What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

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

 

I bet that's interesting 

5 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Circle - The Paris Concert

I'm trying to decide which of my Circle LPs survive the next cull, this is the most likely. 

As a group they never seem to reach the sum of the parts and I tend to struggle with Corea 

[Pim]

[mjazzg]

16 minutes ago, Pim said:

Never seen that cover before.  Great album

Edited yesterday at 03:19 PM by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

Pharaoh Sanders - Karma

27 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I bet that's interesting 

Oh yeah. A great favourite of mine. From their early days.

27 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

I'm trying to decide which of my Circle LPs survive the next cull, this is the most likely. 

As a group they never seem to reach the sum of the parts and I tend to struggle with Corea 

This is the only one I've kept, and agreed that they're not anything like what they should be.

Now onto Kaoru Abe - Mort A Credit

[Pim]

28 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Never seen that cover before.  Great album

Definitely. It’s a V-Pine edition from the late 80’s.

More classic 60’s Freejazz. Marzette Watts and company. Great company that is: Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Henry Grimes, Jooney Booth, Karl Berger, Sonny Sharrock, J.C. Moses.

[kh1958]

Yazz Ahmed, Finding My Way Home

Wilbur DeParis and His New New Orleans Jazz (Atlantic)

[Rabshakeh]

Vernard Johnson - in Concert

[Chuck Nessa]

[clifford_thornton]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

Definitely. It’s a V-Pine edition from the late 80’s.

More classic 60’s Freejazz. Marzette Watts and company. Great company that is: Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Henry Grimes, Jooney Booth, Karl Berger, Sonny Sharrock, J.C. Moses.

One of my favorite ESP jazz records. I have an original but would love to get the Japanese with obi "just for fun." It's hard to come by.

The Circle stuff was foundational for me and though all have done work elsewhere that I engage with more, I have a hard time cutting those three records loose.

[Chuck Nessa]

 

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

The Circle stuff was foundational for me and though all have done work elsewhere that I engage with more, I have a hard time cutting those three records loose.

Apart from the ECM live set, what three are you talking about? I can think of several formulations of albums, both trio and quartet...

[Pim]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

One of my favorite ESP jazz records. I have an original but would love to get the Japanese with obi "just for fun." It's hard to come by.

The Circle stuff was foundational for me and though all have done work elsewhere that I engage with more, I have a hard time cutting those three records loose.

I now see that only two other Discogs members own a copy. I feel pretty lucky then 😇

[clifford_thornton]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Apart from the ECM live set, what three are you talking about? I can think of several formulations of albums, both trio and quartet...

Live in German Concert and Gathering, both issued on CBS-Sony in Japan only. Yeah, you're right about the Blue Note material too, forgot about that -- scattered over two double album sets in various configurations under Corea's name. I like those.

[JSngry]

Thanks.

Those two...you were on it to have gotten them early on!

[corto maltese]

I prefer Circle's German Concert over the Paris Concert and Gathering is my favourite Circle record. I also really like the quartet pieces on both Circulus albums and the odds and ends on "Circling In".

Frankly, I never quite understood the recurring criticism that the group was no more than the sum of its parts. Of course, I can imagine the average Corea fan not liking Circle, but that will probably be equally true of some other early Corea records ("The Sun" is another favourite).

4 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

 

Superb cover and wonderful music.

[Rabshakeh]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

The Circle stuff was foundational for me and though all have done work elsewhere that I engage with more, I have a hard time cutting those three records loose.

That's interesting. Was that to do with when you first discovered the group?

[rostasi]

That Paris-Concert recording was my first intro - and I played it to death - but late '73 or so I saw and had to buy the previous Japanese ones. I remember, too, that after closing our record store and using up a good amount of credit that we had with a particular distributor, it was nice to find the Japanese LPs being reissued on CD on Corea's own label. I'll have to bring those out for a spin again...

[JSngry]

I don't know that it's fair to criticize music that was not yet fully formed for being not yet fully formed.

[clifford_thornton]

Right. Well put.

I like the Japanese LPs better. The Blue Note material is okay, but I think I preferred the trio tracks (like "Drone", as an example). It has been a while. The ECM felt a little stiffer to be honest, though at the time, when I was like 19-20, the parallel interests I had in Dolphy/Coltrane/Ayler/Cecil and Stockhausen/Berio/Webern found a strong footing in Circle. There's other Braxton I prefer, of course, but those records are pretty important. Will have to dig them out as it's been close to 25 years since they were on deck!

[kh1958]

The Complete Edmund Hall, James P. Johnson, Sidney DeParis, Vic Dickinsen Blue Note Sessions (Mosaic)