Favorite recent vinyl purchases??

[wolff]

Not jazz, but a big for the 4 Men With Beards reissue of Aretha's classic "I Never Loved A Man...." . Get it, and play loud!!!!

Art Pepper Mosaic LP set, off eBay: Man, I am starting to get a lot of Art Pepper without making it a priority. To me, he is very accessable yet very unique. He transforms a tune into something I love and would not pay attention to otherwise. He does not fit it, yet does, if you know what I mean. There are also some sweet Chet Baker highlights in this set.

I'm up to 17 Mosaic LP sets. I have many classic original jazz LP's, yet these Mosaics remain at the top of the stack.

What next???? One of the Commodore's on eBay at the monent???

Edited April 18, 2005 by wolff

[patricia]

My favourite LP's acquired in the last few years are, by far, my Pee Wee Russells and my Big Bands, both from the thirties and forties and more recent ones.

Interestingly, some Big Bands have reassembled over the years, with new, younger personel, my particular favourite being alumni of Woody Herman's various "herds". My favourite Herman is the 40th Anniversary set recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1976. Beautiful!!

[kh1958]

Not jazz, but a big for the 4 Men With Beards reissue of Aretha's classic "I Never Loved A Man...." . Get it, and play loud!!!!

Art Pepper Mosaic LP set, off eBay: Man, I am starting to get a lot of Art Pepper without making it a priority. To me, he is very accessable yet very unique. He transforms a tune into something I love and would not pay attention to otherwise. He does not fit it, yet does, if you know what I mean. There are also some sweet Chet Baker highlights in this set.

I'm up to 17 Mosaic LP sets. I have many classic original jazz LP's, yet these Mosaics remain at the top of the stack.

What next???? One of the Commodore's on eBay at the monent???

I have the Commodore set, and volume 3 is way less interesting than vol. 1 and vol. 2. I wouldn't advise paying big bucks for vol. 3 unless you already have vol. 1 and 2 (and maybe not then either).

[wolff]

I have the Commodore set, and volume 3 is way less interesting than vol. 1 and vol. 2. I wouldn't advise paying big bucks for vol. 3 unless you already have vol. 1 and 2 (and maybe not then either).

Thanks, appreciate it.

[clandy44]

All 3 Commodores and the Keynote are indispensable. My sentiments about which set is best change depending on which set I have cued up-I just can't make that call.

[JohnS]

Elvin Jones "Puttin' It Together", (JRVG). Nice find for the equivalent of $7 in a local used record store.

[Brandon Burke]

* The Fall - 'This Nation's Saving Grace'

* Emitt Rhodes - 'Emitt Rhodes'

* Pere Ubu - 'Datapunk in the Year Zero'

* Jimmy McGriff - 'The Worm'

* the soundtrack to 'Watership Down'

* Steven Halpern - 'Spectrum Suite'

[slide_advantage_redoux]

Looking forward to dropping the needle on this one. (Sangrey, I'll dub a cd for you)

(carpool $ substitute B-)

(Recorded live in concert in London, '76)

Edited April 25, 2005 by slide_advantage_redoux

[wolff]

Miles Davis Young Man With a Horn (Blue Note/Classic Records 10" LP Sealed)

Miles Davis Volume 3 (Blue Note/Classic Records 10" LP Sealed)

[mikeweil]

Arguably the best pure jazz album I have heard of Cal Tjader, highly recommended, excellent recording by Wally Heider:

[Jazzmoose]

Picked up three LPs today in a store in San Juan Bautista today, while the wife was buying crystal (no, the glass stuff, dummy!) and such. Found Bobby Hutcherson's Waiting, Eddie Condon's Jammin' at Condon's, and Art Hodes All Star Stompers. To be honest, I'm not at all familiar with Hodes, other than what I've read here, but the jacket was just so damned cool looking I had to have it. Let's call it an educational buy...

