What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Leeway]

One plus is they've pressed a lot of titles that are very hard to find on CD. And they're cheap.

Right on both counts. I just don't come across these titles every day, so I also picked up:

and:

Each well under $10 (I think they were promo copies). Figured I wasn't getting the ultimate in vinyl, but they would get me by until something better came along.

[tomatamot]

One plus is they've pressed a lot of titles that are very hard to find on CD. And they're cheap.

Right on both counts. I just don't come across these titles every day, so I also picked up:

and:

Each well under $10 (I think they were promo copies). Figured I wasn't getting the ultimate in vinyl, but they would get me by until something better came along.

Lee-Way. Try to find :

Super Fidelity

[Leeway]

One plus is they've pressed a lot of titles that are very hard to find on CD. And they're cheap.

Right on both counts. I just don't come across these titles every day, so I also picked up:

and:

Each well under $10 (I think they were promo copies). Figured I wasn't getting the ultimate in vinyl, but they would get me by until something better came along.

Lee-Way. Try to find :

Super Fidelity

Indeed! I have several Conns vinyl but not that one. Would be nice.....or the King Records

Edited December 25, 2013 by Leeway

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

CHEWYS TOP HOLIDAY JAMZ '13

10. Nutcracker- Dorati version on Mercury, 2 lp set- 1959

9. Paul McCartney- Wonderful Christmastime (Columbia white label promo)

8. Greg Lake- "I Believe In Father Christmas" (45 rpm single, UK Maticore)

7. A Warm & Wonderful Christmas Eve with Bing & Frank.....vinyl dub of the 12/20/57 abc tv b'cast, on "ho ho ho records" (boris rose)

6. Jackie Gleason- Merry Christmas (Capitol, 1956)

5. The New Christy Minstrels- Christmas with the Christies (1966)
4. "Do They Know It's Christmas"/Band Aid (1984) [12" single, SEALED]
3. Jon Anderson- 3 Ships (1985)
2. Duke Ellington & his Orch- The Nutcracker Suite (Columbia, 1960)...
1. Charles Brown Sings Christmas Songs ('78 reissue of the 1961 KING lp)

[tomatamot]

UNITED NOTIONS - Toshiko Akiyoshi and her International Jazz Sextet (Japanese mono pressing)

[tomatamot]

[Leeway]

Tolliver/Music Inc, LIVE IN TOKYO. Strata-East, white label promo copy.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Dakota Staton - Crazy he calls me - Capitol (World Record Club UK)

MG

[Leeway]

More Charles Tolliver, and another good record:

[Leeway]

Blue Note-Toshiba 1500 series LP, mono.

[Leeway]

Still enough fire in Gato's playing to make this one worthwhile. With Lennie White, Joe Beck, Ron Carter, and Lonnie Liston Smith. Flying Dutchman LP.

[Leeway]

Three great musicians, one great group:

Fred Hopkins, Henry Threadgill, Steve McCall, AIR. Black Saint LP.

[colinmce]

Blue Note-Toshiba 1500 series LP, mono.

Been trying to find a good price on this for years. The old local library had it; I made a tape dub but lost that. Probably my favorite Donaldson material.

[John Tapscott]

[Leeway]

This album came up on this thread not too long ago, which may be why I was able to buy a very nice copy off a street vendor in NYC recently. Serendipity. Glad too because it is a very good album.

[Leeway]

A couple of Anthony Davis albums:

Solo piano. India Navigation LP.

An album that was discussed here not long ago:

Davis (piano), James Newton (flute), Abdul Wadud (cello), These guys, with folks like Jay Hoggard, had something special going on for a while.

[sgcim]

Still enough fire in Gato's playing to make this one worthwhile. With Lennie White, Joe Beck, Ron Carter, and Lonnie Liston Smith. Flying Dutchman LP.

Spent countless hours listening to Gato wailing away on "Falsa Baihana" on that one. Immediately caught him live in 73 at the Newport in NY Festival with a teenager named Stanley Clarke on bass.

We had a post-Christmas Pop vinyl fest last night:

McKendree Spring-1st LP- drummer-less quartet with elec. violin.

Free Design- "You Could Be Born Again" - Chris Dedrick was a genius

IF- 1st LP- great UK jazz-rock feat. Dick Morrissey and Terry Smith

Edited December 28, 2013 by sgcim

[Leeway]

One more from Anthony Davis and his proteges:

Interesting and ambitious performance, with Davis, Jay Hoggard, Abdul Wadud, George Lewis, Pheeroan Aklaff, Warren Smith, et al, with Mark Helias conducting.

[Cactus Bob]

Jack DeJohnette's Directions

ECM

with John Abercrombie, Alex Foster and Mike Richmond

My old ticket stub from the concert in the mid-seventies.

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan: Trouble in Mind (Steeplechase)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

was JJ johnson like actually "popular" for a short time, like the JJ&Kai columbia lps, etc- did any of this stuff 'cross-over' like brubeck, etc

[BillF]

was JJ johnson like actually "popular" for a short time, like the JJ&Kai columbia lps, etc- did any of this stuff 'cross-over' like brubeck, etc

Yes, in the 50s Jay and Kai were very popular by today's jazz standards - not the popularity of Elvis, of course, nor even the popularity of Brubeck or the MJQ for that matter - but they were big enough for a 17-year-old friend of mine to take up trombone in an attempt to emulate them. Anything that can get through to someone of 17 must be called popular, don't you think? Don't forget their arrangements were catchy, almost singable, and their varied tonal effects - with mutes, etc - helped make an attractive product. I'm well aware of this as I frequently go to hear a trombone duo who do a Jay and Kai show with transcribed arrangements and they're very easy on the ear and get a big reception from an audience, many of whom must have been teenagers in the 50s.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

None of the JJ & Kai albums crossed over and made the pop album charts, but it was popular all right. Kai had a hit album - 'More' - in 1963. Spent almost 6 months on the pop charts.

MG

[Clunky]

Juhami Aaltonen---------Etiquette -------(Love Records)

1974 rec.

Free jazz from Finland featuring Edward Vesala

[Leeway]

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