Abdullah Ibrahim: Water From An Ancient Well (1985) Blackhawk

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Grachan Moncur III: Evolution (1963) Blue Note (updates on Ebay replica Blue Notes)

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Ultimate Audio Revolution!

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Remember the Cassette Revolution? Every few decades technical advances have claimed to improve the quality and convenience of music audio formats. After the ground-breaking unbreakable microgroove 33rpm LP, we saw the audio cassette, then the Compact Disc, and the Download, … Continue reading →

Mobley 1568 Shootout: Gunfight at the UK Corral

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Sorry, no original 1568, send me if you have one surplus to requirements, ha ha. Four “affordable” editions of Mobley 1568: King, Toshiba-EMI, Classic Records, and Music Matters Jazz, a four-way shoot-out which addresses the perplexed, cash-strapped collector and audiophile … Continue reading →

Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid (1971) Universal 2022

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Selection: Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt (Lower Egypt, extract) .  .  . Track List A1. Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt  – 16:12B1. Japan   – 3:22B2. Aum/Venus/Capricorn Rising  – 14:46 Artists Pharoah Sanders, tenor, alto sax, piccolo, voice; Dave Burrell, piano; Sonny Sharrock … Continue reading →

Lee Morgan: indeed! (1956) Blue Note1538 – King, Japan 1979

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Selection: Gaza Strip (Marshall) .  .  . Track List  A1. Roccus (Silver) – 8:18A2. Reggie of Chester (Golson) – 4:55A3. The Lady (Owen Marshall) – 6:47B1. Little T. (Byrd) – 8:23B2. Gaza Strip (Owen Marshall) – 3:56B3. Stand By (Golson) … Continue reading →

Lee Morgan: Vol.2 (1956) Blue Note1541 – King, Japan 1979

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Selection: Whisper Not (Golson)                                                                          … Continue reading →

Enrico Rava: Katcharpari (1973) BASF

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Selection 1: Katcharpari .  .  . Selection 2: Bunny’s Pie/ Trial N5 .  .  . (These two tracks merge without a Separator groove, so two together) Track list A1 Bunny’s Pie 2:00 A2 Trial N. 6:10 A3 Dimenticare Stanca 9:07 … Continue reading →

Howard McGhee: Dusty Blue (1960) New Land reissue (2022)

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Selection: Park Avenue Petite (Golson) .  .  . Artists Howard McGhee, trumpet; Bennie Green, trombone; Roland Alexander, tenor saxophone; Pepper Adams, baritone saxophone; Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Walter Bolden, drums; recorded NYC, June 13, 1960 Track List A1 … Continue reading →

Rudolph Johnson: Spring Rain (1971) Black Jazz

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Harry Beckett: Joy Unlimited (1974) Cadillac – remastered 2020

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Selections: brought to you direct from vinyl, via Avid Acutus Reference TT, SME arm, Dynavector TKR cart, custom-built valve pre and power amp, final stage tape out to Citrix DAC/ upload to WordPress embedded player at 320kbps. Sounds pretty good … Continue reading →

“Better Records/Hot Stampers”/Well-Recorded Jazz

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Vinyl collector culture, an LJC Public Interest post, . Better Records And  Hot Stampers  are an American record selling company, based on the premise that old records can sound dramatically better than ones made today.  I had heard of them … Continue reading →

Blue Note’s Unsung Heroes: The Microphones

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A change from record reviews, I decided to take some time out to explore one of the reasons, possibly the main reason, why vintage Blue Note recordings sound as good as they do. Yes, brilliant musicians, yes, Van Gelder at … Continue reading →

Sonny Clark: Leapin’ and Lopin’ (1961) Toshiba/EMI 1983

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Selection 1: Somethin’ Special (Clark):  .  .  . Selection 2: Midnight Mambo (Clark)  .  .  . Artists Tommy Turrentine, trumpet; Charlie Rouse, tenor sax, except Ike Quebec (A2); Sonny Clark, piano; Butch Warren, bass; Billy Higgins, drums; recorded Van Gelder … Continue reading →

Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah (1977) India Navigation (grey reissue)

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Following on from Alice Coltrane’s Ptah El Daoud, LJC takes a  second look into the murky world of unofficial bootleg vinyl, Pharoah Sander’s 1977 India Navigation title  Pharoah. Sometimes you just have to go with what’s available rather than what’s … Continue reading →

Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc: Live at Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972) Strata East

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Selection: Truth (Tolliver) .  .  . Track List A1. Grand Max (Tolliver) – 11:06A2. Truth – (Tolliver) 10:13B1. Prayer for Peace (Stanley Cowell) – 15:08C1. Our Second Father (Tolliver)  15:57D1. Repetition (Neal Hefti) – 12:37 The track “Our Second Father” … Continue reading →

Pyramid pieces 1, Australia (1969-79) compilation, The Roundtable 2020

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  Selection: People Make The World Go Round – Peter Gaudion’s Blues Express (9:15) … Artists – selection; PG’s Blues Express Peter Gaudion, trumpet;  Richard Miller, saxophone; Mal Wilkinson, trombone; Vic Connor, Piano; Derek Capewell, bass; Allan Browne, percussion; recorded … Continue reading →

Dick Morrissey: It’s Morrissey, MAN! (1961) Fontana

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  Selection B2: Happy Feet (Yellen, Ager) 3:05 .  .  . Selection A2: Cherry Blue (Bill Le Sage) 3:21 .  .  . Track List A1. St. Thomas (Rollins)  3:51A2. Cherry Blue (B Le Sage)  3:21A3. A Bench In The Park … Continue reading →

Richard Davis/Freddie Hubbard: Muses for Richard Davis (1969) MPS (Jp. 1974 TP)

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Selection: Milk train (Knepper) .  .  . Artists Freddie Hubbard, trumpet; Jimmy Knepper, trombone; Jerry Dodgion, alto sax; Eddie Daniels, tenor sax; Pepper Adams, baritone sax; Roland Hanna, piano; Richard Davis, bass; Louis Hayes, drums; recorded at MPS Studios, Villingen/Black … Continue reading →

Lee Morgan: Take Twelve (1962) Jazzland/Victor Jp 1978

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  Selection 1: A Waltz For Fran (Morgan) .  .  .  Selection 2 bonus: Lee-Sure Time (Morgan) .  .  . Track List Raggedy Ann (Morgan) 6:49A Waltz For Fran (Morgan) 4:56Lee-Sure Time (Morgan) 8:30Little Spain (Clifford Jordan) 7:49Take Twelve (Elmo … Continue reading →

Forty Seven Times Its Own Weight: Cumulo Nimbus (Fable 1975) Jazzman (2019)

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Mid-week mildly off-piste post, LJC  wanders briefly off the golden path heading into the fonky mid-70s’, in search of new land, in this case, Austin, Texas. Selection: Weedhopper (Skiles) .  . . Track List A1  WeedhopperA2  March Of The Goober … Continue reading →

Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-72) Decca Sampler (2021)

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MID-WEEK MUSIC SPOT: Modern Jazz in Britain 1965-72 LJC change of process: this is a 2xLP sampler, so I have taken a sample of the samples Sounds fair, no? True to my mission: searching for original  first pressings, because they … Continue reading →

Dadisi Komolafe: Hassan’s Walk (1983) Nimbus West

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A Midweek Jazz post, for a change, a record LJC feels quite enthusiastic about. Artists  Dadisi Komolafe (Arthur Wells), alto saxophone, flute; Roberto Miranda, bass; Sunship Theus, drums;  Eric Tillman, piano; Rickey Kelly, vibraphone, recorded Los Angeles, October 1983, engineers  Dennis … Continue reading →

Woody Shaw: Stepping Stones Live at Village Vanguard (1978) Columbia

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  This record fails all the High-end Jazz Collector tick-boxes. It is not in the slightest rare, costs almost nothing, but contains some excellent music from some fine musicians from the late 1970s, which has withstood the fickle test of … Continue reading →

Harold Vick: Don’t Look Back (1974) Strata East (Re 2018)

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Selection: Lucille .  .  . Artists Harold Vick, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, bass clarinet; Virgil Jones, trumpet, flugelhorn (A1-A3); Kiane Zawadi, euphonium ( A1-A3); Joe Bonner, electric piano, piano, percussion, tuba; George Davis, guitar, flute (A1-B1); Sam Jones, bass … Continue reading →