brownie Posted June 27, 2011 Report Posted June 27, 2011 and I thought I was the only one with a defective copy Quote
sidewinder Posted June 27, 2011 Report Posted June 27, 2011 and I thought I was the only one with a defective copy That's the only Patton vinyl I'm missing - and going by the comments here it will probably stay that way (unless I luck out with a fluke find - zippo chance). Looks like the most reliable listening option on that session would be the Mosaic Select. Quote
brownie Posted June 27, 2011 Report Posted June 27, 2011 and I thought I was the only one with a defective copy That's the only Patton vinyl I'm missing - and going by the comments here it will probably stay that way (unless I luck out with a fluke find - zippo chance). Looks like the most reliable listening option on that session would be the Mosaic Select. The defect is a minor one. The groove skips at the start of Jimmy Ponder's intervention on 'Early A.M.'. All that is required is to lift the cartridge one groove away to continue to enjoy the music. Good exercise for elderly BN groovers Quote
jeffcrom Posted June 28, 2011 Report Posted June 28, 2011 and I thought I was the only one with a defective copy That's the only Patton vinyl I'm missing - and going by the comments here it will probably stay that way (unless I luck out with a fluke find - zippo chance). Looks like the most reliable listening option on that session would be the Mosaic Select. The defect is a minor one. The groove skips at the start of Jimmy Ponder's intervention on 'Early A.M.'. All that is required is to lift the cartridge one groove away to continue to enjoy the music. Good exercise for elderly BN groovers Yeah, it was discussed here some time back, but I'm too lazy to look for the thread right now. I agree that it's not a fatal flaw. Quote
ejp626 Posted July 1, 2011 Report Posted July 1, 2011 Get the Trombones album if the condition (and price) is good. Love the music! The sound on the vinyl was superb, better than on the Mosaic set! Don't think this is really going to be "my thing" exactly, but DG had the trombones LP for $2, so I figured why not... Quote
sidewinder Posted July 2, 2011 Report Posted July 2, 2011 (edited) Motherload of Miles Davis Columbia vinyl - original Dutch, UK, German and US issues. All in excellent shape. 'Sorcerer' (UK) 'Nefertiti' (Dutch) 'Miles In The Sky' (US 2-eye) 'Quiet Nights' (Dutch) 'Miles Smiles' (German) 'Bitches Brew' (Dutch, laminate sleeve) 'Live Evil' (Dutch, laminate sleeve) 'On The Corner' (UK) Plus Impulse red/black Archie Shepp 'On This Night' and 'The Way Ahead'. Edited July 2, 2011 by sidewinder Quote
king ubu Posted July 25, 2011 Report Posted July 25, 2011 not sure if any of them qualify as great finds, but I got them all in good to very good quality (that means "good" as in "good", not as in "unplayable" in that silly merikin vinyllingo which I don't get - good is good, dig?) and for very fair prices: Duke Ellington Presents the Dollar Brand Trio (Reprise) The Woody Herman Quartet - Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet (Philips) Jess Stacy and Friends 1938-1944 (London/Commodore Classics) Willie "The Lion" Smith - Composer-Entertainer (Commodore Classics) Keith Jarrett - Concerts (ECM 3LP) Jimmy Rushing - Rushing Lullabies (Philips UK) Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert (ECM 2LP) Keith Jarrett - Hymns Spheres (ECM 2LP) Sidney Bechet Sessions (Storyville) Dixieland with Ben Pollack and his Pick-a-Rib Boys featuring Jack Teagarden (Savoy) Art Hodes - Someone to Watch Over Me ("Live at Hanratty's") (Muse) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Impulse AS-30) as well as a 2LP set of Swiss jazz from 1935-65 with a few interesting cuts (and lots of amateur dixie bands that I could happily live without). Quote
king ubu Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 Can someone maybe help me determine if my "Duke Ellington & John Coltrane" is indeed an original pressing? There's a deep groove roughly where the outher black "frame" on the label begins. In the dead wax on side 1 are the following stamps: "AS 30A", "...? Sound" (very small, can't read the first word, it's in a tiny curly type) In the dead wax on side 2: "VAN GELDER", "AS-30 B" (originally handwritten), "STEREO", and "LW" (vertically, L on top of W), like: L W What's the meaning of that anyway? Seen it before... Further, on the labels as well as the back cover: "A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC." and "PRINTED IN U.S.A." Quote
