What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[clifford_thornton]

Sounds fine to me; not as much "punch" as the German pressings tho I haven't compared the two on this title.

[jeffcrom]

Michael J. Smith - Totality (Red). Beautiful, introspective improvising from an interesting guy. I never really thought of him as a "jazz" musician (and I played with him for a year), but there is a great "Angel Eyes" here on which he shows that he knows the changes just fine, thank you very much.

[JohnS]

Last evening

John Coltrane; Afro Blue Impressions. Pablo Live (UK Polydor)

[sidewinder]

Kenny Wheeler 'Gnu High' (ECM)

Charles McPherson 'Bebop Revisited' (Stateside, mono factory sample)

Edited August 7, 2009 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

Neil Ardley 'Harmony Of The Spheres' (Decca)

[kh1958]

Stanley Turrentine, Dearly Beloved (Blue Note, NY USA)

Big John Patton, The Way I Feel (Blue Note, blue and white Liberty)

[clifford_thornton]

Michael J. Smith - Totality (Red). Beautiful, introspective improvising from an interesting guy. I never really thought of him as a "jazz" musician (and I played with him for a year), but there is a great "Angel Eyes" here on which he shows that he knows the changes just fine, thank you very much.

I like what I've heard from him... there's one on Horo (I think) called The Dualities of Man that is pretty interesting. Kent Carter talked a lot about playing in his quartet with Laurence Cook and (IIRC) Claude Bernard.

[clifford_thornton]

Lunchtime spin:

McCoy Tyner - Extensions - (BN UA pressing)

[BillF]

Gerry Mulligan/Johnny Mandel, The Jazz Combo from "I Want to Live" (Affinity)

[BillF]

Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet (EmArcy/Pye)

[jeffcrom]

Michael J. Smith - Totality (Red). Beautiful, introspective improvising from an interesting guy. I never really thought of him as a "jazz" musician (and I played with him for a year), but there is a great "Angel Eyes" here on which he shows that he knows the changes just fine, thank you very much.

I like what I've heard from him... there's one on Horo (I think) called The Dualities of Man that is pretty interesting. Kent Carter talked a lot about playing in his quartet with Laurence Cook and (IIRC) Claude Bernard.

Dualities of Man is a good one. He also recorded a double LP for Horo - Elvira Madigan... And Other Dances, with Norwegian saxophonist Knut Riisnaes on some cuts. And among his other albums is an interesting fusion-ish date for Day Eight Music from 1983: All Our Steps. That one has Jonas Hellborg and Michael Shrieve.

[kh1958]

The Young Lions (Veejay)

[sidewinder]

Mike Westbrook Concert Band 'Celebration' (Deram, mono)

preceded by one of my all-time faves:

Kenny Wheeler 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' (German ECM, 2LP)

[jeffcrom]

Mike Westbrook Concert Band 'Celebration' (Deram, mono)

preceded by one of my all-time faves:

Kenny Wheeler 'Music For Large and Small Ensembles' (German ECM, 2LP)

Fine music, both.

Helen Merrill/Dick Katz - The Feeling is Mutual (Milestone)

[clifford_thornton]

My Westbrook is all on CD - the only of his vinyls I've been able to score is Release, which is a nice one, if not a fanatically-priced LP.

[Chuck Nessa]

I'm really curious if anyone out there has the real first pressing of Lester Bowie's Numers !&2? If you think you have one, send me the matrix numbers etched in he margins. Thanks.

[jeffcrom]

Billy Higgins - Bridgework (Contemporary)

[kh1958]

John Graas-- Jazz Lab 1 (Decca)

Session at Midnight--Jazz Reunion at Melrose (Capitol, turquoise label)

[sidewinder]

My Westbrook is all on CD - the only of his vinyls I've been able to score is Release, which is a nice one, if not a fanatically-priced LP.

Have got all of Mike Westbrook's Derams on vinyl. Like them all - although 'Marching Songs Vol 1 and 2' is perhaps not one to spin when you've got visitors. 'Release' is fairly rare I think. The 'Tyger' on RCA is probably his rarest title. Hope to be checking out his and Kate's 'Village Band' in the next month or so - they're fairly local !

Edited August 9, 2009 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

George Russell 'Outer Thoughts' (UK Riverside twofer) - A fantastic compilation with super-cool pic of Mr Russell + pipe on the front.

[kh1958]

Sun Ra--Fate in a Pleasant Mood (Impulse promo)

Sun Ra--Atlantis (Impuse)

Wild Bill Davis at Birdland (Epic)

[clifford_thornton]

My Westbrook is all on CD - the only of his vinyls I've been able to score is Release, which is a nice one, if not a fanatically-priced LP.

Have got all of Mike Westbrook's Derams on vinyl. Like them all - although 'Marching Songs Vol 1 and 2' is perhaps not one to spin when you've got visitors. 'Release' is fairly rare I think. The 'Tyger' on RCA is probably his rarest title. Hope to be checking out his and Kate's 'Village Band' in the next month or so - they're fairly local !

Never seen Tyger before. Looks interesting... though I probably listen to Love Songs the most, my eyes are often peeled for a clean set of Marching Song LPs.

[jeffcrom]

Some Blue Note 45 RPM singles tonight:

Lou Donaldson - Mack the Knife/The Nearness of You

Freddie Roach - I Know/Googa Mooga

Sonny Red - Bluesville/Stay as Sweet as You Are

[sidewinder]

Never seen Tyger before. Looks interesting... though I probably listen to Love Songs the most, my eyes are often peeled for a clean set of Marching Song LPs.

Collaboration with Adrian Mitchell for an early 70s spoken voice/musical production - the first 'William Blake' themed work of these two. Goes for fairly big bucks.

[clifford_thornton]

Elmo Hope - Sounds from Rikers Island - (Audio Fidelity)