What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

Electrum is okay - wouldn't throw down a lot of money on it but it's a decent, not-uninteresting record.

[corto maltese]

Well, "okay" or "decent" just isn't enough, is it ? Not when there's so much good, great and brilliant around.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, but how does one know "brilliant" if there isn't any "decent/solid" to compare it to?

[JSngry]

First World Problem!

[Homefromtheforest]

2 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

yeah, but how does one know "brilliant" if there isn't any "decent/solid" to compare it to?

I just heard the sound of one hand clapping in a forest ;)

[clifford_thornton]

Ha, that reminds me of some of the pieces in An Anthology, which I was just going through the other night.

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

First World Problem!

Every problem in this community is likely a fwp. Sigh.

[mjazzg]

Barry Guy - Statements V-XI For Double Bass & Violone [Incus] ltd ed, bespoke art cover

Great to finally have this music. Seen Guy play solos live many times, good to have him in the home too 

[clifford_thornton]

Couldn't resist getting one of those some years ago even though I already had the regular Incus pressing. Picked up one with an Alan Davie print.

[B. Clugston]

Kodaly String Quartet, Contemporary Hungarian Chamber Music (Hungaroton).  

[paul secor]

Ray Charles and Betty Carter (ABC Paramount/DCC)

[sidewinder]

BN NY USA stereo

[Royal Oak]

57 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

BN NY USA stereo

I was listening to that very LP this evening! Not so keen on side 1 (the organ side) but side 2 is good - a nice "Django".

[jeffcrom]

Pretty Baby Soundtrack (ABC). Don't laugh. I've never seen the movie, but the soundtrack album is one of the great New Orleans jazz albums of the 1970s. Kid Thomas Valentine, Raymond Burke, Louis Cottrell, Louis Nelson, Bob Greene, and the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra with Lionel Ferbos are all on board. James Booker even contributes a vocal on Jelly's "Whinin' Boy." This is the third copy I've owned; the first two sounded terrible and not great, respectively. I just found a sealed copy; I'm playing it for the first time, and it sounds pretty good.

[sidewinder]

NY USA mono, ear. 

 

Liberty, stereo

9 hours ago, rdavenport said:

I was listening to that very LP this evening! Not so keen on side 1 (the organ side) but side 2 is good - a nice "Django".

Uncanny !

[kh1958]

Bechet (Riverside)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

[paul secor]

Kate & Anna McGarrigle: French Record (Hannibal)

[B. Clugston]

John Coltrane, Soultrane + and the Red Garland Trio (Analogue Productions). Great stuff from the Prestige era.

Steve Lacy, School Days (QED). All Monk, before it was fashionable, with Roswell Rudd.

[sidewinder]

Woods/Byrd 'The Young Bloods' (Esquire).

 

Great rhythm section of Al Haig, Teddy Kotick and Charlie Persip on this one, something for a 'comeback' for Haig back at the time of issue.

[AllenLowe]

interesting session, but Al, post-alcoholic binges, shows the first signs of deterioration, so I have a little trouble listening; it's a continuity thing; he will start a phrase and just lose the momentum, and start all over. This was a bigger problem in the '70s when I knew him.

[kh1958]

Barney Kessel, Easy Like (Contemporary), and The Compositions of Benny Golson (Riverside)

[jazztrain]

[sidewinder]

MJQ 'Under The Jasmin Tree' (Australian World Record Club, stereo)

Lalo Schifrin 'Sade' (ditto)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

[Chuck Nessa]

Just burned a cdr of this