What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[BillF]

3 hours ago, kh1958 said:

 

Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Tone Poet)

[Rabshakeh]

4 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Lee Konitz Plays with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Tone Poet)

This is the first TP that I have really been eyeing up.

[kh1958]

19 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

This is the first TP that I have really been eyeing up.

Good in every way.

Dave Brubeck, Two Knights at the Blackhawk (Fantasy)

Count Basie, Basie's Best (Olympic). A budget looking LP seemed unlikely to be Basie's best, but it is live in 1937 with Lester Young and Herschel Evans, and pretty well recorded.

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Good in every way.

I agree.

 

[aparxa]

Ran Blake Quartet ‎– Short Life Of Barbara Monk

I  remember enjoying it. I really enjoy it today - along with my morning Pu-erh tea!

 

[Rabshakeh]

31 minutes ago, aparxa said:

Ran Blake Quartet ‎– Short Life Of Barbara Monk

I  remember enjoying it. I really enjoy it today - along with my morning Pu-erh tea!

 

It's by al long way my favourite of his

[mjazzg]

Giorgio Gaslini Sestetto - Free Actions [Dischi Della Quercia, Italy 1978]

[jazzcorner]

PAUSA PR-7028 - Don Ellis " Soaring" - rec. 1973 - Engineer: Hugh Davis

[porcy62]

Since I haven't got any Garner in my collection, I gave myself a gift with this lavish mammoth:

[mjazzg]

Bad Bad Not Good - Talk Memory [XL Recordings, 2021]

[aparxa]

Amina Claudine Myers Trio - Jumping In The Sugar Bowl
Joe Albany – This Is For Friends
Denny Zeitlin – Tidal Wave

[soulpope]

18 minutes ago, aparxa said:

Amina Claudine Myers Trio - Jumping In The Sugar Bowl

Yep ....

[sidewinder]

Very limited 10” Basil Kirchin reissue from Trunk Records.

 

4 hours ago, porcy62 said:

Since I haven't got any Garner in my collection, I gave myself a gift with this lavish mammoth:

Please let us know what you think !

 

Edited October 14, 2021 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

Listened to this last night:

Richard Beirach - Breathing of Statues (CMP, 1983)

Solo piano.  If you haven't heard this, imagine a marriage of jazz -- spontaneity and freedom -- combined with, say, late Beethoven, Scriabin, and Prokofiev.  It's strange, unsettling, and stinkin' brilliant music.  Uncategorizable.  I've never heard anything else quite like it. 

One of my desert-island discs, for sure.  

 

[Rabshakeh]

1 minute ago, HutchFan said:

Listened to this last night:

Richard Beirach - Breathing of Statues (CMP, 1983)

Solo piano.  If you haven't heard this, imagine a marriage of jazz -- spontaneity and freedom -- combined with, say, late Beethoven, Scriabin, and Prokofiev.  It's strange, unsettling, and stinkin' brilliant music.  Uncategorizable.  I've never heard anything else quite like it. 

One of my desert-island discs, for sure.  

Great record. I couldn't sleep the other night and just sat up listening to it. It's the Beirach record where his style really does work.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great record. I couldn't sleep the other night and just sat up listening to it. It's the Beirach record where his style really does work.

 

Yep.  

 

[Gheorghe]

17 hours ago, porcy62 said:

Since I haven't got any Garner in my collection, I gave myself a gift with this lavish mammoth:

Erroll Garner was quite popular during my youth (70´s) by people who otherwise didn´t listen to jazz. Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner. They didn´t have Bird or Miles or Trane or Mingus etc in their collections, but listened to Garner or Peterson when they felt that they might listen to some "jazz". It was especially upper middleclass people. They always had piano trio jazz, no horns. 
But sometimes I like a little Garner. Sounds happy and makes you smile, especially the medium tempos with that special Garner Beat. Actually I have only one Garner in my huge collection, it was a present from my wife and it´s "Up in Erroll´s Room", with some brass added. On that one, Garner even plays Dizzy´s "Groovin´ High" .....

Edited October 15, 2021 by Gheorghe

[Rabshakeh]

18 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

Erroll Garner was quite popular during my youth (70´s) by people who otherwise didn´t listen to jazz. Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner. They didn´t have Bird or Miles or Trane or Mingus etc in their collections, but listened to Garner or Peterson when they felt that they might listen to some "jazz". It was especially upper middleclass people. They always had piano trio jazz, no horns. 
But sometimes I like a little Garner. Sounds happy and makes you smile, especially the medium tempos with that special Garner Beat. Actually I have only one Garner in my huge collection, it was a present from my wife and it´s "Up in Erroll´s Room", with some brass added. On that one, Garner even plays Dizzy´s "Groovin´ High" .....

It’s still easy to find Garner in any second hand shop. When I first started to listen to jazz he was one of the first artists I heard of for precisely that reason.

Strange, because, whilst it is definitely “happy” music, it certainly isn’t easy listening.

Edited October 15, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Erroll Garner was quite popular during my youth (70´s) by people who otherwise didn´t listen to jazz. Oscar Peterson and Erroll Garner. They didn´t have Bird or Miles or Trane or Mingus etc in their collections, but listened to Garner or Peterson when they felt that they might listen to some "jazz". It was especially upper middleclass people. They always had piano trio jazz, no horns. 
But sometimes I like a little Garner. Sounds happy and makes you smile, especially the medium tempos with that special Garner Beat. Actually I have only one Garner in my huge collection, it was a present from my wife and it´s "Up in Erroll´s Room", with some brass added. On that one, Garner even plays Dizzy´s "Groovin´ High" .....

In the 60s jazz snobs for whom hard bop was everything used to look down on my taste for Garner. But they were wrong.

[jazzcorner]

[porcy62]

17 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Please let us know what you think !

I am not acquainted with Garner, so I can't compare these records with other Garner's ones. I like the fews I listened to. Sound is good, both cds and vinyls. The 45 original records has a forgotten sound of old radio singles. The set is probably overdressed, I really don't need the cassette. Overall I am satisfied.

[sidewinder]

17 minutes ago, porcy62 said:

I am not acquainted with Garner, so I can't compare these records with other Garner's ones. I like the fews I listened to. Sound is good, both cds and vinyls. The 45 original records has a forgotten sound of old radio singles. The set is probably overdressed, I really don't need the cassette. Overall I am satisfied.

Good stuff !

For a long time (at least since the 70s) Garner’s music wasn’t exactly overflowing in the racks here. I only recall that Savoy double LP ‘The Elf’ in addition to the omnipresent Columbia Concert by the Sea. 

I guess his manager Martha Glasser must have put the kibosh on things.

Amazing to see that they have included a cassette in the package. It will be wire tape recordings next !

[BillF]

The first (and earliest) Garner I heard was on Parker's "Cool Blues" where he didn't exactly fit in, but didn't ruin things either.

[porcy62]

Mono.

"After the Rain" would have been a great main theme for a french noir with Lino Ventura: Apres la pluie.

[aparxa]

Jimmy Rowles - Isfahan, Duets with George Mraz
Eddie Higgins Trio – Again
Bobby Jaspar – Tenor And Flute (Victor)