Clunky Posted May 1, 2015 Report Posted May 1, 2015 Dexter Gordon ---------Our Man in Paris -----------(BN) Music Matters 33 This is still probably my favourite Dexter album. It was my first as I recall. This new edition is up to the usual MM standards and sounds fantastic. I'll be keeping the CD for the bonus track which i love as much as the rest of the album. Quote
paul secor Posted May 2, 2015 Report Posted May 2, 2015 Charlie Parker: Bird Encores Vol. 2 (Savoy Jazz) Quote
bluenote65 Posted May 2, 2015 Report Posted May 2, 2015 CIRCLE - PARIS CONCERT Anthony Braxton / Chick Corea / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul February 21, 1971 - ECM Quote
Clunky Posted May 2, 2015 Report Posted May 2, 2015 Bennie Green--------Swings the blues-------(MVM) 1959 date on the cheapest of budget labels. Pressing makes most Jazzlands seem pristine. None the less, strong playing by Bennie, Jimmy Forrest and Sonny Clark. None of the band are credited on the label/cover. Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 3, 2015 Report Posted May 3, 2015 Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark (Perception) Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 3, 2015 Report Posted May 3, 2015 Billie & De De Pierce and thier Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Live at Stanford (Preservation Hall). A nice one that has never been reiussued. Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 3, 2015 Report Posted May 3, 2015 Rene Thomas-Jacques Pelzer Limited - TPL - (Vogel, BE) Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 3, 2015 Report Posted May 3, 2015 Lee Morgan - Search for the New Land (BN NYC stereo) Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 3, 2015 Report Posted May 3, 2015 Sonic Youth - s/t - (SST, reissue of Neutral orig) Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Rod Levitt - Insight - (RCA Victor, stereo) Quote
kh1958 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Art Farmer, Sing Me Softly of the Blues (Atlantic mono, Japanese) Quote
Leeway Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 Amanaz - Africa - (Now Again, US reissue) great remastering although the pressing could be better. Still, what a great album. I picked that up on RSD but haven't spun it yet. Which version do you prefer? Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 4, 2015 Report Posted May 4, 2015 I actually like the version with less reverb - which surprised me. Had the crappy Shadoks boot, which was pretty dim-sounding. Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. It was originally a 10" album by New Orleans trombonist Jack Delaney on the Southland label. By the time it got reissued on GHB (Jazzology's "New Orleans" label before they aquired American Music), it was given a new cover with Pete Fountain's name and picture. And while the GHB is a 12" LP, it still only has the original four tracks on each side - about 24 minutes of music total. But like I said, the music is really good. Side one has a 1955 session with Alvin Alcorn on trumpet and Pete Fountain at his Irving Fazola-inspired best. Side two is a 1953 session with Raymond Burke on clarinet and the great Lee Collins on trumpet - his last recording, I believe. I sound this at the late, lamented Magic Bus on Conti Street in the French Quarter back in the 1990s when I was trying to get as complete a Lee Collins collection as possible. Quote
HutchFan Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. ... Not "grim" at all! What's not to like about traditional music from New Orleans?!?!?! Edited May 5, 2015 by HutchFan Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Earlier today: Dixieland Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (GHB). Okay, this looks grim, but the music is great. ... Not "grim" at all! What's not to like about traditional music from New Orleans?!?!?! Oh, everybody here knows that I love New Orleans music. I just meant that the title is pretty off-putting, and the abitrary credit to Pete Fountain, who is only a sideman on one side, is misleading and annoying. Quote
johnblitweiler Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Jeff, Magic Bus is where I found some American Music CDs that I used to cherish. Did anyone (apart possibly from LA Music Factory) ever take Magic Bus's placer? Quote
jeffcrom Posted May 5, 2015 Report Posted May 5, 2015 Jeff, Magic Bus is where I found some American Music CDs that I used to cherish. Did anyone (apart possibly from LA Music Factory) ever take Magic Bus's placer? No, and there are really no decent record stores in the French Quarter now. (The Louisiana Music Factory is still great, but they have moved across Esplanade to Frenchmen Street in the Marigny nieghborhood.) Magic Bus has been gone five or six years now; I think that the space was still vacant the last time I walked by. The incredible Record Ron's (Ron had two French Quarter locations) disappeared when Ron died in 1996. There was a messy, disorganized store, the name of which I can't think of right now, on Decatur Street near Esplanade that I visited for nearly 20 years, but they are also now closed. Magic Bus was always my second favorite New Orleans record store, after the Lousiana Music Factory. Probably my best score there was a complete Bix Beiderbecke CD set on the Italian IRD label for 60 bucks. Besides the Music Factory, there are still a couple of good record stores in New Orleans. There's a branch of Euclid Records in the Bywater neighborhood. And Jim Russell's Rare Records on Magazine Street is an experience not to be missed, for those with a certain degree of patience. The arrangement and pricing of the records is totally random and arbitrary. But I've found some incredible stuff there, and their selection of New Orleans R & B 45s is jaw-dropping. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Listening to a new OJC 150 gram reissue of Monk's Brilliant Corners. Just dandy, though the cover could have been done better. Edited May 6, 2015 by Chuck Nessa Quote
Clunky Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Duke Jordan--------Jazz laboratory series, Do it yourself Jazz Vol.1-------(Savoy) Side 1 one has the piano trio (Duke Jordan, Oscar P. & Klook)and is pretty pointless given that a soloist is obviously missing. The soloist in question is Gigi Gryce who is added on side 2. From the liners it appears that Gryce's contributions were overdubbed. If you ignore side 1 you have some nicely recorded and played hardbop. Gryce is superb playing in his earlier style which is less bluesy than it became as he moved to Prestige. Next up will be DIY Vol.2 which has Hall Overton on piano and Phil Woods on alto. A better combination would be the quartet sides on one LP. IIRC it has been issued in that way ( possibly on the original Signal edition) Quote
mjazzg Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Sakata, Parker, McBride, Herndon - In A Babble [Presspop Music] Quote
mjazzg Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Brotzmann, Adasiewicz - Mollie's in the Mood [bro] Quote
clifford_thornton Posted May 6, 2015 Report Posted May 6, 2015 Good record. Also the only Mollie I ever knew well seemed never to be in the mood... Quote
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