What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[brownie]

Hal McKusick 'Jazz Workshop' (RCA Victor, mono)

[jazzbo]

Rich, glorious mono!

Not the real original cover.

I'm familiar with the other cover. This above is the cover of the lp I own and spin. I have two cds with two different covers, one much like the original (Red Baron) one a new cover (expanded Stioryville, recommended).

Right now

Edited December 1, 2012 by jazzbo

[kh1958]

Trudy Pitts, These Blues of Mine (Prestige mono, blue label)

Johnny Hammond Smith, Gettin' Up (Prestige stereo, purple label)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Starting December with SANTAMANIA!!!!!

Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon man/Mongo at Village Gate - Riverside (Milestone twofer)

Mongo Santamaria - Hey! Let's party! - Columbia (CBS UK)

Mongo Santamaria - Soul bag - Columbia (CBS UK)

Sonny Fortune wails on these two Columbia jobs. I very much like this period of Mongo's career.

MG

[jazzbo]

Edited December 1, 2012 by jazzbo

[jeffcrom]

Johnny Hodges - The Eleventh Hour (Verve mono). Home from a very loud gig, and my ears hurt. This album is the medicene they needed. Oliver Nelson's string arrangements walk the line between meeting expectations and confounding them.

[Bill Nelson]

Soothing, hey, glad it worked for you. I find Nelson's string arranging tepid and uncertain. Maybe these charts are sketches for a movie score that never happened. This obscure Verve album from '63 is easily topped by Rabbit's 1970 reunion with Nelson on Flying Dutchman's 'Three Shades of Blue'.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

More soothing

Ossie Scott - The wonderful sound of... - Third World

Lounge Reggae

MG

[brownie]

John Coltrane 'Crescent' (Impulse, mono)

[sidewinder]

More soothing

Hey MG - That's far too much like Jazz. get back to the Eric Coates, BBC "Light Programme" tea-time classics etc.

[Clunky]

Keith Tippett- Mujician _ (FMP) man plays fine piano here

[sidewinder]

Some Sunday afternoon Zap-Pow action with Sun Ra and 'The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale' aka Blues Project

Universe Records reissue of the Tifton.

Edited December 2, 2012 by sidewinder

[sidewinder]

Yusef Lateef 'Eastern Sounds' (UK Fontana, stereo)

[kh1958]

Freddie Hubbard, The Breaking Point (Blue Note, NY USA stereo)

Elvin Jones, Puttin' It Together (Blue Note UA Van Gelder pressing)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This afternoon

Al Grey - Shades of Grey - Tangerine

Willis Jackson - Funky Reggae - Trip (no Reggae, but plenty of funky)

(and we've had the next sleeve on the sexiest covers thread already )

Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis & BIll Doggett - Midnight slows vol 10 - Black & Blue

A sudden thought; I think I got all of these LPs from Dan Gould. Thanks Dan.

MG

[jeffcrom]

Pee Wee Russell/Red Allen - The College Concert (Impulse)

Willis Jackson - Grease 'n' Gravy (Prestige stereo)

Edited December 2, 2012 by jeffcrom

[Clunky]

Art Blakey - Gypsy Folk Tales- (Pye)

[jeffcrom]

Roland Alexander Quintet plus Kalaparusha - Live at the Axis (Kharma)

[jeffcrom]

Don Pullen featuring Sam Rivers - Capricorn Rising (Black Saint). I've had this record for 35 years, but haven't spun it in a couple.

[sidewinder]

Eic Kloss 'To Hear is To See' (Prestige blue label)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Lionel Hampton - Hamo - CLef (MFP)

MG

[brownie]

Nat 'King' Cole 'Live In Europe' (Duke)

A 1950 concert in Zurich by the trio plus Jack Costanzo!

[jazzbo]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

James Brown plays James Brown today and yesterday - Smash (Philips UK mono)

MG

[JSngry]

Harold Alexander - Raw Root

I'd have liked more raw, and more root, and less production, and less blatancy. And less flute. A lot less flute.

I mean, geez, (mostly) Roland Alexander, Joe Bonner, Richard Davis are on board, and this is all that comes out?

Produced by the now-reknowned Jimmy Douglass...guess he used this one as a "learning experience".