What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

On 3/14/2019 at 2:34 AM, Gheorghe said:

I really love this one. A fantastic reunion with those genial musicians Milt Jackson and James Moody, who had been associated with Diz in the 40´s. And the set repertoire is beautiful. Manteca a tune I love, Con Alma with  an interesting "new" arrangement and a trendy backbeat. And not to forget the features for Mr. Jackson and Mr. Moody (SKJ and Body and Soul). I´d like to mention also "Brother K." which is underrated but should be considered one of Dizzy´s greatest compositions along with let´s say Con Alma etc. ......

I remember Diz also did play it in Viena the year before.

The rhythm section is superb. Ed Cherry has been Dizzys favourite guitar player and he seems to have some Wes Montgomery roots. Saw him on several occasions with Diz, and even after Diz death in a Dizzy Alumni band. Mike Howell is a fantastic fender-bassist, he also has played for a long time with Diz, same with the very fine drummer Georges Hughes. One or two years later I saw Diz with Ed Cherry and Mike Howell, but then he had replaced the drummer with one from his generation, J.C. Heard, a very interesting choice.

Dizzy remains one of my favourites. I love his trumpet, his compositions which I play as much as possible.....

I feel just the same.  Hooray for Diz!     

 

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Theo Loevendie 4tet - s/t [Universe Productions]

picked up cheap today on the names of Loevendie and Dulfer alone. Pleasingly punchy stuff

yeah, excellent one.

[mjazzg]

59 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, excellent one.

Yep, very pleased with it. Just ordered a copy of 'Orlando' to keep it company.

What other Dulfer do you recommend (I have 'Maine' on the way too)? I'm thinking of getting Loevendie's 'Stairs!' next but this price is a bit hot and I have a dl of it already.

[paul secor]

21 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yep, very pleased with it. Just ordered a copy of 'Orlando' to keep it company.

What other Dulfer do you recommend (I have 'Maine' on the way too)? I'm thinking of getting Loevendie's 'Stairs!' next but this price is a bit hot and I have a dl of it already.

I'm not c_t, but I think you'll enjoy Maine. I have, over the years.

[mjazzg]

47 minutes ago, paul secor said:

I'm not c_t, but I think you'll enjoy Maine. I have, over the years.

I'm happy to hear that. The combination of Rudd and Dulfer can only be a winner really.

[clifford_thornton]

I would say everything of Dulfer's up to and including Maine is great, but the early ones are expensive.

Loevendie, it's all awesome. Stairs! is rad, sort of like Giuffre collided with Marion Brown's Porto Novo. 

 

[mjazzg]

26 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

I would say everything of Dulfer's up to and including Maine is great, but the early ones are expensive.

Loevendie, it's all awesome. Stairs! is rad, sort of like Giuffre collided with Marion Brown's Porto Novo. 

 

Thanks Clifford

[corto maltese]

If you do CD's too, you can go for the "The Formative Years '69-'96" boxset, which includes all the early and expensive albums (Jazz in Paradiso, El Saxophon...).

It's usually cheap, the sound is very decent and you'll also get a nice booklet with Dulfer's reminiscences of the early days, which are often quite funny.

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, corto maltese said:

If you do CD's too, you can go for the "The Formative Years '69-'96" boxset, which includes all the early and expensive albums (Jazz in Paradiso, El Saxophon...).

It's usually cheap, the sound is very decent and you'll also get a nice booklet with Dulfer's reminiscences of the early days, which are often quite funny.

That's great. Thanks very much.Just found it to sample on Spotify 

Edited March 15, 2019 by mjazzg

[sidewinder]

Reminds me that I saw Dulfer with his band play live at the Zermatt ski resort - an unlikely but interesting booking !

[jeffcrom]

 

Gunter Hampel / Galaxie Dream Band - All is Real (Birth)

Sam Musiker - Jewish Wedding Dances (Tikva). Musiker (what a great name for a klezmer) was a big-band veteran (Gene Krupa, for one) who became the son-in-law of his clarinet idol, the great Russian-born klezmer clarinetist Dave Tarras.

[kh1958]

Walter "Foots" Thomas All Stars (Prestige)

Billie Holiday, The Unforgettable Lady Day (Verve)

Max Roach, Chattahoochie Red (Columbia)

[clifford_thornton]

19 hours ago, mjazzg said:

That's great. Thanks very much.Just found it to sample on Spotify 

There really isn't anything like El Saxofon. The others are amazing too, but man, El Saxofon...

Also this looks like my kinda thing; anyone have a copy?

https://www.discogs.com/Ritmo-Natural-Ritmo-Natural/release/11101836

[Niko]

had that Loevendie/Dulfer in my hand today and skipped.. hmmm.... one that I did buy is now playing...

[sidewinder]

44 minutes ago, Niko said:

had that Loevendie/Dulfer in my hand today and skipped.. hmmm.... one that I did buy is now playing...

Good find. Not one that I can recall ever seeing in that version.

On 15/03/2019 at 8:24 PM, mjazzg said:

That's great. Thanks very much.Just found it to sample on Spotify 

Never knew of that one and will check it out too !

[Niko]

My personal highlight in that transaction was answering the seller's question about who McKusick was entirely in Dutch... next up is another of today's acquisitions, a Dutch organ record from the 80s with Herbert Noord playing organ and Paul Weeden on guitar...

[Niko]

Beaver Harris - Beaver is my name

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, Niko said:

had that Loevendie/Dulfer in my hand today and skipped.. hmmm.... one that I did buy is now playing...

 

It's quite free, so depending on your tolerance for intense stuff of that ilk, it may have been either a wise or unwise move.

Herbert Noord is really good, too, and I've much enjoyed the few records I have him on.

[Niko]

guess it'll come home with me the next time I see it at that price nevertheless... what I can say though is that the Beaver Harris album with steel drums and Andrew White is my type of free jazz album ... the tenor playing by White is simply world class and the steel drums add exactly the amount of color I tend to miss in tenor/bass/drums bands

Russell Garcia - I lead a charmed life

in contrast, this album here could not quite live up to the promise of Mike Wofford on Fender Rhodes and Teddy Edwards on Tenor.... I do like how the cover photograph suggests that Garcia is playing saxophone on the album... but then you look once more and realize it's really just a necklace

[paul secor]

[paul secor]

[jeffcrom]

Kid Thomas Valentine - Kid Thomas and his Algiers Stompers (GHB). Kid Thomas's raw trumpet style is an acquired taste, and as a young man I never really liked it until I started listening to Lester Bowie, in whose playing I found the same kinds of shakes and distorted sounds. Valentine always preferred a saxophone rather than a clarinet in the front line, and his longtime partner Emanuel Paul is at his idiosyncratic best here on tenor. Thomas picked the tunes, and they represent the kind of repertoire he played for dancers - pop songs and ballads as well as New Orleans jazz standards. I'm really enjoying this 1965 record tonight - it represents Valentine's ideas, rather than a producer's.

 

Edited March 17, 2019 by jeffcrom

[paul secor]

[mjazzg]

10 hours ago, Niko said:

Beaver Harris - Beaver is my name

That's a great record. So good that I bought it twice without realising! The only time I have done that, that I've spotted anyway

[tomatamot]

8 hours ago, paul secor said: