What LPs have you listened to recently?

pumpkinman · « **Reply #5780 on:** 9 Oct 2012, 12:49 am »

Sandy Denny ~ The North Star Grassman and the Ravens

Thought of you AD as I looked at this album

ArthurDent · « **Reply #5781 on:** 9 Oct 2012, 03:50 am »

Quote from: pumpkinman on 9 Oct 2012, 12:49 am

Sandy Denny ~ The North Star Grassman and the Ravens

Thought of you AD as I looked at this album

Have been thinking of picking up some of her solo work. One of my earliest CD purchases was her 'Best of'. Lovely voice & great presentation. A shame to lose her so early on.

simoon · « **Reply #5782 on:** 9 Oct 2012, 05:19 pm »

King Crimson - Islands

Not the best KC album, but the original British release sure does image! Especially the title track. There's a coronet that comes in a couple of minutes in that is very defined in space, about 8 feet back in the soundstage at the right height.

orthobiz · « **Reply #5783 on:** 10 Oct 2012, 01:48 am »

Quote from: vinyl_lady on 8 Oct 2012, 03:33 am

I've always been a fan. I became of fan of Richie Furay when he was with Buffalo Springfield. I have all the Poco albums along with Richie's solo albums and Souther Hillman & Furay records. Poco's pedal steel guitarist, Rusty Young and drummer, George Grantham, were from Denver and played in a Denver band I used to listen to called the Boenzee Cryque. I have two Boenzee Cryque 45s. They were good enough to be one of the opening acts when national groups like the Beach Boys came to Denver.

The album Poco, their second, is my all-time favorite. Hurry Up as an opening cut just blows me away. What better followup than You Better Think Twice? Way better than downloading single songs from iTunes, eh? For years I didn't realize that Rusty was playing pedal steel, sounds so much like an organ. But then, I never did see them live...

Paul

neobop · « **Reply #5784 on:** 10 Oct 2012, 12:35 pm »

1977 Milestone Records - live at Sweet Basil NYC 2 LP
Ron Carter - piccolo Bass
Kenny Barron - piano
Buster Williams - upright bass
Ben Riley - drums

This is a terrific live recording with Ron Carter in one channel playing piccolo bass (like a cello) and Buster Williams in the other playing reg upright. Nice tune selection and stellar sound. Suguaro, Sun Shower, Blue Monk, Three Little Words, Laverne Walk, Little Waltz, Tambien Conocido Como.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #5785 on:** 10 Oct 2012, 08:13 pm »

Big fan of Buster Williams right here. Not to mention Kenny Barron.

Devil Doc · « **Reply #5786 on:** 10 Oct 2012, 08:40 pm »

pumpkinman · « **Reply #5787 on:** 11 Oct 2012, 12:04 am »

Ain't it good to have friends......Thanks Laura

pumpkinman · « **Reply #5788 on:** 11 Oct 2012, 01:21 am »

pumpkinman · « **Reply #5789 on:** 11 Oct 2012, 10:31 am »

neobop · « **Reply #5790 on:** 14 Oct 2012, 06:31 pm »

Recorded 1958 orig issued on New Jazz This is a Prestige reissue

Freight Trane (Tommy Flanagan)
I Never Knew (Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn)
Lyresto (Kenny Burrell)
Why Was I Born? (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
Big Paul (Tommy Flanagan)

Unusual session, but it works out. In 1958 Trane was near the end of his gig with Miles Davis. It was the year Kind of Blue came out. Here, Trane is blowing over a highly competent rhythm section and Kenny Burrell is mostly just a part of that section. I believe there are a couple of tunes that Trane never recorded elsewhere.

roscoeiii · « **Reply #5791 on:** 14 Oct 2012, 06:40 pm »

Velvet Underground, Sundazed MONO box set.

It is glorious.

ArthurDent · « **Reply #5792 on:** 16 Oct 2012, 05:30 pm »

'Traffic' : Welcome To The Canteen , 1971 United Artists release, live

Jesse Colin Young: On the Road , 1976 Warner Bros. release, live

Fairport Convention : "Babbacombe" Lee, 1971 A&M non-white label promo release tagged as 'for Demo only, not for other use or sale', hand written notation of the station as wnia

vinyl_lady · « **Reply #5793 on:** 17 Oct 2012, 09:28 pm »

45 RPM pressed on 200 g virgin vinyl at QRP. Get this one before it sells out. It is terrific! Dead quiet background

45 RPM pressed on 200g virgin vinyl at QRP and mastered by Doug Sax. This is the best this album has ever sounded!!! Dead quiet background

roscoeiii · « **Reply #5794 on:** 17 Oct 2012, 09:30 pm »

Tortoise "TNT"

I love this album. Tortoise is being re-released on vinyl and their LPs are well worth grabbing, particularly this one.

vinyl_lady · « **Reply #5795 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 04:45 am »

From the MoFi Beatles Collection: Abbey Road; Help; A Hard Days Night

SteveFord · « **Reply #5796 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 04:23 pm »

I just did a comparison of two copies of Lola that I've got.
Black face one wins hand down.
It's funny as they're both Reprise 6423 gatefolds.

vinyl_lady · « **Reply #5797 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 06:04 pm »

Sanctuary Records white vinyl stereo version

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #5798 on:** 20 Oct 2012, 06:59 pm »

Gaucho- Steely Dan (200g Japanese pressing),
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere- Neil Young (Reprise),
Hip Elegy- Joachim Kuhn with Alphonse Mouson, Philip Catherine, Teramusha Hino, etc. (MPS),

Sym no, 5 and Serenade to Music- Ralph Vaughan Williams with Boult conducting The London Phil (EMI Angel).

vinyl_lady · « **Reply #5799 on:** 21 Oct 2012, 12:03 am »

Please Please Me from

Parlophone/Apple British releases