What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

17 hours ago, corto maltese said:

The blue background for "the Blues" is a stroke of designer's genius, so I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to these stones than we, unsophistacated souls, can imagine.

 

very impressive-- so yea....art licences didnt translate to the overseas jazz, so they all had new covers for the indie label releases.  pacific jazz it was the same think-- but yea....

[clifford_thornton]

I like the look of that kooky Esquire Ray Bryant LP myself...

now:

Nelly Pouget/Siegfried Kessler/Tony Overwater/Sunny Murray - Le Dire - (Minuit Regards, FR)

[Homefromtheforest]

Don Ellis "new ideas" (new jazz, DG USA)

Oliver Nelson "meet Oliver Nelson" (New jazz, DG USA)

James Clay "double dose of soul" (riverside, mono DG USA)

[sidewinder]

13 hours ago, Clunky said:

 

 

Now this .,,,

Phil Seaman -------Now !.....Live!-------(Verve MGM UK)

picked this up for £4 yesterday and therefore appear to quite a bargain if Popsike is to be believed. Competent swing piano trio , pretty mainstream fare but quite energetically played.

Worth it just for the wording of the title (intentional?) and the cover art. I think a past edition of Jazzwise featured it in its 'non-PC' feature vintage LP - I wonder why? Tony Lee Trio at the Bulls Head, Barnes is what it says on the tin and that is exactly what you get. 

It is indeed a rare album. Needless to say my copy cost a wee bit more than £4. Where are you and Mark getting your LPs from - Ali Baba's cave? 

Edited April 14, 2016 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

8 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

I like the look of that kooky Esquire Ray Bryant LP myself...

Those pebbles look suspiciously as if they might have been acquired from Chesil Beach, Dorset..Jurassic Coast.

Edited April 14, 2016 by sidewinder

[paul secor]

On ‎4‎/‎13‎/‎2016 at 3:41 AM, Clunky said:

The Esquire art department surpassed itself with this alternative cover. Mind you the Prestige original isn't anything to talk about (although it is better IMO) . I'm uncertain how four stones equates or relates in any way to the blues or being alone. Perhaps it's the type of rock depicted or some 'in joke' that a half century later is entirely lost. Spinning this now as I found a nice near mint copy yesterday. The music is pretty good , perhaps my favourite Bryant. Sounds very fresh.

 

Ray Bryant-------Alone with the blues-------(Esquire UK) dg etc..

 

here's the Prestige original for completeness

I don't know what connection the Esquire has to the title, but it certainly grabs my attention more than the generic Prestige cover does.

[paul secor]

Coltrane Live at the Vanguard Again! (Impulse Japan)

[clifford_thornton]

Peter Cusack, Guus Janssen, Evan Parker, Terry Day et al. - Groups in Front of People 2 - (Bead, UK)

[BillF]

7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Worth it just for the wording of the title (intentional?) and the cover art. 

I'm sure it wasn't intentional. There was a surprising innocence in those days about what now would be suggestive names. Remember this was when Uranus was pronounced with the stress on the second syllable. 

[Clunky]

9 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Worth it just for the wording of the title (intentional?) and the cover art. I think a past edition of Jazzwise featured it in its 'non-PC' feature vintage LP - I wonder why? Tony Lee Trio at the Bulls Head, Barnes is what it says on the tin and that is exactly what you get. 

It is indeed a rare album. Needless to say my copy cost a wee bit more than £4. Where are you and Mark getting your LPs from - Ali Baba's cave? 

Picked the Seaman and the Bryant Esquire up at Oxfam. 

[sidewinder]

Unusual oversight by Oxfam - they usually mark stuff up to top price. Nice one !

[corto maltese]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Peter Cusack, Guus Janssen, Evan Parker, Terry Day et al. - Groups in Front of People 2 - (Bead, UK)

Aha, more weirdness ?

Good stuff. Fine label.

[clifford_thornton]

Yes, very weird and I prefer this to the first volume. Weird is not a bad word.

[Clunky]

 

Frank Strazzeri-----View from within-----(Creative World) reissue of Revelation LP

A tougher sound than one might expect from Candoli/Rosolino etc. 

[Royal Oak]

4 hours ago, BillF said:

I'm sure it wasn't intentional. There was a surprising innocence in those days about what now would be suggestive names. Remember this was when Uranus was pronounced with the stress on the second syllable. 

From 1963. I like this album, FWIW 

[clifford_thornton]

Depends where the accent falls on "gay."

[BillF]

1 hour ago, rdavenport said:

From 1963. I like this album, FWIW 

Nice one, Richard.  I remember a book on my student reading list called The Gay Couple in Restoration Literature and everybody in it was straight! 

[paul secor]

Herb and Lorraine Geller: The Gellers (Emarcy Japan)

[Clunky]

 

Various artists -------Loaded--------(London/Savoy) UK

 

Vido Musso gets plenty of space here. The tracks have an interesting swing to bop feel but Musso is really too vulgar a player to make it truly enjoyable. Boots Mussulli or Lem Davis would be more interesting but get much less space. Denzil Best is the drummer on most of the tracks. So interesting but nothing incredible on these less well know mid forties titles.

[paul secor]

Herb Geller Plays (Emarcy Japan)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

On 4/12/2016 at 8:54 AM, Clunky said:

 

Lucky Thompson----------- plays Jerome Kern -----(Moodsville) mono

I never did understand why they messed with the playing order of this LP when they reissued it on CD as "Happy Days".

[paul secor]

Solo Monk

Wonderful music with some of Martin Williams' finest writing in the liner notes.

[Clunky]

Listened to a fair amount of Monk today the Black Lion sessions and now .....

Monk/Coltrane ----at Carnegie Hall -----(Mosaic/Thelonious Records) 

Edited April 15, 2016 by Clunky

[sidewinder]

Cedar Walton 'Eastern Rebellion 2' (Timeless)

Just re-levelled my deck. It was sounding a bit off and I was a bit worried that I might have needed a new cartridge (10 years +). I needn't have worried... 

Edited April 15, 2016 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

Howard McGhee -------Nobody knows you when you're down and out.....-------(UA) 

two quartet sessions one with organ the other piano. The whole thing has an appropriately melancholy air . Maggie's tone is suitably poignant. It's clearly one off date for all concerned but Howard sounds more alert than other sessions of this vintage . (Unlike some other UA vinyl no 'ear' in the dead wax)

Edited April 15, 2016 by Clunky