Comments on: M’Boom, John Gordon and Other Rarities from Jazz Record Center

By: Alun Severn

Alun Severn — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 14:31:29 +0000

Yes, it’s been interesting having another perspective — free jazz and avant-garde — on things. Do carry on when you have time, please.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:56:57 +0000

Nice – I didn’t see those. Would like to upgrade my copy of Stone Blues at some point.

By: GST

GST — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:18:52 +0000

Really enjoyed the coverage. Exposed me to a few albums I hadn’t heard of before.

Side note, anyone see this John Coltrane Live at Birdland go for over $350? Big price jump.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262094064505?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

By: Gregory The Fish

Gregory The Fish — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 10:35:58 +0000

clifford:

i have that album, and it is worth the wait. got lucky and got a sealed original for peanuts!

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 19:02:39 +0000

yeah, it is really nice – like a lot of those mossy private jazz LPs of the era.

I still ‘need’ a copy of The Liberation of the Contemporary Jazz Guitar.

By: Joe L

Joe L — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:11:22 +0000

Lots of nice Strata East LPs in that auction. I love the cover of “The Waterbearers” – surely one of the most excellently Strata-East-y covers of all.

By: Gregorythefish

Gregorythefish — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:40:16 +0000

Ahhh, fond memories. Back when I was first getting into jazz, into mainly spiritual/free jazz and this M’boom album was all over the sharing blogs I frequented then as an unheard ‘holy grail’. Then, one day, some guy started a new blog and this was his first post. The blogs went crazy. Fun times those were.

By: Clifford Allen

Clifford Allen — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:33:08 +0000

Sure thing – this has been really fun.

Yes indeed, sad to hear about Murphy’s passing, as well as Don Rendell’s.

Re: Strata-East, black-white labels tend to be a pretty good indicator, though I have a feeling that several titles were pressed multiple times with the same stampers and label design. There are some later Audio Fidelity pressings with light blue labels that on the whole sound pretty crappy. The 8000 series has these labels and I’ve seen earlier Tolliver albums with these labels as well. Most of what Fred was selling looked to be original and some of those really obscure titles can’t have been pressed more than once.

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:43:16 +0000

RIP Mark Murphy

By: DaveS

DaveS — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:42:09 +0000

Are there any tell-tale signs to what makes a 1st pressing on Strata-East? I see them occasionally but don’t know enough.

Thanks for filling in for Al and changing it up.