You guys are tripping on some labels ... or need to dig deeper ... so much good shit on Spring: Joneses, Act 1, Winifield Parker, Street People, Flower Shoppe, Little Eva, Millie Jackson, Don Williams, Lou Jackson ...
Definitely agree with Raer Earth, so much horn rock crap.
The Pretty Things
XIT
Power Of Zeus
And the band Rare Earth has some jams.
Toe Fat
Lost Nation
there's more
Rustix
Dennis Stoner
The Crystal Mansion
Are any of these seriously good albums? I've heard more than half and the only one I can actually say I'd keep in my collection is the SF Sorrow LP.
I just pulled the Power of Zeus and put it in my "to sell" pile.
Tell me why any of these albums mentioned are worthwhile, I dare you
I'd have to say neither are solid LP's but I do like 3 or 4 tracks on the Stoner and 1 or 2 on the Mansion. Lost Nation is a solid listen for me. SF Sorrow is by far the best LP of course.
cosine on:
-inner city
-vanguard (the james moody and elvin jones lps are the best i have heard and they are mediocre at best)
-ecm (with the exception of about 5 titles already mentioned... i think that dauner "output" is the grail, never seen that one).
i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..
SOI: goign to start checking for those spring titles you mentioned. thanks for dropping some knowledge on that.
You guys are tripping on some labels ... or need to dig deeper ... so much good shit on Spring: Joneses, Act 1, Winifield Parker, Street People, Flower Shoppe, Little Eva, Millie Jackson, Don Williams, Lou Jackson ...
Is that the same Street People that is usually found on the Vigor label?
I agree, Spring is not a complete dud, there is heat to be found. Cosign on Winfield Parker! The amount is subjective I suppose.
i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um romao spring to mind..
Yes! I've slept on Pablo for years on end. Real quality stuff in there. Slightly off topic but why are all Perception releases i buy always bad quality pressings? Bad luck?
i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..
i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..
I usually find Mainstream quite disappointing. I have a handful of good ones (Hadley Caliman's are a personal fave), but you'd think some of the guys on the label (Harold Land, Roy Haynes) would deliver better stuff than they did.
I have a great solo Joe Pass LP on Pablo (Virtuoso #2) that I picked up on the cheap. Q-Tip even took a sample off the record.
I was going to write a post defending Pablo in the same style as my post for ECM.
Pablo has many, perhaps dozens, of Joe Pass lps. They are all great, even the ones that have yet to be sampled.
I think there are one or two 'funky' Pablos that have not been mentioned, but that is not what the label is about.
Pablo had a rotating cast of musicians, like Ray Brown and Joe Pass plus they had all the great still living jazz musicians that no other label wanted record, like Ella, Duke, Dizzy.
Most of the lps are different pairings of these musicians in chamber jazz like settings.
All are worthy of a spin or three, to me.
other good ecm lp's, especially if you consider JAPO part of it which it sort of wasn't:
-steve kuhn and sheila jordan ones
-mal waldron- the call
-magog
-children at play
-enrico rava
-dave liebman lookout farm
-percussion profiles
-bobby naughton units
-evening of a georgia faun
as for mainstream, the best stuff is actually the psych records from the late 60's but despite the generally awful covers (those stanky, ragged headphones!!) there are plenty of great jazz titles on that red lion imprint...
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Dennis Stoner
Are any of these seriously good albums? I've heard more than half and the only one I can actually say I'd keep in my collection is the SF Sorrow LP.
I just pulled the Power of Zeus and put it in my "to sell" pile.
Tell me why any of these albums mentioned are worthwhile, I dare you
-inner city
-vanguard (the james moody and elvin jones lps are the best i have heard and they are mediocre at best)
-ecm (with the exception of about 5 titles already mentioned... i think that dauner "output" is the grail, never seen that one).
i actually think pablo has some decent stuff despite the dreary cover art and utter commonness: al gaffa, the dizzy gillespie ones, freddie hubbard live at north sea, oscar peterson silent partner ost, and dom um roma spring to mind..
SOI: goign to start checking for those spring titles you mentioned. thanks for dropping some knowledge on that.
Don't sleep on Parachute, I actually like it more than SF Sorrow.
common Crab
Is that the same Street People that is usually found on the Vigor label?
I agree, Spring is not a complete dud, there is heat to be found. Cosign on Winfield Parker! The amount is subjective I suppose.
Not to mention John Coltrane and Jorge Ben.
This one is pretty worthwhile also:
Co-sign Buddah. I like some of the folk they put out and they put out some good stuff for Curtis Mayfield but for the most part
Also I got a burner off of Hot Wax once, so I kept picking up 45s hoping it would happen again... it didn't.
this one's fantastic too
I was going to write a post defending Pablo in the same style as my post for ECM.
Pablo has many, perhaps dozens, of Joe Pass lps. They are all great, even the ones that have yet to be sampled.
I think there are one or two 'funky' Pablos that have not been mentioned, but that is not what the label is about.
Pablo had a rotating cast of musicians, like Ray Brown and Joe Pass plus they had all the great still living jazz musicians that no other label wanted record, like Ella, Duke, Dizzy.
Most of the lps are different pairings of these musicians in chamber jazz like settings.
All are worthy of a spin or three, to me.
-steve kuhn and sheila jordan ones
-mal waldron- the call
-magog
-children at play
-enrico rava
-dave liebman lookout farm
-percussion profiles
-bobby naughton units
-evening of a georgia faun
as for mainstream, the best stuff is actually the psych records from the late 60's but despite the generally awful covers (those stanky, ragged headphones!!) there are plenty of great jazz titles on that red lion imprint...