What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Teasing the Korean]

38 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yes, that's on Moody's one Paula LP.  I don't have that one, but I've heard it.  I figure I'll eventually get around to picking it up.

IIRC, half of it is funky/groovy, and half of it is more straight ahead.  

NP:

Blue Stars of France - Lullaby of Birdland - Emarcy (mono)

Edited August 15, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Marian McPartland - Bossa Nova + Soul - Time (mono).  The perfect album for today's young couple while they are preparing dinner and drinking wine.  

Funny story about this one:  I'd had it for years and couldn't find it.  I assumed I misfiled it.  I ended up buying another copy.  

We moved about four years ago, and when I was packing up the LPs, I would look through each armload to see if anything was misfiled. 

So I'm filing the jazz albums, and there it is, filed alphabetically under "Mc."  I was looking in the Bossa and Now Sound/Groovy sections.  It didn't even occur to me to look for it under jazz, which would have been the obvious place to file it.  

The LP cover is beautiful, incidentally.

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

Ben Webster - Ballads - Verve (70s twofer reissue, mono)

Ralph Burns arrangements.  

[kh1958]

17 hours ago, JSngry said:

Love?

Actually...querying Ken, as that would be an...atypical selection for him, based on what I know of his tastes.

Pre-COVID work from home, I had a large backlog of unlistened to jazz LPs; now I've listened to nearly all; this Kenton was one of the last. Kenton I like okay; June Christy, a bit; the Four Freshman, not my cup of tea. I know they have skills, just not directed at me.

[clifford_thornton]

On 8/15/2021 at 4:11 AM, Rabshakeh said:

HutchFan, you’ve been listening to a lot of Moody recently, and I remember him showing on your Playing Favorites blog too. If you had to take three James Moody albums to your desert island, which would they be? I’m a big flute fan, but I don’t really know his work.

I’ve spent a while in the last few days trying to track them down but to no avail. I a vintage record collector’s list (@rostasi mentioned the Nurse With Wound one earlier in the week; the slightly queasy Thurston Moore one is another). I see that the EFI Sheffield page used to link to it, but the link’s now down.

yeah I think all the Pinotti stuff has been wiped from the internet. He ran Qbico and Sagittarius A-Star as well as doing some other micro-run bootleg pressings. Print is the only way to keep things active forever!

Thurston's list is enthusiastic, certainly a bit dated but it was the mid-90s and he was writing for an alt-rock audience that was mostly unaware of this kind of music. I have everything mentioned in there (including some stuff that was never released) and it took damn near 25 years to track it all down. The NWW list is even more of a challenge.

[Rabshakeh]

17 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Thurston's list is enthusiastic, certainly a bit dated but it was the mid-90s and he was writing for an alt-rock audience that was mostly unaware of this kind of music. I have everything mentioned in there (including some stuff that was never released) and it took damn near 25 years to track it all down. The NWW list is even more of a challenge.

Hard to think back to that time, when even Sun Ra was obscure. The level of information scarcity back then was unimaginable.

In these days of content churn listicles and reissue specialist labels (neither a bad thing), I find those old lists of obscure, near legendary recommendations have a real aura to them.

[clifford_thornton]

yeah, I mean Jon Dale's piece for FactMag (21 pages of excavation) could not have been written in 1996 -- now we have YouTube links and anybody can check out the sounds for free if they want to. I'd say it is a good thing but I miss the days of blind buys and mustiness.

[JSngry]

8 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Hard to think back to that time, when even Sun Ra was obscure.

I was just looking at my Ra impulse!s and thinking how quaint they looked now that all the Evidence and other releases have restored the original packagings (sorta, close enough).

I'm keeping them, though. They're like the kids you adopt and then when they grow up they find their birth parents. That's ok, still love them, and not throwing away all the pictures from their childhood. Glad they've found their full identity now.

[HutchFan]

Now spinning this album again:

Lou Donaldson - Ha' Mercy (Cadet)
 

 

Earlier today:

Daniel Ponce - Arawe (Antilles New Directions, 1987)

 

Edited August 16, 2021 by HutchFan

[jazzcorner]

[HutchFan]

Michel Petrucciani - 100 Hearts (George Wein Collection/Concord, 1984)

Solo piano

 

[Teasing the Korean]

Ben Webster - Ballads - Verve (70s twofer reissue, mono)

Sides 3 and 4.  Side 3 has Ralph Burns arrangements; side 4 is mostly small group. 

