What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[danasgoodstuff]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

Can you be more specific as to whom you're asking about? Dallas is no longer an isolated pocket of native tongues...not that it ever was...Houston had a say in the languages as well, as did...ah. never mind?

I guess what you really want to find out is if Dallas' African-American tenor players still have that "accent" in their playing, and the answer is, well, a few do, a few more try to, and just as many think they might, and some just don't care about that, they're hustling for the same gigs everybody else is.

It's a different world everywhere these days.

Thanks, kinda what I suspected but good to  hear from someone on the scene.

[JSngry]

To be fair, I haven't really been "on the scene" here for  years now, but I hear things, and...let's just say..

True everywhere, though.

[kh1958]

4 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

The Sound of Wide Open Spaces is a nice album, but do locals in Dallas still play in that distinctive Texas Tenor style or have they become just like everyone else?

Well, there isn't exactly a booming jazz scene here. But I would say that the two best tenor saxophonists in the area that I'm familiar with are Rachella Parks Washington (in Fort Worth) and Shelley Carrol (in Dallas), and both sound like Texas tenors to me (especially Rachella).

[kh1958]

Gene Krupa, Sing Sing Sing (Clef)

[JSngry]

You might come for the Al Cohn, but don't be surprised if you come back for the David Tudor.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Al Cohn's on it?  what the hell?

[porcy62]

Mono, white label promo.

[sidewinder]

Grauer blue label, mono.

[aparxa]

Chet Baker At Capolinea

Sam Jones Quintet  - Visitation

 

[kh1958]

Dave Brubeck, The Last Set at Newport (Atlantic)

Lester Young, Jammin' the Blues/Apollo Theater (Jazz Anthology)

[Chuck Nessa]

 

with George Arvanitas (on organ), Pierre Michelot and George Collier.

21 hours ago, JSngry said:

You might come for the Al Cohn, but don't be surprised if you come back for the David Tudor.

Terrific record reissued as a Hat cd.

 

[JSngry]

I've had the HAT Cd for a while now, but seeing this LP for $3.99 (and in good shape no less!), had to get it as an "object", even if it has the Esoteric/Counterpoint label. That cover photo/design is wondermous!

[Chuck Nessa]

Continuing with my Bud Freeman lps -

Side 2 of this one is a Freeman trio with Dave Bowman and Don Lamond.

[HutchFan]

LP 2 - with brother Tommy, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, et al from October '62

Glorious.

Crazy that music from this session sat on the shelf until 1978!

[Dmitry]

Cannonball Adderley - WHY AM I TREATED SO BAD?

Picked it up last summer in a garage sale in Bristol,RI. Paid a cool dollar. This was the only jazz album they had. Also bought there what I believe to be a genuine Persian rug, for $3. Anyone knows antique rugs ?

It’s an excellent, even, quality album from 1967, wish it were recorded better. CD version has 2 bonus tracks. Haven’t heard them. It still has shrink wrap plastic with a discounted price sticker, cover is hole-punched, the punch hole is inside the plastic, which wasn’t punctured. Hole- punched in the Capitol warehouse, and sold to a discounter, and wrapped later?

 

Edited April 18, 2020 by Dmitry

[HutchFan]

[mjazzg]

Archie Shepp - Attica Blues Big Band, Live At The Palais Des Glaces

tremendous (thanks to Pim for not liking it enough to part with it)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished: 80th Anniversary version of Art Blakey - Indestructible. Now playing: David Schnitter - Goliath (Muse)

Two things... First, WTF is up with this cover? Am I missing something here? Is he supposed to be praying to his saxophone to help save him from those sheep? Second, why does bass sound so terrible from this short period of time in Jazz? McBee's bass sound is so whiny. It's like a big mosquito buzzing around my head.

[sidewinder]

18 hours ago, HutchFan said:

LP 2 - with brother Tommy, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, et al from October '62

Glorious.

Crazy that music from this session sat on the shelf until 1978!

A nice 2LP set, that one. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Now playing: Louis Hayes - Breath Of Life (Muse). This is an interesting date. It moves outside of where I thought Louis would go. It's not free but it's not your typical hard bop date either.

[jcam_44]

 

Obrador - More Odd Jobs

 

bought on the strength of Bert Wilson being involved...and it has exceeded expectations!

[HutchFan]

Arrived in the mail this evening:

Sounds great.  

 

 

 

6 hours ago, bresna said:

Now playing: David Schnitter - Goliath (Muse)

Two things... First, WTF is up with this cover? Am I missing something here? Is he supposed to be praying to his saxophone to help save him from those sheep? 

I suppose he's playing with the idea of praying over the Christ-child in a manger scene.

But, yeah, it is strange.  ... Especially considering the title of the album.  He's got the whole David & Goliath thing going with that.  But that doesn't really tie in with the "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed" angle.  Schnitter's mixing up his biblical allusions in all sorts of ways.

 

Edited April 7, 2020 by HutchFan

[jazzcorner]

 

14 hours ago, bresna said:

Now playing: Louis Hayes - Breath Of Life (Muse). This is an interesting date. It moves outside of where I thought Louis would go. It's not free but it's not your typical hard bop date either.

Like this one and have it naturally

[sidewinder]

Interesting fact - Top Rank actually did a UK release of JR Monterose ‘The Message’. Mythically rare.

Edited April 7, 2020 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

Again:

Fun to hear how the quintet's rendition of Zawinul's "74 Miles Away" anticipates Weather Report. 

On other pieces, the connection isn't immediately obvious.  On this cut, it is.