What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Leeway]

STONE WATER - Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet - OkkaDisk LP. 1999

[John Tapscott]

Good solos, esp. by tenor Gregory Herbert, but the soaring Herd is weighed down by mediocre, funk-oriented charts. Trying to be hip, typical for the early 70's.

[Leeway]

BALLS - Brotzmann, Van Hove, Bennink - Cien Fuegos reissue of FMP LP.

[Leeway]

TSCHUS - Brotzmann, Van Hove, Bennink - Cien Fuego LP reissue of FMP 0230. I find it amusing that the album starts with a surprisingly romantic ballad piece dedicated to Bobby Few, who has his own very definite crooner tendencies (I once saw him croon "It Was A Very Good Year") and end with Brotzmann crooning his own little ballad. Everything in the middle anything but crooning.

[clifford_thornton]

I've never had Tschüs for some reason. I should grab it sometime.

[colinmce]

NOW HEAR THIS - Hal Galper, Terumasa Hino, Cecil McBee, Tony Williams. Inner City LP.

This looks cool.

[jeffcrom]

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars - Music for Lighthousekeeping (Stereo). I mean "Stereo" is the label it was issued on - "Stereo Records S7008, In Association with Contemporary Records." I found this record today - in very nice shape, and for all of three dollars. It was news to me. Apparently Contemporary was recording in stereo before stereo LPs even existed - I know that Atlantic did the same. And apparently their first stereo issues were under a separate label name. And for such early stereo, it sounds very good.

Then, something very different, but equally excellent:

Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano - Scraps and Shadows (Roaratorio)

[Chuck Nessa]

Les Koenig tried to copyright the word "stereo" and failed.

[paul secor]

Bill Dixon: In Italy Volume One (Soul Note)

[jeffcrom]

Kid Howard - At Zion Hill Church: Great Spirituals (Nobility). A really beautiful album from 1964.

[jeffcrom]

Papa Celestin and His Tuxedo Dixieland Band - Tiger Rag/At the Darktown Strutters Ball (Columbia promo 45). A 1953 single release, issued on 45 and 78 RPM records. It's a hot little record. I doubt most of the names of the musicians would mean much to most folks here, but I heard one of them, pianist Jeanette Kimball, several times at Preservation Hall 40 to 45 years later. And she had first recorded with Celestin in the 1920s!

[JohnS]

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars - Music for Lighthousekeeping (Stereo). I mean "Stereo" is the label it was issued on - "Stereo Records S7008, In Association with Contemporary Records." I found this record today - in very nice shape, and for all of three dollars. It was news to me. Apparently Contemporary was recording in stereo before stereo LPs even existed - I know that Atlantic did the same. And apparently their first stereo issues were under a separate label name. And for such early stereo, it sounds very good

Interesting, didn't know that. My Peter Gunn is on the Stereo label.

[mjazzg]

Arve Henriksen - Solidification [Rune Grammofon]. Currently Strjon, side C.

working through the box in keen anticipation of the arrival of latest release 'Cosmic Creation'

[jeffcrom]

Clark Terry Featuring Ben Webster - More (Cameo mono)

[sidewinder]

My 'Way Out West' is on the 'Stereo' label as well, I think.

[jeffcrom]

George Russell Sextet - At the Five Spot (Decca mono)

[Leeway]

TROPIC APPETITES - Carla Bley - Watt LP.

I liked Howard Johnson's multi-instrumental playing, Gato's fervent tenor, and Julie Tippetts beguiling voice here. I'm not always a fan of Carla's forays into Kurt Weill-like cabaret/song cycles, but maybe for the afore-mentioned reasons, I found I liked this effort.

Edited February 12, 2014 by Leeway

[A Lark Ascending]

TROPIC APPETITES - Carla Bley - Watt LP.

I liked Howard Johnson's multi-instrumental playing, Gato's fervent tenor, and Julie Tippetts beguiling voice here. I'm not always a fan of Carla's forays into Kurt Weill-like cabaret/song cycles, but maybe for the afore-mentioned reasons, I found I liked this effort.

Interesting - because it's the Weill-meets-free-jazz thing I love. Whereas I find her more conventional, American, post-70s music much less engaging. Personal taste, of course (related to the way I first heard the music - it clicked very easily into the whole Henry Cow/Wyatt etc world of the mid-70s).

[Leeway]

TROPIC APPETITES - Carla Bley - Watt LP.

I liked Howard Johnson's multi-instrumental playing, Gato's fervent tenor, and Julie Tippetts beguiling voice here. I'm not always a fan of Carla's forays into Kurt Weill-like cabaret/song cycles, but maybe for the afore-mentioned reasons, I found I liked this effort.

Interesting - because it's the Weill-meets-free-jazz thing I love. Whereas I find her more conventional, American, post-70s music much less engaging. Personal taste, of course (related to the way I first heard the music - it clicked very easily into the whole Henry Cow/Wyatt etc world of the mid-70s).

I like this one quite well. It seems genuinely inspired. Some of her other efforts along this line, as I recall, have sometimes seemed to have more the element of pastiche to them, that is, not quite as inspired or original. But I have been coming back to her work off and on, so might hear it a little differently next time. BTW, I do like Weill, especially the Lotte Lenya albums. Interesting connection to Henry Cow (another project in waiting) and Wyatt.

[A Lark Ascending]

Probably just how I heard it. I knew little jazz c. 1975 but was immersed in the Canterbury thing, and a lot of the British jazz-rock of that time. 'Escalator Over The Hill' grabbed me by the throat. The overture made me very curious about the jazz I was reading about but had not heard. Charlie Haden was on several of those early Bley Albums as well as the Jarrett records I was starting to buy; and Wyatt did 'Song for Che' on an album as well as recording with Michael Mantler. Lots of connections.

Remember seeing Bley in a short lived supergroup with Mick Taylor and Jack Bruce.

[paul secor]

Ornette Coleman: Crisis (Impulse)

[JSngry]

My copy doesn't have the yellow thing on the cover, but does have the original insert.

Apart from that, excellent, especially the Mahler, the orchestration of which very much intrigues me for some reason I can't yet pinpoint. But both pieces breathe in a very palpable way.

[paul secor]

Hard Time Blues - St Louis 1933 - 1940 (Mamlish)

[jeffcrom]

New York Percussion Ensemble - Bach for Percussion (Audio Fidelity mono). Okay, y'all know that I've got some odd albums. This is one of the oddest, but every once in a while it calls to me, begging to be played. It's four Bach pieces transcribed for non-pitched (!) percussion instruments. (Well, there is some tympani, but used in a non-melodic way.) So you've got the rhythmic skeleton of Bach's music, and Bach's complexity of texture, but "translated" with entirely different colors. And none of his harmonic or melodic content, of course.

It ain't Bach, really, but it's pretty cool percussion music. It reminds me of John Cage and William Russell's early percussion music. This is not something I want to listen to often, but right now it's putting a smile on my face.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i found this solo piano mal waldron lp on Paula Records, 1973--- mal waldron on steinway

The Soulful Drums of Joe Dukes by Joe Dukes & The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet.

dawg is yrs the gold label prestige issue! the label looks great on this one