What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[mjazzg]

11 minutes ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Don't know this!!!

I've found out more about the film but not about the soundtrack, streamable here if you are at all interested

https://cinedelic.bandcamp.com/album/gangsters-70

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

I've found out more about the film but not about the soundtrack, streamable here if you are at all interested

https://cinedelic.bandcamp.com/album/gangsters-70

Thank you!

[Pim]

4 hours ago, david weiss said:

Hi Pim, Glad you are enjoying the record. If I remember correctly, I think covid cancelled us in Rotterdam in 2020. I guess they owe us a gig. We have a few dates in Europe this coming November but nothing yet in your neck of the woods. Hopefully next year.....

 

Thanks for responding David. I really hope to see you guys next year. Big fan of all of you!

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

The Michel Petrucciani Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard (Concord-George Wein Collection, 1985)
with Palle Danielsson & Eliot Zigmund

 

[Pim]

i enjoy this boxed set very, very much. Jimmy Garrisons introduction to My Favorite Things is one of the most intimate parts in jazz I know. The almost hour length version of the Coltrane classic still leaves me breathless. It gives spiritual feelings to a non spiritual person.

21 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I think this is something that many of us here on the board have experienced as well!  

 

That's a comforting thought Hutchfan! I always tell her the real loonies are at a place called Steve Hoffman Board where some people own five pressings of one record and pay a 150 euros for another one. I could see the disbelieve in her eyes...

Edited August 4, 2023 by Pim

[HutchFan]

14 minutes ago, Pim said:

That's a comforting thought Hutchfan! I always tell her the real loonies are at a place called Steve Hoffman Board where some people own five pressings of one record and pay a 150 euros for another one. I could see the disbelieve in her eyes...

Yes, absolutely.  The goal is to always find someone who's even MORE extreme in their collecting habits than we are.  Then we can point at them when our spouses raise their eyebrows and say, "But look at him!!!  Compared to that guy, my habit is completely reasonable!"   

 

[mjazzg]

Joe Henderson - The Elements [Milestone, 1974]

and before

John Haycock - Dorian Portrait [Second Thoughts Records, UK 2023, 2nd pressing]

59 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yes, absolutely.  The goal is to always find someone who's even MORE extreme in their collecting habits than we are.  Then we can point at them when our spouses raise their eyebrows and say, "But look at him!!!  Compared to that guy, my habit is completely reasonable!"   

 

Sound tactics @HutchFan, my partner's even stopped raising her eyebrows...but if she does I'll just show her @Pim's recent post about his Japanese delivery 🙄

Edited August 4, 2023 by mjazzg

[HutchFan]

I'm still wrasslin' with Ulmer's music -- but making some progress, I think. 

James Blood [Ulmer] - Tales of Captain Black (Artists House, 1979)

I'm discovering that it's best to approach this music through a different doorway than the one called Jazz.  To cop Ornette's phrase, this other doorway might simply be called Something Else.

 

11 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Sound tactics @HutchFan, my partner's even stopped raising her eyebrows...but if she does I'll just show her @Pim's recent post about his Japanese delivery 🙄

    

 

[mjazzg]

Just now, HutchFan said:

I'm still wrasslin' with Ulmer's music -- but making some progress, I think. 

James Blood [Ulmer] - Tales of Captain Black (Artists House, 1979)

I'm discovering that it's best to approach this music through a different doorway than the one called Jazz.  To cop Ornette's phrase, this other doorway might simply be called Something Else.

 

Fine album, an early one in my Jazz listening. I hear you about him, I think Ulmer is all kind of different but also rooted in some pretty deep tradtion. Fascinating musician. Wish I had seen him live sometime.

[HutchFan]

6 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Fine album, an early one in my Jazz listening. I hear you about him, I think Ulmer is all kind of different but also rooted in some pretty deep tradtion. Fascinating musician. Wish I had seen him live sometime.

I agree.  His music almost reminds me of someone who's heard and absorbed Jimi Hendrix and then traveled back in time to visit and play with some early Delta bluesmen.  Like it's modern and ancient simultaneously.

Rhythm-wise, though, it doesn't sound like "jazz" (very much in quotes, to me).  It up-and-down, march-like rhythmic feeling reminds me of something that preceded jazz.

