What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Chico Freeman 'Morning Prayer' (Why Not)

[paul secor]

Chico Freeman 'Morning Prayer' (Why Not)

For me, Chico Freeman never lived up to his early promise, but I've always liked that one.

[Clunky]

Richie Kamuca - Drop me off at harlem- Concord, fine playing in mainstream vein , with Kamuca sounding peerless. Lovely

[BillF]

[jeffcrom]

Mary Osborne/Marian McPartland/Vi Redd, etc. - Now's the Time (Halcyon), mentioned in this thread, which also features Marcello's great pictures from the gig.

[paul secor]

Machito: Afro-Cubop (Spotlite)

[jeffcrom]

Murray Lehher with Dave Tarras - Freilachs for Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Other Celebrations, Vol. 2 (Request stereo)

[brownie]

Jaki Byard 'To Them, To Us' (SoulNote)

Edited May 3, 2011 by brownie

[jeffcrom]

Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon, Volume 3: The West Coast Scene (Solid State). Bobby Bryant, Sweets Edison, Pete Christlieb, Harold Land, etc.

Leo Smith (not billed as Wadada on the cover) - Divine Love (ECM). Definitely one of ECM's best releases.

[Clunky]

Jimmy Raney/ Martial Solal- The Date - Stil - lovely duet

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Flakes (Vista). Vista was a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA, specializing in avant-garde jazz. This is Lacy at his most "poly-free" radical. My old boss Michael J. Smith plays some wild Hammond organ on "The New Duck."

All-Star Marching Band - New Orleans Parade (GNP/Crescendo). This 1978 brass band recording is by a pick-up group, drawn largely from the Onward Brass Band, but it looks like there are few Olympia and Young Tuxedo musicians on hand.

[jeffcrom]

Professor Longhair - The Last Mardi Gras (Atlantic). This wonderful, cooking, sloppy 1978 live double album has never been issued on CD, at least in the U.S.

[six string]

Pony Poindexter - Pony Express (Epic) Yellow label Mono copy.

Edited May 4, 2011 by six string

[brownie]

Hank Mobley Quintet 'Hank' (BN/Toshiba Japan)

Great KD (and Mobley) session!

[clifford_thornton]

Steve Lacy - Flakes (Vista). Vista was a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA, specializing in avant-garde jazz. This is Lacy at his most "poly-free" radical. My old boss Michael J. Smith plays some wild Hammond organ on "The New Duck."

That Lacy is a fine one! I didn't know you worked with Michael J. Smith - fine player, that Geomusic stuff is really intense.

Shit, I owe you a couple of Lacy CDs don't I?

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Flakes (Vista). Vista was a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA, specializing in avant-garde jazz. This is Lacy at his most "poly-free" radical. My old boss Michael J. Smith plays some wild Hammond organ on "The New Duck."

That Lacy is a fine one! I didn't know you worked with Michael J. Smith - fine player, that Geomusic stuff is really intense.

Shit, I owe you a couple of Lacy CDs don't I?

Yeah, Michael lived in Atlanta for a year around the turn of the 1990's. We did some recording that Michael never released, but I put out a couple of tracks on a CD of mine. He got pretty discouraged (understandably) with the Atlanta music scene and went back to Sweden. But in that year, he was quite a figure around here - he'd wear colored jumpsuits with white boots and drive around in a Delorean.

[Clunky]

[clifford_thornton]

Steve Lacy - Flakes (Vista). Vista was a short-lived subsidiary of Italian RCA, specializing in avant-garde jazz. This is Lacy at his most "poly-free" radical. My old boss Michael J. Smith plays some wild Hammond organ on "The New Duck."

That Lacy is a fine one! I didn't know you worked with Michael J. Smith - fine player, that Geomusic stuff is really intense.

Shit, I owe you a couple of Lacy CDs don't I?

Yeah, Michael lived in Atlanta for a year around the turn of the 1990's. We did some recording that Michael never released, but I put out a couple of tracks on a CD of mine. He got pretty discouraged (understandably) with the Atlanta music scene and went back to Sweden. But in that year, he was quite a figure around here - he'd wear colored jumpsuits with white boots and drive around in a Delorean.

Why does that outfit not surprise me... he seems like a pretty far-out dude.

[BillF]

[BillF]

Zoot Sims, One To Blow On (Meteor)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finished:

Steely Dan - Katy Lied

Now playing:

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - self-titled debut. Record Store Day white vinyl. This sounds phenomenal! If you're a Petty fan, grab these two new vinyl reissues.

[Chalupa]

Past week or so....

McRad - Dominant Force (Red Music)

Jack Rose with D. Charles Speer & the Helix - Ragged and Right (Thrill Jockey)

Elaine Radigue - Joulet Electronique / Elemental I (Alga Marghen)

The Holydrug Couple - Anicent Land (Sacred Bones)

The Psychedelic Aliens - Psycho African Beat (Academy Records)

Zola Jesus - Valusia (Sacred Bones)

Naked on the Vague - Twelve Dark Noons (Sacred Bones)

Blind Faith - S/t (RSO, late 70's crappy pressing)

Odyssey - Setting Forth (Lion Productions)

[jeffcrom]

Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha on Deutsche Grammophon, conducted by Gunther Schuller. I don't pull this one off the shelf very often - it's probably been five or six years since I listened to it. And while I like it, every time I hear it, I wish it were better. The music is pretty good, but the libretto, written by Joplin himself, is painfully amateurish. I wish he had gotten James Weldon Johnson to write the libretto.

[jeffcrom]

Michael J. Smith - Geomusic (Muza)

[jeffcrom]

Professor Longhair - The Last Mardi Gras (Atlantic). This wonderful, cooking, sloppy 1978 live double album has never been issued on CD, at least in the U.S.

Disc 2 of this album tonight.