What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

The Upfront (aka Springboard aka Trip) issue of the Winley side w/Howard McGee. Very nice to hear Jug w/o a whole lot of reverb. Nice to hear him with it, too, always nice to hear Jug, but, just sayin'...

And "Waco" on "bongos"..the whole damn city?!?!?!?!

One of my favourite Jugs - I like it even better than my Spillers Records/Blue Note mug

MG

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Frank Wess/Bobby Jaspar/Seldon Powell - The Spirit of Charlie Parker (World Wide)

I found this mysterious 1958 LP, on a label I had never heard of, a couple of days ago. As I looked at it more carefully before playing it tonight, I saw all sorts of things that screamed "Savoy" - Ozzie Cadena was the producer, Van Gelder did the recording and mastering, World Wide was located in Newark - even the typeface looked like Savoy's. A little research revealed that World Wide was indeed a Savoy label - there were about 20 releases, mostly non-jazz. My guess (I couldn't find any confirmation of this) is that World Wide was formed as a stereo specialty label - the front cover makes a lot of the stereo angle, and the back cover notes devote as much space to "The Story of Stereo" as to the music.

The music is pretty good, not earth-shattering. There are four long tracks - all Charlie Parker tunes, and mostly featuring flutes. Eddie Costa plays piano and vibes, which was the determing factor in my decision to go ahead and grab this album. These four tracks apparently showed up on a mid-1980s Savoy album called Flutin' the Blues: Bird Lives, with a couple of Herbie Mann tracks added. It looks like that album went out of print pretty quickly - information about it is pretty scarce on the internet. As far as I can tell, only one track, "Now's the Time," has appeared on CD, on a Japanese Savoy sampler.

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

I recall, from reading Michel RUppli's Savoy discography about thirty years ago, that World Wide was also a budget label that LUbinsky used to reissue Russian classical records. But it was a long time ago I read it so I can't be certain. I didn't buy the book because the coverage of gospel music was crap.

MG

[jeffcrom]

Bunk Johnson 'Early Bunk 1942-43' (Dan)

Mine has a different cover:

It still seems like a minor crime to me that this is the only place all four takes of "Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor" a la Bolden have been issued. There's a lot to be learned/enjoyed by listening to them one after another.

[jeffcrom]

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

I recall, from reading Michel RUppli's Savoy discography about thirty years ago, that World Wide was also a budget label that LUbinsky used to reissue Russian classical records. But it was a long time ago I read it so I can't be certain. I didn't buy the book because the coverage of gospel music was crap.

MG

I've got the Savoy discography, and I can't find anything like that, or any explanation of what the label was. There's a listing of World Wide LP releases on page 427; it's an odd assortment. There's a few jazz albums, some Latin records, a couple by the Charleston Club Orchestra, but only one classical record - a Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto perform by Emil Krauss and the "Regent Symphony Orchestra."

I agree that the coverage of Savoy's massive gospel output is pretty poor.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

So has anyone else heard of the World Wide label?

I recall, from reading Michel RUppli's Savoy discography about thirty years ago, that World Wide was also a budget label that LUbinsky used to reissue Russian classical records. But it was a long time ago I read it so I can't be certain. I didn't buy the book because the coverage of gospel music was crap.

MG

I've got the Savoy discography, and I can't find anything like that, or any explanation of what the label was. There's a listing of World Wide LP releases on page 427; it's an odd assortment. There's a few jazz albums, some Latin records, a couple by the Charleston Club Orchestra, but only one classical record - a Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto perform by Emil Krauss and the "Regent Symphony Orchestra."

I agree that the coverage of Savoy's massive gospel output is pretty poor.

Well, I'm certainly remembering it wrong. Thanks for keeping me in line, Jeff

MG

[JSngry]

Post-return Jug in full glory (good GOD, that sound!!!), Sonny Stitt playing quite well with "his electricity in tow" (as the liner notes put it), George Freeman, Leon Spencer, & Idris Muhammed, what a fine record this is. Vibrant, in fact. Freakin' vibrant.

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

[JSngry]

It's a trip reading John Litweiler's essay-turned liner notes here, written (it seems), just after the now-legendary exodus of so many Chicagoans to France.

As far as the music...AMG wants to warn you that the set

starts off so weird (with verbal sound explorations by Malachi Favors) that it might scare away some listeners.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/tutankhamun-mw0000172758

I want to warn you that if this is all it takes to scare you...well, hey. Go ahead and be scared.

Some people scare easily, I guess.

