Mose Allison, Lessons in Living, 1983 on Elektra Musician

Recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival July 21st, 1982 with Jack Bruce (bass), Billy Cobham (drums), Lou Donaldson (alto sax), and Eric Gale (guitar) joining Allison.

Elektra Musician was a jazz oriented subsidiary of Elektra/Asylum, and started in 1982 – it was absorbed into Nonesuch in 1994.

My copy—via Aux 33 Tours in Montréal QC—is a Speciality pressing with a promo stamp and printed promotional use label.

#1980s #1982 #1983 #Aux33Tours #BillyCobham #Elektra #ElektraMusician #EricGale #JackBruce #LouDonaldson #MontrealQC #Montreux #MontreuxJazzFestival #MoseAllison #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

SVT, Extended Play, 1980 on 415 Records

San Francisco / Bay Area new wave / rock band including Jack Casady and (my former colleague) Nick Buck (from Hot Tuna) with Brian Marnell and Paul Zahl (who replaced founding drummer Bill Gibson, who went on to be in Huey Lewis and the News).

This was out of print for a long time but was reissued on CD in 2005, and a reissue of all of SVT’s work (“Always Comes Back – The Authorized Recordings”) was recently reissued in 2020 on Liberation Hall.

My copy via Aux 33 Tours in Montréal Québec. A bit surprised (but happy) to find a rare-ish Bay Area record in francophone Canada. I’ve since scored a second copy locally as well at the Record Exchange in Salem.

#1980 #1980s #415Records #Aux33Tours #BrianMarnell #JackCasady #MontrealQC #NickBuck #RecordExchange #SanFrancisco #SVT #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Joe Turner, Singing the Blues, 1967 on BluesWay / ABC

“Big” Joe Turner here with Buddy Lucas, Patti Bown, Wally Richardson, Thornel Schwartz, Bob Bushnell, Panama Francis, and Herbie Lovelle. This was his debut album on BluesWay though he was already ~30 years into his career.

This then is Joe Turner with a voice a little more mellow than of yore, but still uniquely alive in the blues idiom and very aware of what’s happening musically. His shouting is hup to the times and still full of sudden surprises. – George Hoefer

My copy is a Canadian pressing via Aux 33 Tours in Montreal.

#1960s #1967 #ABC #Aux33Tours #BigJoeTurner #Blues #MontrealQC #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Gerry Mulligan, Concert Days, 1966 on Sunset Records

Although this compilation came out in the mid-sixties, the recordings are all from 1954-1957.

Thanks to the Gerry Mulligan Discography compiled by Antoine Perier, Gérard Dugely, and Kenneth Hallqvist, they would seem to be:

• Storyville Club, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1-6, 1956 (A1, A2, A3, A5, B3)
• Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, June 7th, 1954 (last evening concert) (A4, B2)
• Coastal Studios, New York City, NY. December 4 & 5, 1957 (B1, B5)
• Stockton High School, Stockton, CA, November 12, 1954 (B4)

My copy is a Canadian pressing via Aux 33 Tours in Montreal, QC

#1950s #1966 #Aux33Tours #GerryMulligan #jazz #MontrealQC #Storyville #Sunset #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Hollywood Stampede, 1972 on Capitol

Seventies reissue – volume 5 in the Capitol Jazz Classics series – with songs taken from sessions in February and March of 1945. Players joining Hawkins on these tracks include Howard McGhee (trumpet), Sir Charles Thompson (piano), Allan Reuss (guitar), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Denzil Best (drums), Vic Dickenson (trombone), John Simmons (bass).

Great classic jazz here as bop or bebop was […]

#1940s #1945 #1972 #AllenReuss #Aux33Tours #Capitol #CapitolJazzClassics #CharlesThompson #ColemanHawkins #compilation #DenzilBest #HowardMcGhee #jazz #MontrealQC #OscarPettiford #VicDickenson #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

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