What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

3 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stone Flower (CTI)

James Moody, Beyond the World (Vanguard)

Larry Coryell, Lady Coryell (Vanguard)

Larry Coryell, Offering (Vanguard)

im pretty sure Stone Flower is Dave Grusins favorite album.  he always plays stuff from it and talked about how important it is

its a very influential album in contemporary jazz

[paul secor]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, paul secor said:

Sublime ....

[HutchFan]

8 hours ago, kh1958 said:

The tunes are split between James Moody compositions and those of Tom McIntosh. It's not a straight ahead jazz record. There are two guitarists and electric keyboards. A product of its times, I suppose, the album is an odd mixture; Moody sounds terrific, particularly on flute. I liked about half of the record; disliked the other half (mostly because of awful vocals on several tracks). Basically about half a good record; the rest better to skip on CD version if there is one.

Thanks for sharing your impressions.  

[mjazzg]

Craig Harris and Tailgaters Tales - Shelter [JMT]

[kh1958]

Bunky Green, Transformation (Vanguard)

[mjazzg]

Gunter Hampel and his Galaxie Dreamband - Out From Under [Birth]

heavily featuring Perry Robinson RIP

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Been ripping my new LP - L'archange du Manding, by Kade Diawara

Pretty nice - a bit noisy but not so bad it spoils the pleasure of listening to very traditional Djeliya.

Followed it up with something completely different - Lionel Hampton - Flying home. This is the 1954 version, recorded for Clef. The LP I have is a compilation of tracks that were issued on two earlier Clef LPs which were imaginatively called 'The Lionel Hampton Quintet' and 'The Lionel Hampton Quartet/Quintet'

MG

[JohnS]

16 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Craig Harris and Tailgaters Tales - Shelter [JMT]

One to dig out.

[paul secor]

The Little Hatchet Band  (M&M)

[mjazzg]

19 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Gunter Hampel and his Galaxie Dreamband - Out From Under [Birth]

heavily featuring Perry Robinson RIP

this again. Followed by, to continue remembering and appreciating Perry Robinson   

Theo Jorgensmann - In Time [AKM Records]

Henry Grimes - The Call [ESP-Disk]

a great recording with some special Robinson contributions

[optatio]

Perry Robinson see front cover bottom left:

GUNTER HAMPEL AND HIS GALAXIE DREAMBAND: JOURNEY TO THE SONG WITHIN. BIRTH 0017 [1974]

[paul secor]

[paul secor]

 

 

[jeffcrom]

On 12/3/2018 at 11:12 AM, kh1958 said:

Bunky Green, Transformation (Vanguard)

This is going to come out wrong - but that's an awful pop/jazz album that's a great subversive pop/jazz album. Bunky's bizarre intro to "Feelings" is worth the price of admission.

I love Bunky Green.

[paul secor]

Good Rockin' Charles (Rooster Blues/Double Trouble)

[kh1958]

46 minutes ago, jeffcrom said:

This is going to come out wrong - but that's an awful pop/jazz album that's a great subversive pop/jazz album. Bunky's bizarre intro to "Feelings" is worth the price of admission.

I love Bunky Green.

I cannot disagree.

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, paul secor said:

👍👍👍!!!

[JohnS]

9 hours ago, paul secor said:

Agreed

[mjazzg]

Makaya McCraven - Where We Come From [International Anthem/Total Refreshment]

the sound of young London and Chicago in perfect harmony...

[clifford_thornton]

12 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

This is going to come out wrong - but that's an awful pop/jazz album that's a great subversive pop/jazz album. Bunky's bizarre intro to "Feelings" is worth the price of admission.

I love Bunky Green.

I think the only Bunky I have is on that Paul Serrano on Riverside (which I love). Probably need to rectify.

[jeffcrom]

9 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

I think the only Bunky I have is on that Paul Serrano on Riverside (which I love). Probably need to rectify.

I'd start with Places We've Never Been on Vanguard. His deal with the label called for him to make two pop/jazz albums, at which point he'd get to make an album according to his preferences. Places We've Never Been is that album. It must have sold dozens of copies, and the label dropped him.

There are two excellent albums from the first decade of this century: Another Place on Label Bleu and The Salzau Quartet Live at Jazz Baltica on Traumton. The former has Jason Moran on drums.

All of these represent Green's playing after he reinvented himself after his early-60s soul jazz albums. I think of his mature style as "sideways jazz" rather than straight-ahead jazz, if that makes any sense.

 

Edited December 6, 2018 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

   

A typical evening's progression in the jeffcrom house: avant-ish to mainstream to New Orleans trad.

New York Contemporary Five - Consequences (Japanese Fontana)

Duke Pearson - Wahoo (BN 80s issue)

Preacher Rollo and the Saints - Ostrich Walk (Lion)

The last one is not for everyone, for sure. Rollo Layton was a Miami-based drummer, and by all accounts a pretty unpleasant person. His playing is kind of corny, but eight of the twelve tracks here have New Orleanian Tony Parenti on clarinet, and he elevates the music quite a bit. And all but two of these 1951-55 tracks have Marie Marcus on piano. She was a local-hero type journeywoman jazz player (in Miami, then Cape Cod) who was so admired by Whitney Balliett that he wrote a profile of her for The New Yorker. These are the only recordings of her I have. Lion was the cheap-label subsidiary of MGM.

Edited December 6, 2018 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

Last one before bed:

Fats Domino - Let the Four Winds Blow (Imperial). An odd one - but that's okay, because it's Fats. It's a reminder that, at least at one time in the US, albums were places to put all the non-hits, with a few hits thrown in. Only two of these songs broke the Top 40 (the title song and "You Win Again"), and some of the selections are pretty odd ("Along the Navaho Trail," "Shanty In an Old Shanty Town"), but it's Fats! And Mr. Lee Allen and the great Roy Montrell are in the band. So I'm on board for the entire ride.

[medjuck]

There were often oldies on Fats's albums.  I especially liked "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" on his first Lp and of course "My Blue Heaven" was one of his first big hits. (Of course at the time I didn't know they were oldies.  They were new to me. 

Edited December 6, 2018 by medjuck