What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[BillF]

55 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

 

👍

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, Rabshakeh said:

You flagging this record has made me revisit it. I realise that I had completely confused this record with the Seikatsu Kojo Iinkai album with Doc Umezu, William Parker and Rashied Ali. This is such a killer. Abe (a lifelong obsession of mine) and Kondo playing second fiddle to Graves at his best. I can’t believe I had basically ignored it until now.

Pleased to be of service. Now I need to check out the one you confused it with, I don't know it

2 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I am spoilt for ‘True Blue’. Have it on Conn CD, Mosaic, Classic Records and Music Matters 2x45 as well as King GXK. No original though

Honest J's have an original 'True Blue' for sale. It'll cost you £3000 to complete your set...

Edited August 1, 2023 by mjazzg

[sidewinder]

35 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Pleased to be of service. Now I need to check out the one you confused it with, I don't know it

Honest J's have an original 'True Blue' for sale. It'll cost you £3000 to complete your set...

Yeah, I saw that one.

Tone Poet. Pretty impressed with the sound on this one.

[Daniel A]

3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

That’s good - it has needed a decent reissue. Just too bad they didn’t put it out on Tone Poet to do the sleeve justice. 

Strangely enough, all originals of ‘Happenings’ that I have heard have been on the noisy side. Mono was worse than stereo in this respect. Having said that, the sonics are stupendous.

And  😀

Bob, when and where did you score all those NY Blue Notes? 😄Seems like you have choice pressings of every 4000 series album worth having.

I have a late 60s Liberty pressing of Happenings, but I don't recall any exorbitant noise. I remember when I found it in the 90s. I had just started to discover Hutcherson and this album was unknown to me at that point. I was pleasantly surprised that they did a cover of "Maiden Voyage" and shelled out the 15 Euro, which seemed a lot to a poor student.

[sidewinder]

On 8/1/2023 at 1:08 PM, Daniel A said:

Bob, when and where did you score all those NY Blue Notes? 😄Seems like you have choice pressings of every 4000 series album worth having.

I have a late 60s Liberty pressing of Happenings, but I don't recall any exorbitant noise. I remember when I found it in the 90s. I had just started to discover Hutcherson and this album was unknown to me at that point. I was pleasantly surprised that they did a cover of "Maiden Voyage" and shelled out the 15 Euro, which seemed a lot to a poor student.

Several decades ago Daniel, couldn’t do it now !  Wish I’d started it earlier to be honest.

Around the turn of the millennium was good, you could still pick up some of these in stores and sites like the late lamented jazzinvinyl.com were going strong with their online sales. My best find in a physical shop was a mono first press ‘Out To Lunch’ in decent condition for....... £10. 😱

Regarding ‘Happenings’, my sample size for originals is only 2 so maybe I shouldn’t draw too many conclusions. I did notice a bit of distortion on the mono though. Funnily enough one of the best I have heard is a blue label ‘b’ pressing I have somewhere in the racks which exceeded all expectations.

It will be interesting to hear reports on the ‘Classic Series’ reissue when this comes out.

Edited August 4, 2023 by sidewinder

[HutchFan]

3 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Honest J's have an original 'True Blue' for sale. It'll cost you £3000 to complete your set...

Wow! 😲

I know original BNs fetch big money -- but I had no idea it was that much.

 

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

Wow! 😲

I know original BNs fetch big money -- but I had no idea it was that much.

 

I think 'True Blue' is one of the higher priced, fewer sold originally I think

I might just go in and see if I can hold it 😃

[Pim]

7 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

The early Griffin album is very fine with Max Roach. 
But who is the other LP, is this Albert Ayler ?

Billy Harper Live at Antibes '75

[Pim]

this afternoons playlist.

[soulpope]

10 minutes ago, Pim said:

this afternoons playlist.

Was a good afternoon for sure ....

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Harold Mabern - Rakin' and Scrapin' (Prestige, 1969)

I love this LP.  It's got that irresistible Memphis Soul feeling. 

