Clunky Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Mel Torme - Swings Shubert Alley ( HMV mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Byard Lancaster & J.R. Mitchell - Live at Macalester College - (Dogtown) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) Edited November 23, 2012 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Terry Gibbs- (Emarcy) DG drummerless blue/silver Emarcy - 2nd edition ? no idea but swinging session with Terry Pollard at the piano. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 (edited) Edited November 23, 2012 by jazzbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 23, 2012 Report Share Posted November 23, 2012 Josh Abrams - Represencing - (Eremite) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Frank Wess - Poor You, Little Me. My mono copy of this fine album is one of those weird Prestige hybrids - the record has the yellow and black fireworks labels, the back cover is Status, and the front cover is apparently Prestige with a Status sticker pasted over the Prestige logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 John Wright - Nice 'n' Tasty (Status mono, although with a Prestige front, as shown) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Albert Ayler - Spirits - (Transatlantic, mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Hank Jones 'The Talented Touch' (Capitol, mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Maynard Ferguson - Swingin' My Way Through College (Roulette mono). This 1958 album is supposed to represent the kind of set MF's band would play for a dance. In spite of the concept, and the regrettable album title, it's a pretty damn good album, with interesting arrangements by Bill Holman, Slide Hampton, Willie Maiden, and Don Sebesky. Yes, listening to samples - sounds good - available as a download. No solos at all on the samples - is this true of the whole album? No, there are plenty of solos - good ones, too - mostly by Maynard (who is remarkably well-behaved), and tenor saxists Carmen Leggio and Willie Maiden. No Slide Hampton solos, alas. Have now bought it as a download. Yes, a roarin' MF band, despite the unfamiliar repertoire. Perhaps parallel to the two Kenton standards albums I have from the same era - aimed at a different audience, but done by the bands' usual arrangers and carrying the unmistakable stamp of the two orchestras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Red Garland 'Red Garland's Piano' (Prestige Bergenfield DG mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Hank Jones 'The Talented Touch' (Capitol, mono) That's a good one, bit more energy than some of Hanks's earlier efforts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Maynard Ferguson - Swingin' My Way Through College (Roulette mono). This 1958 album is supposed to represent the kind of set MF's band would play for a dance. In spite of the concept, and the regrettable album title, it's a pretty damn good album, with interesting arrangements by Bill Holman, Slide Hampton, Willie Maiden, and Don Sebesky. Yes, listening to samples - sounds good - available as a download. No solos at all on the samples - is this true of the whole album? No, there are plenty of solos - good ones, too - mostly by Maynard (who is remarkably well-behaved), and tenor saxists Carmen Leggio and Willie Maiden. No Slide Hampton solos, alas. Have now bought it as a download. Yes, a roarin' MF band, despite the unfamiliar repertoire. Perhaps parallel to the two Kenton standards albums I have from the same era - aimed at a different audience, but done by the bands' usual arrangers and carrying the unmistakable stamp of the two orchestras. Since you probably didn't get liner notes with the download, here are a couple of interesting things. The baritone horn solo on "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight" is by Maynard. Slide Hampton doubles on tuba on several selections. Willie Maiden liked the sonority of MF on baritone horn, Slide on tuba, and Don Sebesky on bass trombone, so you'll hear that combination on "It's a Pity" and "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad." It's because of that baritone solo that I became aware of this album. I have a friend who is a very talented euphonium player, and his college band director had told him about this album on which Maynard soloed on baritone. So I tracked down a copy and burned him a CDr. But I've enjoyed the record since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Maynard Ferguson - Swingin' My Way Through College (Roulette mono). This 1958 album is supposed to represent the kind of set MF's band would play for a dance. In spite of the concept, and the regrettable album title, it's a pretty damn good album, with interesting arrangements by Bill Holman, Slide Hampton, Willie Maiden, and Don Sebesky. Yes, listening to samples - sounds good - available as a download. No solos at all on the samples - is this true of the whole album? No, there are plenty of solos - good ones, too - mostly by Maynard (who is remarkably well-behaved), and tenor saxists Carmen Leggio and Willie Maiden. No Slide Hampton solos, alas. Have now bought it as a download. Yes, a roarin' MF band, despite the unfamiliar repertoire. Perhaps parallel to the two Kenton standards albums I have from the same era - aimed at a different audience, but done by the bands' usual arrangers and carrying the unmistakable stamp of the two orchestras. Since you probably didn't get liner notes with the download, here are a couple of interesting things. The baritone horn solo on "It's a Pity to Say Goodnight" is by Maynard. Slide Hampton doubles on tuba on several selections. Willie Maiden liked the sonority of MF on baritone horn, Slide on tuba, and Don Sebesky on bass trombone, so you'll hear that combination on "It's a Pity" and "Don'cha Go 'Way Mad." It's because of that baritone solo that I became aware of this album. I have a friend who is a very talented euphonium player, and his college band director had told him about this album on which Maynard soloed on baritone. So I tracked down a copy and burned him a CDr. But I've enjoyed the record since. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kh1958 Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Thelonious Monk, It's Monk's Time (Columbia mono two eyes) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Don Ellis Orchestra 'Tears of Joy' (Columbia 2LP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted November 24, 2012 Report Share Posted November 24, 2012 Monk - Brilliant Corners - (Riverside, early stereo issue) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thelbc Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 Record Store Day purchases... Miles: Porgy..Miles Ahead...Sketches mono reissues. WOW!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 I'm jealous. I take it they sound great?> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelbc Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 I'm jealous. I take it they sound great?> Yep..I never liked Sketches in stereo.This one suits me much better. I think they will be available in couple months un-numbered or whatever I got. Being into vinyl and record stores I like the whole concept of RSD. I think these were mastered by Kevin Gray, pressed at RTI or QRP. Been tired of finding nice originals for years. I have the the phono pre-amp you replaced. Got tired of my slightly noisy tube phono pre-amps. Still have tube amps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 Thanks for the info. I'll probably get these at some point. I've always loved sketches, I can still remember late nights in a cold house I had in Burton, Ohio, listening to Sketches on a big console stereo, it always had magic for me. I don't think I've ever heard it in mono. I still have the GCPH, it's in my bedroom system now. I love that preamp, but. . . this Decware ZP3 is absolutely dead quiet, no noise at all, and so dynamic and full and three dimensional it's blowing my mind how good vinyl sounds. My digital rig costs about three times what my vinyl does, but sure doesn't sound three times better. I love both digital and vinyl, and realize how lucky I am to have the sound I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelbc Posted November 25, 2012 Report Share Posted November 25, 2012 Been listening to the vinyl Beatles box..EU edition!!!!, also. My birthday and Christmas presents. It was $65 more than terrible USA pressed. Me and the wife(she don't like jazz) have been enjoying it for a week! The book weighs more than my cast iron frying pans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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