What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Niko]

Gijs Hendriks - Stan Tracey Quartet ‎– Live Recordings

to close the circle of "before lunch listening"... for this 1981 album on Loek Dikker's Waterland label, Hendriks, van Erk and their then regular drummer Michael Baird got Stan Tracey from the UK on piano, quite different from Loos but also excellent, obviously... Tracey played on no less than four Hendriks albums around that time (two of them with a larger band though)

[sidewinder]

46 minutes ago, Niko said:

Gijs Hendriks - Stan Tracey Quartet ‎– Live Recordings

to close the circle of "before lunch listening"... for this 1981 album on Loek Dikker's Waterland label, Hendriks, van Erk and their then regular drummer Michael Baird got Stan Tracey from the UK on piano, quite different from Loos but also excellent, obviously... Tracey played on no less than four Hendriks albums around that time (two of them with a larger band though)

That collaboration is mentioned quite a bit in the Stan Tracey biography. 

[mjazzg]

and yet more European Modernism.  I've never known a thread to mushroom quite so much or is it just in my listening life?

[Rabshakeh]

10 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

and yet more European Modernism.  I've never known a thread to mushroom quite so much or is it just in my listening life?

I've been enjoying a lot of the recommendations recently too.

As to the thread, I'll let the old timers who were here for the Funny Rat thread respond to that.

[mjazzg]

Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures [Blue Note, 1966, mono]

more modernism but definitely of a different ilk

[mjazzg]

Joe Morello - It's About Time [RCA Victor, UK 1962, mono]

Lovely listen, such a good drummer

[clifford_thornton]

12 hours ago, Niko said:

yes... those three albums on that label all look quite tempting... for me, the first looks most promising, Soulbrass Inc at the Bohemia Jazz Club... every cover seems to look different here (check discogs) and it's a progressive organ group with a good organ player (Herbert Noord) and Hans Dulfer on tenor... luckily, the later stuff on the Waterland label is easier to find...

 

Noord posts here once in a while. 

Love Cry & Super Nimbus is definitely a "want"... the Soulbrass Inc. record is quite excellent.

[Rabshakeh]

Grupo Niche - No Hay Quinto Malo (Codiscos, 1984)

Classic Colombian salsa from the 80s. I've been looking for this for years and was even thinking of importing it, then found it for £15 this afternoon in Spitalfields Market.

It comes in a weird plastic coat. No inner sleeve, just plastic coated. I'm not sure whether that's a Columbian thing. The outer plastic has been pricked with incredibly neat cursive writing in Spanish - presumably an import notice, but I have no idea how you could make marks like that - and they are clearly by hand - on loose sticky plastic.

I also got this one for £5:

Phil Woods / Lew Tabackin (Omni Sound, 1981)

Overall, I am pleased with myself.

Edited August 6, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[HutchFan]

19 hours ago, sidewinder said:

  Nice to see this series being played. I will dig out the Hubbard, Mingus and MJQ sets today (subject to finding them).

Hard to go wrong with any released in that Atlantic series. 

[Brad]

[JSngry]

18 hours ago, Niko said:

 

What are Dave Liebman & Steve Grossman doing in that picture?

[Rabshakeh]

4 hours ago, Brad said:

Great record.

[Niko]

11 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Noord posts here once in a while. 

Love Cry & Super Nimbus is definitely a "want"... the Soulbrass Inc. record is quite excellent.

didn't know he posts here - just read your article back then and got three of his less collectible albums which are quite nice as well (same with Dikker and with the de Graaff / Vennik group - luckily all three albums on that label are the beginnings of longer discographies with easier to find albums)

[BillF]

5 hours ago, Brad said:

[sidewinder]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Hard to go wrong with any released in that Atlantic series. 

The Coltrane is a good selection too.

[mjazzg]

Milt Jackson - At The Museum Of Modern Art [Mercury UK, 1965, mono]

What a band!

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Ron Carter - Golden Striker Live At Theaterstubchen, Kassel (In+Out). I ordered this from Ron's website due to one of the few well-targeted Facebook ads. Ron was selling the signed version but it's since sold out. I don't think this one is as good as his last In+Out release, "Foursight - Stockholm".

[sidewinder]

I’ve got the signed ‘Golden Striker’ lined up ready for a spin. The ‘Foursight - Stockholm’ is very good too, a well integrated band and typical strong work by Renee Rosnes.

[Niko]

Thomas Pelzer Limited - TPL

a lucky score a few years ago since the badly damaged sleeve (persistent stickers from its former life in a public library) pushed this into my price range... if this was as good as it looks on paper, it would be completely amazing - Rene Thomas and Jacques Pelzer are Belgian favorites and the rhythm section of Rein de Graaff, Henk Haverhoek and Han Bennink is hard to beat in general... but somehow, the album is recorded incredibly badly for a studio album from 1974... with the piano and drums being almost inaudible behind the bass... and somehow, I lack the imagination what this music would be like if I could hear it properly

[mjazzg]

Gunter Hampel & The Galaxie Dream Band [Birth Records, 1974]

Hampel should have such a greater reputation than I get the impression he does.  Always top-notch players and compositions.  The very considerable added bonus of the inestimable Jeanne Lee makes a lot of his albums very special.

[Rabshakeh]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Gunter Hampel & The Galaxie Dream Band [Birth Records, 1974]

Hampel should have such a greater reputation than I get the impression he does.  Always top-notch players and compositions.  The very considerable added bonus of the inestimable Jeanne Lee makes a lot of his albums very special.

I always end up digging out his records with Marion Brown.

[clifford_thornton]

6 hours ago, Niko said:

didn't know he posts here - just read your article back then and got three of his less collectible albums which are quite nice as well (same with Dikker and with the de Graaff / Vennik group - luckily all three albums on that label are the beginnings of longer discographies with easier to find albums)

yeah, excellent player. Still active in Amsterdam -- those cheese warehouse sessions are mighty fine. Look him up on YouTube. Thanks for checking the interview!

[Brad]

9 hours ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great record.

 

7 hours ago, BillF said:

Thanks. I purchased this rather inexpensively from an eBay seller named funkyousounds, who from time to time lists a lot of jazz in pretty good condition. He’s generally accurate in his grading. Right now he’s listing rock but every few weeks he lists about a thousand jazz LPs. 

[mjazzg]

4 minutes ago, Brad said:

 

Thanks. I purchased this rather inexpensively from an eBay seller named funkyousounds, who from time to time lists a lot of jazz in pretty good condition. He’s generally accurate in his grading. Right now he’s listing rock but every few weeks he lists about a thousand jazz LPs. 

I bought a NY Mono of 'Unity' from that seller which was in perfect condition. I always look at their listings now.

[kh1958]

Muddy Waters, Live in Los Angeles 1954 (GNP Crescendo, ten inch). When you are Gene Norman's child and clean out his garage, what you find is a tape of a short live set (five songs) from Muddy Waters (the earliest live recording of the Chicago based Muddy Waters?). No Little Walter (Little George is on harmonica), but Otis Spann and Jimmy Rogers are present.

Kippie Moketsi/Hal Singer, Blue Stompin'

Erroll Garner/Billy Taylor (Savoy)

Archie Shepp, Live in Paris 1974

Edited August 7, 2021 by kh1958