What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Bill Hardman - Home (Muse). Another bargain bin Van Gelder pressing. These are turning out to be pretty fun - buy it for "Van Gelder" in the deadwax for a few dollars and take your chances. This one is one of the best ones yet. Never on CD either. Well worth picking up if you trip over it in some store.

ive never seen a vangelder cut as late as '88. so is the studio not being used much these last few decades? do you think after rudy passes it will become like a major studio again.

It's still being used but Rudy pretty much stopped cutting vinyl in the late 80's when most record labels dropped vinyl. I have plenty of CDs that were recorded at Rudy's place in the 90s and 00s.

Fine recording but I bought it because of Hardman, Cook, etc back when it was released. The RVG connection was at least secondary.

While I may have bought it on a whim for "Van Gelder" in the deadwax, the names certainly helped in this case. Turk Mauro & Jed Levy on the other hand...

I bought Turk Mauro's 'Hittin' the jug' soon after it came out (the title and Dr Lonnie's presence, you know ) so I got 'Heavyweight' and 'Underdog' on sight. The photo of Mauro on the back of the 'Heavyweight' sleeve does seem to me to show him to be a bit of a nasty character. When I found out about the back story, several years ago, I pretty well stopped playing his albums, though they're quite good, particularly the two on Milestone produced by Bob Weinstock.

'Home' for me was a no-brainer, particularly as it was produced by Houston Person. I love that album.

MG

[brownie]

Milt Jackson 'The Jazz Skyline' (Savoy France)

[jazzbo]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This evening

Great Wilson Pickett hits (It's too late) - Double L (Marble Arch UK)

Tommy Dean - Deanie Boy plays hot R&B - Official

Walter Bishop - Bish bash - Xanadu

MG

[Cactus Bob]

Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session

Atlantic

[Cactus Bob]

Sonny Stitt with Strings ~ A Tribute to Duke Ellington

Catalyst

Not a fan of strings with a lot of Jazz lp's, but this one is really good!

[Cactus Bob]

Miles Davis ~ Sketches of Spain

Columbia

[John Tapscott]

[brownie]

Gene Ammons 'Blue Gene' (OJC)

[jeffcrom]

Ben Webster - Did You Call? (Nessa)

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Arnett Cobb - Jumpin' at the woodside - B&B

Kansas City Melodyaires - Softly the night is falling - Songbird

Freddie McCoy - Lonely Avenue - Prestige (blue label mono)

Odell Brown plays Otis Redding - Cadet

MG

[John Tapscott]

[brownie]

Al Cohn/Dexter Gordon... 'Silver Blue' (Xanadu)

[jazzbo]

[jeffcrom]

Heather and Glen (Tradition). More of the Alan Lomax field recordings that I'm currently obsessed with, this time from Scotland, 1951.

[mjazzg]

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

This evening

Gene Ammons - Organ combos - Prestige

Arnett Cobb is back - Progressive

MG

[jeffcrom]

The Blues of Robert Curtis Smith: Clarksdale Blues (Prestige Bluesville mono)

[brownie]

Jackie McLean 'New York Calling' (SteepleChase)

[mjazzg]

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[BillF]

Bought used c.1960 for 22/6 according to the sticker. Very heavy vinyl - still plays beautifully.

[Cactus Bob]

That Milt Jackson lp looks tasty!

Stan Getz ~ Jazz Classics

Prestige

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Sonny Stitt (Art Pepper) - Atlas Blues "Blow! & Ballade" (Atlas Japan)

[Chuck Nessa]

Sonny Stitt (Art Pepper) - Atlas Blues "Blow! & Ballade" (Atlas Japan)

I had all those Atlas lps. Usually well recorded in LA. Medium level sessions in my house.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Sonny Stitt (Art Pepper) - Atlas Blues "Blow! & Ballade" (Atlas Japan)

I had all those Atlas lps. Usually well recorded in LA. Medium level sessions in my house.

I agree. Rather formulaic bop but very well-played formulaic bop. Piano sound doesn't help any. It almost sounds like an upright bar piano.