What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Rabshakeh]

18 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Excellent album; haven't dug it out in ages.

This may just be the reissue.

Now on: The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana

Edited September 30, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Rabshakeh]

Dave Bailey - Two Feet In The Gutter

Edited September 30, 2023 by Rabshakeh

[Brad]

[jazzcorner]

8 hours ago, Brad said:

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[optatio]

27 minutes ago, jazzcorner said:

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[BillF]

11 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Dave Bailey - Two Feet In The Gutter

👍

10 hours ago, Brad said:

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[Pim]

such a powerful live date this is. Clifford Jordan at his best. 
 

Speaking about Clifford Jordan: I’ve ordered the new P-Vine/Groove Diggers release of In The World in December 2022. It was supposed to be released in march but got postponed to September. It’s almost October now and still no sign of it. Anyone else here with that in pre order?

Edited October 1, 2023 by Pim

[Clunky]

 

Hard to know how to categorise this music other than it's good. Cinematic, jazz, funk spiritual etc. Interesting stuff from Argentina 1976 - reissued on Altercat

[jazzcorner]

United Artists [Japan 1976] LAX 3125 - Kenny Dorham " Matador" - rec. 1963 - Engineer: Bill Schwartau

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Clunky said:

 

Hard to know how to categorise this music other than it's good. Cinematic, jazz, funk spiritual etc. Interesting stuff from Argentina 1976 - reissued on Altercat

There've been some good recent rediscoveries coming out of that scene.

[Pim]

 

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

There've been some good recent rediscoveries coming out of that scene.

Like what? Always intrigued when 'obscure' scenes have a light shine on them

Max this afternoon 

Max Roach - Chattahoochee Red [Columbia, 1981]

Picked up for the country price of a couple of pints of beer in a dusty country town shop yesterday. What a terrific listen

Now onto

Max Roach Quartet - Nommo [Victor, Japan 1978]

[Clunky]

37 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Like what? Always intrigued when 'obscure' scenes have a light shine on them

Max this afternoon 

Max Roach - Chattahoochee Red [Columbia, 1981]

Picked up for the country price of a couple of pints of beer in a dusty country town shop yesterday. What a terrific listen

Now onto

Max Roach Quartet - Nommo [Victor, Japan 1978]

 

also on Altercat from seventies Argentina/Brazil

[mjazzg]

2 minutes ago, Clunky said:

 

also on Altercat from seventies Argentina/Brazil

Thanks, I've seen that in listings recently. Will have a delve 

[Pim]

44 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

 

Max Roach Quartet - Nommo [Victor, Japan 1978]

🥰😍❤️ But there aren't enough emoji's to describe what I feel playing that record. What a band and what a record

[Pim]

 

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

🥰😍❤️ But there aren't enough emoji's to describe what I feel playing that record. What a band and what a record

👍

[kh1958]

Eric Dolphy, Far Cry (Prestige)

Shirley Scott, Satin Doll (Prestige)

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, Pim said:

 

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[optatio]

7 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Eric Dolphy, Far Cry (Prestige)

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[HutchFan]

9 hours ago, Pim said:

such a powerful live date this is. Clifford Jordan at his best. 

Agreed. Tremendous.  

 

4 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Max Roach - Chattahoochee Red [Columbia, 1981]

Picked up for the country price of a couple of pints of beer in a dusty country town shop yesterday. What a terrific listen

Yes! 

Isn't it odd that an album released on the giant Columbia label has been so consistently ignored? It seems like Chattahoochee Red has been overlooked even more than his albums released on small, indie jazz labels.

Maybe it's because Max's music is so darn POWERFUL. And perhaps his medicine is just too poweful for "general listeners" who aren't ready for it.  Because Max is never playing when he's playing.  He's never messing around.  His intentions are always serious, always lofty, always large.

 

[JSngry]

47 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Isn't it odd that an album released on the giant Columbia label has been so consistently ignored? It seems like Chattahoochee Red has been overlooked even more than his albums released on small, indie jazz labels.

Maybe it's because Max's music is so darn POWERFUL. And perhaps his medicine is just too poweful for "general listeners" who aren't ready for it.  Because Max is never playing when he's playing.  He's never messing around.  His intentions are always serious, always lofty, always large.

 

What it really is is that Columbia only leased the session from Max. That was part of the deal he made with Bruce Lundvall, that Max would own his masters and only lease them to Columbia. So there's nothing they can do if the estate won't deal.

Now, have they made overtures to the estate? That I don't know. But even if they had, it's not Columbia's fault that this record has not been reissued.

I'm no fan of Columbia, but facts is facts.

[optatio]

[HutchFan]

20 minutes ago, JSngry said:

I'm no fan of Columbia, but facts is facts.

O.K. Fair enough. 

[JSngry]

More than fair "enough", it's true. A simple business reality.

The only counter is an equal truth having to deal with Columbia trying to secure rights to reissue and failing, or proof that whoever the decider(s) were at Columbia explicitly gave direction to never reissue this.

I could believe either,but there is no evidence (or even claims) to support either.

I certainly do believe that Max got blacklisted in certain circles along the way, but check his deals with Bruce Lundvall along the way, which went from Columbia to Elektra-Musician to Blue Note. Records were released and have any of them seen actual reissue?

A fair question might be what shape the Roach estate is in? Do they trust anybody? Is there just too much for one(?) person to handle?

It is indeed a great legacy that could be made even greater, but...business needs to occur on a mutually agreeable basis.