What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[aparxa]

6 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

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.

I can relate, the very first jazz records I bought in a second hand store back in 2001 were:
Art Tatum – Baptisé "Chopin Fou" (WEA)
Bud Powell – The Genius Of Bud Powell (Verve)
Fats Waller – Ain't Misbehavin' (Dreyfus Jazz)
Erroll Garner – Erroll's A-Garner (Vogue)
Oscar Peterson – Indispensables RCA (the 1945-1949 recordings)

NP:

 

Available on every yard sale in France , but still wonderful music from the 1947-1949 period, pretty much the same as the CD I have listed above.

 

[Rabshakeh]

Definitely!
 

I never understood for a second why he’s considered so ‘populaire’. All those clashes and dissonances…

[jazzcorner]

 

Some Barney Kessell on the Black Lion label is the topic for today.

[HutchFan]

Giving this recently acquired LP another spin:

Marvelous.

[kh1958]

A Voz de Gilberto Gil (Fontana)

Alan Braufman/Cooper Moore, Live at WKCR May 22, 1972 

Art Farmer, The Aztec Suite (United Artists)

On 10/15/2021 at 3:28 AM, BillF said:

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

Erroll Garner = One of the greatest jazz pianists.

Edited October 16, 2021 by kh1958

[HutchFan]

On 10/15/2021 at 4:28 AM, BillF said:

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

I'm with you.  Garner made terrific music.   

 

[mjazzg]

On Our Own Clock - s/t [Mushroom Half Hour/Total Refreshment Centre, SA/UK, 2021]

[mjazzg]

Julian Priester And Marine Intrusion - Polarization [ECM, Germany 1977]

Revisiting this and I was prompted, maybe for the first time, to check who was playing saxophone - Ron Stallings, now I need to find out more about him.  So how did someone more used to playing with Elvin Bishop, Southern Comfort and later Huey Lewis get this gig I wonder?

Edited October 17, 2021 by mjazzg

[JSngry]

My guess would be some kind of SF/Bay Area connection.

yeah, per: https://www.bluenote.com/artist/julian-priester/

Priester worked with Duke Ellington for six months during 1969-70, and shortly thereafter accepted his highest-profile gig with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters-era fusion band. Upon his departure in 1973, Priester moved to San Francisco and recorded two dates for ECM, 1974’s Love, Love and 1977’s Polarization.

I think they mean Mwandishi, but otherwise, it's a fit.

[kh1958]

The 86 Years of Eubie Blake (Columbia)

[jazzcorner]

 

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

My guess would be some kind of SF/Bay Area connection.

yeah, per: https://www.bluenote.com/artist/julian-priester/

Priester worked with Duke Ellington for six months during 1969-70, and shortly thereafter accepted his highest-profile gig with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters-era fusion band. Upon his departure in 1973, Priester moved to San Francisco and recorded two dates for ECM, 1974’s Love, Love and 1977’s Polarization.

I think they mean Mwandishi, but otherwise, it's a fit.

Thanks. Appears from Stalling's Discogs entry to have been a one-off on the Jazz front. He certainly didn't fool around and fall in love with it...

[Kevin Bresnahan]

17 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Julian Priester And Marine Intrusion - Polarization [ECM, Germany 1977]

Revisiting this and I was prompted, maybe for the first time, to check who was playing saxophone - Ron Stallings, now I need to find out more about him.  So how did someone more used to playing with Elvin Bishop, Southern Comfort and later Huey Lewis get this gig I wonder?

I wonder how Priester is doing these days? Both medically and financially, he's had it rough these past 20 or so years, from having no retirement funds, to requiring expensive medication due to his liver transplant, which caused kidney failure & dialysis and his wife dying unexpectedly last May.

[mjazzg]

52 minutes ago, bresna said:

I wonder how Priester is doing these days? Both medically and financially, he's had it rough these past 20 or so years, from having no retirement funds, to requiring expensive medication due to his liver transplant, which caused kidney failure & dialysis and his wife dying unexpectedly last May.

