What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

39 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

A recent addition. It's quintessential Garrick with that British choral writing tradtion to full effect.

My copy has the added bonus, to me, of all the musicians' autographs on the inside gatefold with dedications to "Derek" who was obviously involved in some way but isn't credited anywhere. I need to research who that might be.

Any clue @sidewinder?

Nice. I actually discovered recently that my Poetry & Jazz 250 is signed inside the box by Garrick -- the autograph was obscured by an inlay that I hadn't taken out.

[mjazzg]

Neil Ardley - A Symphony Of Amaranths [Regal Zonophone, UK 1972]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

Nice. I actually discovered recently that my Poetry & Jazz 250 is signed inside the box by Garrick -- the autograph was obscured by an inlay that I hadn't taken out.

That's a good surprise. I should revisit the poetry & jazz, it was a bit too rich a mixture for me 20 years ago and I haven't tried since

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, neat stuff but requires a special mood. I think I've spent more time with the single LPs (inc. Black Marigolds) than the box.

[mjazzg]

The Charlie Mingus Modernists - Jazz Experiment [Jazztone, 1957]

a Noir soundtrack if ever there was one

[Rabshakeh]

3 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

The Charlie Mingus Modernists - Jazz Experiment [Jazztone, 1957]

a Noir soundtrack if ever there was one

That's another cool record. I like LaPorta on it, and the composing is good too. Lots of great ideas in that era.

[mjazzg]

30 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

That's another cool record. I like LaPorta on it, and the composing is good too. Lots of great ideas in that era.

Yes, I agree. the group name and LP title sum it up nicely. I love this era of Mingus. With hindsight you can hear what's coming down the line but I think the era has merits all of its own.

Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner [Blue Note, Germany 1970(?)]

always been a favourite Herbie date.

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yes, I agree. the group name and LP title sum it up nicely. I love this era of Mingus. With hindsight you can hear what's coming down the line but I think the era has merits all of its own.

Those records are obviously juvenalia and they are also their own sort of dead end, but they're really interesting dead end juvenalia. Third stream and its colleague: esoteric cool and bop modernism.

The link to Black Saint is obvious but also the records are really different. It's more a link in thinking that actual musical language. 

I'm also a big fan of John LaPorta. He's not the best alto player by any means, but he has a nice smokey quality and, more importantly, he tended to be on oddball interesting records only.

[mjazzg]

I hear links to future compositions on Picecanthropus and East Coasting, mood but also structure but I'm no musician so that's purely a listener's perspective.

I have a couple La Porta LPs I really enjoy

Edited September 7, 2023 by mjazzg

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Jan Garbarek - Places (ECM, 1978)
with John Taylor (org, p), Bill Connors (g), and Jack DeJohnette (d)

EDIT:  Such masterful drumming by Jack.  His propulsive drive makes this music go.

 

 

23 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Neil Ardley - A Symphony Of Amaranths [Regal Zonophone, UK 1972]

  

 

Edited September 7, 2023 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

[soulpope]

On 9/6/2023 at 5:06 PM, mjazzg said:

 

Von Freeman - Have No Fear [Nessa, 1975]

As good as it gets ....

[HutchFan]

 

and

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

and

I never saw Harold Mabern live but heard him on the Freddie Hubbard "Night of the Cookers" and I think on some Wes Montgomery in Europe. Very very fine. 

But I never in live saw such a strange form of the front head. 

[kh1958]

Gil Evans, Great Jazz Standards (Pacific Jazz Tone Poet)

McCoy Tyner, Time for Tyner (Blue Note Tone Poet)

 

[BillF]

52 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

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[Daniel A]

Tonight I have played these:

[BillF]

9 hours ago, Daniel A said:

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited September 10, 2023 by BillF

[kh1958]

Jazz Giants volume 1 (Giants of Jazz). Some broadcast gems on this record in good sound (Ellington solo Solitude, Benny Goodman small group with Jess Stacy, Louis Armstrong All Stars with Earl Hines for a wonderful Struttin' with some Barbecue, Basie small group with Wardell Gray).

[Teasing the Korean]

Cy Coleman - The Ages of Rock (MGM, stereo)

Cy reimagines the classics with today's "rock" backings!

[Teasing the Korean]

Ahmad Jamal - Freeflight (impulse!, stereo)

Plugging in the Rhodes on this one.

[Teasing the Korean]

Choice! The Best of Ramsey Lewis (Cadet, stereo)

[Chuck Nessa]

With Darnell Howard.

[Teasing the Korean]

Peggy Lee - If You Go (Capitol, mono)

Arrangements by Q.

[Chuck Nessa]

[jazzcorner]

Shiah Records  SR 118 - Phil Wilson " Latin American Tour" - rec. 1985