What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JSngry]

I remember this one guy, a jazz-dabbling "new music" poseur type, complaining about Pablo, how they were putting out all these useless records by people who don't matter any more. He specifically cited Roy Eldridge - why does anybody need to hear Roy Eldridge in 1976?!?!?!?!

Fuck that guy. All kinds of wrong, he was.

NP:

[jeffcrom]

Geez - why do I not have a Roy Eldridge album featuring Budd Johnson and Norris Turney? I'm going to correct that right away.

Now playing:

Just found a nice mono copy of this one. I always love it when I find a record with the Music Inn record store stamp - that was a long-gone jazz/R & B shop in Atlanta.

[JSngry]

Geez - why do I not have a Roy Eldridge album featuring Budd Johnson and Norris Turney? I'm going to correct that right away.

You'll also get a little bit of Milt Jackson thrown in as well!

Been succumbing to a combination of nostalgia and curiosity, been hitting the cheap bins to replace long-ago-sold items, decided to go back to the Gladewater High School band hall this afternoon via:

Being cheap copies, these do have some wear. But after a recent excursion through the same material on the expanded CD reissues, I'm struck by the amount of compression used on the LPs. It's not a bad thing, really, kinda limits the dynamic ceiling compared to digital (and as a result punches everything up really nicely, i mean, POP becomes POP!!!), but when the band is playing at all but the softest tempos, you don't hear the crackles and pops. The music just charges right through all that mess, which strikes me as totally appropriate for Buddy Rich records.

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[paul secor]

Old Country Blues (Flyright)

Couldn't find an image for the album - guess it's somewhat obscure - but there was one for Lum Guffin, who is one of the artists playing on it.

Edited April 26, 2012 by paul secor

[Chuck Nessa]

I hope to get absolute control of this recording so I can reissue it with a GREAT extra tune. Ira has been bugging me about this.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat and C (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). Good stuff except the flute track where Yusef's deep gasps between runs are audible and somewhat distracting.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Pepper Adams - The Master (Muse)

Up next:

Sonny Stitt - Soul People (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). I love this date on CD. Booker Ervin is smokin'.

[paul secor]

The Carla Bley Band: Musique Mechanique (Watt)

[jeffcrom]

Clark Terry Sextet Featuring Ben Webster - More (Cameo mono). Not a Great Jazz Album, but I sure do enjoy it. Mr. Terry's playing on the title tune is enough to make me enjoy a song I don't like at all.

[jeffcrom]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul (Solid State). An all-violin album, with Brew Moore, Tiny Grimes, and Jaki Byard (among others) on board.

[sidewinder]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

[JSngry]

Ray Nance - Body and Soul (Solid State). An all-violin album, with Brew Moore, Tiny Grimes, and Jaki Byard (among others) on board.

Does that look like LaWanda Page on the cover to you? It Does to me.

[brownie]

Don Friedman 'A Day in the City' (Riverside, stereo)

[paul secor]

Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins and Frank Foster: Monk (Prestige Japan)

[JSngry]

A mixed bag, to be sure, but to hear Buddy on "Superstar", you'd think it was (or could possibly be) Tony Williams on the drums. Buddy playing that faster type rock beat, good lord, there was energy there, energy directed straight to the music at hand.

I might even say that I'd rather hear Buddy play rock rhythm than swing. At times, anyway.

[clifford_thornton]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

Nice score! Bob Downes is great!

[JSngry]

[paul secor]

Paul Williams and his Orchestra: The Hucklebuck (Saxophonograph)

[JSngry]

Mid-80s Dallas jazz featuring (on most cuts) Henry Franklin, Marchel Ivery, Claude Johnson, Paul Guerrero and my long-time aider & abettor Ira Bassett.

And a nice group of Claude Johnson originals. That cat wrote some good stuff.

[JSngry]

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade. A very nice blue label LP with VAN GELDER in the dead wax that I found in Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth, NH for $12. I'd never seen used Blue Notes in there before. Glad I looked.

[JSngry]

[sidewinder]

Bob Downes 'Open Music' (UK Philips, stereo)

Nice score! Bob Downes is great!

Cheers. By minor miracle the copy was mint !

Now spinning:

Michael Garrick 'October Woman' (Argo, stereo)