What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Clunky]

Yusef Lateef ------Live at Ronnie Scott's ------( Gearbox/Ronnie Scott's)

January 1966 date with the locals.  Sound is adequate but the playing is way better.

[clifford_thornton]

6 hours ago, Leeway said:

Has that beguiling hand-crafted, DIY quality to it, pulls you in. 

 

 

 

i

nice -- I only have Funky Donkey (and some appearances within BAG groups). Oh, and that great Moers thing he did with Joseph Bowie and Rasul Siddik. 

[Homefromtheforest]

Hank Mobley "the jazz message" (Savoy, DG promo orig).  Clean original copy I found almost a year ago for $50...had a small skip when I first played it but I just adjusted my anti-skating and it played perfectly!  Vinyl....what a miserable beast :0

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

a promo?  its still red-label for this title right- savoy was only doin white label 45s then i think----but theres a sweet promo stamp on the rear cover, im guessing?

[mjazzg]

18 hours ago, Clunky said:

Yusef Lateef ------Live at Ronnie Scott's ------( Gearbox/Ronnie Scott's)

January 1966 date with the locals.  Sound is adequate but the playing is way better.

Interested to know your views as I'm on the fence with this one. How does interplay with "the locals" work? Brief samples I heard suggested to my ears that it wasn't great

20 hours ago, Leeway said:

Has that beguiling hand-crafted, DIY quality to it, pulls you in. 

 

 

 

i

I think that sums up my thoughts on that LP perfectly. A really enjoyable listen which I need to get out again 

[Homefromtheforest]

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

a promo?  its still red-label for this title right- savoy was only doin white label 45s then i think----but theres a sweet promo stamp on the rear cover, im guessing?

Yeah it just has a "not for sale"'stamp on rear cover and labels(which are the DG blood red ones)

[clifford_thornton]

5 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Interested to know your views as I'm on the fence with this one. How does interplay with "the locals" work? Brief samples I heard suggested to my ears that it wasn't great

It's okay. I don't find it all that riveting, but by the same token I am not the world's biggest Lateef fan...

[sidewinder]

23 hours ago, Clunky said:

Yusef Lateef ------Live at Ronnie Scott's ------( Gearbox/Ronnie Scott's)

January 1966 date with the locals.  Sound is adequate but the playing is way better.

Much as I like Yusef, if the sound is so-so then absolutely no point splurging on vinyl for this one from my perspective. Especially for such minimal running times.

Edited December 2, 2016 by sidewinder

[clifford_thornton]

Mine has a bit of groove distortion from a bad cut. 

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Mine has a bit of groove distortion from a bad cut. 

Wow - surprising considering the kit that Gearbox have and their usual excellent QC.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I've had issues with Gearbox pressings before so this isn't new news...

[sidewinder]

I had to return a copy of the Garrick 'Sillouette' which was very crackly but the rest seem to have been OK. 

[Leeway]

Emanem LP. 

[Clunky]

The music on the Lateef is excellent . The sound is no better or worse than other recordings from Ronnie's by Les Tompkins. My pressing seems fine - just a few possible pops but I've not listened closely enough to determine whether these reflect the pressing or tape source .

[sidewinder]

Aha - Les Tompkins recordings. Valuable as these are, the sound on all of the sessions I have heard has been passable at best. Still, good that this is out there.

Spinning this one for the first time in over 20 years. Good Winter music !

[John Tapscott]

Joe Sample, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne

[jeffcrom]

20 hours ago, Leeway said:

Emanem LP. 

I've always liked that one. If I understand the Emanem website correctly, this has been mostly, but not completely, reissued on CD, making the vinyl indispensable.

[Leeway]

1 hour ago, jeffcrom said:

I've always liked that one. If I understand the Emanem website correctly, this has been mostly, but not completely, reissued on CD, making the vinyl indispensable.

I doubt the "stomach bump" is getting reissued.   Yeah, I like this, a roomful of geniuses making idiosyncratic music. 

[sidewinder]

Another gem from the archive, with very good sleeve notes by Charles Fox.

[paul secor]

Larry Young: Unity

[kh1958]

Dave Brubeck, Time Changes (Columbia), and Paul Horn Quintet, Profile of a Jazz Musician (Columbia)

[clifford_thornton]

Green River - Come On Down - (Homestead, US)

[Clunky]

Bob Dylan --- Real Albert Hall 1966 concert----(Sony)

Distortion throughout the electric set might have something to do with this sitting in the can 50 years. Interesting none the less. The recording engineer along with the audience clearly wasn't prepared for the volume whenDylan plugged in.

[jazzbo]

It's interesting because the engineer should have gotten this down by the time of the tour. But there was so much speed, pot, heroin and other drugs floating around that tour that things went awry. I've been listening to the box set of this tour released last month. I went in expecting I'd be fascinated and enthralled by the electric sets. Instead I have found the acoustic sets to be the real pearls in the set.

[Homefromtheforest]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Green River - Come On Down - (Homestead, US)

Classic!  My older sister bought this around 1988 or so...a big discovery!  I bought my own copy a year or two later...

A good friend of mine still has their debut single which is also a killer...