What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Light In The Attic double of the two Timeless LPs. The recording quality isn’t the greatest but the music is stellar.

Updated one day later to add that I am liking this one a lot and the recording is fine (must be my ears !) not perfect but not bad at all. In addition to the Messengers lineup of the time there is Curtis Fuller on trombone (always a plus) and Ray Mantilla on congas. Vols 1 and 2 totally passed me by at time of issue for some reason. Although this one is on purple vinyl (why?), pressing is fine, the sleeve and OBI are well done and make this into a nice issue. 

Edited June 19, 2022 by sidewinder

[Brad]

[Rabshakeh]

7 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Lee Konitz, Satori, Milestone)

I'm vaguely obsessed with the opening version of "Just Friends" on this.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

16 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I have a number of those ‘Jazz West Coast’ compilations.

Forget originals - this sounds pretty good. ‘Two Trumpets’ and ‘Young Bloods’.

Some of those Prestige two-fers sound pretty good. Some even use the original RVG mastering.

[BillF]

10 hours ago, Brad said:

 

[kh1958]

Miles Davis, What It Is, Montreal 7/7/83

John Coltrane/Archie Shepp, New Thing at Newport (Impulse)

Woody Herman, The First Herd at Carnegie Hall (Verve)

Nick Brignola, LA Bound (Seabreeze)

[mjazzg]

Muriel Grossman - Union [RR GEMS, Estonia 2021]

Ingfried Hoffman - Hoffman's Hammond Tales [Philips, Germany 1963]

The New Elvin Jones Trio - Puttin' It Together [BN Liberty, 1968]

[Teasing the Korean]

Village of the Pharaohs - Pharaoh Sanders (ABC iImpulse!)

 

[sidewinder]

Predictably good - with Junior Cook and George Cables. INA recording put out by ‘We Want Sounds’.

[kh1958]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Predictably good - with Junior Cook and George Cables. INA recording put out by ‘We Want Sounds’.

I couldn't find a copy at my friendly neighborhood record store.

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, kh1958 said:

I couldn't find a copy at my friendly neighborhood record store.

My ‘local’ had 3 copies. Same with the Miles and Blakey. Unprecedented !

The Hubbard concert is available in video on YouTube but it is nice to listen to it in good sound.

Edited June 20, 2022 by sidewinder

[jazzcorner]

On 19.6.2022 at 5:58 PM, kh1958 said:

Woody Herman, The First Herd at Carnegie Hall (Verve)

Interesting. Have this one.

 

[kh1958]

3 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Interesting. Have this one.

 

The LP in my collection has 8 of the 15 tracks on your LP (in different order). The liner notes state that there is a second volume from the concert. Your LP has very long playing time per side, so I assume they just put it all in one volume

[Chuck Nessa]

 

[JSngry]

VSP was a bit of a "budget label" for Verve, so... 

3 hours ago, kh1958 said:

The LP in my collection has 8 of the 15 tracks on your LP (in different order). The liner notes state that there is a second volume from the concert. Your LP has very long playing time per side, so I assume they just put it all in one volume

 

[Gheorghe]

11 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Interesting. Have this one.

 

Maybe I´m not the greatest fan of Woody Herman since it never did thrill me the way the contemporanious Billy Eckstine Big Band or Dizzy Gillespie Big Band did, I would like to hear some from this, it has some famous players and I think Sonny Berman was mentioned in Ira Gitler´s book "Jazz Masters of the 40´s ". I also heard some of that "Bird with the Herd" which is fun, but for my tastes it´s a bit too tough and straight big band sound, very very well played but something I hear in the two mentioned big bands that I could associate with Bird, is missing or not fitting to Birds melodical and rhythmical concepts....., far from racial, but maybe african american musicians from that generation would have said it sounds "white"...

I saw Woody Herman twice, one in 1979 where the played some Chick Corea compositions, and an all star small group 6 or 7 years later. I enjoyed both of them.

[BillF]

Pretty close to the ultimate big band experience IMHO. 

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Maybe I´m not the greatest fan of Woody Herman since it never did thrill me the way the contemporanious Billy Eckstine Big Band or Dizzy Gillespie Big Band did, I would like to hear some from this, it has some famous players and I think Sonny Berman was mentioned in Ira Gitler´s book "Jazz Masters of the 40´s ". I also heard some of that "Bird with the Herd" which is fun, but for my tastes it´s a bit too tough and straight big band sound, very very well played but something I hear in the two mentioned big bands that I could associate with Bird, is missing or not fitting to Birds melodical and rhythmical concepts....., far from racial, but maybe african american musicians from that generation would have said it sounds "white"...

I saw Woody Herman twice, one in 1979 where the played some Chick Corea compositions, and an all star small group 6 or 7 years later. I enjoyed both of them.

We had the Woody Herman big band with a private guest concert in our jazzclub in Koblenz, Germany in the late 1970ies.

Also met him personally and talked a bit (when my hair & mustache werent grey)

[BillF]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

We had the Woody Herman big band with a private guest concert in our jazzclub in Koblenz, Germany in the late 1970ies.

Also met him personally and talked a bit (when my hair & mustache werent grey)

Impressive! I also saw the Herman band at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester in the 70s. All I remember now is that it was a band of young white guys with the exception of  none other than Walter Bishop Jr on piano!

[Teasing the Korean]

For Lalo Schifrin's 90th:

Gone with the Wave - Colpix (mono)

Insensatez - Verve (stereo)

Bossa Nova - Audio Fidelity (stereo)

[Jon King]

One of those days.  The blues are in order. so I'm listening to Mr. Witherspoon:

Jimmy Witherspoon sings the blues, Black and Blue, July '79 (France)

 

PS: Due to a lack of tech savvy, I'm blue trying to illustrate this post.

please reply w how to for my limited set-up.  A bajillion thanks.  

Set-up: in this post, I tried to screenshot album, front & back, and then

transfer SOMEHOW FROM IPHONE to this forum on my LAPTOP.

I know it's pathetically unhip. It's also the reason I have so much free 

time.

BTW;  I tried Apple Music (on my IPhone) and AllMusic for art, but this

album is as nonexistent as the golden fleece.  jk

[JSngry]

This one?

[Jon King]

16 minutes ago, JSngry said:

This one?

Bingo, Jsngry!  Ok, your approval on a 1-10 scale, 1 least, 10 highest ?

[sidewinder]

14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I saw Woody Herman twice, one in 1979 where the played some Chick Corea compositions, and an all star small group 6 or 7 years later. I enjoyed both of them.

Saw him in ‘78 I think - Lyle Mays was in the band and they also did Chick stuff such as ‘La Fiesta’. Managed permission to go back stage and saw Woody close up, amazed how short he was !

[jazzcorner]

9 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Saw him in ‘78 I think - Lyle Mays was in the band and they also did Chick stuff such as ‘La Fiesta’. Managed permission to go back stage and saw Woody close up, amazed how short he was !

Well I think we had the same musical program in our private concert. Have to check my foto archive if there are some snapshots from that meeting.