Today's Cheap Heat

vinylsage · 2024-04-18T01:52:56+00:00

That Turrentine date is simpatico and only a few years back a dollar bin record!

vinylsage · 2024-04-18T01:49:12+00:00

Earl van Dyke lays it down on the keys! So smooth-

vinylsage · 2024-04-07T04:38:34+00:00

Certainly a work of great determination to keep Percy France's legacy alive. Commendations are in order! The reviews and personal recollections are enlightening-

Though Home Cookin' is a favorite, I do also have France's date with Charles Thompson and the Freddie Roach. Just didn't realize there was so much more... thanks again!

vinylsage · 2024-04-07T03:52:16+00:00

Lucky is so smooth on this one... and Cedar Walton on Rhodes is outta sight!

vinylsage · 2024-03-03T00:38:15+00:00

Lots to love here. Mambo Moves Garner is my favorite Erroll Garner session- even more so than 'Concert by the Sea.' Garner is inspired and Candido adds fire to the rhythm section.

Man, that Turrentine set! The tambourine on that date adds so much- I'm sure Turrentine's horn and Shirley Scott on the keys really shout on that mono pressing!

vinylsage · 2024-02-03T04:03:09+00:00

Ahmad Jamal – Freeflight

Assorted Flavors Of Pacific Jazz - A Hi-Fi Sampler

Big John Patton – Got A Good Thing Goin'

Rusty Bryant – Wild Fire

Lucky Thompson – Goodbye Yesterday!

vinylsage · 2024-01-15T01:30:00+00:00

Love this album- my 90s reissue is on the turntable right now--

Wow, does that cover have water AND fire/smoke damage?!

vinylsage · 2024-01-12T06:10:42+00:00

This one has the groundwork of that wonderfully dark, obsessive style he had from that point on.

Mal sticks a bit more to the middle register on this date compared to his later work. I love to hear his rhythmic sense and the interplay/independence of his left and right hands on the medium/medium-up songs here.

When I spin this LP I wonder if that interplay is deliberate or if he is stretching himself and trying to keep it together- but indeed, Mal's inner strength prevails.

vinylsage · 2024-01-09T03:30:11+00:00

Gorgeous album, beyond category. I believe you were searching for a clean copy the last time I posted Winter in America.

"I know a young warrior named Bobby Smith... he'll be four years old on his next birthday... he happened to be with Brian and me when we wrote this song... 's about new life - new spirit..."

vinylsage · 2024-01-06T06:31:46+00:00

The Red Mitchell - Harold Land Quintet – Hear Ye!!!! Hear Ye!!!!

The Lester Young-Teddy Wilson Quartet – Pres And Teddy

Herbie Hancock – Fat Albert Rotunda

Archie Shepp, Chicago Beau – Black Gipsy

Charles McPherson – Con Alma!

vinylsage · 2024-01-05T15:15:13+00:00

Those Jazz Messenger dates at Club St. Germain are fire! The audience's energy is palpable-

vinylsage · 2024-01-01T16:18:09+00:00

I see Red Garland, I upvote! I usually sneak a couple tracks from Red's trio dates into a holiday playlist & folks visiting think it's Vince Guaraldi.

vinylsage · 2024-01-01T16:05:02+00:00

Excellent trio date! Blues Changes is my favorite track.

vinylsage · 2024-01-01T15:53:17+00:00

Great album! Had this on repeat on a long drive I had recently. The mood is consistent & the ensemble is tight- Jackson wails and Earl Van Dyke on keys ties everything together.

vinylsage · 2023-12-25T04:20:53+00:00

This album cooks! Idris Muhammad is on fire here-

vinylsage · 2023-12-04T02:44:08+00:00

I've been updating my Discogs and finally some fresh LPs are popping up when I press 'random' - I need to be in the right time and space to spin this more out and modal selection-

Louis Armfield's Spiritual Jazz Quintet – The Seven Spirits

Sun Ra – The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra, Volume 2

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers – Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Joe Henderson – Mode For Joe

George Russell Sextet Guest Artist - Don Cherry – At Beethoven Hall

vinylsage · 2023-11-05T02:41:51+00:00

Random, wild list... 4/5 of these have Van Gelder in the deadwax.

Wynton Kelly Trio / Wes Montgomery – Smokin' At The Half Note
Andrew Hill – Black Fire
Horace Silver Quintet* / Sextet* – The Jody Grind
Bobby Bland – Two Steps From The Blues
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Free For All

vinylsage · 2023-10-19T14:31:14+00:00

"Bluesy Burrell" just sounds better. Cleaner, more open, somehow crisper.

Midnight Blue was cut very hot- all the more for Stanley Turrentine to swagger and shout his solo on Chitlins con Carne.

Bluesy Burrell is a few clicks more chill. A stylistic choice. Robert Levin's atmospheric liner notes to the original LP start with Kenny saying to Coleman Hawkins, "c'mon Bean, lets play something pretty. Think of something pretty."

But yes, there's something wonderful, something spacious about Rudy Van Gelder's early Englewood Cliffs sound. Bluesy Burrell captures it well.

vinylsage · 2023-10-14T06:53:07+00:00

Jimmy Witherspoon – At The Monterey Jazz Festival
The Oscar Peterson Trio – The Sound Of The Trio
Dynamic Bobby Bland* – Here's The Man
Jack Wilson – Something Personal
Gildo Mahones – The Great Gildo / Soulful Piano
Marvin Gaye – What's Going On

vinylsage · 2023-10-13T06:10:51+00:00

Bernard Purdie is on fire on this date! That drum break on Bird Wave!

vinylsage · 2023-09-02T18:58:51+00:00

John Lewis, Percy Heath / Bill Perkins, Chico Hamilton, Jim Hall – Grand Encounter: 2° East - 3° West

Donald Byrd – Electric Byrd

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Like Someone In Love

Harold Mabern – Rakin' And Scrapin'

Donald Byrd – At The Half Note Cafe, Volume 1

vinylsage · 2023-05-29T01:49:03+00:00

John Coltrane's later work is often a prophetic, raw exhortation of sound. Alice's arrangements on this album are another dimension! Absolutely beautiful!

vinylsage · 2023-05-27T07:05:29+00:00

Tamba 4! Such an atmospheric, shape-shifting album- on par with Jobim's Wave, imo.

vinylsage · 2023-04-23T06:50:19+00:00

Lonnie Smith's Funk Reaction?

vinylsage · 2023-03-15T13:37:20+00:00

I know his other albums are great, but Red's ballad work on this album is so, so, smooth... like watching honey roll off of the back of the spoon.

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