What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[uli]

listening to the remastered version with different cover, issued 1969 (Prestige 7667)

Edited April 1, 2014 by uli

[soulpope]

And now:

Jan Garbarek "dansere" (ECM/trio, Japan). One of my favorite Garbarek albums with the brilliant Bobo Stenson and one of the best rhythm sections ever IMHO.

I definitely agree with you there. A matrvellous LP and that rhythm section

A pity that rhythm section never recorded on their own at subject time for ECM .......

You can get close with this one...

thnx for reminding...but as you said JUST close ...........of course we have to settle for what we got, nevertheless as Manfred Eicher @ECM had already quite a prolific release police at subject time it seems sort of "bad luck" the "Dansere Rhythm Section" didn`t have a shot reg an own release......btw Arild Andersen=

[tomatamot]

Jimmy Lyons-Push-Pull ( Hat Hut )

[mjazzg]

Gunter Hampel - Celebrations {Birth Records]

[Clunky]

Chris Woods----------From here to eternity----------(Black& Blue)

[paul secor]

Joseph Spence: Bahaman Folk Guitar (Folkways)

[paul secor]

Ben Webster: The Warm Moods (Reprise/Discovery)

[JSngry]

Two "mod MOR" records w/an array of arrangers including Bobby Scott, Torrie Zito, Claus Ogerman, Don Sebesky, and, of course, Mort Garson, a.o. I understand when people don't care for this kind of thing, but I also understand when I do, and here, I do. Don't know if Sinatra wishes he could have made records like this with Don Costa, but I do. If Jack Jones had a voice like Arthur Prysock, he probably would have made records like this. Anyway, Arthur Prysock did make records like this, so...game over as far as that goes.

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Let it be Lonshein! http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/out-of-the-mainstream-the-jack-lonshein-story

Another MOR record, but from the pre-mod era, one with a few poppish songs, a few jazzy tunes, some blues ballads, almost none of which are widely known, some of which are very good, and all of which are sung quite nicely.

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Now this one caught me and took me off guard. Completely. It's an all ballads album with arrangements by Herb Gordy, and I swan to my soul, the arrangements, and more importantly, the band, are straight-up vintage Billy Eckstine. If you like that kind of thing, the National & Deluxe era ballads, well, here you go, have this too. Prysock doesn't do those hipass tags on the end of songs the way that X did, but dammit, this band will have you looking for John Jackson. Prysock comes by this type thing honestly, of course, and from the sound of it, everybody involved did as well. Damn, this is one killer record.

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The cover says it all. If Bobby Goldsboro was Arthur Prysock (and all that would imply)...what kind of a world would that be, then, and do we dare even contemplate? Perhaps not, and probably just as well. But having said that - very well-produced for what it is, and Prysock still sings like Prysock. Never mind Rubber Soul, here is some Polyester Soul, and no matter the polyester, still the soul. Life's math, completely neutral in that regard.

[paul secor]

Randy Weston - Vishnu Wood Duo: Perspective (Denon Jazz)

Somewhat surprisingly (to me, at least), this is a bit more of a Vishnu Wood record than it is a Randy Weston record. And it works well that way, so it's all good.

Edited April 2, 2014 by paul secor

[paul secor]

Mississippi John Hurt: Volume One of a Legacy (Piedmont)

[tomatamot]

Sil Austin & Red Prysock - Battle Royal (Red Prysock Versus Sil Austin)

[uli]

next I am planning to listen to this set. that should keep me busy for two or three days

[BillF]

Basie Jam (Pablo) - Fine, fine stuff!

[JSngry]

Superb MOR/Jazz vocal album from 1964.

Having now heard several Arthur Prysock albums from the early 1960s, I feel confident in saying that he was making superior records to a lot of the more popular/famous singers of the time.

I'll be looking for more Arthur Prysock records going forth, guaranteed. I thought that the binging through the batches I've recently bought would either satiate or even burn out the curiosity, but to the contrary, they have whetted the appetite (although thankfully not the bed) for more.

[B. Clugston]

Albert Ayler, Love Cry.

David Rosenboom & J.B. Floyd, Suitable for Framing.

[JSngry]

[soulpope]

Randy Weston - Vishnu Wood Duo: Perspective (Denon Jazz)

Somewhat surprisingly (to me, at least), this is a bit more of a Vishnu Wood record than it is a Randy Weston record. And it works well that way, so it's all good.

Fair enough, Vishnu Wood really SHINES here

[Leeway]

BEBOP LOOSE AND LIVE - J.R. Monterose (ts, ss), Hugh Brodie (ts), Larry Ham (p), Pat O'Leary (b), Tom Melito (d). Recorded live 1981 in Potsdam, NY. The interview reproduced on the back cover is almost worth the price of admission in itself.

[paul secor]

Jimmy Rushing: Gee Baby Ain't I Good to You (Master Jazz Recordings)

Mr. Rushing, in fine voice, backed by a wonderful band - Buck Clayton, Dickie Wells, Julian Dash,

Sir Charles Thompson, Gene Ramey, and Jo Jones. I couldn't ask for more.

Edited April 2, 2014 by paul secor

[Leeway]

MELODIC ART-TET - Charles Brackeen, Ahmed Abdullah, William Parker, Roger Blank, Tony Waters. No Business Records 2LP.

[clifford_thornton]

Randy Weston - Vishnu Wood Duo: Perspective (Denon Jazz)

Somewhat surprisingly (to me, at least), this is a bit more of a Vishnu Wood record than it is a Randy Weston record. And it works well that way, so it's all good.

Fair enough, Vishnu Wood really SHINES here

Been curious about this one, though I've never owned it. Thanks for the rec'.

BEBOP LOOSE AND LIVE - J.R. Monterose (ts, ss), Hugh Brodie (ts), Larry Ham (p), Pat O'Leary (b), Tom Melito (d). Recorded live 1981 in Potsdam, NY. The interview reproduced on the back cover is almost worth the price of admission in itself.

I think that's the only Monterose LP I don't have. Gotta get it before all the Cadence LPs are no longer "in print."

Edited April 2, 2014 by clifford_thornton

[paul secor]

Johnny Otis Presents Some Old Folks Boogie (P-Vine)

Fine blues from Johnny Otis' Ultra and Dig labels.

[JSngry]

Playing this again...by chance, does anybody know anything further about the trumpeters here, Robert Nagel & Allan Dean? Don't know which is who, but there's a sureness of phrasing on display that is certainly impressive, and immediately appreciated by this listener. The entire ensemble is impressive (as are Schuller's readings), but the trumpet playing is, when it occurs, the final micro-focusing of the lens. Or so it sounds to my ears on these first few listenings.

[paul secor]

Eric Dolphy: Other Aspects (BN)

[clifford_thornton]

Michael J. Smith - Elvira Madigan... And Other Dances - (Horo)