Listenin' to Jazz and Conversation

In my experience, most commonly seen as this "perpetual bargain."

 

Sonny Sharrock Black Woman (Vortex Records, East West Japan, AMCY-1290), Japanese HDCD from 2000.

Just arrived in the mail. For my money the most interesting Sonny Sharrock album I've heard yet. This Japanese CD sounds less compressed than the US CD (which I downloaded as a FLAC rip).

 

Lucky Thompson & Gerard Pochonet All Stars

 

Familiar with this? I'm not much on list-making, but 'this one is on it.'





I've only ever seen the LP twice, and it cost me 50 cents each time, about 10 years apart... c. 1976 and again sometime in the mid-80s.

 

I confess, I've never been able to enjoy the Sonny & Linda albums. Linda singing and pitch on those records is something I have yet to acquire a taste for (actually I'm not sure I've heard Paradise, just this one and Monkey Pockie Boo).

 

FWIW, it's streaming in a Rhino Atlantic edition on Qobuz.

 

I haven't heard Paradise and Monkey Pockie Boo yet. I see they've both been released on CD. I think I got a good price for Black Woman at ¥3000, since the CD + artwork literally look like new.

 

I like that one. I like Linda's singing, even post-Sonny. And what a beauty!

 

Paradise is very different from the others; 'very funk-like aside from Linda and Sonny's contributions.' Easily one of my favorite recordings ever.

 

While I like MPP, I much prefer Paradise, though I like the latter and Black Woman to about the same degree. Water (IIRC) also put out a CD of Paradise some time back.

 

I've only heard a couple of her post-Sonny recordings.
There's also a Herbie Mann set with them from c. the late 60s that came out for the first time several years ago.

 

The few well known photographs of Monk wearing glasses suggests that perhaps Monk was also one of the many professional musicians who was a little vain to wear glasses on stage and in most of his professional career. Like many from his generation, contacts were very difficult to maintain and manage and too risky to wear on stage, as minor slips in the lens could cause much pain and interrupt a performance.

It wasn't just vanity though, as performers and actors who wore glasses were often mocked and ridiculed, and could not gain widespread acceptance.

So maybe Monk was among the many for whom the stage and the audience were just a blur. The list of musicians who had this problem is very long, and includes many of the most famous names.

 

Against that background, his glasses add more to the intimacy of the image on the Mosaic box than I realized!

 

I'm not much of a Rupert Holmes fan, but this seems appropriate...

 

Lucky Thompson In Paris 1956

 

For the beginning of my second day back to work...


Herbie Hancock ‎– Takin' Off
Label:
Blue Note ‎– CDP 7243 8 37643 2 7, Blue Note ‎– 7243 8 37643 2 7
Format:
CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:
US
Released:
1996

 

Some yesterday listening. My all time favorite record.

 

In the 1950's it was GiGi
In the 1960's it was GoGo
Today it is GaGa

 

And in the 1980s, it was Kajagoogoo
Whatever happened to Kajagoogoo?
Not at my house, however...
Goo-goo gaga...

 

Hank Mobley "Roll Call" Blue Note Japan 24bit by RVG cd.

Lots of energy in that recording space

 

Let's not forget also in the 1960s Goo Goo g'joob

 

Blue Note BST 81562 - Horace Silver " The Stylimgs Of Silver" - rec. 19*57 - Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

 

'WHO says that Lol Coxhill "never had any hits?"'

 

Blue Note BST 84017 . Horace Silver Blowin' The Blues Away" - rec. 1959 - Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder

 

Anyone familiar with Our Swimmer Records out of Germany? Was interested in a few of their reissues but don't know much about them or the quality / source of their pressings.