What music did you buy today?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

My CD of the Ray Charles live doesn't have any bonus tracks. I reckon one's as well of with the vinyl as the CD, except for having to get up and turn it over.

Nice buys, Dan.

MG

Thanks MG but per Amazon, Concord issued an expanded version in 2011 with six more tracks. And there are new copies under $6 through the Marketplace. Way less than what I paid for the LP.

Hell, I'd better get that one.

I assume it's this that you're talking about

Which I found here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-In-Concert-Ray-Charles/dp/B0041KVJZK/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&qid=1410201368&sr=8-36&keywords=ray+charles+live

Reviews say the sound isn't as good on the new stuff as on the original album tracks; that seems to be a drag. This is what someone says -

The only downside to the concert is that there are some somewhat audible differences between the original LP selections and the previously unreleased tracks, including a rather obvious crossfade about 3/4 of the way through the running time. I've seen this audio anomaly mentioned elsewhere, but it most likely won't affect listening for most.

Not sure I'll bother. If someone else has this, comment would be good.

MG

[Steve Reynolds]

Evan Parker- Sebastian Lexer - Eddie Prevost: Tri-Borough Tryptych

Evan Parker with Derek Bailey & Han Bennink: Topography of the Lungs

Parker, Yoshihide, Butcher, Edwards, Marsh: Live @ Cafe Oto

[alankin]

On Sunday I had my 2014 trip to the Princeton Record Exchange. I bought a bunch of stuff, including the Bob Brookmeyer Mosaic Select for $40.

Also got Duke Ellington "Unknown Session" plus a bunch of lower priced CDs for about $4 each, including:

Pete Christlieb - Conversations With Warne, Vol. 2

Eddie Condon / Bud Freeman - Jammin' at Commodore

Eddie Condon - World Broadcasting Jam Sessions 1944

Dexter Gordon - Backstairs

Coleman Hawkins - At The Golden Circle 1963

Daniel Humair - Sweet & Sour

Ingrid Jensen - Here on Earth

Henk de Jonge Trio - Jumping Shark

Herb Robertson - The Legend of the Missing Link

Art Pepper Quartet - Val's Pal

Hugh Ragin - Feel The Sunshine

Hal Russell NRG Ensemble - The Finnish/Swiss Tour

Ted Sirota / Rebel Souls - Breeding Resistance

Jason Stein - The Story This Time

Gebhard Ullman - Essencia

Edited September 10, 2014 by alankin

[kh1958]

Pre-ordered, Jason Moran, All Rise,

John Coltrane, Live at Temple University, and

24 Classic Blues Songs from the 1920s, volume 11.

Edited September 10, 2014 by kh1958

[colinmce]

Evan Parker- Sebastian Lexer - Eddie Prevost: Tri-Borough Tryptych

Evan Parker with Derek Bailey & Han Bennink: Topography of the Lungs

Parker, Yoshihide, Butcher, Edwards, Marsh: Live @ Cafe Oto

The Oto disc is nice though the track listing switches the Quintet and the Sextet. I also want to hear the Matchless date.

I bought Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger - Peace Concert

[Steve Reynolds]

Evan Parker- Sebastian Lexer - Eddie Prevost: Tri-Borough Tryptych

Evan Parker with Derek Bailey & Han Bennink: Topography of the Lungs

Parker, Yoshihide, Butcher, Edwards, Marsh: Live @ Cafe Oto

The Oto disc is nice though the track listing switches the Quintet and the Sextet. I also want to hear the Matchless date.

I bought Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger - Peace Concert

Plus Sachiko M is on that date. Thanks - I thought I heard two saxophones on the "quintet" piece.

[BillF]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Well, he doesn't look sixteen any more; maybe about twenty.

MG

[BillF]

Well, he doesn't look sixteen any more; maybe about twenty.

MG

In that case, Harold Mabern's 94!

[colinmce]

Chicago has been flush with Cecil Taylor FMPs lately. I've had good luck swooping them up!

[Dan Gould]

Birthday is next weekend and I was visiting Mom in Naples, FL and asked that in lieu of a gift she fund a vinyl safari to the only two record stores that looked decent: Record Trader and Echo Vintage Books and Vinyl, both in Fort Myers. Came away with:

Montreux Blues Festival (Excello) - Lightnin' Slim, Whispering Smith, Jimmy Dawkins are on almost all of the tracks

Guitar In My Hands Volume 2 (Moonshine) - all Texas bluesmen, I am guessing I have the Gatemouth tracks but the others should be new

Goin to Chicago (Testament) - JB Hutto, Sam Lay, Floyd Jones - EddieTaylor, Billy Boy Arnold - I fear I may have these tracks elsewhere but what the hey.

Ray Charles Live In Concert (ABC) - probably should have considered the likelihood that its available on CD but another what the heck purchase

Oscar Peterson - Gerald Wiggins - Sessions, Live

Best of all I still have $75 left for my south Florida vinyl safari next weekend at Record Rack and RadioActive records.

