What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[soulpope]

[Royal Oak]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Tecnically A&M/CTI, but still, those are two very deceptively great recrds, Imo, with the first one not available on CD at anything resembling a reasonable price,too bad about that.

Don't shy away from Desmond's CTI/CTI albums either, although they are on the whole less "productions" than the A&M ones.

What kind of a release was this anyway, "Mayfair", curious about that.

You know, there is no sign of "Mayfair" anywhere but the front cover. It's a British record - the back cover states A&M, distributed by Pye Records. The labels have A&M, CTI and Creed Taylor's signature printed on them. The liner notes are fairly brief, with no band line-ups mentioned. I do like side 2, the tracks from "From the Hot Afternoon". 

Mine isn't this version, it's a British reissue from the 80s. Yet another player I've never previously heard, and probably wouldn't have bought.  

[paul secor]

5 hours ago, soulpope said:

The first Eric Dolphy I heard - great then and still a great one.

[Clunky]

Wynton Kelly/----Kelly blue------( Riverside) stereo ,dg,

Better than average original Riverside pressing of really great session. Extreme dual mono with the instruments coming from one chanel only . Even so , not an unpleasant effect. 

 

[soulpope]

[sidewinder]

16 hours ago, JSngry said:

Tecnically A&M/CTI, but still, those are two very deceptively great recrds, Imo, with the first one not available on CD at anything resembling a reasonable price,too bad about that.

Don't shy away from Desmond's CTI/CTI albums either, although they are on the whole less "productions" than the A&M ones.

What kind of a release was this anyway, "Mayfair", curious about that.

Nothing to do with 'Mayfair' magazine (I think) 

It was a budget UK A&M imprint from the early 1970s. I have a Nat Adderley LP put out on this label and also a Wes Montgomery 'California Nights' cassette on the label stored away in my house somewhere. This is what passed for a UK batchelor pad jazz/MOR label back in the day !

Edited March 25, 2016 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

Those Nat A&M/CTIs with Joe Zawinul & William Fischer...Calling Out Loud & You, Baby are both fascinating records, especially the former. Just as often as not, only their "veneer" is "commercial", a good number of pretty interesting musical things happen underneath that veneer.

And afaik, neither have been made generally available on CD for a good long while outside of Japan...corrections/directing welcome!

[BillF]

23 hours ago, paul secor said:

Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (Riverside/OJC)

[paul secor]

Henry Townsend: "Mule" (Nighthawk)

[jeffcrom]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

Henry Townsend: "Mule" (Nighthawk)

A great album "to satisfy the old man's soul."

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

[soulpope]

[soulpope]

[Royal Oak]

3 hours ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

The 1980s eh? 

[soulpope]

[kh1958]

Tenor Sax, volume 1 (Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young) (Savoy ten inch), and Yusef Lateef, Into Something (Prestige/New Jazz).

Edited March 26, 2016 by kh1958

[Clunky]

Gene Ammon All Stars--------Jammin' with GENE--------(Esquire)

pretty standard Prestige jam session record. Some excellent Jackie McLean . Nice session but hardly vital.

[kh1958]

Paul Horn Quintet, Cycle (RCA)

[soulpope]

[JSngry]

Fascinating "of the times" line racially the talking about acoustic players answering the challenges of electronic music, new music allowing for participation vs. interpretation...most all of it speaks to a new esthetic irrevocably begins to reach into that of "jazz". In turn, the howls especially  the "avant-garde" of jazz abandoning its roots in favor of "European" influence...that's a two way street, ya' know?

Some wonderful music on here, especially the Berio Sequenza.

[JSngry]

Liner notes by Mike Zwerin talking about how his jazz - cynicism was totally defeated by hanging with The Cowsills for a few days and realizing that they were exactly the type of people and act that they projected to the public.

Musically, anybody can quibble with the"what", bur I'll be damned if there's any quibbles with the "how"... I was surprised as hell to see that the album was produced by Bill & Bob Cowsill. The group vocals...geez, love/hate here, but objectively, as "section work" if the hate cannot accept the love, then further processing is probably needed. 

Fuck The Partridge Family. Nothin personal, just sayin'.

[JSngry]

If this band had gained traction...or recorded for Milestone...Phil Woods does not sound uncomfortable with the electronics on his horn or in his band, not at all.

It might be follow - the - leader Weather Report, but I mmuch prefer it to so much of the virtuosity of resignation that was to come.

Wood's liner notes speak volumes.

[medjuck]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

Liner notes by Mike Zwerin talking about how his jazz - cynicism was totally defeated by hanging with The Cowsills for a few days and realizing that they were exactly the type of people and act that they projected to the public.

Musically, anybody can quibble with the"what", bur I'll be damned if there's any quibbles with the "how"... I was surprised as hell to see that the album was produced by Bill & Bob Cowsill. The group vocals...geez, love/hate here, but objectively, as "section work" if the hate cannot accept the love, then further processing is probably needed. 

Fuck The Partridge Family. Nothin personal, just sayin'.

Couple of years ago saw the Bob Cowsill band when it was on a bill with my wife's band.  They were pretty good.

[Homefromtheforest]

9 hours ago, JSngry said:

If this band had gained traction...or recorded for Milestone...Phil Woods does not sound uncomfortable with the electronics on his horn or in his band, not at all.

It might be follow - the - leader Weather Report, but I mmuch prefer it to so much of the virtuosity of resignation that was to come.

Wood's liner notes speak volumes.

I have this record; it's good!

Now playing:

Hans Reichel/Eroc "kino" (Teldec, Germany) 

[kh1958]

Johnny Hammond Smith, The Stinger (Prestige mono), and Jeremy Steig, Flute Fever (Columbia mono promo).