Whats on your turntable tonight?

The Incredible String Band - "Wee Tam" [Elektra LP '69]

Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers - "Contents Under Pressure" [War Bride LP '81]

Ahmad Jamal - "The Piano Scene Of Ahmad Jamal" [Epic mono LP '59]

Joe Williams - "The Exciting Joe Williams" [RCA Victor stereo LP '65] Like the title sez! Huge punchy sound with of course the voice and performances to match (except for the last track on side 1, not a song worthy of the rest of the album), plus one of the absolute sauvest cover shots ever

Dizzy Gillespie + 21 - "Perceptions" [Verve mono LP '61] Composed and arranged by J.J. Johnson, conducted by Gunther Schuller

Antonio Carlos Jobim - "The Composer Of Desafinado, Plays" [Verve mono LP '63]

The Walter Wanderly Trio - "Cheganca" [Verve stereo LP '66] Supercharged, space-age Hammond organ bossanova, in sound so tubey-luscious, it's like a coffee caramel that melts in your ear

My Tuesday night music meeting:

Johnny Hartman, "The Voice That Is"
Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise"
Porcupine Tree, "Fear of A Blank Planet"
Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dreams"
Ike Quebec, "Soul Samba"
Beach House, "Teen Dream"

Welcome back Albert! (In lesser news, misspelling "suavest" not exactly a suave move on my part -- certainly not deserving of Joe Williams' hounds-tooth & pipe ;^)

Barney Kessel - "Plays Carmen" [Contemporary mono LP '59] Subtitled "Modern Jazz Performances From Bizet's Opera". Group includes Buddy Collette, Andre Previn, Shelly Manne, Herb Geller and Victor Feldman, adapted and arranged by Kessel, who is in fine form on guitar. Warm and intimate, quite dynamic and very clean, reasonably extended sound by Roy DuNann

The Paul Winter Sextet - "Jazz Meets The Bossa Nova" [Columbia stereo LP '62] Redundantly-titled, percussion-crazy swell set, capable of generating a spread of sound seemingly greater than the width of the room far in excess of the speaker positions, without the help of added reverb either

Listened again tonight with a fellow wanting to audition the Allnic, short session but the following got spun before shutting down.

Massive Attack, "Heligoland"
Eric Clapton, "Layla"
Hampton Hawes, "Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes"
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Brubeck Desmond"
Daniel Lanois, "Acadie"

1. procol harum--exotic birds and fruit. post-trower; generally ignored, but actually quite excellent--less arty, more concise than their earlier stuff. "the idol" and "new lamps for old" are among the best songs they ever recorded.
2. thin white rope--exploring the axis. the great lost guitar band of the 80s--brilliant, hooky, twisted psychy stuff in the same general ballpark as meat puppets and television, but entirely unique. the leader, guy kyser, is a genius.
3. sex clark five--strum and drum. really melodic, rem-ish one-minute pop tunes with clever, if incomprehensible, lyrics. 25 years after first hearing this, i still remember these songs.