What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Parkertown]

Pat Metheny - 80/81 - Sealed...well, it was...

God, I love ECM vinyl...

[Alexander Hawkins]

Two duos, both on Black Saint: Muhal and Leroy Jenkins, and Muhal with Amina Claudine Myers.

[Chuck Nessa]

Manufactured by UA, if'n you can see it in the pics.

Yes, it's UA Music and Records Group, from the label. So that was after the management buy-out. If they were flogging off Horace Silvers dirt cheap to the cutout merchants, rather than keeping them as a steady seller, they must have been in REAL trouble.

I always assumed EMI bought the company as a decently going concern. This suggests otherwise.

MG

Between the late '60s and late '80s the "company" changed hands at least 2 times (probably 3). EMI took over after the previous owner defaulted on loans for manufacturing and distribution. EMI got the whole bunch "for a song". Distressed merchandise is what we call it over here.

[Parkertown]

Whilst listening to: The Jimi Hendrix Concerts - Reprise

These guys came out of hiding after the rainstorm...

[sidewinder]

Miles Davis 'Bitches Brew' (CBS Quadraphonic edition)

[sidewinder]

Duke Pearson 'The Right Touch' (BN Liberty mono)

[brownie]

Lee Morgan 'The Sixth Sense' (BN Liberty, stereo)

[Parkertown]

Steve Miller Band - Number 5 - Green Capitol label.

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

The Bill Evans 'Waltz for Debby' 45-rpm set that was remastered by Steve Hoffman for Analogue Productions. Perfect!!!

..up next, the Nat King Cole 'After Midnight' 45-rpm set.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Manufactured by UA, if'n you can see it in the pics.

Yes, it's UA Music and Records Group, from the label. So that was after the management buy-out. If they were flogging off Horace Silvers dirt cheap to the cutout merchants, rather than keeping them as a steady seller, they must have been in REAL trouble.

I always assumed EMI bought the company as a decently going concern. This suggests otherwise.

MG

Between the late '60s and late '80s the "company" changed hands at least 2 times (probably 3). EMI took over after the previous owner defaulted on loans for manufacturing and distribution. EMI got the whole bunch "for a song". Distressed merchandise is what we call it over here.

Thanks Chuck. Unless you catch Billboard every week, it's pretty hard over here to get to know what's going on in the industry.

MG

[paul secor]

Lester Bowie: The One and Only LP from All the Magic (ECM)

[sidewinder]

Big John Patton 'Boogaloo' (BN Capitol). 'Wally' in the runout..

[Parkertown]

John Coltrane - The Stardust Session - Prestige mid-70's two-fer.

Just arrived today...Man...that cover photo is just awesome...

But I think I'm gonna have to go listen to my cd of Boogaloo...after seeing sidewinder's recommendation for it here and in the Patton corner.

[clifford_thornton]

Joe McPhee - Underground Railroad (CJR original)

[sidewinder]

John Coltrane - The Stardust Session - Prestige mid-70's two-fer.

I've got that one - love the photo of Trane in deep thought on the cover. Nice music with Wilbur Harden too, will dig it out today.

[sidewinder]

Reading Ahley Kahn's 'House That Trane Built' book has got me pulling out my Impulse vinyl, starting with these:

Yusef Lateef 'Live At Pep's' (Impulse stereo original)

Quincy Jones 'The Quintessence' (UK Impulse 70s reissue - sounds great. HMV had an A1 set of master tape copies I think.)

JJ Johnson/Kai Winding 'The Great Kai and JJ' (Impulse stereo original, A-1)

Some real gems on this label, not to mention all of those Coltranes...

Edited August 5, 2006 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Quincy Jones 'The Quintessence' (UK Impulse 70s reissue - sounds great. HMV had an A1 set of master tape copies I think.)

The only HMV Impulse record I've still got is "Genius + Soul = Jazz". Looking at the runoff on that, there's what appear to be Impulse master numbers - A 2A and A 2B. So I assumed that HMV got stampers from ABC. Bill Doggett's "Wow", Della Reese's "Live" and Percy Mayfield's "My jug & I" all appear to have ABC or Tangerine master numbers.

MG

[sidewinder]

I think you're correct. I seem to recall reading that UK masters were used in the most recent CD issue of 'A Love Supreme' - being the best surviving audio source. I have a couple of HMV mono Impulses of the Mingus material but was disappointed with the sound though. Will have to check them out again.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I think you're correct. I seem to recall reading that UK masters were used in the most recent CD issue of 'A Love Supreme' - being the best surviving audio source. I have a couple of HMV mono Impulses of the Mingus material but was disappointed with the sound though. Will have to check them out again.

That's interesting. My 2nd copy of "A love supreme" is a UK MCA pressing. It has the master number MCL1648 A/B. But it also has, crossed out, IMPL8001. I think that was the master number given by Anchor, who distributed ABC/Impulse here between EMI and MCA. So it looks like Anchor didn't get the EMI stampers when they took over. Funny...

MG

[kh1958]

Budd Johnson--Ya! Ya! (Argo)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Budd Johnson--Ya! Ya! (Argo)

Oh my - a great Texas Tenor player I had (almost) forgotten about. Has this one been issued on CD?

MG

[Parkertown]

John Coltrane - The Stardust Session - Prestige mid-70's two-fer.

I've got that one - love the photo of Trane in deep thought on the cover. Nice music with Wilbur Harden too, will dig it out today.

Yeah, this photo as reproduced here has quite a bit more impact than the one that comes with the cd.

Edited August 5, 2006 by Parkertown

[Parkertown]

[kh1958]

Budd Johnson--Ya! Ya! (Argo)

Oh my - a great Texas Tenor player I had (almost) forgotten about. Has this one been issued on CD?

MG

Not to my knowledge, but I did recently find a used Japanese mini-LP CD reissue of Off the Wall, another of his Argo recordings.

There's also the excellent, Let's Swing, on OJC.

[sidewinder]

Great stuff ! Even though I've got that Prestige Coltrane CD box I still like to bring out the RCA twofers on a regular basis. Us Coltrane fanatics are spoilt for choice these days and long may it last..