What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Danish Metronome, Mono. Same metalwork as the Prestige Bergenfield I think, sonically very good.

On 14/08/2021 at 2:08 AM, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

This set repackages three James Moody albums originally released on Argo: 
- Flute 'N The Blues,
- Moody's Mood For Love, and
- Last Train From Overbrook.

 

As featured in billions of 70s cutout bins !  Wish I’d bought a copy.

[sidewinder]

King pressing

[JSngry]

On 8/14/2021 at 0:35 PM, kh1958 said:

Stan Kenton, Road Show (Capitol)

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[sidewinder]

4 minutes ago, JSngry said:

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No love for The Frosh?

[JSngry]

Love?

Actually...querying Ken, as that would be an...atypical selection for him, based on what I know of his tastes.

[sidewinder]

French   Milestone 2LP

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

As featured in billions of 70s cutout bins !  Wish I’d bought a copy.

Yep!  My copy is a cutout, and it was still sealed when I bought it a few years back.  

 

[jazzcorner]

On 11.8.2021 at 11:50 AM, mjazzg said:

Lem Winchester - Another Opus [New Jazz, Japan 1980]

Interesting cover art

 

[sidewinder]

35 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep!  My copy is a cutout, and it was still sealed when I bought it a few years back.  

 

I don’t think I ever saw a copy of that one that wasn’t a cutout ! 

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I love the early 70's album where he does "The World is a Ghetto."

Yes, that's on Moody's one Paula LP.  I don't have that one, but I've heard it.  I figure I'll eventually get around to picking it up.

Edited August 15, 2021 by HutchFan

[Teasing the Korean]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yes, that's on Moody's one Paula LP.  I don't have that one, but I've heard it.  I figure I'll eventually get around to picking it up.

IIRC, half of it is funky/groovy, and half of it is more straight ahead.  

NP:

Blue Stars of France - Lullaby of Birdland - Emarcy (mono)

Edited August 15, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Marian McPartland - Bossa Nova + Soul - Time (mono).  The perfect album for today's young couple while they are preparing dinner and drinking wine.  

Funny story about this one:  I'd had it for years and couldn't find it.  I assumed I misfiled it.  I ended up buying another copy.  

We moved about four years ago, and when I was packing up the LPs, I would look through each armload to see if anything was misfiled. 

So I'm filing the jazz albums, and there it is, filed alphabetically under "Mc."  I was looking in the Bossa and Now Sound/Groovy sections.  It didn't even occur to me to look for it under jazz, which would have been the obvious place to file it.  

The LP cover is beautiful, incidentally.

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Ben Webster - Ballads - Verve (70s twofer reissue, mono)

Ralph Burns arrangements.  

[kh1958]

17 hours ago, JSngry said:

Love?

Actually...querying Ken, as that would be an...atypical selection for him, based on what I know of his tastes.

Pre-COVID work from home, I had a large backlog of unlistened to jazz LPs; now I've listened to nearly all; this Kenton was one of the last. Kenton I like okay; June Christy, a bit; the Four Freshman, not my cup of tea. I know they have skills, just not directed at me.

[clifford_thornton]

On 8/15/2021 at 4:11 AM, Rabshakeh said:

HutchFan, you’ve been listening to a lot of Moody recently, and I remember him showing on your Playing Favorites blog too. If you had to take three James Moody albums to your desert island, which would they be? I’m a big flute fan, but I don’t really know his work.

I’ve spent a while in the last few days trying to track them down but to no avail. I a vintage record collector’s list (@rostasi mentioned the Nurse With Wound one earlier in the week; the slightly queasy Thurston Moore one is another). I see that the EFI Sheffield page used to link to it, but the link’s now down.

yeah I think all the Pinotti stuff has been wiped from the internet. He ran Qbico and Sagittarius A-Star as well as doing some other micro-run bootleg pressings. Print is the only way to keep things active forever!

Thurston's list is enthusiastic, certainly a bit dated but it was the mid-90s and he was writing for an alt-rock audience that was mostly unaware of this kind of music. I have everything mentioned in there (including some stuff that was never released) and it took damn near 25 years to track it all down. The NWW list is even more of a challenge.

[Rabshakeh]

17 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Thurston's list is enthusiastic, certainly a bit dated but it was the mid-90s and he was writing for an alt-rock audience that was mostly unaware of this kind of music. I have everything mentioned in there (including some stuff that was never released) and it took damn near 25 years to track it all down. The NWW list is even more of a challenge.

Hard to think back to that time, when even Sun Ra was obscure. The level of information scarcity back then was unimaginable.

In these days of content churn listicles and reissue specialist labels (neither a bad thing), I find those old lists of obscure, near legendary recommendations have a real aura to them.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I mean Jon Dale's piece for FactMag (21 pages of excavation) could not have been written in 1996 -- now we have YouTube links and anybody can check out the sounds for free if they want to. I'd say it is a good thing but I miss the days of blind buys and mustiness.

[JSngry]

8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hard to think back to that time, when even Sun Ra was obscure.

I was just looking at my Ra impulse!s and thinking how quaint they looked now that all the Evidence and other releases have restored the original packagings (sorta, close enough).

I'm keeping them, though. They're like the kids you adopt and then when they grow up they find their birth parents. That's ok, still love them, and not throwing away all the pictures from their childhood. Glad they've found their full identity now.

[HutchFan]

Now spinning this album again:

Lou Donaldson - Ha' Mercy (Cadet)
 

 

Earlier today:

Daniel Ponce - Arawe (Antilles New Directions, 1987)

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by HutchFan

[jazzcorner]

[HutchFan]

Michel Petrucciani - 100 Hearts (George Wein Collection/Concord, 1984)

Solo piano

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Ben Webster - Ballads - Verve (70s twofer reissue, mono)

Sides 3 and 4.  Side 3 has Ralph Burns arrangements; side 4 is mostly small group. 

4 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

How is the Jack Marshall side?  I love his Capitol albums Soundsville and 18th Century Jazz.  I think I have a Bossa album by him on Capitol also.  

[mjazzg]

Masahiko Togashi - Rings [East West, 1976]

sublime solo percussion, thanks to @Niko  for posting some of it recently

Edited August 17, 2021 by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Masahiko Togashi - Rings [East West, 1976]

sublime solo percussion, thanks to @Niko  for posting some of it recently

This record is really something.

I've just finished spinning the reissue of Black Unity Trio's Al Fatihah (1968)

[clifford_thornton]

been after a sharp copy of Rings for some time!

Al-Fatihah and Le Temps Fou are probably the biggest holes (in terms of originals) in my collection. The reissues are nice but in 25 years of collecting, I never lucked out on first-state copies.