What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, HutchFan said:

James Williams - Magical Trio 2 (EmArcy, 1988)
with Ray Brown & Elvin Jones

 

James Williams was so great, and he died too early. 

I´ll never forget how impressed I was by his playing on the first Blakey LP I had "In This Korner". And then seeing him perform with Blakey with that band with Bobby Watson and Valery Ponomarev...

The last time I saw James Williams was when he played piano in a very strong Dizzy Gillespie Big Band organized for his 70th Birthday Tour in 1987. 

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

James Williams was so great, and he died too early. 

I´ll never forget how impressed I was by his playing on the first Blakey LP I had "In This Korner". And then seeing him perform with Blakey with that band with Bobby Watson and Valery Ponomarev...

Yes  this Art Blakey group was great. We had  a concert in our private Jazz Club (Koblenz, Germany) in 1979.

[HutchFan]

NP:

Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra - Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Arranger (Gryphon, 1980)
Featured soloists include Dick Oatts, Jim McNeely, Rich Perry, Brookmeyer, and Clark Terry

 

[HutchFan]

More Mel Lewis & Bob Brookmeyer:

Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra - Make Me Smile & Other New Works by Bob Brookmeyer (Finesse, 1982)
Soloists include Dick Oatts, Jim McNeely, Tom Harrell, Joe Lovano, and Kenny Garrett

 

[BillF]

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra - Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Arranger (Gryphon, 1980)
Featured soloists include Dick Oatts, Jim McNeely, Rich Perry, Brookmeyer, and Clark Terry

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

16 hours ago, HutchFan said:

NP:

Mel Lewis & the Jazz Orchestra - Bob Brookmeyer: Composer, Arranger (Gryphon, 1980)
Featured soloists include Dick Oatts, Jim McNeely, Rich Perry, Brookmeyer, and Clark Terry

 

Man I wish Bob Brookmeyer hadn't been such a cantankerous jerk on the old Jazz Corner forums. Now, whenever I see one of his records, it's one of the first things I think of.

[mjazzg]

Thanks HutchFan

possibly the thinnest vinyl in my collection, practically a flexi

[sidewinder]

[Rabshakeh]

51 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks HutchFan

possibly the thinnest vinyl in my collection, practically a flexi

I always wondered why it was so cheap when I saw it. 

[sidewinder]

[HutchFan]

This again:

 

On 3/18/2021 at 3:09 AM, Gheorghe said:

James Williams was so great, and he died too early. 

I´ll never forget how impressed I was by his playing on the first Blakey LP I had "In This Korner". And then seeing him perform with Blakey with that band with Bobby Watson and Valery Ponomarev...

Williams' music always has a soulfulness and warmth, doesn't it?  Even when he's playing uptempo.  

I think that's one of the reasons he worked so well with Blakey.  TOTALLY agree with you re: In This Korner. 

Straight Ahead, Blakey's 2nd live record from the Keystone -- again with James Williams -- is excellent too.  

 

[Gheorghe]

I love it. That rubato on the beginning of "Thespian" is wonderful. Such a great album. 

[kh1958]

Charlie Barnett (Capitol)

Bobby Timmons, Chicken and Dumplin's (Prestige)

Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Pony Poindexter, Leo Wright, The Alto Summit (Prestige/MPS)

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Pony Poindexter, Leo Wright, The Alto Summit (Prestige/MPS)

WHOA! Never seen that, just the BASF/MPS version...who wrote the liner notes for this Prestige version?

[kh1958]

16 minutes ago, JSngry said:

WHOA! Never seen that, just the BASF/MPS version...who wrote the liner notes for this Prestige version?

Mark Gardner wrote the notes, dated August of 1969.

[JSngry]

Wow, that would have been a totally different take on the music than the MPS/JEB notes, no doubt...

[kh1958]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Wow, that would have been a totally different take on the music than the MPS/JEB notes, no doubt...

In a quick look at the Prestige Discography, I counted 16 Prestige issues of MPS material. How else would Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald end up on Prestige?

[HutchFan]

 

and

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, kh1958 said:

In a quick look at the Prestige Discography, I counted 16 Prestige issues of MPS material. How else would Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald end up on Prestige?

 

There was a Clarke-Boland as well, correct? Who else?

Wondering how well that series got distributed nationwide. We had pretty goo rack-job service for Prestige when I started buying in 1970-71, but I never saw any of those.

[Chuck Nessa]

I have that one.

[HutchFan]

Brilliant.

[JSngry]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

You know, I used to have to defend Wearther Report/Zawinual against the stickuptheirassjazzpurists about the synths, and my first - and still primary - line is that hey, colors, textures unique to electronics, not imitating "real" instruments but being real instruments.

So it was in the liner notes to either Quasar or Dragonfly, or maybe some interview, i forget, where they say something about "sounds like you've been listening to Weather Report, whaddup with that, Mr. Silence humming trioman?" And his response was - textures, I love the textures.

Well, yeah. DUH!

If Joe Biden was a jazz fan, I bet he'd say, "NEVER bet against the Jimmy Giuffre people!"

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

You know, I used to have to defend Wearther Report/Zawinual against the stickuptheirassjazzpurists about the synths, and my first - and still primary - line is that hey, colors, textures unique to electronics, not imitating "real" instruments but being real instruments.

So it was in the liner notes to either Quasar or Dragonfly, or maybe some interview, i forget, where they say something about "sounds like you've been listening to Weather Report, whaddup with that, Mr. Silence humming trioman?" And his response was - textures, I love the textures.

Well, yeah. DUH!

If Joe Biden was a jazz fan, I bet he'd say, "NEVER bet against the Jimmy Giuffre people!"

Yep. Good memory. What you're talkin' about is in the liner notes to Quasar.   

 

[JSngry]

Love it when the memory actually works...the impressions are still always good, but the details....some days are better than others.

[Larry Kart]

17 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I have that one.

I reviewed it enthusiastically for Down Beat back in the day.