What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jazzcorner]

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I agree. In my head I describe it as "soulfulness".

I also struggle with avant-warbling (great term) but do enjoy both Julie Tippetts and Uschi Bruning who probably fall into that category. One of the best gigs I've seen in the last few years was Schweizer, Nicholls, Leandre where they warbled to their hearts content, and mine.

Soulfulness Lee has mountains of. A lovely late summer night feel too, which is definitely not what what I associate with the area.

Tippetts I like a lot. Who is Uschi Bruning? I don't know his/her work at all.

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

One thing about these records is that they always have the most incredibly tempting line ups. That's part of the marketing strategy I guess (Mr. Granz at work), but it works, since these were often musicians who had come up when compatibility was a key skill for a working musician.

Edited March 6, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

I struggle with avant warbling, but enjoy Lee much more than Maggie Nichols or Patty Waters (despite a long and personal relationship with Sings). It's an X factor thing: Lee is just much warmer and has less of the proto-arts institution feel that I think Mrs R is picking up on.

I had to laugh when you mention warbling under a cover photo of "Black Fire".

[mjazzg]

43 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Soulfulness Lee has mountains of. A lovely late summer night feel too, which is definitely not what what I associate with the area.

Tippetts I like a lot. Who is Uschi Bruning? I don't know his/her work at all.

 

Bruning I only know from the three FMP albums she appears on with Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky

https://www.discogs.com/artist/3131309-Uschi-Br%C3%BCning-Ernst-Ludwig-Petrowsky

 

[mjazzg]

Uschi Brüning & Ernst Ludwig Petrowsky - Das Neue Usel [FMP, Germany 1986]

[Rabshakeh]

Thanks. I'll give them a listen.

[JSngry]

How does anybody not like at least one Jeanne Lee record?

The Viennese bicentennial thing is lost on me... what's that all about?

[HutchFan]

Stepping back for a moment and making a general observation:  I'm glad this forum exists. 

It's such a great place, with so much collective knowledge and wide-ranging interests.  Every nook and cranny of jazz -- and then some! 

Can't help but learn a TON just by hanging out.

 

O.K.  Carry on.   

 

[mjazzg]

17 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Stepping back for a moment and making a general observation:  I'm glad this forum exists. 

It's such a great place, with so much collective knowledge and wide-ranging interests.  Every nook and cranny of jazz -- and then some! 

Can't help but learn a TON just by hanging out.

 

O.K.  Carry on.   

 

Absolutely HutchFan, couldn't agree more

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

How does anybody not like at least one Jeanne Lee record?

The Viennese bicentennial thing is lost on me... what's that all about?

It’s a big European art festival. Well regarded and serious. Really more about the Art than the buyers or tourists. It has lots of performance art and multimedia.

I assume my wife meant that it sounds like a recording of a performance art piece, which I guess it does, particularly the bits with the high pitched squeals and the nervous vocal chattering. Obviously Lee preceded the codification and institutionalisation of that style and has a lot more to offer than just that.

I think that the comment was meant in the spirit of gentle fun. Like I said, I was allowed to listen to the second side too.

50 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Stepping back for a moment and making a general observation:  I'm glad this forum exists. 

It's such a great place, with so much collective knowledge and wide-ranging interests.  Every nook and cranny of jazz -- and then some! 

Can't help but learn a TON just by hanging out.

 

O.K.  Carry on.   

 

Ditto.

Weird things happen on here. Small discussions or posts have a tendency to completely flip my listening habits or open up new areas that I generally hadn’t thought about exploring (most recently, I’ve spent a fortnight listening almost solely to swing music - no way I could have foreseen that).

Edited March 6, 2022 by Rabshakeh

[JSngry]

I love Jeanne Lee, just the sound of her voice. She moves air in a way that just defies resistance for me. After that, hey whatever, I'm already all in.

[Chuck Nessa]

Seems to be a Spotlite Sunday.

[Daniel A]

4 hours ago, bresna said:

I had to laugh when you mention warbling under a cover photo of "Black Fire".

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Seems to be a Spotlite Sunday.

oh yes, this was beautiful times for bop freaks. Yardbird in Lotusland is most of the first CD of the new "Bird in LA". 
My favourites from "Spotlite" are the Howard McGhee Machito "Afro Cubop" and the Billy Eckstine. But there were very much: Bird in Sweden (a 2 LP set), Bird in Paris, "Apartment Sessions" "Early Bird" etc.....

[clifford_thornton]

On 3/4/2022 at 0:35 PM, mjazzg said:

 

Ken McIntyre Trio - Chasing The Sun [Steeplechase, Denmark 1979]

Is it just me who had no idea just how great this album is?

 

That is a really wonderful LP.

[porcy62]

NY USA, mono.

Japan

Edited March 8, 2022 by porcy62

[Chuck Nessa]

[BillF]

9 hours ago, porcy62 said:

NY USA, mono.

 

 

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

 

One of the best cuts:

 

Edited March 8, 2022 by HutchFan

[jazzcorner]

[porcy62]

Edit: This set is pure joy, great fun.

Edited March 10, 2022 by porcy62

[HutchFan]

Ira Sullivan - Peace (Galaxy, 1979)

 

The Richie Kamuca Quartet - Richie (Concord, 1977)

 

[Rabshakeh]

Jim Hall - Concierto (CTI, 1975)

First listen to a new acquisition. I’m actually very disappointed with this on vinyl. It sounds like the tracks are playing out of time. This is not something I ever encountered with the digital versions. Is that a known issue with CTI?

Even aside from that, it lacks the close mystery of the CD master, and Ron Carter’s horribly recorded bass is much more prominent.

[Rabshakeh]

Now on another new vinyl / old friend:

the 1955 DFD / Moore version. Not fashionable any more, but still a version I love and which wasn’t going to turn down when I saw it in good condition.

[HutchFan]

 

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Jim Hall - Concierto (CTI, 1975)

First listen to a new acquisition. I’m actually very disappointed with this on vinyl. It sounds like the tracks are playing out of time. This is not something I ever encountered with the digital versions. Is that a known issue with CTI?

That's strange.  I have plenty of CTI LPs, and I don't recall any issues like that.  (However, I don't have that particular LP on vinyl.)

 

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

Even aside from that, it lacks the close mystery of the CD master, and Ron Carter’s horribly recorded bass is much more prominent.

Bummer.