What music did you buy today?

[Rabshakeh]

I went a bit mad today and bought 8 records. I just kept walking into shops and finding new stock that I really wanted at good prices. I'm trying to cut my collection down, so this is a disaster.

Edited October 30, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

16 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I went a bit mad today and bought 8 records. I just kept walking into shops and finding new stock that I really wanted at good prices. I'm trying to cut my collection down, so this is a disaster.

Do tell, what and where?

Cutting down collection - admirable intention, rarely achieved, I'd say

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Do tell, what and where?

That wine shop. It had some new stock, including a bunch of records that have been sitting on my want list for ages (especially Coltrane) for decent prices. Then I had some chores on the Essex Road, and wondered into Flashback which has just had a massive purchase of second hand Blue Note reissues in. So that also happened. Disaster.

Edited October 31, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

That wine shop. It had some new stock, including a bunch of records that have been sitting on my want list for ages (especially Coltrane) for decent prices. Then I had some chores on the Essex Road, and wondered into Flashback which has just had a massive purchase of second hand Blue Note reissues in. So that also happened. Disaster.

I'm glad That wine shop isn't easily accessible to me, could be very disastrous.  Flashback used to be my local but more recently I find them very hit and miss. Sounds like you hit nicely

[Niko]

19 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I went a bit mad today and bought 8 records. I just kept walking into shops and finding new stock that I really wanted at good prices. I'm trying to cut my collection down, so this is a disaster.

if you want to feel better, I got 11 on Friday and Saturday, the thing that happens when you suddenly end up in a different city with too much time

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, Niko said:

if you want to feel better, I got 11 on Friday and Saturday, the thing that happens when you suddenly end up in a different city with too much time

 sounds fun!

And I had 8 delivered this week without even leaving the house...

[Niko]

a bit mixed, my mother had to go to the hospital so someone of the children had to go home to look after a few things... but there is not that much to be done here either and visiting hours are limited... here's what I got:

Chet Baker - Hallucinations (bootleg CD with Rene Thomas)

and the rest are LPs, including some fairly oldtime stuff and some local things

Warne Marsh meets Gary Foster (Eastworld, 1982)

Fletcher Henderson Sextet 1950 (one of those bootleg LPs, with Lucky Thompson)

Horace Tapscott - Flight 17 (that recent reissue)

Omer Simeon Trio - Clarinet A La Creole (10in LP)

The Missourians 1929-1930 (RCA)

Paul Barnes and his Polo Players - The Viol, the Violet and the Vine (Jazzology)

Wilbur de Paris at Symphony Hall (Atlantic)

Vaalbleek - Caoutchouc (Eksakt)

Duo Unkrodt/Zerbe (Amiga)

Noodband - Shopping Around (Swingmaster)

this last album, I got partly for the cover which shows the band leaving a favorite record store (Swingmaster in Groningen)

[mjazzg]

Best wishes for your mother's health. 

Enjoy that haul, that's a great cover photo

[jlhoots]

The Cookers: Look Out!

[Rabshakeh]

56 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I'm glad That wine shop isn't easily accessible to me, could be very disastrous.  Flashback used to be my local but more recently I find them very hit and miss. Sounds like you hit nicely

I was relying on it to be a miss. They failed me.

56 minutes ago, Niko said:

if you want to feel better, I got 11 on Friday and Saturday, the thing that happens when you suddenly end up in a different city with too much time

It's chilling isn't it?

52 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

And I had 8 delivered this week without even leaving the house...

I've got space issues. I really only have a basic cabinet below my player. It's three reasonably generous shelves. That's the end.

36 minutes ago, Niko said:

a bit mixed, my mother had to go to the hospital so someone of the children had to go home to look after a few things... but there is not that much to be done here either and visiting hours are limited... 

Hope things are okay.

[HutchFan]

ImportCDs had a sale last week, and I ordered these two Japanese reissues:

 

 

They're due to arrive in the mail today.  

 

 

 

On 10/30/2021 at 1:46 PM, Rabshakeh said:

I went a bit mad today and bought 8 records. I just kept walking into shops and finding new stock that I really wanted at good prices. I'm trying to cut my collection down, so this is a disaster.

But it's MUSIC! ... Such a delightful madness and such a wonderful disaster!   

 

[sidewinder]

Post-dental surgery haul. 

