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This was the fourth LP from CCR, and the third released in 1969 (one in January, one in August, and this one in November) – talk about striking…
Van Zandt’s eighth studio album and only one recorded in the 1980s, originally released on the bluegrass label Sugar Hill. I never miss a chance to pick up…
Craft Recordings release from 2021 – but all the original recordings are from the 1950s (and a few from the 40s). Wonderful collection – the Little Richard tracks…
Porter was the staff songwriter for Stax – this was his second full length LP issued under his name, following up Gritty, Groovy, & Gettin’ It. Enterprise was…
Macero is likely best known as the producer of both Bitches Brew and Time Out but he was also a great saxophone player and composer. He made multiple…
Tyner (who plays harpsichord and celeste as well as piano) is joined here by Ron Carter (bass) and Elvin Jones (drums), and the album was produced by Orrin…
In something of the same vein as the West Coast / East Coast rap rivalry of 90s hip hop, the jazz scene in the 50s had a bit…
The labels carry a subtitle of “Ballads by Chet Baker,” and the rear cover suggests “The lyrical trumpet of Chet Baker” but most people just call it Chet….
This was one of my favorite albums of the 1980s (it came out on Slash Records in 1983), and I’ve been looking forever for a decent copy on…
“Stereo Records” was a jazz label made by Contemporary Records in 1958 to push records made with the new-fangled stereo technology: Stereophonic two-channel disc recording utilizing Westrex 45-45…
No, that’s not the same Sugar Hill that put out Rapper’s Delight – it’s a folk/bluegrass label out of North Carolina, later merged in Concord and now Rounder….
Nelson on sax and clarient, with Dolphy also on sax, bass clarinet, and flute, supported by Richard Wyands on piano, George Duvivier on bass, and Roy Haynes on…
My copy is the 2023 reissue by Craft Recordings for Record Store Day. Players: Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, this was Gil Evan’s fist recording as a pianist….
Jones is joined by Grover Washington, Jr, Sonny Phillips, Butch Cornell, Jimmy Lewis, and Bernard Purdie. Recording by Rudy Van Gelder with Bob Porter. Great early seventies soul/jazz…
Jewel, Live at the Inner Change, 2020 on Craft. Record Store Day release from 2020 including a show flyer Early live material from a coffee shop in Pacific…
Lee Morgan Quintet, Take Twelve, 1962 on Jazzland. My copy js a 2021 Craft Record reissue through Vinyl Me, Please classics. Bob Crenshaw, Louis Hayes, Barry Harris, Cliff…
Young M.C., Stone Cold Rhymin’, 1989 on Delicious Vinyl / Island. My copy is the Vinyl Me, Please edition via Craft Recordings from 2022. Don’t just stand there,…
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 1976 on Fantasy. Billed as “Featuring John Fogerty” and with the edited (shorter) version of Grapevine that would become a…
Sarah Jarosz, Build Me Up From Bones, 2013 on Sugar Hill Records My copy is a 2021 reissue by Craft Recordings and it sounds beautiful. Wonderful cover of…
The Bar-Kays, Cold Blooded, 1974 on Volt. My copy is another Vinyl Me, Please reissue, pressed by Memphis Vinyl for Craft Recordings Backing vocals by Hot Buttered Soul