What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On to the next PREX purchase - Jack Montrose - Jack Montrose Sextet (Pacific Jazz). Red vinyl is cool looking but hides the fact that this record has an off center Side 1 and is crackly as hell. Only $5, so can't complain to much, especially since side 2 is in much better shape.

[BillF]

11 minutes ago, bresna said:

 

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[Chuck Nessa]

22 minutes ago, bresna said:

Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines - Stride Right (Verve). An original RVG pressing for $4 at Princeton Record Exchange. I'm digging this one. Notthing earth-shattering but fun swinging Jazz. I'm very glad I picked this one up. I wonder how Richard Davis ended up playing bass on this date?

Davis also plays on Hines' Once Upon a Time (Impulse) and Here Comes Earl "Fatha" Hines (Contact). Elvin plays drums on both.

Now this -

[jazzcorner]

55 minutes ago, bresna said:

Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines - Stride Right (Verve). An original RVG pressing for $4 at Princeton Record Exchange. I'm digging this one. Notthing earth-shattering but fun swinging Jazz. I'm very glad I picked this one up. I wonder how Richard Davis ended up playing bass on this date?

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42 minutes ago, bresna said:

On to the next PREX purchase - Jack Montrose - Jack Montrose Sextet (Pacific Jazz). Red vinyl is cool looking but hides the fact that this record has an off center Side 1 and is crackly as hell. Only $5, so can't complain to much, especially since side 2 is in much better shape.

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A good one really. Have the  japanese edition. Its another one from the 'West Coast artists' series on Pacific Jazz.

[Rabshakeh]

[BillF]

17 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

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[Rabshakeh]

Now on this. 

I got it today on an exchange. I am surprised at how much better it sounds on vinyl than the streaming and CD mixes.

[clifford_thornton]

On 8/5/2023 at 4:38 PM, JSngry said:

I bought the Rough Trade LP when it came out. The buzz was hot and there was no indication that American labels were going to put it out. The whole "No Wave" scene was pretty fringey to begin with, and Ulmer was in on it pretty much because he was there, if you know what I mean. Barriers were being disregarded, Venn Diagrams were expanding, interesting possibilities were beginning to form. 

The Rough Trade mix is still my preferred, have the punch and jab of it's time. But it's a good record in any mix 

yeah, I prefer that mix too -- I had both versions and kept the Rough Trade. The best James Chance stuff I've heard is that live album on ROIR -- the presence of Bern Nix and Joseph Bowie doesn't hurt! The Lower East Side was quite an artistic melting pot back then.

[JSngry]

Yeah, James Chance himself was one of those things that was usually better as an idea than a reality.That first Contortions record was fun enough, though! 

Otherwise, yeah, the doors were wide open for the kind of cross-pollination that isn't always there. 

[mjazzg]

I saw Chance live and would agree with that assessment 

[clifford_thornton]

never saw him live. The records are fun but I don't really pull them off the shelves these days.

[Gheorghe]

On 8/5/2023 at 7:18 PM, JSngry said:

Alamac! The label of heroes!!! 

I have two Alamacs I think. Bird with the Herd and Bird 1949 . I bought them in the 70´s and was a bit astonished they were so expensive and had quite modest cover design, no liner notes . The Bird with the Herd is quite funny though the more heavy swing style rhythm of the drums doesn´t fit to Bird, but it is a fun record.

18 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

I bought volume 1 in the past couple of years and this gem arrived yesterday.

I saw Jay McShann at Jazzland and it was great.
Dorothy Donegan also played once ore twice at Jazzland but I must admit I hadn´t ever heard her name. I learned that she was a very tehnical pianist and brought up as a wunderkind, could play licks of Errol Garner and others but seem´s to have been quite absent in the active jazzscene were you play and record in different groups . 

The boss of Jazzland, Mr. Melhard once told me it was quite stressy with her, since she thought she must have hundreds of evening robes to play and didn´t understand that this is just a smaller but outrite fine cellar club. She travelled with much luggage with robes and stuff and seemed to be lost away from the piano. Brought up as a wunderkind and kept that way.....

Dick Wellstood´s photo is also on the walls of Jazzland, but this must have been before my time or a style earlier than what we heard and studied. 

