What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[tomatamot]

Woody Shaw: In My Own Sweet Way (In + Out)

Some wonderful trumpet on this one.

Excellent LP !

Digital, but still................... :tup

[mjazzg]

[mjazzg]

Abbey Rader/Marc Levin Duo - Songs of Street and Spirit - (Sweet Dragon)

reminds me to dig it out for a listen, thanks.

Still hunting the elusive 'Songs, dances and prayers'

[uli]

Haven't listened to it in some time

will correct that after

[tomatamot]

Billy Ver Planck - The Soul Of Jazz MGS 20002

Joe Wilder (trumpet)

Bill Harris (trombone)

Bobby Jaspar (tenor saxophone)

Pepper Adams (baritone saxophone)

Eddie Costa (piano)

George Duvivier (bass)

Art Taylor (drums)

Billy Ver Planck (arranger)

rec: NYC, May 5, 1958

[tomatamot]

Al Sears / Swing's the Thing - Prestige Swingville 2018 Mono.

Edited October 17, 2013 by tomatamot

[tomatamot]

Sabu Martinez - SAFARI WITH SABU

An easy to buy album ( German reissue ) http://www.a-musik.com/p/product/sabu-martinez-safari-with-sabu-lp-085942.html

Bought mine at the 2013 München Hifi-Fair.

Edited October 17, 2013 by tomatamot

[paul secor]

Chet Baker Trio: Daybreak (Steeplechase)

[paul secor]

You Get More Bounce with Curtis Counce (Contemporary/Analogue Productions)

[jeffcrom]

Chu Berry - "Chu" (Epic/Columbia Special Products mono)

[sidewinder]

Francy Boland 'Jazz Joint Vol 1 - Going Classic' (German Vogue 2LP)

[mjazzg]

two of this week's arrivals

followed by

[jeffcrom]

Max Roach - Jazz in 3/4 Time (EmArcy mono). Sonny Rollins just blew my mind with "Valse Hot."

[uli]

Max Roach - Jazz in 3/4 Time (EmArcy mono). Sonny Rollins just blew my mind with "Valse Hot."

I think I have the same recording of "Valse Hot" on this reissue twofer, np

[paul secor]

Harold Land: The Fox (Hifijazz/Contemporary)

[BillF]

Chet Baker Trio: Daybreak (Steeplechase)

Nice location. Where is it?

[tomatamot]

BOBBY JASPAR AND HIS MODERN JAZZ - JAPANESE VOGUE

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BOBBY-JASPAR-AND-HIS-MODERN-JAZZ-JAPAN-VOGUE-LP-OBI-/140789756064?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item20c7b930a0

[tomatamot]

Don Rendell et Bobby Jaspar - 1955 - Recontre A Paris (Swing) Japanese pressing.

[jeffcrom]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

[paul secor]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Edited October 19, 2013 by paul secor

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

These two are pretty late in the day for what they are: down-home blues singles directed at a regional African-American audience. They're both from around 1960. When I found the Bluestown single in a stack of 45s some years ago, I had no idea what it was, but there was no way I wasn't going to buy a record on the Bluestown label by someone named Alabama Watson. "Cost Time" is the producer's mishearing of "Hard Times" - Watson has a pretty thick accent.

Baby Tate - See What You Done Done/Late in the Evening (Trix)

Roy Dunn - She Cook Cornbread for Her Husband/Tired of Living a Bachelor (Trix)

John T. Samples - Daddy Double Do Love You EP (Documentary Arts)

Robert Curtis Smith - I Believe We Love Each Other/Don't Drive Me Away (Arhoolie)

All of these were directed, I guess, to the "collectors" market. Tate was from South Carolina, Dunn from Georgia, and Smith from the Mississippi Delta - he's one of my favorite bluesmen. The Samples EP is interesting - the only recordings of a Texas songster, very late in his life.

On to Chicago:

Snooky Pryor - Someone to Love Me/Judgement Day (Vee-Jay)

Elmore James - Dust My Broom/Every Day I Have the Blues (Enjoy)

Taildragger - My Head is Bald/So Ezee (Leric)

Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' Blues/I Better Go Now (Chess)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Coo lummy!

Todays miscellaneous collection of vinyl includes the LP that I've had longest (since '65)

James Brown - Grits and soul - Smash (mono)

Dizzy Gillespie - Bahiana - Pablo (Polydor UK)

Lynn Hope - Tenderly - Imperial

Sly Dunbar - Sly-go-ville - Taxi (Island UK)

now

Donald Vails Choraleers - Yesterday, today, forever - Sound of Gospel

Fans of George Clinton's bands will wish to be informed that Gary Shider is on guitar. Very Detroit production by Armen Boladian, who owned Sound of Gospel, Eastbound & Westbound & Watts Club Mozambique. The Choraleers are a Detroit choir.

Here's track 1 side 1 - 'When we all get to heaven' with THE most splendid performance by a gospel coloratura soprano I've ever heard - Delores Taylor-Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9OpoLfk7E

MG

[Deepak]

John Coltrane - Kulu Se Mama (stereo Van Gelder)

[B. Clugston]

Johnny Dyani, African Bass (Red). Nice album of solos and duos with Clifford Jarvis.

[Deepak]

Old and New Dreams - S/T (nice version of Lonely Woman)

[jeffcrom]

Last night's blues 45s:

Alabama Watson - Cost Time/My Baby Left Me (Bluestown)

McKinley James - Ain't Gonna Pick No More Cotton/Tuskegee Boogie (Macon)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know.

Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's.

Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia.

edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording.

Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording.

The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Wow- thanks for the info. I had always assumed that Bluestown was a little Southern label. I knew that Trix was Pete Lowry's label. I've got some of his CDs and LPs, but I think it's cool that he also issued blues singles.

Coo lummy!

I heard that, Bubba! (Which is, I think, the way we say the same thing down here.)

Edited October 20, 2013 by jeffcrom