What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Bird at the Roost Volume One (Savoy Jazz)

Great to hear Bird stretching out a bit - most of the performances are 4+ minutes - as opposed to the studio recordings, and taking a few chances that he might not have taken in the studio. Plus there's Miles beginning to become Miles.

[clifford_thornton]

Bob Downes - Electric City - (Vertigo UK swirl)

As I've become familiar with the variety of musical situations Bob Downes has created for himself, not to mention the verve of his personality (which comes through the music and our email exchanges), this wild-and-wooly, bluesy and funky jazz-rock amalgam has grown on me quite a bit. 

[Homefromtheforest]

Paul Chambers "jazz delegation from the east" (score, USA). Likely will never find/afford the original jazz-west issue so this slightly later issue will do.  A good session but not quite the sum of its parts that I had hoped.

Art Blakey "ritual" (world pacific, mono DG USA). Now this on the other hand is a stunner; excellent album.

Clifford Thornton "communications network" (third world, USA). Hmmm..finally got a NM copy but wow it's sort of a badly recorded album and a bit unfocused.  But Nathan Davis is on it...do I keep it?  I'm on the fence with this one...

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

dawg.  the score is still hella rare- i have a vintage european version on that really amazing quality european vinyl, im sure it sounds better than a jazz/west original

[Homefromtheforest]

1 hour ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

dawg.  the score is still hella rare- i have a vintage european version on that really amazing quality european vinyl, im sure it sounds better than a jazz/west original

Yeah I hear you.  Sure it's rarer then James Last and Nana Mouskouri!  I only have one JazzWest original lp and it's not a great pressing at all so yr probably right.  

[robertoart]

Stuff these bird in the hand losses. I had an original mint Dave Bailey Jazztime vinyl I sold off a few years later after I got it. I was beat out in a jazz collection sale by a jazz vinyl veteran who picked out an original Green Street vinyl and left me with an original Reaching Out, as a listener I thought I'd been usurped. Drats....

[OliverM]

David S. Ware Quartet -- Live in Vilnius

Just purchased this recently from No Business records, though it is one of their earlier releases. Truly one of the great quartets there were and this was their last release.

[sidewinder]

George Russell 'The Stratus Seekers' (Dutch Fontana, Interdisc). Sonics outstanding !

8 hours ago, Homefromtheforest said:

Yeah I hear you.  Sure it's rarer then James Last and Nana Mouskouri!  I only have one JazzWest original lp and it's not a great pressing at all so yr probably right.  

James Last and Nana on JazzWest? 

[clifford_thornton]

On a couple of levels Communications Network isn't that good, but I'm a completist and I also think that Thornton put a lot of effort into the concepts, which he felt the need to document. So it feels right to keep the record.

[sidewinder]

'Count Basie' (UK Vogue jazz double). Another one from the archive, new-testament band compilation of Roulette material that is included in the two Mosaic sets.  Sound OK but the Mosaics are better..

[Clunky]

 

Big John Patton-------Got a good thing going--------(BN) NY USA stereo

[kh1958]

Gigi Gryce/Don Byrd, Jazz Lab (Jubilee), and Pee Wee Russell Quartet, New Groove (Columbia)

[John Tapscott]

This is a pretty obscure Bellson recording, but a really fine one. Bobby Shew is featured throughout in magnificent form, and Joe Romano is excellent on Don Menza's arrangement of "Don't You Know I Care (or Don't You Care to Know)." 

 

[paul secor]

Sonny Stitt-Bud Powell-J.J. Johnson (Prestige)

Good to hear Stitt playing only tenor on this one.

[paul secor]

Thelonious in Action

It's good a pretty good record, but Johnny Griffin's blowing doesn't have a lot to do with Monk much of the time - at least not to these ears.

[optatio]

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

Sonny Stitt-Bud Powell-J.J. Johnson (Prestige)

Good to hear Stitt playing only tenor on this one.

! Now on my turntable!

[clifford_thornton]

agreed; I still like it a lot though.

[Homefromtheforest]

7 hours ago, optatio said:

! Now on my turntable!

Ugh used to own an original Prestige copy of this years ago but sold it in a moment of stupidity around 20 years ago.

tonight's playlist:

Dexter Gordon "our man in Paris" (blue note, NY USA stereo ear)

Hank Mobley etc "the jazz message" (savoy, USA orig DG red labels)

Takehisa Kosugi "catch wave" (Sony, Japan)

[soulpope]

11 hours ago, paul secor said:

Thelonious in Action

It's good a pretty good record, but Johnny Griffin's blowing doesn't have a lot to do with Monk much of the time - at least not to these ears.

IMO it is this dichotomy making the performances so rewarding ....

[BillF]

11 hours ago, paul secor said:

Thelonious in Action

It's good a pretty good record, but Johnny Griffin's blowing doesn't have a lot to do with Monk much of the time - at least not to these ears.

Never thought about that, but perhaps you're right. We hear about the empathy with Monk of Rollins, Coltrane and Rouse, but Griffin doesn't get mentioned.

[paul secor]

The John Lewis Album with Putte Wickman and Red Mitchell (Finesse)

[optatio]

JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET - FEATURING ERIC DOLPHY: LIVE IN PARIS 1961. JAZZWAY LTM-1503 [1987]

[JohnS]

[soulpope]

12 hours ago, optatio said:

JOHN COLTRANE QUINTET - FEATURING ERIC DOLPHY: LIVE IN PARIS 1961. JAZZWAY LTM-1503 [1987]

!!

[clifford_thornton]

Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden - Frictions - (LST, Germany)

blistering quartet romp housed in a handsome silk-screened jacket.