r/Vinyl_Jazz

I drove in a big rain storm today to get to the used record store to buy this and it did not disappoint. Last photo is from the session with Miles, Cannonball Adderley and Coltrane.

Probably the 6th record store visit in two days and got super lucky. I paid $4.00 for 8 10 inch albums and $18 for 6 12 inch albums. The funniest part is that these records were with the normal ones out on the floor, but behind the counter they had records that were worth "more" than normal because they were "modern music." Maybe once in a lifetime find at the thrift store. Looking forward to listening to these. Has anyone heard these records? If so, what are your thoughts on these albums?

1. Carmen McRae - By Special Request
2. Getz Meets Mulligan - In Hi Fi
3. Chet Baker & Strings
4. Chet Baker - Ensemble
5. Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Pacific Jazz
6. Gerry Mulligan Quartet
7. Bob Brookmeyer Quartet

I love the way this album is recorded. The sparseness in some of the drum solos are among my favorites.

This LP gets a regular spin on my turntable. One of my favorite from the CTI era. The 2001 Space Odyssey theme was brilliant. Love the sounds of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. 🎹🎶

Dizzy Gillespie Soul & Salvation (1969)

Soul & Salvation is exactly the kind of jazz I’m always looking for — soulful, funky, rhythmic, and built around a deep pocket that makes you want to nod your head from the first track. It really surprised me. I didn’t know Dizzy had this much funk in his bag.

There’s something about this record that feels both classic and fresh at the same time. The horns, the grooves, the musicianship. It has the gravity of a gospel or soul record, but more than anything it’s fun music. It’s hits a soul-jazz/jazz-funk sweet spot without getting too polished or losing the grit.

Definitely one for listeners who like their jazz with some funk and groove in it.

This is an album that shouldn’t get lost in time. Check it out!

Favorite songs: Stomped and Wasted, Pot Licka, The Fly Fox, Turkey Fan

Mr Alexander has to be up there. Such a unique, scatting style. Second is Bobbi Humphrey. Third is Hubert Laws.

Well All,

Here is the system that ends summer of 2K26 - After Many Hours of Fussing About. ( Let me know thoughts or recommedations

This is where i've ended up - Least for now - Speakers May Change

Turntable: Oracle Paris MKV with Dynavector 20-X2A Low Output on a Zazen II

Phono Preamp: Leahmann Audio Black Cube Statement SE w/ PCX sitting on Norstone Vibration Plate and IsoAcoustics Mini Pucks

Preamp/Streamer: Eversolo DMP-A8 Sitting on a NorStone Vibration Plate

Amplification: 2x Topping B200 Monoblocks

Speakers: PMC Twenty5 22i on Custom Filled Stands on Gaia III Feet

Rack: Norstone Spider in Bamboo filled with NorBeads

Speaker Cables are Wireworld Helicon 16XXX Speaker Cables

RCA Cables are Wireworld Equinox 10 1 Set with Ground and 1 without

XLR Cables are Wireworld Equinox 10

Power Cables are Wireworld Stratus X / Stratus Mini X

All Being Fed from a Wireworld Spaceport Star Wired High Current Conditioner

Mainly play my Jazz records nowadays but also have Roon with a Personal 4TB Libray of DSD and Tidal and Quobuz if desperate

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

This Sam Records reissue is super sweet. If you don’t know the album, well worth a listen.

As the title says, I spend the past 4 weeks travelling around Japan with my family for our summer holiday.
It was my first time there and a friend warned me about the insane prices there.

I’ve spend the first half of the year making a list of record shops I wanted to visit. Some were good others were great but overall I just really enjoyed going trough the bins.

I bought a couple of new records which in Europe are easily 2 or 3 times more expensive. Most of the stuff I purchased was used though and all were in great condition.

I started in Osaka where I hit up a load of shops with my absolute favourite being Jazz Records Seeed, super friendly owner and nice selection of records. I remember not buying a lot here but the atmosphere was great and the owner gave me some good tips for other records which shops to visit.

Next I did a day trip to Nara and on the way back hit up Mole Music which really ended up being my favourite shop of the trip! They do a lot of house and electronic but the owner loves spiritual and free jazz so naturally he had a pretty good selection of jazz aswell. It’s here that I found an OG pressing of William Hooker - … Is Eternal Life. The owner was said to see it go and gave it a little wave goodbye.

