What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

NP:

Paquito D'Rivera - Mariel (Columbia, 1982)

Strange that this LP has never been reissued on CD.  I think BGO should package up Paquito's Columbia records just like they did Arthur Blythe's. 

 

[soulpope]

3 hours ago, kh1958 said:

T.P. Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou, Unite Africaine

A fantastic band for sure ....

[Rabshakeh]

10 hours ago, rostasi said:

Thanks for that. I'm pretty sure that I have the original of that.

Here's the two I just took out of the package:

I saw them live a few years back. On of my most treasured live music experiences.

[rostasi]

 

Edited April 18, 2021 by rostasi

[kh1958]

Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, Central Park North (Solid State)

Melvin Sparks, Sparks (Prestige)

Gary McFarland/Steve Kuhn, The October Suite (Impulse)

[rostasi]

Webster Lewis Quintet ‎– Live At Kongsberg Jazz 1971 [191/250]

Alto Saxophone – Bobby Greene

Drums – Jimmy Hopps

Organ – Webster Lewis

Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Stan Strickland

Vocals – Judd Watkins

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, kh1958 said:

Gary McFarland/Steve Kuhn, The October Suite (Impulse)

Outstanding ....

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Horace Silver - Further Explorations of the Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note/Tone Poet).

This may be one of my last Tone Poet buys. Sound is very good but as I've been buying more & more of these, I'm remembering how damn inconvenient LPs are. Even with the purchase of a second turntable for my upstairs listening space, I still have to "make time" to play these damn things. It's so much easier to drop a CD into a tray and hit "Play" and even easier to load up my playlist on my PC and never have to get up again. I guess I'm getting too lazy for vinyl.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Booker Ervin - The In Between (Blue Note). As much as I like Booker, this doesn't seem to come off the shelf very often. "Typical Booker" might be the best descriptor. I was once told by a musician that Booker only has two solos - a slow one and a fast one. Maybe this is one of those dates where that is more evident?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Weird about this Booker Ervin LP... the lead-in groove area seems smaller than usual. I found myself dropping the needle into music on both sides. I had to drop it almost on the edge to get the lead-in.

[Dan Gould]

50 minutes ago, bresna said:

Booker Ervin - The In Between (Blue Note). As much as I like Booker, this doesn't seem to come off the shelf very often. "Typical Booker" might be the best descriptor. I was once told by a musician that Booker only has two solos - a slow one and a fast one. Maybe this is one of those dates where that is more evident?

I thought that line was Chuck's?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 minutes ago, Dan Gould said:

I thought that line was Chuck's?

I think I heard it first from Danny D'Imperio.

Noah Preminger - Some Other Time (Newvelle Records). I got this from Noah at a local gig. Damn expensive record, even from Noah. Not a huge fan of Ben Monder's echo-drenched guitar but a small complaint. Most of the tunes are taken at a leisurely pace. Weirdly oversized LP jacket. It barely fits into my LP rack and won't fit into any LP sleeve I have.

I wish that NewVelle sold Frank Fimbrough's "Meantime" by itself. I'd like to have that one.

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, bresna said:

Booker Ervin - The In Between (Blue Note). As much as I like Booker, this doesn't seem to come off the shelf very often. "Typical Booker" might be the best descriptor. I was once told by a musician that Booker only has two solos - a slow one and a fast one. Maybe this is one of those dates where that is more evident?

That's my favorite Booker album. Tunes, playing, BN sound, Bobby Few. And tempos. Those are my favorite tempos on a Booker record.

Well, maybe not my only favorite, there's also the Candid record. But, one of two, then.

As far as Booker having two solos, sure, yeah, why not, but...ok, then what? Then he plays one of those (allegedly) two solos and...it's all good, right?

If not, don't blame him.

[Dub Modal]

In Between & Structurally Sound are great Booker albums IMO, both from BN. 

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Don Patterson - Mellow Soul (Prestige). Green label with Van Gelder in the dead wax. Weird notations on the back of this used LP. Side 2 has the first track, "Mellow Soul", circled in red pen with the word "House" written next to the track number and 5 gold ink dots on top of a second "House" written next to the title. The second track on Side 2, "Head", is circled in black ink and there are 6 gold ink dots next to that. There is also the word "Paly" (Maybe meant to be "Play"?) with arrows pointing to the track "Head" and the third track on Side 2, "These Foolish Things". Must be some sort of DJ lingo.

[JSngry]

50 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

In Between & Structurally Sound are great Booker albums IMO, both from BN. 

Structurally Sound was from Pacific Jazz, produced by Richard Bock, same as Booker 'n' Brass. Booker only got moved to Blue Note post merger, but his contract was originally with PJ.

Now, Texbook Tenor, that was another fine, FINE one from BN, I forgot about that one.

[Dub Modal]

30 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Structurally Sound was from Pacific Jazz, produced by Richard Bock, same as Booker 'n' Brass. Booker only got moved to Blue Note post merger, but his contract was originally with PJ.

Now, Texbook Tenor, that was another fine, FINE one from BN, I forgot about that one.

I have Structurally Sound on a BN Conn CD so that's the reason for my confusion on that. 

[JSngry]

Yean, Lundvall era Blue Note liked to do that, put the "Blue Note" appellation on anything that was now under the then-current umbrella. Gotta read the fine print!

 

[Dan Gould]

40 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Yean, Lundvall era Blue Note liked to do that, put the "Blue Note" appellation on anything that was now under the then-current umbrella. Gotta read the fine print!

 

There was a time that I bought so far into the Blue Note mythology that it outright pissed me off to see the BN insignia on reissues from labels I knew didn't have any connection at the time of original issue.

 

[JSngry]

Like for Kenny Drew?

[Dan Gould]

3 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Like for Kenny Drew?

On that Walkin/Talkin' thing? Hell yeah. But what I specifically recall was a Jim Hall/Bill Evans thing with the "Best in Jazz since 1939" think and I'm like, WTF?

[JSngry]

yeah, me too. I was like, no, UA was a totally different label for Blue Note at that time. People shouldn't think that all jazz form a certain time was Blue Note just because. Nothing could be further from the truth, like, Richard Bock was NOT Alfred Lion, etc.

[danasgoodstuff]

I don't even think of some things that actually were on BN initially as being 'really BN' - if they were done after they moved to LA or show the imprint of an outside producer like Monk Higgins, or just don't feel right to me.

[JSngry]

Jack Wilson - 3 BN albums, three producers. None of them were Alfred Lion.

post-Liberty, there was an interesting divide between Francis Wolff, Duke Pearson, and "others", like Jack Tracy, Monk Higgins, other people, can't recall all of them. Wolff seemed to do the funky organ records, Pearson the more "modern", and then, the others. It led to a diffusion of the label identity, but a more varied catalog. I mean, I got zero use for Monk Higgins, but, part of the times anyway.

Then they let Dr. Death get his foot in the door and, the Knew Knote Of The Death Knell began ringing, and it was NOT Freedom!

Whatever, it's all history now, and to the victors have gone the spoils.

[jazzcorner]