Whats on your turntable tonight?

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking. A&M reissue 1973, originally 1969

Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - Le Sacre Du Printemps / The Rite Of Spring. Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks 1961

Miklós Erdélyi conducts Bartók - Suite No 2, Op. 4 / Hungarian Sketches / Transylvanian Dances / Rumanian Folk Dances. Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Hungaroton - Bartók Béla Complete Edition, Orchestral Music 2, 1976 Hungarian release.

György Lehel conducts Bartók - Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta & The Miraculous Mandarin - Concert Suite. Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Hungaroton - Bartók Béla Complete Edition, Orchestral Music 8, 1967, Hungarian release
 

Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram. Columbia/MPL reissue 1980, originally 1971

John Mayall - USA Union. Polydor 1971

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead. WB 1970

Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night. Reprise 1975

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension. Columbia reissue (1966) 1971

Brian Eno - Another Green World. Island I believe 1975ish

Doing my taxes most the day.....so what else to play?

The Beatles - Revolver. Apple reissue 1975

Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Do It Yourself. STIFF 1979

That sounded good, so went back one...

The Beatles - Rubber Soul. Columbia reissue 1976

More MJQ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues At Carnegie Hall. Atlantic. Recorded live in 1966, I ‘think‘ this reissue was released in 1968 looking at the label markings.

Bohm conducts Beethoven’s 3rd, ‘Eroica’. Wiener Philharmoniker. Deutsche Grammophon. UK pressing 1972

Solti-Edition Vol. 10, playing sides 25&26 - Solti conducting Bartok’s Concert for Orchestra & Tanz-Suite for Orchestra. London Symphony Orchestra 1965. DECCA German pressing 1981 Box release

An eclectic mix today 😉 Been meaning time get this on the new rig since set-up, but was waiting for the Soundsmith. The time has come....freshly cleaned...

Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead. WB 1970

EDIT: Oh damn.....

A different direction....

Talking Heads - Fear of Music. Sire 1979

May be my favorite Heads album

Grateful Dead - Vintage Dead. Sunflower 1970.

Recorded live at the Avalon Ballroom in 1966, and released without the Dead’s consent at the time. Still, one of my old Dead album favorites, and still in great shape after all these years. Great harmonica by Pig.

John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu - Adventures in Radio. Relativity 1986

EDIT: This is a bit of an odd album from John, I actually purchased new. It has that mid-80’s Yellow Jackets/Rippingtons vibe. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but John always tended to strike new ground, and this album was more about following the trends of the time.

Jimi - Axis Bold as Love. Reprise, reissue 1979

@bgross 

Congrats man! Have fun.

It’s a Beautiful Day - S/T. Columbia 1970

The Beatles - Beatles ‘65. Capitol reissue 1976.

Going to the oldies tonight...

Herbert Blomstedt conducts Nielsen - The Concertos Of Carl Nielsen. Danmarks Radios Symfoniorkester. Seraphim/Angel 2LP box 1975
 

Vernon Handley conducts Delius - Various. London Philharmonic Orchestra. Classic for Pleasure/EMI 1979 British pressing.

Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night. Reprise 1975 Terre Haute Pressing

Wynton Marsalis - J Mood. Columbia 1986

Starting with some Heifetz. Two LP’s:

Brahms Violin Concerto w/Reiner & The Chicago Symphony is a Canadian reissue from RCA Victor, 1962. I think.

Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto w/Reiner & The Chicago Symphony is also a reissue, RCA Victor, probably in the mid-70’s given the label. 

Both in fantastic shape. The Tschaikowsky is especially good.

Eduard Van Beinum conducts Brahms Symphony #2. Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Epic, mono, probably 1956 per the label design.

Szell conducts Janacek’s Sinfonietta & Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis. The Cleveland Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks. Released in 1968, not sure if this was issued at that time, or later. Exquisite though.

Szell conducts Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #2. The Cleveland Orchestra w/Emil Gilels. Angel 1970

@boxer12 

Thoughts and prayers man.

The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Last Concert. Atlantic 1975 2 LP set

Just picked this up, have had it on CD for years, and although the set is not in ‘tip top’ shape, actually plays better than it looks, which surprises me, regardless, preferable over the CD version.

Yellowjackets - Four Corners. MCA 1987

Have not listened to this in a long long long time. More of that 80’s fusion-jazz stuff vs what I prefer now, but really, not too bad actually. Nicely recorded and engineered. Really fills up my room.

Brian,

That’s great brother.

Norman Greenbaum - Petaluma. Reprise 1972

Brings back memories when it was in a more regular rotation, back in the 70’s. And yes, nicely recorded. And forgot Ry Cooder played on this.

Steve, is yours a gatefold with the various photos, stories, and cartoon drawings bound within the gatefold? All make it a very charming and complete package.

Edit: lol, I didn’t see your edit until I posted ;-)

"Petaluma" is early Americana at it’s finest! SQ is excellent!

I’ve had that album pulled and sitting in front of my rack for a few days now to spin. You are giving me the impetus to play the darn thing......finally ;-)

I have not listened to it for years.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A 4 LP set, consisting of works by Beethoven, Carter, Schumann, Mozart, Bach, Faure’, Moszkowski, Haydn, Brahms, and Saint-Saens.

A surprising purchase; recorded raw with little engineering, and a real sense of the stage and space. Nice.

Released in 1975 by The Classic Record Company for the Book-Of-The-Month Club, of all things. The vinyl is in mint condition, and it was very inexpensive. Cha-Ching.

Paul Simon - Graceland. WB 1986

Haven’t listened to this for ages.

Dead - Europe 72

@tomic601  👍🏼

Sade - Diamond Life. CBS 1985

poking around my 80’s section of LP’s....obviously ;-)

Nice choice bkeske!

Great recording and sound. Still my favorite Zappa, and still sounds ‘up to date’.

@slaw

Steve, yea, was a huge fan of her’s in the 80’s. Have two of her albums on vinyl I purchased back then before I began transitioning to CD’s. Oddly enough, for whatever reason, she was probably the biggest reason I began my journey into Jazz, and quickly dove back into the old jazz masters of the 50’s and 60’s.
I saw her live in the 80’s at her peak, and it was actually a great show.

New Riders of the Purple Sage - S/T. Columbia 1971

Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert. RSO 1973

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats. Bizarre 1969

@uberwaltz 

And with luck you will be playing all your albums again as they now sound like different records altogether.

Thats the plan when you head down the wabbit hole 😁

Yes, I am hoping for fun. Lots of fun 😉

I’ve been missing your posts brother!

Been extremely busy man, and haven’t spun too many albums since Monday. But, it’s the weekend, so hopefully can relax over the next couple days and do what I love best.