What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Eddie Taylor: Big Town Playboy (Vee-Jay/Charly)

[Clunky]

 

Borje Fredriksson------Intervall------(Parlophone) Sweden.( a RSD issue from a few years ago)

 

Highly recommended. Although a physical copy might be hard to find. This album has been discussed before but needs to be more widely known. Joakim Milder opened my ears to Fredriksson's great pieces.

[Homefromtheforest]

I bought that reissue when it came out; was so happy to save $500 on an original!

16 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Yoshi Wada - Off the Wall - (Saltern reissue)

great-sounding reissue from the tapes by Wada's son. Used to have the original on FMP/SAJ, but traded it to a friend who'd hooked me up with a bunch of ridiculous jazz LPs. Felt okay letting go of the original - considering - but am glad to be able to have this music on deck again.

Have the cd of this and the India navigation album; have not played them in years!  Should dust them off some day...

[clifford_thornton]

Intervall is the shit. I should get the reissue (have a reference rip of it) but part of me thinks that somehow, someday I'll score a nice OG... 

[sidewinder]

Feeling a definite case of vinyl deprivation at the moment...

[Clunky]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Feeling a definite case of vinyl deprivation at the moment...

The wait will be worth it

 

NP

Mundell Lowe------Quartet------(London)  1955 Riverside 

 

I've not played this in ages and I'd forgotten just how good Lowe was. Boppish lines and never a dreary moment on this album. Dick Hyman's organ is occasionally rinky-dink but otherwise this recording has aged very  well. Listen to Lowe's Far from vanilla , some very unorthodox ideas which wouldn't have been out of place with Sun Ra. Nothing like the snooze-fest I thought I remembered. The London pressing is as perfect as 60 year old vinyl gets. Some Riversides can sound like really cheap production numbers not this. Jack Higgins - engineer take a bow.

 

[soulpope]

[paul secor]

Bennie Green: Back on the Scene (BN/Toshiba EMI)

[kh1958]

Freddie Hubbard, Blue Spirits (Blue Note, Liberty)

[jeffcrom]

Cecil McBee - Alternate Spaces (India Navigation)

[Clunky]

David Liebman Quintet -------- Doin' it again------(Timeless )

 Rather good date from 1979 with a young John Scofield sounding very distinctive.

[Clunky]

An old favourite. I decided not to upload the cover to spare the reputation of this place.

 

Sandy Brown ---- Hair at it's hairiest -----(Fontana)

 

Classic album with a bizarre line up with Kenny Wheeler and Johnny McLaughlin joining the cheesefest. 

Look up the back cover if you're feeling strong and no one else is looking. Wonder whose idea it was to protect Sandy's modesty with a sporran

Edited May 1, 2016 by Clunky

[jeffcrom]

  

Jimmy Lyons - Other Afternoons (BYG Actuel). A nice latter-day reissue.

Herman Foretich - The Foretich Four (Jazzology). Recorded in 1985, as the once-thriving Atlanta dixieland scene was on its last legs (although the banjoist here, Bill Rutan, is still playing). The very talented Foretich was once a big deal in here in Atlanta; I don't remember exactly when he died, and can't find that information on the internet.

[paul secor]

Teddy Wilson: Traces (Polydor)

"Lovely" isn't a word that I use very often, but it's the word that came to mind while I listened to this record.

 

[jeffcrom]

Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (Arista/Freedom), sides one and three. The most readily available issue of the November, 1962 Copenhagen recordings available when I was a teenager, which is why this is the version I have.

It's funny - with music this free, there is really no harmonic or rhythmic need for a bass. But I still miss it - as good as this music is, there's a sonic / registeral hole in the sound. Which I guess is why most free jazz still includes bass.

[jeffcrom]

Vernard Johnson - In Concert - "I'm a Witness Too" (Savoy). Dr. Johnson would probably not appreciate me putting it this way, but this is some bad-ass saxophone playing.

Edited May 3, 2016 by jeffcrom

[Homefromtheforest]

New Herd Orchestra with Masahiko Sato and Masahiko Togashi "eternity-epos" (polydor, Japan). A percussive-heavy album I used to own many years ago but sold..only to regret it years later.  Found another copy recently...perhaps not a "stunning" album but good enough that I'm glad I have it again!

