jazzbo Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 The new Dagger Records release, two cd set of Jimi, Noel and Mitch in Cologne, January 13, 1969. Don't know why they didn't do a cd of this. Comes with a download code for 320mps MP3 files. Sounds pretty darned good, mono audience tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe (Columbia 6-eye mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 The Dave Brubeck Octet (Fantasy red vinyl) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale - Batman and Robin (Tifton) I'm in that dangerous spot, like a little kid - I'm tired, but don't want to go to bed yet. So some silly music before I give up. Somebody here recently spun a reissue of this, but this is the real thing, in all its scratchy glory. The opening organ chord on the first track couldn't be by anyone other than Sun Ra. But the really wild soloist here is guitarist Danny Kalb, from The Blues Project. Edited December 7, 2012 by jeffcrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) More great Miles. this one is so different to the others from this period. Yes, I remember buying this when it first came out and there were only a few friends who could stay in the same room when I played it! I prefer the mix on the lps. 'Rated X'? I used to have to put the headphones on when that one came on. The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale - Batman and Robin (Tifton) I'm in that dangerous spot, like a little kid - I'm tired, but don't want to go to bed yet. So some silly music before I give up. Somebody here recently spun a reissue of this, but this is the real thing, in all its scratchy glory. The opening organ chord on the first track couldn't be by anyone other than Sun Ra. But the really wild soloist here is guitarist Danny Kalb, from The Blues Project. Isn't that on bakelite? If so I would prefer to avoid (combined with the fact that 99.9% of previous owners aged 5-10 will have already trashed them ) - the only issue on the reissue is that it is in mono. I remember seeing that LP in Woolworths (I think) back in the 1960s when I was shopping with mother for a bat-cape ! Edited December 7, 2012 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Don Joseph 'One of a Kind' (Uptown) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Grand Encounter - Vogue EPV 1239 Ah, you got one! Because no $3.00 opportunity to hear some more Lockjaw goes unaccepted. What, even with Joe Pass there? MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Jaws FTW. Always. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Small Label Gems of the Forties Vol. 3. On Zim. Excellent stuff, great sound. I have Vol. 2 as well (I have both thanks to Pete B.) Anyone know how many volumes there were altogether? Wonderful stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 (edited) The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale - Batman and Robin (Tifton) I'm in that dangerous spot, like a little kid - I'm tired, but don't want to go to bed yet. So some silly music before I give up. Somebody here recently spun a reissue of this, but this is the real thing, in all its scratchy glory. The opening organ chord on the first track couldn't be by anyone other than Sun Ra. But the really wild soloist here is guitarist Danny Kalb, from The Blues Project. Isn't that on bakelite? If so I would prefer to avoid (combined with the fact that 99.9% of previous owners aged 5-10 will have already trashed them ) - the only issue on the reissue is that it is in mono. I remember seeing that LP in Woolworths (I think) back in the 1960s when I was shopping with mother for a bat-cape ! It seems to be on regular vinyl. My copy is not too bad - scratchy, but not trashed. And it's not something I play very often - but it's cool to have. Edited December 7, 2012 by jeffcrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Chu Berry - The Calloway Years (Meritt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Want to like this more than I do,,,maybe I should burn it to CD and put it in the car, or rip it to the iPod and give it an in-motion listening. Right now the whole thing seems like a project that's progressed to the point where now it's time for the "genius" to be added, somebody/something to tighten up all the loose ends, bring everything into focus, trim the excess fat and fry up the remainder into a nice crispy treat, but it sounds like it got released before they got that far. So as it stands, plenty of energy, plenty of nice "parts", but no real coherent statement ever gets made. It's like getting your pupils dilated for an eye exam, everything's all blurry, and then they show you a kaleidescope. So all you got is a blurry mess of unspecified niceness. Whatchu supposed to do with THAT? Produced by Herb Alpert, so this lack of