What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Clunky]

20 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Cadillac reissue. Excellent remastering and pressing.

is the vinyl reissue already out there?. Everywhere lists 4th September as far i can find....

[sidewinder]

Yes - it has been for sale on Bandcamp.

I had my suspicions on source as the John Thurlow book mentioned that the tapes were believed destroyed. This LP sounds to be from a master though - impeccable sound. Good news !

Cadillac have done a great job - flipback laminated sleeve  as well. to them !

Edited August 11, 2020 by sidewinder

[porcy62]

Mono.

[porcy62]

[porcy62]

[BillF]

1 hour ago, porcy62 said:

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Yes - it has been for sale on Bandcamp.

I had my suspicions on source as the John Thurlow book mentioned that the tapes were believed destroyed. This LP sounds to be from a master though - impeccable sound. Good news !

Cadillac have done a great job - flipback laminated sleeve  as well. to them !

Mine arrived too, yet to partake but heartened by your reports. "Free Mrs Beckett" 

[Clunky]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Yes - it has been for sale on Bandcamp.

I had my suspicions on source as the John Thurlow book mentioned that the tapes were believed destroyed. This LP sounds to be from a master though - impeccable sound. Good news !

Cadillac have done a great job - flipback laminated sleeve  as well. to them !

Thanks for this, ordered....although it'll take over a fortnight to reach Scotland.....border quarantine perhaps?

[sidewinder]

26 minutes ago, Clunky said:

Thanks for this, ordered....although it'll take over a fortnight to reach Scotland.....border quarantine perhaps?

Within 2 days to my location. Two weeks - ridiculous !

They did mention by email today that the first press was about to run out and second press lined up. Suspect that is the reason.

Edited August 11, 2020 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

Yes, i read the first pressing was sold out already somewhere.  Listening now, lovely job done. 

[sidewinder]

Strange that the master tapes turned up after that story in the book !

The Harry Beckett book by the way - like the Innovations In British Jazz tome by John Wickes - really could have used some serious editing as there are daft grammatical errors and some repetition even within sections. Still, it is gratifyingly full of detail and an obvious labour of love and for that it gets a big  from me. There are gigs in there that I had seen with Harry and completely forgotten about until reminded from the text. The Claude Deppa African Big Band in 1999, for example.

Edited August 11, 2020 by sidewinder

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

 

i can see why this one is so rare, it is very different, and in many ways the end of the real BN organ era.  Ronnie Fosters hella good, but hes more a "keyboard" player, its more a keyboard albums those, not "organ" albums......

3 hours ago, porcy62 said:

 never seen that, either version

[sidewinder]

19 minutes ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

 

i can see why this one is so rare, it is very different, and in many ways the end of the real BN organ era.  Ronnie Fosters hella good, but hes more a "keyboard" player, its more a keyboard albums those, not "organ" albums......

 never seen that, either version

Hopefully they bring ‘Drives’ out as a Tone Poet. A decent copy of this one has always eluded me and I missed the ‘Rare Groove’ version for some reason.

[clifford_thornton]

rare one -- have seen images before but never actually fingered a copy.

[porcy62]

1 hour ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

 never seen that, either version

This was the original, mine is a later repress.

This cover is far nicer then later one. IMHO.

Edited August 11, 2020 by porcy62

[Chuck Nessa]

Went to the shelf for Monoceros and picked this one instead:

[JSngry]

20 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Hopefully they bring ‘Drives’ out as a Tone Poet. A decent copy of this one has always eluded me and I missed the ‘Rare Groove’ version for some reason.

In the very early 70s, Down Beat offered that record as a bonus if you subscribed.

By the time I got my own, it was The Gap Sealer, so hey, still good.

[HutchFan]

NP:

Ramsey Lewis - Them Changes (Cadet, 1970)

On this live set, guitarist Phil Upchurch sits in with trio regulars Cleveland Eaton & Morris Jennings.  I think this LP and the two that followed -- Back to the Roots (Cadet, 1971) and Upendo Ni Pamoja (Columbia, 1972) -- are all top-shelf Soul Jazz records.

[HutchFan]

More Ramsey Lewis.

My version doesn't have the die-cut gatefold cover that's ALWAYS ripped when you see it in the record stores. 

Mine's just a regular sleeve; a reissue, I guess.

 

[HutchFan]

Now:

[HutchFan]

This again.

Fantastic.

 

 

[HutchFan]

[porcy62]

Now and then I play it, since it has a good value on the used market, I think I could sell it and buy one of Mosaic vinyl sets I miss, but I never do, overall Nirvana is the last rock band I really liked and I love their records.

Edited August 14, 2020 by porcy62

[porcy62]

UK Columbia Mono Pressing, astounding sound.

[HutchFan]

Last night:

Booker Ervin - That's It (Candid/Barnaby)

I have the Dutch pressing of this Barnaby reissue -- with the orange CBS label.  I bought it at Mole Jazz on a memorable trip to London many years ago.