What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

[clifford_thornton]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Trip existed before and after their Emarcy program. There was also the Tootie Heath record, a live Randy Weston thing, that trumpet night at the Coronet (or whatever it was), as well as some Vee-Jay reissues and other stuff that was sorta pulled from the ether. Fred Norsworhty was maybe in the picture (but in the shadows), maybe.

Trip was a division of Springboard, and Springboard was a REALLY questionable outfit.

Yeah, pretty shady licensing.

The Tootie Heath record came out on O'Be, which was Orville O'Brien's brief shot at a label. I believe that was distributed by Springboard, and in Japan it was manufactured by Mercury. Very strange pedigree on that one. Excellent record, though!

[JSngry]

what I mostly remember Springboard for (correctly, I hope) is putting out LPs by then hit artists that consisted of demos and/or earlier recordings on off labels.

I was particularly "amazed" at this one:

Note Side B #2 - whoevrthat is (recitation only, no music) is not Sly, and sounds a whole lot like Wink Martindale.

Yeah, Springboard was a Shady Grady, for sure.

 

[JSngry]

14 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Yeah, pretty shady licensing.

The Tootie Heath record came out on O'Be, which was Orville O'Brien's brief shot at a label. I believe that was distributed by Springboard, and in Japan it was manufactured by Mercury. Very strange pedigree on that one. Excellent record, though!

per: https://www.discogs.com/Randy-Weston-Blues/release/3304377

Courtesy of O'Be Records

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, engineered by Mr. O'Be himself but as far as I know it never came out prior. Very odd, possibly shady!

[corto maltese]

Sometimes Discogs really is a treasure trove of disocgraphic information:

"Trip Jazz" was a series of the Trip label started in 1974. They mainly reissued albums that were originally released by the EmArcy, Limelight and Mercury labels. The records mentioned by Big Beat Steve (with miniaturized b/w versions of the original covers) were part of the "Trip Jazz - Special Collectors Series".

The Trip label itself was a subsidiary of Springboard International Records, Inc. Some other sublabels of Springboard were UpFront and also Catalyst.

The "Kawaida" album was originally (1970) released on the O'Be label and reissued in 1974 on Trip Jazz. Like Clifford said, in Japan it was issued on Mercury (licensed by Springboard).

For Europe, the album was licensed to the DJM label and marketed as a Herbie Hancock-Don Cherry title:

 

During the CD era, the album was reissued several times under Hancock's name. Some of the more "creative" packaging ideas were:

 

[mjazzg]

Hal Russell - NRG Ensemble [Nessa]

another first listen. Chuck Burdelik's a new name to me

[clifford_thornton]

great one.

I don't have Eftsoons but look forward to an eventual CD reissue when Chuck is able to do it.

[paul secor]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

what I mostly remember Springboard for (correctly, I hope) is putting out LPs by then hit artists that consisted of demos and/or earlier recordings on off labels.

I was particularly "amazed" at this one:

Note Side B #2 - whoevrthat is (recitation only, no music) is not Sly, and sounds a whole lot like Wink Martindale.

Yeah, Springboard was a Shady Grady, for sure.

 

I bought a couple of Clifford Brown - Max Roach Trip issues in order to hear the music, but replaced them soon afterwards. Trip reissues were not only shady, they were garbage.

[Clunky]

9 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Hal Russell - NRG Ensemble [Nessa]

another first listen. Chuck Burdelik's a new name to me

I like this one a lot 

[Chuck Nessa]

1 hour ago, clifford_thornton said:

great one.

I don't have Eftsoons but look forward to an eventual CD reissue when Chuck is able to do it.

Eftsoons is still available in vinyl. Mars and I haven't decided what we might add to a cd.

[clifford_thornton]

Ah! Good to know, I'll pick one up from you shortly.

[sidewinder]

I’ve always avoided those Trip reissues like the plague. For a period, they were ubiquitous.

 

4 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

OK so I had to check Discogs for what Springboard put out ... and check out this cassette.  I actually just bought this recording as an LP but they didn't keep this delightful cover. Its Farmer with McPherson in the front line and I couldn't recognize a legit recording with those two so I grabbed it, very cheap. Wish they had kept the cover they used on the cassette.  

Also put out in the UK on the budget DJM label, along with ‘Kawaida’. Another odd label.

DJM also did an Eric Dolphy ‘Memorial Album’ with the Jitterbug Walz material (a copy of which I still have).

Edited March 27, 2019 by sidewinder

[Chuck Nessa]

Heartwarming to see some folks listening to my Hal Russell material. It is very special to me.

[paul secor]

[jeffcrom]

 

Chick Corea/Miroslav Vitous/Roy Haynes - Trio Music (ECM)

Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh/Al Levitt/Peter Ind - London Concert (Wave)

I'm wary of post-Circle Corea, but I like this trio. The Wave album is superb.

[jeffcrom]

Horace Silver - Serenade to a Soul Sister (BN promo)

[Bill Nelson]

My collection of Horace Silver goes no further than 'Serenade'.   I bailed out on 'Pursuit of 27th Man' 

[paul secor]

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

2 hours ago, Bill Nelson said:

My collection of Horace Silver goes no further than 'Serenade'.   I bailed out on 'Pursuit of 27th Man' 

same here my guy- although i kinda want that one from 1980 that was the very last of the era of vangelder stamped blue notes

[Gheorghe]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

fantastic and it´s great that this way Sam River´s short tenure with Miles was recorded.

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, paul secor said:

Sam Rivers (!!) ....

[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Sam Rivers (!!) ....

But I always found the cover photo a bit strange. On all other photos Miles looks quite slim, here he looks much heftier than usual. Never knew that Miles had heavy weight stages... he was always in the gym.....

[corto maltese]

On 3/28/2019 at 2:27 AM, Chuck Nessa said:

Heartwarming to see some folks listening to my Hal Russell material. It is very special to me.

It's a bit of a difficult confession, but I always wanted to love the NRG Ensemble records more than I actually do. I greatly prefer his solo side on Eftsoons.

[paul secor]

6 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

fantastic and it´s great that this way Sam River´s short tenure with Miles was recorded.

I've always thought that it would have been interesting to hear where that band would have gone if Miles had kept it together for a while. Didn't happen, so it's all speculation.