What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Clifford Brown: More Memorable Tracks (BN/Toshiba EMI)

[paul secor]

Billy Harper: Capra Black (Strata East/Columbia Japan)

[clifford_thornton]

David Toop/Paul Burwell - Wounds - (Quartz, UK)

nutty recent grab

[clifford_thornton]

David Lee Jr. - Evolution - (Supernal, US orig)

[Homefromtheforest]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

David Toop/Paul Burwell - Wounds - (Quartz, UK)

nutty recent grab

Nice one.  Have not played my copy in around 15 years.  Bought it around the same time that I got "whirled music" and the Alterations album on Bead.  All sort of in the same bag if memory serves.  The David Lee album is a good score!!

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, they are all pretty similar and enjoyable in their own weird way. Got Whirled Music, the Alterations on Bead, Choloagogues and a few others of this persuasion.

The Lee is a nice palette-cleanser after all that weirdness!

Now:
Oliver Lake - Passing Thru - (Africa Pub., FR orig?)

[Homefromtheforest]

Ah yes the "choloagogues"(spelling?) is in the racks too...have not played these records in a long time!

[Clunky]

Claudio Fasoli/ Kenny Wheeler / JF Jenny Clark-----------Land--------(New sound plane/ INNOWO)

 

Bought to get more Wheeler and Jenny Clark is always going to be bonus. Spare sounding trio from 1988. Digital recording which doesn't sound better or worse than many analog recordings but admittedly  Jenny Clark does sounds a bit light weight, compared to how he's usually recorded.  Wheeler seems completely at home with Fasoli's originals (all tracks). It's great to him have so much space in this setting. Recommended.

[corto maltese]

6 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, they are all pretty similar and enjoyable in their own weird way. Got Whirled Music, the Alterations on Bead, Choloagogues and a few others of this persuasion.

The Lee is a nice palette-cleanser after all that weirdness!

 

Hey, a large part of my collection is music of this persuasion...

To call them pretty similar, isn't that a bit "all Chinese look alike" from the other side of the Atlantic?

[paul secor]

Cecil Taylor Quartet/Gigi Gryce-Donald Byrd Jazz Laboratory: At Newport (Verve Japan)

[Clunky]

 

Lucky Thompson----------- plays Jerome Kern -----(Moodsville) mono

[clifford_thornton]

4 hours ago, corto maltese said:

Hey, a large part of my collection is music of this persuasion...

To call them pretty similar, isn't that a bit "all Chinese look alike" from the other side of the Atlantic?

Ha, yeah I know what you mean. But they do require a certain weird "mood," at least for me. These are also four records with nearly the same personnel... 

It's funny, you know -- I was thinking "how many solo Derek Bailey LPs do I really need" but pulling out the Morgue the other day I was struck by how perfect it is compared to some of the others, and that sense of "perfection" can only be arrived at through experiencing the nuances of similar-but-different recordings.

[Clunky]

The Esquire art department surpassed itself with this alternative cover. Mind you the Prestige original isn't anything to talk about (although it is better IMO) . I'm uncertain how four stones equates or relates in any way to the blues or being alone. Perhaps it's the type of rock depicted or some 'in joke' that a half century later is entirely lost. Spinning this now as I found a nice near mint copy yesterday. The music is pretty good , perhaps my favourite Bryant. Sounds very fresh.

 

Ray Bryant-------Alone with the blues-------(Esquire UK) dg etc..

 

here's the Prestige original for completeness

Edited April 13, 2016 by Clunky

[corto maltese]

1 hour ago, Clunky said:

The Esquire art department surpassed itself with this alternative cover. Mind you the Prestige original isn't anything to talk about (although it is better IMO) . I'm uncertain how four stones equates or relates in any way to the blues or being alone. Perhaps it's the type of rock depicted or some 'in joke' that a half century later is entirely lost. Spinning this now as I found a nice near mint copy yesterday. The music is pretty good , perhaps my favourite Bryant. Sounds very fresh.

 

Ray Bryant-------Alone with the blues-------(Esquire UK) dg etc..

 

 

The blue background for "the Blues" is a stroke of designer's genius, so I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to these stones than we, unsophistacated souls, can imagine.

[paul secor]

Air: Air Raid (Trio Why Not)

[paul secor]

Art Farmer: Modern Art (UA/King)

[jazzbo]

[Clunky]

 

Shirley Scott-----plays Horace Silver-------(Prestige)

 

 

Now this .,,,

Phil Seaman -------Now !.....Live!-------(Verve MGM UK)

picked this up for £4 yesterday and therefore appear to quite a bargain if Popsike is to be believed. Competent swing piano trio , pretty mainstream fare but quite energetically played.

[jazzbo]

[soulpope]

[clifford_thornton]

Hans Reichel - Bonobo - (FMP)

Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley - Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs - (Triple Point)

Steve Lacy - Ballets - (Hat Hut)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

17 hours ago, corto maltese said:

The blue background for "the Blues" is a stroke of designer's genius, so I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to these stones than we, unsophistacated souls, can imagine.

 

very impressive-- so yea....art licences didnt translate to the overseas jazz, so they all had new covers for the indie label releases.  pacific jazz it was the same think-- but yea....

[clifford_thornton]

I like the look of that kooky Esquire Ray Bryant LP myself...

now:

Nelly Pouget/Siegfried Kessler/Tony Overwater/Sunny Murray - Le Dire - (Minuit Regards, FR)

[Homefromtheforest]

Don Ellis "new ideas" (new jazz, DG USA)

Oliver Nelson "meet Oliver Nelson" (New jazz, DG USA)

James Clay "double dose of soul" (riverside, mono DG USA)

[sidewinder]

13 hours ago, Clunky said:

 

 

Now this .,,,

Phil Seaman -------Now !.....Live!-------(Verve MGM UK)

picked this up for £4 yesterday and therefore appear to quite a bargain if Popsike is to be believed. Competent swing piano trio , pretty mainstream fare but quite energetically played.

Worth it just for the wording of the title (intentional?) and the cover art. I think a past edition of Jazzwise featured it in its 'non-PC' feature vintage LP - I wonder why? Tony Lee Trio at the Bulls Head, Barnes is what it says on the tin and that is exactly what you get. 

It is indeed a rare album. Needless to say my copy cost a wee bit more than £4. Where are you and Mark getting your LPs from - Ali Baba's cave? 

Edited April 14, 2016 by sidewinder