What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[mjazzg]

52 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

That's interesting. I've seen him live with Kahil El'Zabar and I wasn't so too impressed, but I'm happy to hear that he is moving in a more interesting direction. 

I'll give this a go.

Which is in itself interesting as I saw him with El'Zabar too, at Ronnies and was very impressed but he wasn't playing in full-on mode which he is here.  This isn't any major diversion from the Church Of Trane path he's been walking but it's more focussed and developed than earlier & Chosen Few albums that I thought were both slavish and sprawling, this is less of both to my ears.

The interesting but not wholly successful diversion was his 'Parallel Universe' album.

Now onto, just as everyone else has

Mal Waldron - The Quest [New Jazz, USA 1962, possibly 1963 RE]

Edited September 29, 2024 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

Saw Collier with Dave Burrell, William Parker, and William Hooker. To say he/they were taking it "there" would be an understatement. 

[HutchFan]

Nice 2-LP compilation of Farmer's Prestige sides, 1953 - 55.

Now spinning LP 1.  Up next: LP 2.

 

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy - Sempre Amore

Perhaps the loveliest album of the many Waldron-Lacy releases.   

 

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy - Sempre Amore

Beautiful .... like all Waldron/Lacy  recordings ....

[Teasing the Korean]

Roy Ayers - Ubiquity (Polydor, reissue)

This is a great pressing.  Usually, contemporary vinyl I've come across has very harsh treble.  This is nicely rounded.  

I like that you can sing certain lines from "The Raven" to lines in "Pretty Brown Skin:"

Ah, distinctly I remember/It was in the bleak December...

EDIT:  This album also has a very nice version of one of my least favorite Bacharach tunes, "Raindrops."

Edited September 29, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Herbie Mann - The Wailing Dervishes (Atlantic, stereo)

A companion album to Impressions of the Middle East from the same period.

Edited September 29, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[HutchFan]

I've been spinning a couple LPs that James Moody made for Vanguard in the late-70s:

 

and

Neither of these are top-tier Moody albums.  Even so, I dig his playing so much that I'm thoroughly enjoying them.

 

[Teasing the Korean]

17 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I've been spinning a couple LPs that James Moody made for Vanguard in the late-70s:

Do you have his early/mid-70s album with "The World is a Ghetto?"

 

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Maynard Ferguson - MF Horn (Columbia)

With the fantastic "Chala Nata."

Ms. TTK and I are alternating vinyl choices today.  She picked this one.  

Edited September 29, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Various - The Compositions of Benny Golson (Riverside, mono)

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Maynard Ferguson - MF Horn (Columbia)

With the fantastic "Chala Nata."

Ms. TTK and I are alternating vinyl choices today.  She picked this one.  

Nice choice from Ms TTK.

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Which is in itself interesting as I saw him with El'Zabar too, at Ronnies and was very impressed but he wasn't playing in full-on mode which he is here.  This isn't any major diversion from the Church Of Trane path he's been walking but it's more focussed and developed than earlier & Chosen Few albums that I thought were both slavish and sprawling, this is less of both to my ears.

The interesting but not wholly successful diversion was his 'Parallel Universe' album.

I assume I saw him later that day, then. It was a great gig, maybe my favourite at Ronnie's for a while, but he was the weaker link. He definitely looked the part, and played up to it, down to the shades and the toothpick hanging out of the corner of his mouth. 

I missed parallel universe. I'll give that a go too.

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Maynard Ferguson - MF Horn (Columbia)

With the fantastic "Chala Nata."

Ms. TTK and I are alternating vinyl choices today.  She picked this one.  

That's a good record, all of it.

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

[Teasing the Korean]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

That's a good record [MF Horn], all of it.

Liberated from the Stereo Jack's jazz dollar bin in the 1990s.  I was very surprised that it included Keith Mansfield's "Powerhouse Pop," albeit under a different title.  

 

[HutchFan]

On 9/29/2024 at 3:22 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Do you have his early/mid-70s album with "The World is a Ghetto?"

Nope.  It one of the few that I don't have.

What do you think of it?

 

[Teasing the Korean]

13 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Nope.  It one of the few that I don't have.

What do you think of it?

About 15 or 20 years ago, I digitized 3 of the tracks for a comp I was curating. These included "Ghetto," "Good Sense Humor Man," and "First Thing in the Morning."  These three have more or less funk grooves. IIRC, the tunes I did not digitize were more swinging and straight ahead.  Because I have mostly listened to the other three on the comp, I know those well, but I'm less familiar with the others.  It sounds like this album was designed to appeal to multiple audiences, maybe not unusual for a jazz album of this era by someone of Moody's generation.  

Edited September 30, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[HutchFan]

57 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

About 15 or 20 years ago, I digitized 3 of the tracks for a comp I was curating. These included "Ghetto," "Good Sense Humor Man," and "First Thing in the Morning."  These three have more or less funk grooves. IIRC, the tunes I did not digitize were more swinging and straight ahead.  Because I have mostly listened to the other three on the comp, I know those well, but I'm less familiar with the others.  It sounds like this album was designed to appeal to multiple audiences, maybe not unusual for a jazz album of this era by someone of Moody's generation.  

Sounds like I should give it a listen. 

 

[JSngry]

It was released on Paula and produced (on spec, as I understand it) by Paul Serrano + Richard Evans.

Stan Lewis had a longstanding pipeline to and from Chicago, and Serrano placed several of these tapes with Paula.

The Moody record was a lot better than I had expected!

[HutchFan]

Reissue of two of Fuller's Savoy LPs, both recorded in 1959.  Also, both feature Benny Golson.  R.I.P.

 

 

16 hours ago, JSngry said:

The Moody record was a lot better than I had expected!

I'm gonna check it out.   

 

[Ken Dryden]

[HutchFan]

 

 

16 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Ken, I didn't realize that LP had been issued on Muse.  I have the album too -- it's terrific! -- but it's on the Palo Alto Jazz label (with a different cover).

Did Muse reissue it when PAJ went belly-up?

 

Edited October 2, 2024 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

On 8/17/2024 at 9:19 AM, Rabshakeh said:

Roscoe Mitchell - Nonaah

I bought my four year old some sort of toy shawm on the weekend, because I enjoy misery. The six year old picked it up this morning and started to play "you know, the song that Roscoe Mitchell played again and again in front of those people". I have no memory of telling him that story but I presume that I did last time I spun it, back when I posted this record and, of all the things, it seems to have sunk in.

Not sure why the three times table isn't...

All grist for the therapist in later life. 

[Rabshakeh]

Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey And His Inter-Reformers Band

[jazzcorner]

17 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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