What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

The Joe Venuti Blue Four (Chiaroscuro)

with Zoot Sims, Dick Hyman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Spencer Clark, etc...

[kh1958]

John Mehegan--Reflections (Savoy)--This seems to be the only "original" Savoy in my LP collection. Unfortunately, I don't like it that much.

[sidewinder]

Michael Garrick Sextet 'Promises' (Argo stereo)

[alocispepraluger102]

muriel angelus expresses the lyrics of oscar hammerstein II

[GA Russell]

Hug (Br. Polydor) 1976?

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (Columbia)

George Shearing - The Shearing Spell (Pausa) 1955?

National Health (Visa) 1977

[brownie]

Red Garland 'Red Alert' (Milestone)

with Nat Adderley, Ira Sullivan, Harold Land, Ron Carter and Frank Butler

[sidewinder]

Pepper Adams 'Critics Choice' (Toshiba)

[sidewinder]

Earl Anderza 'Outa Sight' (Toshiba)

[Teasing the Korean]

John Mehegan--Reflections (Savoy)--This seems to be the only "original" Savoy in my LP collection. Unfortunately, I don't like it that much.

John Meheagan wrote a series of jazz piano instruction books, "Contemporary Styles for the Jazz Pianist" which were considered pretty good at one time, mostly for the left-hand chord voicings. A lot of this stuff is old-hat by now, but at the time this may have been the only place to read about this kind of thing. I've never heard his recordings. How would you describe his style?

[brownie]

Grant Green 'The Latin Bit' (BN/ King Japan)

[kh1958]

John Mehegan--Reflections (Savoy)--This seems to be the only "original" Savoy in my LP collection. Unfortunately, I don't like it that much.

John Meheagan wrote a series of jazz piano instruction books, "Contemporary Styles for the Jazz Pianist" which were considered pretty good at one time, mostly for the left-hand chord voicings. A lot of this stuff is old-hat by now, but at the time this may have been the only place to read about this kind of thing. I've never heard his recordings. How would you describe his style?

He's "Progressive," allegedlly taking the best elements of bop but restoring the left hands of Jelly Roll Morton and Art Tatum. To me, he sounds stiff and very much like a Classical pianist trying to play jazz. The record is part-solo piano, and part piano-drums (Kenny Clarke). The liner notes are a lecture by "Uncus" about the influence of Classical music on jazz: e.g., "West Coast Progessive (1948-): basic Neo Classic influence, Bach, Handel. Modern Classicism--Hindemith."

I have another pretty rare ten inch John Mehegan, From Barrellhouse to Bop, with Charles Mingus on bass. Despite the presence of Mingus, I don't like this one either.

[michel1969]

Herb Geller "Fire in the West" Jubille 1044, blue label DG original. With Kinney Durham or something like this.

[michel1969]

John Mehegan--Reflections (Savoy)--This seems to be the only "original" Savoy in my LP collection. Unfortunately, I don't like it that much.

John Meheagan wrote a series of jazz piano instruction books, "Contemporary Styles for the Jazz Pianist" which were considered pretty good at one time, mostly for the left-hand chord voicings. A lot of this stuff is old-hat by now, but at the time this may have been the only place to read about this kind of thing. I've never heard his recordings. How would you describe his style?

He's "Progressive," allegedlly taking the best elements of bop but restoring the left hands of Jelly Roll Morton and Art Tatum. To me, he sounds stiff and very much like a Classical pianist trying to play jazz. The record is part-solo piano, and part piano-drums (Kenny Clarke). The liner notes are a lecture by "Uncus" about the influence of Classical music on jazz: e.g., "West Coast Progessive (1948-): basic Neo Classic influence, Bach, Handel. Modern Classicism--Hindemith."

I have another pretty rare ten inch John Mehegan, From Barrellhouse to Bop, with Charles Mingus on bass. Despite the presence of Mingus, I don't like this one either.

Johnny Costa, too. Same as Mehegan.

[brownie]

Johnny Griffin 'Do Nothing Til' You Hear From Me' (Riverside, stereo, black label)

[Durium]

JAZZ MASTERS

Originals

3 LP box (NOT the Verve box, but EUROGRAM ( Musique en Or))

Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Rollins - Thelonius (sic) Monk - Art Blakey - john Coletrane

EM (Eurogram) COF 11

Keep swinging

Durium

[Teasing the Korean]

A stereo copy, unfortunately, of a KILLER album.

If there's one thing that drives me CRAZY, it's stereo mixes with the bass off to one side, as it is here.

[Chuck Nessa]

JAZZ MASTERS

Originals

3 LP box (NOT the Verve box, but EUROGRAM ( Musique en Or))

Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Rollins - Thelonius (sic) Monk - Art Blakey - john Coletrane

EM (Eurogram) COF 11

Keep swinging

Durium

Do you EVER buy music from the people who either made or own it?

[Ken Dryden]

Among the record show vinyl acquisitions I gave a spin to recently was Gary Wofsey's Kef's Pool, with special guest Phil Woods. But not even Woods' best effort helped the treatment of the mediocre song "Close to the Edge" (by the forgettable rock group Yes).

[Parkertown]

JAZZ MASTERS

Originals

3 LP box (NOT the Verve box, but EUROGRAM ( Musique en Or))

Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Rollins - Thelonius (sic) Monk - Art Blakey - john Coletrane

EM (Eurogram) COF 11

Keep swinging

Durium

Do you EVER buy music from the people who either made or own it?

[GA Russell]

National Health - Of Queues and Cures (Br. Charly) 1978

Elton Dean Quintet - Boundaries (JAPO/ECM) 1980

Osibisa (Decca) 1971

[brownie]

Miles Davis 'Relaxin' (Prestige, 50th St.)

A longtime Miles favorite!

[michel1969]

Miles Davis 'Relaxin' (Prestige, 50th St.)

A longtime Miles favorite!

Me too !!! My fav' Trane + Miles Prestige session

Yesterday night : dave Bailey "One foot in the Gutter" Epic Yellow radial DG or. Not unforgettable, but a fine session anyway.

[brownie]

Wynton Kelly 'Last Trio Session' (Delmark)

with Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb

[paul secor]

John Coltrane Quartet: Ballads

[sidewinder]

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet 'Dusk Fire' (UK Columbia mono) Great way to start a day !