What music did you buy today?

[sidewinder]

On 20 December 2015 at 7:12 AM, duaneiac said:

This arrived in the mail today.  I ordered it from Amazon last week when they had it fairly cheap.  I expected it to be a chunky kind of boxed set, so this is already better than I expected.  The only albums contained in here that I know I already had are Bird Symbols and A Cozy Conception of Carmen.  Will have to check out this music after Christmas.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on sound quality for the set - vinyl rip?

[JohnS]

I don't have this set but but a friend does.  I was impressed by the presentation but IIRC the notes didn't get much further than printing the lineups.  On the couple of discs I heard there were no significant sound problems but I wasn't listening that intently.  I'd say buy with confidence if the price is reasonable.

Amazon UK have some useful reviews.

Edited December 22, 2015 by JohnS

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth - Epicenter (Clean Feed, 2015)

Julian Argüelles - Tetra (Whirlwind Recordings, 2015)

Ben Allison - Seven Arrows (Koch Records, 2000)

Seamus Blake - Way Out Willy (Criss Cross Jazz 1288, 2007)

[paul secor]

Washington Phillips: Key to the Kingdom (Yazoo)

Down on the Levee - The Piano Blues of St. Louis Vol. 2 (Yazoo)

[JSngry]

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total

Arvo Part ________________________________ CD     3.99          1     
3.99
  Lamentate/Da Pacem Domine -- Hilliard Ensemble/Alexei Lubimov/Andrey 
Boreyko/SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony
  Item: 735853, Condition: Used (NOTE: Barcode has a cutout hole.)

Pigmeat Markham __________________________ LP     2.99          1     
2.99
  Tune Me In
  Item: 46380, Condition: Very Good (NOTE: Blue label pressing.)

Schoenberg _______________________________ LP     9.99          1     
9.99
  Verklarte Nacht/Transfigured Night/String Quartet No 2 -- Ramor 
Quartet
  Item: 583032, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: Cover has a library stamp, 
but is otherwise in great shape!)

[jazzbo]

Got a little money for Xmas today and decided to get some things on LP I have only on CD right now. . . www.dustygroove.com got a visit; prices were great. I love Jarrett on LP, especially since I added the Groovetracer Reference sub-platter and delrin platter to the RP3, it is really stable speed-wise now. And my copy of Santana III needs to go away, really worn.

Here is your completed order:
Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total
Keith Jarrett ____________________________ LP    
  Concerts (3LP set)
  Item: 655745, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: Includes book!  Box has two split corners.)

Keith Jarrett ____________________________ LP    
  Eyes Of The Heart
  Item: 552851, Condition: Near Mint- (NOTE: Cover has some edge wear and a gold promo stamp.)

Keith Jarrett ____________________________ LP    
  GI Gurdjieff -- Sacred Hymns
  Item: 552812, Condition: Near Mint-

Keith Jarrett ____________________________ LP    
  Invocations -- The Moth & The Flame
  Item: 655175, Condition: Near Mint-

Keith Jarrett with Charlie Haden & Jan Gar LP    
  Arbour Zena
  Item: 578679, Condition: Near Mint-

Santana __________________________________  LP
  Santana III
  Item: 378525, Condition: Very Good+

[Eric]

1 hour ago, jazzbo said:

Keith Jarrett with Charlie Haden & Jan Gar LP    
  Arbour Zena
  Item: 578679, Condition: Near Mint-
 

Sentimental favorite!

[jazzbo]

I dig it too.

[JSngry]

Name/Title_______________________________Format______Quantity___
Kahil El' Zabar __________________________ CD               1     

  Alika Rising -- Kahil El' Zabar's Ritual Trio At Leverkusener Jazztage
  Item: 779184, New Copy

Sessions/Wolpe ___________________________ CD               1     

  Violin Concerto/Symphony -- Paul Zukofsky/Schuller/Orchestre 
Philharmonique De L'Office De La Radio Diffusion Television 
Francaise/Westburg/
  Item: 781382, Condition: Used (NOTE: Out of print.)

