Chuck Nessa Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Picked up a stack of LPs today, including several cool ten-inchers. Among those were the two volumes of Jamming at Rudi's on Rudi Blesh's Circle label. They were both recorded in 1951 at jazz parties at his apartment. Volume 1 is a New Oreans-style jam built around Conrad Janis's amateurish trombone, but also including Danny Barker, Bob Wilber, Pops Foster, Ralph Sutton, and Eubie Blake. Volume 2 is Kansas City-flavored, and has some great Hot Lips Page. Jazzology owns this material now, and has issued a CD with some previously unreleased tracks, but that CD is missing some of the tracks on these albums. Find the right idiot and you could pay off your mortgage. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Another of the day's finds: Marian McPartland - At the Hickory House (Capitol) With the great rhythm section she had at the time - Bill Crow and Joe Morello. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Yet another of today's (well, yesterday's by now) LP purchases: Ruby Braff/Ellis Larkins - 2 Part Inventions in Jazz (Vanguard 10"). The cover is a little beat, but damn! The vinyl is stone mint - one of the best-sounding 10" LP's I've ever heard. Couldn't find a picture online. Quote
brownie Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Pepper Adams 'Critics' Choice' (WP/Toshiba Japan) Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Recently picked up a whole bunch of those Bluebird big-band two-fers LPs, filling in some gaps I had there with Goodman, T. Dorsey, Shaw, and Barnet. Working through things, I'm pleasantly reminded of how fine the Dorsey band was -- not always as jazz-oriented as one might wish but the quality of the playing and the (frequent) subtlety/sophistication of the arranging (Weston, Stordahl, et al.) was quite something, in general and even more so in the context of the time. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 earlier today: Birdland Stars on Tour Vol. 1 (RCA Victor mono) Quote
Larry Kart Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 earlier today: Birdland Stars on Tour Vol. 1 (RCA Victor mono) Caught that band live in Chicago some 56 years ago. Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 earlier today: Birdland Stars on Tour Vol. 1 (RCA Victor mono) Caught that band live in Chicago some 56 years ago. Cool! Now playing: Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Goin' the the Meeting (Prestige mono) Quote
brownie Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 Vinnie Burke AllStars (FreshSound reissue of ABC-Paramount) The music does not match the track list... no idea if the problem was on the original release! Very nice music in any case! Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 Julius Hemphill - Roi Boye and the Gotham Minstrels (Sackville); record two. Quote
mjazzg Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 some very good playing by younger UK band - Mark Hanslip, Matthew Bourne, James Allsopp amongst them. Interesting compositions by Riaan Vosloo. Third of a trilogy and possibly the best Quote
michel1969 Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 (edited) yesterday : My al time favourite "Round about Midnight" version, played by Barney Kessel. Edited October 14, 2011 by Michel Quote
BillF Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 yesterday : My al time favourite "Round about Midnight" version, played by Barney Kessel. Fine album - and that early Hampton Hawes is really something! Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 Philly Joe Jones - Trailways Express (Black Lion) Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 Frog Joseph - Old New Orleans Dixieland (Dulai). Hate the title; love the music on this 1960's album. The front line is Jack Willis, Frog Joseph, and Louis Cottrell, and the music really flows. Quote
brownie Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 Coleman Hawkins 'The Complete Coleman Hawkins, Vol. 1 1929-1940' (RCA France, Black and White series) Quote
sidewinder Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 Freddie Hubbard 'Backlash' (Atlantic purple/orange, mono) followed by: Freddie Hubbard 'Live at the Northsea Jazz Festival, The Hague, 1980' (Pablo Live, 2LP) Quote
sidewinder Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 Pete LaRoca 'Basra' (BN NY USA stereo) Quote
Clunky Posted October 15, 2011 Report Posted October 15, 2011 perhaps not the greatest recording but this one seems full of the Basie spirit Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 16, 2011 Report Posted October 16, 2011 (edited) The Georgians, Vol. 2 (VJM). 1923 recordings by an interesting early jazz band. I'm particularly fascinated by the trumpeter, Frank Guarente, who was maybe the first significant jazz musician not born in the U.S. He was Italian, but moved to New Orleans as a young man. He and King Oliver became friends and exchanged trumpet lessons, and Oliver's band played Guarente's 21st birthday party in 1914. Edit: This band is not anywhere as hip as Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, but it's obvious on several tracks that part of the old man's tutelage of Guarente involved the use of the mute. Edited October 16, 2011 by jeffcrom Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 16, 2011 Report Posted October 16, 2011 Sonny Rollins - Stuttgart 1963 (Musicisc) Quote
jeffcrom Posted October 16, 2011 Report Posted October 16, 2011 Dave Tarras/Abe Ellstein - Jewish Melodies (Period). Tarras's son-in-law Sam Musiker, who played clarinet and tenor in the Gene Krupa big band, plays tenor here, and I suspect he did the arrangements. And again. Quote
brownie Posted October 16, 2011 Report Posted October 16, 2011 Charles Mingus 'Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus' (Impulse, stereo) Quote
Tom in RI Posted October 16, 2011 Report Posted October 16, 2011 Onyx 201 The Foremost! Onyx 202 Big Bands! Best liner notes ever? Pretty damn good anyway. Quote
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