So today I never made it to Record Rack, for just under $73 I walked out of RadioActive records with (in order of mounting excitement)

Scott Hamilton/Warren Vache, Skyscrapers (Concord)

John Bunch, John's Other Bunch (Famous Door) - with Scott and Warren in the front line, should make a nice two-fer CDR

Presenting Harold Ashby (Progressive)

Buddy Tate - Harry Edison, Our Bag (Riff) - a 1975 live date in Holland

Plas Johnson, Bop Me Daddy (Tampa)

Mickey Tucker, Sojourn (Xanadu) - with Bill Hardman, Junior Cook and Ronnie Cuber front line

Arnett Cobb is Back (Progressive)

Johnny Griffin, You Leave Me Breathless (Black Lion) - with Kenny Drew at Montmartre, I was sure I had this but was surprised when I only found other Montmartre recordings in the binder

Billy Mitchell Live, Now's The Time (Catalyst) - seems like this one may be pretty darn rare, a 1975 show at a club on Long Island, seems pretty cool to snag

And in addition to being a pretty nice take, I had the smarts not to go for an Affinity repackaging of the Frank Strozier-Booker Little Vee Jay record, nor Junior Mance, Truckin' and Trackin (Beehive)

I'm just not so sure on the two records I left behind:

Jackie Mclean, Tune Up (Steeplechase, from the Left Bank with Lamont Johnson on piano - I got less interested in Jackie Mac as the 60s went on but I have to admit what I heard at the listening station wasn't bad)

Memphis Slim, Born With the Blues - a new vinyl reissue, what caught my eye was that Lowell Fulson plays guitar on this. Still $20 seemed high to me.

Any thoughts about the two I left behind?

It's not even my birthday yet and I think I've done gooood. Thanks Mom (and Universal Property & Casualty for the $25 gift card)!

Edited September 13, 2014 by Dan Gould

[JohnJ]

Bought this at the main jazz Disk Union in Ochanomizu. Outer box is rather frayed but seems a bargain at the equivalent of around $40.

[sidewinder]

Bought this at the main jazz Disk Union in Ochanomizu. Outer box is rather frayed but seems a bargain at the equivalent of around $40.

Get me to this shop.... fast !

[JohnJ]

Sidewinder, just a few weeks now right!

[sidewinder]

Sidewinder, just a few weeks now right!

Absolutely !

[colinmce]

I don't know Fujii, but this one has come well-recommended on this board, so I'm excited to hear it.

[BillF]

[Thomas Jackson]

From Google play today.

Jason Moran- All Rise: A Elegy For Fats Waller

The Bad Plus- Inevitable Western

[Clunky]

I don't know Fujii, but this one has come well-recommended on this board, so I'm excited to hear it.

I saw Fujii in a trio the other night at Pathhead ( a small village outside Edinburgh. Tom Bancroft (drums ) lead the completely improvised set . It was a stunning concert that really defies description. I felt truly privileged . I ended up buying 4 discs featuring her or her husband ( trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ) I think her Ma- do quartet is possibly her best group.

[Steve Reynolds]

I don't know Fujii, but this one has come well-recommended on this board, so I'm excited to hear it.

I saw Fujii in a trio the other night at Pathhead ( a small village outside Edinburgh. Tom Bancroft (drums ) lead the completely improvised set . It was a stunning concert that really defies description. I felt truly privileged . I ended up buying 4 discs featuring her or her husband ( trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ) I think her Ma- do quartet is possibly her best group.

I am promising myself to get this recording.

Plus I love the cover.

[xybert]

I don't know Fujii, but this one has come well-recommended on this board, so I'm excited to hear it.

I saw Fujii in a trio the other night at Pathhead ( a small village outside Edinburgh. Tom Bancroft (drums ) lead the completely improvised set . It was a stunning concert that really defies description. I felt truly privileged . I ended up buying 4 discs featuring her or her husband ( trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ) I think her Ma- do quartet is possibly her best group.

I am promising myself to get this recording.

Plus I love the cover.

What is that on the cover? Is it a sculpture made of cheese?

[Steve Reynolds]

Looks like carved stone of some sort to me.

Plus it's on not two so that usually means stunning audio quality from my past experiences with the label save for 2-3 exceptions - alas they are not the quality equivalent of hat art after all...but the great sounding recordings are truly something

[BillF]

I don't know Fujii, but this one has come well-recommended on this board, so I'm excited to hear it.

I saw Fujii in a trio the other night at Pathhead ( a small village outside Edinburgh. Tom Bancroft (drums ) lead the completely improvised set . It was a stunning concert that really defies description. I felt truly privileged . I ended up buying 4 discs featuring her or her husband ( trumpeter Natsuki Tamura ) I think her Ma- do quartet is possibly her best group.

I am promising myself to get this recording.

Plus I love the cover.

What is that on the cover? Is it a sculpture made of cheese?

Ceramic art?

[Daniel A]

Not today, but last Monday:

Gary McFarland 'Profiles'

Dave Mackay / Vicky Hamilton 'Rainbow'. I never really knew there was a follow-up to their first LP on Impulse, which I've always liked for what it is, inobtrusive late 60s pop-jazz with a feeling. In some respects 'Raibow' is the more interesting, in that it is more jazzy and sometimes more experimental. I'm now listening to it for the first time. Apart from Mackay on piano it has Ira Schulman on flutes and saxophones, Joe Pass on guitar and a rhythm section consisting of Chuck Domanico and Colin Bailey.

[niels]

Went to a brick and mortar shop since ages yesterday. Seem to have a love/hate relationship with them, as they never have something that's on my actual wishlist (which is very big), but you can stumble across some great albums you didn't even know you really wanted before entering the store.

Ornette Coleman - To Whon Who Keeps a Record [Atlantic]

Paul Bley - Ramblin' [Actuel]

Charles Mingus Sextet (with Eric Dolphy) - Cornell 1964 (Blue Note)