What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Horace Silver 'Six Pieces Of Silver' (BN 47W6rd side 1/NY USA side 2/DG both sides, ie. early UK import, mono)

[BillF]

Horace Silver 'Six Pieces Of Silver' (BN 47W6rd side 1/NY USA side 2/DG both sides, ie. early UK import, mono)

Lovely music! Not so sure about the photo, though - Horace as member of the dirty mac brigade! JohnS told me that Alan Barnes turned up for a gig recently in a Columbo-style raincoat. Perhaps there's a jazz tradition there!

[A Lark Ascending]

It all began here:

Edited March 3, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[brownie]

Ahmed Abdul Malik 'East Meets West' (RCA, Living Stereo)

Edited March 3, 2012 by brownie

[BillF]

It all began here:

Ah, yes! I'm sure I recall a composition by a British jazzman called "Pipe and Gannex", but I can't trace it. Anyone remember that one? Google just gives me a pub in (appropriately) Prescot!

[Clunky]

Prompted by JLH's thread, spun this again. It really is a fine album, every bit as ambitious as any Gil Evans score. I think this will make for a fantastic reissue by JLH. The sound of my copy PJ-77 is really good and I can well imagine a fine remastering in stereo will be even better. Coker sounds great on tenor and I agree there's a Warne like thing in his playing

[Clunky]

First Marquee Moon Television - prompted by an interesting article in Uncut

next

Surrealistic Pillow Jefferson Airplane- UK stereo version- which IIRC is quite different in track listing cf. the Amercan issue

[sidewinder]

Wayne Shorter 'The All Seeing Eye' (BN NY USA stereo)

Followed by - Elvin Jones 'Puttin' It Together' (BN Liberty blue/white stereo)

Edited March 3, 2012 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

Clarence Williams Jazz Kings 1929 to 1931 VJM- good transfers- fun stuff if not often profound ( image is of prev. volume in series)

[clifford_thornton]

Edmond Hall Quartette with Teddy Wilson (Commodore 10" LP)

Reminds me of this:

[Clunky]

Count Basie Cafe Society Uptown Vol 2 1941 (Jazz Unlimited)- decent sounding broadcasts ( I think) no Prez but tenor solos from Don Byas in good form and typically excellent vocals from Jimmy Rushing. Dates from Sept 1941 to Oct 1941

I've had this for years but rarely listened as I thought the sound was so poor. I've changed my system quite a bit since then. Spinning this today it really sounds pretty good. Nice addition to my Basie holdings.

Edited March 4, 2012 by Clunky

[brownie]

Elmo Hope 'Homecoming! (Riverside Japan, stereo)

[Clunky]

Billy Eckstine Together( Spotlite 100)- great LA broadcast from early 1945, some great solos by Fats Navarro, Gene Ammons and the forgotten John Jackson (alto sax) .

Edited March 4, 2012 by Clunky

[jostber]

Gal Costa - (1969)

[vinyltim]

http://www.timenjoysrecords.com/records/bobby-timmons-easy-does-it

[Ed S]

Blood, Sweat, and Tears - the self titled album with Spinning Wheel, God Bless the Child, And When I Die, etc

[six string]

Ahmed Abdul Malik 'East Meets West' (RCA, Living Stereo)

I really like that one a lot. I bought a recent reissue of it along with a two others on New Jazz that are also very good.

I can't imagine they sold a lot of units back in the day. Am I right?

Now listening to a new acquisition of a direct to disc from EastWind, The Great Jazz Trio Direct From L.A. with Ron Carter and Tony Williams with Hank Jones of course. An excellent performance with stellar sound quality.

[Clunky]

Earl Hines Grand Terrace Band Victor LPV 512, ace Budd Johnson tenor sax solo on XYZ as hard a swinging a tune as anything form Basie with Johnson sounding like a slightly more muscular Prez. Great transfers.

another LP is this great series

Harlan Leonard and his Rockets 16 rare 1940 recordings ( RCA Victor LPV 531) , some fine early Tadd Dameron arrangements. 4 of the tracks are previously unissued. One of these A-LA-Bridges is a beautiful ballad any the only one to be issued in the UK on 78 ( with an Ellington tune on the reverse). Leonard swings but Tadd was yet to do his best work. Leonards tenor sax solo on A-LA Bridges is excellent in Websterish manner.

Edited March 4, 2012 by Clunky

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished - Buck Clayton "The Huckle Buck & Robbins Nest". 6 eye mono that I picked up at Jacks today.

Now playing: The Cats (dark blue Prestige label with RVG in the deadwax). Sounds great.

[jeffcrom]

Joe Harriott - Abstract (Capitol mono)

[jeffcrom]

Shirley Scott - Blue Seven (Prestige mono)

[jeffcrom]

Sidney Bechet - King of the Soprano Saxophone (Good Time Jazz). French recordings made between 1952 and 1955. Beautiful, especially the 1954 session with Jonah Jones.

[Clunky]

Lee Wiley and Bunny Berigan The Complete Session of April 10, 1940 Blu-disc

[sidewinder]

Billy Eckstine Together( Spotlite 100)- great LA broadcast from early 1945, some great solos by Fats Navarro, Gene Ammons and the forgotten John Jackson (alto sax) .

I remember Humph playing a track from that on his radio (when it first came out !) and being very impressed with one of the Navarro solos and the huge sound made by this band. Wasn't there also some pretty crazy announcing from Ernie 'Bubbles' Whitman on that one?

[Clunky]

Billy Eckstine Together( Spotlite 100)- great LA broadcast from early 1945, some great solos by Fats Navarro, Gene Ammons and the forgotten John Jackson (alto sax) .

I remember Humph playing a track from that on his radio (when it first came out !) and being very impressed with one of the Navarro solos and the huge sound made by this band. Wasn't there also some pretty crazy announcing from Ernie 'Bubbles' Whitman on that one?

Bubbles is there for sure but doesn't spoil the party. Sound quality is also pretty good - better than you might expect. A minor gem IMO for the view it gives of the early days of a number of beboppers. Bubbles manages to combine an irritating manner with deeply sexist and patronising words. A complete ass but at least Sarah Vaughan appears to answer back.