What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[adh1907]

On 2/16/2024 at 3:06 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Just finished during a workout - Lou Donaldson - Alligator Boogaloo, from the Classic Vinyl release. Sounds nice but it's still not my favorite Donaldson from that era. It's pretty short too.

Now playing - Van Morrison - Loondance... I mean Moondance. It's easy to get those two words mixed up when it comes to Van.

My Liberty copy of that Donaldson LP is entitled ‘Alligator Bogaloo’! One cylinder is the stand out track , must have been sampled at some point?

[Chuck Nessa]

16 minutes ago, optatio said:

👍 - as Vol.1 Konnex KCD 5039 and Vol.2 Konnex KCD 5040, Germany 1992, on my shelf

I also have a cd set on Absord - Art Union, Japan 1999 .

Edited February 17, 2024 by Chuck Nessa

[Pim]

 

[mjazzg]

22 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan (New Land). I had a bootleg CD of this material in poor quality sound. I always wondered by Mingus broadcasts in the early 1960s sounded worse than Bird broadcasts from the late 1940s. This release transforms the material with a substantial sonic upgrade, making it highly enjoyable as music and a valuable addition to Mingus's official albums from this era. Glad I bought it, despite the high price.

Completely agree on all points

[sidewinder]

15 hours ago, adh1907 said:

My Liberty copy of that Donaldson LP is entitled ‘Alligator Bogaloo’! One cylinder is the stand out track , must have been sampled at some point?

'Alligator Bogaloo' indeed it is on the Liberty. I think it has been sampled but for sure it appears on one of those French Blue Note 'club' CD sets put out by 'DJ Booster' (whoever he is).

I have a framed photo of cornetist Melvin Lastie supplied by Mosaic, from that very session. Tons of cigarette smoke !

Edited February 18, 2024 by sidewinder

[Pim]

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

30 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

'Alligator Bogaloo' indeed it is on the Liberty. I think it has been sampled but for sure it appears on one of those French Blue Note 'club' CD sets put out by 'DJ Booster' (whoever he is).

I have a framed photo of cornetist Melvin Lastie supplied by Mosaic, from that very session. Tons of cigarette smoke !

I guess I've been either misspelling or mispronouncing "boogaloo" my whole life.

Is this Lou Donaldson LP titled pronounced "bog a lew"?

[sidewinder]

5 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I guess I've been either misspelling or mispronouncing "boogaloo" my whole life.

Is this Lou Donaldson LP titled pronounced "bog a lew"?

I've always thought it was 'bow-ga-lew' but I may be wrong !

Nice reissue of Gerry's CBS albums put out by Henri Renaud of French CBS.

[jazzcorner]

RCA Victor NL-46046 (FSR reissue)  - Billy Byers " The Jazz Workshop" - rec. 1956

 

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[Teasing the Korean]

Walter Wanderley - When It Was Done (CTI, stereo)

[Teasing the Korean]

Rita Graham - Vibrations (Tangerine, stereo)

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart (Polydor, 1976, 2 LPs)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Frank DeVol - The Happening OST (Colgems, mono)

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Pim said:

Excellent ....

[Teasing the Korean]

Mose Allison Sings (Prestige, mono)

[HutchFan]

This LP continues to be in heavy rotation at this listener's house:

Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (Blue Note, 1971)

George Butler produced this LP, but (aside from the voices) I think it sounds more like soul jazz that Bob Porter was producing for Prestige around that same time.  The key sidemen on Cosmos are Porter regulars: Melvin Sparks, Leon Spencer, and Idris Muhammad.  That (relatively) stripped-down, not over-produced "Bob Porter-like" soul jazz sound is one of the reasons I've been enjoying this LP so much.   

 

Edited February 18, 2024 by HutchFan

[Teasing the Korean]

Sinatra/Basie/Hefti - Reprise (mono)

Edited February 18, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Leonard Bernstein - The Age of Anxiety (Columbia, stereo)

Need to get the taste of the biopic out of my mouth. 

Edited February 18, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, Pim said:

 

I have heard it somewhere, I remember the title tune is something in the style of Silver´s "The Preacher", but I think this LP was lesser known. From the 50´s I only have "Blowing Sessions" two albums on one double LP, it is the thing with Trane and Mobley, and a Clifford Jordon record with Sun Ra´s saxophonist John Gilmore. 

I think I also remember or have read, that the "Congregation" is too short for an LP......

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

This LP continues to be in heavy rotation at this listener's house:

Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (Blue Note, 1971)

George Butler produced this LP, but (aside from the voices) I think it sounds more like soul jazz that Bob Porter was producing for Prestige around that same time.  The key sidemen on Cosmos are Porter regulars: Melvin Sparks, Leon Spencer, and Idris Muhammad.  That (relatively) stripped-down, not over-produced "Bob Porter-like" soul jazz sound is one of the reasons I've been enjoying this LP so much.   

 

Strange thing with Blue Note and with Lou Donaldson .....after 1970. As you know I have been a fan since the 70´s but somehow I never got a real feeling for what BN did in that period. All those records (and it seems they were not so much sold or seeked after in Vienna) somehow were the same, a lot of instruments, and quite thin stuff at least for my ears. 

I love a lot of BN albums from the earlier decades and we knew LD from his recordings with Monk, Horace Silver and Art Blakey, and his own "Blues Walk" , but I think he was not very much touring in the 70´s , the first time I heard him live was in the 80´s and that was mighty fine..... 

My impression was, that other labels had more interesting 70´s years jazz, like CBS, Atlantic or what you call them. 

If BN wanted to sell us electric jazz, rock jazz, I think CBS with electric Miles was much better on that, and others like Headhunters or RTF were much better and more interesting than those many "one kind of style 70´s BN recordings". 
Once I did a mistake and bought a LD BN album from 1974 and after listening one side it landed in the garbage can, the only time I did something like that with a record.....

[adh1907]

Barney Wilen - Jazz sur Seine, Sam records reissue. Sounds great. Wilen has such a fluent style. Each solo seems as though it was written. Stanley Turrentine has a similar thing going on.  Never heard Milt Jackson play so much piano. 

[jazzcorner]

Blue Parrot has issued another Coltrane LP titled " Brazilia" beside the "Crescent" LP. Have both for a very long time

 

[adh1907]

10 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Blue Parrot has issued another Coltrane LP titled " Brazilia" beside the "Crescent" LP. Have both for a very long time

 

Interesting label. Appears to have been run from a house on a 60s estate in the Edinburgh suburbs. I think the releases date from the late 70s if Discogs is correct. 

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I have Brazilia also. Nice one.

[jazzcorner]

RCA "X" series (Japan) RGP-1061(M) - Red Norvo " Rds's Rose Room/ Red'sBlue Room" - rec. 1954

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (Riverside/Milestone Japan).