What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

,

Frank Wess - Yo Ho! Poor You, Little Me, a Frankenstein's monster of an issue - a yellow-and-black label Prestige mono record in a cover that has a Status back and a Prestige front with a Status sticker stuck over the Prestige logo. The spine still reads Prestige. In any case, it's a really excellent album.

[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

The new mono pressing of the first Hendrix US lp from Sony Legacy. A beautiful pressing, 200g, flat as a board. Not a great sounding disc, especially side 1, but it never was. Sure is fun to hear though, I'll be playing this a lot. Different mixes than the stereo.

[Cactus Bob]

Don Ellis ~ New Ideas

Prestige

[paul secor]

Don Ellis ~ New Ideas

Prestige

Never saw that cover before. Different from the old LP I used to have or the CD I have now. Evidently changed to cash in on his Columbia popularity.

[Cactus Bob]

Don Ellis ~ New Ideas

Prestige

Never saw that cover before. Different from the old LP I used to have or the CD I have now. Evidently changed to cash in on his Columbia popularity.

Just picked this up in mint condition at a thrift for $1.50. From what I read it's a 70's reissue. Nice sounding vinyl. I'm already familiar with the material. Great stuff.

[jeffcrom]

A couple of odd ones:

Adrian Rollini Trio (Epic EP)

And deep into TTK territory for this one:

Don Elliott - Music for the Sensational Sixties (Design mono). Equal parts jazz, bachelor pad pop, and exotica. Some nice Hal McKusick bass clarinet along the way.

[mjzee]

Sorry for the big pic. Not the best mastering on this pressing. . . a bit strident, though swinging hard. But such great music.

I loved the liner notes on this package.

[mjzee]

I remember when he wrote a column for Down Beat in the 1960's. I believe he told a story about a guy hearing a record on a juke box and wanting to have it so badly that he broke the glass cover on the juke box and took the record. I may have misremembered it to some degree, but the gist of the story and the idea of that guy wanting to have the record has stuck with me.

Max Kaminsky, I believe. Greil Marcus memorably used this story in his put-down review of Dylan's Self Portrait in Rolling Stone: "Kaminsky had to have that record. Would anyone say they had to have this record? No."

[brownie]

John Coltrane and ... 'Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors' (OJC)

John Coltrane and ... 'Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors' (OJC)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Hampton Hawes - For Real!

[sidewinder]

Freddie Hubbard "Super Blue" (CBS)

and

"The Art of Freddie Hubbard - The Atlantic Years" (Atlantic German pressing, 2LP)

Edited March 8, 2013 by sidewinder

[paul secor]

The Lotte Lenya Album (Columbia)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Lucky Thompson - Illuminations (Groove Merchant). A two-fer of "I Offer You" & "Yesterday, Today"? But if it is, they goofed up the rhythm section for the first record.

[Cactus Bob]

Miles Davis in Concert

Recorded Live at Philharmonic Hall, New York, 1972

Columbia

[Chuck Nessa]

Hampton Hawes - For Real!

This recording never came close to my expectations. YMMV.

[Larry Kart]

Don Ellis ~ New Ideas

Prestige

Never saw that cover before. Different from the old LP I used to have or the CD I have now. Evidently changed to cash in on his Columbia popularity.

Just picked this up in mint condition at a thrift for $1.50. From what I read it's a 70's reissue. Nice sounding vinyl. I'm already familiar with the material. Great stuff.

Originally on New Jazz, IIRC. Quite individual vibes work from Al Francis, who in the mid-1980s made a fine trio record "Jazz Bohemia Revisited "on an obscure label Lost Cosmic Unity with bassist John Neves and drummer Joe Hunt. And here it is, mirable dictu:

http://www.myspace.com/jazzbohemia

[brownie]

Bunk Johnson 'Brass Band' (Dan Japan)

[niels]

Wayne Shorter - Night Dreamer (Blue Note, "in a box" Liberty pressing)

Edited March 9, 2013 by niels

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Gene Ammons - Jammin' In HiFi with Gene Ammons (OJC reissue). These OJC reissues sound pretty good to my ears.

[jeffcrom]

Bunk Johnson 'Brass Band' (Dan Japan)

Every time I visit New Orleans I make sure to go by George Lewis's house on St. Phlip Street - these amazing recordings were made in the back yard.

[kh1958]

Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Volume 1 (Prestige, purple label)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Freddie Hubbard - Night Of The Cookers Vol. 1. I'm sorry for fans of this date, but it still doesn't do anything for me. The trumpet playing just seems sloppy. They sound like they're having fun though.

[clifford_thornton]

Don Ellis ~ New Ideas

Prestige

Never saw that cover before. Different from the old LP I used to have or the CD I have now. Evidently changed to cash in on his Columbia popularity.

Just picked this up in mint condition at a thrift for $1.50. From what I read it's a 70's reissue. Nice sounding vinyl. I'm already familiar with the material. Great stuff.

Originally on New Jazz, IIRC. Quite individual vibes work from Al Francis, who in the mid-1980s made a fine trio record "Jazz Bohemia Revisited "on an obscure label Lost Cosmic Unity with bassist John Neves and drummer Joe Hunt. And here it is, mirable dictu:

http://www.myspace.com/jazzbohemia

One of my all time favorites, that Ellis record. I have it on the New Jazz pressing.