What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Mundell Lowe - Guitar Player (Dobre, 1977)
with Monty Budwig (b) and Nick Ceroli (d)

 

[HutchFan]

Shirley Scott - Lean on Me (Cadet, 1972)
with George Coleman (ts), Danny Turner (as, fl), Roland Prince (g), and Idris Muhammad (d)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Harry Robinson - Twins of Evil OST (Death Waltz)

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Andre Previn - Dead Ringer OST (WB, mono)

With its combination of dissonant, 20th century symphonic composition and use of the harpsichord, this is as close as I've found to Night Gallery music.

 

That description makes me sit up

[Teasing the Korean]

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

That description makes me sit up

It's not like that all the way through - there are melodic passages - but there are definitely some tracks that made me see everything through a fish-eye lens. 😉

[optatio]

Wayne Escoffery: Alone. Smoke Sessions Records SSR-2405-1 [2024]

[jlhoots]

3 hours ago, optatio said:

Wayne Escoffery: Alone. Smoke Sessions Records SSR-2405-1 [2024]

👍

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Mundell Lowe - Guitar Player (Dobre, 1977)
with Monty Budwig (b) and Nick Ceroli (d)

 

I think he is on some Bird live recording "Bird is Free" and plays some very fine guitar there, but somehow guitar in vintage bop settings does not really fit in other than maybe an additional soloist. 

But he must have been a very technical guitarist. 
What label is "Dobre Records".....sounds like something from Iugoslavia or Polonia...

10 hours ago, HutchFan said:

This album keeps making its way back to my turntable:

Bob Florence Big Band - Live at Concerts By The Sea (Trend, 1980)

It's a grower.

 

It´s strange I have read that name sometimes here in the forum, but it is completly unknown to me. 
Maybe I´m not the biggest big band fan (it seems that Diz, Billie Eckstine and above all Sun Ra but also Thad Jones Mel Lewis have spoiled me on other big bands) but I never heard the name

[jazzcorner]

Philips (Japan) SFX-10508 - Dizzie Gillespie & The Double Six Of Paris - rec 1963 -



 

 

 

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Re: Bob Florence

It´s strange I have read that name sometimes here in the forum, but it is completly unknown to me. 
Maybe I´m not the biggest big band fan (it seems that Diz, Billie Eckstine and above all Sun Ra but also Thad Jones Mel Lewis have spoiled me on other big bands) but I never heard the name

 

Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records and some unissued material he did here in Germany with the radio Frankfurt big band.  He preferred  to arrange longer tracks to give the artists solo space. For my taste he belongs to the top 2 or 3 West Coast  big bands beside Bill Holmans orchestra and the Shorty Rogers Big Express.

Can recommend also his album "Westlake" on Discovery/Trend (Albert Marx production).

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[clifford_thornton]

I had no idea that musicians like Eddy Louiss, Bernard Lubat, Jef Gilson, and Roger Guérin were involved with Les Double Six.

[HutchFan]

5 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Can recommend also his album "Westlake" on Discovery/Trend (Albert Marx production).

After enjoying Florence's "Concerts by the Sea" LP so much, I'm adding "Westlake" to my to-get list.  

Thanks, @jazzcorner.   

 

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

I had no idea that musicians like Eddy Louiss, Bernard Lubat, Jef Gilson, and Roger Guérin were involved with Les Double Six.

Not only these but also Bud Powell

 

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Philips (Japan) SFX-10508 - Dizzie Gillespie & The Double Six Of Paris - rec 1963 -



 

 

 

 

Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records and some unissued material he did here in Germany with the radio Frankfurt big band.  He preferred  to arrange longer tracks to give the artists solo space. For my taste he belongs to the top 2 or 3 West Coast  big bands beside Bill Holmans orchestra and the Shorty Rogers Big Express.

Can recommend also his album "Westlake" on Discovery/Trend (Albert Marx production).

The Diz with the Double Six of Paris is a very nice record. 
It´s the big band arrangesments for the vocal quartet. 
Only the lyrics are stupid nonsens. Maybe this was the times when the record was made. 

Diz is in top form, some of Diz´s finest solos. 
And Bud is in top form as always if he was not forced to play trio but play together with great horn players.

 

About Bob Florence: Well I know now why I never had heard his name: Westcoast..... that´s a complete hole in my infos about jazz or my records.....

[Rabshakeh]

Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Konitz Meets Mulligan

[Niko]

 

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

About Bob Florence: Well I know now why I never had heard his name: Westcoast..... that´s a complete hole in my infos about jazz or my records.....

 My internet browser made it look as if "Bob Florence died much too early. I am a big band fan and have everything he cut on records" was something you said... I was already thinking, wow, here's another facet of Gheorghe I'd never would have suspected... I guess I am somewhere in the middle, wouldn't call myself a big band fand, but I do have a Bob Florence LP which I am playing now... the album is about 8 weeks older than me, hard to say who has aged better... 

[Rabshakeh]

14 hours ago, HutchFan said:

After enjoying Florence's "Concerts by the Sea" LP so much, I'm adding "Westlake" to my to-get list.  

Thanks, @jazzcorner.   

 

Different vibe, but worth trying an earlier record too: Band Bongos, Reeds, Brass. One of the best "studio" big band records.

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

.........

About Bob Florence: Well I know now why I never had heard his name: Westcoast..... that´s a complete hole in my infos about jazz or my records.....

"West Coast style"  is mostly considered as a subform of 'Cool Jazz'.

One of your compatriotes is a star of Cool Jazz: Hans Koller. Ever heard?

Can recomment this book I just received a few days ago

 

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Different vibe, but worth trying an earlier record too: Band Bongos, Reeds, Brass. One of the best "studio" big band records.

Is this referring to Westlake? Sorry I've got confused (easily done...) but like the sound of that recommendation 

[Niko]

39 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Is this referring to Westlake? Sorry I've got confused (easily done...) but like the sound of that recommendation 

no, that must be this here

https://www.discogs.com/release/9872965-Big-Band-Of-Bob-Florence-Bongos-Reeds-Brass

[Rabshakeh]

47 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Is this referring to Westlake? Sorry I've got confused (easily done...) but like the sound of that recommendation 

It's Bob Florence. An early stereosploitation record. But a really good one. Very exciting and creative within the constraints of a ridiculous and compromised genre.

Edited October 11, 2024 by Rabshakeh

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

"West Coast style"  is mostly considered as a subform of 'Cool Jazz'.

One of your compatriotes is a star of Cool Jazz: Hans Koller. Ever heard?

Can recomment this book I just received a few days ago

 

who has not heard of Hans Koller ? 

Hard music to play, you got to read difficult sheet.....

[Pim]

the Buddy DeFranco session. Music to play over and over again. 

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

It's Bob Florence. An early stereosploitation record. But a really good one. Very exciting and creative within the constraints of a ridiculous and compromised genre.

Thanks

[optatio]

11 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Konitz Meets Mulligan

👍

[jazzcorner]

22 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Lee Konitz & The Gerry Mulligan Quartet – Konitz Meets Mulligan

Have this edition