Piston/Ives/Carpenter ____________________ LP             1     

  Concertino For Piano & Chamber Orchestra/Forth Of July/Concertino For 
Piano & Orchestra -- Marjorie Mitchell/Strickland/Goteborg Symphony
  Item: 773557, Condition: Very Good+ (NOTE: Stereo pressing.  Cover has 
some light ringwear and light edge wear.)

[duaneiac]

On 12/21/2015 at 3:15 PM, sidewinder said:

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on sound quality for the set - vinyl rip?

So far I have listened to two discs from the set.  While I don't think the contents of these discs were ripped from vinyl, it appears the audio quality varies greatly depending on the original recordings.  I listened to Vol. 10 first, which has Red Norvo's Pretty Is The Only Way To Fly (seemed to have a little occasional distortion which, for a ll I know, may be on the original recording) and Teddy Wilson's On Tour With Teddy Wilson And His Trio (simply horrible audio; I had to quit listening after three tracks it was so bad, but if it was truly a "live" recording, perhaps it was done on some primitive  tape device.  It never should have been released.).  Then I listened to Vol. 4 which has two Art Pepper albums -- both of those sounded perfectly acceptable.

Today I went to Half-Price Books to take advantage of their current 20% off sale.  I managed to find the Bing Crosby 7 CD Mosaic set in excellent condition for a pretty decent price.  The only thing is it has a HPB price sticker on it and I'm a little worried about trying to peel that off without damaging the cover photo of the Mosaic box.  Has any one else had to do that and if so, did you manage it successfully?

(PS for folks in the SF bay area -- the Berkeley HPB where I got this also had the Anthony Braxton Mosaic set if any one is interested.)

Edited December 28, 2015 by duaneiac

[duaneiac]

Listening to Vol. 9 of the Charlie Parker Records boxed set.  This has the albums El Tigre by Barney Kessel (clearly a needle-drop from a rather scratchy album) and the Var. Artists album, Best Plucking In Town, on which the track "Blues For A Stripper" by Mundell Lowe has an inexplicable major drop in audio volume for several seconds in the middle of it.

Edited December 28, 2015 by duaneiac

[HutchFan]

First order of the new year.  All five CDs were reissued in November/December 2015 in Japan:

Richie Beirach - Ballads 
Richie Beirach - Ballads II

  

Jim Hall - Live in Tokyo
Jim Hall - Jazz Impressions of Japan

  

Roland Hanna with George Mraz - 24 Preludes 

 

I am super-stoked about FINALLY hearing this music. I've wanted to hear these recordings for a LONG TIME -- since Richie Beirach, Jim Hall, and Roland Hanna are some of my all-time favorite musicians. 

Edited January 1, 2016 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Found this LP at Wax n Facts during my lunch break today:

Anthony Davis & Jay Hoggard - Under the Double Moon (MPS/Pausa, 1980)

[soulpope]

On 20.11.2015 at 8:30 PM, HutchFan said:

Found some interesting vinyl at Wuxtry today...

Chico Freeman - Spirit Sensitive (India Navigation, 1979)
Looking forward to hearing this one.

Bought this - like fellow boardmember "sidewinder" - as new release and always cherished both Freeman`s beautiful tenorsax sound and the simply superb rhythm section ....

[sidewinder]

14 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Bought this - like fellow boardmember "sidewinder" - as new release and always cherished both Freeman`s beautiful tenorsax sound and the simply superb rhythm section ....

That post has now got me searching out for my vinyl..

Thanks JohnS and duaneiac for the comments on the Charlie Parker Records set.

 

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Bought this - like fellow boardmember "sidewinder" - as new release and always cherished both Freeman`s beautiful tenorsax sound and the simply superb rhythm section ....

I've enjoyed it too. Spirit Sensitive is an excellent session. And I think Freeman's The Outside Within is even better.  

Too bad Mosaic is no longer releasing "Select" sets. I think Chico Freeman's India Navigation recordings would have made a great one.

[soulpope]

28 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I've enjoyed it too. Spirit Sensitive is an excellent session. And I think Freeman's The Outside Within is even better.  

