What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Coleman Hawkins - Desafinado (Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba) - black label Impulse!/ABC with VAN GELDER in the deadwax. I don't find too many with this combination. Most ABC pressings are re-cuts.

Not sure what you mean. ABC always owned the label.

This label:

As opposed to this one:

[JohnS]

[JohnS]

[BillF]

How's the bass playing? I have Cleveland Eaton on some Basie albums and he's sensational!

[clifford_thornton]

Is this the Teddy Robinson who played drums with Byron Allen?

[JohnS]

Is this the Teddy Robinson who played drums with Byron Allen?

I don't know for sure but I guess so. He's on another Byrd date plus some Andrew Hills.

[clifford_thornton]

Oh right, he's on the Mosaic Select. Forgot about that discographical detail...

[jeffcrom]

Barry Harris - Stay Right With It (Milestone). A two-fer, drawn from Mr. Harris's Riverside albums.

[JSngry]

Ok, Buddy & Richard Evans...worked ok enough w/Woody (Heavy Exposure is very good, at least when it is good, which is when it goes for the funk). These charts are very similar in formula to what Evans wrote for the Herman band, just with more contemporary rhythms, and a vocal group added. So we should be ok (enough) here.

But we're not. We're not ok. Buddy playing rock/funk rhythms can be quite invigorating, but what's on this record sounds and feels like somebody/almost-anybody keeping time in a booth with headphones and a click track. This stuff doesn't have enough personality to it to work with Buddy Rich sounding like Generic Studio Drummer. Wayne Andre's fun to listen to, but everybody else...generic-ish role-playing. Which would be fine for a Wade Marcus record or something that was going for "that type thing", but not for a Buddy Rich Record.

Whoever in this thought process thought it would be a good idea to de-Buddyify Buddy Rich was wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.

Edited May 9, 2012 by JSngry

[JSngry]

Not digging this one as much as The Legendary Profile, not by any means, the material's not nearly as much to my liking, but still... in any serious discussion of the MJQ, consideration must be given to the group's balance of ingredients and how well John Lewis continued to keep them in a near-constant state of perfectly balanced tension, a yin-yang wholeness of complimetary opposites that creates a unity instead of a duality, Jackson & Heath being the loose and earthy, Lewis & Kay being the taut and ethereal. And the older these guys got, the more they played together, the more their tendencies deepened, and the more the whole evolved likewise, to the point that, as tends to be the case, sometimes the yin and yang got so much so that they transform/morph into the other. Sometimes Lewis' comping, "prissy" and "rigid" as it might sound on the surface, is in a deep groove time-wise, which allows Jackson to just pick and choose where he will weave in and out...same thing with the Heath-Kay dynamic, who's really the yin and who's really the yang? Don't be so sure!

All of which is just to say that with the MJQ, even when not much gets past the ear, there's still more to it than meets the ear.

[clifford_thornton]

Was spinning:

Birigwa - Birigwa - (Seeds)

Boston-based Ugandan folk singer backed by Stan Strickland, Art Brooks and Mait Edey.

Now spinning:

Kenny Wheeler - Song for Someone - (Incus, black label)

[sidewinder]

Kenny Wheeler - Song for Someone - (Incus, black label)

If you like that one, check out his latest ! Kenny's writing got better and better.

[brownie]

Betty Roché 'Singin' & Swingin'' (Prestige/OJC)

[colinmce]

A recent eBay score:

Vinny Golia - Spirits in Fellowship (Nine Winds 001)

Good stuff, and another brick in my complete John Carter collection.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Cal Tjader - Huracan - Crystal Clear

MG

[JSngry]

The trio with Cleveland Eaton & Maurice White

I very, very much like the way Cleveland Eaton played with Ramsey Lewis, and this is the only RLT album with Eaton (that I know about) where the program is all-acoustic, all "straight-ahead" material of one form or another. Eaton is spectacularly recorded here, and his playing rewards the attention. I do not say this lightly - fans of exceptional piano-trio bass playing will want to hear this album, even if, like me, Ramsey Lewis himself is a non-factor (almost or total) in their Personal Jazz Conversation. On this live album, you can focus on Cleveland Eatn, Maurice White, and Ramsey Lewis in that order and have a very pleasurable listening experience.

Another live date with Eaton, this time w/Morris Jennings on drums and guest Phil Upchurch sitting in on guitar. I am coming to also appreciate the records that this trio made with Charles Stepney producing, but Charles Stepney was not aboard here, and nobody seems to be really hitting on anything too hard. There is a (probably unintentionally) funny lift of Miles' "Shhh/Peaceful" called here "See The End From The Beginning, Look Afar" that gets one more chord thrown in, but it's too late -Upchurch is aping McLaughlin's long bent notes, Lewis is tinkling on Rhodes, and Eaton is playing the bass part damn near verbatim. And the audience is clapping their hands like crazy, like they would probably not have done for the Miles side. Go figure.

Charles Stepney probably could have taken this album's material and made a good (enough) Ramsey Lewis studio record out of it. As it stands, not even Cleveland Eaton can save it for me.

But that Dancing In The Street album...that's one to pay attention to (if you're going to pay attention to any Ramsey Lewis record other than the hit ones). Trust me.

[BillF]

Time to have another look at Cleveland Eaton with the greats!

[Clunky]

playing some fusion tonight

[paul secor]

Deep Harmony - The Sun Blues Archives Volume Three (Charly)

Couldn't find an image. R&B and gospel vocal group recordings by Hunki-Dori, The Veltones, The Southern Jubilees, and The Prisonaires

[paul secor]

Sir Douglas Quintet: Together After Five (Smash)

[jeffcrom]

Clifford Jordan - Hello, Hank Jones (East World). A wonderful 1978 direct-to-disk record; Reggie Workman and Freddie Waits are also on board.

[jeffcrom]

Steve Kuhn - Ecstasy (ECM)

[sidewinder]

'Metronome Presents Jazz In The Garden' (Japanese Warwick, mono)

Teddy Charles with Mal Waldron, Booker Ervin and Booker Little.

Great one ! That LP gets lots of play here.

Edited May 11, 2012 by sidewinder

[Clunky]

'Metronome Presents Jazz In The Garden' (Japanese Warwick, mono)

Teddy Charles with Mal Waldron, Booker Ervin and Booker Little.

Great one ! That LP gets lots of play here.

It is good , I think better than his other ECM ( Love Love) but it's been a while since I played it.

Now playing

[paul secor]

Cannonball Adderley: Presenting Cannonball (Savoy Jazz/Muse)

Probably others have made the same comment but, listening to this record, I was struck by the connection I heard between Cannonball and Benny Carter.

Edited May 11, 2012 by paul secor