concision and focus suggests that maybe there was no "genius" to be brought in past the ones that they thought they already had. But they thought wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Ok, here's genius: No idea how a sealed copy of this ended up at a Half-Price for $2.99, but oh well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 More random remnants of history on the back cover - he previous owner(s?) gave "Summit Ridge Drive" three circled "X"s to the left of the title, "Cherokee" three to the right. And in faded ink of a totally different variety, wrote "Johnny Beecher is Plas Johnson". Gotta say, I really like this record. Definitely aimed at the MOR market, but contrast and compare these soulful and nuanced straight-ish readings of the melodies with all the rigid robots that have made what they thought were the same type records as long as they have been making these type records. This is masterful saxophone playing, period, and brings more than a little artistry into the marketplace to claim a rightful piece of the action. This is another one of those things that if it were that easy to do it, everybody would. And everybody doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Found a cheap copy, had to buy it for the cover...besides the obvious weirdness, it's seeing a photo of Getz playing a metal Link (type of mouthpiece) that really trips me out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 More random remnants of history on the back cover - he previous owner(s?) gave "Summit Ridge Drive" three circled "X"s to the left of the title, "Cherokee" three to the right. And in faded ink of a totally different variety, wrote "Johnny Beecher is Plas Johnson". Gotta say, I really like this record. Definitely aimed at the MOR market, but contrast and compare these soulful and nuanced straight-ish readings of the melodies with all the rigid robots that have made what they thought were the same type records as long as they have been making these type records. This is masterful saxophone playing, period, and brings more than a little artistry into the marketplace to claim a rightful piece of the action. This is another one of those things that if it were that easy to do it, everybody would. And everybody doesn't. Quite right. Should you ever see a 45 of 'Sax 5th Avenue' backed with 'Jack sax the city', pay whatever's asked. The B side is definitely NOT aimed at the MOR market. By the way, you can get Plas 3 MOR LPs for MGM/Charter on one 2CD set from Blue Moon, a Barcelona firm. The 2 CDs contain Sax Fifth Avenue (Charter) On the scene (Charter) Blue martini (Ava) (Definitely one for TTK ) MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 Gary Bias - East 101 I mostly knew Gary Bias from his few appearances with Billy Higgins in the late 1970s, found this one on nimbus, figured, ok, let's see what's up here? First thing I hear is a continuation of the LA "Black" alto sound, which if Bias was working w/Tapscott may well have come through Arthur Blythe, and which I think probably comes out of Sonny Criss (or might go further back than that, I don't know. Second thing, there's that great "populist" feel to the playing here that was so prevalent throughout the 70s as the impact of the Nationalist Movement began to penetrate into the more "mainstream" population. Still jazz, unmistakable jazz, and/but it feels like the whole idea is to play for people, not at them. It's meaty (enough) music, meaty and welcoming. Sure, that's not the only way to go, but it's nothing to shy away from either, not if you can do it honestly. Third thing - there's electric bass on one cut, played by Ricky Minor, who I only know as the current Tonight Show bandleader, a kind of "in the background" guy compared to his predecessors. Who's Ricky Minor, anyway?, I occasionally wonder for a few seconds before wandering off to other thoughts. Well, whoever he is, he was around to play with Gary Bias on a 1981 Nimbus date. And then - whatever happened to Gary Bias, anyway? Billy Higgins, this side, hadn't really heard of him anywhere/anything else, so let's look at Google. Come to find out, he's doing well for himself, having been playing the Earth Wind & Fire gig since 1987, although his Wikkipedia entry is apparently totally unaware of the album under question here, or of anything that might have led up to or resulted from that. It is aware of one or two "smooth jazz" albums he's since made, though, which I have not heard, but might be willing to listen to for a few seconds, just to see if the guy's playing the game or getting gamed by the playing. Most interesting, though is the tidbit that he "won a Grammy Award in 1987 in the Best Rhythm & Blues Song category for co-writing the song "Sweet Love" with Anita Baker and Louis A. Johnson." