Paul Chambers' Bass on Top and Sonny Clark's Struttin'. |
Tunes spinnin' tonight include...
Soundtrack to "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud" (Miles Davis)
A Jazz Delegation from the East - Chambers' Music
at my 4 year old son's request...
"the man sitting on the bench"
Six Pieces of Silver - The Horace Silver Quintet
finally just on now is Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, in mono.
which somehow he can dance to...
ain't life grand? |
Paul Chambers' Bass On Top.
In a word, awesome. |
"The Bosses" Joe Turner and Count Basie,
Dvorak Symphony #2 (Monteux, London),
Donald Byrd's 'Byrd Blows on Beacon Hill' |
Miles' "Ascenseur a L'Echaffaud"... while perhaps never a critical success, I love this soundtrack. |
Oops... "Ascenseur Pour L'Echaffaud" |
45s, because my DD TT starts spinning incredibly fast (and continues accelerating - it's really quite scary) when I push 'Start' on 33. Aaaaaargh!!!
So it's been a bit o' Miles, a bit o' Bill Evans, and my only George Benson record, which is a 45. Once I forget about the indignity of the machine trying to create tornado vortices in my living room using a small spiral vinyl groove, they sound quite nice. |
Thanks Albert, the lineup just seems to accumulate as I find pieces to try out. Gotta start tossing some back. I have not re-plinthed anything like you have done with your Technics (though the DP80 is not an original plinth).
The P3 is the one accelerating. I pulled it off the shelf a few days ago in order to listen to it again and imagine my surprise. I tried again just now and I am scared to let it go for more than a few seconds - I don't think I have seen a consumer product that heavy spin that fast - I have new respect for the power of the motor.... :^) In any case, I'm taking it into the local Pioneer Service Center tomorrow morning.
Any thoughts? Ever heard of that happening to a DD motor? |
Today is "mono day". Saxophone Colossus, a bunch of early Miles, Art Blakey, some very early Billie Holliday... |
Albert Brendel playing Schubert, Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic for Beethoven's 5th, and Sonny Rollins' Moving Out. Japanese mono reissue of Furtwangler conducting Beethoven's 3rd on deck. |
Flight to Denmark, a jazz trio album by Duke Jordan, Ed Thigpen, and Danish bassist Mats Vinding, recorded in 1973 (Steeplechase Records RJ-6004). An elegant and simple trio album, well-recorded (though it's definitely a PIANO trio album rather than a jazz TRIO album. One of the best party-background-music-albums-I've-never-heard-but-I'd-love-the-disc records I own. And I''m using a recently obtained FR-7f cart which is magic with this kind of music. |
After four nights of packing and repacking boxes to send off and not getting any listening in, I have a day of respite and it has been a good day so far...
Tchaikovsky Sextet 'Souvenir de Florence', Melodiya (Russian label)
Mozart Complete Masonic Music, Edinburgh Festival Chorus & LSO (London, Japanese pressing by King)
Contemporary Music for the Viola (music by Shebalin, Svetlanov, Kryukov, Kirkor played by Mikhail Tolpygo), Melodiya
on now is...
Modern Jazz Quartet Concert in Tokyo, Volume 1
next up is one of my favorite pieces, the Hebraic Suite for Viola and Orchestra by Ernest Bloch, but a version I have just picked up and never heard before; one played by Andras von Toszeghi and the BBC Northen Symphony Orchestra. |
Rushton,
I can recommend the Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra on the New York Album (an album put out when Yo-Yo Ma toured with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra). I don't know if it is out on vinyl. I would love to find a copy if it was... It was a decent tour too... |
I have it on ceedee. It is well-recorded and well-performed. And my copy is signed by YYM and DZ... :^)
Now back to your regularly-scheduled vinyl sessions... |
Today it is Verdi's la Forza Del Destino... I am listening to a 1980 Japanese pressing by King Records off the original 1955 London/Decca recording with Renata Tebaldi in the role of Donna Leonora, and Mario del Monaco (one of my favorite Italian tenors) singing Don Alvaro.
What a pair of lungs on that lady...
Other than being a really nice pressing, it is a fabulous recording. Can't beat it for $2. |
Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano solo soundtrack album to "Merry Christmas, Mister Lawrence". |
Wynton Marsalis - Hothouse Flowers
Miles Davis - Ascenseur a l'echafaud
Oscar Peterson - We Get Requests |
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Eddie Costa's House of Blue Lights
MJQ's Live at the Lighthouse
and an old fave...
Miles Davis' Ascenseur pour l'echafaud (Elevator to the Scaoffold) |
Jimmy Smith The Cat
earlier today it was...
Well Tempered Klavier played by Friedrich Gulda
Pierre Akendengue's 'Nandipo'
Oscar Peterson's Cole Porter Songbook
and I have a few more before I go to sleep...
think it will be some classical... |
Eddie Costa's House of Blue Lights (I can't get over how much I LOVE the first track, and then the segue into the second)
Hank Mobley (BN 1568)
John Jenkins w/ Kenny Burrell (BN 1573)
Lee Morgan's Candy (1590)
J.R. Monterose (1536)
Sonny Clark Trio (1579)
'Round Midnight Claude Williamson's Trio (Bethlehem (Columbia Japan reprint 1992) mono)
A Garland of Red - Red Garland Trio (Prestige 7064 Japan pressing) |
working my way through some stray jazz I picked up a little while ago.
Lee Morgan's Candy
John Jenkins with Kenny Burrell
Red Garland Trio's Groovy
Horace Silver Quintet's The Stylings of Silver |
Triggered by a thread earlier on AA...
Ella and Oscar |
West Coast Blues by the Harold Land Sextet (listening to VIJ-4080, which is a Japanese pressing of JLP 20)
On deck is Sonny Rollins' Way Out West (CR S 7530), followed by a Japanese pressing of Chet Baker's 'It Could Happen To You' (VIJ-4068), then Porgy and Bess by Sammy Davis Jr and Carmen McRae (VIM-5590). |
And spinning now is 'Friday Night in San Francisco' by John, Paco, and Al. I love this record! |
