What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Gheorghe]

20 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Art Farmer - Farmer's Market (Prestige, 2-LPs)
Compilation of tracks recorded 1954-56

 

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

[HutchFan]

1 minute ago, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records. 

 

[HutchFan]

Giving this new-to-me LP a first spin:

Nancy Harrow with Jack Wilkins - Two's Company (Inner City, 1984)

 

[Teasing the Korean]

14 hours ago, JSngry said:

It does, and it's a really good record that way. That's the one with the Basie band, right?

Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

[soulpope]

11 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Giving this new-to-me LP a first spin:

Nancy Harrow with Jack Wilkins - Two's Company (Inner City, 1984)

Good one 👌 ....

[HutchFan]

23 minutes ago, soulpope said:

Good one 👌 ....

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

 

[mjazzg]

24 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

 

Worse than under-recognised here, I've never heard her name let alone her music, sorry Nancy.

Tidal have some albums, not Hutchfan's though, so I shall sample

[soulpope]

32 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Yep.   

Harrow is terrific -- and terrifically under-recognized.

Indeed ....

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

Interesting mix of tunes on that album.  I knew about half of them.  The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known.  Do you know other versions of it?  It would have been great for Dino.

Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

[HutchFan]

15 minutes ago, mjazzg said:

Tidal have some albums, not Hutchfan's though, so I shall sample

If you'd like to dig into her music, I'd recommend these, @mjazzg:

- Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1979)
- You're Nearer (Tono/Baldwin St., 1986)

 

[mjazzg]

8 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

If you'd like to dig into her music, I'd recommend these, @mjazzg:

- Anything Goes (Audiophile, 1979)
- You're Nearer (Tono/Baldwin St., 1986)

 

Thanks, shall start just there, 'Anything Goes' is on Tidal so that's my first port of call

[Teasing the Korean]

18 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Nope, don't know of any.

I got that album as a hand-me-down from my wife's aunt. A very "surprising" assortment of records that includes another Nat record called Tell Me About Yourself  that was another mostly standards album arranged by Dave Cavanaugh, and a very nice one.

The one with the golf clubs and the amazing cardigan?  I've got that one too.

[jazzbo]

"Welcome to the Club" has lyrics written by Noel Sherman who also wrote the lyrics to "Ramblin' Rose."

[Kevin Bresnahan]

6 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records. 

 

I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

Edited August 26, 2024 by Kevin Bresnahan

[optatio]

18 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

One of 21 vintage LPs I bought in a local store yesterday, all but one was under $4. Somebody must have cleaned out their father's or husband's collection.

👍 - on my shelf!

[Ken Dryden]

Rather nice sound for 1940s transcriptions!

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

I never got to hear him, but I have a lot of his discography in my collection and fond memories of the phone interview I did a few years prior to his death.

[kh1958]

13 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

Art Farmer was living in Vienna/Austria from the 70´s until his death. Though he was constantly touring the world, Vienna was his homebase and he played there every year several times. 

I heard him very very often. Farmer´s Market was played often. He was great ! Just a perfect musician.

I got to hear him just once at Sweet Basil. I recall he had Jerome Richardson on tenor sax.

[Gheorghe]

15 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did. 

But I'm grateful for the records. 

 

Most records I have is those made by musicians I heard perform. I usually bought records the next day after I heard a famous musician..... that´s how I built up my little collection....

Nowadays it is also musicians I heard, mostly fellow musicians, I mean I have them their record, they have my newest album.....

[optatio]

17 hours ago, HutchFan said:

I wish I would've had an opportunity to hear Farmer perform.  Never did.

Saw him twice - in Vienne/France (Jazz à Vienne) and in Göttingen (Club 'Blue Note') - bright moments!

[Chuck Nessa]

[clifford_thornton]

Good one. I should dig that out.

[hopkins]

[soulpope]

On 8/26/2024 at 10:16 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

Can't rule out exceptions, but saw Art Farmer several times during his long stay @ Wien and can confirm Gheorghe's impressions ....

[Ken Dryden]

A recent find in a store.

[mjazzg]

Schlomovitz/Polin - Contemporary Music for Harp and Flute [Ars Nova, USA]

Initial listen to this new arrival.  With thanks to @Teasing the Koreanfor making me aware of it with a post a few weeks ago. And with thanks to @HutchFanfor his assistance in getting it to the UK. This is going to get a lot of plays.