Weekend finds

[jakartajive]

After almost giving up on many occasion, this morning was that rare booter where all my faith and persistence paid off. Got to our desired spot early and picked up these three from the first box I looked in - a quid each!!







Also managed to nab the following:
- GANG OF FOUR - Solid Gold LP
- Three different volumes of 'Tunes for the dancing of country dances from the English Dancing Master' - Cecil Sharp House private presses from the mid 70s featuring takes on songs from John Playford's 1631 compendium of English dances.
- Oh, and a CBS Rock Machine Turns You on. Becuase it seemed rude to just leave it there.

Particularly chuffed with the Club Folk 2 - some killer cuts on there by the likes of Synanthesia, Nadia Cattouse, Robin Scott, P.C. Kent, Andy Roberts and so on. First copy I've ever encountered in the wild.

AND the sun came out to play in north London.


Could've lived without shelling out to watch Blackburn bore Arsenal into a nil-nil cup draw, mind!

[Headless mermaid]

11th annual chicagoland jazz band festival
- interesting high school band comp from 1970, different bands doing norwegian wood, the look of love, a boogaloo track and some other soul jazz

[folkishienne]

First result of the year found in a box of battered 80's 45's in Cornwall. Pleased it's still got the centre but I think this one's bay bound...

[john stapleton]

First result of the year found in a box of battered 80's 45's in Cornwall. Pleased it's still got the centre but I think this one's bay bound...

Nice! I see another UK jazz lp coming your way....

[eric-adams]

a trawl thru a recycling centre and a few charity shops threw up a few records.

napalm death scum. never seen a green cover before so had to get it.
Extreme noise terror peel sessions. i love this band, though can only stand about 3 songs before im bored
el pea nice island sampler
ccs ccs brilliant big band rock lp with the brilliant track sunrise
jaques loussier - pulsion.. cool
john lennon - shaved fish. are any solo beatles lps good? this isnt.

2 hip hop 12"s up for trade. i dont like them. i always pic up hip hop stuff to realise i dont like it.
original spiral paranoid. brilliant.
salvation army jesus folk... not folk at all! surely false advertising!
and how to play folk guitar for beginners. pretty handy considering i wanted to learn folk guitar. only problem is you have to send of for a book. do you think they will still have any? its only 5shillings and 0d! how much is a d???

[Campag Record]

john lennon - shaved fish. are any solo beatles lps good? this isnt.

Just the one....George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Away

Well I quite like McCartney's first and Lennon's first and second but they fall well short against Harrison's debut, for me anyway.

[eric-adams]

Just the one....George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Away

Well I quite like McCartney's first and Lennon's first and second but they fall well short against Harrison's debut, for me anyway.

cool ill look out for them
i got McCartney's first and thats pretty good.
must admit ive passed over these records so often that they should all pop up cheap soon ish.

[highland cow]

john lennon - shaved fish. are any solo beatles lps good? this isnt.
?

Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and the first few Yoko Ono albums are great.

George's Wonderwall is really good too.

I've never heard or owned a Ringo album. Would be interested to hear if ANY of them are good.

[Viva Chiba]

Whaddabout Georgie Porgie's "Electronic Sound" on Apple ? Allegedly pretty fucked up synthy noodling isn't it ?

Always wanted to hear this.

[bongolia]

think i'd posted Jesus Folk up before on a finds thread - great cover and a lot of potential from the details on the sleeve, and completely fails to deliver Eric's picture should help deter people from making the same mistake.

there's some good tracks on several McCartney/Wings LPs, but they really suffer from terrible lyrics and novelty songs. used to listen to them a lot as a (not very cool) youngster, so hard to be objective...

[piglit'n'rolf]

What a week!! Kicked off last Saturday night with Stan Tracey in concert, followed in quick succession with my first Brillo and managed to squeeze in a bit of diggin' along the way. Most of these came from either the basement at Flashback in Islington or The Record Centre (better known as Jazz and Swing) in Birmingham. More of which later, but here's the eye candy....



Ronnie Scott Quintet - Never Pat a Burning Dog (RS Jazz House) Have to admit that I haven't yet listened in depth to all of this new stuff, but I'l try to make useful comments where I can and add more notes later. Live set at his own club from 1990.
Dizzie Gillespie Artuo Sandoval - To a Finland Station (Pablo) Americans (and Cubans in this case) knocking out late night studio sets in Scandanavia. Just the sort of thing I'm looking for right now. Five lengthy pieces. Great percussion and mouth harp. Funky.
Aki Takase and jana Koubkova - Jazzperanto (Supraphon) Czech vocalist and Japanese pianist. Sleeve notes draw lengthy comparisons between the nature of esperanto and jazz. Haven't yet listened but I really hiope it is actually sung in esperanto. I think might actually have a dictionary somewhere. Also from the 80's
Gary Burton Keith Jarrett (Atlantic)
Codona - Codona (ECM) Don Cherry, Colin Walcott and Nana Vasconcellos. Sitar, tabla, pocket trunpet, berimbau, cuica, and voices. Pushing all my buttons right now. Rather thin brazilian pressing, sadly.
Wes Montgomery - So Do It (Riverside) Early, peerless set from Wes. Thank you, sir.



