#NowPlaying #jazz 1975. Picked this up w/out ever hearing it based on names involved. Opening track has some spoken word poetry & last track closes w the whole group having what sounds like a full on celebration. In between is some great free playing w thundering drums

#vinyl #Jazz couldn’t stay away from a record fair happening yesterday. For some reason all the good deals were Japanese & 70s blue notes that I didn’t have

#vinyl #jazz everything I grabbed in Montreal. Despite what it looks like kept it pretty light. 3 or less records per store & every record under 30 CAD whatever that coverts too. But def wanted to spend a lot more at aux 33 tours tho…

#vinyl #jazz ended up w less time than hoped to record shop in Montreal. Hit up 4 stores but didn’t make it out to a few that were farther from downtown. Cie la vie…(lol). Aux 33 tours was huge highlight should have just started there. Freesons had an ecm section! Rest a bit meh

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1975 Japan Reissue. A Paul Bley classic. Also will be in Paul Bley’s hometown (Montreal) for a couple days if anyone has any record store recommendations there

#Jazz #vinyl Labor Day weekend pick ups. The Stephen McCraven-Sam Rivers album was completely new to me as of a couple weeks ago but got obsessed w it pretty quickly. A local store had a copy & made a couple Discogs sales to be able to afford it

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. Happy birthday Art Pepper! Very good later career album. Doesn’t quite hit the high point of Today’s Patricia but is a really nice album. Red Mitchell’s bass playing on here especially adds a really nice dark foreboding touch to the ballads

#NowPIaying #jazz 1973 us stereo reissue. Happy birthday Kenny Dorham. An all time great. This is his blue note album I was slowest to come around on oddly. Title track was a little too going for sidewinder and rest never fully clicked. Has now tho. And Hancock on this esp

#NowPlaying #jazz Running thru 3 of the greatest blue note albums this afternoon. Have always viewed these 3 as a trilogy of sorts & finally got a 70s rvg copy of Destination Out to complete it. Some of the best & still most forward sounding jazz that exists

#NowPlaying #jazz 1982 us. Top tier Waldron w an amazing group here. 1st song let’s Jordan go just about hard bop swing mode for a bit & then things get darker & go deep into vintage Waldron territory. McBee is great on here as usual

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. No idea what Farrell/label were thinking w this album cover art. Has a very “hey there fellow kids” feel but album is very good. Farrell stays on tenor sax & Chick Corea joins mostly in non-fusion hard bop mode w a little electric piano mixed in

#NowPlaying #Jazz early 60s stereo reissue. Happy Birthday Wayne Shorter! His very first as leader. Definitely more Coltrane influence sounding than what his later sound and songwriting would be but this is very good hard bop album

#NowPlaying #jazz 1970 us. Sunday morning wife is out of town so I can play whatever I want in the morning music.

#nowplaying #jazz 1981 us. 1st ever listen to this. Don’t think it’s on streaming tho can buy digital from artist’s Bandcamp! Really nice stuff. Berne is def very Julius Hemphill influenced here but some very interesting compositions w plenty of room for each musician involved

#vinyl #Jazz pickups at Autumn Records in Winooski, VT. Would have grabbed more but I’m kinda broke. Only 1 ecm from their ecm section but it’s one I’ve never seen before. Tho tbh a bit scared of it (I’ve never actually listened) but love the very non-ecm cover art.

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1976/77 Germany repress. One of the very best ecm records. An absolute classic. Combo of Rivers & Braxton works perfectly on these Holland compositions. Can’t understate how good Altschul is too, even appears on marimba. Amazing stuff

#jazz #vinyl Weekend pickups. Failed again at staying away from record stores. First 3 are represses or reissues (Dorham Japanese pressing obvs) so weren’t that expensive and all of the records after that were all bargain bin grabs..

#NowPlaying #jazz 1983 us. Possibly my favorite of the sextet(t) albums. Doesn’t quite swing as much as pass the bucked but has some of his most interesting compositions imo. Really great stuff!

#NowPlaying #jazz 1978 Italy. Prob the hardest anyone has ever looked on a jazz album cover. Great great album. Always mesmerized by Abdul Wadud’s cello playing on the final song on this

#NowPlaying️ #jazz 1971 us. Sunday morning music. Absolute classic imo. Balances modal & spiritual jazz adds just a touch of electric instruments & even vocals on a song. 1 of if not his very best. Too lazy to make a top 10 jazz list but this 1 might have made it on mine

#NowPlaying️ 2025 purple variant. Should be a national holiday each year (or more than once a year)- Osees, Thee Oh Sees, etc. album release day. Another psych-punk/synth-punk scorcher here

#NowPlaying #jazz 1976 Japan. Friday morning music. Booker Little 4 & Max Roach. Great group, great album

#vinyl #Jazz Recent cheap pick ups. Do I need need any of these? prob not, but all were good prices (only 1 over $10 the George Lewis) and all looked really interesting. Need an intervention!

#NowPlaying #jazz 1979 us. Sunday morning music. This combo of McBee & Chico Freeman made some of my very favorite jazz music. Don Pullen is added here for a rare McBee led studio session. This was not cheap but never thought I’d see it in wild. Really top tier spiritual jazz

#Jazz #vinyl On a budget and have floor piles galore but still raided the dollar bins of a local store. Not sure if any of these are good but all looked kinda interesting

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Lewis the Light has hundreds of badly recorded and half baked albums you can buy from Bandcamp or even download for free!! Or just get on there & support other real artists making good music!

#NowPlaying #jazz early 70s repress w alternate title. Original title is better imo tho. A top tier west coast jazz album. Land’s debut as leader. Includes the great Carl Perkins who wrote the song Grooveyard. Also Watts tower on cover!

