What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Leeway]

LOVE'S DREAM - Bobby Bradford. Trevor Watts, Kent Carter, John Stevens. Emanem LP. I think this is a terrific album. Another instance (so many) where you hear the Ornette influence, and I find it interesting how it bounces up agains the Brit free jazz approach.

Stanley Crouch did the linter notes (!). This sentence interested me: "All of which, in my opinion, makes Bradford the most significant trumpet player to appear since the death of Booker Little and a figure in 'our' era who is comparable to Fats Navarro during the bebop era..." This was in 1975. When did Crouch jump on the Wynton bandwagon?

Edited February 1, 2014 by Leeway

[Homefromtheforest]

Mal Waldron/Jackie McLean--------Like old times--------(JVA/Victor) Japan 1976

McLean sounding much fresher hear than on another Japanese session from 1986 (Paddlewheel). This has a decent amount of spark and Mal is on top form

I like that album; a good one.

[paul secor]

LOVE'S DREAM - Bobby Bradford. Trevor Watts, Kent Carter, John Stevens. Emanem LP. I think this is a terrific album. Another instance (so many) where you hear the Ornette influence, and I find it interesting how it bounces up agains the Brit free jazz approach.

Stanley Crouch did the linter notes (!). This sentence interested me: "All of which, in my opinion, makes Bradford the most significant trumpet player to appear since the death of Booker Little and a figure in 'our' era who is comparable to Fats Navarro during the bebop era..." This was in 1975. When the Crouch jump on the Wynton bandwagon?

Crouch's liner notes appear on the CD reissue with the comment: "(As well as being a writer, Crouch was the also a drummer, who often played with Bradford on the Los Angeles free jazz scene. He subsequently moved to New York, gave up drumming, and became immersed in writing about more conservative areas of jazz.)" No further comment necessary.

Martin Davidson adds contemporary (2002) notes which shed more light on Bobby Bradford's 1973 sojourn in England.

[Leeway]

@ Paul Secor. Thanks Paul for the additional information.

COSMOS -Sun Ra - Inner City LP. Sun Ra on the rocksichord.

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[Leeway]

THESIS - The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Verve LP. Giuffre (cl), Steve Swallow (b), Paul Bley (p). It's still cool to hear Bley on "Sonic" start playing inside the piano.

[jeffcrom]

Elvin Jones - Coalition (BN Liberty). My first time hearing this in many years. I once had it on 8-track tape (!); I just found a near-mint copy. Even better than I remembered.

[colinmce]

LOVE'S DREAM - Bobby Bradford. Trevor Watts, Kent Carter, John Stevens. Emanem LP. I think this is a terrific album. Another instance (so many) where you hear the Ornette influence, and I find it interesting how it bounces up agains the Brit free jazz approach.

Stanley Crouch did the linter notes (!). This sentence interested me: "All of which, in my opinion, makes Bradford the most significant trumpet player to appear since the death of Booker Little and a figure in 'our' era who is comparable to Fats Navarro during the bebop era..." This was in 1975. When did Crouch jump on the Wynton bandwagon?

He's an odd duck. He wrote the notes to Jimmy Lyons' Give It Up on Soul Note (1985, in the eye of the Wynton hurricane) and praised him as the great post-Bird altoist. When he's not praising Lyons via Bird, he's talking a blanket of shit on free jazz and ignores the other musicians completely.

[jeffcrom]

Elvin Jones - Mr. Jones (BN). After Coalition, I wanted to hear some more Elvin on Blue Note.

[johnblitweiler]

In the 1970s Stanley Crouch praised every and all free-jazz musicians to the skies, no matter how awful or incompetent they were. After Crouch met Murray and Marsalis 30+ years ago, Crouch despised all free-jazz musicians.

[Homefromtheforest]

Takehisa Kosugi "catch wave" (Sony, Japan)

Steve Lacy, Yuji Takahashi, Takehisa Kosugi "distant voices" (Columbia, Japan)

[sidewinder]

Elvin Jones - Coalition (BN Liberty). My first time hearing this in many years. I once had it on 8-track tape (!); I just found a near-mint copy. Even better than I remembered.

That must have been around the time that Liberty put out their releases on 8-track or casette, as well as vinyl - still got a few Lee Morgans on cassette from that era (Sixth Sense and Caramba). Hard plastic casette boxes with pasted covers - very 1970s.

[mjazzg]

John Stevens - Spontaneous Music Ensemble [Polydor]

[Clunky]

Keith Tippett, Michel Pilz, Paul Rogers, Jean-Noel Cognard. Quartet and various combinations over 4 LPs on Bloc Thyristors

today's arrival. First LP sounding great

Thanks for noting this. I got a copy from Soundohm as per your suggestion. Arrived very promptly. Music here seems very fine. I do like bass clarinet. Plenty of listening to had here. Packaging of this set is deluxe!

[porcy62]

[porcy62]

[jeffcrom]

Buck Hill - Capital Hill (Muse)

[porcy62]

[uli]

Not actually this lp but the same material from the Bird Box. Enjoying it so much that I am on my second time. Thanks to the Bird thread!

[Clunky]

Not actually this lp but the same material from the Bird Box. Enjoying it so much that I am on my second time. Thanks to the Bird thread!

Yes this is very good and sound is decent too.

[porcy62]

Columbia, stereo.

[Leeway]

PARIS BLUES - Steve Lacy, Gil Evans - Owl LP. Gil's choice of electric piano on a few tracks strikes me as a bit peculiar, although I suppose that was maybe an attempt at adding color (?). I think he's more successful on the piano. I really enjoyed hearing Lacy play several Mingus compositions, "Reincarnation of a Lovebird," "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress Then Sky Blue Silk," and "Good Bye Pork-Pie Hat."

[porcy62]

PARIS BLUES - Steve Lacy, Gil Evans - Owl LP. Gil's choice of electric piano on a few tracks strikes me as a bit peculiar, although I suppose that was maybe an attempt at adding color (?). I think he's more successful on the piano. I really enjoyed hearing Lacy play several Mingus compositions, "Reincarnation of a Lovebird," "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress Then Sky Blue Silk," and "Good Bye Pork-Pie Hat."

[paul secor]

Bud Powell: 1953 - At Birdland (Vee Jay Japan)

[Neal Pomea]

[Leeway]

LEAPIN' AND LOPIN' - Sonny Clark - Blue Note/Toshiba Japan.