What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet (Savoy mono)

Was this only released in mono?

[Chuck Nessa]

if that.

[jeffcrom]

Archie Shepp/Bill Dixon Quartet (Savoy mono)

Was this only released in mono?

That's my guess. I think all the early-60s Savoy free jazz I have is mono.

[clifford_thornton]

Mono only, from Dixon's tapes. The sessions were self-financed and he licensed (or as he put it, "leased") the tapes to Savoy. Sadly this record has never seen an authorized reissue since. The story is in Dixonia; I'll dig it out and transcribe later if anyone is interested.

Most of Bill's early sessions on tape were lost in the late '60s because of a storage locker mishap (I believe while Bill was in Wisconsin). A few reference copies exist and I've been lucky to hear some of those early bands with Tchicai, Giuseppi Logan, Rashied Ali et al. Hopefully some of it sees the proper light of day. There is still quite an archive up in Bennington.

IIRC the dates Bill produced in the late '60s for Savoy - Marzette Watts, Bob (Cleve) Pozar, Marc Levin, Ed Curran - are stereo, though not particularly well-recorded.

[paul secor]

Charles Mingus: The Clown (Atlantic Japan)

[paul secor]

Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (Prestige Japan)

[Homefromtheforest]

Harold Vick "don't look back" (strata east, USA)

[Homefromtheforest]

McCoy Tyner "today and tomorrow" (Impulse, USA)

[tomatamot]

Unreleased Swiss radio recordings

[tomatamot]

BEAVER HARRIS QUARTET - Beaver is my name

[tomatamot]

Masahiko Togashi - Session In Paris Vol.2

[kh1958]

Andrew Hill, Judgment (Blue Note NY USA)

[Leeway]

BALLAD ROUND THE LEFT CORNER - Pierre Dorge Quartet: PD (g), John Tchicai (as, ss), NHOP (b), Billy Hart (d). SteepleChase LP. Rec. 1979.

Quite nice.

[Leeway]

MANZANAR VOICES - Glenn Horiuchi - Asian Improv Records. Horiuchi (p), Leon Alexander (d), M'Chaka Uba (b, on "Manzanar Voices" and "Stockton Calling"), Taiji Miyagawa (b, on "Bass Blues" and "Seeds of Resistance").

Traces of Don Pullen and of course a bit of Cecil, but Horiuchi made his own alloy on this album, combining free and avant playing with Japanese traditional music and modern composition.

[paul secor]

Albert Ayler: Spirits Rejoice (ESP Japan)

[tomatamot]

Ray Anderson - It Just So Happens ( ENJA - 5037 )

[kh1958]

Archie Shepp, Things Have Got to Change (Impulse), and

Maynard Ferguson 1969 (Prestige/MPS).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Earlier

My cover's not quite as awesomely bright as this one

Illinois Jacquet - Bottoms up - Prestige

John Stubblefield - Midnight over Memphis - Denon

Nice disco album from 1978 - though not as nice as Mr Stubblefield's hat. If I could wear hats, I'd get one like that.

MG

[Larry Kart]

McCoy Tyner's "Just Feelin'" (Palo Alto Jazz) 1985, with Avery Sharpe and Louis Hayes. McCoy is quoted in the notes as saying that it's one of his best; I think he's right. Excellent recording job and piano, too.

[tomatamot]

Nisse Sandström / Horace Parlan / Red Mitchell - Young Forever

[jeffcrom]

Curtis Fuller - Sliding Easy (United Artists mono). A really nice album, with Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, and Elvin Jones on board.

Joe Capraro - Dixieland Down South (GHB). In a Southland sleeve - when Jazzology/GHB bought out a label, they would use up all the old covers before printing up their own. I also have Jazzology records with Icon sleeves. Anyway, the main attraction here is the presence of two fine clarinetists - Raymond Burke on side one and Charlie Cordilla on side two.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Hank Crawford - Midnight ramble - Milestone

MG

[paul secor]

John Coltrane: Crescent (Impulse Japan)

[jeffcrom]

Julius Hemphill - Georgia Blue (Minor Music)

[paul secor]

Cecil Taylor: Praxis (Praxis)

Some of my favorite Cecil