What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Someone really should do a blog on 70s music...

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[sidewinder]

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I saw Garrick in the early noughties doing a Sunday lunch pub gig in Herts.

A trio, he played electric piano.  I got the impression there was maybe three other people there who knew who he was.  The rest just enjoyed their lunch...

On the other hand, in 2005 he played to a full house in Jazz Britannia at The Barbican, with his big band and in the small group. The BBC show I witnessed was a full house too.

Local Sunday pub lunch gigs on home turf I would suggest, maybe aren’t representative of the full picture. Similarly, I saw Mike Westbrook playing to less than 10 people over the past year at a small venue, yet he had packed houses at Ronnie Scott’s recently.

There’s no doubt that his profile dropped big time in the 80s and I recall only that Hep LP with Don Weller coming out at that time. Maybe his bio will shine some light on this but the sale of Argo to Polydor caused quite a bit of grief in the late 70s and maybe this led to a lowering of profile in terms of recording. As the bio makes clear though, he was extremely active, including involvement in youth music education.

Edited July 12, 2023 by sidewinder

[Rabshakeh]

I do hope that the surge of interest continues to roll on. The 80s and 90s could do with nice glossy reissue campaigns.

[sidewinder]

An absolute masterclass in arranging on these 2LPs.

Plus The Doors’ rip-off tune ‘Jambangle’ on the Gil disk. 

[mjazzg]

Joshua Jaswon Octet - Polar Waters [Ubuntu, UK 2023]

A completely new name to me when I heard a track on the radio last weekend.

All our recent chat about British Jazz, here's a writer/arranger/player who sounds to me steeped in that tradition (even has a Norma Winstone-esque vocalist in the frontline) but at the same time presenting something modern and fresh. A real find

[optatio]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

An absolute masterclass in arranging on these 2LPs.

Plus The Doors’ rip-off tune ‘Jambangle’ on the Gil disk. 

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[BillF]

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

 

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[jazzcorner]

Tampa LP 14 [V.S.O.P. reissue 1985]  - Bob Enevoldsen Quintet - rec.1955

Marty Paich on accordion 

 

 

[sidewinder]

 UA mono

Japanese Riverside

[optatio]

Personnel: Roland Kirk (ts, manzello, fl, stritch sax), Hank Jones (p), Richard Wyands (p), Art Davis (b), Wendell Marshall (b), Charlie Persip (dr)

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, optatio said:

Personnel: Roland Kirk (ts, manzello, fl, stritch sax), Hank Jones (p), Richard Wyands (p), Art Davis (b), Wendell Marshall (b), Charlie Persip (dr)

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[BillF]

9 hours ago, sidewinder said:

 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, optatio said:

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Edited July 13, 2023 by BillF

[jazzcorner]

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

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[jazzcorner]

[jazzcorner]

Blue Note [Japan]  GXF 3006(M) - Memorial Album - rec. 1953

[BillF]

1 minute ago, jazzcorner said:

 

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[Pim]

 

A Blue Note favorite. Was really looking forward to this Tone Poet. Sounds excellent!

[kh1958]

Zoot Sims and Joe Pass, Blues for 2 (Pablo)

[Pim]

ECM got their own ‘audiophile’ series out now as well. Sounds great and this a favorite of mine from the label (there’s some stuff on ECM I really like and also quite a lot I don’t like). The prices of these are fairer than those of the Tone Poets and the Acoustic Sounds. Funny as a few years back the Blue Note and Verve cds were the cheap ones and the ECM’s were expensive.

[optatio]

5 minutes ago, Pim said:

ECM got their own ‘audiophile’ series out now as well. Sounds great and this a favorite of mine from the label (there’s some stuff on ECM I really like and also quite a lot I don’t like). The prices of these are fairer than those of the Tone Poets and the Acoustic Sounds. Funny as a few years back the Blue Note and Verve cds were the cheap ones and the ECM’s were expensive.

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[soulpope]

14 minutes ago, Pim said:

ECM got their own ‘audiophile’ series out now as well. Sounds great and this a favorite of mine from the label (there’s some stuff on ECM I really like and also quite a lot I don’t like). The prices of these are fairer than those of the Tone Poets and the Acoustic Sounds. Funny as a few years back the Blue Note and Verve cds were the cheap ones and the ECM’s were expensive.

Desert island platter ....  

[mjazzg]

19 minutes ago, Pim said:

ECM got their own ‘audiophile’ series out now as well. Sounds great and this a favorite of mine from the label (there’s some stuff on ECM I really like and also quite a lot I don’t like). The prices of these are fairer than those of the Tone Poets and the Acoustic Sounds. Funny as a few years back the Blue Note and Verve cds were the cheap ones and the ECM’s were expensive.

I played my original recently and thought it sounded great, apart from a short scratch I'd forgotten about. 

I'd love to compare the two.

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

 

 

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[Pim]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I played my original recently and thought it sounded great, apart from a short scratch I'd forgotten about. 

I'd love to compare the two.

These ECM originals sound great. If I’d had one I wouldn’t buy this one but I only had a cd issue. It sounds like an original