What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Charles Lloyd - Oceans (Blue Note). A second LP of 3 Lloyd trio recordings with him noodling away. These are pleasant if rather lifeless records. I can see playing these at dinner time or if I'm having trouble sleeping. I wonder if Lloyd still thinks he's making records for ECM?

[Pim]

[BillF]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

 

[kh1958]

Clifford Brown, Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz (Mosaic), sides IX-X.

Charles Mingus, Complete Candid Recordings (Mosaic), side 2 (mislabeled as side 1)

[mjazzg]

42 minutes ago, Pim said:

I've been streaming that Grant Green a lot recently, building up to a Tone Poet purchase

1 hour ago, bresna said:

Charles Lloyd - Oceans (Blue Note). A second LP of 3 Lloyd trio recordings with him noodling away. These are pleasant if rather lifeless records. I can see playing these at dinner time or if I'm having trouble sleeping. I wonder if Lloyd still thinks he's making records for ECM?

Lloyd on Blue Note is very different to Lloyd in ECM to my ears. Different bands and to some extent different approach.  I prefer the ECM releases, there's great depth in that run, but like the BN enough apart from 'Wild Man dance' which I heard as a misstep.  I disagree about 'Ocean' as I don't hear any noodling.

Pharoah Sanders - Africa [Timeless, Netherlands 1987]

My first Pharoah LP, I think, purchased on release

[clifford_thornton]

On 10/7/2022 at 0:23 PM, sidewinder said:

ECM pressing - remember this tour when it happened, with Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper in the band - and Gary Windo. 45 years ago !

Had a ratty US pressing at one point that could deserve a clean replacement. Excellent music. Alan Braufman told me he also toured with that band around the same time.

[Chuck Nessa]

[mjazzg]

Dave Holland Trio - Triplicate [ECM, Germany 1988]

This has aged well, interesting to hear Coleman again away from his own groups.

[kh1958]

23 hours ago, kh1958 said:

 

Charles Mingus, Complete Candid Recordings (Mosaic),

Sides 1, 3 and 4.

[Pim]

On 8-10-2022 at 6:28 PM, mjazzg said:

I've been streaming that Grant Green a lot recently, building up to a Tone Poet purchase.

Took me a while to really connect with the music but it’s almost my favorite Green date by now. Hancock’s playing is so subtle and beautiful on it. Still love his hint to It Ain’t Nessicarily So on one of the tracks

the Tone Poet sounds amazing. So bright!

[jazzcorner]

 

 

[Pim]

Including one of Pharoahs most iconic solos.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Pim

[soulpope]

20 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Dave Holland Trio - Triplicate [ECM, Germany 1988]

This has aged well, interesting to hear Coleman again away from his own groups.

Good .... for me "Jumpin' In" was the finest hour of Steve Coleman (and most likely the strongest Dave Holland group release on ECM) ....

[sidewinder]

Craft pressing

[jlhoots]

I bought the Craft CD of this Sun Ra release.

Edited October 11, 2022 by jlhoots

[Kevin Bresnahan]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Craft pressing

I was going to buy this but my local stores seem to have all sold out rather quickly.

[sidewinder]

11 minutes ago, bresna said:

I was going to buy this but my local stores seem to have all sold out rather quickly.

Had no problem finding a copy at my ‘local’. There was talk about the Craft UK distributor going bust but if so (and I have no evidence that they have) doesn’t seem to have affected this one. Nice pressing.

’Futuristic’ was also originally recorded in binaural, according to the (nice) notes - bizarrely.

Edited October 11, 2022 by sidewinder

[Daniel A]

20 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Had no problem finding a copy at my ‘local’. There was talk about the Craft UK distributor going bust but if so (and I have no evidence that they have) doesn’t seem to have affected this one. Nice pressing.

https://craftrecordings.com/pages/uk-store-update

When asked, through the address at that very page, they replied that they "are no longer the Fulfilment partner of this store." and referred to Concord. They, in turn, say that they "are going to ask the US partner to fulfill outstanding orders", which obviously will not work for sold-out titles. But I suppose there are still copies out there.

 

 

 

[HutchFan]

Now on my turntable:

David "Fathead" Newman - Concrete Jungle (Prestige, 1978)
arrangements by William S. Fischer

Outstanding late-70s soul jazz 

 

[HutchFan]

Next up:

The MJQ - "Echoes" (Pablo, 1984)

 

[HutchFan]

The Bill Perkins Quartet – Journey to the East (Contemporary, 1985)
with Bill Perkins (ts, fl), Frank Strazzeri (p), Joel DiBartolo (b), and Peter Donald (d)

 

[HutchFan]

Cal Tjader - Warm Wave (Verve, 1964)
arranged & conducted by Claus Ogerman

Picked up this LP in Toronto while I was visiting last summer.  Despite the low jazz quotient -- it's more easy-listening/lounge oriented -- I dig it. 

 

[jazzcorner]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

The Bill Perkins Quartet – Journey to the East (Contemporary, 1985)
with Bill Perkins (ts, fl), Frank Strazzeri (p), Joel DiBartolo (b), and Peter Donald (d)

 

[HutchFan]

I'm listening to Bill Perkins' Journey to the East again.   

Sometimes the tried-and-true "Tenor Plus Rhythm" combo works perfectly -- like Goldilocks: not too much, not too little. Just right.

 

[HutchFan]

Now listening to this LP:

Dave Holland Quintet - Seeds of Time (ECM, 1985)
Badass.  The whole contrapuntal thing is so cool.  New Orleans, Mingus, Braxton. It's all in there.

 

Looking at discogs, I see that there are two different versions of this album sleeve.  I wonder why.

A question of permissions to use the art in different countries, maybe?  Who knows.

Not relevant to the (terrific) music, of course.  But us music nerds, we notice these things.     

 

Edited October 14, 2022 by HutchFan