What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[aparxa]

Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

First listen. Not impressed by Side 1, loved Side 2, will revisit soon.

NP: Getz au Go Go

Lovely!
 

[clifford_thornton]

Been a while on Filles, but probably would agree.

[colinmce]

Filles is a favorite. Miles in The Sky is the one that never really held together for me.

[mjazzg]

Vinnie Burke All-Stars - s/t [HMV, UK 1958 Test Pressing]

[JSngry]

Filles is a masterfully unified presentation imo. Even though it's two bands.

One of the relatively few LPs that isn't harmed by going from two sides to one. It's actually enhanced.

And still one of imo best Tony Williams amazements on record.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished - Joanne Brackeen - Keyed In (Tappan Zee))

Now playing: Red Garland - Groovy (OJC/Prestige)

[aparxa]

Billy Harper Quintet in Europe
Randy Weston - Jazz à la Bohemia
Byard Lancaster – Soul Unity
 

[medjuck]

5 hours ago, JSngry said:

 

One of the relatively few LPs that isn't harmed by going from two sides to one. It's actually enhanced.

 

Sorry, what does this mean?

[JSngry]

A lot of LP sequencing front loads the really good stuff on the first side. Or is set up in such a way that each side is complete in itself. Either way, listening to the record uninterrupted on a CD is a different experience, and quite often not a better one.

Filles doesn't suffer from this, it's one perfect flow from start to finish, like a classical work of unified multiple movements.

YMMV, of course.

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Just finished - Joanne Brackeen - Keyed In (Tappan Zee))

Now playing: Red Garland - Groovy (OJC/Prestige)

Two of my favorite piano trio records.   

 

[medjuck]

33 minutes ago, JSngry said:

A lot of LP sequencing front loads the really good stuff on the first side. Or is set up in such a way that each side is complete in itself. Either way, listening to the record uninterrupted on a CD is a different experience, and quite often not a better one.

Filles doesn't suffer from this, it's one perfect flow from start to finish, like a classical work of unified multiple movements.

YMMV, of course.

Got it. 

[Gheorghe]

22 hours ago, aparxa said:

Miles Davis - Filles de Kilimanjaro

First listen. Not impressed by Side 1, loved Side 2, will revisit soon.

NP: Getz au Go Go

Lovely!
 

 

13 hours ago, JSngry said:

Filles is a masterfully unified presentation imo. Even though it's two bands.

One of the relatively few LPs that isn't harmed by going from two sides to one. It's actually enhanced.

And still one of imo best Tony Williams amazements on record.

 

15 hours ago, colinmce said:

Filles is a favorite. Miles in The Sky is the one that never really held together for me.

Filles was a thing you got to have and to study when I was a kid. There is no way to ignore Filles if you want to follow Miles´transition from simple hardbop to the compexity of things like Bitches Brew as the start for a most creative period until 1975. 
It was so much en vogue, that album. All those there were becoming top acts on their own. Chick, Herbie, Tony, John McLaughlin and so, they became main influences of the jazz of the 70´s which developement I could follow from the start on. 

You met guys on the street who would stop you and ask you if you have a copy of "Filles". Some few had purchased the LP. We others might copy it on casetofon. 
I never will forget that question about the album. Nobody here in my surroundings knew how to pronounce it. 
They all said😄 "Fill Less deh Killi Mann Djaro" 

Edited January 30 by Gheorghe

[optatio]

13 hours ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

Just finished - Joanne Brackeen - Keyed In (Tappan Zee))

👍

[aparxa]

6 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

 

 

Filles was a thing you got to have and to study when I was a kid. There is no way to ignore Filles if you want to follow Miles´transition from simple hardbop to the compexity of things like Bitches Brew as the start for a most creative period until 1975. 
It was so much en vogue, that album. All those there were becoming top acts on their own. Chick, Herbie, Tony, John McLaughlin and so, they became main influences of the jazz of the 70´s which developement I could follow from the start on. 

You met guys on the street who would stop you and ask you if you have a copy of "Filles". Some few had purchased the LP. We others might copy it on casetofon. 
I never will forget that question about the album. Nobody here in my surroundings knew how to pronounce it. 
They all said😄 "Fill Less deh Killi Mann Djaro" 

Thanks for everyone's input, a seminal transitional album that I might enjoy more after mutiple listens.

Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2 Or, The Last Remains Of The Dodo
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan (EmArcy)
 

[Niko]

I still play Bachelor No 2 a few times a year, didn't think others would remember it

[aparxa]

1 hour ago, Niko said:

I still play Bachelor No 2 a few times a year, didn't think others would remember it

Discovered at the time of Magnolia in the late 90s and it has been a favorite record ever since. I reckon knowing very little about the rest of her discography. I was lucky to attend her concert sometime in 2008 in a small, almost intimate venue in Glasgow.

NP: Joe Henderson - Page One
 

[jazzcorner]

On 1/29/2025 at 5:46 PM, mjazzg said:

Vinnie Burke All-Stars - s/t [HMV, UK 1958 Test Pressing]

Do you mean this one?

[mjazzg]

5 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Do you mean this one?

Yes, that one

[Chuck Nessa]

Featuring Fred Anderson and Bill Brimfield

[aparxa]

Billie Holiday – At Monterey 1958
Zoot! (Riverside/Victor)
 

[Rabshakeh]

Miles Davis - Agharta

Birthday boy.

[Rabshakeh]

Circle - The Paris Concert

[Rabshakeh]

CCC - Muhal

[Rabshakeh]

Butcher, Durrant, Lovens, Malfatti, Russell – News From The Shed

 

[Rabshakeh]

Arthur Blythe - Lenox Avenue Breakdown