Great jazz guitar vinyl finds...
Lyle Robinson
but I just got back from my local used records and books store and I
found some really nice vinyl, and I thought I would share.
First off is a fantastic album by Bassist Don Bagley titled "Jazz on the
Rocks". It features a young Sal Salvador on guitar and he is absolutely
smokin'...also featured is a young Phil Woods. This album is on the
Regent label and is from 1961. A truely great find.
And speaking of Don Bagley, he plays bass on an album I picked up by John
Gray titled "The Guitar of John Gray: The New Wave" It's a 1962 Capitol
date with Herb Ellis on rhythm guitar. Gray sounds a lot like Chet Atkins
but with a more jazzier flavor. Some cool stuff...but I have never heard
of him.
Another great find was an album by Jim Hall and Red Mitchell...I don't
think I have to say anything about this album...:)
And speaking of Jim Hall...I also picked up an album by Sonny Rollins
titled "Pure Gold Jazz" which is a re-issue of an album titled "What's
New". This album features Jim Hall and I was a little surprised because I
obviously knew of "The Bridge" album but I wasn't aware that there was
more dates with Sonny and Jim. I can't wait to listen to it...
My last buy of the day was an album by Barny Kessel titled "Working Out
with the Barny Kessle Quartet". This is a 1961 date on Contemporary
Records and has a great album cover with a young Barney Kessel smiling
brightly and holding a "Barney Kessel" model Gibson. It's a way cool
cover.
Well there you have it...my buys for the day. I make a habit of visiting
used records and books stores at least once a week and I urge anyone who
can do this to do so...You never know what great finds you can pick up
that haven't been slapped onto CD. Later all and thanks for reading.
Lyle Robinson
http://www.jazzguitarlife.com
Kevin Van Sant
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>Another great find was an album by Jim Hall and Red Mitchell...I don't
>think I have to say anything about this album...:)
Such a great record. I remember the day I found a copy of that like
some people remember the day Kennedy was shot. ....except in a good
way.
>My last buy of the day was an album by Barny Kessel titled "Working Out
>with the Barny Kessle Quartet". This is a 1961 date on Contemporary
>Records and has a great album cover with a young Barney Kessel smiling
>brightly and holding a "Barney Kessel" model Gibson. It's a way cool
>cover.
That brings back memories too. I was always excited to find a Barney
LP, and there were so many of them to find.
>Well there you have it...my buys for the day. I make a habit of visiting
>used records and books stores at least once a week and I urge anyone who
>can do this to do so...You never know what great finds you can pick up
>that haven't been slapped onto CD. Later all and thanks for reading.
I used to do that religiously. Any time I traveled I would go
straight to the used record stores. I remember flying back from
Europe once with 50 LPs in my lap.
I finally gave it all up earlier this year. I had put most of my
vinyl onto Mp3 or else replaced them with CDs and just wasn't breaking
out the old records anymore. So when I moved a few months ago I sold
my whole collection. It's making me melancholy to read your post!
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Adam Gottschalk
Kevin Van Sant <kvan...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I finally gave it all up earlier this year. I had put most of my
> vinyl onto Mp3 or else replaced them with CDs and just wasn't breaking
> out the old records anymore. So when I moved a few months ago I sold
> my whole collection. It's making me melancholy to read your post!
Sorry to hear you sold out :-) I'm just building up my vinyl collection,
the first since I was in grade school (first record I ever bought was
Abbey Road). I'm buying many of the things I used to have on vinyl
again. At first, it was great just to go through the ritual of unpacking
the records, cleaning them with a Discwasher, etc. Then about a week ago
I finally spent some money ($100) on a new/good needle. Totally
different ball game now. I've got the NAD receiver my parents had in the
early 80s, 4 speakers (two are 3-way), and it's brilliant, totally
unlike the CD experience for stuff that's been remastered. I can't
imagine what a _really_ nice stylus would sound like. This is "CD
quality", whatever that means, but with a little crackle and pop.
