Which LP do you play the most often?

[mikeweil]

I noticed the one LP I put on the most often is this one (in its OJC LP incarnation):

No heavyweight music, but just plain groove and fun.

Remember, not necessarily your best coice, but the one that is actually spinning the most often!

[Peter Johnson]

I'm turning the grooves to dust on, alternately,

(original mono, beat to hell on the surface when I got it for $10.00, but the grooves are not too much the worse for wear) and

(original mono in amazing shape)

I never get tired of those two and they're always at the ready by my TT!

[ajf67]

Mine is probably Art Pepper's "Meets The Rhythm Section" and Coltrane's "Afro Blue Impressions."

[Jim Alfredson]

The Further Adventures of Jimmy & Wes

The organ on this record just sounds so beautiful on vinyl. The bass especially. Nothing like organ bass on vinyl...

[couw]

Hannes Zerbe - Blech Band (Amiga, 1984) until I transferred it to CDr recently.

[Brandon Burke]

I'm just in awe of Timmons' solo on "Melanie".

[brownie]

Volume 1 of The Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia. I have the Lexington version of this album and it must have played thousands of times. Still get kicks from listening to the LP. I also have the RVG of this but the sound of that vinyl is how I discovered that music and this is how it should sound to my ears.

[porcy62]

"KIND OF BLUE" and "IF I COULD ONLY REMEBER MY NAME".

MILES DAVIS and DAVID CROSBY, the LPs I would bring in a desert island

[Hardbopjazz]

I've been playing Johnny Hodges and Wild Bill Davis' "Wings and Things". One day this has to make it to CD.

[shrugs]

I try not to play anything over and over again since i have a huge backlog of listening but two that I can think of are the Abdullah Ibrahim/Johnny Dyanni duets on Enja. Goodnews from Africa and Echoes From Africa.

[frank m]

An early 10 inch LP of Ralph Burns composition "Summer Sequence" with Woody and one of the early herds. Part of it became "Early Autumn"

Edited February 10, 2004 by frank m

[Jazzmoose]

This is going to stand out like a sore thumb, but probably Lene Lovich's New Toy EP...

[ralphie_boy]

Lately, it's been Woody Shaw's Stepping Stones which I picked up a month or two ago. I sure wish they would have included this in the Mosaic, but I'm happy to have it in any form.

[patricia]

The LP that I play the most often [in fact, it's playing now] is "Dixieland Classics" on JazzTone.

Like most of the JazzTone releases, this one is a compilation and the lineup of artists reads like this:

Muggsy Spanier

Bobby Hackett

Pee Wee Russell

Max Kaminsky

Georg Brunies [sic]

Mel Powell

Jack Teagarden

Eddie Condon

Fats Waller

Miff Mole

Bud Freeman

Jess Stacy

Not to be ignored, this collection also has George Wettling on drums, Artie Shapiro on bass, Shoeless Joe Jackson on clarinet, George Berg on tenor sax, Norma Teagarden on piano and Joe Caruso on the tracks on which George Wettling wasn't on drums.

This is pure, passionate, fun Dixieland.

Love it almost as much as my "Dixieland, Chicago Style", which was originally on vinyl, but a friend kindly cut a CD of the copy I had, also on JazzTone, before I had a turntable, so it doesn't count for our purposes.

B-3r, I also have the Jimmy Smith/Wes Montgomery collection you mentioned, but on a CD I downloaded. FABULOUS!!! Every time I go to my vinyl emporium, I check the Jimmy Smith slot and, so far, it's always empty. Drat. I guess I'm not the only one looking for Jimmy on vinyl.

Edited February 12, 2004 by patricia

[clifford_thornton]

I played the crap out of "Change of the Century" (Ornette) and "Four for Trane" (Shepp)... the classics always get jammed the most.

[David Williams]

Over the years it's been Abdullah Ibrahim/Carlos Ward Live At Sweet Basil, Coleman Hawkins The high And Mighty Hawk and The Hawk Flies High, Wynton Kelly Kelly Blue, and more recently Air Air Lore and Serge Chaloff Blue Serge. Partly 'cos I love 'em, partly 'cos they don't hurt Helen's head like a hundred dogs(though Air Lore tries her patience a bit).

Edited February 11, 2004 by David Williams

[frank m]

re Patricia and her dixieland record: (two posts back)

this is a musically sophistocated group here. How many of y'all know who Shoeless Joe Jackson was? I'll bet it's some 80 - 90 percent.

[BruceH]

The Way It Was!--Art Pepper, Contemporary

Probably because I still don't have it on CD.

[Jazzmoose]

re Patricia and her dixieland record: (two posts back)

this is a musically sophistocated group here. How many of y'all know who Shoeless Joe Jackson was? I'll bet it's some 80 - 90 percent.

Wasn't he kicked out of the band for throwing his bass or something like that?

[patricia]

All I knew about "Shoeless Joe Jackson", from a music standpoint is that he played marvelous clarint with Mel Powell's Dixieland Orchestra. I sort of made a sports connection, but only periferilly, not [gasp] being a baseball aficionado.

According to the liner notes, this was a pseudonym used by Benny Goodman on this February 1942 date.

The track was "The World Is Waiting For The Sunshine".

So, I gather that Goodman simply took the name of the baseball player, who was with the baseball team, involved in the fixing of the World Series.

As far as I know, the baseball player wasn't a musician too.

My favourte tracks on the record are two by Bobby Hackett, George Brunes, Pee Wee Russell, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Jess Stacy and Artie Shapiro, with George Wettling on drums, which is a jam session on which they play "Carnegie Drag" and "Carnegie Jump" recorded in 1938. The other is Eddie Condon's Jazz Band playing "Oh Sister, Ain't That Hot?" and "Dancing Fool" recorded in 1940.

George Wettling is one of my very favourite drummers of all time and he is featured on all but two of the tracks on this record. On two of the tracks, Kansas Fields and Joe Caruso do the honours. Great stuff.

This is fabulous Dixieland!!!!

Edited February 12, 2004 by patricia

[wolff]

I'll have to think about what's been played the most over the last year or two.

I know I played these two, too much. Or, I've just moved on.

Hodges: Blues A Plenty (Classic Records LP reissue)

Dylan: Good As I Been To You Just Bob and his guitar playing me a private concert.

[paul secor]

Interesting thread.

These days I don't play much of anything again and again - too much to listen to - but over the years, I'd say that it's been Mingus, Mingus, Mingus ... (Impulse).