What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[kh1958]

Louis Bellson Swings Jule Styne (Verve)

Ahmad Jamal, Rhapsody (Cadet)

[paul secor]

Trane: Creation

[paul secor]

Young Jessie: Hit, Git & Split

[jeffcrom]

5 hours ago, paul secor said:

Trane: Creation

What is this?

[paul secor]

It's two tracks (or perhaps one, depending on where you look) from S.F. in 1964 and one track (or perhaps two) from the Half Note in NYC from 1965. The title track has some wild blowing from Trane - not entirely successful to my ears, though other's opinions may differ from mine.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

20 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

What is this?

It's a bootleg: https://www.discogs.com/John-Coltrane-Quartet-Creation/master/568328

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by Kevin Bresnahan

[paul secor]

Ray Charles and Betty Carter

[paul secor]

Frank Hovington: Lonesome Road Blues (Rounder)

[sidewinder]

7 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

What is this?

Blue Parrot label - still have a copy of that one.

[duaneiac]

Listened to this one earlier

An odd mixture of headliners from a concert recorded 40 years ago on Aug. 13, 1977. 

[jeffcrom]

Al Haig - Jazz Will-O'-the-Wisp (Everest). Much of this album superficially sounds like cocktail piano, but the more carefully you listen, the more it rewards you.

I know that there are better-sounding issues out there than this cheap 1974 budget-label record, but this is the one I've had for years, and it will do for me. I learned a lot about jazz from cheap Everest records. I think this is the last one I have left.

[paul secor]

The Best of Little Walter

[JSngry]

22 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

What is this?

Trane - hell, the whole Quartet - going all in, the stuff of which legends are made! Still hasn't been legitimately released, so that just adds to the legend!

I'll take things you play at a party when you want everybody to leave, but those who stay get to stay forever for $500, Alex.

[duaneiac]

A 1972 album on Rod McKuen's Stanyan Records label.  Not her best, but there are some fine tracks including her covers of Bobbie Gentry's "Hurry, Tuesday Child", Laura Nyro's "Buy And Sell" and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun".

Jean Turner may well be my favorite Kenton band singer.  I love June Christy, Anita O'Day and Chris Connor, but I mainly listen to the recordings each of them made after their time spent with the Kenton organization.  There's just not that much Jean Turner out there, so every little track is welcome.  Five of the tracks on this LP (including one by Ms. Turner) ale listed as being a "previously unreleased master".

[duaneiac]

Just Side 2, which has 4 tracks by the MJQ from this "historic" 1957 concert.

[kh1958]

Kenton Presents the Bill Holman Octet (Capitol ten inch)

[paul secor]

Kenny Burrell: Blue Lights Vol. 1

[jeffcrom]

JJA Presents the Music of Alec Wilder. A late-70s promotional record (in a plain white sleeve) with 18 of Wilder's pop songs, put out by his publisher. The recordings are mostly taken from Wilder's NPR show, American Popular Song, which featured one Wilder song every episode. The quality of both the songs and the performances vary, but the best tracks are very good. I particularly like Johnny Hartman's " 'S Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Day," Marlene Verplank's "The Winter of My Discontent," Mark Murphy's "When Yesterday I Loved I Loved You," Woody Herman's "Baggage Room Blues," and Tony Bennett's "The Lady Sings the Blues."

[kh1958]

Bud Shank and Three Trombones (Pacific Jazz ten inch)

Miles Davis, ESP (Columbia)

Miles Davis, My Funny Valentine (Columbia)

 

[jeffcrom]

   

Lots of varied stuff tonight, but I ended up with New Orleans trad 45s. No usable pictures of many of these on the web.

Armand Hug and His New Orleans Quartet (Southland four-track EP, 1954)

Kid Thomas - New Orleans Jazz (Smoky Mary, 1973). With Willie Humphrey on clarinet and Sister Annie Pavageau on vocals.

Clem Tervalon - Eh Las Bas / Streets of the City (Clemente, 1973). Clement Tervalon (1915-1989) was one of the unsung heroes of New Orleans trombone. Alvin Alcorn and Albert Burbank are on board here.

Bill Matthews and His New Orleans Ragtime Band (Southland four-track EP, 1954). Not great - "racehorse Dixieland," as Bunk Johnson put it.

George Lewis and Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband (Storyville four-track EP, 1959). Very nice collaboration, recorded in Copenhagen.

Sidney Bechet at Jazz Ltd. (Atlantic four-track EP). Three 1948 tracks with a Chicago band and a later French side.

Ken Colyer's Jazz Men (Storyville four-track EP, 1953). Okay, not a real New Orleans band, but my favorite European trad band. And dang - this is way better than the Bill Matthews EP, even though those guys are all New Orleans natives.
 

Edited September 6, 2017 by jeffcrom

[paul secor]

I don't know any of that music, Jeff, but I can imagine that it was a good night's listening.

[mjazzg]

Iskra 1903 - Improvisations 

from Free Improvisation {Deutsche Grammophon]

[mjazzg]

Wired - Wired I & II

from the same boxset as above

[paul secor]

Coltrane Plays the Blues

[jeffcrom]

Willis Conover's House of Sounds (THE Orchestra) (Brunswick). The Washington big band that backed Charlie Parker (One Night in Washington) six months earlier. Several of the same arrangements appear here.