After this I travelled to Hiroshima and stayed at a small hotel called Good Sleep, the owner Yuka has her own record/listening bar in the hotel and it was amazing to listen to records with her as we had a beer and talked about records. She gave me a load of shops to visit in Hiroshima and my favourite shop here was Groovin Record Station. They have really really good prices and also have a shop in Fukuoka and Okayama.

In Fukuoka I bought a couple records again at Groovin where I found the 1979 Japan pressing of Midnight Sun by Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio and also found two Fela Kuti records and Gil Scott-Heron - Don’t Give Up at Face Records.

Then the last leg of the trip was 10 days Tokyo. I had so many records already so my daughter made me promise her to only by records if they were really special! (aren’t they all 😅🤣)

To keep the promise I just tried to avoid record shops in general but I did visit a couple. The prices in HMV and Tower records were outrageous and the condition of the records were also worse compared to the other places I visited for the prices they were asking. I did end up buying an OG press of Mint Jams at Flash Disc Ranch. They had two copies the OG promo press which was a very dark brown and if held to the light you could see it was lightly translucent but I left that one cause the records was lightly bent. So if you after an OG Mint Jams go to Flash Disc Ranch!

Sorry for the long post! I really enjoyed visiting record shops in Japan and if you are planning a trip I highly recommend the smaller cities and the smaller local shops as opposed to the HMV’s and Tower Records. The digging is more fun, the staff and owners of the shops are super friendly and happy to have you over and I think the prices are also better.

Dorothy Ashby - Harp; Frank Wess - Flute; Ed Thigpen - Drums; Eddie Jones - Bass; Wendell Marshall - Bass. Engineer - Rudy Van Gelder

The debut album by harpist Dorothy Ashby with Frank Wess on flute, recorded in August 1956 and released in March 1957 is a joy. It's groovy and soulful in a laid back way. Ashby wasn't the first jazz harpist, that is thought to be Casper Reardon who played with Jack Teagarden amongst others. Adele Girard and Ruth Berman wete also early jazz harpists.Ashby really was a pioneer though and made the harp a core bebop jazz instrument. An excellent record.

in a $20 lot + shipping. Jackets are all VG-ish, bit vinyl is all solid VG+ at least (Sonny Criss and Gary Burton always nice too)

A dozen of good little jazz albums for the pleasure of your eyes (and my ears).

The unusual stuff of note :

• One Michel Sardaby album (Night Cap with Percy Heath and Connie Kay) and one compilation (Brilliant Works). Most of you won't be familiar with this name. A French pianist from the French overseas Carribean territory of Martinique, he has played with some the greatest American names, yet has somewhat always kept a low profile. A real talent who was a household name among jazz players yet almost unknown to the public. Glad to have those Japanese reissues as they are already hard to get ahold of, original Sardaby's are very sought after. Listen to this tune.
• A Night In Tunisia, Japan exclusive Blue Note comp. Classic stuff really, I just have an unhealthy obsession over BN compilations lol
• Scandinavian Suite, by Bingo Miki & Tatsuya Takahashi : Good release on Three Blind Mice, not the best. Quite modern big-band-ish, and fusion and funky at times. However the sound quality is as good as you can expect from this label.
• A Miles Davis promo sampler, Japan exclusive : quite an oddball, but a nice 20 (!!) edits of his tunes from the Columbia period through the years.
• A very very underrated Freddie Hubbard Columbia album : Love Connection. Lovely album (with a famous sample used in French House classic Deep Burnt by Pépé Bradock). Very cheap, do not look down at it because it's a later Hubbard title. If you find it, get it.
• The rest is more well known : Les McCann, Elvin Jones & Richard Davis, Wayne's Shorter's Native Dancer, and the standard CTI fare with Bob James' Three and Art Farmer's Crawl Space

What’s not to like about Bob Cooper? Insanely talented multi-instrumentalist, great composer and arranger, member of Stan Kenton’s band at age 20, married to June Christy for over four decades. He was an excellent tenor player in the Stan Getz vein, and single-handedly made oboe a viable jazz instrument. His English horn solo on “Round Midnight” is one of many high points here. (This is a 1981 British repress of the 1955 Capitol Records original.)