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bias So, there he is, Gary Bias. I figured that he had just sorta stayed local and semi-vanished, come to find out he's probably got large bank and is definitely a successful businessman in terms of his musical career. Selling out, or buying in? And is it anybody's business but his own? I think not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 7, 2012 Report Share Posted December 7, 2012 My copy's cover is just black and white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce (Verve mono) Gene Ammons - The Twister (Prestige mono) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Grand Encounter - Vogue EPV 1239 Ah, you got one! Yeah, if anybody knows a guy in the UK named Duane Hobden that sells on MusicStack, tell him that he rocks. Totally. I've left positive feedback, but that doesn't do justice. I kinda "asked a lot of questions" before committing to order and he was quite prompt and polite in every way It was damn near real-time communication. Then I ordered (my Wednesday, his Thursday afternoon), and he got the thing out the next day and it got here this past Wednesday, perfectly packed w/no excess yet fully protected, exactly as described. I've never bought through MusicStack before, and I understand it's a bit of a laissez-faire thing (even more than eBay, or so I've heard), but this guy had excellent feedback, and I see why. Duane Hobden, if you're out there, you RULE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Gary Bias - East 101 I mostly knew Gary Bias from his few appearances with Billy Higgins in the late 1970s, found this one on nimbus, figured, ok, let's see what's up here? First thing I hear is a continuation of the LA "Black" alto sound, which if Bias was working w/Tapscott may well have come through Arthur Blythe, and which I think probably comes out of Sonny Criss (or might go further back than that, I don't know. Second thing, there's that great "populist" feel to the playing here that was so prevalent throughout the 70s as the impact of the Nationalist Movement began to penetrate into the more "mainstream" population. Still jazz, unmistakable jazz, and/but it feels like the whole idea is to play for people, not at them. It's meaty (enough) music, meaty and welcoming. Sure, that's not the only way to go, but it's nothing to shy away from either, not if you can do it honestly. Third thing - there's electric bass on one cut, played by Ricky Minor, who I only know as the current Tonight Show bandleader, a kind of "in the background" guy compared to his predecessors. Who's Ricky Minor, anyway?, I occasionally wonder for a few seconds before wandering off to other thoughts. Well, whoever he is, he was around to play with Gary Bias on a 1981 Nimbus date. And then - whatever happened to Gary Bias, anyway? Billy Higgins, this side, hadn't really heard of him anywhere/anything else, so let's look at Google. Come to find out, he's doing well for himself, having been playing the Earth Wind & Fire gig since 1987, although his Wikkipedia entry is apparently totally unaware of the album under question here, or of anything that might have led up to or resulted from that. It is aware of one or two "smooth jazz" albums he's since made, though, which I have not heard, but might be willing to listen to for a few seconds, just to see if the guy's playing the game or getting gamed by the playing. Most interesting, though is the tidbit that he "won a Grammy Award in 1987 in the Best Rhythm & Blues Song category for co-writing the song "Sweet Love" with Anita Baker and Louis A. Johnson." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bias So, there he is, Gary Bias. I figured that he had just sorta stayed local and semi-vanished, come to find out he's probably got large bank and is definitely a successful businessman in terms of his musical career. Selling out, or buying in? And is it anybody's business but his own? I think not! I used to pass that one by for like $7.99 at Jazz Record Mart (though by that time I had & enjoyed the Tapscotts and Mirandas on Nimbus). Now it seems to go for some change. Oh well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 It's a good record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Budd Johnson 'And the Four Brass Giants' (OJC) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Ok, here's genius: No idea how a sealed copy of this ended up at a Half-Price for $2.99, but oh well! I haven't heard that one but Hermeto is something else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 (edited) 'Mel Lewis & Friends' (A&M Horizon) Just re-assembled and switched on my hi-fi so a good one to kick off with. Improved sound ! Edited December 8, 2012 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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