What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Gheorghe]

I spinned the WNEW "Saturday Night Jazz Session", that old LP on the frensh America-Label. Especially for Fats Navarro´s Birthday Septtember 23nd.

I remember when I purchased it exactly 40 years ago, when I was lookin for more stuff of Fats Navarro (I already had the stuff he did with Bird and Bud in Birdland 1950, and the Savoy and Blue Note recordings and the Roost stuff with Tadd).

About that record: The first side is Roy Eldrige with Flip Phillips (dig Eldrige quoting the "modern" Ornithology" on How High the Moon.

And the second side a strange mixed line up: Fats, Bill Harris, Charlie Ventura, Allen Eager. And strange title "High on an open Mike" , and a very fast "Georgia Brown" with I think Fats´s voice annoucing Buddy Rich after his own solo.

[clifford_thornton]

Interesting, so the America label was already releasing material in 1968. Thanks.

[optatio]

VARIOUS: SATURDAY NIGHT JAZZ SESSION. AMERICA 30 AM 6065

[clifford_thornton]

Nice. My copy of "Chazz!" is on America, and of course I have the complete free jazz series on LP, released between 1970-73.

[HutchFan]

Larry Coryell backed by Oregon (minus Paul McCandless):

The Restful Mind (Vanguard, 1975)

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

On 9/21/2018 at 6:57 PM, paul secor said:

Horace Silver Quintet: The Tokyo Blues

John Harris, Jr. 

 

i never knew about the little crocodile 

[paul secor]

[clifford_thornton]

Baikida Carroll -- The Spoken Word -- (Hat Hut)

[Gheorghe]

Thank you @optatio for posting the cover of the Saturday Night Jazz Session.

And today I spinned also from the America Label Max Roach´s "Speak Brother Speak". It was my first Max Roach album, I purchased it after I saw them live. Never forgot how delighted I was about Max´ drum solo on Speak Brother Speak, it was similar to his famous solo "The Drum also Waltzes".

Those America label LPs were great, I collected them, they had good music, mostly Mingus, and they were easy to purchase in Europe and not expensive, so it was ideal for jazz youngsters like I was.

[optatio]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Thank you @optatio for posting the cover of the Saturday Night Jazz Session.

And today I spinned also from the America Label Max Roach´s "Speak Brother Speak". It was my first Max Roach album, I purchased it after I saw them live. Never forgot how delighted I was about Max´ drum solo on Speak Brother Speak, it was similar to his famous solo "The Drum also Waltzes".

Those America label LPs were great, I collected them, they had good music, mostly Mingus, and they were easy to purchase in Europe and not expensive, so it was ideal for jazz youngsters like I was.

Because of Roach I regret, but here comes Mingus:

CHARLIE MINGUS: PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS: AMERICA 30 AM 6109 [1971]

[optatio]

I find many many more in my collection - see https://www.discogs.com/de/label/60669-America-Records, this one because of the title:

ALBERT AYLER: FREE JAZZ. AMERICA 30 AM 6100 [1970]

[soulpope]

58 minutes ago, optatio said:

Because of Roach I regret, but here comes Mingus:

CHARLIE MINGUS: PITHECANTHROPUS ERECTUS: AMERICA 30 AM 6109 [1971]

and more !!!

[Gheorghe]

Yeah. In my just budding knowledge about jazz, but already being an avid fan of modern jazz, with very much interest in Mingus´ music, I just titled that "America" Label a "Charles Mingus label" because from all various artists I think the largest amount was on Mingus albums.

I had and still have: 1) Charles Mingus Quintet with Max Roach (I remember I was disappointed because I had hoped it will be the regular quinted with Roach added as a second drummer, making the stuff even more heavy and dense, but it´s only Max sittin in on two tunes, the rest is a quite tame Mingus playing mostly standards).
2) "Chazz" , which is the second part of the "Bohemia 1955" sessions
3) Above all: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (with Dolphy in Paris)
4) Mingus at Monterey
5) Right Now, Mingus at the Jazz Workshop
6) My Favourite Quintet
7) and 8) Pyticantropus Erectus and Blue Bird, those are the America Sessions from 1970

And besides that I had the mostly Mingus-associated other stuff: Massey Hall Concert, Bud Powell Trio (same date, both with Mingus), The Fabulous Thad Jones (also with Mingus), Max Roach Speak Brother Speak (my impression then was "Mingus associated" because of the political message, and because of Mingus Alumni Cliff Jordan and Mal Waldron).
And of course "Saturday Night" Jazz Session (not Mingus, but I had the opinion that it might have been "recomandated by Mingus as worth listening

Smile : Mingus was kind of "God" to me in 1977,78. I was just an impressed kid and thought if others are on that "Mingus Label", it´s because Mingus brought them to it or considered that "we" (the audience) should listen to it.

So "Mingus" indirectly pulled my coat to Bird, to Bud, to Fats......, that´s how it was in those years for me.....

