What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Saxes, Inc. (Warner Bros., Vitaphonic Stereo!!)

sax players include Hawkins, Phil and Quill, Al and Zoot, McKusick, Geller and others

[JSngry]

I almost feel sorry for the guy. Almost.

[Clunky]

Harold Vick- Straight Up (RCA Victor) stereo DG- pretty different from Steppin Out. As the title suggests it's a more mainstream date but it's not too smooth despite there being two Bossa tracks. Vick probably ought to be better known. Here he sounds as if Dexter's playing influenced him a fair bit.

[Clunky]

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul 'Be-Bop?' (Musica)

not your average Pepper Adams session, pretty energetic with Altschul moving things round nicely. Pianist Siegfried Kessler is excellent

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul 'Be-Bop?' (Musica)

not your average Pepper Adams session, pretty energetic with Altschul moving things round nicely. Pianist Siegfried Kessler is excellent

I've been trying to find an affordable copy of this LP for years and years. They rarely show up, especially on this side of the pond.

[Clunky]

Pepper Adams & Barry Altschul 'Be-Bop?' (Musica)

not your average Pepper Adams session, pretty energetic with Altschul moving things round nicely. Pianist Siegfried Kessler is excellent

I've been trying to find an affordable copy of this LP for years and years. They rarely show up, especially on this side of the pond.

I didn't realise this was uncommon, got mine for £8 - it arrived yesterday

Edited March 6, 2012 by Clunky

[clifford_thornton]

Think I paid about $20 for it from Dusty.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Think I paid about $20 for it from Dusty.

I just had some bad luck with grading from Dusty. An LP they graded as "Very Good" came in with both sides having rice crispies throughout & had several large, visible scratches that showed up as clicks and pops, some of them very heavy. I'll be a little less likely to use them for used vinyl in the future. I've had better luck with Euclid.

Let me know if you want to sell it someday.

[brownie]

Lennie Tristano 'The New Tristano' (Atlantic, mono)

[JSngry]

Think I paid about $20 for it from Dusty.

I just had some bad luck with grading from Dusty. An LP they graded as "Very Good" came in with both sides having rice crispies throughout & had several large, visible scratches that showed up as clicks and pops, some of them very heavy. I'll be a little less likely to use them for used vinyl in the future.

If you're looking for something besides a play-for-fun copy ( I mean, $4.99 for some 30-35 minute pretty-good-at-best LP vs 3X more for a CD, yeah, I'll accept some "listening artifacts" ), never buy anything from them that is not rated Very Good + or higher, and do know that the older the record is, the more liberal they are with the +.

As with their delightfully hyperbolic reviews, their grading system speaks a language all its own, and you gotta know what they're really saying in order to understand what they really mean.

[king ubu]

Jimi Hendrix - In the West

lovely 2LP set... great music, of course (I think I have got most of it elsewhere, but at less than 20€ it was a steal)

(edited for faulty cover-link)

Edited March 6, 2012 by king ubu

[clifford_thornton]

Think I paid about $20 for it from Dusty.

I just had some bad luck with grading from Dusty. An LP they graded as "Very Good" came in with both sides having rice crispies throughout & had several large, visible scratches that showed up as clicks and pops, some of them very heavy. I'll be a little less likely to use them for used vinyl in the future. I've had better luck with Euclid.

Let me know if you want to sell it someday.

Yeah, I avoid "VG" like the plague. VG+ has generally been okay with them, as has NM-. Who knows, if I ever have a massive sell-off I'll let you know! I believe they graded it "VG+" and it's easily that, if not better (and I'm very, very anal about condition).

[Clunky]

Buddy De Franco Quartet - Jazz Tones - (Columbia Clef Series-UK) - two test pressing 10 inch single sided LPs !! Sounding really good ! Kenny Drew, Art Blakey and Milt Hinton complete the line up

Edited March 6, 2012 by Clunky

[jeffcrom]

Phil Sunkel's Jazz Band (ABC Paramount). A truly beautiful 1956 album by Sunkel and a 10-piece big band.

Bunk Johnson 1945 (Dan). Six of the 14 tracks here have not been reissued on American Music CDs, and I cherish this album for those six tracks.

[JSngry]

In full glorious electronically rechanneled DUOPHONIC sound, the same way it was when I bought it when I was 15, the same way it was when I sold it when I was 24, and the same way it is now that I've bought another copy 31 years later.

DUOPHONIC!

[jeffcrom]

Need some deep blues tonight:

Okeh Chicago Blues (Epic); disc two. One side has the first commercial recordings of Johnny Shines and Muddy Waters, from 1946, but not released until this 1982 album. The other side is a great 1947 session by Big Joe Williams, with Sonny Boy #1 on harp.

[Clunky]

Janusz Muniak – Question Mark (Polish Jazz Vol.54, 1978) Muza , more jazz from Poland to start the day

[brownie]

Max Roach 'Confirmation' (Fluid)

[Clunky]

The Lucky Thompson Quintet- Ducretet-Thomson 10 inch Feb 12 , 1956 with Emmett Berry, Henri Renaud etc

Edited March 8, 2012 by Clunky

[paul secor]

The Kings Sing the Blues Vol. 1 (Ace - the Mississippi label, not the U.K. Ace/Vivid Japan)

Great, low down blues sides.

[paul secor]

Vol. 2 of the above - couldn't find an image.

More low down blues sides, including what may be Buddy Guy's first recordings. (He may have recorded for Jay Miller prior to these, but it's questionable whether or not it's Buddy Guy.)

Edited March 8, 2012 by paul secor

[paul secor]

Bud Powells (sic) Moods (Verve Japan)

Bud...So much feeling in his music.

I wouldn't mind having Bud's "It Never Entered My Mind" played at my funeral. It sounds like a hymn to me.

Edited March 8, 2012 by paul secor

[JohnS]

Bud Powells (sic) Moods (Verve Japan)

Bud...So much feeling in his music.

I wouldn't mind having Bud's "It Never Entered My Mind" played at my funeral. It sounds like a hymn to me.

Bud's "It Never Entered My Mind" is astonishing. For me it's one of the most moving jazz performances I know.

[Clunky]

Chuck Wayne Tapestry - (Focus) mono 1964- mostly pretty subdued date in relatively limited fidelity, entirely listenable but it's no headline grabber.

[sidewinder]

Chuck Wayne Tapestry - (Focus) mono 1964- mostly pretty subdued date in relatively limited fidelity, entirely listenable but it's no headline grabber.

That cover art would make good Indian restaurant wallpaper !