What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Bobby Timmons: Born To Be Blue (Riverside Japan)

If I could only keep one Bobby Timmons LP, it would probably be this one.

[Leeway]

PARADISE SPACE SHUTTLE - George Adams Quintet - Adams (ts, fl, voc), Ron Burton (p), Don Pate (b), Al Foster (d), Azzedin Weston (perc). Timeless - Muse LP.

EARTH BEAMS - George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet with Dannie Richmond and Cameron Brown. Timeless LP.

[paul secor]

Julius Watkins Sextet: Blue Note 10 Inch LP Collection (BN/King)

[Leeway]

HEAVY SPIRITS - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP. A very good album that does not seem to have obtained much status. Joseph Bowie does a nice track here too.

[B. Clugston]

Capricorn Rising, Don Pullen with Sam Rivers. Just found it at a record shop and I like what I am hearing.

[colinmce]

HEAVY SPIRITS - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP. A very good album that does not seem to have obtained much status. Joseph Bowie does a nice track here too.

The fate of most Arista/Freedom LPs it seems.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

Flora Purim- thats what she said (MILESTONE) 1978

[niels]

Girlfriend is out working, I'm at home with a lot of household tasks at hand so this is the musical accompaniment that I chose for this morning:

Antony Williams - Life Time (Blue Note, Dutch pressing)

John Tchicai - Tribal Ghost (NoBusiness)

Dave Holland - Conference of the Birds (ECM)

[sidewinder]

Curtis Fuller 'Soul Trombone' (Impulse, mono)

I think that's the first time I've seen a listing for "Jim Cobb".

Yeah, same here.

This morning:

Charlie Rouse 'Takin' Care of Business' (UK Riverside reel/mike/mono)

[mjazzg]

[uli]

[porcy62]

Van Gelder.

A pristine mono Prestige is such a pleasure to listen to that trash any supermegagazillion audiophile remastering in the universe.

[Chuck Nessa]

HEAVY SPIRITS - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP. A very good album that does not seem to have obtained much status. Joseph Bowie does a nice track here too.

The fate of most Arista/Freedom LPs it seems.

I was at one of the recording sessions for this (in Boston). It was reissued on cd by Black Lion.

[porcy62]

Van Gelder.

[porcy62]

NY, mono.

[mjazzg]

[Leeway]

FATHER TIME - Frank Tusa, Richard Beirach, Jeff Williams, Badal Roy, Dave Liebman. Inner City LP.

Just picked this one up and am really enjoying it. A bit unclassifiable, which is good.

[Leeway]

HEAVY SPIRITS - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP. A very good album that does not seem to have obtained much status. Joseph Bowie does a nice track here too.

The fate of most Arista/Freedom LPs it seems.

Alas, I think you are right. I was just looking at a list of Arista Freedom LPs, and -- should I admit this?-- I think I have all of them except "New York Mary" (which I have passed on a dozen times). I suspect that if some of these titles were issued on Incus, or FMP, or some other difficult label to find, people would happily be paying big money for them. Maybe we should have an Arista Freedom "what are you listening to?" festival.

[A Lark Ascending]

Nicra, Listen/Hear (Ogun). Nice quintet date led by trombonists Nick Evans and Radu Malfatti (back when he played hot trombone as opposed to staring at his shoe). Keith Tippett, Buschi Niebergall and Makaya Ntshoko are also on board.

That's a good record. Remember seeing it in the late 70s but not jumping. The internet was my friend a few years back.

[Clunky]

Bobby Troup ---------The Songs of Bobby Troup---------( London ) 10 inch UK

Cool vocal stylings, I'm still not convinced that Troup is always in tune but it works well enough.

[kh1958]

Art Blakey, Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, volume 1 (Blue Note, W. 63rd)

[Leeway]

VIBRATIONS - Albert Ayler - Arista Freedom LP

NTU - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP

[colinmce]

Damn you!

[paul secor]

Ellis Marsalis: Solo Piano Reflections (CBS Sony Japan)

[JSngry]

HEAVY SPIRITS - Oliver Lake - Arista Freedom LP. A very good album that does not seem to have obtained much status. Joseph Bowie does a nice track here too.

The fate of most Arista/Freedom LPs it seems.

Alas, I think you are right. I was just looking at a list of Arista Freedom LPs, and -- should I admit this?-- I think I have all of them except "New York Mary" (which I have passed on a dozen times). I suspect that if some of these titles were issued on Incus, or FMP, or some other difficult label to find, people would happily be paying big money for them. Maybe we should have an Arista Freedom "what are you listening to?" festival.

I have almost all of them. They damn near flooded the cutout bins at one time. Wondering how many newer listeners who find copies today are finding them with cutout scars.