What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

George Adams/Don Pullen - All That Funk (Palcoscenico). This Italian album appears to be a mono pressing; I wonder if the recording was originally made for a radio broadcast.

[Chuck Nessa]

George Adams/Don Pullen - All That Funk (Palcoscenico). This Italian album appears to be a mono pressing; I wonder if the recording was originally made for a radio broadcast.

yup.

[paul secor]

Ellington-Mingus-Roach: Money Jungle (United Artists/King Japan)

Frightening at times, tender at others (but still frightening). Mingus sounds as if he were having a wild time.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage

[jeffcrom]

Willie Humphrey - New Orleans Clarinet (Smoky Mary). Willie's first record date as leader, at the tender age of 73.

[brownie]

Howard McGhee 'Jazzbrothers' (Jazzcraft)

[kh1958]

Cannonball Adderley's Greatest Hits (Riverside, solid blue label)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Horace Silver - The Jody Grind. A nice original Van Gelder pressing. Since the master is a needle drop, I guess I have a copy of the master tape.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Just finishing:

Duke Ellinngton - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Up next:

Joe Henderson - In 'N Out. Nice blue label Van Gelder pressing.

[jeffcrom]

Onzy Matthews - Blues With a Touch of Elegance (Capitol stereo)

[brownie]

Roland Kirk 'Volunteered Slavery' (Atlantic, stereo)

[BillF]

Just finishing:

Duke Ellinngton - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

Up next:

Joe Henderson - In 'N Out. Nice blue label Van Gelder pressing.

Three lovely ones there, Kevin!

[kh1958]

Cannonball Adderley, Know What I Mean? (Riverside, black label)

Larry Coryell, Fairyland (Mega)

[jeffcrom]

John Tchicai/Andre Goudbeek Duo - Barefoot Dance (Marge)

[jeffcrom]

Max Roach featuring Anthony Braxton - One in Two - Two in One (Hat Hut)

[jeffcrom]

John/Alice Coltrane - Cosmic Music (Impulse)

[jeffcrom]

Mick Goodrick - In Pas(s)ing, with John Surman, Eddie Gomez, and Jack DeJohnette, on awful, awful ECM.

[brownie]

John Towner Williams 'World on a String' (Bethlehem/FreshSound reissue)

[king ubu]

Conrad Silvert Presents Jazz at the Opera House (Columbia). A 1982 two-LP set drawn from a concert in San Francisco. I bought this back in the day, but haven't listened to any of it for awhile, and I'm surprised at how good most of it is. On hand are Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Haden, and Tony Williams, among others. There's some great music here, and your comments about Crouch are interesting in light of the excellence of young Wynton M.'s playing here. If Crouch hadn't decided that that Marsalis was The Savior of Jazz, would his music developed differently?

It's also interesting that the group shot on one of the inner sleeves pictures several musicians who don't appear on the album, like Pat Metheny and Carlos Santana. Jaco Pastorius is in the picture; he's not listed among the personnel, but he's on "Footprints," and even has a solo.

Guess I'll grab that one then, if it's still around at the used bookstore nearby!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Today's vinyl, so far

Jack McDuff - Tough Duff - Prestige (purple label)

Les McCann - The longer you wait - JAM

None of you lot ever seem to play JAM LPs

MG

[JSngry]

No idea how "authentic" this is, or how "good" it's supposed to be by any established critical standards, but I'm pretty much digging the shit out of it! The only time I'm explicitly aware of Buddy Rich's presence is when he plays snare drum, and he does not play all that much snare drum on this record. Which is to say that he creates neither clash nor discord in a setting where it would be really easy to do so. The guy just sits down and plays the music, and let that be a lesson to us all.

Besides, in a post-Bollywood world...I don't know what this would have sounded like any kind of listener in a pre-Bollywood world, I'll put it that way.

[JSngry]

Bebop? More like WHEEEEEE-Bop!

I love this band like none other. Between this and the Salle Pleyel concert...that's it right there. Don't get no better, ain't gonna get no better. Not for this.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Johnny Hammond Smith - Higher ground - Kudu

Some of my favourite Joe Henderson on this. And what an idea to have Joe and Hank Crawford on one album!

MG

[JSngry]

Found a sealed copy on eBay for about the cost of a good lunch. Worth it, if only for this one:

[BillF]

Found a sealed copy on eBay for about the cost of a good lunch. Worth it, if only for this one:

Tobacco sponsorship by any chance?