What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Rabshakeh]

17 minutes ago, bresna said:

Look at that old digital watch - it's huge. I wonder if it's one of those red LED watches where you have to push the button to turn it on or an early LCD where there was a button to turn on a light behind it?

A friend of mine has a theory that the late seventies through early 90s, starting with VSOP, was the wristwatch jazz / rolex jazz era. 

I'm not sure what the characteristics of the Rolex jazz genre are, but, since he pointed it out, I have had to concede that he has a point. 

[HutchFan]

[Dub Modal]

8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

A friend of mine has a theory that the late seventies through early 90s, starting with VSOP, was the wristwatch jazz / rolex jazz era. 

I'm not sure what the characteristics of the Rolex jazz genre are, but, since he pointed it out, I have had to concede that he has a point. 

Like, as in official sponsorship? Such as "here's some $$$ for taking album pics with our watch on" type thing? 

[HutchFan]

Edited May 17, 2021 by HutchFan

[Chuck Nessa]

7 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

As I slowly scrolled down the thread I thought you were listening to

Edited May 17, 2021 by Chuck Nessa

[HutchFan]

LOL   

 

[Rabshakeh]

10 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

Like, as in official sponsorship? Such as "here's some $$$ for taking album pics with our watch on" type thing? 

I don't know. Possibly. I think more in the sense that a lot of live footage and cover artwork prominently features very chunky and expensive luxury wristwatches accidentally in shot. 

Rolex jazz classic:

 

Also, anything involving Wayne Shorter from 76 onwards. 

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I don't know. Possibly. I think more in the sense that a lot of live footage and cover artwork prominently features very chunky and expensive luxury wristwatches accidentally in shot. 

Also, it seems like, beginning in the 80s, jazz came to be very much associated with "upscale" stuff -- more than it had been in the past.  A sort of cultural signifier for "classy shit." 

And watches would be one example of that.  Associate your watch with jazz and ergo you have a classy, sophisticated watch. 

All marketing nonsense, of course. 

 

[Rabshakeh]

4 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Also, it seems like, beginning in the 80s, jazz came to be very much associated with "upscale" stuff -- more than it had been in the past.  A sort of cultural signifier for "classy shit." 

And watches would be one example of that.  Associate your watch with jazz and ergo you have a classy, sophisticated watch. 

All marketing nonsense, of course. 

I think that's it. Like the return of the sharp suit, just a bit cruder. Maybe a hint of the 80s equivalence of wallet thickness with talent. 

[HutchFan]

Just now, Rabshakeh said:

I think that's it. Like the return of the sharp suit, just a bit cruder. Maybe a hint of the 80s equivalence of wallet thickness with talent. 

Yes indeed. 

 

[Chuck Nessa]

[HutchFan]

Never seen that Threadgill ad before!  It's kinda hilarious. 

But good for him for making some cash off his cache.   

 

[Rabshakeh]

8 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

I had no idea that Threadgill ever had that sort of profile. 

[Chuck Nessa]

6 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I had no idea that Threadgill ever had that sort of profile. 

A friend of ours in Chicago worked for the ad agency and made it happen.

[Dan Gould]

5 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

A friend of ours in Chicago worked for the ad agency and made it happen.

He still fits comfortably in the type of person Dewar's was "profiling". Just check a google image search.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22dewar%27s+profiles%22&sxsrf=ALeKk02xnne5jTlF-ZObF1uoSyqsGBfR-Q:1621279329096&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=g5xWiYj2UAoM6M%252C3up6HqYBj7aMQM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTSftim8kr6atMDz4ZKfWJJ56oJfA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY2_eTuNHwAhVOd6wKHdzwAsUQ9QF6BAgWEAE&biw=1280&bih=560#imgrc=g5xWiYj2UAoM6M

 

(That's gotta be the youngest photo of Jerry Orbach I've ever seen ... granted he was a major broadway star but that was pre-hollywood fame let alone Law & Order.)

