Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book, 1964 on Prestige

Sixth full-length with Ervin as leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in 1963, for Prestige. Ervin is joined here by Jaki Byard (piano), Richard Davis (bass), and Alan Dawson (who was a drum instructor at Berklee in Boston) (drums).

My copy—via a private sale—is the 2023 Analogue Productions / Craft Recordings reissue, in the Prestige Stereo Series. It was mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at QRP on 180g vinyl.

Just sharing some new vinyl arrivals for today... More on their way :)

Mixed in are some proper rarities: limited Oasis live (300 copies), Bauhaus BBC sessions, Sisters of Mercy Peel Sessions, Alice in Chains, Prodigy, and more. 👇

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Depeche Mode, People Are People, 1984 on Sire / Mute

Compilation album for North America put out by Sire in 1984, pulling the title track single and a combination of album cuts, and b-sides. This song was such a key to the soundtrack of my life in the early 80s: “People are people so why should it be / you and I should get along so awfully.” I still sing along word for word when it comes on First Wave.

It also included the 7-minute plus “Everything Counts (In Larger Amounts)” from the 12″ single of that song. I’m still fleshing out my Depeche Mode collection but they can be hard to find in original pressings.

My copy—via Academy Records in NYC—is a 1980s Specialty pressing with the E A S T around the spindle and the “tm” under the Sire logo.

JORGEN INGMANN
Apache
1961 Canada pressing

Jorgen Ingmann was Danish.
Yup.
Danish.
A Dane.
Quite the Dane he was.
NOT INDIAN.
Like… at all.

O.K.
Now that we got the awkward album cover discussion out of the way, I do love this record.

Ingmann was a cool guitar player.
Starting with playing #jazz in the 40s, he also developed his own recording equipment which made it possible to record his bat-shit crazy guitar sound.

He also was the head of the Danish (no thanks I had a donut with breakfast) branch of the Metronome label.

Musically, though, he’s most remembered for his cover of “Apache” (originally recorded by The Shadows), & to a lesser extent, a song called “Dansevise”, a song which won he & his wife Grethe the 1963 Eurovision contest.

He had many more hits in Germany, but let’s not spend any more time on the Germans.
They know what they did.

Overall, a really fun record.

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TEX RITTER
Blood On The Saddle
1960 Canada MONO pressing

Unequivocally one of my all-time favorite old school #country albums. And I would say that about the album cover as well.

I’ve mentioned numerous times on here that I developed my love for classic country and western as a kid from my uncles.
My Uncle Alfio was the one responsible for first playing me Tex Ritter, and Blood On The Saddle was ground zero.

The title track is one of the great songs of all time.
It is simultaneously grisly and horrific, but also unbelievably hilarious. Not written by Ritter, but certainly popularized by him.

The album takes off from there, and your smile never wanes until the record’s over.

It’s just so friggin good.

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42 years ago today, March 31, 1984, Gene Watson debuted at #68 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Forever Again”. It went on to peak at #10 and spent a total of 17 weeks on the chart.

It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. I enjoyed listening to this song on the radio and went to my favorite record store to buy and add it to my treasured music collection.

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Milt Jackson & John Coltrane, Bags & Trane, 1961 on Atlantic

Jackson and Coltrane are joined by Hank Jones (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Connie Kay (drums). Recording supervised by Nesuhi Ertegun, engineered by Tom Dowd.

Great LP, bringing together Milt Jackson (Bags) of The Modern Jazz Quartet and John Coltrane (Trane) who had a year earlier put out Giant Steps. I’m not always a fan of the vibraphone but love how it plays off of Coltrane on this album.

My copy—via a private sale—is the 2017 reissue by Rhino Vinyl, in mono, pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal GmbH. Sounds great.

Gerade eingetroffen, nach gefühlten 2 Jahren Wartezeit, aber es hat sich gelohnt.

KAL-EL ECOSPHERE

Colored Vinyl

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Heute mal etwas Unterhaltung nebenbei.

Beat & Soulparty

Falcon L-ST 7059 (kommt demnächst in die Wäsche)

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