Tag: Beverly MA
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Stray Cats, Stray Cats / Pin Up, 1981 on Arista
This was their debut album – after forming in NY they moved to the UK and this was first released there in early 1981. It wasn’t released in the US until after Built for Speed, which included six of the tracks from this debut. Produced by Dave Edmunds and the band. The cover and spine…
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Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, 1984 on Sire
It’s hard to overstate how critical this album and movie were – the impact on live music films, the impact on shows themselves (in staging and effects) and just the music itself. I recall it running for a very long time at the Uptown movie theater in Minneapolis – alternating Friday and Saturday nights with…
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The New Stan Getz Quartet Featuring Astrud Gilberto, Getz Au Go Go, 1964 on Verve
Sadly, Gilberto died this summer (June 5, 2023) – I tend to buy any albums I run across from the Getz / Gilberto collaborations or that feature her. Recorded at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village and Carnegie Hall in 1964 – how great it would have been to have seen these shows!…
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Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964 on Columbia
My copy (via Beverly Coin & Jewel) is a later reissue – the red and gold Columbia labels from the seventies rather than the “2 eye” version in the sixties and marking suggesting it was pressed at Carrollton with metalwork from Terre Haute. This was Dylan’s third LP and is often seen as his turn…
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Johnny Hodges and Earl “Fatha” Hines, Stride Right, 1966 on Verve.
Produced by Creed Taylor, and recorded January 14th, 1966 at Rudy Van Gelder’s in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Hodges (alto sax) and Hines (piano & organ) are joined by Kenny Burrell (guitar), Richard Davis (bass), and Joe Marshall (drums). My cop via Beverly Coin & Jewelry, which has a surprisingly strong and curated vinyl selection.
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Session at Riverside, 1957 on Capitol
Follow up (of sorts) to 1956’s “Session at Midnight” recorded in Hollywood – this one recorded at the Riverside Plaza ballroom in New York. A dozen top jazzmen join forces in a free-and-easy session that swings solidly all the way Bill Coss (liner notes) Players include Coleman Hawkins, Jerry Jerome, Earl Warren, Charlie Shavers, Dave…
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Various Artists, Live! for Life, 1986 on I.R.S. Records.
Various Artists, Live! for Life, 1986 on I.R.S. Records. Benefit album for the AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver- executive producer Miles Copeland (brother of Stewart and Ian, founder of IRS Records). Great mid-80s (mostly) live compilation – not a single concert but a collection of unreleased tracks via Soundtracks, Beverly MA
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Talking Heads, Little Creatures, 1985 on Sire.
Talking Heads, Little Creatures, 1985 on Sire. I do not believe there is a weak record in the Talking Heads discography. This gem from ’85 included And She Was, Stay Up Late, and Road To Nowhere via Soundtracks in Beverly MA
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Paul Desmond, Summertime, 1969 on A&M / CTI.
Paul Desmond, Summertime, 1969 on A&M / CTI. Desmond wrote “Take Five” and played with the Dave Brubeck Quartet as well as Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker. CtI was an A&M imprint started by Creed Taylor The cover of Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da alone is worth the price of admission but I also love the Someday My…
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Run D.M.C., Raising Hell, 1986 on Profile
Run D.M.C., Raising Hell, 1986 on Profile My copy is a 2017 reissue by Get On Down Run D.M.C.’s third album,, produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin – the first Platinum and multiplatinum hip hop album. Walk this way, You Be Illin’, It’s Tricky, so many key songs. Via Soundtracks, in Beverly MA
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Talking Heads, Talking Heads: 77, 1977 on Sire.
Talking Heads, Talking Heads: 77, 1977 on Sire. Based on the street address in the rim text, an early 80s pressing – super excited to find an early pressing in the wild at Soundtracks in Beverly There is no such thing as a bad Talking Heads album
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Saturday, October 27th, 2018 – Billy F. Gibbons at the Cabot
Billy F. Gibbons at the Cabot Theatre in Beverly