What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JohnS]

mono.

[jeffcrom]

Annette Peacock- I'm the one this album just amazes me. Brilliant !!!

I'm right with you on this one.

[porcy62]

Lou Donaldson - Everything I Play Is Funky - BN, japan pressing.

[porcy62]

Kenny Burrell - K.B. Blues - BN, king.

[porcy62]

Curtis Fuller - Boss Of The Soul-Stream Trombone - Warwick, Fresh Sound reissue.

[Teasing the Korean]

mono.

I tend to like small combo jazz better in mono than in stereo. Most Brubeck Columbia LPs sound better in mono - there is a better balance between the instruments. Sometimes the drums are too loud on the stereo versions.

But on the mono Bossa Nova USA, I thought the drums were a little too quiet, and ultimately, I unloaded the mono and kept the stereo. One of the few times this has happened.

[jeffcrom]

Jazz at the Philharmonic/Lester Young: Carnegie Blues (Verve)

Edited to say that Joe Guy, who plays on one 1946 track here, was a very interesting trumpet player, albeit one whose work doesn't sound quite "finished" to me, if that makes any sense.

Edited February 16, 2011 by jeffcrom

[brownie]

Sonny Stitt 'Primitivo Soul!' (Prestige, stereo, black and silver label)

[BillF]

Jazz at the Philharmonic/Lester Young: Carnegie Blues (Verve)

Edited to say that Joe Guy, who plays on one 1946 track here, was a very interesting trumpet player, albeit one whose work doesn't sound quite "finished" to me, if that makes any sense.

Hadn't he been one of the Minton's Playhouse innovators, caught on tape, and with a style that lay between swing and bop?

Edited February 16, 2011 by BillF

[brownie]

Pal Desmond 'Pure Desmond' (CTI)

[JohnS]

[JohnS]

[jeffcrom]

Jazz at the Philharmonic/Lester Young: Carnegie Blues (Verve)

Edited to say that Joe Guy, who plays on one 1946 track here, was a very interesting trumpet player, albeit one whose work doesn't sound quite "finished" to me, if that makes any sense.

Hadn't he been one of the Minton's Playhouse innovators, caught on tape, and with a style that lay between swing and bop?

Yes, he does some really nice playing on those Jerry Newman recordings from Minton's with Monk and Charlie Christian. He also plays interesting, forward-looking solos on "Rocky Comfort," from the only studio session (1940) by Coleman Hawkins' big band, and the first recording of "Epistrophy," by Cootie Williams' big band.

[JohnS]

Steve Lacy with Wynton Kelly, Prestige (French Carrere issue)

Before

Jack McDuff; Tough 'Duff. Prestige (OJC)

[JohnS]

Late pressing Contemporary

Edited February 17, 2011 by JohnS

[brownie]

The Newport All Stars 'Tribute to Duke' (MPS France)

The All Stars include Ruby Braff, Joe Venuti, Red Norvo, Barney Kessel, etc...

[king ubu]

Cool Jazz at Sain-Germain-des-Prés (Jazz in Paris 10 inch)

[jeffcrom]

Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon, Volume 2 (Solid State) - Gillespie, Pepper Adams, Garnett Brown, Chick Corea, Richard Davis and Mel Lewis.

[jeffcrom]

Max Roach - Freedom Now Suite (Columbia white label promo)

[jeffcrom]

Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening (BN Liberty). A period piece, but in its best moments, a glorious one.

[sidewinder]

Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening (BN Liberty). A period piece, but in its best moments, a glorious one.

Have the '4 Men With Beards' version of that one.

Now spinning - Miles Davis 'Pangaea' (Japanese CBS-Sony, 2LP)

[brownie]

Philly Joe Jones 'Blues for Dracula' (Riverside Japan, stereo)

Victor Japan released this with Milestone labels!

[JohnS]

An all vinyl morning. So far-

Tony Fruscella; Atlantic (Japan)

Kenny Dorham Jazz Prophets; (Impulse Bopmasters 2 lp)

Lou Donaldson; Midnight Sun. Blue Note (Rainbow)

Art Farmer; Sing Me Softly of the Blues. Atlantic (Japan)

[JohnS]

[alocispepraluger102]

one of my most favorite old vinyls-----