What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This afternoon

Johnny Lytle - Blue vibes - Jazzland (Orpheum stereo)

Cedar Walton - Firm roots - Muse

Teddy Edwards - Teddy's ready - Contemporary (yellow label, so it must be Fantasy)

MG

[jeffcrom]

Ornette Coleman/Charlie Haden - Soapsuds, Soapsuds (Artsts House) - not mastered by RVG, but I like it anyway.

[robertoart]

James Blood Ulmer - Tales of Captain Black (Artists House). Enjoying the full bookleted experience for the first time ever - thanks, JSngry.

To state my major problem with this album positively rather than negatively: I sure would have enjoyed hearing Ronald Shannon Jackson in the drum chair..

You'll just have to listen to the next one instead. Are You Glad To Be In America. RSJ and Grant Calvin Weston, two for the price of one. The Rough Trade one is a better mix than the Artist's House release though. And it's mastered by the legendary Porky Peckham - Britain's own post-punk Rudy Van-Gelder. Incidentally TOCB has a VanGelder stamp in the dead wax

Yes, I like Are You Glad to Be in America. I have the Artists House issue - an album which I just realized discounts my assertion (in another thread) that all the AH albums came with booklets.

And now that you pointed out that Tales of Captain Black has a Van Gelder stamp, I've started fetishizing it as an object.

There could be worse things to fetishize about.

[BillF]

Track 'Donna Lee' has the most abrupt fade, make that cut off (sounds like the band fell off a cliff) I've heard in a long while.

That's how Bird ended it.

[jazzbo]

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[JSngry]

That one tends to get overlooked, I think...it sounds like a lot of chops-flashing, and it is, but there's idea-flashing in at least equal measure...sometimes it strikes me as the WR eqiuivalent of Bird & Dizzy's 1947 Carnegie Hall version of "Dizzy Atmosphere", it's virtuoso playing and thinking...and the way that Zawinul captures the Ellington brass's thing on "Rockin' In Rhythm", that thing that they got into behind Paul on DACIB about midway through the 60s, the way Zawinul captures that and feeds it back in his own voice, man, that's just pure LOL joy!

I probably like the whole of Weather Report only slightly less now than I did then, but the stuff I still really like, I REALLY like. They were right!

[colinmce]

first listen to a new arrival. Track 'Donna Lee' has the most abrupt fade, make that cut off (sounds like the band fell off a cliff) I've heard in a long while. Enjoying Pete Warren's contributions

Love this one. One of the best album covers in my collection, to boot.

[jeffcrom]

first listen to a new arrival. Track 'Donna Lee' has the most abrupt fade, make that cut off (sounds like the band fell off a cliff) I've heard in a long while. Enjoying Pete Warren's contributions

I've always liked that album, warts and all. My old pal Michael J. Smith understands Braxton's compositions so well. "Donna Lee" and "You Go to My Head" are a different story.... Michael never really was a Jazz musician with a capital "J."

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - Eronel (Horo)

When I did a Google image search (using the keywords steve lacy eronel horo) to find a picture of the cover, the first picture that came up was from my blog - a scan of a photocopy I made around 1979 or 1980: the Horo ad/catalog from Jazz Journal International.

[colinmce]

Wow, all in one go. I wish more labels did that. I wonder if someone went for that back in day. Definitely a good investment!

[jeffcrom]

Wow, all in one go. I wish more labels did that. I wonder if someone went for that back in day. Definitely a good investment!

I feel fortunate to have as many Horo LPs as I do - but it kind of hurts to think that I could have gotten the whole lot for less than $500. Of course, at the time many of my meals consisted of a packet of ramen noodles (18 cents) with a can of mixed vegetables (40 cents) poured on top.

[JSngry]

That was back when $500.00 was a whole lot of money for a whole lot of people!

[jeffcrom]

One more before bed:

Anne Marie Moss - Don't You Know Me (Stash)

[sidewinder]

When I did a Google image search (using the keywords steve lacy eronel horo) to find a picture of the cover, the first picture that came up was from my blog - a scan of a photocopy I made around 1979 or 1980: the Horo ad/catalog from Jazz Journal International.

I've still got that particular issue of the mag and remember seeing the Horo advert and wondering who would be crazy enough to order the lot.

I guess whoever did was now glad that they did !

Edited November 21, 2012 by sidewinder

[brownie]

Ornette Coleman At Golden Circle, vol. 2 (BN, mono)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Phil Woods - Heaven (Black-Hawk)

[jazzbo]

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[jeffcrom]

Kenny Barron - 1 + 1 + 1 (Blackhawk)

[clifford_thornton]

That "one fell swoop" Horo catalog is pretty cool. I would consider doing such a thing in today's dollars, although not every Horo would be my cup of tea and often the pressings are turd-like. Wish I had Lacy's Eronel!

[BillF]

Phil Woods - Heaven (Black-Hawk)

Nice album!

[clifford_thornton]

Hans Dulfer - El Saxofon - (Catfish)

[Clunky]

not being wild about Gabarek I bought this yesterday on the strength of Vesala and I'm not disappointed.