What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, sidewinder said:

Undecided on that one. Have far too many versions (including an orig) already.

One of my favourite versions is the UK domestic issue from 1976 which came with a US sleeve. Bust a gut with my School Summer hol job carting sacks of cement to afford that one !

To be honest, I only bought this because I was in a local shop and saw it in the bins... pumping a little money into the local economy.

I actually compared it a bit to my "go to" CD version (UCCI-9030) and I think the CD sounds a bit better. I'm not worried though because this is my only vinyl version.

[sidewinder]

Just now, bresna said:

To be honest, I only bought this because I was in a local shop and saw it in the bins... pumping a little money into the local economy.

I actually compared it a bit to my "go to" CD version (UCCI-9030) and I think the CD sounds a bit better. I'm not worried though because this is my only vinyl version.

Thanks for that - interesting.

[BillF]

14 hours ago, bresna said:

Just finished - Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!/Analogue Productions).

 

 

[Rabshakeh]

Warne Marsh - All Music (Nessa, 1976).

Edited July 29, 2021 by Rabshakeh

[HutchFan]

OJC reissue

[mjazzg]

Joe Harriott Quintet - Abstract [Capitol, 1963] 

Sounds great on LP

[Rabshakeh]

4 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Joe Harriott Quintet - Abstract [Capitol, 1963] 

Sounds great on LP

Great one!

[mjazzg]

14 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Great one!

It is.  Just need its partner now!

[sidewinder]

29 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Joe Harriott Quintet - Abstract [Capitol, 1963] 

Sounds great on LP

Is that the US issue?

[mjazzg]

5 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Is that the US issue?

It is.  Got bored waiting for a UK one. 

Now listening to the Redial CD of 'Free Form' and the 'Abstract' LP sounds so much fuller and less bright. How's the 'Free Form' LP sound (assuming you have it, you do don't you?)?

Edited July 29, 2021 by mjazzg

[sidewinder]

13 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

It is

Aha. I have a UK Columbia version somewhere (if I can find it). As renowned for Shake Keane’s brandy glass.

Looks like this.l

Amazing to think that that studio is now someone’s front room. I nearly got in there once..

3LP version

 

 

Followed by

 

Muse

Edited July 29, 2021 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

18 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

It is.  Got bored waiting for a UK one. 

Now listening to the Redial CD of 'Free Form' and the 'Abstract' LP sounds so much fuller and less bright. How's the 'Free Form' LP sound (assuming you have it, you do don't you?)?

Yes, I have the Jazzland. Haven’t played it for a while but it sounds fine. To be honest, I probably play them more on CD.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a UK ‘Abstract’ in the shops - that copy was picked up many years ago from the late lamented JazzInVinyl. Clifford will remember that one !

Edited July 29, 2021 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

13 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Yes, I have the Jazzland. Haven’t played it for a while but it sounds fine. To be honest, I probably play them more on CD.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a UK ‘Abstract’ in the shops - that copy was picked up many years ago from the late lamented JazzInVinyl. Clifford will remember that one !

Well if you don't listen to your 'Free Form' LP...

[sidewinder]

22 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Well if you don't listen to your 'Free Form' LP...

If I could find it I would play it more. Need a Librarian..

’Free Form’ should be easier to get hold of. I think it was only a US issue at the time, in fact I think I bought my copy in the US and was not expensive.

Correction - it came out in Europe on Interdisk.

Amazingly, just found my ‘Free Form’. It is in fact the UK Interdisk version in Mono, not the US. Sounds fine ! 

Edited July 29, 2021 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

23 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

If I could find it I would play it more. Need a Librarian..

’Free Form’ should be easier to get hold of. I think it was only a US issue at the time, in fact I think I bought my copy in the US and was not expensive.

Correction - it came out in Europe on Interdisk.

Amazingly, just found my ‘Free Form’. It is in fact the UK Interdisk version in Mono, not the US. Sounds fine ! 

Funnily enough, I was a librarian for 20 years...

Copies of 'free Form' have been predominantly in US since I've been tracking it. Copies tend to be VG, hardly party music! Prices creeping up for a nice copy but isn't that the case across the LP board at the moment.

Edit to add: just pulled the trigger on a mono Jazzland

Edited July 29, 2021 by mjazzg

[sidewinder]

2 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Funnily enough, I was a librarian for 20 years...

Copies of 'free Form' have been predominantly in US since I've been tracking it. Copies tend to be VG, hardly party music! Prices creeping up for a nice copy but isn't that the case across the LP board at the moment.

Again, this isn’t one that I’ve regularly come across in the racks here. The US Jazzland is probably more commonly encountered. Similar situation I think with the Don Rendell.

Racking my brains as to where I picked this one up. I have the feeling it was from Euclid in the US but if so, odd that they had the UK press !

[mjazzg]

Just now, sidewinder said:

Again, this isn’t one that I’ve regularly come across in the racks here. The US Jazzland is probably more commonly encountered. Similar situation I think with the Don Rendell.

Racking my brains as to where I picked this one up. I have the feeling it was from Euclid in the US but if so, odd that they had the UK press !

Just bought a copy from the US of the US pressing.  The dangers/delights of talking about LPs!

[HutchFan]

Now:

 

Earlier:

[sidewinder]

6 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Just bought a copy from the US of the US pressing.  The dangers/delights of talking about LPs!

Sorry about that !

[mjazzg]

1 minute ago, sidewinder said:

Sorry about that !

Please don't be!

[sidewinder]

11 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Please don't be!

Good that it got me to dig this one out of my black hole too. It benefited from a spin under the record cleaning machine. One or two pops but sounds nice and crisp.

[Rabshakeh]

I had no idea that these Harriotts even came out in the US. Does the fact that they are more easily found mean that they sold in the US?

I'm tempted at the idea of improved sound on vinyl. I've always thought the digital versions sounded quite flat.

[sidewinder]

With a bit of luck perhaps they will be reissued under Decca’s latest reissue programme with the Gearbox mastering.

12 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I had no idea that these Harriotts even came out in the US. Does the fact that they are more easily found mean that they sold in the US?

I'm tempted at the idea of improved sound on vinyl. I've always thought the digital versions sounded quite flat.

Maybe they were just produced over there in far greater quantity? These would have been Bill Grauer issues and if my memory is right, he ended up bankrupting Riverside/Jazzland due to overproduction of LPs that didn’t sell (no doubt then followed by dumping them in the deletions bins).

Edited July 29, 2021 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

Then I'd have to buy them again!

24 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

I had no idea that these Harriotts even came out in the US. Does the fact that they are more easily found mean that they sold in the US?

I'm tempted at the idea of improved sound on vinyl. I've always thought the digital versions sounded quite flat.

Looking at Discogs, the Interdisc European issue of 'Free Form' that sidewinder has has never been sold.  Jazzland was a US company so I'm assuming they licensed it for European release.

As for 'Abstract', the UK Columbia Lansdowne Series seems to have been more available. So did Columbia spot the potential in the reaction  to 'Free Form' to jump onto 'Abstract' for the Lansdowne Series.

[JSngry]

I have Southern Horizons & Free Form on Jazzland LPs, both pulled out of cutout bins ca. 1972. Don't know that I've seen either since, so...