brownie Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 Ubu, the label on your LP should look like this one (commonly referred as Impulse orange label) to be an original: Quote
king ubu Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 Thanks - that's exactly how it looks! I guess around 10€ for this WAS quite a find, after all! Quote
brownie Posted July 26, 2011 Report Posted July 26, 2011 A Great Find indeed All you need now is the mono version Quote
king ubu Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 today's haul: Jazz at Preservation Hall 1 - The Eureka Brass Band of New Orleans (Atlantic SD 1408) Barbara Donald and Unity - The Past and Tomorrows (CJR) Dizzy Gillespie - Vol. 1/2 (1946-1948) (Jazz Tribune N° 2) Illinois Jacquet - Genius at Work! (Black Lion) Kid Ory - Creole Jazz Band 1944/45 (Good Time Jazz L-12022) The Atlantic looks splendid, and the cover photo is great! #3 of the series was there, too, but cost about twice as much (I ended up getting a huge discount, so I should have taken it, too... but how could I have known...) The Gillespie is all on the 2CD set, but that one's very no-noised - except for a the Teddy Hill tracks, the Lionel Hampton track, the alternates from the Metronome All Stars, and a few cuts with Johnny Hartman, all of it is on the French double LP and I'm sure it will sound much better. The Donald I've seen elsewhere several times, but it always was a bit too pricey... and the Ory, finally... now I've got two of these Good Time Jazz LPs, already have the one from 1954 with Barney Kessel aboard. Oh, forgot the Jacquet... smokin' hot stuff in trio with Milt Buckner and Tony Crombie - played the first track and had to absolutely buy! Quote
jeffcrom Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 today's haul: Jazz at Preservation Hall 1 - The Eureka Brass Band of New Orleans (Atlantic SD 1408) This album consists of 38 of my absolutely most favorite minutes of music ever recorded - any style. If I could only keep 10 albums, this might be one. Quote
sidewinder Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 today's haul: Don't, whatever you do, head over to the Vocalion thread... Quote
king ubu Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 today's haul: Jazz at Preservation Hall 1 - The Eureka Brass Band of New Orleans (Atlantic SD 1408) This album consists of 38 of my absolutely most favorite minutes of music ever recorded - any style. If I could only keep 10 albums, this might be one. It's been a while that I took that Mosaic out of the shelf, but if only for the cover, I had to get this one! It was marked 16 CHF (about 14$ currently, but it feels a lot less to me) but I ended up getting it for 10! today's haul: Don't, whatever you do, head over to the Vocalion thread... I'm rather out of danger as I'm more or less up to date there... excepting the new releases which are understandably not part of the sale... Quote
BillF Posted July 29, 2011 Report Posted July 29, 2011 Kid Ory - Creole Jazz Band 1944/45 (Good Time Jazz L-12022) and the Ory, finally... now I've got two of these Good Time Jazz LPs, already have the one from 1954 with Barney Kessel aboard. You have the same two that I have. Quote
hard bop head Posted August 4, 2011 Report Posted August 4, 2011 Gerry Mulligan "What is There to Say?" Columbia CS 8116 six-eye,1959. Found at a local thrift, fitty-cent. Aside from a single louder pop, virtually VG++ condition. Quote
colinmce Posted August 5, 2011 Report Posted August 5, 2011 Scooped up John Carter's "Variations" on Moers w/ Bradford and Newton for $12 on Ebay. Carter's records are always priced ludicrously high on Amazon and Buy It Now yet I've scored several of his LPs at auction for very little with no competition. There's a lesson in there somewhere. Quote
