What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[kh1958]

Horace Silver, You Gotta Take a Little Love (Blue Note), and John Handy, The Second John Handy Album (Columbia, promo)

[psu_13]

https://www.discogs.com/Toshiko-Akiyoshi-Lew-Tabackin-Big-Band-Salted-Gingko-Nuts/release/3618883

[aparxa]

Album of the day and of the month:

 

Little Band - Big Jazz (EROS)

 

 

Three mismatches last week:

Jazz Lab + Cecil Taylor Quartet - At Newport (DOXY, Mint) containing Red Garland - It's a new world.  I am the only one to blame, I guess .

Mats Gustafsson - Needs (Mint), badly pressed on both sides.

A tribute to Madge ( Esquire) containing  Moondog (Esquire) a.k.a. More Moondog (Prestige).  Great catch! I enjoy his first Columbia debut but I really liked this Prestige record.

[duaneiac]

[duaneiac]

A puzzling bit of art direction, using a 1930's era photo of BG on this album of recordings from 1950-52.  The still swinging Terry Gibbs is the only constant component in all the groups heard here, but other members included Teddy Wilson, Paul Smith, Johnny Smith, Mundell Lowe, Eddie Safranski and Don Lamond.

Some more puzzling work from Columbia.  Side A of this LP contains songs from the 1974 Manhattan Wildlife Refuge album, while Side B's contents come from 1975's The Tiger of San Pedro.  It's better than nothing, I guess.  Good music from a seemingly forgotten band.

[soulpope]

Syl Johnson "Main Squeeze" (Hi Records H-78517)  .... a very late Hi Records release at the sundown of Southern Soul documents Syl Johnson`s strength with downtempo material on this excellent ballad co-written with songsmith Earl Randle .... compares favorably with the version from Nate Evans (Twinight TW-156) from 1972 - but that`s a different story ....

[duaneiac]

Probably the weakest examples of bossa nova one might ever find, but there are still interesting reinterpretations of several familiar songs from the Kenton library here.

[duaneiac]

Recorded Oct. 24, 1973, exactly seven months before EKE would leave us.  A quite beautiful and, at times, moving concert.  Alice Babs has some beautiful moments and according to the liner notes, she had seen none of the music until a rehearsal held the day before the concert.  Paul Gonsalves was absent from the concert, for as the liner note writer Stanley Dance puts it, he "had obviously been entertained too extravagantly by London "friends"".

Edited August 29, 2017 by duaneiac

[JSngry]

5 hours ago, duaneiac said:

Probably the weakest examples of bossa nova one might ever find, but there are still interesting reinterpretations of several familiar songs from the Kenton library here.

I dig the trombone writing on this album, as well as the narcoleptic metronomity of the playing. Seriously. Many Kenton "easy listening" albums (and there are a surprisingly large amount of them) are just stupid. But the best of them hit a very specific zone that I have come to both appreciate and enjoy. This is one of them, just a big hovering fog of bossatrombonemetronomicnarcolepsy with occasional trumpet rays of hot sun coming in and then leaving. In it's own way, it's got a kind of Eno quality to it. In its won way.

[paul secor]

Mingus: Tijuana Moods

[paul secor]

Lightnin' Hopkins: Strums the Blues

[jeffcrom]

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now (Impulse). First listen in a couple of years. A conundrum: I would prefer this album with another horn partner for Pee Wee other than Marshall Brown - but without Brown, this group and album wouldn't have happened. All in all, I'll put it in the "win" column, with some gorgeous moments.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, jeffcrom said:

Pee Wee Russell - Ask Me Now (Impulse). First listen in a couple of years. A conundrum: I would prefer this album with another horn partner for Pee Wee other than Marshall Brown - but without Brown, this group and album wouldn't have happened. All in all, I'll put it in the "win" column, with some gorgeous moments.

I agree with your take on this record, Jeff.

[mjazzg]

Pierre Favre Trio - Santana [Pip]

[paul secor]

Walking Blues (l.o.C./Flyright)

My copy has "HONEYBOY" on the front - signed by Mr. Edwards.

[paul secor]

Mal Waldron with the Steve Lacy Quintet (America)

[duaneiac]

[aparxa]

[paul secor]

Lester Young - Roy Eldridge - Harry Edison: Laughin' To Keep From Cryin'

Pres doesn't sound like he was at all well on this session, though he does get it together on "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone". On one or two other tunes, the ideas are there, even if the chops are not. I'm keeping this for Burt Goldblatt's cover photo, for Roy and Sweets - and for Pres.

[paul secor]

Doug Watkins: Watkins at Large

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

 

 

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

Doug Watkins: Watkins at Large

 

u really got one dog?  cheapest ive seen it is 220 and it was beat as they get. seemed a bad idea at the time, prob was my only opportunity

[paul secor]

Mine is a Japanese reissue LP from the 1980s. I've never seen an original.

[mjazzg]

Clare Fischer - First Time Out [Fontana]

Gary Peacock really stands out throughout this

[Kevin Bresnahan]

5 hours ago, paul secor said:

Mine is a Japanese reissue LP from the 1980s. I've never seen an original.

I have a Japanese copy as well. From what I've read, I wouldn't want an original. I've heard that the vinyl is noisy and the labels usually fall off.

[paul secor]

I guess this is one case where the reissue tops the original. Except maybe not to the extremist collector who doesn't listen to what's in their collection and just looks at their LPs. There must be one or two of those around.