[Clunky]

Börje Fredriksson -------s/t---------(EMI Odeon) 

 

Posthumously issued in 1969. Its as least as good as Intervall which I think was the only album issued during his short lifetime. I keep hoping that more might come out but he's a pretty marginal figure despite his excellence. This , Intervall and a compilation on Caprice are all available on streaming sites. Intervall was reissued on CD and LP in fairly recent times. I've recommended him before and make no apology for doing so again. 

[Ken Dryden]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I have two Alamacs I think. Bird with the Herd and Bird 1949 . I bought them in the 70´s and was a bit astonished they were so expensive and had quite modest cover design, no liner notes . The Bird with the Herd is quite funny though the more heavy swing style rhythm of the drums doesn´t fit to Bird, but it is a fun record.

I saw Jay McShann at Jazzland and it was great.
Dorothy Donegan also played once ore twice at Jazzland but I must admit I hadn´t ever heard her name. I learned that she was a very tehnical pianist and brought up as a wunderkind, could play licks of Errol Garner and others but seem´s to have been quite absent in the active jazzscene were you play and record in different groups . 

The boss of Jazzland, Mr. Melhard once told me it was quite stressy with her, since she thought she must have hundreds of evening robes to play and didn´t understand that this is just a smaller but outrite fine cellar club. She travelled with much luggage with robes and stuff and seemed to be lost away from the piano. Brought up as a wunderkind and kept that way.....

Dick Wellstood´s photo is also on the walls of Jazzland, but this must have been before my time or a style earlier than what we heard and studied. 

Art Tatum liked to take Dorothy around to clubs and when pianists inevitably challenged him, he would suggest they battle her first. I think that was mentioned in Jazz Anecdotes...

Marian McPartland told me that she thought Dorothy Donegan had an inconsistent recording output due to being difficult to work with and he she was la bit full of herself. When they played their final duet to conclude the broadcast of Piano Jazz, she told her, "Dorothy, you wasted me!" Donegan's response, "It was no contest!"

[Rabshakeh]

Great album that for once really does need new artwork with any reissue.

[sidewinder]

[HutchFan]

2022 Craft reissue

[Gheorghe]

20 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Art Tatum liked to take Dorothy around to clubs and when pianists inevitably challenged him, he would suggest they battle her first. I think that was mentioned in Jazz Anecdotes...

Marian McPartland told me that she thought Dorothy Donegan had an inconsistent recording output due to being difficult to work with and he she was la bit full of herself. When they played their final duet to conclude the broadcast of Piano Jazz, she told her, "Dorothy, you wasted me!" Donegan's response, "It was no contest!"

Well maybe this is one of the reasons why I didn´t go there,

First of all during that time I never heard a mentor tellin me about Dorothy Donegan, they might tell me to listen to Tatum, Bud, Monk, Garland, Wynton Kelly,  McCoy, Cecil Taylor, Herbie Hancock etc. , but I think Donegan was not mentioned much among musicians or even music lovers of the scene then or now. 
And.....as it was told to me it was over-pianistic, while I want to hear if a piano player connects well with the bass player and the drummer, each of the instruments very important to me. 

It also may explain, why Mr. Axel Melhard (boss of Jazzland) later complained, that there was not enough audience for Dorothy Donegan. 
Some one told me that when she banged the final chord of a tune, she lost her "peruca" (don´t know how you say for artificial hair), it was a tragic-comic thing with a woman too "overdressed" for a small cellar club. 

[jazzcorner]

A real swinger

[jazzcorner]

Jazz West Records JWLP-1 - The Jack Sheldon Quartet - rec. 1954 - Engineer: John Neal

 

 

[jazzcorner]

4 LP box - The complete concert (live) from May 20/21, 1977 at the Palladium Theatre NY City

Edited August 10, 2023 by jazzcorner
typo

[mjazzg]

Peter Appleyard & Orchestra - Per-cus-sive Jazz [Audio Fidelity, 1960]

Edited August 10, 2023 by mjazzg

[HutchFan]

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere on the forum:

 

Earlier today:

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[optatio]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere on the forum:

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