What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[JSngry]

A Christmas Gift For You - Philles original found sealed in a dusty old mom-and-pop a looooong time ago. The cover has since gotten water damage, and the pressing was just a tad crackly even new, but dammit, this is how this album should sound. I've also got the Apple mono & that Pavillion/CBS stereo bastard-child (and no digital versions, are you kidding?!?!?!), but, no, this is the real deal right here. Play it loud. Play it VERY loud.

[paul secor]

A Christmas Gift For You - Philles original found sealed in a dusty old mom-and-pop a looooong time ago. The cover has since gotten water damage, and the pressing was just a tad crackly even new, but dammit, this is how this album should sound. I've also got the Apple mono & that Pavillion/CBS stereo bastard-child (and no digital versions, are you kidding?!?!?!), but, no, this is the real deal right here. Play it loud. Play it VERY loud.

I find it impossible to listen to any of Spector's stuff since he ended up in prison. I knew he was what he was even before he went to prison, but that kind of sealed the deal for me.

[Cactus Bob]

Elvin Jones ~ The Prime Element

Blue Note Re-issue Series

[Cactus Bob]

Richard "Groove" Holmes ~ Groove

Pacific Jazz

Part of an incredible 35 cent thrift score in great condition.

[kh1958]

McCoy Tyner, Inception (Impulse, red and black stereo)

Shirley Scott, Everybody Loves a Lover (Impulse, orange and black stereo)

[jeffcrom]

Stanley Turrentine - Stan "The Man" Turrentine (Time stereo)

[brownie]

Hank Mobley 'The Turnaround' (BN King Japan)

[John Tapscott]

[kh1958]

Lionel Hampton, Wailin' at the Trianon (Columbia six eyes)

[clifford_thornton]

Ray Russell - Secret Asylum - (Black Lion, UK gatefold orig)

[jazzbo]

[clifford_thornton]

Guess it's a Gary Windo kinda day...

Alan Shorter - Tes Esat - (America)

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Shelly Manne - Perk Up (Concord). You would think Manne could have gotten Bill Perkins to play on this one.

Same cut corner as this picture too.

Edited December 29, 2012 by Kevin Bresnahan

[jazzbo]

[Cactus Bob]

Steve Grossman ~ Perspective

Atlantic

[Cactus Bob]

Miles Davis ~ Big Fun

Columbia

[Deepak]

Monk Complete Blue Note Recordings, Mosaic 4 LP

[jeffcrom]

Dodo Marmarosa - Dodo's Back! (Argo mono). It sounds great with my new Audio-Technica mono cartridge - no more

[jeffcrom]

Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet (Savoy mono). Another one which the old Grado cartridge had major problems with.

[brownie]

Barney Wilen 'La Note Bleue' (IDA)

[jeffcrom]

Steve Lacy - The Complete Jaguar Sessions (Fresco Jazz)

Of course, this album really represents the complete recorded output of "progressive dixieland" trumpeter Dick Sutton and his six-piece (no piano or guitar) band. Sutton was kind of ahead of his time; he reminds me a little of Randy Sandke these days - you can hear both Bix and Miles in his playing. Anyway, it's fascinating music. Sutton and Lacy are the best musicians here, and I'm struck by how much Lacy improved between the August and November (1954) sessions. And his clarinet playing, recorded nowhere else, makes me smile.

[kh1958]

Art Farmer, The Aztec Suite (United Artists mono)

Zen: The Music of Fred Katz (Pacific Jazz mono)

[Cactus Bob]

Charlie Parker ~ Bird on the Air (1944-1945)

Sounds Records

[clifford_thornton]

Electrifying Sounds of the Paul Jeffrey Quintet (Savoy mono). Another one which the old Grado cartridge had major problems with.

Still keeping my eyes peeled for an original of that one. Glad to at least have the music, but of course it'd be great to have it in 12" format! That cover is a classic...

[John Tapscott]

Thanks for the reminder. Sounds great.