even cite this as the only Steve Lacy album I don't like. But that's not really fair, because like I say, it's been years since I've heard it. I need to pull it off the shelves and give it a spin soon. I suspect it's a lot better than I remember.

I had it years ago and could never get into it. No longer have it.

[clifford_thornton]

Never picked this one up. The duo with Michael J. Smith also disappointed for the brief period it occupied my shelves. Maybe I should try that one again at least.

[jeffcrom]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Never picked this one up. The duo with Michael J. Smith also disappointed for the brief period it occupied my shelves. Maybe I should try that one again at least.

That's funny - I've always liked that one. I think I've said around here somewhere that I think Michael played Lacy's compositions - as compositions - better than any other pianist.  Which, of course, is not the same as saying that he was the best pianist to play with Lacy.

[aparxa]

6 hours ago, Clunky said:

How's the Zagreb LP. I've hesitated picking this up in the past . Attracted by the cool Jazz Life cover but wary of the image of this being cocktail lounge music. 

Elegant! Reminiscent of Porgy and Bess from  MJQ with balkan tones. No breathtaking stuff, but no elevator music in my opinion.

[Clunky]

4 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Had a negative reaction to that one and haven't played it in years; I sometimes even cite this as the only Steve Lacy album I don't like. But that's not really fair, because like I say, it's been years since I've heard it. I need to pull it off the shelves and give it a spin soon. I suspect it's a lot better than I remember.

I'd be interested in you thoughts upon renewed acquaintance. It has overtones of Cherry/Rollins in that Armstrong comes from a more bluesy place than Lacy. The connection between what each of them plays isn't immediately obvious (to me at least). Still found enough to enjoy though. 

41 minutes ago, aparxa said:

Elegant! Reminiscent of Porgy and Bess from  MJQ with balkan tones. No breathtaking stuff, but no elevator music in my opinion.

Thanks , I'll try to remember that next time I see a copy

[paul secor]

The College Concert of Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen (Impulse mono)

[jeffcrom]

12 hours ago, Clunky said:

 

Walter Zuber Armstrong/Steve Lacy -----Alter Ego, Duets-----(World Artists) rec 1979 BIMHouse

Spinning tonight - and as I suspected, I'm finding more to enjoy than in the past. It's still in the bottom ten per cent of Lacy's output, as far as quality goes, and it certainly makes a better case for Lacy's flexibility and musicality than for Armstrong's. It's two musicians taking parallel paths that never quite intersect, although Lacy takes more steps toward Armstrong's world than Armstrong does toward Lacy's. I agree about the blues content of much of what Armstrong plays - that the aspect of his playing I enjoy the most.

It looks like Armstrong lived and taught in Bellingham, Washington, where some of my wife's family lives, and where I'll probably end up when she retires. I'll be there in a few days, in fact.

I'm glad I listened to this tonight, although it will probably be a few more years before I spin it again.

[paul secor]

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

The College Concert of Pee Wee Russell and Henry Red Allen (Impulse mono)

 

23 hours ago, paul secor said:

Milt Hinton: Here Swings the Judge (Famous Door)

Some great playing by the horns on both of these, but I found myself tuned in to the masterful bass playing on each.

[jeffcrom]

Whitey Mitchell Sextette (ABC Paramount). Some very different Steve Lacy here; he was only 21 years, but already the most interesting and accomplished soloist here.

[jeffcrom]

Female Blues Singers - Volume B3 (Fantasy by Selmerphone). A valuable LP, on the predecessor to the Document label. Here are the complete known recordings of Marie Bradley, Evelyn Brickey, Florence Bristol, Ada Brown, Ardell "Shelly" Bragg, and Alberta Brown. Bradley, Bragg, and Alberta Brown are very good. I bought this album at the Louisiana Music Factory years ago after hearing one of the two Alberta Brown tracks on WWOZ. Her only released 78 was recorded in New Orleans in 1928, with a great quartet (trumpet, clarinet, piano, tuba) accompanying. The instrumentalists are often given as members of the Halfway House Orchestra, who recorded for Columbia the day before, but I think it's four of Johnny Miller's New Orleans Frolickers, who recorded the same day, only a few matrices later. That would make them Sharkey Bonano, Siidney Arodin, Johnny Miller, and Chink Martin. In any case, her voice is strong, if a little on the hard side.

Texas singer Ardell Bragg's voice was limited, but loose and flexible. The most interesting of her eight tracks is "Bird Nest Blues," the tune Charley Patton was trying to copy with his "Bird Nest Bound." He misunderstood Bragg's lyrics - Bragg's song is more coherent, but Patton's is more poetic.

I couldn't find a picture of this album online.