Whats on your turntable tonight?

•Branford Marsalis - Crazy People Music: Young Branford with his telepathic quartet. Juicy Ornette style musings, along with usual, high quality post-bop stuff. Tain is one titanium plated monster.

•The Jazz Crusaders - Stretchin' Out: Old Pacific Jazz title with Monk Montgomery on bass, along with the potent Texans. Great ensemble sound right from the start. Signature sax-'bone synergy kills me every time. Joe Sample ain't chopped liver either.

•Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean: Hadn't heard this since my first copy was stolen over 20 years ago. DAMN...Alan Holdsworth and Alphonso Johnson had spectacular chops! Recently saw Johnson supporting James Carter...still has chops on his chops.

Zaikesman & Siliab,
Thanks for including your comments along with your posts!
This thread is beginning to become a great resource and shopping list for vinylphiles. To date, there have been over 6100 views of this thread.

A big thanks to all who continue to contribute. I've been exposed to some really great music!

Listening to organ music this early evening: just finished a wonderful Pontefract engineered recording on Harmonia Mundi of Rene Saorgin performing Bach's Toccata & Fugue in d minor on a lovely Silbermann organ, Harmonia Mundi HM 1214. And now listening to Marcel Dupre on a VERY FRENCH organ (Saint-Suplice) playing Bach's Prelude & Fugue in D major, Mercury SR 90227: great recording, but not my favorite way to hear Bach performed.

Representative recordings of two great recording engineers: Jean-Francois Pontefract, who made many superb recordings for Harmonia Mundi, and Robert Fine, the genius behind the legendary Mercury recordings.
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Time to dispense with consistency in my short tradition of providing anotation, only because I don't have the time right now...this covers tonight plus some odds and ends over the past few days:

Original LP issues:
Nilsson - The Point (Soundtrack, RCA, 1970)
"Mississippi" Fred McDowell - Vol. 2 (Arhoolie, about 1966?)
Thelonius Monk - 5 By Monk By 5 (Riverside [stereo], rec. 1959)
Fats Domino - I Miss You So (Imperial, about 1961?)
The Impressions - This Is My Country (Curtom, about 1970?)
The Equators - Hot (Stiff, 1981) Ska revival.
Clyde McPhatter - Golden Blues Hits (Mercury [mono], about 1961?)
The Beach Boys - Sunflower (Brother, 1970)
The Turtles - Battle Of The Bands (White Whale, about 1967?)

CD reissues/collections:
The Daktaris - Soul Explosion (Desco, late 90's?) 70's Afrofunk.
The Crossfires (AKA The Turtles) - Out Of Control (Sundazed, '95) 60's Surf and novelty.
We The People - Declaration Of Independence (Collectables, '93) 60's garage punk.
George Abdo & His Flames Of Araby Orchestra - Belly Dance! (Smithsonian Folkways, '02)
The Nightlighters - K-Jee (RCA/Collectables, '91) Early 70's funk.
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - The Singles (BR Music [import], '99) 60's British pop-rock.

Cold rainy night. Warm fire burning in the woodstove; feels like: String music night!
"Danses Anciennes De Hongrie Et De Transylvanie" Rene Clemencic/Clemencic Consort (Harmonia Mundi HM 1003) Trad music from Hungary and Transylvania performed on early music instruments. Listening to this brings into focus some of the many European influences that go into music from Appalachia and some Bluegrass. A couple of passages so much so, that if you didn't know it, you would think you were sitting on a front porch in Kentucky.

Josef Suk "String Quartet, Op. 31 Meditation" Suk Quartet (Supraphon 1111 3370) Suk was a Czech, as clearly evidenced in this VERY Eastern European work. Both the reading and the composition. Very somber, contemplative string music for a rainy night.

A big thank you to Rushton for introducing me to the two LP's above!

Staying with strings, but moving East:
Hui Fen Min/Wei Li "River of Sorrow : Immortal Chinese Instrumentals" (First Impression Music FIM 002 45rpm)
A couple of cuts from this release appeared in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

More strings to finish off the evening but we are back in the USA:
Doc Watson "Home Again" (Vanguard 79239) Cisco 180g reissue. What can you say but: Wow! Carolina picking and singing of some great old songs like "Matty Groves" and "Froggy Went A Courtin'". Superb performance, sonics to boot on very quiet 180g vinyl...