Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio
(1956, Prestige) Mono; 1980s Fantasy OJC-010 reissue
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Trio
(1956, Prestige) Mono; 1980s Fantasy OJC-010 reissue
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Clark Terry Quartet - In Orbit
(1958, Riverside) 1988 OJC reissue; remastered 1987 Phil De Lancie, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
Clark Terry, Flugelhorn; Thelonious Monk, piano; Sam Jones, Bass; Philly Jo Jones, Drums.
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Robert Palmer - Secrets
(1978, Island) STERLING GC in the deadwax; mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound, NYC
another cookin, well produced record from Palmer. recorded at New Providence, Bahamas. includes a nice cover of Todd Rundgren's Can We Still Be Friends?. a $1 grab last week.
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J. Geils Band - Monkey Island
(1977, Atlantic) MCR JB in the deadwax; mastered by Joe Brescio at the Cutting Room, Record Plant, NY
9th album from J. Geils. AllMusic says that this one has the "innate Geils Band charm" and I agree. The Peter Wolf vocals, Magic Dick harmonica, are there along with the Brecker brothers sitting in. The earlier stuff (Bloodshot, Full House...) from these guys is mandatory, and if you dig, you will probably like this. Worth a listen.
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Walter Becker Donald Fagen - The Early Years
(1984, Passport/PVC) STERLING in the deadwax; mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC
The duo's early pre-Steel Dan compositions recorded here between 1968-1971. Those days included a stint with Jay and the Americans under pseudonyms, and in the early 1970s, as pop songwriters, prior to forming Steely Dan. They cranked out Brill building material for established artists (Babs Streisand covered one of their songs) and their own quirky tunes laid groundwork for their later plans. One song here "Soul Ram" includes the words "steely dan". I can hear initial hints of the Dan cynicism and sarcasm in these early tunes.
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Could it have been ..."Steely Dan 3 from Yokohama" ????
off to Eugene Record Convention early Sunday AM......
took the 6.25 mile ride down to foster record store Thursday....grabbed abt 30 , after condition check , threw back 28 ....Burnin' Sky isnt too bad
came out of the store and front tire was flat ....pumped it up and took off for home ....1.25 miles later it was flat again....so repumping 5x got me back to la casa SW
Some kind of happiness is measured out in miles
Walter Becker Donald Fagen - You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It
(1971, Spark) 1978 Canadian reissue on Visa
Reissue of pre-Steely Dan (Becker, Fagen, Denny Dias) is a soundtrack album for early Richard Pryor movie, 'You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It' from 1970. I think was from when they were in LA working as staff songwrters for ABC Dunhill records - liner notes indicate that they wrote songs for Dusty Springfield, The Grass Roots, Denny Doherty. I grabbed this from a 50 cent clearance bin in August, along with The Early Years title.
track list:
You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It 2:58
Written-By - Fagen* , Becker*
Flotsam And Jetsam 3:29
Written-By - Fagen* , Vance* , Becker*
War And Peace 1:43
Written-By - Discepolo*
Roll Back The Meaning 3:44
Written-By - Fagen* , Becker*
You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It (Reprise) 0:42
Written-By - Fagen* , Becker*
Dog Eat Dog 3:43
Written-By - Fagen* , Becker*
Red Giant/White Dwarf 8:01
Written-By - Fagen* , Vance* , Becker*
If It Rains 7:04
Written-By - Fagen* , Becker*
well as you'd expect from those two, the lyrics (search on "soul ram lyrics") are pretty salty.
Good hunting tomorrow.
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Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
(1974, ABC) Quad pressing
3rd album from Steely Dan. with a bunch of session aces including Timothy B. Schmit - bass, vocals, Wilton Felder - bass, Jim Gordon - drums. probably my favorite Dan album, hard to say because all of them are played out for me. killer pop/jazz/rock tracks from start to finish here, plus a chance to take a piece of Mr. Parker's band. According to wiki:
The album was originally released in 2 channel Stereo and also in a special 4-channel Quadrophonic mix. There are some significant musical differences between the two mixes. This was the last of three Steely Dan albums to be issued in both 2 and 4 channel formats.
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T. Rex - Electric Warrior
(1971, Reprise)
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Bloomfield Kooper Stills - Super Session
(1968, Columbia)
May 1968 when Bloomfield was in the process of leaving the Electric Flag, and Stills was in the process of leaving Buffalo Springfield and a few weeks away from joining up with David Crosby and Graham Nash. with Harvey Brooks from Electric Flag on bass. I can hear the twangy Stills' Buffalo Springfield guitar chords on the Dylan tune; he also stretches out with some Hendrix-like amped up licks on the "You Don't Love Me" jam. love this record.
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Had to post this just to see the reaction to his two antitheses coupled together
Oregon - Distant Hills
(1973, Vanguard)
former members of Paul Winter's ensemble in the 60's; jazz and world music. Ralph Towner (guitar, piano, synthesizer, trumpet), Paul McCandless (woodwind instruments), Glen Moore (double bass, violin, piano), and Collin Walcott (percussion, sitar, tabla).
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Colosseum II - War Dance
(1977, MCA)
formed by Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman. Jazz fusion heavy on the synthesizer. I was hoping to hear some of the progressive bite of the original Colosseum, but this sounds pretty bland to me.
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