Second hand a couple of really nice Nancy Wilson Capitols (including one with Gerald Wilson), a minty first press Chick Corea ‘Return to Forever’ on German ECM and new copy of Bill Evans’ Oil Can Harry’s double on Craft Recordings. Well chuffed . Passed on the Miles ‘Live Evil’ Black Friday reissue.

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Post-dental surgery haul. 

Second hand a couple of really nice Nancy Wilson Capitols (including one with Gerald Wilson), a minty first press Chick Corea ‘Return to Forever’ on German ECM and new copy of Bill Evans’ Oil Can Harry’s double on Craft Recordings. Well chuffed . Passed on the Miles ‘Live Evil’ Black Friday reissue.

Noice!   

 

[sidewinder]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

Noice!   

 

They had all of those AP Impulses as well but I averted my gaze from those !

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

They had all of those AP Impulses as well but I averted my gaze from those !

LOL.  So many temptations all around us!   

 

[sidewinder]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

LOL.  So many temptations all around us!   

 

Not to mention they even still had the 3LP Sonny Rollins in Holland hiding away. Alladin’s Cave. 

[Niko]

On 31-10-2021 at 3:04 PM, Rabshakeh said:

Hope things are okay

oh yes, much better...

I've been catching up on Wadada Leo Smith from zero recently, quite a project and I haven't decided how ambitious I want to be... after getting Sacred Ceremonies a few weeks ago, I now got the two new releases on TUM (w Iyer/DeJohnette + Chicago Symphonies), the Great Lakes 2CD, the Kabell Years box, Divine Love, Tabligh, Ten Freedom Summers, the ECM duo with Vijay Iyer and the NoBusiness Duo w Sabu Toyozumi... more to come...

[mjazzg]

24 minutes ago, Niko said:

oh yes, much better...

I've been catching up on Wadada Leo Smith from zero recently, quite a project and I haven't decided how ambitious I want to be... after getting Sacred Ceremonies a few weeks ago, I now got the two new releases on TUM (w Iyer/DeJohnette + Chicago Symphonies), the Great Lakes 2CD, the Kabell Years box, Divine Love, Tabligh, Ten Freedom Summers, the ECM duo with Vijay Iyer and the NoBusiness Duo w Sabu Toyozumi... more to come...

Lots of truly great music in that list. You have a treat in store!

[T.D.]

Via eBay:

  

and another used purchase:

[mikeweil]

[HutchFan]

I'm amazed at how much CD prices continue to fall.  Earlier today, I picked up these CDs in a local shop for a total of $20. 

 

[T.D.]

  

[jlhoots]

Arrived today - John Zorn: New Masada Quartet

                         Art Blakey: First Flight To Tokyo

[Larry Kart]

"Pres and Sweets" (Verve). Heard this rec. Nov.15, 1955 album when it came out and thought that Pres was literally and distressingly quite weak -- indeed he was quite weak when I heard him at a JATP concert  in Chicago in early October 1955 (which came out on LP in the early '80s as "Blues in Chicago"); and he would be hospitalized later in November for alcoholism and other physical and mental ailments, only to return triumphantly early the following year to make "Jazz Giants '56" and "Pres and Teddy." While there are a number of moments on "Pres and Sweets"when his control of the horn falters, yet there are others when his state of near incapacity leads him to carve out strikingly oblique musical solutions. On balance, I find much of what Pres plays here quite moving and, if you will, courageous.

 

 

[John L]

9 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

"Pres and Sweets" (Verve). Heard this rec. Nov.15, 1955 album when it came out and thought that Pres was literally and distressingly quite weak -- indeed he was quite weak when I heard him at a JATP concert  in Chicago in early October 1955 (which came out on LP in the early '80s as "Blues in Chicago"); and he would be hospitalized later in November for alcoholism and other physical and mental ailments, only to return triumphantly early the following year to make "Jazz Giants '56" and "Pres and Teddy." While there are a number of moments on "Pres and Sweets"when his control of the horn falters, yet there are others when his state of near incapacity leads him to carve out strikingly oblique musical solutions. On balance, I find much of what Pres plays here quite moving and, if you will, courageous.

 

 

Yes!  The ultimate Pres performance for me in that mold is the alternate take of "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me" from the February, 1958 session, also with Sweets - extraordinary beauty that Lester probably couldn't have even played if he wasn't in such bad shape.