What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Cootie & Rex 'The Big Challenge' (Jazztone)

[paul secor]

Elmore James and his Broomdusters: The Original Meteor and Flair Sides (Ace)

Elmore looked like a banker or a schoolteacher, but no one sang and played with more passion than he did.

And the late Bob Jones was able to make the old Ace LPs that he mastered come alive like no one else could.

And don't know if the photo is large enough or clear enough, but those are Erroll Garner and Stan Kenton LP jackets on the wall behind Elmore and Homesick James. Who have thunk it?

[Chuck Nessa]

Cootie & Rex 'The Big Challenge' (Jazztone)

Still have mine too - and the Big Reunion.

[brownie]

Cootie & Rex 'The Big Challenge' (Jazztone)

Still have mine too - and the Big Reunion.

Got that Big Reunion somewhere too!

Now enjoying:

Johnny Griffin 'The Kerry Dancers' (Riverside Japan)

[Leeway]

Lyons, Raphe Malik, Karen Borca, William Parker, Paul Murphy. September 1983. Black Saint.

[Leeway]

[TWilson]

Moe Koffman - Solar Explorations

[brownie]

James Moody 'Feelin' It Together' (Muse)

[kh1958]

Sunnyland Slim--Slim's Shout (Prestige, blue label). There's some nice playing from King Curtis on this one.

Coltrane--Meditations (Impulse, orange and black)

[BillF]

The Dizzy Gillespie Story (Ember)

[Leeway]

Braxton-Bailey Duo, 1, Emanem LP:

[Leeway]

May 29, 1973, Tokyo

Edited September 18, 2011 by Leeway

[Teasing the Korean]

Fela - Army Arrangement - Yaba

This must be one of the only albums that I own from that most dreaded of decades, the 1980s.

[Teasing the Korean]

Lalo Schifrin - Enter the Dragon OST - WB (German pressing)

[Chuck Nessa]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

[paul secor]

Snooky Pryor and the Country Blues (Today)

[jeffcrom]

Playing some of my New Orleans acquisitions:

George Girard - Dixieland Jazz From New Orleans (Imperial 10"). A really nice album by an ill-fated Crescent City trumpeter I like a lot.

Buck Clayton Jam Session - The Hucklebuck & Robbins' Nest (Columbia). This seems to be a first (or at least very early) pressing. It has a brick red "pre-eye" label. It's in decent shape and sounds pretty good.

Wardell Gray - Way Out Wardell (Crown). I had been looking for a good copy of this; it also seems to be an early pressing, and it's also in good shape.

Edited September 19, 2011 by jeffcrom

[jeffcrom]

I was just poking around the web, trying to find out more about my copy of Way Out Wardell, and came across this:

CLP-5004 - Way Out Wardell - Wardell Gray [1957] Issued in monaural only. Reissue of Modern 1204 with "Sweet Georgia Brown" deleted, leaving only four songs. Some of the Crown LPs list "Sweet Georgia Brown" on the back of the jacket, however. Modern 1204 had a blue cover with a photo of Wardell, while the Crown reissue has a red cover with a different pose from the same photo shoot. Blue Lou/Just You Just Me//One O'Clock Jump/Tenderly

Well, my copy is Crown CLP 5004, with the blue cover (but definitely with the Crown name and logo) and the earliest Crown label style. And it has "Sweet Georgia Brown." I'm guessing that this is the very first Crown pressing of the album.

[clifford_thornton]

"Sweet Georgia Brown" is lengthy, too - a shame to miss it!

[JohnS]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

[mjazzg]

Leeway keeps reminding me of records to pull out.

Very true.

keeps reminding me of LPs I wish I owned/had heard/need to hear

Edited September 19, 2011 by mjazzg

[BillF]

[mjazzg]

thanks to Clifford T for pointing this my way. Mighty pleased he did

[brownie]

Junior Cook 'Junior's Cookin' (Jazzland/Japan)

[Clunky]

Bobby Jaspar 1956 New York