Tag: amazon

  • Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is…

  • Horace Silver Quintet, Silver’s Serenade, 1963 on Blue Note

    Horace Silver Quintet, Silver’s Serenade, 1963 on Blue Note

    The quintent here is Silver joined by Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor sax), Gene Taylor (bass), and Roy Brooks (drums). Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, with Alfred Lion producing. My copy—via Amazon—is another Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue from 2024. Yes, I realize there are other jazz labels and other…

  • Big John Patton, Let ‘Em Roll, 1966 on Blue Note

    Big John Patton, Let ‘Em Roll, 1966 on Blue Note

    Patton joined by Otis Finch (drums), Grant Green (guitar), and Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Fantastic Hammond B3 driven mid-sixties Blue Note jazz – can’t go wrong. My copy—direct from Amazon, which often has deals on these—is the Blue Note Tone Poet series reissue from 2023, with…

  • The Who, The Kids Are Alright, 1979 on Polydor

    The Who, The Kids Are Alright, 1979 on Polydor

    The Soundtrack LP to the 1979 rock documentary The Kids Are Alright, with performances from 1965 to 1978. It was originally released on MCA Records in the US and Polydor in the UK – my copy is a reissue from 2019 on Polydor based on a 2017 remastering by Jon Astley. Note the record labels…

  • Neil Young, Harvest, 1972 on Reprise

    Neil Young, Harvest, 1972 on Reprise

    Definitely one of my desert island discs (unless I can cheat and count Decade as one release), Harvest came out in 1972. This would be an absolute classic even if you took out two or three songs: Out on the Weekend, Harvest, A Man Needs a Maid, Heart of Gold, Old Man – then closing…

  • Nancy Sinatra, Boots, 1966 on Reprise.

    Nancy Sinatra, Boots, 1966 on Reprise.

    Sinatra’s debut full-length on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label, produced by Lee Hazlewood and arranged & conducted by Billy Strange. My copy is one of the Light in the Attic reissues – volume 2 in the Nancy Sinatra Archival Series – via Amazon, which adds an Amazon Music wrapper to the release. Very fond of the…

  • Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 on Columbia.

    Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 on Columbia.

    Pink Floyd, The Wall, 1979 on Columbia. 2018 remaster reissue on 180g vinyl – sounds fantastic. Came to me via Amazon’s “The Golden Era” subscription club which I tried out for a bit. Normally I prefer finding original issues, but this one is very well done, and is a must have

  • Looking for a new WordPress Plug-in

    Anyone know of a decent WordPress plugin for blogging about new music purchases? What I’m looking for is basically something to pull in the CD image and perhaps tracklist (from Amazon, from iTunes, from eMusic, from discogs.org – I don’t care) for a CD based on title/artist, and dump it in to a blog entry.…