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by HutchFan

[HutchFan]

Next up:

George Adams / Don Pullen Quartet - Earth Beams (Timeless, 1980)

[Eric]

18 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I agree.  His music almost reminds me of someone who's heard and absorbed Jimi Hendrix and then traveled back in time to visit and play with some early Delta bluesmen.  Like it's modern and ancient simultaneously.

Rhythm-wise, though, it doesn't sound like "jazz" (very much in quotes, to me).  It up-and-down, march-like rhythmic feeling reminds me of something that preceded jazz.

 

I started with Free Lancing on Columbia.  I think Rolling Stone recommended it in the early 80s 😀  I tend to like him more as a sideman than leader, but this one hits the spot for me.

[sidewinder]

One of Cedar’s more offbeat releases. Trying to do a Freddie Hubbard.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Eric said:

I started with Free Lancing on Columbia.  I think Rolling Stone recommended it in the early 80s 😀  I tend to like him more as a sideman than leader, but this one hits the spot for me.

Yep.  I'm familiar with Free Lancing and Odyssey.  Those two -- plus Captain Black -- are the three albums that I've been cycling thru while trying to get a foothold on Ulmer's music.

 

[Rabshakeh]

23 minutes ago, Eric said:

😀I tend to like him more as a sideman than leader, but this one hits the spot for me.

I am with you.

[Pim]

1 hour ago, mjazzg said:

Joe Henderson - The Elements [Milestone, 1974]

and before

John Haycock - Dorian Portrait [Second Thoughts Records, UK 2023, 2nd pressing]

Sound tactics @HutchFan, my partner's even stopped raising her eyebrows...but if she does I'll just show her @Pim's recent post about his Japanese delivery 🙄

So now @mjazzg’s wife knows me as that looney from that jazz forum… 😑🤪

Oh and that Henderson 😍

Edited August 4, 2023 by Pim

[kh1958]

18 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.  I'm familiar with Free Lancing and Odyssey.  Those two -- plus Captain Black -- are the three albums that I've been cycling thru while trying to get a foothold on Ulmer's music.

 

The Odyssey Trio plus Amin Ali on bass.

[HutchFan]

Just now, kh1958 said:

The Odyssey Trio plus Amin Ali on bass.

@kh1958 -- I should add this album to the rotation?  

 

[kh1958]

Just now, HutchFan said:

@kh1958 -- I should add this album to the rotation?  

 

The group was pretty great in person.

[HutchFan]

19 minutes ago, Pim said:

So now @mjazzg’s wife knows me as that looney from that jazz forum… 😑🤪

We're ALL loonies!  

But we're the best kind of loonies to be: Loonies for MUSIC!

 

[mjazzg]

31 minutes ago, Pim said:

So now @mjazzg’s wife knows me as that looney from that jazz forum… 😑🤪

Oh and that Henderson 😍

Not yet she doesn't, I'm holding you in reserve!

[HutchFan]

Azar Lawrence - Summer Solstice (Prestige, 1975)
Craft "Jazz Dispensary" reissue

 

Baden Powell - Images on Guitar (MPS, 1972)

I love the whole Brazilian & jazz cross-pollination thing that was happening during the 1970s.  Of course, it happened both before and after the 1970s -- but it seems like the Brazilian influence reached a sort of crescendo, in terms of its influence on jazz, during the 70s. . . .  Or maybe it just seems that way to me because I focus on 1970s jazz so much.  I dunno! . . .  In any case, both of these albums are terrific (and very different) examples of Braz-Jazz intermixing, a sort of fusion that really rings my bell.

 

Edited August 4, 2023 by HutchFan

[Rabshakeh]

First spin of the new purchase 

[sidewinder]

An ‘Observer Music’ 4LP box set from the early 70s which I didn’t know I had - Philips material. One disk of Brown/Roach, one of Hamp at the Apollo and 2LPs of various groups (Miles, Blakey, Cohn/Sims etc.). Floats my boat !

1 minute ago, Rabshakeh said:

First spin of the new purchase 

Which label is that one on? I picked up a 50s copy on the London label in an Oxfam Shop some years ago.

[kh1958]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

@kh1958 -- I should add this album to the rotation?  

 

If you can find it.