What vinyl are you spinning right now??

Gheorghe · 2026-01-30T19:51:37Z

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

I have the America pressing also. America/Musidisc reissued several Debut and Fantasy titles in France, in addition to a bunch of new recordings from Shepp, the AEC, Dave Burrell, Frank Wright, Alan Shorter... excellent series.

Yeah, they were good. Especially for a young budding musician with low budget. I got all their Mingus albums, the Roach album, and I think the "Fabulous Paul Bley Quintet" with Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry was also on it. Starting with Jazz in early teens I was quickly "hooked" by the stuff that went beyond be- and hardbop, all those incredible Impulse albums of Trane, Pharoah, Ornette, Albert Ayler.....the music I love most.
And it had started with hearing Dolphy on the 3-LP America label issue of "The Great Concert of Charles Mingus". Hearing what Dolphy did at a very early age opened my mind and my imagination !