What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[sidewinder]

Strange that the master tapes turned up after that story in the book !

The Harry Beckett book by the way - like the Innovations In British Jazz tome by John Wickes - really could have used some serious editing as there are daft grammatical errors and some repetition even within sections. Still, it is gratifyingly full of detail and an obvious labour of love and for that it gets a big  from me. There are gigs in there that I had seen with Harry and completely forgotten about until reminded from the text. The Claude Deppa African Big Band in 1999, for example.

Edited August 11, 2020 by sidewinder

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

 

i can see why this one is so rare, it is very different, and in many ways the end of the real BN organ era.  Ronnie Fosters hella good, but hes more a "keyboard" player, its more a keyboard albums those, not "organ" albums......

3 hours ago, porcy62 said:

 never seen that, either version

[sidewinder]

19 minutes ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

 

i can see why this one is so rare, it is very different, and in many ways the end of the real BN organ era.  Ronnie Fosters hella good, but hes more a "keyboard" player, its more a keyboard albums those, not "organ" albums......

 never seen that, either version

Hopefully they bring ‘Drives’ out as a Tone Poet. A decent copy of this one has always eluded me and I missed the ‘Rare Groove’ version for some reason.

[clifford_thornton]

rare one -- have seen images before but never actually fingered a copy.

[porcy62]

1 hour ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

 never seen that, either version

This was the original, mine is a later repress.

This cover is far nicer then later one. IMHO.

Edited August 11, 2020 by porcy62

[Chuck Nessa]

Went to the shelf for Monoceros and picked this one instead:

[JSngry]

20 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Hopefully they bring ‘Drives’ out as a Tone Poet. A decent copy of this one has always eluded me and I missed the ‘Rare Groove’ version for some reason.

In the very early 70s, Down Beat offered that record as a bonus if you subscribed.

By the time I got my own, it was The Gap Sealer, so hey, still good.

[HutchFan]

NP:

Ramsey Lewis - Them Changes (Cadet, 1970)

On this live set, guitarist Phil Upchurch sits in with trio regulars Cleveland Eaton & Morris Jennings.  I think this LP and the two that followed -- Back to the Roots (Cadet, 1971) and Upendo Ni Pamoja (Columbia, 1972) -- are all top-shelf Soul Jazz records.

[HutchFan]

More Ramsey Lewis.

My version doesn't have the die-cut gatefold cover that's ALWAYS ripped when you see it in the record stores. 

Mine's just a regular sleeve; a reissue, I guess.

 

[HutchFan]

Now:

[HutchFan]

This again.

Fantastic.

 

 

[HutchFan]

[porcy62]

Now and then I play it, since it has a good value on the used market, I think I could sell it and buy one of Mosaic vinyl sets I miss, but I never do, overall Nirvana is the last rock band I really liked and I love their records.

Edited August 14, 2020 by porcy62

[porcy62]

UK Columbia Mono Pressing, astounding sound.

[HutchFan]

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.  

 

[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.

Edited August 15, 2020 by porcy62

[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

 

Edited August 15, 2020 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

 

Earlier: