What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[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 !

[mjazzg]

13 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

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

 

Great, thanks. I hope Paul Horn figures on that compilation too

[Teasing the Korean]

53 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Great, thanks. I hope Paul Horn figures on that compilation too

Yes, the track "Karen's World" from one of his 1960s RCA albums!

[mjazzg]

6 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Yes, the track "Karen's World" from one of his 1960s RCA albums!

I had every confidence 

[Teasing the Korean]

38 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I had every confidence 

Do you know that track?  It is fantastic!

 

[mjazzg]

4 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Do you know that track?  It is fantastic!

 

No, thanks, sounds great. That's a Horn I don't have. I do have most of the other RCAs though.

I thought it might have been a track from one of his albums from India

[Teasing the Korean]

5 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

No, thanks, sounds great. That's a Horn I don't have. I do have most of the other RCAs though.

I thought it might have been a track from one of his albums from India

The India albums are great. The comps I compile include tunes with more of a more crossover nature, so stuff like Gabor Szabo doing "8 Miles High" is included. The "Monday Monday" RCA album above is a mixed bag; I liked about half of it. "Karen's World" was IMO the money cut. 

[mjazzg]

1 minute ago, Teasing the Korean said:

The India albums are great. The comps I compile include tunes with more of a more crossover nature, so stuff like Gabor Szabo doing "8 Miles High" is included. The "Monday Monday" RCA album above is a mixed bag; I liked about half of it. "Karen's World" was IMO the money cut. 

I'll give it an online spin

[optatio]

Michel Graillier: In A Spring Way. Red Record VPA 133 [1978]

Note: There is a recording „Marion Brown: Solo et duo avec Michel Graillier“ Marge 21 [1984], but unissued!

PS. The name on the cover is misspelled - correct: Graillier

[soulpope]

8 hours ago, optatio said:

Michel Graillier: In A Spring Way. Red Record VPA 133 [1978]

Note: There is a recording „Marion Brown: Solo et duo avec Michel Graillier“ Marge 21 [1984], but unissued!

PS. The name on the cover is misspelled - correct: Graillier

Underrated pianist for sure ....

[mjazzg]

Fire! Orchestra - Echoes [Rune Grammofon, Norway 2023]

[JSngry]

 

[JSngry]

Mono

For the quiet side of TTK, maybe.  

 

 

I hear so many singers of every ilk who don't have impeccable pitch and breath control that to hear one that does is a treat on its own terms! 

Oh, Billy Byers 

 

[Pim]

 

A MJQ favorite I already had in a 1969 Dutch reissue which looked mint but sounded like crap. Decided to get the Speakers Corner version that sounds way, way better! 

[jazzcorner]

On 4/16/2023 at 6:14 PM, kh1958 said:

 

An Evening with the George Shearing Quintet (MGM)

Like very much - nice melodies ! 👍😁

 

[Pim]

probably a listing mistake but managed to get this for 6 dollars (14 including overseas shipping). An offer I couldn’t refuse.

 

 

[optatio]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

probably a listing mistake but managed to get this for 6 dollars (14 including overseas shipping). An offer I couldn’t refuse.

👍

[Clunky]

Yosuke Yamashita ---- Concerts in new jazz--- (JUP-4, Union)

 

Reissue of a 1969 live recording with the original Yamashita trio with Nakamura on the tenor sax. Brilliant.

[optatio]

2 hours ago, Pim said:

probably a listing mistake but managed to get this for 6 dollars (14 including overseas shipping). An offer I couldn’t refuse.

 

Alun Morgan: No. 97 Tony Fruscella. In: Max Harrison et al.: Modern Jazz. The Essential Records. A critical selection. London 1978, p. 61

[Pim]

6 minutes ago, optatio said:

 

Alun Morgan: No. 97 Tony Fruscella. In: Max Harrison et al.: Modern Jazz. The Essential Records. A critical selection. London 1978, p. 61

It’s a great record and also a nice opportunity to listen a little closer to Allen Eager.

[optatio]

2 minutes ago, Pim said:

It’s a great record and also a nice opportunity to listen a little closer to Allen Eager.

👍

[JSngry]

From the almost sublime to the certainly ridiculous.

Two examples of the former:

 

[BillF]

5 hours ago, Pim said:

 

 

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[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Pim said:

probably a listing mistake but managed to get this for 6 dollars (14 including overseas shipping). An offer I couldn’t refuse.

Money well spent ....