[corto maltese]

8 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

Cecil Taylor - Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (Arista/Freedom), sides one and three. The most readily available issue of the November, 1962 Copenhagen recordings available when I was a teenager, which is why this is the version I have.

It's funny - with music this free, there is really no harmonic or rhythmic need for a bass. But I still miss it - as good as this music is, there's a sonic / registeral hole in the sound. Which I guess is why most free jazz still includes bass.

Around 20 years ago Cecil Taylor was invited to play at a (mostly mainstream) jazz festival in Antwerp, Belgium. Cecil had planned a duo performance with Thurman Barker on marimba. Because the organizers were worried that free jazz without bass ànd drums would be a bridge too far for their audience, they talked him into bringing a "regular" drummer on stage too. That was Richard Bakr.

Barker and Bakr are both fine players in their own right, but I wouldn't have missed either of them if Cecil had performed solo.

Edited May 3, 2016 by corto maltese
typo

[paul secor]

Johnny Griffin Quartet: Way Out (Riverside Japan)

[jeffcrom]

Jack Wilson - Brazilian Mancini (Vault). I pulled this one off the shelf tonight partially because of Joel's Jack Wilson thread. But it also felt right for my mood.

By rights, this should be a terrible album. The concept of taking bossa and Mancini and shoving them together is a bad enough idea to presumably ensure awfulness. And the Vault label was apparently Atlantic's sub-budget label, a step or two below Atco. It's a really cheap-looking record and cover.

But the music is pretty good, if not tremendously exciting. Two American jazz musicians (Wilson and Roy Ayers) are paired with a good Brazilian rhythm section - including Antonio Carlos Jobim, billed as "Tony Brazil." The tracks are so short that nothing really catches fire, but I'm enjoying this one tonight.

[jeffcrom]

  

At various times throughout the day:

The Georgia Yellow Hammers - The Moonshine Hollow Band (Rounder). The Yellow Hammers, from 70 miles up the road in Calhoun, Georgia, were one of the more musically sophisticated of the old-time string bands of the 1920s - one of the members was also the conductor of the local brass band. This LP is a nice complement to the four 78s I have by the band, with only two tunes overlapping.

Gerald Wilson - On Stage (PJ mono). Anthony Ortega's two edgy alto solos were the highlights of this excellent album for me.

Gil Evans (Ampex). In some moods, this 1969 album represents my favorite Gil Evans. Evans is at the midpoint of his evolution - halfway between careful compositional control over everything but the solos and his later use of sketches that allowed the improvisation to shape the performances. He is still guiding the pieces in a compositional way here, although sometimes that means deciding how to layer the improvisation. "General Assembly" is the prime example of this kind of loose control - it sounds about 75% improvised, but there's stuff going on in the foreground, in the middle distance, and in the background, and it seems like Evans is totally in control over the shading of those layers.

[clifford_thornton]

On 5/3/2016 at 4:17 AM, corto maltese said:

Around 20 years ago Cecil Taylor was invited to play at a (mostly mainstream) jazz festival in Antwerp, Belgium. Cecil had planned a duo performance with Thurman Barker on marimba. Because the organizers were worried that free jazz without bass ànd drums would be a bridge too far for their audience, they talked him into bringing a "regular" drummer on stage too. That was Richard Bakr.

Barker and Bakr are both fine players in their own right, but I wouldn't have missed either of them if Cecil had performed solo.

Would have liked to have seen that performance. By the way, the drummer, Rashid Bakr, now goes by his given name Charles Downs, and is a very fine player.

I'm also very fond of the Montmartre dates. They swing hard and move freely in around form. It's stunning, balletic music. I have both on Dutch Fontana LPs (one with a Marte Röling cover design).

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

yes really, on vinyl, not cd (1989) 

[soulpope]

[Clunky]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

My favourite Hope LP

 

NP

 

 

 

Cecil Taylor--------Live at the Cafe Montmartre--------(Debut) mono Danish LP. Not sure if this is the original issue but the sound is very clear.