Whats on your turntable tonight?

What a nice eclectic listening session, e!
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Snooks Eaglin - "Possum Up A Simmon Tree" [Arhoolie LP '7?, rec. '58] The great New Orleans blind street guitarist/singer, and one of the most knockout performers I ever saw at the Jazz & Heritage Festival there
Quincy Jones - "The Great Wide World Of..." [Mercury mono LP '60] Less gimicky than some of his later arranging, alternately powerhouse and evocative with tons of recorded atmosphere and slam, liners by Dizzy Gillespie
Archie Bell & The Drells - "There's Gonna Be A Showdown" [Atlantic LP '69] Whatever happened to blue sharkskin suits?
Colours - S/T [Dot LP '68] With bassist Carl Radle, soon of Derek & The Dominos fame
Brotherhood - S/T [RCA LP '68] With bassist Phil "Fang" Volk, guitarist Drake Levin and drummer Mike "Smitty" Smith, all late of Paul Revere & The Raiders fame
Alex Chilton - "Like Flies On Sherbert" [Aura LP '80]

Power of the Orchestra, Leibowitz/RPO, RCA VICS 2659 -45rpm reissue. Perhaps sonically the best orchestra recording in my collection. Another amazing recording job by the great Kenneth Wilkinson.

This One's for Blanton, Duke Ellington & Ray Bown, Pablo 2310-721 -45rpm reissue
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MC5 - "Back In The USA" [Atlantic LP '70] Curse you, Jon Landau
Hal Blaine - "Psychedelic Percussion" [Dunhill mono LP '67] They spent so much time calling in every exotic instrument rental in LA for this wacked-out session that they forgot to write any tunes
Ahmad Jamal - "The Piano Scene Of..." [Epic mono LP '59]
The Small Faces - "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" [Compleat LP reissue '85, orig. '68]
Terry Reid - "Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid" [Epic LP '68]
Terry Reid - S/T [Epic LP '69] If this British guitarist/singer had never chosen to attempt aping the Small Faces' Steve Marriott he might have been okay. As it is, each of his original albums contains one fine original (including "Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace", as covered to great effect by Cheap Trick), several lesser originals, and a clutch of mostly well-chosen but laughably inept covers he destroys with overwrought vocal histrionics and wrongheaded arrangements courtesy his organ-based power-trio (including what may be the worst version of "Summertime Blues" ever waxed), the single notable exception being Lorraine Ellison's wrenching soul classic "Stay With Me Baby", which actually suits his, um, style fairly well.

Listening to some recent acquisitions, while I try out a new interconnect between my phono stage and preamp (now have Cardas Golden Reference all around - this final one arrived today - yay):

Heath Brothers - Passin' Thru
Heath Brothers - Brothers & Others
Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (Skull F*ck)

All 3, original pressings (with Brothers & Others still in shrink). Gonna be a fun night!