Can’t seem to enjoy this album enough… the lineup is overly impressive. Here you got Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Blue Mitchell AND Grant Green teamed up on the same session… still it doesn’t do it for me 🫨

Any recommendations i would love! I am open to anything in the genre to be honest, free jazz is a bit difficult right now but I'm getting there lol

Wasn't familiar with Quiet Kenny... excited to listen today.

I bought this blind after seeing it on the list of the Penguin Jazz Guide's crown albums. It's an interesting album - dark in a way that's immediately enjoyable (especially Ed Felson's bass) but after listening to it a couple of times I feel like it's also a record that rewards multiple listens as it slowly reveals itself

For Water-Damaged Wednesday - this copy of Royal by Braxton and Bailey was stuck to the front of a Residents album (the 13th Anniversary Show if I'm not mistaken). The disc is fine, the back cover is..... well, you can see it.

The guy sold it to me cheap: £20 I think. I got a load of Incus from his shop. He always gave me a discount. He was so disgusted with Brexit, he sold his shop and moved to the Netherlands. That was a bummer. He sold hi-fi too. I wanted a new CD player. He had a Denon for £120, a nice one, heavy. I said what can you do. He said - well, someone else wanted it but it hasn't got a headphone output so he declined - £80. I thought, blimey that's a good deal. Still got it.

I just found your excellent sub. I like jazz from all eras - hot jazz from the 20s (my Dad got me into that in the 60s), bop in all its manifestations, freakout free jazz, all of it really. I started buying in the 70s and a shop near me had a whole roomful of jazz.

The stuff in there.... if I had a time machine. It was run by this junky guy who never priced up his records individually. They were either £2.80 or £3.50. Having said that - I did pay £4.50 for a nice copy of Uncle Meat.

I took a lot of chances in that place and was rarely disappointed. I stupidly sold some of it in the late 80s for no reason.

Interesting album, slightly spiritual but veering towards avant-garde at some points.

This reissue is probably not the best, but still sounds ok for 11 €. There is no way I would have paid full asking price for an original anyway.

Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Kenny Dorham, Doug Watkins

Got a record player in June and this is my collection so far. How am I doing?

I challenge myself not to spend more than $25 - seen some great ones I had to pass up because they were too expensive

Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Kenny Dorham, Doug Watkins

Obi-less Japanese OG, got it for very cheap, sounds incredible. The drumming on this record (Steve Gadd) is Goat’d.

Some cheap heat from a local thrift shop. The Desmond has been on my wantlist for a while, the Newborn is beautiful, and the Holman has lots of great west coast players like Rowles, Mondragon, Rosolino, Candoli, Perkins and Kamuca.

Almost there!

Probably my favourite tenor player. His run of albums for Milestone are all-time for me. Delicate “modern” production techniques (delays, echoes) and subtle synth work.

That deft approach, to my ears at least, helps these records retain a timeless quality and avoids the pitfalls of some of his heavier handed counterparts.

He managed to keep it classy.

Also, in photographs he just seems so gentle and warm-natured. A big welcoming smile, kind eyes.

Has taken me a lot to get to this point.
What am I missing?

Nice pressing from the '80's

First mono pressing - look at the line up it doesn’t get better.