What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Teasing the Korean]

Rita Graham - Vibrations (Tangerine, stereo)

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart (Polydor, 1976, 2 LPs)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Frank DeVol - The Happening OST (Colgems, mono)

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Pim said:

Excellent ....

[Teasing the Korean]

Mose Allison Sings (Prestige, mono)

[HutchFan]

This LP continues to be in heavy rotation at this listener's house:

Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (Blue Note, 1971)

George Butler produced this LP, but (aside from the voices) I think it sounds more like soul jazz that Bob Porter was producing for Prestige around that same time.  The key sidemen on Cosmos are Porter regulars: Melvin Sparks, Leon Spencer, and Idris Muhammad.  That (relatively) stripped-down, not over-produced "Bob Porter-like" soul jazz sound is one of the reasons I've been enjoying this LP so much.   

 

Edited February 18, 2024 by HutchFan

[Teasing the Korean]

Sinatra/Basie/Hefti - Reprise (mono)

Edited February 18, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Leonard Bernstein - The Age of Anxiety (Columbia, stereo)

Need to get the taste of the biopic out of my mouth. 

Edited February 18, 2024 by Teasing the Korean

[Gheorghe]

16 hours ago, Pim said:

 

I have heard it somewhere, I remember the title tune is something in the style of Silver´s "The Preacher", but I think this LP was lesser known. From the 50´s I only have "Blowing Sessions" two albums on one double LP, it is the thing with Trane and Mobley, and a Clifford Jordon record with Sun Ra´s saxophonist John Gilmore. 

I think I also remember or have read, that the "Congregation" is too short for an LP......

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

This LP continues to be in heavy rotation at this listener's house:

Lou Donaldson - Cosmos (Blue Note, 1971)

George Butler produced this LP, but (aside from the voices) I think it sounds more like soul jazz that Bob Porter was producing for Prestige around that same time.  The key sidemen on Cosmos are Porter regulars: Melvin Sparks, Leon Spencer, and Idris Muhammad.  That (relatively) stripped-down, not over-produced "Bob Porter-like" soul jazz sound is one of the reasons I've been enjoying this LP so much.   

 

Strange thing with Blue Note and with Lou Donaldson .....after 1970. As you know I have been a fan since the 70´s but somehow I never got a real feeling for what BN did in that period. All those records (and it seems they were not so much sold or seeked after in Vienna) somehow were the same, a lot of instruments, and quite thin stuff at least for my ears. 

I love a lot of BN albums from the earlier decades and we knew LD from his recordings with Monk, Horace Silver and Art Blakey, and his own "Blues Walk" , but I think he was not very much touring in the 70´s , the first time I heard him live was in the 80´s and that was mighty fine..... 

My impression was, that other labels had more interesting 70´s years jazz, like CBS, Atlantic or what you call them. 

If BN wanted to sell us electric jazz, rock jazz, I think CBS with electric Miles was much better on that, and others like Headhunters or RTF were much better and more interesting than those many "one kind of style 70´s BN recordings". 
Once I did a mistake and bought a LD BN album from 1974 and after listening one side it landed in the garbage can, the only time I did something like that with a record.....

[adh1907]

Barney Wilen - Jazz sur Seine, Sam records reissue. Sounds great. Wilen has such a fluent style. Each solo seems as though it was written. Stanley Turrentine has a similar thing going on.  Never heard Milt Jackson play so much piano. 

[jazzcorner]

Blue Parrot has issued another Coltrane LP titled " Brazilia" beside the "Crescent" LP. Have both for a very long time

 

[adh1907]

10 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Blue Parrot has issued another Coltrane LP titled " Brazilia" beside the "Crescent" LP. Have both for a very long time

 

Interesting label. Appears to have been run from a house on a 60s estate in the Edinburgh suburbs. I think the releases date from the late 70s if Discogs is correct. 

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I have Brazilia also. Nice one.

[jazzcorner]

RCA "X" series (Japan) RGP-1061(M) - Red Norvo " Rds's Rose Room/ Red'sBlue Room" - rec. 1954

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (Riverside/Milestone Japan).

[soulpope]

17 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (Riverside/Milestone Japan).

Great sounding japanese reissue of true bass mastery ....

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

New York Jazz Quartet - Blues for Sarka (Enja/Inner City, 1978)
with Frank Wess, Roland Hanna, George Mraz, Grady Tate

❤️ A favorite album by a great band. ❤️

 

[mjazzg]

Yusef Lateef - 10 Years Hence [Atlantic 1975]

mentioned recently in another thread so thought it was time to give it a spin

[HutchFan]

Phineas Newborn Jr. - A World of Piano! (Contemporary, 1962)
1980s OJC reissue

In my book, this album is one of THE piano trio records.

 

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Phineas Newborn Jr. - A World of Piano! (Contemporary, 1962)
1980s OJC reissue

In my book, this album is one of THE piano trio records.

 

in your book ? You wrote a book ? 

[jazzbo]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

in your book ? You wrote a book ? 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/in-book

[optatio]

20 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Wilbur Ware - The Chicago Sound (Riverside/Milestone Japan).

👍

[Brad]

[Pim]

9 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

in your book ? You wrote a book ? 

Haha the language barrier! Love that. Sometimes it’s hard for us non-native Englishmen to understand what people are talking about 😉

Now if @HutchFan actually wrote a book about his favorite albums I’d buy it in a heartbeat. For now his blogs will do

Edited February 22, 2024 by Pim

[Clunky]

Re-organising my vinyl I thought I'd somehow lost this.....but found it hiding ( under V for various) with both my copies Anthony Williams' BN  releases (NY mono)

 

Tony Oxley ---------Ichnos-----(RCA) 1971