Author Topic: An Afternoon At The Crack House  (Read 280717 times)

jsaliga

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #270 on: August 19, 2011, 07:24:57 AM »
Let's try this again.  Last night all I wanted to do was post some Lester Young suggestions for Tom and Gene.  I fought the forum software for about 15 minutes trying to get that done and then said to hell with it.  It was taking more of my time than it was worth.

There are five CD packages that I can strongly recommend and another worth checking out if you are on a budget.  These will net you most of Young's recordings with Count Basie (on Decca and Columbia) and then some small group sessions for Aladdin, Savoy, and Verve.  This is some of the most important music in my jazz library.




This 3 CD set collects everything that Count Basie recorded for Decca from 1937 to 1939 with Lester Young as the featured Tenor soloist.  Some of best tenor solos Young ever played are on this set and it should be considered required listening for any jazz fan.




Somewhat less important is this 4 CD boxed set of Count Basie's Columbia sides.  Lester Young left the Basie band in 1940 so his playing is featured on the first of the four discs.  The set is still worthwhile because the music is great throughout.




This 2 CD set issued by Blue Note collects everything that Young recorded for Aladdin.  This set features some of Young's best recordings in a small group setting, in sessions between 1945 and 1947.  I consider this a must own set.




This 2 CD package features Young's recordings for Savoy, mostly in 1944 (big bands), and from 1948 to 1949 in small groups  Also required listening, though by the late 1940s Young was different kind of tenor player.  Still great in my opinion, but not the same man that he was when he played in the Basie band.  You can read his bios on Wikipedia and Allmusic for some perspective on changes to his playing in the post-Basie years.




Much has been said about how Young's tenor playing had gone into decline after his horrible experience in the Army.  I don't agree with it.  Young's playing in his later years was tempered and shaped by some rough times.  His later playing was more emotionally dark.  But I find it brilliant music none the less.  This 8 CD box set containing all of Young's recordings for Norman Granz is now out of print, but if you manage to find a copy at a reasonable price I would recommend that you buy it.  The recordings that Young did with Teddy Wilson and Harry Edison alone make the set worthwhile.  On disc 8 there are some interviews of Young in the early 1940s and in the mid 1950s a few years before he died.  The contrast is striking, from exuberance to bitterness.




If you are on a shoestring budget and want to get a taste of Young's brilliance in a variety of settings then give this 4 CD Proper Box a try.  You can usually find it on Amazon for about $15.  The sound quality is mostly pretty good for such a budget priced set.

--Jerome
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #271 on: August 19, 2011, 07:28:19 AM »
Awesome post Jerome. Thanks for trying again. I will be grabbing some of these.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #272 on: August 19, 2011, 08:06:42 AM »
Have to track some of those down - thx J.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #273 on: August 19, 2011, 11:10:03 AM »
Last night all I wanted to do was post some Lester Young suggestions for Tom and Gene.

And the hunt begins....... [-o<

Thanks Jerome.  :thumb:
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #274 on: August 19, 2011, 04:05:21 PM »
I ordered 3 more 45RPM 180g Impulse reissues from Acoustic Sounds today:

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves - Salt and Pepper
McCoy Tyner - Night of Blues and Ballads
Johnny Hartman - The Voice that Is

And I also found an original Aladdin 78 of Lester Young performing D.B. Blues on eBay today for a reasonable price.  If the seller's description holds up it should be a nice one.

--Jerome
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #275 on: August 19, 2011, 09:14:47 PM »
Another Lester Young "single Cd" that is excellent....with the Oscar Peterson Trio... :thumb:



http://www.amazon.com/Lester-Young-Oscar-Peterson-Trio/dp/B0000047D9/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1313813412&sr=1-1

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #276 on: August 20, 2011, 04:32:43 PM »
Found 2 of Jerome's suggestions today;

The Complete Verve series  and the Complete Savoy series.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #277 on: August 21, 2011, 03:37:09 PM »
Meet a friend at the Rock and Roll HOF this week, we also made 5 vinyl stops
here's what I came home with.



1. Best of Wishbone Ash         German
2. Roxy Music ~ Country Music
3. Talking Heads ~ Little Creatures
4. Robert Fripp And The League Of Crafty Guitarists ~ Live
5. Maggie Bell ~ Queen Of The Night         For Paul
6. Al Kooper ~ Naked Songs
7. The New Searchers LP ~ Chris John Mike Frank
8. SRC
9. Van Der Graaf Generator ~ The Areosal Grey Machine  (New Vinyl)
10. The Bobby Fuller Four ~ I Fought The Law                  (New Vinyl)
11. The Bee Gees' 1st
12. Illusion ~ Out Of The Mist
13. Quicksilver ~ Self Titled
14. Ray Manzarek ~ The Golden Scarab
15. The Rolling Stones        1976 Japanese Pressing of 1st LP
16. The Buckinghams ~ In One Ear And Gone Tomorrow
17. The Magnificent Men ~ The World Of Soul

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #278 on: August 24, 2011, 05:06:25 AM »
New vinyl buys...

