What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Cedar Walton 'Spectrum' (Prestige, stereo, blue label)

Edited January 7, 2024 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

51 minutes ago, Clunky said:

I've succumbed and just order this, damn you......

😂 you'll not be disappointed, I'm sure...

44 minutes ago, JSngry said:

It got made and continues to intrigue. Success in itself! 

I wonder what's still in the can...Freddie Hubbard said that Sonny stopped his ,,{Hubbard's) best solos because they were too Trane-ish. So, we know that there COULD be more material in the archive. 

That is interesting. I often feel like it sounds as if Sonny is the least comfortable of the group with the music. Not that he doesn't make interesting contributions.

58 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

'Miles - His New Quintet' (Esquire)

Those 1975/76 UK Impulse releases were good. Put out through 'Anchor Records' I think - I bought a number of them at the time. Although the vinyl was UK, the sleeves were imported from the US.

£3.50 from Mole according to the sticker, would've been '82 or so

[sidewinder]

The 'Anchor' Impulses were about £2.99 at time of issue I think. Recall splurging my Summer job money savings on a bundle of them (Abstract Truth, Mingus Mingus..etc.). Still got them.

Edited January 7, 2024 by sidewinder

[BillF]

2 hours ago, Pim said:

 

👍

[Rabshakeh]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Stanley Turrentine - In the Pocket (Fantasy, 1975)

A recent dollar bin find.  The strings & voices on this album, arranged by Gene Page, give the music a 70-soundtrack vibe.  It's soul-jazz with a definite emphasis on the soul side.  Regardless of the low-ish jazz quotient, I think the music is terrific. It accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, and Stanley sounds great. 

I agree. Those Fantasy's are commercial concoctions, but there is something about how Turrentine appears to play along with all the cliches only to twist suddenly go in his own direction, sometimes by no more than an interestingly placed note, that I really enjoy.

[Pim]

still have mixed feelings about it this record. It contains some of my favorite Cannonball (the title track is amazing). The very average and cliche guitarist Mike Deasy spoils some of the tracks with his boring rock n roll playing. If he was not there that night this would have been one of Cannonballs best live dates. I still love it for all the tracks without Deasy. Cannonball surely had some soul!

[sidewinder]

'Elmo Hope Memorial Album' (Prestige, test pressing)

Bergenfield NJ sleeve, 1955 trio recordings. I'd forgotten that I had this one - bargain at £4 !

[kh1958]

Bud Shank, Sunshine Express (Concord)

Art Tatum In Person (Ember)

 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

still have mixed feelings about it this record. It contains some of my favorite Cannonball (the title track is amazing). The very average and cliche guitarist Mike Deasy spoils some of the tracks with his boring rock n roll playing. If he was not there that night this would have been one of Cannonballs best live dates. I still love it for all the tracks without Deasy. Cannonball surely had some soul!

This could be trimmed down to a totally awesome single CD.

But sometimes I want to just wade through all the mess just because it's a Cannonball mess. Especially with the spoken intros. 

But yes, when I cull to one degree or another, Deasy goes first. Always. 

[Rabshakeh]

Grupo Niche - Niche

Preceded by

Armonicord - Esprits de Sel

[soulpope]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Grupo Niche - Niche

😍Moncho Santana😍 ....

[Pim]

57 minutes ago, JSngry said:

But sometimes I want to just wade through all the mess just because it's a Cannonball mess. Especially with the spoken intros. 

Yes it’s a lovely ride. That deep voice and the funny things he’s sayin: makes you want to be right there in that club. I must say I don’t skip those tracks with Deasy either. Except for Benny Hen which is just silly.

[jazzcorner]

5 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down [Impulse, UK 1976 RE]

A big album in my early Jazz listening. I'm never sure these days how successful it is but it sounds good today

👍

 

[Teasing the Korean]

School of Rebellion, by that Pernod-sipping, Proust-reading, Brooks Brother suit-wearing bon vivant Bill Russo.  (Roulette, iMONO!)

[Teasing the Korean]

Ella & Louis - Decca Master Takes (Decca, iMONO!)

[Teasing the Korean]

Ella & Louis - Verve (iMONO!)

[kh1958]

On 1/6/2024 at 3:12 PM, jazzcorner said:

 

I did not realize there were 15 volumes! I have two.

[jazzcorner]

17 hours ago, kh1958 said:

I did not realize there were 15 volumes! I have two.

Here is a listing of my cvopies

 

The Hard Swing JWC-508        1955-57       World Pacific Rec.

The sound of Bigband Jazz in Hi-Fi JWC-514         1955-57       World Pacific Rec.

Jazz Coast Jazz , Vol. 2 JWC-501      1955/56       Jazz West Coast(japan)

Jazz West Coast Vol. 3   1956  Jazz West Coast

Rogers and Hart Gems (Baker/Kitty White) JWC-504     1956  Jazz West Coast(japan)

Have Blues, Will Travel The Blues Vol 2 JWC-509  1956-58       World Pacific Rec.

Jazz West Coast Jazz Vol. III JWC-507     1956/57       Jazz West Coast(japan)

Jazz Pianists Galore JWC-506  1957  Jazz West Coast(japan)

Solo Flight - Jazz West Coast 505     1957  Pacific Jazz

Jazz West Coast (Anthology) JWC 500       1957  World Pacific Rec.

The Blues JWC-502        1957  World Pacific Rec.

The Blues in Stereo JWC-513   1957-59       World Pacific Rec.

Jazz West Coast Vol 4 JWC-510        1958  World Pacific Rec.

Blowin`The Blues JWC-512       1959  World Pacific Rec.

West Coast Jazz Vol. 5 JWC-511        1959  World Pacific Rec.

[Clunky]

On 1/7/2024 at 2:50 PM, mjazzg said:

Turning the heat up, it's cold today

Milford Graves - Children Of The Forest [Black Editions, 2023]

one of the albums of last year

Now playing. Super fast service from Honest Jon’s.  Beautifully produced music in all ways possible 

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, Clunky said:

Now playing. Super fast service from Honest Jon’s.  Beautifully produced music in all ways possible 

I'm glad you're enjoying it.  It's a fabulous release

I'm playing

Kofi Flexxx - Flowers In The Dark [Native Rebel, UK 2023]

having streamed it a few times I thought it was time to actually buy it. Until reading the credits just now I hadn't realised @Alexander Hawkinswas so involved in it.

[mikeweil]

[optatio]

34 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

👍

[HutchFan]

Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink - The Topography of the Lungs (Incus, 1970)

Otoroku reissue

 

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, mikeweil said:

Excellent ....

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Excellent ....

 

9 hours ago, optatio said:

👍

 

9 hours ago, mikeweil said:

You are right. All those Savoy albums (I think others like the Charlie Parker album) had similar covers and I think I picked up some of them during my "learning years" as a teenie. They all are great and I think that they were the foundation for my understanding of bop. All of ´em, the Dexter sides, the J.J. Johnson, Fats Navarro, Mr. B and the Band, Lester Young. 

The only downer for me with those old studio records was or is, that you don´t hear the drummer recorded properly. 
I understood more of what Bird and Co are doing when I heard live albums like "One Night at Birdland" where you hear Art Blakey really loud, and it makes you to understand the music much better if you hear what the drummer does. 
I mean Savoy had them all, Max Roach, Kenny Clark, Shadow Wilson, Art Blakey and who was there, but you don´t HEAR them. I think someone recommended to me the Black Lion Byas Album "Anthropology" where you hear the band better.