What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[John Tapscott]

[Chuck Nessa]

Finally passed on test pressings of Air Time.

2017 will be the 50th birthday of nessa records. Something like 30 hours of music in 50 years - yeah!

Anyway, this will be one of our celebratory reissues - there will be some new music too.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Finally passed on test pressings of Air Time.

2017 will be the 50th birthday of nessa records. Something like 30 hours of music in 50 years - yeah!

Anyway, this will be one of our celebratory reissues - there will be some new music too.

[clifford_thornton]

Sweet!

[soulpope]

18 hours ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Finally passed on test pressings of Air Time.

2017 will be the 50th birthday of nessa records. Something like 30 hours of music in 50 years - yeah!

Anyway, this will be one of our celebratory reissues - there will be some new music too.

Very good news ....

[John Tapscott]

 

 

[kh1958]

Charlie Ventura, Jumpin' with Ventura (Emarcy)

[paul secor]

Earl Hines - Budd Johnson: The Dirty Old Men (Black and Blue)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

On 9/16/2016 at 4:40 AM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I don't know about that. I have found many Prestige pressings from the mid-60s, like the one you're talking about, that look absolutely terrible. Some of them have been practically new and still look terrible. "Orange peel" and bubbles in the vinyl are quite common for these pressings.

Orange peel:

Bubbles:

 

 

 

 

the 1st pic im sure i have some like that i mustof thought it was usererror...hmm....

[robertoart]

On 16 September 2016 at 1:35 AM, Homefromtheforest said:

Yup obis are nice but I decided long ago I'm not going to drive myself nuts looking for them.  Had the same scenario with Lacy's "the wire" - had an opportunity some years ago to buy another copy with the OBI but at some point you gotta put a lid on the madness...at least a little bit

Never 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

11 hours ago, paul secor said:

Earl Hines - Budd Johnson: The Dirty Old Men (Black and Blue)

A beautiful album - but everyone needs the CD for the bonus track.

MG

[six string]

The Complete Tony Scott on RCA (black label with nipper) mono pressing.

An excellent collection of horns for the orchestra and Bill Evans in the piano seat.  First spin.

[Clunky]

On 9/18/2016 at 1:26 AM, paul secor said:

wonderful news.....

[jeffcrom]

     

I've been enjoying my 78s so much that I've kept my turntable set up for those shellac discs for nearly a month now. I changed over to the LP setup today, and it's like discovering vinyl all over again. Tonight, so far:

Circle - Paris Concert (ECM). An old friend.

Jimmy Giuffre - 7 Pieces (Verve mono). Great music, but really softly mastered.

Sleepy Time Gal (Center). This excellent album of traditional New Orleans jazz has no leader or band name listed. It has been reissued in Jim Robinson's name, but it's really, in essence, The December Band, Volume 3. (Does that mean anything to anyone here? I'm probably speaking another language.) Anyway, it was recorded at the same 1965 concert which produced the two December Band albums on Jazz Crusade and GHB. Kid Thomas Valentine and Capt. John Handy are on board.

[six string]

Kenny Barron - Green Chimneys (Criss Cross)

[jeffcrom]

The Soul of Jazz (World Wide). A strange one, which I forgot I had - I came across it while thumbing through my LPs. There's no leader listed, but it seems to be organized by arranger Billy Ver Planck - and it's listed under his name in Michel Ruppli's Savoy discography. World Wide was apparently Savoy's early stereo subsidiary, lasting for about 20 albums.

The music is mostly self-conscious soul/gospel jazz, with corny heads and heavy backbeats. Four originals are credited to "Davis," whom I assume to be Ver Planck. But I enjoyed this immensely tonight, because the soloists are excellent. Joe Wilder, Bill Harris, Pepper Adams, and especially Bobby Jaspar and Eddie Costa are in great form. And George Duvivier's bass lines are worth a listen on their own.

[jeffcrom]

   

Robert Pete Williams - Louisiana Blues (Takoma)

Robert Pete Williams - Goodbye Slim Harpo/Viet Nam Blues (Ahura Mazda 45 RPM single)

[Homefromtheforest]

Roy Haynes "out of the afternoon" (impulse, mono am-par). Just picked this up for a pretty cheap price.  Now decisions have to be made..do I keep my old stereo "abc paramount" issue which is *slightly* cleaner?  The problems record nerds face...

[Homefromtheforest]

A few more picks from my retired friends collection:

Lou Donaldson "quartet, quintet. Sextet" (blue note, Lexington)

Jutta Hipp "live at the hickory house vol.1" (blue note, Lexington) 

Kenny Burrell "introducing Kenny Burrell" (blue note, Lexington)

All 3 have marks, scuffs, and scratches but no skips and play surprisingly quite good!  These old blue notes are work horses and for $25 each I won't complain in the least considering the covers are all quite nice!

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Homefromtheforest said:

Roy Haynes "out of the afternoon" (impulse, mono am-par). Just picked this up for a pretty cheap price.  Now decisions have to be made..do I keep my old stereo "abc paramount" issue which is *slightly* cleaner?  The problems record nerds face...

Keep both and go for japanese YP-8552-AI by Nippon Columbia  ....

[paul secor]

8 hours ago, jeffcrom said:

   

Robert Pete Williams - Louisiana Blues (Takoma)

Robert Pete Williams - Goodbye Slim Harpo/Viet Nam Blues (Ahura Mazda 45 RPM single)

I have both of those also, Great tastes ...

[kh1958]

Miles Davis, Seven Steps to Heaven (Columbia), and Miles Davis in Europe (Columbia)

[John Tapscott]

[kh1958]

Count Basie and His Orchestra (Mercury ten inch), and Duke Ellington, Ellington Indigoes (Columbia)

[clifford_thornton]

Never seen that Robert Pete Williams 45 before; have the Takoma and Prestige/Bluesville albums, both of which are excellent.

Now:

Paul Kantner - Blows Against the Empire - (RCA-Victor, clear promo edition)