[sidewinder]

Interesting to see the young Malcolm Cecil there. Tom 1960 tells me he recently resurfaced playing bass at a gig in upstate New York!

Neat ! Diverted along the way by years working with Stevie Wonder (he was on TV on a Wonder documentary (BBC4?) not too long back talking about his old custom recording facility in NYC).

Edited December 4, 2012 by sidewinder

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Gene Ammons - Early visions - Chess (PRT UK)

Well, I can confirm that #10 of BFT105 isn't on this one

Damn! I know I've got it somewhere.

MG

[JSngry]

Gene Ammons - Early visions - Chess (PRT UK)

Well, I can confirm that #10 of BFT105 isn't on this one

Really?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

No. I'd almost finished and was sure it wasn't going to be either of the last 2 tracks, but it was!

MG

[colinmce]

Max Roach - Sounds As A Roach (Lotus)

1968 Oslo concert with Abbey Lincoln, Red Mitchell, Steve Kuhn, and ... Steve Lacy. Half of it is given over to drum solos and an okay big band piece but the small group cuts that showcase Lacy and Abbey are stellar. Do you know this one, Jeff?

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Hampton Hawes - The sermon - Contemporary

(Sorry the drummer's name looks like Sian HMV - it's Stan Levy)

MG

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Joe Houston - Doin' the twist - Crown

As scuffed and hissy as only a Crown LP can be

Rollicking band behind Joe, despite the stiff twist rhythm. Maxwell Davis?

MG

[jeffcrom]

Max Roach - Sounds As A Roach (Lotus)

1968 Oslo concert with Abbey Lincoln, Red Mitchell, Steve Kuhn, and ... Steve Lacy. Half of it is given over to drum solos and an okay big band piece but the small group cuts that showcase Lacy and Abbey are stellar. Do you know this one, Jeff?

Yes - I've got that issue, and it also showed up on Joker in Japan. Only the big band piece is from Oslo - everything else was recorded in Rome, May 27, 1968. I don't know whether Kuhn and Mitchell are in the big band, but the actual personnel for the Rome show (taken from Lukas Lindenmaier's Lacy discography) is Lacy, Lincoln, Franco D'Andrea on piano, Giovanni Tommasso on bass, and Roach. Lacy was living in Rome at the time, so it looks like Roach and Lincoln were touring as a duo and hooking up with local rhythm sections. I think Steve sounds pretty good on the two pieces he plays on.

[JSngry]

I've got several of those Lotus things. What's funny is that on the back of that Max one, they neglected to cover up the Joker logo. OOPS!

[jazzbo]

An IAJRC lp that reissues rare V-Disc sides. There's a great track by jack Tegaarden and Billy Strayhorn on here that I don't remember ever knowning about (Take the A Train).

[colinmce]

Max Roach - Sounds As A Roach (Lotus)

1968 Oslo concert with Abbey Lincoln, Red Mitchell, Steve Kuhn, and ... Steve Lacy. Half of it is given over to drum solos and an okay big band piece but the small group cuts that showcase Lacy and Abbey are stellar. Do you know this one, Jeff?

Yes - I've got that issue, and it also showed up on Joker in Japan. Only the big band piece is from Oslo - everything else was recorded in Rome, May 27, 1968. I don't know whether Kuhn and Mitchell are in the big band, but the actual personnel for the Rome show (taken from Lukas Lindenmaier's Lacy discography) is Lacy, Lincoln, Franco D'Andrea on piano, Giovanni Tommasso on bass, and Roach. Lacy was living in Rome at the time, so it looks like Roach and Lincoln were touring as a duo and hooking up with local rhythm sections. I think Steve sounds pretty good on the two pieces he plays on.

Thanks-- makes so much more sense this way.

[JSngry]

Ok, I was casual with this one relative to the BYGs, Nessas, & Atlantics.

My bad.

Would love to find it with the original America cover, but...it's jsut a cover when you come right down to it. Cool, but let's have the music above all.

[JSngry]

[paul secor]

Michael Hurley: Back Home with Drifting Woods (Mississippi)

Recorded in 1965 by Fred Ramsey, Jr. Early Hurley, but still weird and wonderful.

Edited December 5, 2012 by paul secor

[JSngry]

Michael Hurley: Back Home with Drifting Woods (Mississippi)

Recorded in 1965 by Fred Ramsey, Jr. Early Hurley, but still weird and wonderful.

None of those names are familiar to me, but "weird and wonderful" is always an attention-getter. What's we got here?

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Charles Davis - Super 80 - Nilva

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