Ben Webster - Gentle Ben (200g AP Quality Record Pressings)
Sonny Rollins Plus 4 (Analogue Productions 180g 45 RPM Prestige reissue)
Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time (Music Matters 180g 45 RPM Blue Note reissue)
Clifford Jordan - Cliff Craft (Music Matters 180g 45 RPM Blue Note reissue)

I was hoping to find an original pressing of Sonny Rollins Plus 4 but then I remembered that Analogue Productions had a 45 RPM reissue on 180g vinyl that is out of print and in limited supply so I bought that instead.

And finally...

Mosaic Records - The Complete Commodore Records Jazz Recordings (3 boxed sets on 66 vinyl LPs)

I have seen this collection sell for as much as $500 per boxed set when they do come up for sale.  I got all three sets for $750.  A lot of this music has not been issued on CD, and the only way other than this to get it all is to buy 78s (good luck trying to find them).

--Jerome

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #279 on: August 24, 2011, 05:07:45 AM »
"Mosaic Records - The Complete Commodore Records Jazz Recordings (3 boxed sets on 66 vinyl LPs)"

66 records?!?

How you doing for storage space?
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #280 on: August 24, 2011, 06:28:08 AM »
I have plenty of room in my basement.

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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #281 on: August 27, 2011, 01:51:51 PM »
Someone needs to take my drivers license away

First the imports
1. Don Mclean ~ Alle Hits                 Dutch
2. Sweet ~ It's It's....Sweets Hits      UK
3. The Kinks ~ Live At Kelvin Hall     UK
4. John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band/ Elephants Memory ~ Some Time In New York         Japanese

Promo LP's
1. Stanley Turnentine ~ Inflation
2. Paul winter ~ Earth Dance
3. McKendree Spring ~ Too Young To Feel This Old          
4. Jimi Hendrix ~ Band Of Gypsys 2

Colored Vinyl
1. Cal Tjader ~ Tjader Plays Mambo     Red vinyl
2. Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen           Red Vinyl

Now the rest
1. Cheap Trick ~ Standing On The Edge
2. The Youngbloods ~ Elephant Mountain    For my friend Bill in Maryland
3. Al Stewart ~ The Early Years
4. Mouth & McNeal ~ How Do You Do        Thought this might be fun
5. Horslips ~ The Book Of Invasions A Celtic Symphony
6. Yehudi Menuhin  Ravi Shankar ~ East Meets West
7. Best Of Keith Jarrett
8. Niles Lofgren
9. Stevie Nicks ~ The Other Side Of The Mirror
10. Sergio Mendes ~ Brazil 86
11. Little Feat ~ The Last Record Album
12. The Moody Blues ~ Caught Live + 5
13. Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin & Paco De Lucia ~ Friday Night In San Francisco
14. Be-Bop Delxe ~ Sunburst Finish
15. Earl Grant ~ Spotlight on Earl Grant
16. Creedence Clearwater Revival ~ Creedence Gold
17. Paul Winter ~ Rio
18. The Paul Winter Sextet ~ Jazz Meets The Bosa Nova
19.  Chicago ~ Tronto Rock'N'Roll Revival 1969, Volume 1
20. Jimi Hendrix ~ Crash Landing

Now I'm not going to tell you all what I spent because I don't anyone getting up to kick the dog
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #282 on: September 05, 2011, 04:49:51 AM »
A few audiophile vinyl buys...

Blue Mitchell - Blue's Moods (45RPM 180g Analogue Productions reissue)
Stanley Turrentine - Up at Mintons Vol. 1 (45RPM 180g Analogue Productions reissue)
Jutta Hipp - Jutta Hipp with Zoot Sims (Classic Records 200g reissue)
Dizzy Reece - Star Bright (Classic Records 200g reissue)

and a few vintage records...

Stan Kenton - New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm
Stan Kenton - Cuban Fire!
Stan Kenton - Kenton's West Side Story

--Jerome
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #283 on: September 05, 2011, 07:00:37 AM »
Nice selections with Blue and Stan T.

Now, who is Stan Kenton?

Edit: I found his wiki entry, looks like an interesting figure.
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Re: An Afternoon At The Crack House
« Reply #284 on: September 05, 2011, 07:37:14 PM »
Nice selections with Blue and Stan T.

Now, who is Stan Kenton?

Edit: I found his wiki entry, looks like an interesting figure.

Gene, where would be be without Jerome to help us figure out all these new and exciting ways to spend our money?  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(Hey I lucked out on this one, I already knew who Stan Kenton was and had a few of his recordings, so I don't have to rush out and search for new records - well, this time anyway.  ;) )
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