What music did you buy today?

[CJ Shearn]

36 minutes ago, Justin V said:

No, I found it for $3 at a store in my hometown.  Why?

Just wondering. I gotta get a copy sometime.  Good to know, Amazon copies seemed not so cheap last I looked but discogs has quite a few

Edited September 18, 2019 by CJ Shearn

[jlhoots]

5 hours ago, Steve Reynolds said:

Back to the thread topic - here are some/most of my most recent buys:

Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity Live in Europe

3 CD set - trio on the first disc, augmented by others on discs 2 & 3

I normality avoid Clean Feed but reviews on this were strong. In the Que by this weekend

Anthony Braxton Quartet (New Haven) 2014 - 4 CD set

with Taylor Ho Bynum, Nels Cline & Greg Saunier

Momentum 3: quartet of small form improvisation on Leo records

Fire! Trio plus Jim O’Rourke: Unreleased?

ingrid Laubrock: Ubatuba 

Pere Ubu: The Long Goodbye

 

 

 

 

I lke Ubatuba.

Waiting to open New Haven 2014.

[Steve Reynolds]

42 minutes ago, jlhoots said:

I lke Ubatuba.

Waiting to open New Haven 2014.

Me too. Only quibble is not quite enough low brass and not enough Ben Gerstein

that will be remedied tomorrow night as Gerstein will be in Matt Mitchell’s group I’m seeing @ The Stone. I havn’t seen him play in maybe two years, I think.

Great expressive very unique trombonist.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

 

 

 

 

[Pim]

Max Roach - The Loadstar with Billy Harper, Cecil Bridgewater and Reggie Workman. 2012 vinyl reissue.

[David Ayers]

1 hour ago, Pim said:

Max Roach - The Loadstar with Billy Harper, Cecil Bridgewater and Reggie Workman. 2012 vinyl reissue.

Oh! OH!

[JSngry]

Just out on Pi. Ordered from Bandcamp rather than Pi b/c (unless I missed something) the CD also comes with all the jizzy DL-Streamy functionalities. Best of both worlds for the same price.

[jlhoots]

Three Nights In L.A.

[Larry Kart]

The three Chet Baker Prestige CDs w. George Coleman.

[Larry Kart]

The 2-CD "Kiity Kallen Story" (Sony). Previously just a name to me, but what a lovely singer -- warm distinctive voice, much feeling, great time. Not a jazz singer per se, but she sang with the bands of Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey, Harry James, and Artie Shaw. ("The greatest guy I ever worked for was Harry James. He was THE most talented. An orchestration would be submitted at rehearsal, and he would decide if he was going to keep it in the book. He would read the score once. That night if we were doing a remote, and we usually were, hd would have the score there and never again. I never, never heard him warm up. He could play great drums..." "Jimmy [Dorsey] was a very hostile man, and he lived in a constant state of envy of Tommy. I did not enjoy working with Jimmy. And when he drank, he was a different person. He had to have a bodyguard with him all  the time." On one of her favorite recordings, "If Someone Had Told Me," she was accompanied only by the trio of Jim Hall, Richard Davis, and Mel Lewis.

When she joined Dorsey, he told the band that there would be no more four-letter words on the bus because now there was a young lady [age 20] here. Wanting to be accepted as one of the boys, Kallen felt this wasn't going to work. The next day she got on the bus and announced, "The next guy who uses a four-letter word, "I'm going to cut his balls off." That definitely broke the ice.  

 She was pretty darn cute too.

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[ghost of miles]

27 minutes ago, Larry Kart said:

The 2-CD "Kiity Kallen Story" (Sony).

 

That's an excellent collection!

[Larry Kart]

A fine date, all (Bags, Hawkins, Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Eddie Jones, Connie Kay) on very good form. And very well recorded, at least in its Koch incarnation -- I say that because some Atlantics of that vintage (1959) were a bit on the dead side IIRC. Wonder who put together/shaped this date in the musical sense -- many nice touches there, e.g, the intro to "Stuffy." Bags? Bean? Neither man is someone I think of as imposing his will in the studio, as someone seems to have done here. Nesuhi? He was there for a lot of excellent recordings, but was he that type? BTW, anyone who doubts Hawkins prowess on the blues should listen to the next to the last track on this one (see post below).
 

[Larry Kart]

 

[HutchFan]

Some recent buys:

This disc is on sale now on the Dutton/Vocalion site for £1.99 -- just $7.50 USD postpaid to the US. (Garrick's outstanding Cold Mountain is also available at the same bargain price, but I already own that one.)

 

Looking forward to hearing this one.

 

I've been digging into and really enjoying Marty Ehrlich's music lately.

