What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[jeffcrom]

Love that Clyde Hart session with Budd Johnson and Little Benny Harris.

Now playing:

John Handy Quintet - New View! (Columbia two-eye stereo)

[sidewinder]

Looks like you are going through my archive of '70s reissues Jazzbo (have pretty well the majority of that series). Great stuff !

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Little Milton - Chess blues masters series - Checker (Vogue Fr)

MG

[brownie]

Gerald Wilson 'Live and Swinging' (PacificJazz, mono)

[jeffcrom]

Sidney Bechet - King of the Soprano Saxophone (Good Time Jazz). The meat of this one is a 1954 Paris session with Jonah Jones.

Jazz at the Philharmonic - Norgran Blues 1950 (Verve). Lester Young's entrance on "Norgran Blues" is stunning.

[JSngry]

Watrous's followup album on MTA was a masterpiece of avant-garde easy listening. I'd long been curious about this one.

Now my curiosity has been satisfied, and that will be that.

[JSngry]

A record that probably pleased none of its target audiences.

[sidewinder]

Rendell/Carr Quintet 'Change Is' (Columbia Lansdowne Series, stereo)

[JSngry]

I love Knepper, but for some reason (maybe just in my head) he sounds "dated" on this one...I can hear the math...which is weird, because the thing I've always liked about Knepper is how "timeless" he usually sounds...maybe I shouldn't have listened to those two Bill Watrous easy-listening records first.

[JohnS]

Not mine but brought round by a friend. A thrift shop find for £1. More or less as new.

[BillF]

[JSngry]

You ever have one of those days where you get up not feeling all that great, but you gotta go to work anyway, just because that's your job, that's what you do, and you get there and realize, yeah, I don't feel so great but it's not these people's fault, so you just go on ahead and do your gig and people can tell you're not really feeling that great but they appreciate that you're not taking it out on them and you even joke around a little bit to let them know that you appreciate their appreciation of your deal and soon enough the day is over and you and everybody can go home having done an honest day's work and nobody's fucked anybody over? You ever have a day like that?

[paul secor]

I love Knepper, but for some reason (maybe just in my head) he sounds "dated" on this one...I can hear the math...which is weird, because the thing I've always liked about Knepper is how "timeless" he usually sounds...maybe I shouldn't have listened to those two Bill Watrous easy-listening records first.

You're not alone. I love Jimmy Knepper's playing but, for some reason, that one never came across for me either.

[JSngry]

I love Knepper, but for some reason (maybe just in my head) he sounds "dated" on this one...I can hear the math...which is weird, because the thing I've always liked about Knepper is how "timeless" he usually sounds...maybe I shouldn't have listened to those two Bill Watrous easy-listening records first.

You're not alone. I love Jimmy Knepper's playing but, for some reason, that one never came across for me either.

It also strikes me that you could take that cover photo, remove all the typefaces, put the appropriate big white border around it, and almost/pretty much have a LT cover.

[paul secor]

I love Knepper, but for some reason (maybe just in my head) he sounds "dated" on this one...I can hear the math...which is weird, because the thing I've always liked about Knepper is how "timeless" he usually sounds...maybe I shouldn't have listened to those two Bill Watrous easy-listening records first.

You're not alone. I love Jimmy Knepper's playing but, for some reason, that one never came across for me either.

It also strikes me that you could take that cover photo, remove all the typefaces, put the appropriate big white border around it, and almost/pretty much have a LT cover.

I think you're almost/pretty much right.

Edited July 27, 2012 by paul secor

[clifford_thornton]

Intersystems - Number One - (Cortical Fdn reissue of the Allied original)

[clifford_thornton]

Michel Potage - Occupe - (d'Avantage/Alga Marghen)

[clifford_thornton]

Cage + Musica Negativa - Atlas Eclipticalis/Winter Music/Cartridge Music - (DGG)

The other side has some pretty nice absurdist stuff from Dieter Schnebel.

These were in my last un-taped uHaul box...

[kh1958]

Shelley Manne, My Fair Lady (Contemporary Stereo)

[jeffcrom]

Earlier today:

Lars Gulling - Modern Sounds: Sweden (Contemporary 10")

Now:

Keith Jarrett - Birth (Atlantic)

[jeffcrom]

The Hollywood All Stars - Hard Hitting Blues From Memphis (High Water)

[jeffcrom]

Earl Hooker - Sweet Black Angel (Blue Thumb)

[brownie]

Coleman Hawkins 'Good Old Broadway' (Moodsville, stereo, green label)

[paul secor]

Earl Hooker - Sweet Black Angel (Blue Thumb)

That album was my introduction to Earl Hooker. Later on, I found out that there was better Earl Hooker, but that one hooked (sorry for the bad pun) me for life.

Edited July 28, 2012 by paul secor

[kh1958]

Ray Charles and Milt Jackson, Soul Brothers (Atlantic)