What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

What's in the dead wax?

OG is in a very thin matte paper cover and the print is black, rather than the greenish tint. Labels are bright green with black print.

Fairly thin vinyl, maybe 120 grams on the original as well. I would say one super easy way to tell them apart is, of course, the sticker price!

[Leeway]

OLD EYES - Joe McPhee. One of the sterling McPhee LPs on Hat HUT. Wonderful group, monster rendition of "Django."

[colinmce]

It's well worth tracking down the CD which adds a brilliant suite of 1990 improvisations with Urs Leimgruber & Fritz Hauser.

Oh, and please begin my funeral with the title track.

[paul secor]

Mal Waldron - David Friesen: Dedication (Soul Note)

[Homefromtheforest]

Freddie Hubbard "goin up" (blue note, 47 w 63rd mono). Not the best copy in the world but sounds nice enough and it didn't break the bank which helps...

[sidewinder]

Freddie Hubbard "goin up" (blue note, 47 w 63rd mono). Not the best copy in the world but sounds nice enough and it didn't break the bank which helps...

Nice one !

[JohnS]

Chico Freeman: Spirit Sensitive

I've often wondered about that one. Is it as restrained as I've heard tell? effectively a ballad album?

One of the best ballads records I know. Quite muscular in parts.

[soulpope]

Mal Waldron - David Friesen: Dedication (Soul Note)

nice one !!

[vinyltim]

A lot of early ECMs sound totally different - maybe Eicher hadn't perfected the reverb quotient, or maybe it was because he didn't record all of them at that point. They are often a lot rawer than stuff from the mid-80s onward. Also the US pressings/masterings are rolled off, or seem to be - the German issues are not.

As I mentioned in the Listening thread the other day, Conference of the Birds sounds like shit. But I suppose that was in the air at the time. Really? How so?

I have a mint German vinyl issue and it sounds excellent to me...

I admit I only have the CD, but the bass is the typical 70s sound: clear, thin, and rubbery. The drums are distant and tinny. Generally no depth with kind of an odd balance. Maybe I'd be happier with a German LP. But like I said, it comes off as typically terrible 70s production to me. I'd rather it were ECM'd!

I have a US pressing that doesn't sound too great - fairly "dull" although the music is awesome - would prefer the German to compare the sound.

Same here--US pressing--clear, but thin with little depth. It's listenable but I hope to find a better pressing one day.

[Clunky]

Nacka Forum---------Live in Tokyo futuring (sic) Akira Sakata------------ ( Moserobie )

On red vinyl so it must be good or trendy at the very least.

[mjazzg]

Barry Guy - Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett [No Business] 10"

Superb. Cries out to be twice as long - a double 12" would do the trick nicely.

[paul secor]

Earl "Fatha" Hines Plays the Hits He Missed (Real Time)

[JSngry]

[jeffcrom]

I took my daily dose of Louis in convenient 45 RPM form today, with a stack of little records. A highlight was (believe it or not), a 1952 Decca with Gordon Jenkins' Orchestra, "Listen to the Mocking Bird." (How did he make such a lame song sound so good?) I've always liked the picture sleeve of a single from the B movie The Beat Generation, from 1958. The title song is just ridiculous; I'm not sure who decided that Louis Armstrong would be the person to sing it.

Then, Air - 80 Below '82 (Antilles)

[paul secor]

B.B. King: Across the Tracks (Ace)

When the Ace LPs mastered by Bob Jones were issued in the 1980's, they were a treat to the ears of blues fans who had listened for years to poorly pressed and mastered Crown and Kent LPs.

[clifford_thornton]

Traditional Inuit Music of Eskimo Point and Rankin Inlet - (CBC Northern Service)

intense stuff.

[Clunky]

Anthony Davis-------Hemispheres--------(Gramavision)

Melancholic date with some heavy hitters in the shape of Wadada Leo Smith and George Lewis. It's taken my several listens to get into this. First impressions were that it was quite boring. Now, I'm not so sure.

[Clunky]

Back to orbit Ogun with this 1971 date from the Trio. Not clear if this was issued anywhere until 1987 when this edition came out. Masterful. I'd like to hear more by this group. Pity there's so little

The Trio --------By Contact------(Ogun)

[clifford_thornton]

the Ogun is the first issue afaik.

now:

Jack Ruby - s/t - (Feeding Tube)

archival release, a melange of no wave and power pop madness

[Homefromtheforest]

Art Blakey "the big beat" (blue note, 47 w 63rd DG stereo) a minty copy found for cheap recently

Kenny Burrell "midnight blue" (music matters, blue note) a good test for my new Paradigm speakers

Guru Guru "hinten" (ohr, Germany) digging up some old vinyl I have not played in at least 15 years

[paul secor]

Roswell Rudd: Jazz Composer's Orchestra Plays Numatik Swing Band (JCOA)

[Deepak]

Art Blakey "the big beat" (blue note, 47 w 63rd DG stereo) a minty copy found for cheap recently

Kenny Burrell "midnight blue" (music matters, blue note) a good test for my new Paradigm speakers

Guru Guru "hinten" (ohr, Germany) digging up some old vinyl I have not played in at least 15 years

I'm curious what you think about Midnight Blue if you have heard an original pressing as well. I was pretty pissed to find out there is a pressing error on the Music Matters reissue, you can hear ghosting or pre-echo on the left channel, on side 1. Really annoying and obvious on Mule.

[clifford_thornton]

don't notice this on my old Manhattan-era CD. Wonder if they used a faulty copy of the tapes.

[Homefromtheforest]

Art Blakey "the big beat" (blue note, 47 w 63rd DG stereo) a minty copy found for cheap recently

Kenny Burrell "midnight blue" (music matters, blue note) a good test for my new Paradigm speakers

Guru Guru "hinten" (ohr, Germany) digging up some old vinyl I have not played in at least 15 years

I'm curious what you think about Midnight Blue if you have heard an original pressing as well. I was pretty pissed to find out there is a pressing error on the Music Matters reissue, you can hear ghosting or pre-echo on the left channel, on side 1. Really annoying and obvious on Mule.

Didn't notice as during this record I was doing other stuff and it was on in the background. Will listen to this track again tonight and report.

Never heard an original....

[Deepak]

don't notice this on my old Manhattan-era CD. Wonder if they used a faulty copy of the tapes.

It's not a tape issue. You can hear Kenny Burrell play his lick exactly one revolution ahead of whats coming next. It is very, very low in volume almost buried in the noise floor. But on high sensitivity speakers you can make it out. Since Mule is the softest song on side one that is where it's most obvious.

Other than that I like the way the reissue sounds, it has really nice transient snap and dynamics.