Picked up a first pressing of this beauty the other day. Never had a jazz record this rare. My Tone Poet might get a little dusty.

OK - so I picked up fewer than I remembered. I put a few things back before hitting the register.

So, the Hicks is spinning. I have to assume there's a flaw somewhere across the 4 sides to explain the $3 price. We'll see.

For the Joe and Hutcherson, I burned some trade credit at BLK.

I don't know Ricky, so that's another take a chance on a cheap Muse in great shape play.

Yeah, MPB-4 comp probably doesn't belong. As usual, my kid told me they've already discovered them, so I'm behind the curve.

The Hamp appears to be a postmortem reissue of material originally on Vault. Disc 2 did not impress me. Hamp slathered in syrupy strings? No thanks. I did a needle drop on Disc 1, and that was much more acceptable.

Link for anyone interested-

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Herbie-Hancock-Thrust/108097069

Things like this don’t normally happen to me, so I’m approaching this with utmost skepticism …

I found what appears to be an early (first?) edition of “Bitches Brew” at a recent record show for a ridiculously low price.

Does anything in these photos show/confirm which release it is?

Best I can tell, it lines up with this version — but, like I said, I’m typically not this fortunate.

https://www.discogs.com/release/37006-Miles-Davis-Bitches-Brew

Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

PICTURE

Andrew Hill - Point of Departure $75.00
Very clean, very solid VG+ all around. Disc is shiny and free of all marks, great sounding copy. Jacket looks great, a couple of very small catalog numbers written to the very bottom of the rear jacket in ballpoint pen. Includes the original BN inner sleeve.

Cecil Taylor - Nuits De La Fondation Maeght 3 Volume Set $85.00
Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3
All three are uniformly strong VG+ free of any notable issues. Jackets have some typical light laminate peeling but nothing significant. Must buy as set but why wouldn't you want all three, they look so handsome together.

Don Cherry - Don Cherry $75.00
Amazingly well-preserved disc, easy VG+ and closer to NM. Nice strong VG unipak jacket, has a deletion notch to bottom right corner and some seam wear, mostly to the spine which is common for this title. Still, a great copy of a great record.

John Coltrane & Don Cherry - The Avant-Garde $45.00
Incredibly well preserved first pressing, I think it'd be hard to find a cleaner copy. Strong VG+ all around, borders on NM. Includes inner sleeve.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew $60.00
Both discs are easy strong VG+. Some would grade NM. No scratches, no spindle marks, bright and glossy. Jacket is clean, some typical shelf/ringwear but nothing significant and less wear than usual for this title. Both company inners included.

Paul Bley - Barrage $40.00
Early repress from the 60s or 70s, one of the only sideman appearances by Sun Ra Arkestra maestro Marshall Allen. Disc is solid VG+ with some faint paper marks but nothing significant. Jacket is VG with deletion hole and old price sticker to front of jacket, some light shelfwear but nothing distracting.

Sam Rivers - A New Conception $55.00
Great condition copy, strong VG+ all around. Jacket has one tiny number written in the upper right-hand corner of the rear jacket, barely noticeable and a little foxing but no other flaws. I love these 1970 presses, probably the best sound quality to value ratio and I'd wager these will only increase in value with time.

Sun Ra - Fate In A Pleasant Mood $50.00
Nice clean disc, solid VG+ with just some very faint paper marks visible when held to light. Jacket is VG with noticeable ringwear, some softening to the seams and a small deletion hole. No splits and still structurally sound, this jacket seems particularly prone to wear. Includes ABC inner sleeve.

Sun Ra - The Magic City $50.00
Great condition copy, no flaws of note. Includes inner sleeve.

Thelonious Monk - Underground $35.00
Very nice disc, free of scratches and spindle marks. Bright and glossy, easy VG+. Jacket, unfortunately, has some moldy spots to one upper corner, only visible on the jrear but no other waviness or evidence of moisture exposure (ask for photos, it sounds worse than it is). Otherwise, jacket is in solid condition.

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