I love this record. It's another great Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson combo, but this time with added Woody Shaw. I'm especially fond of the second track Even Later, which is just beautiful
I picked up a few things that are hard to find in good condition in the UK (a couple of them after finding out about them via this sub!). They're all early 80s pressings except the Paul Bley, which is from 1993.
Here Comes Louis Smith - Louis Smith
Night of Ballads and Blues - McCoy Tyner
Footloose! - Paul Bley
Cymbalism - Roy Haynes
I love a Sunday morning record fair. No better way to start the day :)
Both of the Coltrane/Red Garlands are OJCs. The best find for me was the Carl Perkins - I'd been looking for this for a while and this is a still sealed version, I think from 1972? I'll find out when I open it!
Picked up from the record co-op this afternoon:
Freddie Hubbard - The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (on Acoustic Sounds)
Walter Bishop Jr - Coral Keys (not Real Gone's first reissue of this, but the first since 2020 so I was glad to nab a copy). Big cast list, especially for a Black Jazz record - Woody Shaw, Harold Vick, Reggie Johnson and Idris Mohammed!
I've only just got round to listening to this new reissue after I picked it up a couple of weeks ago and holy crap it's good. Side A feels serious in the same way that Search for the New Land is serious. And then side B descends (ascends?) into a Jazz Messengers reunion. Highly recommended and of course it sounds fantastic
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The House of Blue Lights, Eddie Costa - he's better known as a vibraphonist, but his piano work is much darker, with a hard repetitive style that sometimes feels like a swinging version of late period Mal Waldron.
Iron Man, Eric Dolphy - a 70s reissue with a redesigned cover by Mati Klarwein who also did Bitches Brew and Abraxas
Inside Out, Eddie Henderson - follow up to Henderson's Realization (and the Mwandishi albums). Eddie Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin, Buster William's and Billy Hart! Bill Summers on the congas. Just buy this album
Bone & Bari, Curtis Fuller - I stumbled on this Japanese press and bought it because I wanted to know what a trombone and baritone sax combination was like. It's definitely interesting, but I've listened to it a couple of times and I'm still not sure I'm a fan
I'm not much for 45s in general and even less so for jazz, which doesn't usually lend itself to the format, but I got these as a job lot and they're great! They're mostly party music - hard driving cool and bop and cut really hot. I have some of them in 10" and LP compilations and listening to them in this format is a very different experience
It turns out that cleaning and re-sleeving records is nowhere near as much fun as digging through crates to buy them in the first place
This sub continues to cost me a fortune - I got the Joe Chambers and Hideo Shiraki as a direct result of being influenced on here. I've been eyeing up the mono version of A Love Supreme and after listening to my stereo version on the summer solstice decided to grab it
A couple of lesser known - or at least not commonly mentioned on here - jazz funk heaters.
I've just seen that Habibi Funk have launched a new sister label Audible Beauty and the first two vinyl releases are 70s Malaysian jazz from Alfonso Soliano and Johari Salleh taken from radio broadcasts that were never commercially released. A few tracks are up on Bandcamp and they are 🔥. Coming out 7 August.
I don't often go to London but was down today and took the opportunity to go to some record shops I haven't been to before, mostly around Hackney
I recently came across the concept of a half birthday (placed halfway between your main birthdays) and I'm leaning into it. Mainly as an excuse to treat myself to more records.
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Mal Waldron/Terumasa Hino, Reminiscent Suite - Hino's free flowing trumpet with Mal's dark, percussive lower register playing is deeply affecting - it's a beautiful and powerful record. Also featuring Isao Suzuki!
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Harold Land, Choma - one of Land's collaborations with Bobby Hutcherson so you know it's great
My first thought was that £28 was a lot for a Doxy repress, then "wait, is that a deep groove?!" I've never clicked buy it now more quickly. It arrived this morning and it's lovely - a solid VG+, the lamination on the outer sleeve is almost perfect and it even has the original Blue Note inner.
Freddie Hubbard, Goin' Up (1st mono, 1961)
Another great week in AAA jazz reissues! Birth of the Cool, Inception and Whistle Stop (which was actually last week but my copy was damaged so I had to wait for a new one). They sound fantastic. I don't have a vinyl copy of Birth of The Cool, but the Tone Poet sounds very different to the Tidal stream - it's much clearer, particularly the horns. It really doesn't sound like it was recorded in the 1940s
New today on Blue Note Classic Vinyl. Byrd and Pepper Adams work so well together - every session they did around 1960-62 swings so hard. Bonus cat in the form of a sleepy Londo Mollari
Some great scores this week!
Art Farmer, Crawl Space - found this morning at a record fair for £10 after getting outbid on a much more expensive copy on eBay. Record collecting karma strikes again :)
Mal Waldron, A Touch of the Blues - just a fantastic record. Intense, emotional with a fantastic rhythm section. Early 70s Mal Waldron continues to blow my mind
Denny Zeitlin, Live at the Trident - I only found out about Zeitlin a couple of weeks ago on here and was lucky enough to find this in the wild
Bill Evans at Town Hall - minty mono first press from this morning's record fair
Joe Wilder, Wilder n Wilder - incredible trumpet player who feels quite overlooked? Great hard bop heater
Kenny Dorham, Matador - not too familiar with this one, but it's Kenny plus Jackie Mclean and Bobby Timmons so...