What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[mjazzg]

Andrew Hill - Judgement! [Blue Note/Music Matters, 2013 45rpm]

Von Freeman - Have No Fear [Nessa, 1975]

Edited September 6, 2023 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

3 hours ago, mjazzg said:

 

Marcello Melis - Free To Dance [Black Saint, Italy 1978]

This is such a good album, look at that line-up. So why haven't I played it in over five years I ask myself

😀

Melis is really interesting. Not only the Black Saint and Vista LPs, but Hamiet Bluiett's Bars (which he wrote & arranged, mostly) and half of Mario Schiano's Sud (as the Bluiett).

Edited September 6, 2023 by clifford_thornton

[mjazzg]

7 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Melis is really interesting. Not only the Black Saint and Vista LPs, but Hamiet Bluiett's Bars (which he wrote & arranged, mostly) and half of Mario Schiano's Sud (as the Bluiett).

Thanks, I know 'Bars' but not the Vista nor the Schiano.  I'll see if I can check them out

Edited September 6, 2023 by mjazzg

[clifford_thornton]

The Vista is strong for sure, and not at all a "wall" record. I'm sure you can find a vinyl copy.

the Schiano is somewhat rare but it does pop up on discogs.

[Rabshakeh]

Big push for Sud here. Don't know Bars either but will check it out.

[clifford_thornton]

Bars is the trio of Bluiett/Melis/Moye. It goes there.

[HutchFan]

4 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Feeding the Ostalgie brigade with their austere soviet typology.

 

"Commas are characteristic of the decadent Western bourgeoisie, the kulaks of punctuation."

 

Edited September 6, 2023 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Chico Freeman - The Outside Within (India Navigation, rec. 1978)

 

[mjazzg]

52 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

"Commas are characteristic of the decadent Western bourgeoisie, the kulaks of punctuation."

 

😄

[mjazzg]

Garrick's Fairground - Mr Smith's Apocalypse [Argo, UK 1971]

[clifford_thornton]

Pretty good album that I oughter pick up one of these days...

[mjazzg]

20 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Pretty good album that I oughter pick up one of these days...

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?

Edited September 6, 2023 by mjazzg

[jazzcorner]

Coral Records CRL 57283 - Leith Stevens " Jazz Themes From Private Hell 36" - rec. 1959

Edited September 7, 2023 by jazzcorner
typo

[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]

 

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