What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

O.K.  One more for the list!

 

 

 

Speaking of weird shit. 

Here's what I think is weird: Nine out of twenty-five people who rated Gene Ammons' Got My Own on discogs gave it a rating of one or two stars.  What?!?!?

The breakdown looks like this:

I don't understand.  Are we listening to the same music?

To me, Got My Own is a five-star record.

What the hell?

 

[JSngry]

Dude, make allowances for the changing of the jazz demographic.

In other words, game over. That game, anyway.

And speaking of Game Over...https://www.discogs.com/artist/386979-Ed-Bogas

http://www.ebogas.com/

[HutchFan]

45 minutes 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.

 

Turns out that I have seen that record before.  But I'm familiar with a cover that looks like this...

 

Which, of course, raises the question:  Did they (Collectables? VeeJay?) change the cover because they thought the cover with the buxom, bewigged woman was sexist?

Either way, I'm listening to the music now via YT.  You're right.  It sounds really good. 

 

40 minutes ago, JSngry said:

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.

Nice back-story.  Very illustrative.  

 

Edited August 17, 2020 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

This LP is now spinning on my 'table:

 

[sidewinder]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

This LP is now spinning on my 'table:

 

Art Themen is currently doing daily solo  lockdown recitals to the neighbours from his front door in Henley-on-Thames !

Edited August 17, 2020 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

4 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Art Themen is currently doing daily solo  lockdown recitals to the neighbours from his front door in Henley-on-Thames !

👍  Excellent!  Love it!

 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

15 hours ago, slide_advantage_redoux said:

Song for Wounded Knee

The Richard Davis Trio w/ Joe Beck and Jack DeJohnette

I truly believe that sometime before January 20th, Wounded Knee is going to become a hot topic again...

[JSngry]

9 hours ago, HutchFan said:

 

Turns out that I have seen that record before.  But I'm familiar with a cover that looks like this...

 

Which, of course, raises the question:  Did they (Collectables? VeeJay?) change the cover because they thought the cover with the buxom, bewigged woman was sexist?

No idea when that cover got changed or why. The Exodus issue was the original (Exodus being the label set up by "exiled" VeeJay ownership).

What I can see is that there is now a motorcycle, a solid blue background, and a woman of ambiguous ethnicity wearing a helmet that obscures her face holding a second helmet, which I guess is presumably "yours".

Quite a change, and I can't see it being thumbtacked up onto the wall.

[kh1958]

 

12 hours ago, HutchFan said:

O.K.  One more for the list!

 

 

 

Speaking of weird shit. 

Here's what I think is weird: Nine out of twenty-five people who rated Gene Ammons' Got My Own on discogs gave it a rating of one or two stars.  What?!?!?

The breakdown looks like this:

I don't understand.  Are we listening to the same music?

To me, Got My Own is a five-star record.

What the hell?

 

Last time I checked, all Gene Ammons records more or less are five star recordings.

Edited August 17, 2020 by kh1958

[kh1958]

Willis Jackson, Live! Action (Prestige)

Gene Ammons, The Boss is Back (Prestige)

Jan Garbarek, Dis (ECM)

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Last time I checked, all Gene Ammons records more or less are five star recordings.

 

Exactly!  

 

[HutchFan]

In memory of Steve Grossman.

R.I.P.

 

[HutchFan]

First spin of a new-to-me LP:

Don Patterson - Why Not ... (Muse, 1978)

 

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

[HutchFan]

NP:

David "Fathead" Newman - Concrete Jungle (Prestige, 1978)
Arrangements by William Fischer

 

[JSngry]

3 hours ago, HutchFan said:

First spin of a new-to-me LP:

Don Patterson - Why Not ... (Muse, 1978)

 

Hey, Bootsie Barnes, y'all. Barnes, not Collins.

I loved it when you'd hear an organ record on the jazz radio and you're bopping along kinda like, comfortable enough to just let it all pass and then someboy starts playing that has a voice that you've never heard before and by god, it is a real voice, and then you wait for the back-announce and if it doesn't come, you call the station and ask who was THAT?!?!?!??!

Bootsie Barnes.

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Hey, Bootsie Barnes, y'all. Barnes, not Collins.

I loved it when you'd hear an organ record on the jazz radio and you're bopping along kinda like, comfortable enough to just let it all pass and then someboy starts playing that has a voice that you've never heard before and by god, it is a real voice, and then you wait for the back-announce and if it doesn't come, you call the station and ask who was THAT?!?!?!??!

Bootsie Barnes.

Yep.  I dug him. 👍

Does this "other Bootsie" show up on any other records?

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

[Niko]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.  I dug him. 👍

Does this "other Bootsie" show up on any other records?

in addition to what you directly see on discogs (not much, but also not nothing), he's on at least two Papa John deFrancesco albums, Comin' Home and Hip Cake Walk...

[kh1958]

Ralph Towner with Glen Moore, Trios, Solos (ECM)

Bennie Green (Time)

[HutchFan]

5 hours ago, Niko said:

in addition to what you directly see on discogs (not much, but also not nothing), he's on at least two Papa John deFrancesco albums, Comin' Home and Hip Cake Walk...

Thanks Niko! 👍

 

[HutchFan]

NP:

 

[HutchFan]

 

Like many people, I'm working from home every day instead of going to an office.  Before the pandemic, I worked from home just one day per week.

One "side effect" of that situation: I can listen to LPs each day while I'm working.  One very small silver lining on an otherwise dark and terrible cloud.

 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Jimmy Heath - Love and Understanding (Muse, 1973)
Deliciously groovy and musical.  Nothing earth-shattering, but it's plenty nourishing regardless.

 

[HutchFan]

More Jimmy Heath from the early-70's:

Muse reissue of an LP originally released on Cobblestone as The Gap Sealer