What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Pim]

 

 

[Pim]

 

[mjazzg]

Woodstock Workshop Orchestra - New Moon [Palcoscenico Records, Italy 1980]

If this was on a more hip label it would be lauded by many more folk than I suspect it is. It'd probably do well with the current  'Spiritual Jazz' crew too

Kalaparusha - Kalaparusha [Trio Records, Japan 1977]

more Berger

[Teasing the Korean]

Last night:

Johnny Hodges - The Smooth One (Verve)

1970s twofer of two previously unreleased sessions circa 1960.

[sidewinder]

Metronome DG mono

[kh1958]

Gary McFarland Today (Skye)

An Evening with the George Shearing Quintet (MGM)

 

 

[Teasing the Korean]

1 minute ago, kh1958 said:

Gary McFarland Today (Skye)

An Evening with the George Shearing Quintet (MGM)

I love "Because" on Today. 

Does side 1 on your copy of the Shearing album run ridiculously slow?  Every copy I've had was like that, and I am curious if it was ever corrected.

[sidewinder]

NY mono

[kh1958]

5 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I love "Because" on Today. 

Does side 1 on your copy of the Shearing album run ridiculously slow?  Every copy I've had was like that, and I am curious if it was ever corrected.

The McFarland album is very relaxing.

Not sure; no golden ears here.

[Teasing the Korean]

9 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

The McFarland album is very relaxing.

Not sure; no golden ears here.

I think they may have transferred the 78s at 45rpm, with the intention of speed correcting them later, and then someone dropped the ball.  On my copies, the drums sound flabby, and the vibes are hitting low notes well beyond instrument's lower range.  The MGM-era CD box set and Verve twofer LP that I have both correct the speed on these tracks.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[kh1958]

14 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

I think they may have transferred the 78s at 45rpm, with the intention of speed correcting them later, and then someone dropped the ball.  On my copies, the drums sound flabby, and the vibes are hitting low notes well beyond instrument's lower range.  The MGM-era CD box set and Verve twofer LP that I have both correct the speed on these tracks.

Now I'll have to listen to it again.

[Teasing the Korean]

Jack Jones - Bread Winners (RCA)

Jack turns on and tunes in to the moods and vibrations of today with an all-David Gates album!

[BillF]

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[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Johnny Hodges - The Smooth One (Verve)

1970s twofer of two previously unreleased sessions circa 1960.

Lots of top-shelf "Shorty" Baker on that set -- along with the always-sublime Hodges.   

 

[Chuck Nessa]

[Teasing the Korean]

27 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Lots of top-shelf "Shorty" Baker on that set -- along with the always-sublime Hodges.   

Agreed!

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Wayne Newton, oops, I mean Rosemary Clooney - Clap Yo' Hands - RCA Victor (mono)

Arrangements by the great Bob Thompson!

In addition to being a fine singer, Ms. Clooney is the mother of Albert on Twin Peaks.

RIP Miguel Ferrer.

Edited April 16, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[HutchFan]

[Teasing the Korean]

6 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

When I was in high school and teaching myself about jazz, circa early 1980s, all the high school kids in the stage band worshipped Maynard.  I thought he was the ultimate in squaresville.

Fast-forward to the late 1990s.  I am living in Boston, and one Friday night, I lit a fire, uncorked a bottle of wine, and lowered the tone arm onto the first MF Horn album, which I was thrilled to pick up at Stereo Jack's for a dollar.  This was a prime example of Now Sound music, which I had fully embraced by this time.

I said to Ms. TTK, "If you had told me in high school that one day I would be thrilled to spend a Friday evening listening to Maynard Ferguson, I may have died from depression!" 

[mjazzg]

15 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

When I was in high school and teaching myself about jazz, circa early 1980s, all the high school kids in the stage band worshipped Maynard.  I thought he was the ultimate in squaresville.

Fast-forward to the late 1990s.  I am living in Boston, and one Friday night, I lit a fire, uncorked a bottle of wine, and lowered the tone arm onto the first MF Horn album, which I was thrilled to pick up at Stereo Jack's for a dollar.  This was a prime example of Now Sound music, which I had fully embraced by this time.

I said to Ms. TTK, "If you had told me in high school that one day I would be thrilled to spend a Friday evening listening to Maynard Ferguson, I may have died from depression!" 

And that, makes me want to hear the album...

[HutchFan]

21 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

When I was in high school and teaching myself about jazz, circa early 1980s, all the high school kids in the stage band worshipped Maynard.  I thought he was the ultimate in squaresville.

Fast-forward to the late 1990s.  I am living in Boston, and one Friday night, I lit a fire, uncorked a bottle of wine, and lowered the tone arm onto the first MF Horn album, which I was thrilled to pick up at Stereo Jack's for a dollar.  This was a prime example of Now Sound music, which I had fully embraced by this time.

I said to Ms. TTK, "If you had told me in high school that one day I would be thrilled to spend a Friday evening listening to Maynard Ferguson, I may have died from depression!" 

Great story, TTK. ... It's funny how the passage of time can turn around our impressions! 🙂

[Teasing the Korean]

24 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

And that, makes me want to hear the album...

One of the money cuts is "Chala Nata," which I have included on one of my Tantric Textures compilations.  

 

Edited April 16, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[HutchFan]

1986 reissue

 

and

Another little gem from Black & Blue / Classic Jazz.

Edited April 16, 2023 by HutchFan

[Gheorghe]

9 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

When I was in high school and teaching myself about jazz, circa early 1980s, all the high school kids in the stage band worshipped Maynard.  I thought he was the ultimate in squaresville.

Fast-forward to the late 1990s.  I am living in Boston, and one Friday night, I lit a fire, uncorked a bottle of wine, and lowered the tone arm onto the first MF Horn album, which I was thrilled to pick up at Stereo Jack's for a dollar.  This was a prime example of Now Sound music, which I had fully embraced by this time.

I said to Ms. TTK, "If you had told me in high school that one day I would be thrilled to spend a Friday evening listening to Maynard Ferguson, I may have died from depression!" 

Very interesting story ! 

Well my high school times was some years earlier, but somehow there was no "place" for MF in the jazz circles I was in. About trumpet we spoke about Diz, Fats, Miles, Freddie Hubbard and started to talk about Woody Shaw. The better known Big Band then was the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis, so somehow there was not really a place for MF. I don´t remember one of my mentors from that time would have told me that I must listen to MF to learn "my stuff". 

The only MF I heard on record was the then 4 LP set of Montreux All Stars, a bombastic mixture of some old masters like Dex and Stan Getz with fusion musicians like George Duke and Billy Cobham. And on some of the straight ahead things (they are very very long tracks) you have on trumpet Woody Shaw and MF. But I think I paid much more attention to Woody than to the high note outbursts of MF. 

[sidewinder]

Those ‘MF Horn’ and ‘Chameleon’ LPs didn’t do the critical reputation much good in the 70s. A neighbour of mine at Uni used to crank those out full blast every night and I was no fan at the time, a position I have changed. Certainly, there’s some good stuff in those albums buried in the histrionics.

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

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Another little gem from Black & Blue / Classic Jazz.

Once upon a time Jazz Journal International used to do yearly in depth reports from that Nice Festival in the 70s/80s and there were even cartoon-ish figures of the musicians performing each year too !