What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[tomatamot]

Bud Powell - Bud in Paris

Bud and Griff on "Idaho" is some great wild music.

[tomatamot]

Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (Fish People). Brand new out of the sleeve, these sides have never played without crackle & pops. The first time I played this, I didn't like it that much. I still don't think it's great, but I it's not Yoko Ono bad.

As I recall my copy was good as was my impression of the music . I share your frustration as Increasingly I'm wondering if the knowledge to press vinyl properly has been lost. Audiophile companies do ok but most non audiophile vinyls have sounded very average.

There is a possibility the vinyl is speckeled ( check visual under a lamb )

In this case the record is pressed under a wrong temperarure ( to hot )

I bring these albums to a guy in Antwerpen who repressed it to a fruit or candy basket.

[tomatamot]

Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (Fish People). Brand new out of the sleeve, these sides have never played without crackle & pops. The first time I played this, I didn't like it that much. I still don't think it's great, but I it's not Yoko Ono bad.

As I recall my copy was good as was my impression of the music . I share your frustration as Increasingly I'm wondering if the knowledge to press vinyl properly has been lost. Audiophile companies do ok but most non audiophile vinyls have sounded very average.

There is a possibility the vinyl is speckeled ( check visual under a lamb )

In this case the record is pressed under a wrong temperarure ( to hot )

I bring these albums to a guy in Antwerpen who repressed it to a fruit or candy basket.

[tomatamot]

Masahiko Togashi - Session in Paris, Vol. 1: Song of Soil

[Leeway]

Teruo Nakamura "Rising Sun" (Kitty, Japan)..not nearly as good as the earlier "Unicorn" on TBM, but some really nice tracks still on here featuring Harry Whitaker on a few of these.

Terumasa Hino "Fuji" (Victor, Japan)...this one is yet another strong Hino record...the opening track has some amazing guitar playing too

More Tapscott:

Me too. Great album.

I must get this one day. My Tapscott collection is very incomplete...I only own "The Giant Is Awakened" on Flying Dutchman and that is a killer album. I think I've been outbid on "Dial B for Barbara" about 10 times over the years

I have "Dial B for Barbara" on a Nimbus West CD; at one time that seemed fairly available around here (I bought it in a CD shop 4 or 5 years). However, have yet to see a copy of "The Giant is Awakened," which seems to have become quite scarce and expensive. Such are the vagaries of record collecting!

[mjazzg]

[tomatamot]

Sun Ra Arkestra - Egypt Strut (Manufactured in EU - Licensed by Leo Records - For all informations please contact: customercare@vinyl-lovers.info)

[paul secor]

Monk in Tokyo (CBS/Sony Japan)

[paul secor]

Too polite, but nice cover though.

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Modern Jazz Quartet At Music Inn (with Jimmy Giuffre) (Atlantic). Original black label pressing in OK shape. Unfortunately, the vibes distort every now & then and there are some pretty good pops but listenable. Not my favorite LP, that's for sure. Too polite?

EDIT: I paid way more than $6 for it!

I'm not a fan of most "polite" music or of the MJQ usually, but I listened to that one recently and enjoyed it. Different ears, a different time, or something.

[paul secor]

Curtis Fuller: Two Bones (BN/King Japan)

[Leeway]

[jeffcrom]

Some of yesterday's and today's vinyl:

Quincy Jones - The Birth of a Band (Mercury mono). Dutifully labeled "fair" by one of my local record dealers, it plays beautifully with my mono cartridge.

Stanley Turrentine - Mr. Natural (BN rainbow). Side one is in great shape; side two is beat to hell. Go figure.

Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan - Colours (Black Saint). I bought this when it came out, and was disappointed at the time. I think that I was bothered by the mismatch between the very advanced harmonic language and the 4/4 squareness of the rhythms at times. I still notice that in spots, but it bothers me much less now.

[JSngry]

Or so it says. I think there was a mistake at the factory and it's really a Ran Blake record.

[Homefromtheforest]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) listening to this while thinking about a friend who is going through a difficult time...and I'm also reminded of what great losses in the passings of Mr.Lacy and Masahiko Togashi.

[mjazzg]

Tchicai/Fewell/Kohlhase/McBee/ Hart - Tribal Ghost [No Business}

I've been sitting on this unplayed for a few weeks. Wish I hadn't. Tremendous music indeed - it would be great if there were more from this band in the pipeline

[uli]

Edited December 19, 2013 by uli

[Clunky]

Mal Waldron/ Marion Brown---------Songs of love and regret ---------(Freelance)

Wonderful 1985 recording (digital) , presumably 16bit given the era and yet sounds very full and rich .

[paul secor]

Mal Waldron/ Marion Brown---------Songs of love and regret ---------(Freelance)

Wonderful 1985 recording (digital) , presumably 16bit given the era and yet sounds very full and rich .

I like the sound on that one, especially given that it's a relatively early digital recording.

[colinmce]

Steve Lacy "the wire" (denon, Japan) listening to this while thinking about a friend who is going through a difficult time...and I'm also reminded of what great losses in the passings of Mr.Lacy and Masahiko Togashi.

I'd love to hear this one. I sampled the title composition on YouTube and it's so unlike Lacy's regular 70s group. Very interesting indeed.

[tomatamot]

Warming Up! - Dave Burns

[tomatamot]

Thelonious

BUELL NEIDLINGER (bass)

Marty Krystall,

Billy Osborne,

John Beasley

Recorded in 1986

TRACKS:

Thelonious / Trinkle Tinkle / Bye-Ya / Crepescule With Nellie

Locomotive / Who Knows? / Ask Me Now / Jackie-Ning

[paul secor]

Ben Webster Quintet: Ben at the Nuway Club (Jazz Guild)

[jeffcrom]

Duke Pearson - How Insensitive (BN Liberty)

[mjazzg]

[Cactus Bob]

Soft Machine ~ Bundles

Neon/RCA, Italy