What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[BillF]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

The Bill Evan Album (Columbia, 1971)

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40 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

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[HutchFan]

Art Pepper - So in Love (Artists House, 1980)

 

[HutchFan]

New Testament Basie takes off.

 

[Clunky]

23 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I think that's an excellent record. More evidence that we all hear differently.  😉

 

I lent this to a friend having not listened to it in years. I thought it'd be right up his street. He hated it. I listened to it all the way the through this afternoon. Love it I do. It takes all sorts. 

 

Bengt Berger----Bitter Funeral Beer----(ECM)

[HutchFan]

27 minutes ago, Clunky said:

I lent this to a friend having not listened to it in years. I thought it'd be right up his street. He hated it. I listened to it all the way the through this afternoon. Love it I do. It takes all sorts. 

Amen to that.

 

[jlhoots]

4 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Nice cover photo. Never heard of Skip Martin.

[Teasing the Korean]

The Hellers - Singers...Talkers...Players...Swingers...& Doers (Command)

A totally whacked album!

40 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

Nice cover photo. Never heard of Skip Martin.

He was an arranger.  Not sure if we was directly connected with the show, or if the album was a promotional tie-in.  

5 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

The Bill Evan Album (Columbia, 1971)

I should revisit this album.  The cover art and the Rhodes were both stumbling blocks for me.  I do like electric pianos in other contexts, though.

[Brad]

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I should revisit this album.  The cover art and the Rhodes were both stumbling blocks for me.  I do like electric pianos in other contexts, though.

Yeah, that cover is wretched.

As for the music, it's never been an album that's blown me away either.  It's good -- on some days I might even say very good -- but nothing more than that. 

I really enjoy this particular BE trio (with Gomez & Morell), but I think they did their best work elsewhere.

 

 

Now spinning:

I have this version of Ben & Sweets in my collection.

 

Edited August 27, 2023 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

[jazzcorner]

14 hours ago, jlhoots said:

 Never heard of Skip Martin.

Well he directed some fine big band albums I can recommend.

Most like the last one. Great  west coast lineup in the band pl. see below.

 

Martin,Skip Swinging Things from C. Porter`s CanCan     1960          Somerset(FS)        12400

Martin,Skip The Musik from M.Spillane`s Mike Hammer 1959  RCA(jap)          45986

Martin,Skip TV Jazz Themes   1960  Somerset(FS)        8800

Edited August 28, 2023 by jazzcorner

[Rabshakeh]

Kids in a bad mood so I'm letting them spin records to cheat them up.

First up daughter (3) with a cover she likes. 

Gone down well for a first listen.

Second up, son (5) wants the "really good one with American peoples and they're looking down at the city and it's really... beat-ey".

Some imagination and I figured it out...

[Niko]

13 hours ago, rostasi said:

 

 

thanks for sharing the liner notes! so this would suggest that the tenorist below is Johnny Griffin provided it's the same version as here (and there's only one tenorist on the record)

edit: we'd been there years ago, not Griffin was the crowd's verdict back then

Edited August 28, 2023 by Niko

[clifford_thornton]

On 8/27/2023 at 1:09 AM, Pim said:

Maybe I should give it another spin. After all we tend to like the same things mostly

I like that one. I wish I could connect with Foster's 70s big band work a bit more. Tried several times and just can't get into it -- and certainly I'd say it's my ears, not his charts or the recordings.

[HutchFan]

31 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

I like that one. I wish I could connect with Foster's 70s big band work a bit more. Tried several times and just can't get into it -- and certainly I'd say it's my ears, not his charts or the recordings.

I think this archival recording -- recorded in 1977 but only released in 2007 -- is probably Foster's best with his Loud Minority Band:

Perhaps it might make for an easier path into his music? 

If you haven't heard it already . . .

 

7 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Sublime.

 

[Pim]

40 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

I like that one. 

More reason to give it another try 👍

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Prysock in Philly International mode.  He even opens the album with a Gamble & Huff tune.

 

Edited August 28, 2023 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

5 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Well he directed some fine big band albums I can recommend.

Most like the last one. Great  west coast lineup in the band pl. see below.

 

Martin,Skip Swinging Things from C. Porter`s CanCan     1960          Somerset(FS)        12400

Martin,Skip The Musik from M.Spillane`s Mike Hammer 1959  RCA(jap)          45986

Martin,Skip TV Jazz Themes   1960  Somerset(FS)        8800

I had this 99 cent record in high school -

[jazzcorner]

2 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I had this 99 cent record in high school -

Fine! missed it. Thanks for the Info

Nice west coast crew 😁

• Adapted By – Skip Martin
• Artwork – Will Dressler
• Bass – Red Mitchell
• Cello [First] – Ed Lustgarten*
• Composed By – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Conductor [Conducting] – Skip Martin
• Drums – Irv Cottler, Larry Bunker, Lou Singer
• Edited By – Belinda Putnam
• French Horn – Jack Cave, Dick Perissi*, Vince De Rosa*
• Guitar – Al Hendrickson
• Mixed By – Bill Putnam
• Orchestra [Symphony In Jazz] – The Video All-Stars
• Photography By – George Pickow
• Piano – Jimmy Rowles
• Recording Supervisor – D. L. Miller*
• Reeds – Chuck Gentry, Gus Bivona, Jules Jacob, Paul Horn, Ted Nash (2)
• Trombone – Frank Rosolino, George Roberts, Joe Howard, Milt Bernhart
• Trumpet – Conrad Gozzo, Don Fagerquist, Frank Beach, Joe Trescari*, Pete Condoli*
• Tuba – Clarence Karella
• Violin [Solo] – Eudice Shapir

Edited August 28, 2023 by jazzcorner
credits

[Brad]

[Gheorghe]

19 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Kids in a bad mood so I'm letting them spin records to cheat them up.

First up daughter (3) with a cover she likes. 

Gone down well for a first listen.

Second up, son (5) wants the "really good one with American peoples and they're looking down at the city and it's really... beat-ey".

Some imagination and I figured it out...

Yeah, Agharta ! Miles sounded so good until 1981 or so and started to sound so boring as the 80´s went on........ (oh my God, that silly bridge on "Perfect Way" sounds like "Kaufhaus-Musik von den 80er Jahren" 🤑

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Prysock in Philly International mode.  He even opens the album with a Gamble & Huff tune.

 

I never had heard that name, but was astonished that this picture looks exactly like Mr. B when he became more commercially and had said good bye to bop......

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Yeah, Agharta ! Miles sounded so good until 1981 or so and started to sound so boring as the 80´s went on........ (oh my God, that silly bridge on "Perfect Way" sounds like "Kaufhaus-Musik von den 80er Jahren" 🤑

Agharta is one of the first MD records with which I really connected. Also the first album I heard on vinyl. 

[jazzcorner]

File under "crime jazz"

 

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Agharta is one of the first MD records with which I really connected. Also the first album I heard on vinyl. 

Good entry ! That´s how it was. All we boys at hi school wanted to "play Miles Davis", buying huge sunglasses, bendin down and mimicking a wah wah trumpet, he was Mr. Super Cool. I was lucky I could manage both of it. The acoustic with Trane or with Wayne Shorte, as much as the early electric and the post 73 stuff. Saw him with "Lieb" at Stadthalle Vienna.

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Oliver Lake - Impala (Gramavision, 1987)
with Geri Allen, Santi Debriano, and Pheeroan Aklaff

 

 

14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I never had heard that name, but was astonished that this picture looks exactly like Mr. B when he became more commercially and had said good bye to bop......

Funny that you mention Eckstine.  He was definitely a big influence on Prysock.