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Just home from work and needing to wind down, and this is the perfect album to throw on the platter.

I have 3 different pressings on vinyl of this seminal album, and the 50th Anniversary edition on blue vinyl is actually very good.

Side two first up, with the magnificent All Blues and Flamenco Sketches. Jazz to me has rarely, if ever been this good. :)

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My blue copy has a bit of surface noise. My ancient Aussie pressing is still very good. I have a Mastersound 20bit Super Bit Mapping cd on gold suface which is very, very good for digital. They didn't try to get rid of the tape hiss during the really quiet bits, so it sounds real.

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My blue copy has a bit of surface noise. My ancient Aussie pressing is still very good. I have a Mastersound 20bit Super Bit Mapping cd on gold suface which is very, very good for digital. They didn't try to get rid of the tape hiss during the really quiet bits, so it sounds real.

IIRC my blue copy was a little noisy when I first played it upon purchase, but a clean with my RCM fixed that.

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Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound

Previously I've only heard Dolphy as a Mingus sideman. I had a preconception that he might be a bit wild and out there for me, but this is just lovely, lyrical 1960 jazz with fine support from Freddie Hubbard.

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John Zorn: Filmworks XIX The Rain Horse

Greg Cohen: Bass

Rob Burger: Piano

Erik Friedlander: Cello

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Title track here:

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Nah... I still have a few years to get there :)

It was Zorn's 50th when they did a series of concerts at Tonic. Some of those are quite nice, my favorite being the one with Milford Graves on drums

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Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry: at June in Buffalo

Hat Hut, Smalltown Superjazzz type of improvisational Jazz is my cup of tea. So I immensely enjoy Zorn's works too.

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However, PHJB's 50 year anni is also an epic. Dixieland never dies!

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John Zorn: Femina

He has such a huge body of work, and I've immersed myself in quite a bit of it over the weekend.

I'm liking this, via Grooveshark.

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Miles Davis: We Want Miles

This is a live 2 lp album with takes recorded in Boston, NY, and Tokyo in '81.

Way under rated IMO.

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Masada: Live At Tonic 2001

John Zorn: Alto sax

Dave Douglas: Trumpet

Greg Cohen: Bass

Joey Baron: Drums

A fantastic "avante garde" live set, the interplay between Zorn and Douglas in particular is mind-blowingly good. :P

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I saw them live in 2005... They flew in from Vienna and straight onto the stage! They were discussing the set list between the tunes. "Nah, I don't remember that one..." :D Fantastic show, though!!!

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Miles Davis: Nefertiti

Featuring his second quintet, an amazing group at the peak of their powers. And his last album to feature all acoustic instruments.

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Was unsure. Should I post this in currently purchasing?

Nope. It would be more appreciated here.

Picked this up at a record fair here in Perth today. Played this arvo and Mrs Wolster declared it to be the best jazz (double) LP she has ever heard.

I'm not arguing, especially as it is in mint condition and cost me $2. :thumb::party

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From "All about jazz"

On December 6 and 7, 1976, in a small jazz club called Stampen (The Pawn Shop) in Stockholm's Old Town, Swedish sound engineer Gert Palmcrantz recorded a group of leading Scandinavian jazzmen live, trying to get "the tight, harmonious sound of the records of my childhood." Conditions were less than ideal. A full house, a great deal of background noise. No rehearsals. No sound checks. The musicians just started playing with no one knowing what would be next on the agenda until reedman Arne Domnerus called it.

The result has often been hailed as the best live jazz recording ever. Amazingly, for a small country such as Sweden, the record sold more than half a million copies and still sells, at a rate of around 4,000 copies annually. In the past thirty years it has been re-released in all manner of formats and become a cult album for Hi-Fi freaks, especially in South East Asia, where a Hong Kong audio magazine devoted five pages to an analysis of Palmcrantz's achievement.

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Sorry, guys, but genuine vinyl bargains are hard to find these days so I had to share my other $2 purchases from the record fair. All in mint condition.

I am a very happy Wolster. :)

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That's a pretty big call from Wol the bargain master, Jazz at the Pawn Shop got a copy off ophool a while back :thumb:

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Was unsure. Should I post this in currently purchasing?

Nope. It would be more appreciated here.

Picked this up at a record fair here in Perth today. Played this arvo and Mrs Wolster declared it to be the best jazz (double) LP she has ever heard.

I'm not arguing, especially as it is in mint condition and cost me $2. :thumb::party

Were you at the one in Morley, Wol? I stopped in yesterday and was surprised to find more records than I usually do at fairs ten times its size!

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