What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

James Moody - Heritage Hum (Perception, 1972)
with Mike Longo, Sam Jones, Freddie Waits 

[HutchFan]

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations (Blue Note, 1975)
This is really good, very unique.

[mikeweil]

Zutty Singleton is so great on this one! Some of the stuff he plays sounds like the royal Tutsi drums from Rwanda that ethnomusicologists recorded.

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

first LP with sides first issued on Prestige 78s

[mikeweil]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

7 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Never heard of this before.

Don Schlitten was too much of a modern jazz man for me to really like his material, but that looks good, except for Barry Harris, who ain't my type of player.

The best thing about Xanadu was the superb sleeves. And that is just wonderful!

I'll try to keep it in mind.

MG

[Royal Oak]

[clifford_thornton]

1 hour ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Never heard of this before.

Don Schlitten was too much of a modern jazz man for me to really like his material, but that looks good, except for Barry Harris, who ain't my type of player.

The best thing about Xanadu was the superb sleeves. And that is just wonderful!

I'll try to keep it in mind.

MG

it looks like something you might find in Schlitten's later Prestige run and I would probably listen to it on Prestige, so why not grab the Xanadu? 

[mjazzg]

Chico Hamilton - And The Players [Blue Note]

enjoying this new arrival a lot, with thanks to Hutchfan for his recent promotion/posting of this and 'Peregrinations'. 

Oddly, or not, parts of it makes me think of Prime Time

Edited September 7, 2018 by mjazzg

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

If I see a cheap copy, I may well do. I've only got three Xanadus I like - by Teddy Edwards, Sonny Criss and Ronnie Cuber (the earlier). I do have a few of his Prestige productions, but I'm not as enthusiastic about them as I am about the same artists working with Bob Porter - or even Cal Lampley, who wasn't to my mind a very good producer. So I'm very cagey. about him. Added to the fact that Barry Harris is someone I barely tolerate, it doesn't look promising, so a cheap one i what I might get.

MG

[clifford_thornton]

I'm impressed by your Barry Harris conviction! 

I like him okay but usually in the company of horn players that I prefer much, much more.

[JSngry]

It’s easy to be underwhelmed by Barry Harris if, for whatever reason, you have neither taste and/nor ear for the subtleties of bebop harmony. That was me until I really got into the specifics of playing bebop (a pursuit which never really took hold because as much as I loved being in the room with it, when I got into bed with it, I felt like I was with somebody who deserved different from me, they deserved deep knowing intimacy, not just naive worship). My casual impression was that he was “just” a really good Bud Powell disciple. But...even if that is ultimately true, his knowledge runs deep. Very deep. Very, very, VERY deep.

All of which just to say, Barry Harris can play, really play, but if it ain’t for you, don’t blame him, because his shit is right.

[CJ Shearn]

4 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Never heard of this before.

Don Schlitten was too much of a modern jazz man for me to really like his material, but that looks good, except for Barry Harris, who ain't my type of player.

The best thing about Xanadu was the superb sleeves. And that is just wonderful!

I'll try to keep it in mind.

MG

I have this one, it's quite nice, pretty standard in the tradition bop, but very good playing.  The tune "LaVerne's Walk" is very catchy.

Edited September 7, 2018 by CJ Shearn

[JSngry]

If you want a 70s Sam Jones, I'd take this one over the Xanadu, for reasons that have nothing to do with Barry Harris vs Cedar Walton.

 

[paul secor]

Elmo Hope: Trio & Quintet

[mikeweil]

6 hours ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Never heard of this before.

Don Schlitten was too much of a modern jazz man for me to really like his material, but that looks good, except for Barry Harris, who ain't my type of player.

The best thing about Xanadu was the superb sleeves. And that is just wonderful!

I'll try to keep it in mind.

MG

This one is available on CD, in Elemental Music's Xanadu Master Series:

 

But have a listen to it, first, if you can - it's the most "modern" of Jones' albums.

Edited September 8, 2018 by mikeweil

[clifford_thornton]

My Dad Is Dead -- The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get -- (Homestead, US)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

7 hours ago, JSngry said:

It’s easy to be underwhelmed by Barry Harris if, for whatever reason, you have neither taste and/nor ear for the subtleties of bebop harmony. That was me until I really got into the specifics of playing bebop (a pursuit which never really took hold because as much as I loved being in the room with it, when I got into bed with it, I felt like I was with somebody who deserved different from me, they deserved deep knowing intimacy, not just naive worship). My casual impression was that he was “just” a really good Bud Powell disciple. But...even if that is ultimately true, his knowledge runs deep. Very deep. Very, very, VERY deep.

All of which just to say, Barry Harris can play, really play, but if it ain’t for you, don’t blame him, because his shit is right.

"you have neither taste and/nor ear for the subtleties of bebop harmony"

You got me in one sentence

Well, truly, I can't, and never could, be bothered with all that shit.

MG

Oh, and I can't say I like Bud Powell very much. Got one of his LPs; bought in 1985 and played twice since 1987.

I do think the art of a great musician is to get through to people who have neither taste nor an ear for its subtleties. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and many others could. That's enough for me.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

5 hours ago, mikeweil said:

This one is available on CD, in Elemental Music's Xanadu Master Series:

 

But have a listen to it, first, if you can - it's the most "modern" of Jones' albums.

Thanks Mike, that's very helpful.

MG

[HutchFan]

10 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Chico Hamilton - And The Players [Blue Note]

enjoying this new arrival a lot, with thanks to Hutchfan for his recent promotion/posting of this and 'Peregrinations'. 

Oddly, or not, parts of it makes me think of Prime Time

Yep, I thought the same thing about hearing Prime Time in this music. The Players and Peregrinations have a big, fat bottoms with a keening alto across the top -- just like Prime Time.

Glad you're enjoying it.  

 

Edited September 8, 2018 by HutchFan

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

YOU DAWGS WONT BELIEVE WHAT I JUST GOT ON EBAY:::::::

THIS GENE AMMONS SESSION, THE COMPLET SESSION TAPE ON FANTASY ACETATE, CUT IN 1976 WHEN "GENE AMMONS: THE 78 ERA" WAS BEING COMPILED.  MY DISC INCLUDES 3 TAKES OF ONE SONG AND TWO OF ANOTHER, THE ALTS NOT BEING RELEASED ANYWHERE AS FAR AS I CHECKED.  

Gene Ammons, tenor sax; Clarence Anderson, piano; Earl May, bass; Teddy Stewart, drums.

NYC, August 14, 1951

160C	Hot Stuff	Prestige 754, PRLP 149, P-24058
161A	Them There Eyes	Prestige PRLP 149, P-24058
162B	When The Saints Go Marching In	Prestige 754, PRLP 149, P-24058
163A	Archie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 8, 2018 by chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez
FOUND THE RT PIC

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

I SUPPOSE THEY SPOOLED THE ORIGINAL TAPE UP, TURNED THE LATHE ON, AND LET IT FLY!!!!!!!!!!  ITS GONNA BE SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mikeweil]

Congrats! Let's hear how it is after you have listened ....

Now spinning a bunch of LPs - looks like I'll be in a vinyl mood for some days:

Preparing for a workshop teaching Cuban conga de comparsa rhythms to a Frankfurt pecussion band.

What a great encounter .....

This is great! Perfect demonstration of how black music developped in the Carribean to forms superficially similar to jazz. But they had the Carribean grooves the US producers didn't want when recording New Orleans bands. Or whatever ...

Edited September 8, 2018 by mikeweil