4 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

How is the Jack Marshall side?  I love his Capitol albums Soundsville and 18th Century Jazz.  I think I have a Bossa album by him on Capitol also.  

[mjazzg]

Masahiko Togashi - Rings [East West, 1976]

sublime solo percussion, thanks to @Niko  for posting some of it recently

Edited August 17, 2021 by mjazzg

[Rabshakeh]

12 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Masahiko Togashi - Rings [East West, 1976]

sublime solo percussion, thanks to @Niko  for posting some of it recently

This record is really something.

I've just finished spinning the reissue of Black Unity Trio's Al Fatihah (1968)

[clifford_thornton]

been after a sharp copy of Rings for some time!

Al-Fatihah and Le Temps Fou are probably the biggest holes (in terms of originals) in my collection. The reissues are nice but in 25 years of collecting, I never lucked out on first-state copies.

[jazzcorner]

On 16.8.2021 at 0:58 AM, Teasing the Korean said:

 

How is the Jack Marshall side?  I love his Capitol albums Soundsville and 18th Century Jazz.  I think I have a Bossa album by him on Capitol also.  

Looking back from today its mainstream West Coast style with good solos by Shank and Candoli. Similar sounds probably Marty Paich groups, dektetts.

[Teasing the Korean]

2 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

Looking back from today its mainstream West Coast style with good solos by Shank and Candoli. Similar sounds probably Marty Paich groups, dektetts.

Thanks.  I love those two Capitol albums I mnentioned.  Also his score to Munster Go Home. 

[sidewinder]

These Tolliver Pure Pleasures are the ‘bee’s knees’.

[HutchFan]

 

19 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

These Tolliver Pure Pleasures are the ‘bee’s knees’.

Hmm.  I've been pondering whether I should plunk for Tolliver's Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival.  It's a two-LP set, so it's even more costly than Pure Pleasure's regular prices.  Do you have that one, sidewinder?

I also noticed that PP is reissuing Cecil McBee's Music from the Source.  Another disc that's VERY tempting.  I'm sure the PP reissue would flog my Inner City vinyl AQ-wise.

 

[sidewinder]

I’m pondering an order for ‘Loosdrecht’. Been kicking myself for years since I sold my Black Lion to Mole Jazz for peanuts. I thought at the time it was erratic but I was very wrong.

Just noticed that McBee in the forthcoming releases bit of the PP site as well. I could spend a fortune on there !

Edited August 18, 2021 by sidewinder

[JSngry]

Loosdrecht is worth it if only for the stretched out version of "Repetition".

[sidewinder]

Just now, JSngry said:

Loosdrecht is worth it if only for the stretched out version of "Repetition".

Yeah, that was the track that stood out for me.

[mikeweil]

This arrived yesterday. Very good recorded sound, faultless pressing. Nice to hear Brubeck, Wright, and Morello stretch out. I wish Brubeck would have embarked on a  trio adventure, if only for a few years. They do very unexpected things with the standards here. 

Then, some more items from the crate an old friend hauled over a few weeks ago:

Technical drums display - Earl Hines plays a bit of piano. The sound is stunningly natural and good, as always on RealTime recordings.

Just what you'd expect ....

Edited August 19, 2021 by mikeweil

[JSngry]

19 minutes ago, mikeweil said:

This arrived yesterday. Very good recorded sound, faultless pressing. Nice to hear Brubeck, Wright, and Morello stretch out. I wish Brubeck would have embarked on a  trio adventure, if only for a few years. They do very unexpected things with the standards here. 

 

Was Paul hungover, shacked up, or "got lost" or just what, that this was a trio?

What was the gig, anyway? Looks like they were on the bill with Duke?

[Kevin Bresnahan]

1 hour ago, mikeweil said:

This arrived yesterday. Very good recorded sound, faultless pressing. Nice to hear Brubeck, Wright, and Morello stretch out. I wish Brubeck would have embarked on a  trio adventure, if only for a few years. They do very unexpected things with the standards here. 

What's weird about this trio recording is that the next day, the quartet recorded "The Last Time We Saw Paris", so it's not like Desmond was somewhere else... unless Desmond headed to Paris a day early.