What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Teasing the Korean]

Various - The Compositions of Benny Golson (Riverside, mono)

[Rabshakeh]

2 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Maynard Ferguson - MF Horn (Columbia)

With the fantastic "Chala Nata."

Ms. TTK and I are alternating vinyl choices today.  She picked this one.  

Nice choice from Ms TTK.

8 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Which is in itself interesting as I saw him with El'Zabar too, at Ronnies and was very impressed but he wasn't playing in full-on mode which he is here.  This isn't any major diversion from the Church Of Trane path he's been walking but it's more focussed and developed than earlier & Chosen Few albums that I thought were both slavish and sprawling, this is less of both to my ears.

The interesting but not wholly successful diversion was his 'Parallel Universe' album.

I assume I saw him later that day, then. It was a great gig, maybe my favourite at Ronnie's for a while, but he was the weaker link. He definitely looked the part, and played up to it, down to the shades and the toothpick hanging out of the corner of his mouth. 

I missed parallel universe. I'll give that a go too.

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Maynard Ferguson - MF Horn (Columbia)

With the fantastic "Chala Nata."

Ms. TTK and I are alternating vinyl choices today.  She picked this one.  

That's a good record, all of it.

[mikeweil]

[mikeweil]

[Teasing the Korean]

12 hours ago, JSngry said:

That's a good record [MF Horn], all of it.

Liberated from the Stereo Jack's jazz dollar bin in the 1990s.  I was very surprised that it included Keith Mansfield's "Powerhouse Pop," albeit under a different title.  

 

[HutchFan]

On 9/29/2024 at 3:22 PM, Teasing the Korean said:

Do you have his early/mid-70s album with "The World is a Ghetto?"

Nope.  It one of the few that I don't have.

What do you think of it?

 

[Teasing the Korean]

13 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Nope.  It one of the few that I don't have.

What do you think of it?

About 15 or 20 years ago, I digitized 3 of the tracks for a comp I was curating. These included "Ghetto," "Good Sense Humor Man," and "First Thing in the Morning."  These three have more or less funk grooves. IIRC, the tunes I did not digitize were more swinging and straight ahead.  Because I have mostly listened to the other three on the comp, I know those well, but I'm less familiar with the others.  It sounds like this album was designed to appeal to multiple audiences, maybe not unusual for a jazz album of this era by someone of Moody's generation.  

Edited 19 hours ago by Teasing the Korean

[HutchFan]

57 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

About 15 or 20 years ago, I digitized 3 of the tracks for a comp I was curating. These included "Ghetto," "Good Sense Humor Man," and "First Thing in the Morning."  These three have more or less funk grooves. IIRC, the tunes I did not digitize were more swinging and straight ahead.  Because I have mostly listened to the other three on the comp, I know those well, but I'm less familiar with the others.  It sounds like this album was designed to appeal to multiple audiences, maybe not unusual for a jazz album of this era by someone of Moody's generation.  

Sounds like I should give it a listen. 

 

[JSngry]

It was released on Paula and produced (on spec, as I understand it) by Paul Serrano + Richard Evans.

Stan Lewis had a longstanding pipeline to and from Chicago, and Serrano placed several of these tapes with Paula.

The Moody record was a lot better than I had expected!

[HutchFan]

Reissue of two of Fuller's Savoy LPs, both recorded in 1959.  Also, both feature Benny Golson.  R.I.P.

 

 

16 hours ago, JSngry said:

The Moody record was a lot better than I had expected!

I'm gonna check it out.