What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Teasing the Korean]

Various - 2001/Aniara (Columbia)

Featuring Moog interludes by Morton Subotnik.

Aniara is an instrumental suite from Blomdahl's space opera, using orchestra plus electronics.

[Teasing the Korean]

Nat "King" Cole - Welcome to the Club (Capitol, stereo)

with Dave Cavanaugh

This is maybe the worst stereo I've heard on a Capitol vocal LP from this period.  Nat is in one speaker with a few instruments.  Most of the band is in the other.  Guessing this sounds a lot better in mono.  

[JSngry]

It does, and it's a really good record that way. That's the one with the Basie band, right?

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

It does, and it's a really good record that way. That's the one with the Basie band, right?

Yes, minus Basie.

[Ken Dryden]

One of 21 vintage LPs I bought in a local store yesterday, all but one was under $4. Somebody must have cleaned out their father's or husband's collection.

[Gheorghe]

On 8/24/2024 at 5:04 PM, Pim said:

todays finisher

I think I must purchase this though LP is not as simple for me as CD. If I have the quiet moments to listen to music, I prefer not to get up to turn the LP´s . 

But the music must be fantastic. For listening, I rarely listen to strictly straight ahead these times. Okay, if it is really pushed like VSOP or stuff like that, but the most 50´s records and the straight ahaed 60´s records remain in the shelves....., I mean I like to figure out things now, seldom hear music just to relax......

[Pim]

Just now, Gheorghe said:

I think I must purchase this though LP is not as simple for me as CD. If I have the quiet moments to listen to music, I prefer not to get up to turn the LP´s . 

But the music must be fantastic. For listening, I rarely listen to strictly straight ahead these times. Okay, if it is really pushed like VSOP or stuff like that, but the most 50´s records and the straight ahaed 60´s records remain in the shelves....., I mean I like to figure out things now, seldom hear music just to relax......

There’s a cd version as well 👍

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

There’s a cd version as well 👍

Thank you ! That´s what I have to buy.

Edited August 26, 2024 by Gheorghe

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Art Farmer - Farmer's Market (Prestige, 2-LPs)
Compilation of tracks recorded 1954-56

 

[Gheorghe]

20 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Art Farmer - Farmer's Market (Prestige, 2-LPs)
Compilation of tracks recorded 1954-56

 

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records. 

 

[HutchFan]

Giving this new-to-me LP a first spin:

Nancy Harrow with Jack Wilkins - Two's Company (Inner City, 1984)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

It does, and it's a really good record that way. That's the one with the Basie band, right?

Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

[soulpope]

11 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Giving this new-to-me LP a first spin:

Nancy Harrow with Jack Wilkins - Two's Company (Inner City, 1984)

Good one 👌 ....

[HutchFan]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Good one 👌 ....

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

 

[mjazzg]

24 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

 

Worse than under-recognised here, I've never heard her name let alone her music, sorry Nancy.

Tidal have some albums, not Hutchfan's though, so I shall sample

[soulpope]

32 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

Indeed ....

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

[HutchFan]

15 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Tidal have some albums, not Hutchfan's though, so I shall sample

If you'd like to dig into her music, I'd recommend these, @mjazzg:

- Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1979)
- You're Nearer (Tono/Baldwin St., 1986)

 

[mjazzg]

8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

If you'd like to dig into her music, I'd recommend these, @mjazzg:

- Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1979)
- You're Nearer (Tono/Baldwin St., 1986)

 

Thanks, shall start just there, 'Anything Goes' is on Tidal so that's my first port of call

[Teasing the Korean]

18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

The one with the golf clubs and the amazing cardigan?  I've got that one too.

[jazzbo]

"Welcome to the Club" has lyrics written by Noel Sherman who also wrote the lyrics to "Ramblin' Rose."

[Kevin Bresnahan]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records. 

 

I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

Edited August 26, 2024 by Kevin Bresnahan

[optatio]

18 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

One of 21 vintage LPs I bought in a local store yesterday, all but one was under $4. Somebody must have cleaned out their father's or husband's collection.

👍 - on my shelf!

[Ken Dryden]

Rather nice sound for 1940s transcriptions!

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

I never got to hear him, but I have a lot of his discography in my collection and fond memories of the phone interview I did a few years prior to his death.