What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Clifford Brown - Max Roach

Classic ....

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

Pete La Roca: Basra

Desert island material  ....

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

Rusty Bryant, Fire Eater (Prestige)

👍👍 .... aptly titled platter ....

[mjazzg]

Anima - Monte Alto  [Play It Loud, 2015]

beautifully presented reissue of some fascinating music

[optatio]

MAL WALDRON WITH THE STEVE LACY QUINTET. AMERICA 30 AM 6124 [1972]

[clifford_thornton]

12 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Think I remember that story; my lips are sealed. 

oh man, would be curious because who doesn't love a little gossip?

[paul secor]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

MAL WALDRON WITH THE STEVE LACY QUINTET. AMERICA 30 AM 6124 [1972]

Very good - and somewhat overlooked.

[soulpope]

43 minutes ago, paul secor said:

Very good - and somewhat overlooked.

I believe the same applies here ....

[jeffcrom]

Bunky Green - Testifyin' Time (Argo mono)

[optatio]

5 hours ago, soulpope said:

I believe the same applies here ....

Agreed!

Here is the back cover:

But Kent Carter claims that he's the bassist - see discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/Mal-Waldron-The-Whirling-Dervish/release/2509314 

Here is the text on the back cover enlarged:

Who is right?

[Larry Kart]

9 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

oh man, would be curious because who doesn't love a little gossip?

As a Papageno says in "Der Zauberflote": "Hmm, hmm, hmm. hmm. hmm, hmm, hmm. hmm."

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, optatio said:

Agreed!

Here is the back cover:

But Kent Carter claims that he's the bassist - see discogs: https://www.discogs.com/de/Mal-Waldron-The-Whirling-Dervish/release/2509314 

Here is the text on the back cover enlarged:

Who is right?

It's an excellent album though admittedly I haven't had it on deck in ages. Will listen and report back, as Carter is very easily identifiable. I assume one could ask Peter Warren as he's alive and well.

[Gheorghe]

On ‎29‎.‎09‎.‎2018 at 0:06 AM, paul secor said:

Bird's the word.

With all kinds of editions and reissues, the Spotlite was the best one. Spotlite was THE Label for Bird- and Bop-fans. Great ! Brings memories back, all the Dial´s with the alternate tracks and bonus tracks from private recordings, the other rare stuff "Appartment Sessions" "The Band That Never was" "Bird in Paris" "Bird in Sweden", "Early Bird" , and the incredible "Afro Cuban" and above all the Billy Eckstine Bigband with Fats on it, "Together"...... , those guys from Spotlite were the  best !

[paul secor]

58 minutes ago, Gheorghe said:

With all kinds of editions and reissues, the Spotlite was the best one. Spotlite was THE Label for Bird- and Bop-fans. Great ! Brings memories back, all the Dial´s with the alternate tracks and bonus tracks from private recordings, the other rare stuff "Appartment Sessions" "The Band That Never was" "Bird in Paris" "Bird in Sweden", "Early Bird" , and the incredible "Afro Cuban" and above all the Billy Eckstine Bigband with Fats on it, "Together"...... , those guys from Spotlite were the  best !

I have many of those Spotlite releases and still have a great time listening to them.

[Big Beat Steve]

The "Al Haig meets ..." and "Nat Cole meets ..." volumes, in particular, were ear openers to some of the rarer sessions on Dial and elsewhere. And I think I relatively wore out my copy of the Dodo Marmarosa LP too (one of those cases where I ought to have picked up a cheap NM spare copy when the occasion presented itself).

Edited October 2, 2018 by Big Beat Steve

[mjazzg]

I.C.P - Tentet - In Berlin [FMP]

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I.C.P - Tentet - In Berlin [FMP]

and again, once just wasn't enough.  Such a great band

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

The "Al Haig meets ..." and "Nat Cole meets ..." volumes, in particular, were ear openers to some of the rarer sessions on Dial and elsewhere. And I think I relatively wore out my copy of the Dodo Marmarosa LP too (one of those cases where I ought to have picked up a cheap NM spare copy when the occasion presented itself).

Back in the day, Tony Russell’s Spotlite Label and the Hep label from up in Scotland were great sources of bop material. I particularly like the Howard McGhee ‘Trumpet at Tempo’. 

Edited October 2, 2018 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

UK CBS, stereo

[HutchFan]

Eddie Jefferson - Things Are Getting Better (Muse, 1974)
with Joe Newman, Billy Mitchell, Mickey Tucker, Sam Jones, and Eddie Gladden

 

 

Earlier:

Kenny Burrell - Recapitulation (Chess, 2 LPs)
Burrell is presented in a variety of contexts on this compilation -- and he always sounds good.
 

[HutchFan]

Dexter Gordon - Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard (Columbia)
Tonight's spin again confirms my long-held impressions about this music: The Woody Shaw / Louis Hayes group was a terrific band, but I don't think their pairing with Dexter -- at least in this instance -- comes off particularly well. Much of the time, it feels like Dexter's straining against them, rather than flying with them. The band is too stiff, too unyielding -- so Dex can never quite SOAR like he does when he's at his best.

... Just my 2 cents.  

 

[paul secor]

Howlin' Wolf: Moanin' in the Moonlight

[Gheorghe]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Dexter Gordon - Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard (Columbia)
Tonight's spin again confirms my long-held impressions about this music: The Woody Shaw / Louis Hayes group was a terrific band, but I don't think their pairing with Dexter -- at least in this instance -- comes off particularly well. Much of the time, it feels like Dexter's straining against them, rather than flying with them. The band is too stiff, too unyielding -- so Dex can never quite SOAR like he does when he's at his best.

... Just my 2 cents.  

 

Same here ! I really agree to you, always had the same impression. I think I purchased it about 2 years after it came out in 1976. Dexter is at his best on "Manhattan Symphony" from 1978 which included most of the material he played live then.

Don´t misunderstand me: I love Woody Shaw and his groups, but as you said it, it was not the right choice to add Dexter to the Woody Shaw Group and make a Dexter-album out of it.

On the other hand, Dexter and Woody COULD play very fine music together, but with another rhythm section, like on "Great Encounters", and I think on "Gotham City", and on the 1977 Montreux Summit .......

[sidewinder]

I always found the recorded sound on ‘Homecoming’ very flat, which never helped.

My preference amongst that Dexter CBS batch is ‘Sophisticated Giant’, with those fine Slide Hampton charts.

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Same here ! I really agree to you, always had the same impression. I think I purchased it about 2 years after it came out in 1976. Dexter is at his best on "Manhattan Symphony" from 1978 which included most of the material he played live then.

 

7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

My preference amongst that Dexter CBS batch is ‘Sophisticated Giant’, with those fine Slide Hampton charts.

 

Yeah, when it comes to the CBS recs, I prefer Manhattan Symphonie too.  And I like Sophisticated Giant better also.

But my favorite "post-homecoming" Dexter recordings are from the Keystone Korner:

I feel like Dexter's MUCH more simpatico with this band.  I love this stuff.