What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[mjazzg]

Got that for something like $5-$7 from one of our board members.

the power of the board! I've just paid a 'little' more than that for a nice copy and it's sounding good

[brownie]

Stan Getz Presents Jimmie Rowles 'The Peacocks' (Columbia)

[brownie]

Joe Henderson 'Relaxin' at Camarillo' (Contemporary)

[sidewinder]

John Dankworth Orchestra 'What The Dickens' (Fontana, mono)

[sidewinder]

Lee Morgan 'Search For The New Land' (Music Matters 2x45rpm, stereo). Great issue !

Sonny Rollins 'Vol 1' (Music Matters 2x45rpm, mono)

[clifford_thornton]

Ronnie Mathews - Doin' the Thang - (Prestige, silver/black label)

Found in a shop yesterday for $10, and was unfamiliar with it. Really nice session.

[brownie]

Joe Chambers 'Double Exposure' (Muse)

What a magnificent album this was!

[MartyJazz]

Stephane Grappelli: FEELING + FINESSE = JAZZ (Atlantic), marvelous album recorded in '62, includes Pierre Cavalli (elec guitar), Leo Petit (guitar), Guy Pedersen (bass) and Daniel Humair (drums). Grappelli sounds quite modern in this context, a great musician. BTW, his name is spelled "Grappelly" on the cover. The "i" ending is correct, n'est ce pas?

[jeffcrom]

Le Jazz en France, Volume 1: Paris 1919-1923; Premiers Jazz Bands (EMI) An interesting anthology. The French bands (going back to 1919) sound about five years behind American developments - which is understandable, considering what had been going on in Europe. The visiting Americans are hipper. Mitchell's Jazz Kings sound pretty good for 1921/22; not compared to New Orleans bands, but good in a New York/Johnny Dunn kind of way. And there are three 1923 tracks by Billy Arnold's Novelty Jazz Band which compare favorably to what Fletcher Henderson was doing at the time.

[kh1958]

Jimmy Smith--Softly as in a Morning Breeze (Blue Note, NY USA)

[colinmce]

Stephane Grappelli: FEELING + FINESSE = JAZZ (Atlantic), marvelous album recorded in '62, includes Pierre Cavalli (elec guitar), Leo Petit (guitar), Guy Pedersen (bass) and Daniel Humair (drums). Grappelli sounds quite modern in this context, a great musician. BTW, his name is spelled "Grappelly" on the cover. The "i" ending is correct, n'est ce pas?

I'll have to check this out. I have an Atlantic sampler which includes "Daphne" and it's wonderful.

[jeffcrom]

Eddie Miller/Armand Hug - Just Friends (Land o' Jazz)

[jazzhound]

HIP CAKE WALK WOW

[kh1958]

The Gerry Mulligan Song Book, Volume 1 (World Pacific)

Eric Kloss--Grits 'N Gravy (Prestige, blue label)

[brownie]

Keno Duke/Contemporaries 'Sense of Values' (Strata-East)

with George Coleman, Frank Strozier, Harold Mabern and Lisle Atkinson

[clifford_thornton]

Jon Eardley - From Hollywood to New York - (OJC)

Compilation of Prestige/NJ ten-inches; Eardley's tone cuts like a knife.

[Teasing the Korean]

The Blue Stars of France - Pardon My English - Mercury (black label, mono).

[Teasing the Korean]

McCoy Tyner - Song for My Lady - Milestone (label design I'd never seen before, stereo).

God, I'm such a sucker for any 70s song or LP title with the word "lady" in it.

[jeffcrom]

Le Jazz en France, Volume 1: Paris 1919-1923; Premiers Jazz Bands (EMI) An interesting anthology. The French bands (going back to 1919) sound about five years behind American developments - which is understandable, considering what had been going on in Europe. The visiting Americans are hipper. Mitchell's Jazz Kings sound pretty good for 1921/22; not compared to New Orleans bands, but good in a New York/Johnny Dunn kind of way. And there are three 1923 tracks by Billy Arnold's Novelty Jazz Band which compare favorably to what Fletcher Henderson was doing at the time.

Tonight: Volume 2: Black Bands in Paris 1929-1930. This one has two good tracks by Eddie South and a couple of interesting poetry-with-jazz tracks (the first ever?) by Jean Cocteau that made me wish I spoke French. But most of the album is taken up by Sam Wooding, whose music is a maddening mixture of quality jazz, bizarre vocals, bad songs ("I Lift Up My Finger and Say 'Tweet Tweet'"), and lame arrangements. He's got some good soloists, though - Doc Cheatham, Albert Wynn, and Gene Sedric.

[jeffcrom]

Duke Ellington - Concerts in Canada (Ellington '87) Side one is from Stratford, 1956; side two (which I listened to tonight) is from Winnipeg, May, 1973 - one of Ellington's last recorded performances. I wish Ellington had made more use of Johnny Coles during the 70s, but Coles was always featured on "How High the Moon," and there's a nice version here. The high point is probably a really good version of "La Plus Belle Africaine," the great latter-day Harry Carney feature.

[ajf67]

The Gerry Mulligan Song Book, Volume 1 (World Pacific)

Eric Kloss--Grits 'N Gravy (Prestige, blue label)

That's a cool Eric Kloss LP. I'll have to dig that out.

[brownie]

Zoot Sims 'Cookin'!' (Exclusive)

a Portuguese reissue of the British Fontana Zoot at Ronnie Scott's original!

[kh1958]

Shirley Scott/Stanley Turrentine--Soul Shoutin' (Prestige, blue label)

The Gerry Mulligan Song Book, Volume 1 (World Pacific)

Eric Kloss--Grits 'N Gravy (Prestige, blue label)

That's a cool Eric Kloss LP. I'll have to dig that out.

Yes, indeed, on the majority of the tracks, backed Jaki Byard, Richard Davis and Alan Dawson.

[jeffcrom]

Woody Shaw - United (Columbia)

[ajf67]

1) "Dig Him!" Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt on Argo.

2) LP I found on Everest credited to Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw. It's titled "Jazz Patterns" No date or info other than the players: George Cables, Ron McClure and Lenny White.