What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Cactus Bob]

Jack DeJohnette's Directions

ECM

with John Abercrombie, Alex Foster and Mike Richmond

My old ticket stub from the concert in the mid-seventies.

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan: Trouble in Mind (Steeplechase)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

was JJ johnson like actually "popular" for a short time, like the JJ&Kai columbia lps, etc- did any of this stuff 'cross-over' like brubeck, etc

[BillF]

was JJ johnson like actually "popular" for a short time, like the JJ&Kai columbia lps, etc- did any of this stuff 'cross-over' like brubeck, etc

Yes, in the 50s Jay and Kai were very popular by today's jazz standards - not the popularity of Elvis, of course, nor even the popularity of Brubeck or the MJQ for that matter - but they were big enough for a 17-year-old friend of mine to take up trombone in an attempt to emulate them. Anything that can get through to someone of 17 must be called popular, don't you think? Don't forget their arrangements were catchy, almost singable, and their varied tonal effects - with mutes, etc - helped make an attractive product. I'm well aware of this as I frequently go to hear a trombone duo who do a Jay and Kai show with transcribed arrangements and they're very easy on the ear and get a big reception from an audience, many of whom must have been teenagers in the 50s.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

None of the JJ & Kai albums crossed over and made the pop album charts, but it was popular all right. Kai had a hit album - 'More' - in 1963. Spent almost 6 months on the pop charts.

MG

[Clunky]

Juhami Aaltonen---------Etiquette -------(Love Records)

1974 rec.

Free jazz from Finland featuring Edward Vesala

[Leeway]

and

[Clunky]

Marion Brown------La Placita, live in Willisau------(Timeless) Japan

Rec 1977

[Leeway]

[Leeway]

A pleasant date:

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

mine= only 1 lp, but its the one w/ 'what i say' & 'funky-tonk'- so i'm good

[tomatamot]

Buddy Rich - Very Live at Buddy's Place

[tomatamot]

Joe & Zoot ( UK reissue )

[NIS]

[mjazzg]

Joe McPhee Po Music - Topology [Hat]

Irene Schweizer's contributions stand out on this listen through.

Juhami Aaltonen---------Etiquette -------(Love Records)

1974 rec.

Free jazz from Finland featuring Edward Vesala

Nice one

Edited December 29, 2013 by mjazzg

[Leeway]

[Clunky]

Mal Waldron--------All Alone---------(Globe)

Interesting Japanese issue of solo date from Milan in 1966. Mal has his new style largely in place. I'd never heard of it until I picked this up yesterday but then he was prolific!

[Leeway]

I think I read this is John Surman's first album. Side A is a surprising set of calypso/carnivale music, sincerely played. Side B is more of a free jazz outing. A lot of musicians important to British free jazz are here: Mike Osborne, Paul Rutherford, Kenny Wheeler, Harry Becket, Dave Holland.

[Cactus Bob]

Duke Ellington ~ Newport 1958

Columbia mono

[Leeway]

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

BIRDLAND 1960, 62 AIRCHECKS

#1 the band w/ lee & bobby timmons

#2 the mosaic band, f. hub, wayne, curtis, cedar et al.... actually doing mosaic, faster than the original, its seriously intense, wayne is completely goin off

Edited December 30, 2013 by chewy

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Rev Cleophus Robinson - Christmas carols & good gospel - Peacock

Kansas City Melodyaires - Softly the night is falling - Songbird (no image on web any more)

next

Mildred Clark & the Melodyaires & the Voices of Triedstone - You've got to give an account - Savoy

MG

[Leeway]

Lol Coxhill - EAR OF BEHOLDER - Double LP, Ampex.

This copy is a white label promo "D.J" copy. Hard to bracket "D.J" and Lol in the same sentence.

Edited December 30, 2013 by Leeway

[Leeway]

[A Lark Ascending]

Lol Coxhill - EAR OF BEHOLDER - Double LP, Ampex.

This copy is a white label promo "D.J" copy. Hard to bracket "D.J" and Lol in the same sentence.

The version of 'I am the Walrus' is a dance floor classic.