The Things You Discover Your Dad Owned

[JSngry]

I think he was already doing it...didn't he play on a lot of the Sesame Street music?

I figure a lot of guys picked up electric in the late 60s in order to cover/get studio gigs. Hell, even Ron Carter did!

[medjuck]

I wish he had stopped. There's a couple of things I really like on the new Sonny Rollins release but I would have liked them more with an acoustic bass and no bongos.

[AllenLowe]

actually, from what I was told, he switched to electric because of back problems.

[marcello]

Nah, Bob is very fit, even now in his mid seventies. He just got used to the electric bass, wanted to be better heard with Sonny and got tired of carrying around the acoustic. I asked him because Joe Locke wanted him to play acoustic on the "Rev-elation" cd and tours.

[six string]

I found a copy of that Billy Taylor album a while back and though I am a fan of his music, I didn't risk it based on the cover. It sounds like I made the right choice.

[Bill Nelson]

'OK, Billy' is just that ... OK. It's a TV studio band performing workmanlike charts. Nothing blazing here.

When it came in as a promo, I found one or two passable tracks to spin on my FM jazz show.

[JSngry]

Just got a copy from DG, and what Dan failed to mention that might be of interest to some is that four of the eight arrangements are by John Carisi!

One' s by Frank Wess, & three are by Garnett Brown. I guess one's by Taylor himself.

[AfricaBrass]

I wish my dad would have had some jazz albums... but I was happy that he had some Kraftwerk lps.

[Brad]

Mine had a lot of classical but also show tunes like Pajama Game and West Side Story, not to mention George M. Cohan.

[Bright Moments]

That's nice but I posted this in the Vinyl Frontier. Its not a discussion of what members have found or inherited from their fathers.

IMHO a discussion of what members have found or inherited from their fathers would be very interesting!! Maybe i will start that thread.

In any event - my Dad owned this one:

Edited February 28, 2012 by Bright Moments

[slide_advantage_redoux]

My dad's LP collection was all over the map genre wise.

Lots of C&W

Mystic Mood sides (as a kid I fell asleep countless times listening to those schlocky orchestral arrangements with either thunderstorms or trains in the background!)

But then he had tons of hipper shit:

Joe Bushkin sides

Leadbelly

Louis Jordan/Tympani 5

Louis Armstrong (that was my first exposure to Teagarden!)

Several JATP sides

Keely Smith

Tons of Benny Goodman small group things, along with a pretty big assortment of the standard "big band era" stuff, incl. those Readers Digest compendiums.

(he used to drill me on what songs were the theme songs of various big bands)

The most modern thing I ever found in his collection was Cannonball's Mercy Mercy Mercy.

Whenever I would try and discuss bebop, he'd always mention how he couldn't stand watching Dizzy puff up like he did. Try as I might, I couldn't get him to just shut his eyes and dig on what he was playing!

Edited March 5, 2012 by slide_advantage_redoux