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Wait a minute ! Since I couldn´t see any comentary or analysis, is that "You Are Under Arrest?". Since it seems this as another cover photo than mine. On the copy I have Miles with  a gun. Well I don´t really like guns in combination with music and with live in general  with the exception when I was in the army as a teenager and liked it, but how about a little talk about the music ? 

I remember those 80´s as a time when we all waited eagerly for the next Miles album. At least as long as there still was a kind of "jazz group" feeling in it, not only computeres with Miles overdubbed. 

As much as we loved "Man with the Horn", "We want Miles" and the third one, that one with the long blues on it "Star Eyes", but  let´s say "Decoy" didn´t move me at all with the exception of "Code MD" which he also played live, much better than in the studio. 

"Arrest" was something else. I liked the bass intro because it reminded me of "Jack Johnson" and the Jack Johnson version on "Agartha", and even the pop tune "Time After Time" sounded good for me. Only John Scofield was not exactly what I wanted to hear on guitar, he is a bit behind the beat, I liked Mike Stern more.

I heard Miles with the same group when it was brand new. It was imediatly after the release of "Arrest" and they played those tunes. Then it was fresh and new. But after that it started to become boring and a routine show. For the next years, he always repeated "Arrest", "Time after Time" and the silly "Human Nature". And the then so good blues on the 1983  "Star People" album became some dumb blues cliché (New Blues) . Only on a 1989 album there came a bit more stuff added and some more interesting tunes and real players instead of machines.   

I 

Edited May 18, 2021 by Gheorghe

[mjazzg]

Pat Martino - Strings! [Prestige, 1968]

preceded by

Pat Martino - East! [Prestige, 1968]

my copy's in better nick than this photo, thankfully

[mjazzg]

Staying with Pat

Pat Martino - El Hombre [Prestige, 1967]

[Dan Gould]

Newest and possibly greatest acquisition this side of the Four Sounds Acetate.

After something like 15 years of hoping to find a copy, I tried a "G+" copy from a seller in Denmark. Paid ... way too much for a "G+" record, but way, way less than their offering price. And now after just a seven day trip from Denmark to Florida, dealer is turning out tohave been very conservative in his grading.  Not even sure now if I will bother with the kind offers I got as a result of this thread:

That's Curtis Amy on tenor, if you didn't know ... 

[rostasi]

[jazzcorner]

 

 

Edited May 19, 2021 by jazzcorner

[HutchFan]

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

 

 

21 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Newest and possibly greatest acquisition this side of the Four Sounds Acetate.

After something like 15 years of hoping to find a copy, I tried a "G+" copy from a seller in Denmark. Paid ... way too much for a "G+" record, but way, way less than their offering price. And now after just a seven day trip from Denmark to Florida, dealer is turning out tohave been very conservative in his grading.  Not even sure now if I will bother with the kind offers I got as a result of this thread:

That's Curtis Amy on tenor, if you didn't know ... 

GREAT news!   

 

[Dan Gould]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

 

GREAT news!   

 

Indeed!

And, it seems as though Click Repair is doing a nice, no-artifacts job with decrackle, too, so may not even spend that much time working on getting the tracks in listenable shape. 

[HutchFan]

Now this:

Ross Tompkins and Good Friends (Concord, 1978)
The most notable "friend" on this LP is Al Cohn, whose playing is ridiculously good.  He makes such an assured and powerful sound -- but it's also effortless, practically Rollins-esque. 

IMO, this LP is right on par with Cohn's late-70s Xanadu gems like Play It Now and Heavy Love. 

 

Edited May 19, 2021 by HutchFan

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Andrew Hill - Passing Ships (Blue Note). Listening to Side 1 to see if my turntable/cartridge can pass the torture test that is "Plantation Bag". Apparently, this track presents tracking challenges to some turntables. On first listen to this, they really did a nice job in the mastering studio in creating a lively analog master tape to cut with.

Well - my turntable failed that miserably. Weirdly, it wasn't Farrell's sax solo that got me. It was the piano solo near with the trombone/bass clarinet fills distoring like heck. Sounds like crap.