Yeah, hope he's OK.  The two ECM albums I listened to yesterday are both excellent.

Now playing

Masada - Sanhedrin, 1994-1997 [Tzadik, 2019]

I thought Masada were one of the most exciting bands at the time.  This is reminding me why having not listened to them since my almost complete CD collection of their recordings went AWOL.

Edited October 18, 2021 by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

5 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yeah, hope he's OK.  The two ECM albums I listened to yesterday are both excellent.

Now playing

Masada - Sanhedrin, 1994-1997 [Tzadik, 2019]

I thought Masada were one of the most exciting bands at the time.  This is reminding me why having not listened to them since my almost complete CD collection of their recordings went AWOL.

I think they had a sweet spot, but sort of overdid it after this period. I never understood the regard that Electric Masada or the various books of compositions Zorn did are held in some other corners of the internet.

Sorry to hear about the loss of the Masada CDs. 

[mjazzg]

8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I think they had a sweet spot, but sort of overdid it after this period. I never understood the regard that Electric Masada or the various books of compositions Zorn did are held in some other corners of the internet.

Sorry to hear about the loss of the Masada CDs. 

Well they certainly ploughed the furrow for all its worth but I never quite got overwhelmed. But I also really like Electric Masada.

Relationship breakdown - all the Masada CDs and just one John Surman CD somehow went missing in the general smoke and fire - always thought since it was an odd combination...not as if my ex actually enjoyed hearing them. Maybe they were the fire 

[mjazzg]

Michel Pilz Quartet - Jamabiko [M.P., Germany 1984]

[BillF]

18 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Stanley Turrentine - Jubilee Shouts (Blue Note, rel. 1978)
Side 3 & 4 - with Tommy Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, and Al Harewood

Subsequently issued on CD as Jubilee Shout!!!  (minus the LP's final "s" on Shouts; plus 3 exclamation points). 

One of Mr. T's finest BN sessions, I think. 

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

43 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Stanley Turrentine - Jubilee Shouts (Blue Note, rel. 1978)
Side 3 & 4 - with Tommy Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, and Al Harewood

Subsequently issued on CD as Jubilee Shout!!!  (minus the LP's final "s" on Shouts; plus 3 exclamation points). 

One of Mr. T's finest BN sessions, I think. 

 

The CD was issued as "Jubilee Shout!!!" because it had been given a catalog number (84122) and had album art made up back in 1963 but for some reason, it didn't get released until 1978 on this two-fer. I guess Cuscuna figured that he'd use the original title when he finally got the chance.

[HutchFan]

11 minutes ago, bresna said:

The CD was issued as "Jubilee Shout!!!" because it had been given a catalog number (84122) and had album art made up back in 1963 but for some reason, it didn't get released until 1978 on this two-fer. I guess Cuscuna figured that he'd use the original title when he finally got the chance.

That makes sense.  

 

NP:

The Dynamic Hampton Hawes (MPS Netherlands, rec. 1967)
with Eberhard Weber (b) and Klaus Weiss (d)

Superb.  One of Hawes' best.   

 

[aparxa]

LP1

[HutchFan]

Next up:

James Moody - Great Day (Argo/Cadet, 1963)
Arranged & Conducted by Tom McIntosh

Beautiful, soulful music.  Exquisitely arranged but also loose as a goose. 

 

[mjazzg]

Just now, HutchFan said:

Next up:

James Moody - Great Day (Argo/Cadet, 1963)
Arranged & Conducted by Tom McIntosh

Beautiful, soulful music.  Exquisitely arranged but also loose as a goose. 

 

Ooh, sounds like another I'll have to track down...stop it with the Moodys!! 

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Ooh, sounds like another I'll have to track down...stop it with the Moodys!! 

But you NEED to hear Great Day, mjazzg!  Trust me on this one.   

 

 

 

17 minutes ago, aparxa said:

LP1

500 stars for that set.