What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

All 6 sides

6 x 👍!

[jazzcorner]

Verve (Japan) MV 2076 - Ray Brown / Milt Jackson Orchestra " - re. 1965 - Engineer: Val Valentine

[sidewinder]

Yusef Lateef 'Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert From Avignon' (Elemental 2LP)

[mjazzg]

17 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Yusef Lateef 'Atlantis Lullaby - The Concert From Avignon' (Elemental 2LP)

Thoughts? 

On my list to try and snag this evening

[sidewinder]

7 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thoughts? 

On my list to try and snag this evening

Yeah, it's nice - and very varied stylistically too, something for everyone for the audience who were there. Originally wasn't going to get this one on LP but succumbed. Sonically it isn't audiophile but is very acceptable. I'm not a fan overall of the Yusef Atlantics and this one is very much in his acoustic/non-fusion bag. Lots of solo space for Kenny Barron, not surprisingly.

Edited April 22, 2024 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

45 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Yeah, it's nice - and very varied stylistically too, something for everyone for the audience who were there. Originally wasn't going to get this one on LP but succumbed. Sonically it isn't audiophile but is very acceptable. I'm not a fan overall of the Yusef Atlantics and this one is very much in his acoustic/non-fusion bag. Lots of solo space for Kenny Barron, not surprisingly.

Thanks

[jlhoots]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Yeah, it's nice - and very varied stylistically too, something for everyone for the audience who were there. Originally wasn't going to get this one on LP but succumbed. Sonically it isn't audiophile but is very acceptable. I'm not a fan overall of the Yusef Atlantics and this one is very much in his acoustic/non-fusion bag. Lots of solo space for Kenny Barron, not surprisingly.

Tootie on drums. Waiting for the CD.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, plan to get this and the Mal on CD. I suppose the Rollins and Ra too. My lone experience with Resonance LPs wasn't super great.

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, plan to get this and the Mal on CD. I suppose the Rollins and Ra too. My lone experience with Resonance LPs wasn't super great.

I've been happy with their LPs to date. The one time I did have a defective disk they shipped out a replacement from the US pretty pronto.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, they replaced my Rollins in Holland discs quickly but for the price tag it was kind of ridiculous. Actually, I guess the Ayler set was free of defects & that was one of theirs too. 

The Lacy-Waldron set has a bizarre title & artwork, think they could've done better on that one...

[Rabshakeh]

Les McCann - Layers

[clifford_thornton]

Soft Machine, Høvikodden 1971 (Cuneiform), LP1

have part of this on the old Reel Recordings CD set; mastering here is a bit less hot it seems, but the sound is really good and open. Music is as great as you'd expect.

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Laurindo Almeida - Concierto de Aranjuez (East Wind JP, 1978)
My vinyl is the U.S. version issued on Inner City

 

[Rabshakeh]

On 4/21/2024 at 4:12 PM, Pim said:

 

Fascinating record from a Hungarian group recording with John Tchicai. I hear influences by Albert Ayler, Abdullah Ibrahim and Pharoah Sanders. Some free passages, spiritual jazz, free improvisation and compositional music. Pretty adventurous stuff. I’d call this my 2024 discovery for now.

Perhaps some prejudice of me but I did not expect a 1983 record from Hungary to sound so good!

Maybe they already know it but I am pretty sure this is the league of @mjazzg@Rabshakeh@soulpope and perhaps also @HutchFan
 

That's a good record. I really like it.

Not really the same thing, but I like George Szabados too, in Hungarians from the era.

[Pim]

20 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

That's a good record. I really like it.

Not really the same thing, but I like George Szabados too, in Hungarians from the era.

Yeah I like him too.

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Laurindo Almeida - Concierto de Aranjuez (East Wind JP, 1978)
My vinyl is the U.S. version issued on Inner City

 

Excellent. Love it 👍 ❣️ 

 

[optatio]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Laurindo Almeida - Concierto de Aranjuez (East Wind JP, 1978)
My vinyl is the U.S. version issued on Inner City

 

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Excellent. Love it 👍 ❣️ 

👍 - just spinning ...

[HutchFan]

First spin of a recent dollar-bin find:

Scott Hamilton & Warren Vaché - Skyscrapers (Concord, 1980)
A nonet session with Harold Ashby, Joe Temperley, Norman Simmons, and others

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

First spin of a recent dollar-bin find:

Scott Hamilton & Warren Vaché - Skyscrapers (Concord, 1980)
A nonet session with Harold Ashby, Joe Temperley, Norman Simmons, and others

How is this one? I never really dug these guys, but I always liked how their records looked. Something about the late 1970s jazz ecosystem.

Edited April 23, 2024 by Rabshakeh

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

How is this one? I never really dug these guys, but I always liked how their records looked. Something about the late 1970s jazz ecosystem.

The music is OK, but somewhat generic.  At this point, having heard it only once, I can't say that I'd recommend it.

I prefer individual albums by Hamilton (Tenorshoes) & Vaché (Polished Brass) much more. Both of these LPs feature smaller ensembles, which seem better suited to these players.

 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Roy Eldridge - Dale's Wail (Verve, 2 LPs)

Now this music OVERFLOWING with vitality. So much irrepressible soul coming out of that horn!  Yeah!!!

 

[jazzcorner]

10 hours ago, optatio said:

 

👍 - just spinning ...

Yep! This one is here - excellent sound 

[Rabshakeh]

Vernard Johnson - I'm a Witness Too

I forget who on this board recommended this gospel saxophonist. Apparently a big influence on John Butcher.

$2 purchase from Zia Thunderbird from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona.

[mjazzg]

46 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Vernard Johnson - I'm a Witness Too

I forget who on this board recommended this gospel saxophonist. Apparently a big influence on John Butcher.

$2 purchase from Zia Thunderbird from a recent trip to Phoenix, Arizona.

I find Butcher's church influence increasingly apparent in his solo work. Funny how that can happen with age.

[Rabshakeh]

19 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I find Butcher's church influence increasingly apparent in his solo work. Funny how that can happen with age.

I agree.

"Church influence" is funny in this case, since presumably it comes from records. I'm not sure of how substantial the pentecostal saxophone scene was in East Sussex in the mid- to late-1960s, but I'd guess that the answer is 'not very'. Where did he first come across this stuff, and what other records are there that influenced him? Vernard Johnson is not exactly a house name of here. One thing that I don't hear much with Butcher is an Ayler influence, which is where you would have assumed he would have started from.

It's a good record by the way. Very enjoyable as breakfast music, even if my wife is a bit less tolerant of outwardly churchy music.

Edited April 24, 2024 by Rabshakeh