What music did you buy today?

[Holy Ghost]

On 6/20/2025 at 1:08 AM, Pim said:

Great haul!!! Now spend the rest of your salary at DG

Haha. This is how my wife directed this: Dusty Groove closes at 7 p.m., so I'll drive you there and get you there by 6:57 p.m., so you can only get through the A's.

So, I bought Cannonball's Sharshooters, not exactly the edition I wanted, but they were practically throwing me out; no need telling them you're from out of town/once in a lifetime experience...save it; they don't care. 

What I did do, is finish shopping on-line:

Chet Baker Quartet w/ Russ Freeman-Capitol/Pacific Jazz

Conte Condoli Quartet-Mode Japan new

George Wallington-Leonard Feather Presents Bop-Mode Japan new

Edited 20 hours ago by Holy Ghost

[Big Beat Steve]

Last afternoon's local purchases:

Mary Lou Williams, The Asch Recordings (2-LP box set on Folkways FA 2966)
Fairly reasonably priced (for our latitudes  ) at 15 EUR.
(Box VG+, haven't played the records yet but they look totally unmarked)

And then, a chance purchase ...
Emmett Miller Acc. By His Georgia Crackers Crackers (green vinyl on The Old Masters TOM-1) for a mere 2,50 EUR in close to NM condition from the Special Offers bin. 😃
Actually an item that had crossed my mind a couple of weeks ago after I had re-read Nick Tosches' "Country, The Twisted Roots of Rock'n'Roll". He dwells at length on and enthuses about Emmett Miller (as does Allen Lowe in some of his writings) as a unpigeonholable one-of-a-kind early country-cum-blues-cum-jazz "crossover" artist and even mentions this TOM reissue in his book.

So, having found one or the other early jazz TOM LPs at my "go-to" record shop in their Sale bins, I wondered, "Would it be totally unlikely that a copy of that one comes my way there before long too"? Well - lo and behold, there it sat now, waiting for me to give it a new home ...  (among a handful of other TOM LPs featuring 20s jazz bands, but I skipped these for the time being).
(Yes I know Miller's music has been reissued elsewhere since, too, but this would have meant mail-ordering from who knows where ...)

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Big Beat Steve

[Niko]

that Mary Lou Williams I am also hoping to find some day... My purchases of the last two weeks:

Anthony Braxton (Actuel 15) ... think quit a few people are replacing the originals with LPs right now

Cal Tjader - Last night when we were young ( a ballads album on Fantasy from the 70s with Frank Strazzeri who also arranged the strings)

The Contemporary Jazz Classics Of The Paul Moer Trio

Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (someone put the ugly but good-sounding 1980s LP into a nice 1960s original jacket)

Albert Ayler - The Hilversum Session 

Shorty Rogers – Afro-Cuban Influence

 

[Holy Ghost]

1 hour ago, Niko said:

that Mary Lou Williams I am also hoping to find some day... My purchases of the last two weeks:

Anthony Braxton (Actuel 15) ... think quit a few people are replacing the originals with LPs right now

Cal Tjader - Last night when we were young ( a ballads album on Fantasy from the 70s with Frank Strazzeri who also arranged the strings)

The Contemporary Jazz Classics Of The Paul Moer Trio

Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (someone put the ugly but good-sounding 1980s LP into a nice 1960s original jacket)

Albert Ayler - The Hilversum Session 

Shorty Rogers – Afro-Cuban Influence

 

Regarding Braxton, this one?

This is the edition I have. Great one, plus the sweet sleeve.

Edited 12 hours ago by Holy Ghost

[Niko]

18 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

Regarding Braxton, this one?

This is the edition I have. Great one, plus the sweet sleeve.

Yes, that one but in the original gatefold LP, still without the musical notation ... Love that band photo...

[Holy Ghost]

2 hours ago, Niko said:

Yes, that one but in the original gatefold LP, still without the musical notation ... Love that band photo...

Big time, AB looks so badass in that photo, one of the coolest photo shoots (outside the BN orbit).

[jlhoots]

Preordered Joe Farnsworth: The Big Room

[T.D.]

Been on the want list a while, listened on bandcamp and pulled the trigger. I've posted before that I find Barry Guy's large ensemble material much more compelling than what I hear from the "contemporary classical" sector.