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by HutchFan

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Some recent buys:

This disc is on sale now on the Dutton/Vocalion site for £1.99 -- just $7.50 USD postpaid to the US. (Garrick's outstanding Cold Mountain is also available at the same bargain price, but I already own that one.

 

What a giveaway - that one is an absolute corker. Along with ‘Troppo’, one of his best.

Kings Cross Station impromptu photo session in uniform - apparently one of them was spat at by an old lady walking across the platform.

Platform 9 3/4 to Hogwarts ?

Edited September 30, 2019 by sidewinder

[erwbol]

[HutchFan]

7 hours ago, sidewinder said:

What a giveaway - that one is an absolute corker. Along with ‘Troppo’, one of his best.

Absolutely!  I've been listening to Home Stretch Blues on YT. It'll be nice to have a "real" copy -- especially at that price.

 

[sidewinder]

4 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Absolutely!  I've been listening to Home Stretch Blues on YT. It'll be nice to have a "real" copy -- especially at that price.

 

All of those Garrick Argos have been expertly transferred to CD by Vocalion. Not to be missed, considering that this was their first time on CD from master tapes (I think) and that the original LPs sold less than 1000 each in many cases. I read that ‘The Heart is a Lotus’ was the biggest seller at not much more than 1000 copies.

[HutchFan]

2 minutes ago, sidewinder said:

All of those Garrick Argos have been expertly transferred to CD by Vocalion. Not to be missed, considering that this was their first time on CD from master tapes (I think) and that the original LPs sold less than 1000 each in many cases. I read that ‘The Heart is a Lotus’ was the biggest seller at not much more than 1000 copies.

It's a shame that so many people have missed the boat on Garrick's music. I only discovered it a couple years ago, but he's quickly become one of my favorite musicians. 

And I love how Garrick makes jazz that is unmistakably English. It's one of the things that makes his music so distinctive.

John Surman sometimes plows a similar furrow -- but Garrick's focus on words and the voice makes his English-ness even more pronounced (pun fully intended!).   

 

[sidewinder]

Yes, like Ian Carr he used his English degree very creatively in the music mix - plus adding unique influences from the English Chorale tradition, folk, madrigals and Far-East exotica. Too bad he wasn’t more recognised in his homeland !

Not to be missed on those Argos is his use of Norma Winstone’s voice - inspired. Glad to say that I caught the lineup with Lowther/Themen/Winstone/Green/Tomkins and Don Rendell during the early 2000s on a very rare reunion. They did a follow up at the BBC Maida Vale studio not long after but I missed that. 

Edited September 30, 2019 by sidewinder

[Justin V]

On 9/30/2019 at 2:34 AM, sidewinder said:

What a giveaway - that one is an absolute corker. Along with ‘Troppo’, one of his best.

Kings Cross Station impromptu photo session in uniform - apparently one of them was spat at by an old lady walking across the platform.

Platform 9 3/4 to Hogwarts ?

On 9/30/2019 at 11:58 PM, HutchFan said:

Some recent buys:

This disc is on sale now on the Dutton/Vocalion site for £1.99 -- just $7.50 USD postpaid to the US. (Garrick's outstanding Cold Mountain is also available at the same bargain price, but I already own that one.)

Thanks to HutchFan and Sidewinder, I've taken a chance on Garrick's Cold Mountain and the quartet DVD, the latter of which was .99 GBP.  I received a shipping notification within 24 hours, so those bargain prices aren't too good to be true.

Edited October 1, 2019 by Justin V

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, Justin V said:

Thanks to HutchFan and Sidewinder, I've taken a chance on Garrick's Cold Mountain and the quartet DVD, the latter of which was .99 GBP.  I received a shipping notification within 24 hours, so those bargain prices aren't too good to be true.

You're in for a treat with Cold Mountain.  

If you enjoy it, I'd recommend tracking down one of Garrick's recordings with Norma Winstone next.  I'd start with either The Heart is a Lotus or Troppo. Both are five-star records, IMO -- with Home Stretch Blues just a half-step behind them.  

[T.D.]

I don't exactly need another recording of the Partitas, but they're personal favorites and I really enjoyed Schepkin's earlier (Ongaku) recording, so...

[Larry Kart]

25 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Several years ago I purchased Angela Hewitt's Bach box and have been gradually working through it, but it all sounds more or less the same to me. I'd be interested to know why you enjoy the Partitas above his other works, if you can explain.

I'm afraid that Hewitt, not Bach, is responsible for the sameness you detect.

[Larry Kart]

12 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

That could be, but by nature these pieces all sound mechanical, don't they? There just isn't as much room for interpretation as there is in the Romantics, for example.

No, they don't for many people, but if they all sound mechanical to you, so be it.