What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Leeway]

[Leeway]

Check out the line-up on this album: Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums;

Billy Bang, violin;

Byard Lancaster, alto and soprano saxophones;

Charles Brackeen, tenor and soprano saxophones;

Vernon Reid, acoustic and electric guitar;

Erasto Vasconcelos, percussion;

Melvin Gibbs, electric bass;

Bern Nix, electric guitar

RSJ doesn't get much attention on these pages, but the guy was doing some cool things on the cusp of the 80s.

Edited November 6, 2011 by Leeway

[kh1958]

Check out the line-up on this album: Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums;

Billy Bang, violin;

Byard Lancaster, alto and soprano saxophones;

Charles Brackeen, tenor and soprano saxophones;

Vernon Reid, acoustic and electric guitar;

Erasto Vasconcelos, percussion;

Melvin Gibbs, electric bass;

Bern Nix, electric guitar

RSJ doesn't get much attention on these pages, but the guy was doing some cool things on the cusp of the 80s.

He certainly was. He brought four different editions of the Decoding Society into the Caravan of Dreams in the mid-1980s, and I was fortunate to hear 15 or 16 sets of these groups. And in all those sets, he only played one drum solo!

[Leeway]

Check out the line-up on this album: Ronald Shannon Jackson, drums;

Billy Bang, violin;

Byard Lancaster, alto and soprano saxophones;

Charles Brackeen, tenor and soprano saxophones;

Vernon Reid, acoustic and electric guitar;

Erasto Vasconcelos, percussion;

Melvin Gibbs, electric bass;

Bern Nix, electric guitar

RSJ doesn't get much attention on these pages, but the guy was doing some cool things on the cusp of the 80s.

He certainly was. He brought four different editions of the Decoding Society into the Caravan of Dreams in the mid-1980s, and I was fortunate to hear 15 or 16 sets of these groups. And in all those sets, he only played one drum solo!

Yes, I can believe that. I think he was more interested in total musical approach than soloing. You can see that on "Eye On You."

Something to wind up the listening session.

[vinyltim]

[brownie]

Henry Allen 'Red Allen Plays King Oliver' (Verve, mono)

[king ubu]

before:

Seven Steps to Heaven - A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans

r.i.p. Gordon Beck

now:

Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 (1946-1949) (RCA Jazz Tribune N° 2)

[Clunky]

Lee Wiley - Gershwin & Porter- 1939-1940 Liberty Music Shop Recordings- Audiophile

[king ubu]

It' Nice to Be With You - Jim Hall in Berlin (MPS)

[king ubu]

vinyl day... before:

Chick Corea - Inner Space

now:

Little Wing - The Gil Evans Orchestra Live in Germany

[king ubu]

Gil Evans - Where Flamingos Fly

[Leeway]

I really admire Bennink's seemingly undimmed sense of fun, experimentation, and that certain wildness Bennink always seem to impart to his activities. Recent LP with Brodie West and Terrie Ex. I much enjoyed it.

[Leeway]

Tough love via piano keys:

[Leeway]

Something spacy before bed:

[brownie]

René Urtreger 'En Direct d'Antibes' (Carlyne)

[jeffcrom]

The internet has returned to my house after two days away!

Don Redman/Claude Hopkins/Benny (not Bennie) Carter - Big Bands Uptown (MCA). Great music on one of those awful Jazz Heritage Series pressings. I've had this since back in the day.

[Clunky]

The internet has returned to my house after two days away!

Don Redman/Claude Hopkins/Benny (not Bennie) Carter - Big Bands Uptown (MCA). Great music on one of those awful Jazz Heritage Series pressings. I've had this since back in the day.

I've a few of these , the pressings seems fine but the sound has been EQ'd to death.

[jeffcrom]

The internet has returned to my house after two days away!

Don Redman/Claude Hopkins/Benny (not Bennie) Carter - Big Bands Uptown (MCA). Great music on one of those awful Jazz Heritage Series pressings. I've had this since back in the day.

I've a few of these , the pressings seems fine but the sound has been EQ'd to death.

That's what I meant, despite my imprecise language.

[Leeway]

This album still sounds out front; just a great album:

[Leeway]

The Get Back reissue, but I like it fine:

[vinyltim]

Lee Allen "Walkin' With Mr. Lee"

[jeffcrom]

Lee Allen "Walkin' With Mr. Lee"

Oh, hell, yes!

[vinyltim]

Lee Allen "Walkin' With Mr. Lee"

Oh, hell, yes!

Glad you like! If you want to hear it, I posted a needledrop of it on my blog (link in my signature).....

[jeffcrom]

Lee Allen "Walkin' With Mr. Lee"

Oh, hell, yes!

Glad you like! If you want to hear it, I posted a needledrop of it on my blog (link in my signature).....

Oh, I'm quite familiar with "Walkin' With Mr. Lee." Starting tomorrow night, I'll be a bachelor for a few days, and as usual on those occasions, I'll probably pull out the boxes of 45's - blues, R & B, and lots of great New Orleans stuff.

Right now:

Pretty Baby soundtrack (ABC). This has long been one of my favorite New Orleans albums, with Kid Thomas Valentine, The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra, Louis Cottrell, pianist Bob Greene, and even a vocal by James Booker. I just picked up a new copy today - I've had two previous copies, and they were both very noisy. This one is visually near mint, and it's better than my previous copies, but it's still got a fair amount of surface noise.

[vinyltim]