What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Charles Mingus 'Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus' (His Master's Voice, mono)

That's the same pressing I have of that one too. Came from Paris Jazz Corner, come to think of it. Did HMV send a job lot over there?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Apple)

Edited April 26, 2013 by Kevin Bresnahan

[jeffcrom]

Red Garland - Solar (Jazzland mono)

[paul secor]

Charlie Parker: At the Pershing Ballroon, Chicago 1950 (Zim)

Some good Bird. Don't play it often enough to remember to skip the tracks with the idiot who thought he was Billy Eckstine and sang over top of the music.

[Clunky]

Tony Oxley- The Baptised Traveller- (CBS Realm) UK

[mjazzg]

East West label

A very big thanks to Jeffcrom and Clifford T for their enthusiasm about this recording a week or so ago. It sent me off on a hunt that came to fruition with postie's delivery today. What a beautiful album - thanks Gents

Now all I need to know is what do the Japanese sleevenotes mean? And what other recordings by this or similar line-ups exist?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Cal Tjader - Trio (Fantasy). Record store day orange 10" vinyl. Like the Brubeck, some warble here too. Maybe it's the vinyl itself? It's always worse on the first track. It ain't the turntable because nothing else is showing it.

[paul secor]

U-Roy: Dread in a Babylon (Virgin)

[mjazzg]

helluva album, helluva cover

U-Roy: Dread in a Babylon (Virgin)

[Cactus Bob]

The Electric Flag ~ "A Long Time Comin"

Columbia 360 Sound Stereo

[Cactus Bob]

Wishbone Ash ~ Pilgrimage

Decca

[jeffcrom]

East West label

A very big thanks to Jeffcrom and Clifford T for their enthusiasm about this recording a week or so ago. It sent me off on a hunt that came to fruition with postie's delivery today. What a beautiful album - thanks Gents

Now all I need to know is what do the Japanese sleevenotes mean? And what other recordings by this or similar line-ups exist?

I have the American Inner City version - no liner notes, so I can't help there.

Togashi recorded a lot, but it was never easy to find his stuff in the U.S., and it has now become almost impossible. For us 'Mericans, it's usually pretty easy to find Breath, a collaboration with shakuhachi player Hozan Yamamoto and pianist Yosuke Yamashita. It's maybe more of a Hozan Yamamoto album than a Togashi one, though. Anyway, someone is selling it cheaply on Amazon right now.

I checked on Amazon UK and see that there are a few Togashi albums available there, including the wonderful Spiritual Moments, with Steve Lacy and Kent Carter. To simplify things, I'll say that it sounds like a cross between the Togashi album you have and a Steve Lacy trio album.

If you can find the two-disc Bura-Bura, grab it. (There's also a one-disc version.) It's an all-star quartet: Togashi, Lacy, Don Cherry, and Dave Holland. Severe stereo separation of the horns, but incredible music. Again, it's always been difficult to track down.

For those who don't know about Togashi - he was a pioneer of Japanese free jazz, and a frequent Steve Lacy collaborator. In 1970 he was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident, and thereafter played from a wheelchair. He obviously couldn't use kick drum or hi-hat after that, but he played a large percussion kit that enabled him to produce a very wide range of sound. He played with great sensitivity, and sounds good in any context I've heard.

Edited April 27, 2013 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

Sorry to intrude on this thread with a CD, but to add to my comments about Masahiko Togashi above:

I'm listening to Breath right now, and it's excellent. I remember some sense of vague dissatisfaction the last time I spun it, but it must have been my mood at the time; I'm enjoying it thoroughly tonight. The feel/atmosphere is very similar to Spiritual Nature, although of course with an instrumentation of just flute/piano/percussion.

Hozan Yamamoto, by the way, was the shakuhachi player on Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation album.

[brownie]

Dizzy Reece 'Manhattan Project' (BeeHive)

[mjazzg]

Thanks Jeff. I'll head off on another search now

East West label

A very big thanks to Jeffcrom and Clifford T for their enthusiasm about this recording a week or so ago. It sent me off on a hunt that came to fruition with postie's delivery today. What a beautiful album - thanks Gents

Now all I need to know is what do the Japanese sleevenotes mean? And what other recordings by this or similar line-ups exist?

I have the American Inner City version - no liner notes, so I can't help there.

Togashi recorded a lot, but it was never easy to find his stuff in the U.S., and it has now become almost impossible. For us 'Mericans, it's usually pretty easy to find Breath, a collaboration with shakuhachi player Hozan Yamamoto and pianist Yosuke Yamashita. It's maybe more of a Hozan Yamamoto album than a Togashi one, though. Anyway, someone is selling it cheaply on Amazon right now.

I checked on Amazon UK and see that there are a few Togashi albums available there, including the wonderful Spiritual Moments, with Steve Lacy and Kent Carter. To simplify things, I'll say that it sounds like a cross between the Togashi album you have and a Steve Lacy trio album.

If you can find the two-disc Bura-Bura, grab it. (There's also a one-disc version.) It's an all-star quartet: Togashi, Lacy, Don Cherry, and Dave Holland. Severe stereo separation of the horns, but incredible music. Again, it's always been difficult to track down.

For those who don't know about Togashi - he was a pioneer of Japanese free jazz, and a frequent Steve Lacy collaborator. In 1970 he was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident, and thereafter played from a wheelchair. He obviously couldn't use kick drum or hi-hat after that, but he played a large percussion kit that enabled him to produce a very wide range of sound. He played with great sensitivity, and sounds good in any context I've heard.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Gene Ammons - The Gene Ammons Story - Gentle Jug (Prestige). Nice early morning music. I play the Analogue Productions gold CD of this date quite often at dinner time. Beautiful ballad playing.

[paul secor]

Jim Eanes and The Sheandoah Valley Boys - The Early Days of Bluegrass Volume 4 (Rounder)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Gene Ammons - The Gene Ammons Story - Gentle Jug (Prestige). Nice early morning music. I play the Analogue Productions gold CD of this date quite often at dinner time. Beautiful ballad playing.

Oh yes, I must dig that out. Thanks for the reminder, Kevin.

MG

[kh1958]

Lou Donaldson, Mr. Shing A Ling (Blue Note, dark blue label)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just ended

Kool & the Gang - Music is the message - DeLite

now

Milt Jackson & Ray Brown - Jackson/Brown jam - Pablo Live

MG

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Lionel Hampton - 1948 - King Jazz

next

Gene Ammons - Nice and cool/The soulful mood of GA - Moodsville (Prestige twofer)

MG

[jeffcrom]

Just to make sure I wasn't being too hard on them in another thread, I played my complete Firehouse Five Plus Two collection - one 45 and one 78:

Everybody Loves My Baby/Brass Bell (Good Time Jazz 78, 1949)

Lonesome Mama Blues/Sweet Georgia Brown (Good Time Jazz 45, 1951)

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Just to make sure I wasn't being too hard on them in another thread, I played my complete Firehouse Five Plus Two collection - one 45 and one 78:

Everybody Loves My Baby/Brass Bell (Good Time Jazz 78, 1949)

Lonesome Mama Blues/Sweet Georgia Brown (Good Time Jazz 45, 1951)

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

MG

[Chuck Nessa]

Only one of the fine Abrams sessions not included in the big box.

Edited April 27, 2013 by Chuck Nessa

[paul secor]

Sam Rivers/Dave Holland (Improvising Artists Inc.)