What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

First spin for the vinyl version of the set after playing the CDs for several months now. Wow - spacious and crisp sound. Great as the CD version is, this sounds even better to me. Lovely !

[JSngry]

These dowel spine sleeves are pretty cool!

 

[JSngry]

I got laminated!

Incredible liner notes!

[HutchFan]

On 3/4/2020 at 5:25 PM, sidewinder said:

Superb.

 

[jazzcorner]

[kh1958]

Miles Davis Plays for Lovers

Bunky Green, Playin' for Keeps (Cadet)

The Jazztet, Big City Sounds (Argo)

[jcam_44]

 

Guilty Simpson - O.J. Simpson (Stones Throw 2010)

[Gheorghe]

A lesser known album of Mingus from 1965 , a year when he did not record as frequently as in 1964. This is the quintet with Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer , Jakie Byard and Dannie Richmond. 

Great version of "So long Eric", a fantastic ballad medley and the funny "Cocktails for Two". 

[jazzcorner]

[jazzcorner]

[sidewinder]

On 10/03/2020 at 4:47 PM, Gheorghe said:

A lesser known album of Mingus from 1965 , a year when he did not record as frequently as in 1964. This is the quintet with Charles McPherson, Lonnie Hillyer , Jakie Byard and Dannie Richmond. 

Great version of "So long Eric", a fantastic ballad medley and the funny "Cocktails for Two". 

Is that the Charles Mingus Records version or a reissue?

 

Spinning this one on Esquire Records. Side 1 has Jai and Kai. Side 2 Bennie Green with strings. Good stuff !

Noticed that the Bennie Green sides were recorded in Chicago - which explains John Malachi on piano. Sonics excellent.

Edited March 13, 2020 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

NY mono

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Is that the Charles Mingus Records version or a reissue?

 

Spinning this one on Esquire Records. Side 1 has Jai and Kai. Side 2 Bennie Green with strings. Good stuff !

Noticed that the Bennie Green sides were recorded in Chicago - which explains John Malachi on piano. Sonics excellent.

Reissue as much as I know was only on a Mosaic Box (CDs)

[jazzcorner]

[sidewinder]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Reissue as much as I know was only on a Mosaic Box (CDs)

The Mingus was originally mail order only. I think it was reissued by Fantasy and in Japan but with a different cover design.

[sidewinder]

Japanese Sony. Always good to spin the vinyl of this one.

[Gheorghe]

14 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Japanese Sony. Always good to spin the vinyl of this one.

oh yes, I have the same. I remember I was the first in school who purchased it. All have listened to "Aghartha" and were "imitating" Miles´ wah wah trumpet sound. And after I had purchased Pangeea some insider told me that "Dark Magus" ist the best. I eventually bought Dark Magus also.

[sidewinder]

At the time of release only ‘Agharta’ was readily available in the shops over here and ‘Pangaea’ and ‘Magus’ were mythic Japanese beasts. In fact the first time I heard ‘Pangaea’ was on a cutout North American cassette for my car. These days I have them all on vinyl and CD. 

Talking of Miles - that documentary on TV last night was pretty good, some new to me home movie footage from Corky McCoy. Well worth catching !

[jazzcorner]

with special guests: Al Cohn (ts) / Flip Philips (ts) / Med Flory (ts) / Sal Nistico (ts) recreating the "Four Brothes" Sound

[kh1958]

Gene Ammons, Greatest Hits (Prestige)

Music For Brass (Columbia)

[JSngry]

23 hours ago, sidewinder said:

At the time of release only ‘Agharta’ was readily available in the shops over here and ‘Pangaea’ and ‘Magus’ were mythic Japanese beasts.

Same here, and it stayed that way for a good while.

[Gheorghe]

31 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Same here, and it stayed that way for a good while.

If I remember right, the regular record shops didn´t have it, they only had Agharta, as you said. There were some hard core jazz buffs at that time. i was just a young kid and tried to get as much infos as I could and when some older, weird looking "electric Miles nerds" were tellin me things like "Aghartha....yeah you on the right trip, kid, BUT HAVE YOU LISTENED TO PANGAEA (or Dark Magus) that was a completley unknown land for me. 

Then I discovered we had a very small and fancy jazz records shop "Red Octopus" and they had all those Japan Imports at high prices. I had to work hard to be good at school to get more pocket money from my dad so I could purchase those two Japan imports. By the way, my "In Concert" 1972 is also a japan import from that time. Needless to say I got some "upgrade" among school buddys , we made parties were they came by to my place to listen together to Pangeaa, it was such a beautiful time....

[JSngry]

IIRC, Pangea was released in Japan more or less contemporaneously (i.e, within a year's span) with Agharta. Dark Magus didn't come out in Japan until after the hiatus (not yet "retirement") hwas underway. Definitely not released close to the time it was recorded. Liebman was still on the band.

Yeah, here's the dates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Magus

 

[kh1958]

Ravi Shankar, Improvisations (World Pacific)

Steve White, Jazz Mad (Liberty)

Edited March 16, 2020 by kh1958

[Gheorghe]

One interesting thing about Agharta is that they play a different program than the usual set list. On Pangaea it starts with that fast funk riff in Eb like on the 1974 Dark Magus and all the 1973 performances that I have heard from some sources (Vienna, Berlin, Montreux). On Aghartha they start with a medium funk in Bb and they also feature the bossa "Maisha" which is from the studio take from "Get Up with it". And one unexpected thing on Agharta is the straight ahead walking section on side C, I think......