What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This morning

Johnny Lytle - Everything must change - Muse

Earl Grant - Earl after dark - Decca (Brunswick UK DG stereo)

MG

[Leeway]

Steve Lacy, Ronnie Boykins, Dennis Charles: CAPERS. 2LP hat Hut Records. Joe McPhee is credited with the photos of Lacy on the back cover and inside the gatefold.

[jazzbo]

[jazzbo]

[Leeway]

SAHARA: McCoy Tyner, Sonny Fortune, Calvin Hill, Alphonse Mouzon. Milestone LP.

[Leeway]

I have just got around to playing some Bennie Wallace (picked up some LPs of his as part of another purchase). Any thoughts, positive or negative, on Mr. Wallace?

[Chuck Nessa]

yes.

[paul secor]

I have just got around to playing some Bennie Wallace (picked up some LPs of his as part of another purchase). Any thoughts, positive or negative, on Mr. Wallace?

I used to have a slightly higher opinion of him than I do these days. I think my standards are higher than they used to be. He's competent, but there's not a lot of substance in his playing. Just my opinion and I haven't heard anything he's done in the past twenty years, so perhaps take my opinion with that in mind.

[jeffcrom]

Jimmy Owens/Kenny Barron Quintet - You Had Better Listen (Atlantic mono)

[Leeway]

yes.

LOL, well, let's have 'em!

[NIS]

[paul secor]

:tup Good record!

[Leeway]

I have just got around to playing some Bennie Wallace (picked up some LPs of his as part of another purchase). Any thoughts, positive or negative, on Mr. Wallace?

I used to have a slightly higher opinion of him than I do these days. I think my standards are higher than they used to be. He's competent, but there's not a lot of substance in his playing. Just my opinion and I haven't heard anything he's done in the past twenty years, so perhaps take my opinion with that in mind.

OK, thanks. I note too that the Penguin Guide is not terribly enthusiastic nor negative. I think I got a few more, IIRC, all on Enja. I'll spin them and see how how they measure up.

[John Tapscott]

[Leeway]

Taking another step with my Bennie Wallace survey:

Nice, professional well-played, but maybe too nice, too technically correct, could use more edge. Chick doesn't bring anything interesting to the party.

Then:

This was a different story. Wallace comes out strong from the start, with some really intense playing. There's a lot of energy here. As usual. Wallace gets a Monk tune in, but if you compare his way of playing Monk, with say, Steve Lacy's, you find that lack of artistic discipline or toughness that Lacy has in abundance. Still, a pretty good album with Eddie Gomez and Dannie Richmond playing very well.

[paul secor]

Art Tatum/Roy Eldridge (Verve/Pablo)

[jeffcrom]

Kid Thomas Valentine - Jazz, Gospel & Blues (Smoky Mary). A 1973 album with the great Willie Humphrey on clarinet. Willie was a few weeks shy of his 73rd birthday, and plays like a kid.

[clifford_thornton]

Various - Panorama des Musiques Experimentales - (Philips, NL)

Kagel, Berio, Eimert, Henry, Ferrari, et al. in a nice two-LP set.

[uli]

[mjazzg]

Gunter Hampel - Wellen/Waves Berlin soloflight[FMP]

solo performance featuring three of my favourite instruments - vibes, bs clarinet, flute - marvellous

[Clunky]

Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino - (Smash)

Bluesy, slightly country, modestly psychedelic , pretty good.

next

Urbie Green- ----Urbie Green Septet New Faces - New Sounds ---(Blue Note) - Toshiba 10inch, nice but hardly riveting date, perhaps not too surprising it's not seen domestic CD release.

[Leeway]

The Thing: MONO. The Thing Records 2LP. Mats Gustafsson, IHF, and PNL. LOUD and wild.

[paul secor]

Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino - (Smash)

Bluesy, slightly country, modestly psychedelic , pretty good.

I'm a long time fan of that record and of Doug Sahm's music in general.

[paul secor]

Erroll Garner: Play It Again, Erroll! (Columbia)

I don't play Erroll Garner's music a lot but, whenever I do, I enjoy it immensely.

[Leeway]