What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

11 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Last night:

Booker Ervin - That's It (Candid/Barnaby)

I have the Dutch pressing of this Barnaby reissue -- with the orange CBS label.  I bought it at Mole Jazz on a memorable trip to London many years ago.  

 

I bought a number of those Candid/Barnabys at Mole as deletions but not the Ervin. Richard Williams, Mingus and Don Ellis I think.

[HutchFan]

8 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

I bought a number of those Candid/Barnabys at Mole as deletions but not the Ervin. Richard Williams, Mingus and Don Ellis I think.

Very nice!   

 

[sidewinder]

Blue Label mono. Originally sold by Princeton Record Exchange, by the looks of it.

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Very nice!   

 

Sadly though not with that orange CBS label. These were either UK or US issues and the vinyl isn’t the thickest. Must dig them out to check !

[HutchFan]

MJT + 3 - Branching Out (originally Vee Jay; licensed by Trip Jazz)

Always pleasant to hear Mabern & Strozier together. 

 

[HutchFan]

Earlier:

The George Coleman Octet - Big George (Affinity)

with Harold Mabern and Frank Strozier, among others

 

[soulpope]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Earlier:

The George Coleman Octet - Big George (Affinity)

with Harold Mabern and Frank Strozier, among others

Excellent ....

[porcy62]

Japan.

I had the twoofer back then, one of my first jazz records, listening to it I realized for the first time that a drummer can play, rather then keeping the tempo and hitting the drums like a thug in a brawl during the solo.

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[kh1958]

Elvin Jones, Skyscrapers, volume 2 (Honeydew)

The New Brubeck Quartet, A Cut Above (Direct Disk)

Dizzy Gillespie, The Giant (America)

Billie and DeDe Pierce and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band, (Preservation Hall)

Art Blakey and the New Jazz Men, Live in Paris '65

 

[HutchFan]

 

and

with Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Ousley. and Ray McKinney

 

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[HutchFan]

Now:

 

 

Earlier:

 

 

[porcy62]

My copy looks better.

[kh1958]

Max Roach and Clifford Brown, The Best of Max Roach and Clifford Brown in Concert (GNP Crescendo/King)

Duke Ellington, 1940 (Smithsonian)

Freddie Hubbard, Skagly (Columbia)

[soulpope]

18 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Now:

❤❤❤ !!!

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Song for Wounded Knee

The Richard Davis Trio w/ Joe Beck and Jack DeJohnette

 

 

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[slide_advantage_redoux]

Miles Davis

Tribute to Jack Johnson

What a great band on this record.

[HutchFan]

NP:

[Chuck Nessa]

Trying to decide if there are enough good Bud Freeman solos in this series to make a decent cdr.

[JSngry]

On 8/14/2020 at 11:02 PM, HutchFan said:

Is that not one of the most #MeToo cover/title combinations ever? I mean, I want to think there was an innocence of degree to it, but I don't think I can ever be sure about that - or others like ever again.

Barring that, who is "everybody", where are they supposed to be in this image, and just what kind of "happy" and what kind of "make" are we talking about here?

And also, have you noticed how staright teeth used to kinda NOT be mandatory? Whatever else bad there is to see here, that is not one of them.

[jazztrain]

40 minutes ago, Chuck Nessa said:

Trying to decide if there are enough good Bud Freeman solos in this series to make a decent cdr.

Probably.  I recently aired "Canadian Capers."  Nice solos by Bud, Johnny Mince, Pee Wee Erwin, and the leader.  Good Davey Tough as well.

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Is that not one of the most #MeToo cover/title combinations ever? I mean, I want to think there was an innocence of degree to it, but I don't think I can ever be sure about that - or others like ever again.

Barring that, who is "everybody", where are they supposed to be in this image, and just what kind of "happy" and what kind of "make" are we talking about here?

Sheesh, Jim, it doesn't have to be all that, does it?   

As for the "everybody" in the title: Isn't it the folks who might listen to the music on the album -- one of whom (theoretically) is the woman pictured on the cover? 

... I don't mean to be obtuse.  Am I missing some sort of obvious sub-text?  

 

 

 

NP:

Incredibly soulful music.

 

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[JSngry]

21 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Am I missing some sort of obvious sub-text?

That would depend on your life experience?

