What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Billy Harper, Knowledge of Self (Denon)

Excellent ....

[porcy62]

 

Listening to Shorter's BN records taught me how much Miles' quintet owe to Shorter's sound and composition.

[sidewinder]

25 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

 

Listening to Shorter's BN records taught me how much Miles' quintet owe to Shorter's sound and composition.

NY USA mono?  That version sounds fabulous.

[porcy62]

Agree, I have that one, this is a Music Matters stereo reissue that goes straight to discogs.

[kh1958]

7 hours ago, soulpope said:

Excellent ....

I recently found two Billy Harper Denons in Academy Records. I was very happy.

[soulpope]

49 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

I recently found two Billy Harper Denons in Academy Records. I was very happy.

Billy Harper's Denon output is uniformly excellent ....

[sidewinder]

 

[sidewinder]

[kh1958]

Don Byas in Paris (Prestige)

[paul secor]

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

👍👍👍!!!

[Gheorghe]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

I this London 1971 ? The stuff with Mc.Kibbon and Blakey ? Sure that´s good stuff , the last Monk in studio I think.

But a most annoying thing is cover photos of artists from other periods. I think this might be a young Monk douring the time he played at Minton´s , far away from the time he would travel the world, play in London. I noticed this very often, also vice versa: Early recordings of an artists, but the cover photo the aged artist.....

[Kevin Bresnahan]

12 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I this London 1971 ? The stuff with Mc.Kibbon and Blakey ? Sure that´s good stuff , the last Monk in studio I think.

But a most annoying thing is cover photos of artists from other periods. I think this might be a young Monk douring the time he played at Minton´s , far away from the time he would travel the world, play in London. I noticed this very often, also vice versa: Early recordings of an artists, but the cover photo the aged artist.....

You mean like this? Left-handed no less.

[porcy62]

[porcy62]

 

Never loved The Cream too much, I prefer other cats of this stuff

[clifford_thornton]

I got into them in a big way about 15 years ago, still like them quite a bit though often I wish George Harrison was the guitarist instead.

[porcy62]

I prefer John Mayall because its blues flavour or Led Zeppelin

[sidewinder]

[jeffcrom]

Wilson Picket - Hey Jude (Atlantic). Some fiery Duane Allman guitar playing is scattered through this fine album.

 

[jeffcrom]

Albert Ayler - The Last Album (Impulse). This LP is kind of a mess - it's basically the outtakes from Music is the Healing Force of the Universe. But I wouldn't want to be without "Water Music" - just beautiful, and some of my favorite late Ayler.

[jeffcrom]

What's New!!! Sonny Stitt Plays the Varitone (Roulette mono). The price was right - free. And Stitt burns here. But he burns on the crude 1960s electronically enhanced saxophone. On the other hand, there are some nice cameos by J.J. Johnson, Mike Mainieri, Joe Wilder, etc. Verdict: I keep it for now, but it will not survive the Great Album Purge when I move across the country in seven or eight years.

[soulpope]

5 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Wilson Picket - Hey Jude (Atlantic). Some fiery Duane Allman guitar playing is scattered through this fine album.

 

Great album which opened the gates for Duane Allman to Atlantic .... btw a bunch of great deep soul tracks aka "Back In Your Arms", "A Man And A Half" and "Search Yout Heart" on offer ....

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

forgive me, most of us know this as a record:

 

but wow i didnt know prestige did this-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

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

forgive me, most of us know this as a record:

 

but wow i didnt know prestige did this-

 

I have this music on the CD "Legends of Acid Jazz". Legends of Acid Jazz... What were they thinking with that series name? Terrible name but it was used to put out some great music that might not have made it out of the vaults otherwise.

[mjazzg]

Undoubtedly they were thinking "Let's get our marketing team to exploit the buzz over Acid Jazz at the moment".

As horrible as the genre name may be it was certainly very noticeable here in the UK in the late 80s (tapping into the Acid House club scene). A successful record label with the name was bringing many new ears to Jazz and Jazz influenced music. Clubs, like Dingwalls,  had people dancing to Jazz again!! A very vibrant scene ripe for some marketing exploitation and the rebranding of some famous Jazz recordings that were once again club floor fillers.

Great times, maybe not for the purist but certainly more purists were born from this time.

Similar things happening in London now,  again exciting and surprise, surprise once again upsetting the "that's not proper Jazz" brigade. They haven't yet found the marketing label for this upsurge. They will.