What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[HutchFan]

Got a sudden yen for some Dizzy in a big band context. 

So I went to the shelves and pulled:

PJ-93 (mono)

 

Up next:

LS 86022 (stereo)

Coincidentally, both LPs were released in 1965.

And both records are wonderful, IMO.

 

[sidewinder]

On 23/05/2021 at 6:45 PM, mjazzg said:

Now LP.3 'Back To The Tracks', having been through 'True Blue' LP.2.  So far the seller's grade of NM is standing up, fingers crossed that continues.

Great set !

34 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Got a sudden yen for some Dizzy in a big band context. 

So I went to the shelves and pulled:

PJ-93 (mono)

 

Up next:

LS 86022 (stereo)

Coincidentally, both LPs were released in 1965.

And both records are wonderful, IMO.

 

That ‘New Continent’ is underrated - and in great sound. My Japanese King reissue came from the esteemed Hiroshi.

[HutchFan]

20 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Great set !

That ‘New Continent’ is underrated - and in great sound. 

Yes indeed!  

 

[HutchFan]

More Dizzy big band stuff from the 1960s:

Verve "MPS Series" reissue

 

[sidewinder]

8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

More Dizzy big band stuff from the 1960s:

Verve "MPS Series" reissue

 

Bought that one when it came out on MPS BASF in the UK. Mid-70s, some years after the recording. Fine concert !

[optatio]

53 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Bought that one when it came out on MPS BASF in the UK. Mid-70s, some years after the recording. Fine concert !

Same here ...

Edited May 26, 2021 by optatio

[HutchFan]

Next up:

Duke Ellington - Togo Brava Suite (United Artists, 1972)
I love this record.  The end may have been near, but -- on this particular day -- Duke and his band were still FLYING. 

 

[sidewinder]

[kh1958]

5 hours ago, sidewinder said:

Good one.

[Brad]

5 hours ago, sidewinder said:

She was awesome.

 

[jlhoots]

41 minutes ago, Brad said:

She was awesome.

 

And "troubled" unfortunately.

[Brad]

48 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

And "troubled" unfortunately.

Very. 

[kh1958]

Kenny Burrell, Live at the Village Vanguard (Muse)

Art Blakey, Drum Suite (Columbia)

Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer, Previously Unreleased Recordings (Verve)

Edited May 28, 2021 by kh1958

[sidewinder]

On 27/05/2021 at 3:44 AM, Brad said:

She was awesome.

 

Yes she was - and ‘Transitions’ is a good one in a strong bunch of Concord releases. 

[kh1958]

Jonah Jones, Trumpet on Tour (Baronet)

Charles Mingus, Mingus Moves (Atlantic)

Tony Scott, 52nd Street Scene (Coral)

Edited May 29, 2021 by kh1958

[HutchFan]

On 5/28/2021 at 1:27 PM, kh1958 said:

Kenny Burrell, Live at the Village Vanguard (Muse)

Good stuff. Underrated 70s KB.

 

22 hours ago, kh1958 said:

Charles Mingus, Mingus Moves (Atlantic)

 

[kh1958]

John Handy, Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia)

Edited May 30, 2021 by kh1958

[mjazzg]

2 hours ago, kh1958 said:

John Handy, Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia)

That's a great album

[kh1958]

7 hours ago, mjazzg said:

That's a great album

One of my favorites. 

[JSngry]

John Hammond bot Handy at Monterrey in 1965, George Avakian got Charles Lloyd there the next year...Was there rivalry between the two? Especially since Avakian/Lloyd left Columbia for Atlantic?

[Brad]

[Gheorghe]

Allen Praskin "Just Friends - Just Jazz" from 1979 live at a Jazzclub in Mannheim Germany.

I had the honour to play several dates with the great Allen Praskin, when I just was a beginner. It started around 1978, after the great late Austrian Jazzpianist and composer Fritz Pauer asked me during intermission, if I would like to sit in for one number. It was fast company: Praskin, Karl Ratzer, Fritz Pauer, Paolo Cardoso and Fritz Ozmec. 

[HutchFan]

This again:

Eddie Palmieri - Superimposition (Tico, 1970)
Listening to this LP, it's not hard to understand why Palmieri is beloved by both salsa dancers and jazzheads.  

 

11 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Allen Praskin "Just Friends - Just Jazz" from 1979 live at a Jazzclub in Mannheim Germany.

I had the honour to play several dates with the great Allen Praskin, when I just was a beginner. It started around 1978, after the great late Austrian Jazzpianist and composer Fritz Pauer asked me during intermission, if I would like to sit in for one number. It was fast company: Praskin, Karl Ratzer, Fritz Pauer, Paolo Cardoso and Fritz Ozmec. 

Great story.  That must have been wonderful and scary!  

 

[kh1958]

Introducing the Gene Rodgers Trio, Jazz Comes to The Astor (Mercury). A rather good pianist whose name had never registered with me before, but he recorded with King Oliver as a teenager, and is the pianist backing Coleman Hawkins on Body and Soul. Now interested in  his Black and White leader date.

The Best of Herbie Mann (Prestige)

Shirley Scott, Soul Song (Atlantic)

Edited May 31, 2021 by kh1958

[clifford_thornton]

On 5/31/2021 at 4:25 AM, Gheorghe said:

Allen Praskin "Just Friends - Just Jazz" from 1979 live at a Jazzclub in Mannheim Germany.

I had the honour to play several dates with the great Allen Praskin, when I just was a beginner. It started around 1978, after the great late Austrian Jazzpianist and composer Fritz Pauer asked me during intermission, if I would like to sit in for one number. It was fast company: Praskin, Karl Ratzer, Fritz Pauer, Paolo Cardoso and Fritz Ozmec. 

wow! that's pretty cool. I only have one of his records, Encounter, on Three Blind Mice, which is excellent.