Today I picked up: a 2-record bootleg of CSNY live, the Royal Scam,
Weather Report--I Sing the Body Electric, Exodus, Richie Cole at the
Vanguard with Bruce Forman, George Benson Cookbook, GB Jazz on a Sunday
afternoon Vol III, Count Basie and the Mills Brothers (!), the LA4 (1976
recording with Laurindo Almeida, Ray Brown, Shelly Manne, Bud Shank),
and Sonny Rollins Green Dolphin Street (side 2 is a trio with Jimmy
Garrison and Elvin Jones, doing Alfie's Theme, which I've been listening
to different versions of lately...including the Scofield trio!).
Yesterday: Bill Evans with Eddie Gomez and Shelly Manne "A Simple Matter
of Conviction", Clifford Brown Quintet Vol 1 (with the first ever
recording of Jordu), and a great 2-record live Bowie that I've never
heard "Stage".
All that with big huge pictures, pull outs, record sleeves with lyrics,
liner notes so big you can actually read them, and for less than the
price of 3 or 4 new CDs.
Greg clayton
Good finds, there are lots of great finds to be had on
classic pop vocal lp's. If I'm not mistaken Don Bagley was associated with
lots of pop vocal/cabaret singers.
Used record stores are a great resource.
gc
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Kevin Van Sant
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Shit, where did you shop? Every singly one of those jazz records
except the Basie was in the collection I unloaded!
Adam Gottschalk
Kevin Van Sant <kvan...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Shit, where did you shop? Every singly one of those jazz records
> except the Basie was in the collection I unloaded!
Yesterday, a place called Crossroads records which sells vinyl from
numerous different private sellers (sometimes overpriced), SE Hawthorne
in Portland, OR. Today, Everyday Music (invariably a steal) on NE Sandy.
Who knows, records do travel...
Lyle Robinson
vinyl for a little while longer during the whole CD craze...:) I gotta
admit that most of my rock and heavy metal albums have gone the way of
MP3's... That's life I guess in the world of technology...later.
Lyle
http://www.jazzguitarlife.com
Kevin Van Sant <kvan...@pobox.com> wrote in
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Lyle Robinson
Don Bagley...he's a fine player and I am really digging the record with Sal
Salvador...Also I agree that there can be some great finds in used record
stores. I still get excited when I come across a gem...:) Take care...
Lyle
http://www.jazzguitarlife.com
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Eric G
>My last buy of the day was an album by Barny Kessel titled "Working Out
>with the Barny Kessle Quartet". This is a 1961 date on Contemporary
>Records and has a great album cover with a young Barney Kessel smiling
>brightly and holding a "Barney Kessel" model Gibson. It's a way cool
>cover.
Great album! As I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago, this was
the first jazz/guitar album that I ever heard when I was a kid.
A great introduction to jazz and jazz guitar.
When I look at Barney's guitar now (album cover) I see a Pat Metheny
design that he may have copped.
Eric
John Galich
John Galich
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<SNIP>
> I recently picked up the Bagley album on CD on the Fresh Sounds Label.
> I've heard John Gray with the George Shearing Quintet (when gary
> Butron was in it!), Neal Hefti and The Four Freshmen.
> I don't know what happened to him after that- maybe he was on the same
> boat with Dick Garcia that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle:)
KRosser414
>> > > titled "Pure Gold Jazz" which is a re-issue of an album titled "What's
>> > > New". This album features Jim Hall and I was a little surprised because
>> I
>> > > obviously knew of "The Bridge" album but I wasn't aware that there was
>> > > more dates with Sonny and Jim. I can't wait to listen to it...
Sometime in the mid -80's, during the final heyday of vinyl, RCA Bluebird put
out a two-record set called "The Complete Sonny Rollins Quartets with Jim
Hall". It obviously contained The Bridge, the one you mentioned above, as well
as another with a number of standards, as well as one previously unreleased
tune. It has never been issued on CD as such, although if you have the
Complete Sonny on RCA box I imagine it would be easy enough to cobble together.
Here's a few of my reasons why I can't give up my turntable just yet:
Crisis - Ornette Coleman
Song To The Lady - Ed Bickert/Don Thompson
Three "free improv" duet albums of Jimmy Raney & Attila Zoller
Jim Hall & Red Mitchell
...just the tip of the iceberg.
Has anyone else besides me ever noticed that vinyl burned to an MP3 doesn't
sound anywhere near as good as it goes on a good turntable?
Ken R
Kross...@aol.com