#Jazz #vinyl was in Dallas(ish) for work (grapevine). Went to a small record fair happening at grapevine convention center then josey records. Night train is UK, Bob James 73 reissue, Monterose Japanese, & Jarrett/DeJohnette German. Been after Ralph Peterson album for a bit

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1976 Poland. Prob most fun album I got in Budapest. Amazing jazz fusion / prog at times. Others can probably explain sound better but to me it’s like a funky Eastern Euro Return to Forever. Has mostly wordless vocals in parts that function as another instrument.

#NowPlaying #jazz 1980 Poland. Some nice Polish fusion jazz. Bit on the smooth side but Namyslowski is an interesting player so keeps it from being too smooth. A lot of nice guitar work on here too. Would cite the name of the guitarist but way too lazy to deal w auto-correct

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1977 us. RIP Hal Galper. He’s got a number of great ones & played on a bunch of other great stuff but this 1 here is an all timer for me. Crazy good lineup & compositions. Harnesses Hino, McBee, & Williams to create an incredibly cohesive & amazing album

#NowPlaying #jazz 1965 us mono. Hbd Carmell Jones! Really great session on prestige. Doesn’t quite have the magic he had w Harold Land w Jimmy Heath but very high quality mid 60s hard bop

#NowPlaying #jazz 1967 us stereo. Brown doesn’t get enough credit for the run he went on at the beginning of his career. This 1 is an offshoot of Shepp’s Four for Trane from year before. 3 Brown songs & 3 Shepp songs that fit together seamlessly. Tremendous band here too

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1972 France. Waldron w Steve Lacy’s group. A lot of cacophony on the 1st song then into calmer waters on back half of side 1. Blue Wee on side 2 is where the group really hits their stride a big highlight for Waldron and Lacy’s long long history of recordings

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1973 us. An 11/10 early morning chill album. Ups the groove a bit on swamp demon (great song name) but mostly sticks to an introspective spiritual mode w some Latin touches

#Jazz #vinyl Record fair pickups today. Tried to keep it relatively light #’s-wise cuz shelves are full & bank account is empty. Never seen this McBee before. Prince Lasha & Tolliver are Japanese copies. Always really liked the weirdness of the ringer Japanese cover art.

#NowPlaying️ #jazz 1985 Japan stereo reissue. Sunday morning music setting sail. A real jazz classic. I like 1 or 2 of his other blue notes a little better but this is def the very 1st I’d recommend of his to someone new to jazz

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1985 us dmm stereo reissue. Last jazz messengers album recorded for blue note. Tho earlier recorded albums would come out later on the label. Not at the top of list for the band but still a very good one. Like the 2 Fuller songs on side a especially

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1986 Italy. 1st Jemeel Moondoc album I’ve picked up & is really great. Passed by it a few times before actually looking at the lineup. Real top tier 80s jazz. Toes the line between avant garde & some pretty swinging playing. 3 moondoc originals + a monk song

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1968 us no rvg. Happy Birthday to Lee Morgan! One of the greatest to ever do it. This is one of his best imo. Also was thinking about w all the saxophonists he worked w the stuff w Shorter is prob my fav of his. A lot of what ifs since he died too young…

#NowPlaying #Jazz late 70s white b stereo reissue no rvg. Weekday evening blue note. Was after any non scorpio copy of this for a while. Big Blue Mitchell fan so cool to hear him on this McLean blue note. McLean is in full on hard bop mode here before he would journey out

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1983 Japan. Somehow had never heard this one before nor realized Tina Brooks is on it. Really great album that (McLean esp) pushes past hard bop. Someday there will no longer be any more new to me amazing blue note sessions, or more likely I’ll die before then

#vinyl #Jazz took stack of albums to trade at store yesterday mostly to get kwanza but lucked into 1 nice buyer at amoeba so had bit extra trade-in money. Bought last 1 (a comp of bands saw at least half live) cuz description. Def have jean jacket & black levi 512’s in my closet

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1980 us. Happy birthday to Hank Mobley. Likely am only 1 w this opinion but think this is his greatest album. Not released until 1980. Includes Woody Shaw on trumpet & maybe some of the most emotive songwriting & playing of his career esp the 3-part title track

#Jazz #vinyl If anyone has any money left after holiday weekend have some extra ecm albums for sale. All w sleeves- vinyl vg+ or better. Last 2 both have 1 mark that causes tics. Will knock off few $’s on Discogs price if buy direct. US shipping only. Dm or comment if interested

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1975 us. Sunday morning music. Really can’t make a piano trio album much better imo. 3 of possibly the best jazz artists ever at each of their instruments making amazing music

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1980 UK. The answer to the album title right now is definitely “no”…, but a big “yes” to this album! One of his best imo

#NowPIaying #Jazz 1977 us. Possibly since sound harkens back to early 70s/late 60s post-bop this 1 kinda gets overlooked but is a great album. Headlined by 2 masters & also includes a great 70s west coast based band. Highlight is Kirk Lightsey’s song Habiba & Land’s solo on it

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1973 Poland. 1 of ~3 Polish Jazz albums was aware of when in Budapest & Vienna, so instant grab when I saw it. An amazingly inventive album. All long multi-part songs w rhythmic builds & Coltrane-esque sax soaring. + Namyslowski plays alto, cello & piano!

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1971 us. A great album by the Harold Land - Bobby Hutcherson partnership. Lets up a bit on the early 70s fusion & sits itself in really nice extended song modal jazz territory. Land’s sound is very Coltrane influenced but also still uniquely his own here.