So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[jazzbo]

About four years ago accompanying my wife to one of her favorite antique/junk shops one of the owners told me he sometimes gets in jazz records as my wife told him I was into jazz. So four years later he calls me up and says he got about 50 jazz records in. I went to take a look.

A lot of the “jazz” was Boots Randolph type stuff, and big band legacy dance records, but I did find 8 that I picked up 3 for 10 dollars. Since I could get 1 more to make 9 I picked up a Barbra Streisand that my wife wanted because it had a cute photo of Barbra as a kid on the cover.

This was about 3 weeks ago. In that time I have been looking on and off for the SpinClean fluid that I had in the kitchen before our remodel, and never have found where my wife stashed it when we cleared out the old kitchen. So I finally caved and ordered a new bottle (which was part of amazon’s Black Friday sale!)

They all needed cleaning BIG TIME but cleaned up pretty well. The first I’m playing is one of four that the guy said “no one will want because they probably have nothing to play them on” as he thought they were 78s. What they were though were 10" LPs, 33 1/3 rpm.

“Duke’s Mixture” Columbia 10" LP. I’ve known of this, heard all the music, but never saw one in the flesh. It’s actually in really good condition cover and disc.

 

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[jazzbo]

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“Gerald Cannon” Woodneck cd

[Simon8]

[soulpope]

54 minutes ago, Simon8 said:

Excellent 👌👍 ....

[mjazzg]

4 hours ago, jazzbo said:

About four years ago accompanying my wife to one of her favorite antique/junk shops one of the owners told me he sometimes gets in jazz records as my wife told him I was into jazz. So four years later he calls me up and says he got about 50 jazz records in. I went to take a look.

A lot of the “jazz” was Boots Randolph type stuff, and big band legacy dance records, but I did find 8 that I picked up 3 for 10 dollars. Since I could get 1 more to make 9 I picked up a Barbra Streisand that my wife wanted because it had a cute photo of Barbra as a kid on the cover.

This was about 3 weeks ago. In that time I have been looking on and off for the SpinClean fluid that I had in the kitchen before our remodel, and never have found where my wife stashed it when we cleared out the old kitchen. So I finally caved and ordered a new bottle (which was part of amazon’s Black Friday sale!)

They all needed cleaning BIG TIME but cleaned up pretty well. The first I’m playing is one of four that the guy said “no one will want because they probably have nothing to play them on” as he thought they were 78s. What they were though were 10" LPs, 33 1/3 rpm.

“Duke’s Mixture” Columbia 10" LP. I’ve known of this, heard all the music, but never saw one in the flesh. It’s actually in really good condition cover and disc.

 

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Apart from scoring a nice Ellington the other great part of the story is that the store owner remembers four years later that you're the Jazz fan. Unless I'm misunderstanding 

[jazzbo]

No that's true, I only ever saw him four years ago. My wife has been in the store about ten times since then I bet, and she's . . . memorable. She may have mentioned my love of jazz and audio a few times since then, I'm unsure. But the guy is a canny businessman. . .I've seen him take notes while on the phone, and he's knowledgable about curios and folk art. . . he's managed to keep a shop in a small town open for over 25 years, no small feat these days.

Besides the Ellington I also got a Jazztone sampler 10"-- a Wild Bill Davis Epic 10" and 12" --Benny Golson "Killer Joe," "Chico Hamilton Trio" on Pacific Jazz and a Billy Eckstine 10" on Emarcy, and Johnah Jones "Muted Jaszz"  on Capitol.. And for my wife:

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[optatio]

3 hours ago, Simon8 said:

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[jazzbo]

Miles Davis “At Newport 1958” Sony Blu-Spec CD2 2 cd set, mono cd

 

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Followed by

Scott Hamilton & Friends “Blues, Bop & Ballads” Concord cd

 

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[HutchFan]

 

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[Peter Friedman]

[Simon8]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

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[Gheorghe]

On 12/3/2024 at 10:07 PM, JSngry said:

The October 25, 1954 Monk Rollins session. Hard to believe that this was Sonny's last recording before he admitted himself to Lexington and didn't record as a leader again for two years.. For somebody whose life was in such deep disarray, his playing here is assured and deeply substantive. Perhaps credit for that goes to Monk?

No matter, it's such a rewarding set of music, Never get tired of it, and always get amazed by it.

I'd love to find this 10", even if it was just the cover:

 

 

Rollins with Monk sounds very good. I think there are different sessions, one is with more originals, is not "That´s call This" from such a session, like "Friday 13th" and so on ? 

And another one is with standards, like "More than you know" ? 
Than I think I have it. 
But also the Sonny Rollins album on BN, where Monk replaces Horace Silver is very interesting....

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The first and to me best of this otherwise excellent Blackhawk series .... btw Joe Gordon (!!) ....

[soulpope]

7 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

This incarnation of the Dave Holland Quintet likely the strongest .... who would compete with Julian Priester ....

[jazzbo]

About three inches of snow last night, about half or less of what they were “predicting.” I’m not unhappy about that.

Starting off a still, cold morning with. . . .

 

 

Stuart Mack “Vibrations” Outside in Music cd

Nice compositions on this one, as well as playing. Impressive debut from this young trumpeter.

[EKE BBB]

[jazzbo]

Listening to the second disc of this new 2 cd set for the first time. I only wish there were MORE Emily Remler to listen to. She left us too soon.

Emily Remler “Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas (1984 & 1988)” Resonance [2CD]

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

4 hours ago, soulpope said:

The first and to me best of this otherwise excellent Blackhawk series .... btw Joe Gordon (!!) ....

I actually prefer the tunes on Vol. 3 but all of them are excellent.

[jazzcorner]

Mercury 125313 MCL (european edition) - Roland Kirk "Reeds & Deeds" - rec. 1963

 

 

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Mercury 125313 MCL (european edition) - Roland Kirk "Reeds & Deeds" - rec. 1963

 

🥳🥳🥳 ....

[kh1958]

Warren Wolf, History of the Vibraphone (Cellar)

[John Tapscott]

I wasn't too keen on this when I first heard it, but now on the third time around it's growing on me. It's pretty good. How could it not be with that prime rhythm section? 

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, jazzbo said:

Listening to the second disc of this new 2 cd set for the first time. I only wish there were MORE Emily Remler to listen to. She left us too soon.

Emily Remler “Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas (1984 & 1988)” Resonance [2CD]

 

Ordered. Looking forward.

[John Tapscott]