What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Clunky]

Börje Fredriksson -------s/t---------(EMI Odeon) 

 

Posthumously issued in 1969. Its as least as good as Intervall which I think was the only album issued during his short lifetime. I keep hoping that more might come out but he's a pretty marginal figure despite his excellence. This , Intervall and a compilation on Caprice are all available on streaming sites. Intervall was reissued on CD and LP in fairly recent times. I've recommended him before and make no apology for doing so again. 

[Ken Dryden]

4 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I have two Alamacs I think. Bird with the Herd and Bird 1949 . I bought them in the 70´s and was a bit astonished they were so expensive and had quite modest cover design, no liner notes . The Bird with the Herd is quite funny though the more heavy swing style rhythm of the drums doesn´t fit to Bird, but it is a fun record.

I saw Jay McShann at Jazzland and it was great.
Dorothy Donegan also played once ore twice at Jazzland but I must admit I hadn´t ever heard her name. I learned that she was a very tehnical pianist and brought up as a wunderkind, could play licks of Errol Garner and others but seem´s to have been quite absent in the active jazzscene were you play and record in different groups . 

The boss of Jazzland, Mr. Melhard once told me it was quite stressy with her, since she thought she must have hundreds of evening robes to play and didn´t understand that this is just a smaller but outrite fine cellar club. She travelled with much luggage with robes and stuff and seemed to be lost away from the piano. Brought up as a wunderkind and kept that way.....

Dick Wellstood´s photo is also on the walls of Jazzland, but this must have been before my time or a style earlier than what we heard and studied. 

Art Tatum liked to take Dorothy around to clubs and when pianists inevitably challenged him, he would suggest they battle her first. I think that was mentioned in Jazz Anecdotes...

Marian McPartland told me that she thought Dorothy Donegan had an inconsistent recording output due to being difficult to work with and he she was la bit full of herself. When they played their final duet to conclude the broadcast of Piano Jazz, she told her, "Dorothy, you wasted me!" Donegan's response, "It was no contest!"

[Rabshakeh]

Great album that for once really does need new artwork with any reissue.

[sidewinder]

[HutchFan]

2022 Craft reissue

[Gheorghe]

20 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

Art Tatum liked to take Dorothy around to clubs and when pianists inevitably challenged him, he would suggest they battle her first. I think that was mentioned in Jazz Anecdotes...

Marian McPartland told me that she thought Dorothy Donegan had an inconsistent recording output due to being difficult to work with and he she was la bit full of herself. When they played their final duet to conclude the broadcast of Piano Jazz, she told her, "Dorothy, you wasted me!" Donegan's response, "It was no contest!"

Well maybe this is one of the reasons why I didn´t go there,

First of all during that time I never heard a mentor tellin me about Dorothy Donegan, they might tell me to listen to Tatum, Bud, Monk, Garland, Wynton Kelly,  McCoy, Cecil Taylor, Herbie Hancock etc. , but I think Donegan was not mentioned much among musicians or even music lovers of the scene then or now. 
And.....as it was told to me it was over-pianistic, while I want to hear if a piano player connects well with the bass player and the drummer, each of the instruments very important to me. 

It also may explain, why Mr. Axel Melhard (boss of Jazzland) later complained, that there was not enough audience for Dorothy Donegan. 
Some one told me that when she banged the final chord of a tune, she lost her "peruca" (don´t know how you say for artificial hair), it was a tragic-comic thing with a woman too "overdressed" for a small cellar club. 

[jazzcorner]

A real swinger

[jazzcorner]

Jazz West Records JWLP-1 - The Jack Sheldon Quartet - rec. 1954 - Engineer: John Neal

 

 

[jazzcorner]

4 LP box - The complete concert (live) from May 20/21, 1977 at the Palladium Theatre NY City

Edited August 10, 2023 by jazzcorner
typo

[mjazzg]

Peter Appleyard & Orchestra - Per-cus-sive Jazz [Audio Fidelity, 1960]

Edited August 10, 2023 by mjazzg

[HutchFan]

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere on the forum:

 

Earlier today:

[HutchFan]

Next up:

[optatio]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere on the forum:

👍

 

Signed by Walter Bishop Jr.

[jazzcorner]

recorded 1982 & 1983  in Nashville TN - Engineer: Travis Turk - Producer: Albert Marx

[jazzcorner]

East World (digital) EWLF-98009 - Shelly Manne " The Manne We Love" - rec. 1979 - Engineer: Sye Mitchell 

[HutchFan]

Now spinning:

Lorez Alexandria - How Will I Remember You? (Discovery, 1978)
with:
Flute, Oboe – Charles Owens
Guitar – Grant Geissman
Piano – Gildo Mahones
Bass – Allen Jackson
Drums – Jimmie Smith

 

[Brad]

[Gheorghe]

On 8/10/2023 at 11:48 AM, jazzcorner said:

4 LP box - The complete concert (live) from May 20/21, 1977 at the Palladium Theatre NY City

Never saw that . Is this the original quartet or is it augmented and if yes, with whom. 

On 8/10/2023 at 8:59 PM, HutchFan said:

Prompted by some discussion elsewhere on the forum:

 

Earlier today:

Where was the Bill Hardman discussion on the forum ? 

[jazzcorner]

1 hour ago, Gheorghe said:

Never saw that . Is this the original quartet or is it augmented and if yes, with whom. 

 

[optatio]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Where was the Bill Hardman discussion on the forum ? 

 

I guess it wasn't about Bill Hardman but about Junior Cook  https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/90364-junior-cook-in-excelsis/

 

Edited August 12, 2023 by optatio

[Rabshakeh]

Anthony Braxton / John Lindberg – Six Duets (1982)

A record shop near me that mostly does obscure indie and non-jazz avant garde has a job lot of fairly obscure Braxton in, and let's just say I had a gift voucher to cash in.

I'd never heard of this one. A good simple on that focuses on the saxophone playing in quite a straight setting.

There's always more Braxton.

[kh1958]

Knoel Scott with Marshall Allen, Celestial (Night Dreamer)

Sidney Bechet, Recorded in Concert at the Brussels Fair 1958 (Columbia)

 

 

[mjazzg]

3 minutes ago, kh1958 said:

Knoel Scott with Marshall Allen, Celestial (Night Dreamer)

Sidney Bechet, Recorded in Concert at the Brussels Fair 1958 (Columbia)

 

 

How's the Knoel Scott? I nearly bought it unheard yesterday 

26 minutes ago, Rabshakeh said:

Anthony Braxton / John Lindberg – Six Duets (1982)

A record shop near me that mostly does obscure indie and non-jazz avant garde has a job lot of fairly obscure Braxton in, and let's just say I had a gift voucher to cash in.

I'd never heard of this one. A good simple on that focuses on the saxophone playing in quite a straight setting.

There's always more Braxton.

I really rate that one. World Of Echo?

[Rabshakeh]

Yep. It's a lot cheaper with a gift voucher!

[kh1958]

7 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

How's the Knoel Scott? I nearly bought it unheard yesterday 

I really rate that one. World Of Echo?

I found it a bit disappointing on first listen. I need to listen more. The sound is excellent, as on all of Night Dreamer's records.  If you don't have it, I would look for Knoel Scott Live in Alaska, which I bought from him at a posthumous Sun Ra Arkestra concert, as it is quite good.