What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

Stan Kenton - Fire, Fury and Fun (Creative World). From 1974, with Tony Campise, Tim Hagans, and Peter Erskine in the band.

[jeffcrom]

Gil Evans - There Comes a Time (RCA). I bought this 1976 album when I was 20; it has meant a lot to me in the 33 years since. The 1987 CD issue/remix adds a lot of material, but also loses a couple of tracks, removes some of the overdubs and smooths out a lot of the weirdness that made the album unique. The original remains a dense, multi-layered, intense experience. If you don't like it, I'd say try to listen past the surface into the details. If I live another 33 years, this will remain one of my cornerstone musical experiences.

Edited May 14, 2012 by jeffcrom

[BillF]

Gil Evans - There Comes a Time (RCA). I bought this 1976 album when I was 20; it has meant a lot to me in the 33 years since. The 1987 CD issue/remix adds a lot of material, but also loses a couple of tracks, removes some of the overdubs and smooths out a lot of the weirdness that made the album unique. The original remains a dense, multi-layered, intense experience. If you don't like it, I'd say try to listen past the surface into the details. If I live another 33 years, this will remain one of my cornerstone musical experiences.

Excellent album which has certainly stood the test of time. Bought it after seeing the Evans orch in Feb '78.

[BillF]

Due to a recommendation in another thread:

The Jazz Couriers - Live In Morcombe 1959 – Tippin'

Glad to know there was once something live in Morecambe:

Mind you, the view out to sea is lovely:

No wonder Ronnie made jokes about small towns he played in:

"I played a gig once in Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch."

"Last night they nuked Stockton-on-Tees. It caused £3 worth of damage."

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Due to a recommendation in another thread:

The Jazz Couriers - Live In Morcombe 1959 – Tippin'

Glad to know there was once something live in Morecambe:

Mind you, the view out to sea is lovely:

No wonder Ronnie made jokes about small towns he played in:

"I played a gig once in Tamworth. They have one set of traffic lights - at the crossroads in the middle of town. They change once a week - at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays. Everyone comes out to watch."

"Last night they nuked Stockton-on-Tees. It caused £3 worth of damage."

How many of those jokes did he have? Seems it was the same two all the time.

I went to Morecambe in 1957 - or maybe 58 - it wasn't memorable.

MG

[brownie]

Earl Hines 'Hines Comes In Handy' (Audiophile)

[BillF]

How many of those jokes did he have? Seems it was the same two all the time.

OK I get the point. Let's switch to Alan Barnes:

Told in North Manchester a couple of weeks ago on the Titanic centenary:

"All the musicians who went down playing on the Titanic got paid right up to the last moment. They all got the same amount, except one guy who got more. He had a Dizzy Gillespie trumpet."

Told in Wigan:

"A chap said he couldn't get through when phoning the Incontinence Help Centre. Asked where he was ringing, he replied 'Everywhere from the waist down.'"

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Edited May 14, 2012 by BillF

[kh1958]

Michael White--Pneuma (Impulse promo)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Oh, I lurve that one. I was a young teenager in Leeds. 'Sright.

MG

[sidewinder]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

[A Lark Ascending]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Like my favourite Alan Barnes quip:

"This is a Horace Silver tune called 'Yeah' (said in a hipster whisper). You can't imagine a British musician calling a tune anything as assertive as 'Yeah! More likely to be called 'Perhaps'"

Edited May 14, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[BillF]

Told in Leeds:

"The next tune is called 'Hi-Ya'. That's an American greeting expressing warmth and goodwill, so there's no Yorkshire equivalent."

Like my favourite Alan Barnes quip:

"This is a Horace Silver tune called 'Yeah' (said in a hipster whisper). You can't imagine a British musician calling a tune anything as assertive as 'Yeah! More likely to be called 'Perhaps'"

Bird was there first.

[A Lark Ascending]

Bird was there first.

OK. Perhaps Alan said 'Maybe'!

[paul secor]

The Kampala Sound - 1960's Ugandan Dance Music (Original Music)

[jeffcrom]

MEV - United Patchwork (Horo); disc one.

[brownie]

Count Basie 'At Newport' (Verve, mono)

[BillF]

Count Basie 'At Newport' (Verve, mono)

Never heard the Basie band swingin' more than on "Swingin' at Newport" and that's sayin' somethin'!

[paul secor]

James O'Gwynn: Star of the Louisiana Hayride Volume 1 (Cattle)

[paul secor]

Randy Weston: Berkshire Blues (Arista Freedom)

[jeffcrom]

The Allman Joys - Early Allman (Dial). Only three years before the Allman Brothers Band's first album, but worlds away. It's not bad for a 1966 Southern blue-eyed soul band working with the musical resources available to them at the time. Their cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" shows what they were trying for, but it doesn't quite make it. The most successful track is, surprisingly, the one furthest from rock or blues - their version of "Old Man River" is pretty good. It sounds like an arrangement Elvis would do, and Gregg's vocal is strong. But the track I went back and replayed when the album was over was Gregg's original "Changing of the Guard." A pretty good song, for 1966, even if it sounds nothing like the Brothers' later music.

[brownie]

Charlie Mariano (Bethlehem/Polydor Japan)

[paul secor]

Archie Shepp: Montreux Two (Arista Freedom)

[mjazzg]

such a great groove throughout this one.

and then...

[paul secor]

World Saxophone Quartet: Revue (Black Saint)

Listening to this brought me back to the days when exciting new releases seemed to be coming out every month on Black Saint, Hat, Nessa, Emanem, FMP, Sackville, Arista Freedom - just to name a few - along with releases on a host of smaller labels. I used to walk into Tower Records on E.4th and Broadway, knowing that I'd have to make some hard choices, since there was so much to choose from.

Days gone, won't come again.

[paul secor]

Joe McPhee: Glasses (Hat Hut)