What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

The Hollywood All Stars - Hard Hitting Blues from Memphis (High Water). In the mid 1980s, when these tracks were recorded, the Hollywood All Stars (named after their Memphis neighborhood) were the toughest blues band in that city.

Later: But my favorite track is the last one on side one, "Going 'Cross the Bottom." The leader of the All Stars, Ben Wilson, steps away from the band and plays/sings a solo - one of those North Mississippi/Memphis one-chord/no-chord drone blues that just gets all over me.

Edited May 24, 2013 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

The Chicago String Band (Testament). Carl Martin, Johnny Young, John Lee Granderson, and John Wrencher in 1966.

[jeffcrom]

Gary Clark Jr. - HWUL Raw Cuts Vol. II (WB)

[brownie]

Al Hibbler & Hank Jones 'For Sentimental Reasons' (Open Sky Records)

[jeffcrom]

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - The Stinger (Prestige stereo, blue/silver label)

[Chuck Nessa]

[jeffcrom]

Stanley Turrentine - In Memory Of (BN "rainbow")

[Homefromtheforest]

Edward Vesala trio "nana" lp

Anthony Braxton "five pieces 1975" lp (still my all time favorite Braxton record)

Marzette Watts savoy lp

[jeffcrom]

Eddie Sauter - In Germany (Big Band International). I'm a fan of Sauter's writing, and knew he spent a couple of years in Germany, leading the SWF big band. But I was totally unaware of this double album until I ran across it today in an Atlanta record store. The issue is kind of a fright, with its stock-photo cover, incomplete info, and misspelled names (Hans Doller?). But the four sides are full of imaginative, unusual big-band writing, not all of it by Sauter. There is a CD of the same name on the Montpellier label, but it is missing four tracks. Five bucks well spent.

[brownie]

Vito Price 'Swingin' the Loop' (Argo/FreshSound)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

A love supreme - Impulse (MCA)

Listening to Doug Carn's 'Infant eyes' has pushed me back to this (not that I was ever really away, but...)

MG

[sidewinder]

Lalo Schifrin 'The Dissection and .... etc' (Verve, stereo). Today's £5 bargain, original pressing. Snap, crackle, pop on first play but a few spins on the VPI and it is sounding excellent. The sound trounces the Verve Elite CD !

Edited May 25, 2013 by sidewinder

[kh1958]

Teddy Edwards, It's All Right (Prestige blue label), and

Archie Shepp, Live in San Francisco (Impulse, red and black label)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

More classics

Ray Charles - Yes indeed - Atlantic (WEA France)

MG

[Cactus Bob]

Wild Bill Davison ~ In a Mellow Tone

Jazzology

Edited May 25, 2013 by Cactus Bob

[clifford_thornton]

Edward Vesala trio "nana" lp

Anthony Braxton "five pieces 1975" lp (still my all time favorite Braxton record)

Marzette Watts savoy lp

Ha, now you are on to a few records I actually have as well! Great stuff.

Now:

Booker Ervin - The Blues Book - (Transatlantic UK pressing)

[clifford_thornton]

Roswell Rudd - Everywhere - (Impulse, mono)

[jeffcrom]

John Carter/Bobby Bradford - Secrets (Revelation)

Steve Lacy - Capers (Hat Hut)

Duke Pearson - Honeybuns (Atlantic stereo, blue & green label). If I had previously realized that Bob Cranshaw was playing electric bass as far back as 1965, I had forgotten.

[brownie]

Jay Jay Johnson 'J Is For Jazz' (Columbia, mono, six-eye)

front cover is in bad shape. LP plays fine. Music is great!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This morning

Lou Donaldson - Coleslaw - Argo (Cadet GRT)

Hank Crawford - Don't you worry 'bout a thing - Kudu (Polydor UK)

now

Richard 'Groove' Holmes - Star wars/Close encounters - Versatile

MG

[sidewinder]

Rahsaan Roland Kirk 'The Vibration Continues' (UK Atlantic brown/orange 2LPs). A nice compilation from Joel Dorn, well worth picking up

Edited May 26, 2013 by sidewinder

[kh1958]

Shinichi Yuize, The Artistry of Japan (Prestige, blue label)

Ben Webster, See You at the Fair (Impulse, red and black label)

[clifford_thornton]

Burton Greene - Presenting Burton Greene - (Columbia 2-eye stereo)

[Homefromtheforest]

That burton Greene album on Columbia is an interesting session!

Today I spinned:

Terumasa Hino "alone together" takt Japan

Jackie McLean "bluesnik"

Steve lacy "solo at space who" ( unfortunately this one is merely on loan from a friend :/ )

[jeffcrom]

Michael J. Smith - Geomusic (Muza)

This one - one of Michael's best.