What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Transatlantic LP

[sidewinder]

UK Columbia, stereo

[HutchFan]

Monty Alexander - Here Comes the Sun (MPS)

I was reading the sleeve notes and noticed that Don Schlitten produced this LP. I was aware that Schlitten had produced for MPS in the early-70s, but I didn't realize that he had worked with Alexander. ...Turns out, Schlitten produced a couple other Alexander MPS LPs as well. I only know now because I just checked on discogs.  

[kh1958]

Sonny Stitt, Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve)

Riverside Modern Jazz Sampler (Riverside)

Larry Coryell, Basics (Vanguard)

John Coltrane/Lee Morgan, The Best of Birdland, volume 1 (Roulette)

[JSngry]

9 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I saw this in a store yesterday for $10 but didn't buy it, mainly because it was pouring rain so I didn't want it getting soaked. Was I wrong? Should I go back and buy it today?

Has it stopped raining? If so, yeah, sure.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Has it stopped raining? If so, yeah, sure.

These "no bag" laws up here suck when it rains.

I almost tucked it under my coat to keep it dry but I'm not too worried about it being gone when I go back.

[HutchFan]

Mickey Tucker - The Crawl (Muse, 1980)
Good stuff.

[JSngry]

56 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

These "no bag" laws up here suck when it rains.

Backpack!

[HutchFan]

Kenny Burrell - Recapitulation (Chess, 2 LPs)
An excellent overview of Burrell's Cadet recordings, 1959 to 1967.

[JSngry]

25 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Kenny Burrell - Recapitulation (Chess, 2 LPs)
An excellent overview of Burrell's Cadet recordings, 1959 to 1967.

How does that compare in content to Cool Cookin' from a few years earlier?

 

 

[HutchFan]

14 minutes ago, JSngry said:

How does that compare in content to Cool Cookin' from a few years earlier?

Jim, I don't have Cool Cookin', so I can't really say.  ...I just took a look at the Cool Cookin' track listing on discogs, and it looks like there's some overlap between the two albums. But not a lot, only a few songs.

One thing that I do like about the Recapitulation set: Richard Evans' 17-minute "Suite for Guitar & Orchestra" is unabridged. On the Cool Cookin' set, they only excerpt two sections from it.

 

[JSngry]

Indeed!

The Cool Cookin' date was sorta "famous" (in a totally geeky way) for having some (two?) cuts from the Vanguard trio date that hadn't been out before. I think they all are now?

No matter, those Burrell dates are (were?) great all-purpose party records. Everybody dug Kenny Burrell, players, non-players, men, women, you couldn't miss with records like these at a party, unless there were squares in the room, and you know what Cynthia & Jerry said...

[HutchFan]

5 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Indeed!

The Cool Cookin' date was sorta "famous" (in a totally geeky way) for having some (two?) cuts from the Vanguard trio date that hadn't been out before. I think they all are now?

Recapitulation has two more never-before-released cuts from the Vanguard also.  I believe they've now all been issued on a single CD.

...That geeky-ness that you mention, I think many of us 'round these parts have that particular affliction.   

 

[JSngry]

[jeffcrom]

Barry Harris - Stay Right With It (Milestone). Record one of a Milestone two-fer compilation of tracks from four of Harris's Riverside albums. I'm using this to test a Christmas present from my wife - a record weight/clamp. My otherwise wonderful turntable has a noticeable degree of flutter when playing LPs. It's not apparent on many records, but it bothers me when playing LPs featuring instruments of absolutely stable pitch, like piano or vibes. The clamp seems to help a lot - I'm not hearing the flutter, even on side two, which features Harris playing solo. 

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Mickey Tucker - The Crawl (Muse, 1980)
Good stuff.

👍!

[JohnS]

[jeffcrom]

 

Louis Armstrong - Vol. 2: Jazz Concert (Decca 10")

Jimmy Yancey - Pure Blues (Atlantic)

[HutchFan]

Ketil Bjørnstad - Finnes du noensteds ikveld (Philips Norway, 1976)
with Knut Riisnæs (sax), Arild Andersen (b), Pål Thowsen (d)

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, jeffcrom said:

 

Louis Armstrong - Vol. 2: Jazz Concert (Decca 10")

Jimmy Yancey - Pure Blues (Atlantic)

The Yancey Atlantic recordings are some of my favorite music of all time.

[HutchFan]

Shirley Scott - The Dedication Series, Vol. III / The Great Live Sessions (ABC-Impulse, 2 LPs)
with Stanley Turrentine, Bob Cranshaw, and Otis "Candy" Finch

 

[jeffcrom]

Andrew Hill - Dance with Death (BN)

 

[HutchFan]

George Shearing Quintet - Shearing in Hi-Fi (M-G-M, 1955)

[paul secor]

Steve Lacy: Ballets (Hat Hut)

[HutchFan]

 

EDIT: 
This is a damn fine record. So glad I happened to stumble across the LP.  ... I'm still surprised that it's never been reissued in any digital format. Very odd. 

Edited December 31, 2018 by HutchFan