 

Edited August 1, 2023 by HutchFan

[BillF]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

 

 

 

👍

[Pim]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

Was a good afternoon for sure ....

Yes it was

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I might just go in and see if I can hold it 😃

Do they take donations of spare kidneys?

[mjazzg]

28 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

Do they take donations of spare kidneys?

Or two...

34 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

It was always scarce -probably just the one pressing of a thousand or two for ‘True Blue’. It is one of the rarest and most sought after in the 4000 series.

I actually came quite close to getting an original for not that much money. Alas, it didn’t come to pass. 

£3000 for that original at Honest Jon’s is actually not too bad a price, according to discogs. 🤔

Yes, HJ don't tend to overinflate 

[sidewinder]

4 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Yes, HJ don't tend to overinflate 

They were asking pretty silly money for those UA and ‘Jazz File’ pressings though.

[jazzcorner]

😁

On 7/31/2023 at 4:38 PM, Pim said:

 

 

😁👍  Excellent

 

Bought recently this CD version at a very moderate price

Edited August 1, 2023 by jazzcorner

[clifford_thornton]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I think 'True Blue' is one of the higher priced, fewer sold originally I think

I might just go in and see if I can hold it 😃

I held two original copies of True Blue at Academy Records on E. 12th St in NYC within the last three years. It was cool to do.

[jazzcorner]

[mjazzg]

41 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

They were asking pretty silly money for those UA and ‘Jazz File’ pressings though.

Not so compared to current Discogs listings I didn't think but maybe I didn't check closely enough. I bought a couple of those one-offs and they at least compared ok

27 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

I held two original copies of True Blue at Academy Records on E. 12th St in NYC within the last three years. It was cool to do.

Ha! That makes me even more inclined to do the same

20 hours ago, sidewinder said:

NY USA stereo

All this chat about this I had to listen to my copy, a Liberty. No sound issues yet

[sidewinder]

5 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Not so compared to current Discogs listings I didn't think but maybe I didn't check closely enough. I bought a couple of those one-offs and they at least compared ok

I think they were asking £60 for ‘The Creeper’, which is pretty ridiculous in my book. ‘Off To The Races’ UA is also £100 !

[mjazzg]

10 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

I think they were asking £60 for ‘The Creeper’, which is pretty ridiculous in my book. ‘Off To The Races’ UA is also £100 !

I think they're pricing off Discogs, currently £89 - £122, without VAT added. Current highest price sold is £89, median £49.

I don't deny it's mad but it's where the market's got to unfortunately. Mind you, it hasn't sold 😁

Is the album any good? Not sure I have heard it.

[sidewinder]

It’s good early Donald Byrd without being outstanding IMO.

Incredible the prices some of these UAs are commanding. Totally mad - but somebody must be splurging on them. Only a few years ago the going rate was £20-30.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I was just chatting with Dmitry about these UA blue & black 'b' reissues' prices on another thread. I just can't believe that they are going for $100+ all over the place. I bought a bunch of these just a few years ago for less than $20 each.

I think my days of shopping for BN vinyl are just about over anyway, so no biggie for me. But if I were just getting into this... wow. It'd be painful.

[HutchFan]

Roy Ayers Ubiquity - He's Coming (Polydor, 1972)
Elemental 180 gm LP reissue

When I first heard the opening cut, "He's a Superstar," I assumed it was drawn from Jesus Christ Superstar, the musical.  But no.  Ayers co-wrote it with Myrnaleah Williams.  In fact, several tracks have funkified gospel themes, including the title cut.  It's music that's very much "of its time," but I love it. . . . I imagine that when Nicholas Payton talks about Black American Music (BAM), he's talking about precisely this sort of thing, music that ignores the lines between funk, soul, jazz, gospel, pop.  It's all stewed together here.

 

and

Willie Humphrey - New Orleans Clarinet (Smoky Mary, 1974)

Been enjoying the sounds of NOLA lately.