[wolff]

Art Pepper Plus Eleven(Contemporary/Fantasy reissue) What a nice find IMO...I believe this is a Sheffield Lab Remaster from the 70's, from after Fantasy bought Contemporary, but before they remastered in-house(OJC). Pure joy to listen to. Feels like I can reach out and touch the band.

I've heard the Acoustic Sounds 45RPM edition is mind blowingly good and I can believe it.

Edited May 2, 2005 by wolff

[jazzbo]

Three 45rpm box of Metronome All Stars on RCA.

[sidewinder]

McCoy Tyner Big Band 'Uptown/Downtown' (Milestone - German pressing). Just wish that the other McCoy big band albums were available on the vinyl medium. Somehow this one passed me by when it originally came out.

[Stefan Wood]

Gretch Drum Night at Birdland, on Roulette. Paid a dollar for it, a total fluke, but the vinyl is in terriffic shape.

Epogee - w/ Warne Marsh and I forget the other sax player, on Warner Bros. A promo copy, in unuaually thick vinyl for the time - late 70's. Fantastic playing!

[ralphie_boy]

I picked up a stereo copy of Stanley Turrentine's Dearly Beloved. Sounds better than most of the other Liberty pressings that I own. Great session too!

[keberobeats88]

Philly Joe Jones - Trailway Express

Miles Davis - Miles Smiles

Miles Davis - E.S.P.

Edited May 2, 2005 by keberobeats88

[sidewinder]

A great haul of Miles vinyl picked up recently, for a very reasonable sum. All near-mint originals:

'Star People'

'Man With The Horn'

'Dingo'

'Aura' 2LP set

'Miles In Berlin' (German CBS original)

'Miles In Tokyo' (Japanese Sony original)

[Pete B]

French RCA Complete Ellington Vol 11-15 Box, a big slice of the 1940 recordings including the sublime Ellington-Blanton duos, with alternates of course. This suits my ears much better than the recent cd remasters.

[keberobeats88]

Last night I found a "Fia Fiaga" recording by Vital Information in the $1.00 bin. It's been out of print for years! It looks like a radio promo, because it has a big "SALE IS UNLAWFUL" stamp on the bar code. Good stuff B-)

[patricia]

Last night I found a "Fia Fiaga" recording by Vital Information in the $1.00 bin.  It's been out of print for years!  It looks like a radio promo, because it has a big "SALE IS UNLAWFUL" stamp on the bar code.  Good stuff B-)

I always get a tiny shiver that I'm committing some sort of felony when I buy those "Unlawful For Sale - For Promotion Only" LPs. Most of the ones I have are compilations of tracks from the fifties.

When you consider that I wait for the light to change, even at 2AM, it's quite funny.

Edited May 15, 2005 by patricia

[Stefan Wood]

Snagged 40 lps for $20. Some spoken word -- how could I pass up mint copies of Just So Stories read by Boris Karloff? An Andre Previn on Contemporary, Leiber and Stoller band on Atlantic, first pressing London and RCA Living Stereo.... yadda yadda.

[jbs-tom]

Arguably the best pure jazz album I have heard of Cal Tjader, highly recommended, excellent recording by Wally Heider:

this album is really great - all thumbs up from me too

[Dmitry]

We're moving, so the turntable is out of my reach. Has been for a month or so.

Which doesn't mean the addiction is loosening its hold, so I'm still on the prowl.

Got the Trout Mask Replica in NM- today. Not the original Straight label, not the Bizarre label, but the mid-70s Reprise. Still, well worth the $10 spent.

This ought to bring the bedroom community where we're moving to its knees when I'll play it first thing in the morning one balmy Sunday.

[Stefan Wood]

Bob Brookmeyer - Trombone Bossa Nova on Verve

A World Pacific lp with Bud Shank and a koto player - nice!

George Shearing - Latin Lace on Capitol

Jimmy Smith - Porteguese Soul on Verve

Jimmy McGriff - Honey on Solid State