What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Gheorghe]

10 hours ago, jazzcorner said:

 

I remember those 2-LP sets titled "Echos of an Era". Side One and Side Three was also on a Parker Sampler called "Jazz Tracks" by Bellaphone. 
I also had the "Echos of an Era" with Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell and Billy Taylor. 
When I bought it I was just a beginner and thought it might be chronological, I mean from swing to modern. I had confused Billy Taylor with Cecil Taylor and thought, that after side three (Bud Powell), there might be some advanced stuff and was quite disapointed when I heard some nice, but not very modern piano style.....

[jazzcorner]

3 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I remember those 2-LP sets titled "Echos of an Era". Side One and Side Three was also on a Parker Sampler called "Jazz Tracks" by Bellaphone. 
I also had the "Echos of an Era" with Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell and Billy Taylor. 
When I bought it I was just a beginner and thought it might be chronological, I mean from swing to modern. I had confused Billy Taylor with Cecil Taylor and thought, that after side three (Bud Powell), there might be some advanced stuff and was quite disapointed when I heard some nice, but not very modern piano style.....

Thanks for your story. Confusing Billy with Cecil is quite amusing!

Have several of those 2 LP sets.

Here is a little tableau

 

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[Gheorghe]

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for your story. Confusing Billy with Cecil is quite amusing!

Have several of those 2 LP sets.

Here is a little tableau

 

1 hour ago, jazzcorner said:

Thanks for your story. Confusing Billy with Cecil is quite amusing!

Have several of those 2 LP sets.

Here is a little tableau

 

You are welcome, I´m glad that I can amuse you with my confusing Billy and Cecil. Well during that time I already knew the key figures of jazz and already had a considerable LP collections mostly with many albums from my favourites like Bird,Diz,Miles, Mingus, Monk, Rollins,  Trane, Ornette Coleman, and of course other artists from bop to free, like Fats Navarro, Bud, Kenny Dorham, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, but still didn´t have a Cecil Taylor album and somehow when I picked it up (since the dealer told me it has some Bud I still might not have) I only had a glance at the names, Art Tatum of course, Erroll Garner well yeah some easier listening, Bud of course, and I had thought the next logic step might be after swing , bop , hardbop, so it might be Free. 
Billy Taylor was not very much mentioned in jazz books of my generation (J.E.Behrend, Arrigo Pollilo), so I hadn´t heard of him, since he is not so much present on the recordings of those days (BN, Prestige, CBS, Impulse). 

I later got to know him mostly as a Music Expert and speechman of the music, often commenting on jazz documentaries. 

So I remember when first listenig to the Echoes of an Era , when it came to Side D I closed my eyes to prepare myself for maybe heavier approach of Free Forms and atonal passages on piano and was a bit puzzled when I heard that more traditional setting, nicely played but not as daring as Bud and Monk would have been at that time.....

[HutchFan]

Now on my 'table:

Lester Young - Mean To Me (Verve, rel. 1980)

[sidewinder]

Lovely sounding 60 year old LP pressed by EMI, Hayes.

[HutchFan]

More Pres:

Lester Young - Pres and Teddy and Oscar (Verve, rel. 1976)

 

[jazzcorner]

9 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

You are welcome, I´m glad that I can amuse you with my confusing Billy and Cecil. Well during that time I already knew the key figures of jazz and already had a considerable LP collections mostly with many albums from my favourites like Bird,Diz,Miles, Mingus, Monk, Rollins,  Trane, Ornette Coleman, and of course other artists from bop to free, like Fats Navarro, Bud, Kenny Dorham, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, but still didn´t have a Cecil Taylor album and somehow when I picked it up (since the dealer told me it has some Bud I still might not have) I only had a glance at the names, Art Tatum of course, Erroll Garner well yeah some easier listening, Bud of course, and I had thought the next logic step might be after swing , bop , hardbop, so it might be Free. 
Billy Taylor was not very much mentioned in jazz books of my generation (J.E.Behrend, Arrigo Pollilo), so I hadn´t heard of him, since he is not so much present on the recordings of those days (BN, Prestige, CBS, Impulse). 

I later got to know him mostly as a Music Expert and speechman of the music, often commenting on jazz documentaries. 

So I remember when first listenig to the Echoes of an Era , when it came to Side D I closed my eyes to prepare myself for maybe heavier approach of Free Forms and atonal passages on piano and was a bit puzzled when I heard that more traditional setting, nicely played but not as daring as Bud and Monk would have been at that time.....

14 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

 

Thanks again for  your story. I  do like the "!harmonic" jazz mostly with some weight on big bands when I can follow the melody and/ or Improvisaion.

Those free jazz athletes are not my cup of tea. But  the tastes are different and music should relax me what will not happen with these atonal efforts of the artists. If they think they have to do it that way it is and remains  their own business. I am a listener. 

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

More Pres:

Lester Young - Pres and Teddy and Oscar (Verve, rel. 1976)

 

Oh yes, all those interesting 2 LP albums in my youth. I think, the pictures were made from the Birdland paintings. Diz, Bird, Bud, Prez.....

[jazzcorner]

 

 

[HutchFan]

2 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Oh yes, all those interesting 2 LP albums in my youth. I think, the pictures were made from the Birdland paintings. Diz, Bird, Bud, Prez.....

That painting of Lester is particularly good, I think. 

 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Orchestra U.S.A., Music Director, John Lewis - Debut (Colpix, 1963)

 

[aparxa]

[jazzcorner]

41 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Orchestra U.S.A., Music Director, John Lewis - Debut (Colpix, 1963)

 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim - Ode to Duke Ellington (Inner City / Philips Japan, 1974)

One of his finest albums, IMO.

 

[HutchFan]

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[sidewinder]

German Metronome 5LP set with all the Evans/LaFaro/Motian albums. Bought by me from Zweitausendeins many years ago for a relative pitance. Superb sound.

Edited December 4, 2021 by sidewinder

[kh1958]

Earl Hines Trio with Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge, Live at the Village Vanguard, volume 2 (Limelight)

Hannibal in Berlin (MPS)

[sidewinder]

21 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Must dig out..

The one time I saw Coles he had on that cap - and I think that jacket !

[soulpope]

22 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Next up:

Excellent ....

[Pim]

Didn;t know much of his music but I really dig this one! Great big band playing. Reminds me somewhat of the stuff that Oliver Nelson was doing.

[sidewinder]

1 minute ago, Pim said:

Didn;t know much of his music but I really dig this one! Great big band playing. Reminds me somewhat of the stuff that Oliver Nelson was doing.

Excellent reissue of that Oktav !

[sidewinder]

Excellent Craft Records release - and a nice RTI pressing.

Edited December 5, 2021 by sidewinder

[Pim]

22 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Excellent reissue of that Oktav !

Yeah the sound is incredible!

[HutchFan]