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It’s indeed the first Japanese pressing.

A Hutcherson favorite ❤️:)

This afternoons playlist before going out for a walk with my two boys. This Cookers album is so freakin good. I hate the fact that I had to miss these guys in Rotterdam. They were about to perform there and then there was COVID. I never got the chance to see them @david weissif you ever got the chance please visit us in Holland! Belgium or the western part of German would be fine as well. I’d take a long ride to see you guys perform.

I searched but couldn't find a threat dedicated to this tenor giant. I think he deserves one. Harper is one of my musical heroes. One who speaks directly into your soul. You could feel every single note. It's hard to describe but it's just there. I've got the same thing with John Coltrane and Mal Waldron. Harper seems to have peaked to late, when jazz was much in decline. But his '70's early 80's output remains his best imo. Those Black Saint, Denon, Baystate and MPS lp's and of course the stuff with Max Roach. This group man: Still don't really know most of the personell from other works besides Harper but this was an excellent band. Harper managed to produce the finest jazz with relatively unknown and obscure bands. I'm a Billy Harper nearly completist. He is more easy to collect than Mal. I really enjoyed almost everything he has put out. And he is still with us of course

Same Baker preference here and those are two great compilations of his quartet work with Freeman!

I'm a bit too late in the hole vinyl race. I don't have any original Blue Note record and I am curious to hear one in good condition. I am not in the financial position to pay a thousand euros for a single LP nor am I interested in doing so. The 3000 pounds True Blue copy: that's what I spend on vinyl in 3 years..... The two single LP's I spent most money on were Nathan Davis' Jazz Concert at a Benedictine Monastery and Mal Waldron's Spanish Bitch. I do have some older Blue Note records: a Liberty pressing of Jackie McLean's 'Bout Soul and an early 70's copy of Lee Morgan's last album. I have to say they sound amazing. Also a near mint copy of Lee Morgan's The Gigolo early 70's US press that sounds flawless. I do love the idea that something that old could still sound so beautiful. My oldest LP is a Gerry Mulligan mono pressing from the Netherlands from 1956. I always think: my mom and dad were 5 and 6 years old when this was pressed. And who has owned it since then? But with Blue Note vinyl I mostly own Japanese versions and those pressings sound so incredibly good to me. Especially those King pressings are really up into that Tone Poet league. I bought most of those Japanese pressings for something around 30 euros a piece which is of course more expensive than a cd but I am more a vinyl than a cd guy (though I still own more cd's than lp's). I am also not a pressing fetishist or real audiphile. One pressing is good enough for me (as it sounds good of course). Not interested in buying multiple pressings from the same record as there's so much music yet to explore. One exception are my Blue Note 75th series of which I really dislike the sound. I gladly sold my copies of Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings and Hendersons Mode for Joe for 50 euros combined and be happy to replace them. I only have one of them left: Free for All by Art Blakey which sounds louzy as well.

Yes it was

When I started listening jazz I had trouble connecting to his sound. But a few years ago there it was and I love his whole Blue Note output. All Seeing Eye and Etcetera are my favorites but I learned to love them all. I had a similar experience with Jackie McLeans music. Evidence that it’s good to revisit those artists you don’t really dig.

this afternoons playlist.

Billy Harper Live at Antibes '75

Oh yes those King LPs sound so incredibly good. This one gets reissued in the Classic vinyl series. I am happy because I have a 75th anniversary that sounds meh and has serious paper sleeve scratches that are audible in the last two tracks Sounds interesting thanks!

That’s a rare one! So how’s the music?

Two very powerful tenors

Fantastic music and a great reissue Same here, I’ve got The Loosdrecht Jazz Festival, Music Inc. and Compassion. Billy Harpers Capra Black, the Shamekh Farrah, the Charles Brackeen, the Cecil Payne and of course Glass Bead Games. They all sound fantastic, digital or analog I really don’t care.

I remember Snidero from some play along cds for alto saxophone. Very clean player, too clean for me to be honest. But I never heard a real recording by him.

@mjazzg I am pretty sure I’ve had the last ones thanks @HutchFan I almost never order anything in Europe anymore for the insane prices that were always on eBay and are now at Discogs as well. So I make a big order twice a year in Japan and save up money for those every month. I calculated and this order cost me 20 euros a piece including shipping etc. That’s very acceptable. For example: the Sonny Rollins (VG+/VG+) cost 3 dollars…. Most of the Tyners: 5 dollars… Now hoping it will arrive in one piece of course. Fingers crossed! I always feel truly happy when they actually are delivered at my door.

It was time for my half year vinyl from Japan order. Don't buy much more music than that trough the year part from some new reissues. Archie Shepp - Magic of Juju Art Pepper Live At The Village Vanguard Bill Evans -Portrait In Jazz Bob Cooper - Coop! The Music Of Bob Cooper Cannonball And Eight Giants Frank Foster - Manhattan Fever Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay Gary Peacock = Tales Of Another Gerry Mulligan Presents A Concert In Jazz Hampton Hawes - All Night Session, Vol. 2 John Coltrane - Mastery Of John Coltrane / Vol. I Feelin' Good John Coltrane - Coltrane In Japan John Coltrane - Mastery Of John Coltrane Vol Iii Jupiter Variation John Coltrane - Second Night In Tokyo Mal Waldron - One-upmanship Max Roach - Speak, Brother, Speak! McCoy Tyner - Atlantis McCoy Tyner - Echoes Of A Friend McCoy Tyner - Enlightenment Mccoy Tyner - Greeting Mccoy Tyner - Sahara Modern Jazz Quartet - Only Recorded Performance Of Paul Desmond Modern Jazz Quartet - Based On Bach And The Blues Modern Jazz Quartet - Last Concert Oscar Peterson - Canadiana Suite Oscar Peterson - Way I Really Play Phineas Newborn Jr. - Newborn Touch Sonny Rollins - Cutting Edge Wardell Gray - Memorial Album Woody Shaw - In the Beginning

my last Third Man pressing. Paper scuffs , distortion on the trumpet and harmonium. Cheap and thin cardboard sleeve. I’ve been warned but fell for it anyway. And they dare to ask a Tone Poet price for it: 43 euros. Will probably return this and pay a little more for an other pressing.

So warped and scuffed vinyl and cds that don’t play? I can’t believe they screw up such an important release. What’s the trouble investing in a little quality control (and a better pressing plant). my second vinyl and replacement vinyl arrived today. Again disc one is warped but less than the previous one. I guess I call it acceptable. Don’t feel for returning another one. What a waste of money and product.

Spinning this one again today and have to say: they did absolutely right releasing this stuff. It's an incredible live session and I love the compositions played. That version of Africa with Dolphy is just wow!

10 euro’s at amazon…. Now that’s almost what RVG cds used to cost. So it is possible….

Bresna I grant you the best e-bike avaible. I think for older people and of course people who live in a mountainous region it’s the perfect solution. And part from that it’s (part from the lithium battery) of course more environment friendly than a car. But here in the Netherlands, where almost everyone owned a bicycle the e-bikes are really taking over. There’s not a single hill to be found here and I see more and more young (overweighted) people cycle on them. Their legs hardly rotate…. I thinks it’s typical for these times: even being too lazy to pedal a bicycle which is the prime feauture of a bicycle: pedaling. And when such a fatty passes me by with that typical self-satisfied smile, they annoy me.