jeffcrom Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 (edited) Went on one of my 78 trolling expeditions today, this time north of Atlanta. I came home with a few nice records, and one real surprise. The relationship between record labels in the 1920's was incredibly complex - masters were leased back and forth and issued under a bewildering variety of pseudonyms. So whenever I find a '20's dance band record with a band name I don't recognize, I buy it if it's only a buck or two, because there's no telling who it will turn out to have on it. Well, in Adairsville today I found "Then I'll Be Happy" by the Master Melody Makers, on the National Music Lovers label. I paid a dollar for it, and figured it was probably a dollar wasted; the best I hoped for was that it might turn out to be by Sam Lanin, with a Red Nichols or Miff Mole solo. Turns out that it's by Fletcher Henderson. It's from 1925, just after Louis left the band. And it's a different take than appeared in the Classics CD series, for what that's worth. Haven't played it yet - it's probably not a masterpiece, but in any case I consider it a pretty cool find. I haven't yet tracked down who the "Manhattan Musicians" on the other side are. They're playing a waltz, so there's probably not much jazz content there. Also found some Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Ventura records in Cartersville. Somebody out in the country liked bebop. Edited August 10, 2011 by jeffcrom Quote
AllenLowe Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 Fletcher is always good. Let us know how it turns out. Quote
jeffcrom Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 Since you replied to my post, Allen, I'll say something here that I was going to say in another thread: your Really the Blues? set is the perfect soundtrack for driving around rural Georgia looking for 78s. It was my road music today, and I really enjoyed it. And I loaded the liner notes into my Kindle, so I can take them with me, too. Quote
jeffcrom Posted August 10, 2011 Report Posted August 10, 2011 Fletcher is always good. Let us know how it turns out. It's good!. The song is pretty lame, and Henderson's version sounds like it was based on a stock arrangement, but they swing it hard. There's some hot Charlie Green trombone, a Don Redman vocal, a very good Joe Smith solo, and a great Coleman Hawkins solo. I've always thought that Hawkins picked up on Armstrong's message and came into his own just about the time Louis quit the band. This is really good tenor playing for 1925. This record is going to require careful handling, though - it's got a crack that I didn't notice at first. Coincidentally, I've got the other tune Fletcher recorded at this session on 78 as well - "Sleepy Time Gal" on the Banner label. That one is credited to Henderson on the label. Quote
king ubu Posted October 1, 2011 Report Posted October 1, 2011 Found "Broadway Basie's Way" (Command, Stereo) with Little Jazz and Lockjaw today... heard the music before, cool to have a vinyl of it! Now I need "Hollywood Basie's Way", too, I guess... Also got an interesting looking one: "Seven Steps to Evans - A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans" (MPS), by a quintet of Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson and Tony Oxley. Never even heard of that one before! Quote
sidewinder Posted October 1, 2011 Report Posted October 1, 2011 Also got an interesting looking one: "Seven Steps to Evans - A Tribute to the Compositions of Bill Evans" (MPS), by a quintet of Kenny Wheeler, Stan Sulzmann, Gordon Beck, Ron Mathewson and Tony Oxley. Never even heard of that one before! I think that one came out not too long after Evans passed away and was released under Gordon Beck's name. Nice one ! Quote
kh1958 Posted October 2, 2011 Report Posted October 2, 2011 This was my lucky LP day. Horace Silver--Six Pieces of Silver (W. 63rd) Horace Silver--Doin' The Thing at the Village Gate (NY USA mono) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (NY USA mono) This Here is Bobby Timmons (Riverside blue label mono) Milt Jackson--Plenty Plenty Soul (Atlantic black label), and finally A Modern Jazz Symmposium of Music and Poetry with with Charlie Mingus (Bethleham red label mono deep groove) Quote
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