paul secor Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Al Jones, Frank Necessary & the Spruce Mountain Boys (Rounder) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jeffcrom Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Introducing Jimmy Cleveland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 3 hours ago, jeffcrom said: Introducing Jimmy Cleveland Always liked this track: Cleveland could be lovely on ballads. When I bought this album as a high school sophomore back in 1957-8,  the clerk in the record department of the stationary store (an attractive and seemingly very grown up senior girl) said to me after I'd played this track that she really liked it, doing so with a certain romantic vibe that suggested she liked me too for playing it. I walked out of that store on a cloud. Getting back to Cleveland on ballads, check out his "If You Could See Me Now" and "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" with Gil Evans.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnxt8AK69iY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 She might have been dropping a hint...what time did she get off work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 3 minutes ago, JSngry said: She might have been dropping a hint...what time did she get off work? Too late now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 No doubt, but let's revisit the story from the angle of "record department of the stationary store"...they had that where you grew up, did they? I swear, records used to be everywhere! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Yup -- L&A Stationers in Winnetka, Il.; they had a nice stock, jazz was popular then. Actually, there were very few record stores per se in my area in the '50s. Another place where I used to get 45s was a TV and appliance store. Remember buying the Basie-Joe Williams "Smack Dab in the Middle" there -- "Gimme oodles of butter, gangs of meat, gallons of coffee, and somethin' sweet..."  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Yeah, we had furniture stores and a Firestone that sold records, the era of the small town rack jobber, must've been a wild life...In a town of about 7,000, I can think of at least 6 places where you could buy records of one kind or another, some current, some old, some off-brand, but all of them there and ready to be bought, drug stores, dime stores newsstands, grocery stores, seems like you could buy records any time you left the house, go out for a gallon of milk and an Elvis 45, or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 And every Woolworth's and SS Kresge had a rack of cut-out LPs. With patience, you could find some amazing stuff. Now playing: Sam Rivers - The Quest (Pausa). This could also go in the "Great LPs which never made it to CD" thread, but there's already several Sam Rivers mentions there. In any case, I would hate to have to pick a single Sam Rivers album to take to a desert island. But if I did, this might be it. Maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted December 25, 2015 Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 Got my first 12 inch lp from a wire rack in a Super Value grocery in Story City, Iowa (population 1500) in 1956. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Tapscott Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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paul secor Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 T-Bone Walker: Plain Ole Blues (Black & White/Charly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Derek Bailey/Steve Lacy - Company 4 (Incus) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 I James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey (Columbia). I've never known what this album "is," exactly, but it got under my skin the first time I heard it many years ago. It's doing the same thing tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Rock and Rollin' with Fats Domino (Imperial). Fats' first album, which in his case meant a collection of his singles, including the stunning 1949 "The Fat Man." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefromtheforest Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Masahiko Sato "penetration" (Toshiba, white label promo). Original issue in the box cover...an awesome record! Joe Henderson "inner urge" (blue note, NY USA stereo ear) I love all of Henderson's Blue Notes but this would easily be one of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aparxa Posted December 27, 2015 Report Share Posted December 27, 2015 Another great batch: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Chu Berry: A Giant of the Tenor Sax (Commodore) Couldn't find an image for my LP. Jeff and Jim S. got on me a bit when I commented (somewhat negatively) on this months ago. I decided to let it sit for a while before I listened again. Turns out that they were more right than I was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Gerry Mulligan, Concert Jazz Band (Verve), Herbie Mann Nonet, Flute, Brass, Vibes, and Percussion (Verve), and Dave Brubeck, Jazz Goes to College, volume 2 (Columbia ten inch). , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 36 minutes ago, paul secor said: Chu Berry: A Giant of the Tenor Sax (Commodore) Couldn't find an image for my LP. Jeff and Jim S. got on me a bit when I commented (somewhat negatively) on this months ago. I decided to let it sit for a while before I listened again. Turns out that they were more right than I was. I feel kind of bad - hope I wasn't too mean - except that it got you to listen again. Now playing: Steve Lacy - Flakes (Vista). I don't listen to this Italian album much; the music is dense and jagged and the recording is brittle. But it fits my mood tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Harold Vick - Watch What Happens (RCA). I picked this up a couple of years ago, and listened to it once. I was put off by the overblown arrangements (including a female choir) on most of the tunes, so I put it aside to give it one more chance. Two years later, I just gave it another chance. And damn - Vick's playing is so strong on every track that I can forgive all the other musical transgressions. I'm keeping it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 If the worse thing I do in this life is to risk pissing somebody off by telling them they're wrong about Chu Berry, hey, clear conscience! I have a burn of that Vick LP somewhere...is the title tune done as a ballad with just the quartet? I seem to remember it as being one of those things that can pass for a "straight" version, but only if you don't pay attention to the tenor playing, which is just full of colorations and tonal manipulations, in other words, typically Harold Vick, which is to say, the sound of a master at work. Eddie 'Harris would do shit like that too, sound like he's "just" playing the melody, but, pshaw, right, yeah, sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 17 minutes ago, JSngry said: I have a burn of that Vick LP somewhere...is the title tune done as a ballad with just the quartet? I seem to remember it as being one of those things that can pass for a "straight" version, but only if you don't pay attention to the tenor playing, which is just full of colorations and tonal manipulations, in other words, typically Harold Vick, which is to say, the sound of a master at work. No - the three quartet tracks are "Ode to Trane," "If Ever I Would Leave You," and "Angel Eyes." But Vick just smokes on every track. This album must have been a great disappointment to the folks at RCA, who were obviously trying for a pop-jazz album, but got something too good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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