Too bad Mosaic is no longer releasing "Select" sets. I think Chico Freeman's India Navigation recordings would have made a great one.

Do like both recordings a lot and would appreciate a quality CD reissue programm too.....

[Steve Reynolds]

Extended Duos - 7 CD box KV/PNL + other luminaries

Audio One - half of Chicago large ensemble live recording I could not pass up

Po Music large group on okkadisk I've been pining for

KV Resonance Ensemble: ARC

 

 

[JSngry]

Name/Title_______________________________Format__Price____Quantity___Total
Pigmeat Markham __________________________ LP     1.99          1     
1.99
  Trial
  Item: 75911, Condition: Very Good- (NOTE: Blue label pressing with the 
deep groove.  Cover has a stain on back along the opening.)

Berio/Castiglioni/Holliger/Huber/Krenek/Le LP     6.99          1     
6.99
  Spectacular Heinz Holliger -- Sequenza VII/Alef/Trio/Noctes 
Intelligibilis Lucis/Viere Stucke/Spiele -- Holliger/Collot/Wyttenbach
  Item: 769035, Condition: Near Mint-

David Bowie ______________________________ CD    11.99          1    
11.99
  Blackstar
  Item: 778876, New Copy

Berio ____________________________________ LP    13.99          1    
13.99
  Visage/Circles/Sequenza III/Cinque Variazioni -- Cathy Berberian/David 
Burge
  Item: 782950, Condition: Near Mint-

[niels]

Joëlle Léandre/ Benoit Delbecq, François Houle - 14 Rue Paul Fort, Paris [2015, Leo]

 

RED Trio / Gerard Lebik / Piotr Damasiewicz - Mineral [2015, Bocian, vinyl]

 

Daunik Lazro/ Benjamin Duboc/ Didier Lasserre - Pourtant Les Cimes Des Arbres [2011, Dark Tree]

[Buddha the Magnificent]

Prism Quartet – Heritage/Evolution Vol. 1
Giovanni Francesca – RAME
Eric Hofbauer Quintet – Prehistoric Jazz Vol. 1: The Rite of Spring
 

 

[HutchFan]

Just ordered these two LPs:

Al Grey - Struttin' & Shoutin' (Columbia)

 

Paul Bley, Bill Connors, Jimmy Giuffre - Quiet Song (IAI)

 

EDIT: 

Ordered these today too!

Mike Lipskin with Willie "The Lion" Smith - California Here I Come (Flying Dutchman LP)

 

Elton Dean's Ninesense - Happy Daze / Oh! For the Edge (Ogun CD)

 

Can you tell it's payday?  

Edited January 29, 2016 by HutchFan

[ejp626]

I've been pretty good for a while now, avoid purchases aside from the eMusic renewals, though I did get a classical box set (Jean Martinon) just a while back, but it was a steal, so that doesn't count... 

Anyway, I'm on a mini-Mingus kick.  I ordered Mingus in Europe v.1 (Enja) and am hoping against hope that they ship this instead of v.2, which I already own.  It's something I could have picked up easily a while back but now it's become fairly rare.

Also, I guess I've been sleeping on the two-fer from Collectibles that combines Me, Myself an Eye & Something Like a Bird.  Jack Walrath himself has an Amazon review saying that the mix isn't the best -- and that there were unused takes that could someday be released  -- but I'll settle for this for now.  I"m pretty sure I haven't heard any of this music before.

While I'm waiting for this to arrive, it's time to break out the Mosaic Mingus box.  I really have barely scratched the surface of this set.

[Patrick]

Took a flyer today on a Water edition of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music for $6.89. Earlier picked up Kenny Wheeler's Dear Wan, Carla Bley's Fancy Chamber Music, and James Moody's Moods for Blues.

[sidewinder]

12 hours ago, Patrick said:

Took a flyer today on a Water edition of Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music for $6.89. Earlier picked up Kenny Wheeler's Dear Wan, Carla Bley's Fancy Chamber Music, and James Moody's Moods for Blues.

Nice haul. The Gale on Water is a fine reissue.