What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

Ramsey McLean + The Lifers -- New Orleans Now! History's Made Every Moment -- (Prescription, US)

RIP Alvin.

[kh1958]

Don Elliott, Mellophone (Bethlehem)

Roland Hanna, Easy to Love (Atco)

Chicago: The Living Legends (Riverside/Orpheum)

[paul secor]

[HutchFan]

Buck Clayton - The Golden Days of Jazz (Columbia Special Products)
LP 2

[paul secor]

[HutchFan]

Ruby Braff - Braff! (Epic)

 

and 

Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion)

[paul secor]

46 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

 

 

Ben Webster - Atmosphere for Lovers and Thieves (Black Lion)

A beauty!

[jeffcrom]

Kid Howard - Sam Morgan Re-Visited (Jazzology). The meat of this album is a 1962 set of five tunes first recorded by Sam Morgan's Jazz Band in 1927, plus one other tune by the same personnel. The seven-piece band is mostly composed of veterans of the Morgan band, including two musicians (Jim Robinson and Andrew Morgan) who played on the 1927 sessions. It's an incredibly exciting session, and the stereo recording suggests how great the Morgan band must have sounded in person.

In addition to the "Morgan" sides, there four 1960 tracks by a primo version of Kid Thomas Valentine's band.

This was one of the two LPs I bought on my first visit to Preservation Hall (and New Orleans) in 1990, when they still had a rack of LPs for sale in the carriageway - so it means a lot to me beyond the excellent music in the grooves.

 

[jeffcrom]

Lou Donaldson - Alligator Bogaloo (BN Liberty stereo)

[soulpope]

4 hours ago, paul secor said:

👍👍👍!!!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

On 1/5/2019 at 0:58 PM, JSngry said:

Mel Martin? The same Mel Martin? How old is this record?

Ok, I thought it was an old West Coast record, but it's pop/disco. So yes, THAT Mel Martin, that makes sense.

 

 

for tjader completists only

[mjazzg]

On 06/01/2019 at 11:22 PM, clifford_thornton said:

Ramsey McLean + The Lifers -- New Orleans Now! History's Made Every Moment -- (Prescription, US)

RIP Alvin.

Wondered about that one before. How is it?

[Dan Gould]

Never heard of this one, so I picked it up.  So used to Cedar with Smilin' Billy and either Sam or David on bass.

[paul secor]

[jeffcrom]

Anthony Braxton - Four Compositions (1973) (Denon)

[paul secor]

 

The Bells of Joy (Checker/P-Vine)

Edited January 9, 2019 by paul secor

[jeffcrom]

Earl Hines - My Tribute to Louis (Audiophile). Chuck Nessa gave me the heads up about how special this one is. Recorded less than two weeks after Louis Armstrong's death on a fine Steinway piano, with engineering by the recording genius Ewing Nunn.

Edited January 9, 2019 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

Paul Bley - Ballads (ECM)

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

 

The Bells of Joy (Checker/P-Vine)

Terrific ....

[porcy62]

Guess it's time for some Vodka Martini, olives and Jackie McLean's

[porcy62]

[jeffcrom]

 

Chick Corea - Inner Space (Atlantic). Record one, which is a reissue of Tones for Joan's Bones.

John Coltrane - Kulu se Mama (Impulse stereo)

[jeffcrom]

 

Ralph Towner & Gary Burton - Matchbook (ECM)

Sun Ra - The Soul Vibrations of Man (El Saturn). Live at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago, November, 1977. My copy is in a plain black sleeve, but the label looks like this.

[jeffcrom]

Lonnie Smith - Think! (BN UA)

[jeffcrom]

Olympia Brass Band - New Orleans Street Parade (BASF). Some of the Olympia's recordings are kind of trite and "touristy," but this 1968 German studio date is raw and fiery. The band is filled out with a few European ringers, including German trombonist Frank Naundorf. This was his first recorded appearance with the Olympia, but apparently it was a fit, because the next year he moved to New Orleans and became a regular member of the band.