What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[Chuck Nessa]

Currently playing Art Farmer/Evening in Casablanca. This is a '60s New Jazz reissue of Prestige 7017. Farmer and Gryce with Duke Jordan, Addison Farmer and Philly Joe. Very solid stuff.

[sidewinder]

Those early 70s Vanguards can be really excellent. Whilst the rest of the industry was going to the dogs and issuing inferior pressings on thin vinyl, these guys kept their standards up.

If you are talking about US pressings, they were manufactured by Columbia in the NJ and Indiana plants.

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Thanks for the information. Have just checked the Jo Jones. Yes, it's rechanelled for stereo. Not US though, it would seem to be a French Musidisc pressing. Same operation released the Prestige twofers over in Europe too.

[patricia]

Jazz In Transition - Transition label.

Personel:

Donald Byrd

Art Blakey

Horace Silver

Doug Watkins

Joe Gordon

Dave Coleman

Dick Wetmore

Herb Pomeroy

Paul Chambers

Philly Joe Jones

John Coltrane

Pepper Adams

Curtis Fuller

Jay Migliori

Tommy Ball

Sun Ra

Cecil Taylor

[sidewinder]

Benny Bailey 'Mirrors' (Freedom). White label promo copy. Session with strings arranged by Francy Boland.

Ronnie Ross 'Cleopatra's Needle' (Fontana, stereo)

[brownie]

The Charlie Mingus Quintet 'Chazz!' Vocalion (Britain), mono

next:

Martian Solal 'En Solo' RCA (France)

[brownie]

The Charlie Mingus Quintet 'Chazz!' Vocalion (Britain), mono

next:

Martial Solal 'En Solo' RCA (France)

Two vinyls I found stored in the wine cellar. They did age very well!

Edited July 18, 2005 by brownie

[wolff]

Sonny Clark: Sonny’s Crib (Classic Records)

Lester Young:: The President Plays With

The Oscar Pederson Trio (Speaker’s Corner)

Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban: Mambo Sinuendo (Waiting for his new one, Chavez Ravine to get the vinyl treatment)

The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh (10 Q-LPs) Mosaic Records

[Clunky]

New Orleans Rhythmn Kings - Swaggie recorded 1923/4

Frank Lowe- The Flam- Blacksaint

MJQ- Pyramid- London ( DG)

[Clunky]

Have just checked the Jo Jones. Yes, it's rechanelled for stereo. Not US though, it would seem to be a French Musidisc pressing.

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what's why I'm glad to have a Mono button on my amp.

[brownie]

Earl Hines 'Hines Comes In Handy' (Audiophile)

Piano solos by Hines recorded to commemorate the 100th anniversary of W.C. Handy's birth!

[patricia]

Have just checked the Jo Jones. Yes, it's rechanelled for stereo. Not US though, it would seem to be a French Musidisc pressing.

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what's why I'm glad to have a Mono button on my amp.

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At the risk of admitting that I know very little about turntable technology, could you explain what a separate mono does?? I have looked and I don't have such a setting. I wonder how having one would enhance my listening pleasure. Right now I'm listening to a mono 2 record set of Tommy Dorsey's hits from the mid-thirties through the mid-forties. The sound is coming through both amp sets and all the instruments are clearly audible. What would a mono setting do that my sound system [about thirty years old] doesn't already do??

[Clunky]

I simply have a mono button on my integrated amp, which makes the output of each stereo speaker the same, handy for getting rid of weird stereo effects and sometimes makes mono LPs sound as if they have less surface noise ( no idea why)

Edited July 18, 2005 by Clunky

[sidewinder]

My NAC82 pre-amp has the nice mono switch too.

[sidewinder]

Just listening to Francy Boland & The Orchestra Vol 2 'Red Hot' (MPS). It is !

[patricia]

Clunky and Sidewinder, thank you. As far as I know, I don't have a mono option on my sound system, but the sound is very nice and the surface noise is minimal.

Actually, the mono records sound surprisingly rich. Hmmm.

[Clunky]

Baker/Mulligan - Fantasy 2LP- comp. of Mulligan/Baker sides from 1953, Mulligan Plays Mulligan from 1951 and four tracks of Chet's hardbop things for Prestige from 1965. Great sound

Louis Armstrong 1930- LA sessions- pretty mellow stuff, some of it amazingly commercial ( well amazing to me for 1930 !!)

[brownie]

Horace Silver 'Finger Poppin With the Horace Silver Quintet' BN mono 47W63rd

[clifford_thornton]

Miles at the Plugged Nickel volume 2 (CBS Sony LP)

[brownie]

Charles Tyler Ensemble 'Voyage From Jericho' (Ak-Ba)

one of the essential albums by the sadly neglected Charles Tyler!

Tyler was born 64 years ago to the day!

[Clunky]

Ruby Braff- Hustlin and Bustlin- Vogue UK- nice

[sidewinder]

`Joe Harriott 'Personal Portrait' (UK Columbia Lansdowne stereo)

Edited July 20, 2005 by sidewinder

[clifford_thornton]

Well, not jazz but...

Vincent le Masne / Bertrand Porquet "Guitares Derive" (Shandar) minimalist guitar music that takes its cue from Steve Reich, and has had its licks copped by many a hipster avant-folkie.

[sidewinder]

Stan Tracey -'Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood"' (Columbia Lansdowne mono)

[brownie]

Spinning two albums which I was happy to locate while continuing to clear the mess of part of my vinyls section:

Cannonball Adderley 'Cannonball Adderley In Europe' Riverside mono original with foldout cover plus a four-page insert about Cannonball and about the Comblain festival founder Joe Napoli

next:

Tete Montoliu 'Temas Latinoamericanos' (Ensayo)

[wolff]

Spinning two albums which I was happy to locate while continuing to clear the mess of part of my vinyls section:

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For some reason, I do not see even part of your collection being in disarray.

Seems like a very unique Cannonball LP.

Spinning....Lee Morgan: Candy (Classic Records) One nice reissue!!! Very thick stock cover, tip on jacket with film laminate on the cover , deep groove label. If it was not so new looking, I'd swear it was an original from '57 or so. And, the music that eminates from the grooves is......need I say it?