 

 

[optatio]

I´m going along with you - and Mingus! But this is another "pearl":

THE FABULOUS PAUL BLEY QUINTET. AMERICA 30 AM 6120 [1971]

[mjazzg]

John Graas - Jazz-Lab 1 [Brunswick]

purchased on a whim without knowing anything about it but some of the names involved. Pleased I did, very enjoyable

Edited September 25, 2018 by mjazzg

[soulpope]

36 minutes ago, optatio said:

I´m going along with you - and Mingus! But this is another "pearl":

THE FABULOUS PAUL BLEY QUINTET. AMERICA 30 AM 6120 [1971]

Excellent back-cover photography ....

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

I´m going along with you - and Mingus! But this is another "pearl":

THE FABULOUS PAUL BLEY QUINTET. AMERICA 30 AM 6120 [1971]

A pearl, a gem, whatever you want to call it -

[optatio]

39 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

John Graas -Jazz-Lab 1 [Brunswick]

purchased n a whim without knowing anything about it but some of the names involved. Pleased I did, very enjoyable

https://www.discogs.com/John-Graas-Jazz-Lab-1/release/2751451 , reissued in Germany in 1975 with one track more ("Be My Guest")  https://www.discogs.com/de/John-Graas-Septet-And-Nonetet-Westcoast-Workshop/release/5809961

[mjazzg]

20 minutes ago, optatio said:

https://www.discogs.com/John-Graas-Jazz-Lab-1/release/2751451 , reissued in Germany in 1975 with one track more ("Be My Guest")  https://www.discogs.com/de/John-Graas-Septet-And-Nonetet-Westcoast-Workshop/release/5809961

Thanks. I'll be looking out for other dates now. It would seem that Jazz-Lab 2 demands higher prices, especially if in Europe. Can't be for the cover, or maybe it is 

 

 

[optatio]

16 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Thanks. I'll be looking out for other dates now. It would seem that Jazz-Lab 2 demands higher prices, especially if in Europe. Can't be for the cover, or maybe it is 

 

 

Complete your laboratory ;-) https://www.discogs.com/de/label/635161-Jazz-Lab!

[mjazzg]

Fred Katz - Folk Songs For Far Out Folk [Warner Bros]

[mjazzg]

Peter Brotzmann Sextet/Quartet - Nipples [Cien Fuegos]

[clifford_thornton]

Glad to see people posting these America releases. The Roach album has much better cover art than the US Fantasy issue. Sadly, the America Records issue of the Ayler LP leaves off his spoken introduction!

have an original Nipples, one of my most treasured albums. 

[JSngry]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Yeah. In my just budding knowledge about jazz, but already being an avid fan of modern jazz, with very much interest in Mingus´ music, I just titled that "America" Label a "Charles Mingus label" because from all various artists I think the largest amount was on Mingus albums.

I had and still have: 1) Charles Mingus Quintet with Max Roach (I remember I was disappointed because I had hoped it will be the regular quinted with Roach added as a second drummer, making the stuff even more heavy and dense, but it´s only Max sittin in on two tunes, the rest is a quite tame Mingus playing mostly standards).
2) "Chazz" , which is the second part of the "Bohemia 1955" sessions
3) Above all: The Great Concert of Charles Mingus (with Dolphy in Paris)
4) Mingus at Monterey
5) Right Now, Mingus at the Jazz Workshop
6) My Favourite Quintet
7) and 8) Pyticantropus Erectus and Blue Bird, those are the America Sessions from 1970

And besides that I had the mostly Mingus-associated other stuff: Massey Hall Concert, Bud Powell Trio (same date, both with Mingus), The Fabulous Thad Jones (also with Mingus), Max Roach Speak Brother Speak (my impression then was "Mingus associated" because of the political message, and because of Mingus Alumni Cliff Jordan and Mal Waldron).
And of course "Saturday Night" Jazz Session (not Mingus, but I had the opinion that it might have been "recomandated by Mingus as worth listening

Smile : Mingus was kind of "God" to me in 1977,78. I was just an impressed kid and thought if others are on that "Mingus Label", it´s because Mingus brought them to it or considered that "we" (the audience) should listen to it.

So "Mingus" indirectly pulled my coat to Bird, to Bud, to Fats......, that´s how it was in those years for me.....

 

 

The older ones of those were originally released here my Mingus/Roach on Debut. There was some sort of reciprocal agreement with a eurolabel of the same name, which is how some things like the Ayler & Cecil Taylor/Montmarte tings saw their original release on Fantasy/Debut here.

How they all got over to America (the label), I can't tell you. But that label saw some of its 70s (Mingus and Gillespie come to mind) dates released through Prestige, which was then part of Fantasy (which had by then taken control over the Mingus/Roach Debut label.

[clifford_thornton]

America had a licensing deal with Fantasy; they also put out some Creedence LPs.

Danish Debut was a fan club label and had a reciprocal arrangement with Debut/Fantasy on some releases until the late 1960s, when they went out of business. Most of their catalog after 1964 consisted of Danish artists.