In a world where golden showers and bukkake are borderline mainstream in term of "everybody" at least knowing what they are, how do you not at least wonder what they were thinking if you don't know who they were, meaning the art director and photographer, and/or maybe even the model? That photo is really tightly cropped, so, what's going on past what we can see? Maybe she's just washed her face in a fresh mountain stream? Or maybe that "smile" looks more like a borderline grimace? Maybe "make everybody happy" is the job description, and once again, if you don't know wh they all were, you really don't know what kind of a job is being desccribed. People get hired to work parties, all kinds of people, and all kind of jobs. ALL kinds of jobs.

But maybe it was just a lo-budget shoot all the way around. I mean, unless you know who "they" really were and what "they" were thinking, there is always going to be doubt, because dammit, I don't care how upright you and everybody else is, there is money to be made by not being that, and THOSE people are everywhere - all the time. Maybe not in quantity, but how many does it take, really?

Really - how many does it take?

 

[HutchFan]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

That would depend on your life experience?

In a world where golden showers and bukkake are borderline mainstream in term of "everybody" at least knowing what they are, how do you not at least wonder what they were thinking if you don't know who they were, meaning the art director and photographer, and/or maybe even the model? That photo is really tightly cropped, so, what's going on past what we can see? Maybe she's just washed her face in a fresh mountain stream? Or maybe that "smile" looks more like a borderline grimace? Maybe "make everybody happy" is the job description, and once again, if you don't know wh they all were, you really don't know what kind of a job is being desccribed. People get hired to work parties, all kinds of people, and all kind of jobs. ALL kinds of jobs.

But maybe it was just a lo-budget shoot all the way around. I mean, unless you know who "they" really were and what "they" were thinking, there is always going to be doubt, because dammit, I don't care how upright you and everybody else is, there is money to be made by not being that, and THOSE people are everywhere - all the time. Maybe not in quantity, but how many does it take, really?

Really - how many does it take?

 

O.K.  I hear you.  I really do.

That said ... I'm just gonna go on thinkin' the cover shows a woman who's just enjoying music a whole damn lot.  ... Or more precisely, it's nothing more than some graphic designer at VeeJay knowing that Harold Mabern wrote a tune called "Make Everybody Happy" and that's what they're gonna name the record, so he got a photo of a really happy woman -- because dudes buy jazz records, and (most) dudes like to look at women -- and he put her face on the cover.  Happy music.  Happy face.  Just that simple. 

That's how I want to think about it.

 

[JSngry]

And I hear tat, too. But....she doesn't really look happy.

Maybe she just wasn't a very good model. #sometimesacigarisjsutacigar

But she looks happy, Supremes wig and all:

If not happy, well, at least her eyes are open, and we can see what all is within a couple of feet of her on all sides?

"The Male Gaze"...maybe not a thing of the past (if it will ever be), but, jsut sayin' now that we know what it is and all the forms it can take....etc.

 

 

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, JSngry said:

And I hear tat, too. But....she doesn't really look happy.

Maybe she just wasn't a very good model. #sometimesacigarisjsutacigar

But she looks happy, Supremes wig and all:

If not happy, well, at least her eyes are open, and we can see what all is within a couple of feet of her on all sides?

"The Male Gaze"...maybe not a thing of the past (if it will ever be), but, jsut sayin' now that we know what it is and all the forms it can take....etc.

 

 

 

Hey, I've never seen that record before.

Is it any good? 

 

 

 

 

[JSngry]

It's DAMN good. Buy with absolute confidence.

My copy has thumbtack holes on all four corners of the open gatefold, though. I was sharing a house with a rather..."indigenous" aspiring jazz pianist who fucking demanded that we pin the cover up on the wall, because dammit, THIS was what a "jazz woman" looked like, THIS! Healthy, Black, and maybe not as nice as she looked (and that cutting in all directions).

This was the same guy who hear, like 30 seconds of Ike Quebec, laughed out loud and said, "yeah, this is one of those pool hall motherfuckers". I had to learn exactly what that meant, and that took some, uh, experiences, but yeah, he was right about that.

About what a "jazz woman" looked like, though...I'd not want to be quite THAT specific about it, but he was right as far as he went, or at least he was not WRONG, let me put it that way.

But that was a while back. The world has changed, even jazz.