Phil Urso - Philosophy of Urso (Savoy) Japanese reissue. Cool School sideman leads one of only a couple of sets with top billing. More of a cool bop sound here with Silver, Heath and Clarke in the band.
Kenny Drew Trio - If You Could See Me Now (Steeplechase) This is the one with sleeve missing (which rather defeats the point of including it in the photo - but it looks nice in a kind of Rauschenbergy sort of way.) NHOP and Albert Heath. 1975. Danish pressing.
Ray Brown Trio - Bye Bye Blackbird (Paddle Wheel) More 1980s Japanese cultural exchange. Here with Ichiro Masuda on vibes and Emi nakajina on vocals (plus the trio).
Jan Wallgren - Blueprints (Dragon) 24 piano minatures from Sweden. Another 1980s recording Not that I'm trying to make a point here
Ken Nordine - Word Jazz (London) Monologues in a Jazz setting. Could be excellent (ala Mark Murphy) but then again it might not be. Next in the "to play" pile. Have listened now. More comedy than jazz with some good tape manipulation on an "aliens contact earth" skit. Nice sleeve.
Andrzej Dubrowski - S/T (Pronil) Rally driving Polish pop drummer. Loving this sleeve. Another incoming trade, this one.



This little list of lovlies have made plaster boarding the ensuite (in the record room, no less, so I no longer have the lift the needle when I go pee ) most enjoyable.

Sammy Davis Jr Carmen McRae - Porgy and Bess (Bruswick) Picked up a SDJ record last week and right now if I found a turd in the street with his name on it I'd buy it!! This is 11 years earlier than the Motown release and is from a quite different era, but man what a voice. McRae I also love. A bit over orchestrated and the more well known film settings probably have the edge but none too bad.
Mireille Mathieu - S/T (EMI) Seen this a few times and always wondered what it might be like. Chanteuse updated. They considered her the new Piaf. Took it off after the third track, but might try again.
Eartha Kitt - Revisited (Coral) Sings a couple of tracks in French, which I didn't expect, plus Lilac Wine and a killer version of Santa Baby.
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind (Phillips) As covered by Bowie of Station to Station, of ourse.
Nina Simone - Let it all Out (Phillips) Ballad of Hollis Brown and Images keeps the politics sharp.
Gloria Lynne - I Wish You Love (Sunset) Nice sleeve for a Sunset reissue. Picked up a Lynne album in the Reddingtons fire sale last year, and though she lacks the grit of Simone (different thing really) still sounds great.



Sebadoh - Harmacy (Domino) Dull. In comparison or otherwise.
Broken Family Band - Welcome Home, Loser (Track and Field) Wow. First stuff I have aquired on vinyl though I have heard earlier stuff (King will build a disco). Think Uncle Tupelo, Richmond Fontaine, Grand Drive. From Cambridge, I think. Excellent, highly recommended.
Massive Attack - 100th Window (Virgin) It says on the back "To plant a tree in the Massive Attack Forest..." which is bloody ironic (and necessary) considering it must have taken the equivilent of ten to make the sleeve. Huge, heavy and pointless.
Various - Ennio Morricone Remixed (Compost) Oh dear.
Donovan - Whats Bin Did and Whats Bin Hid (Pye) A find in every sense of the word. Stuffed in the side of the box of 45s (see below) between Gladys Knight and the Sound of Music!
Jimmy Witherspoon - Spoon Calls Hootie (Polydor) 47 and 48 dates with Jay McShann. Top draw.



Jimmie Rogers - Train Whistle Blues and My Old Pal (ASV) The originator of country who gets a lot of respect 'round here - unless, of course, I'm confusing him with someone else.
Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues (CBS) It really has been a week for the female vocalists. The cream.
Pete Rugolo - Reeds in Hi-Fi (Mercury) Noted as an arranger to Stan Kenton though fairly new to me. Great Socks.
Chic - C'est Chic (Atlantic) Also greatly respected 'round here.
Buddy Holly - Reminiscing (Coral) Also in with the 45s

Talking of which......



Somebody gave me this, which also looks like this...



Almost all of this dates exclusively from 60 and 61. Somebody in the office just gave them to me. There was also a box of 78s and and a box of LPs on the way!!!! Plenty of choice bits that might bankroll future diggin....

Incidentally on the LPs nothing averaged at more than about 2.50(ish)

[eric-adams]

bloody hell piglit your gonna have to reinforce the floor soon!
nice finds, im gonna have to try that shop one day.
wish people gave me records for free. i know a guy at work has a collection of about 1000 lps from 69 - 79 ish but wont tell me about them because my dad told him i sell stuff on ebay!!

[piglit'n'rolf]

Oh yeah, I was going to say a bit more about the Record Centre. This is a great shop. Almost exclusively Jazz but does have lots of other stuff. The upstairs is packed with vinyl (as is the downstairs for that matter). Upstairs is dominated by swing and big band, but theres loads of vocal jazz and loads and loads of lounge and easy and esoteric type stuff. The prices are unbelieveable. Much of the stuff is a quid. With little getting above 3.

Sadly it is closing the doors for the last time in early may. Thats about 8-10 weeks. I very strongly suggest that any vultures even remotely interested get there soon. It's a good opportunity.

PM for details. You wil not find this place without directions.

[space debris]

Great stuff Piglit...

The Ken Nordine in particular is a really cool find - his brand of Word jazz will grow on you - he has a mesmerizing voice and an original mind...

Good you are catching up with Pete Rugolo aswell. I have a feeling you will like him. All his albums are worth picking up, a master arranger he was...

[Joe M'geek]

Almost all of this dates exclusively from 60 and 61. Somebody in the office just gave them to me. There was also a box of 78s and and a box of LPs on the way!!!! Plenty of choice bits that might bankroll future diggin....

That looks like my sorta pile- what notable things are there?

Inspired by the top finds on here recently, I dragged myself out of bed to go to the nearby boot that I normally miss in favour of the later, driving distance one

Zilch!

[surface noise]

Discovered a book shop in I'd never seen before in my town and came away with

Astrud Gilberto - the best of
A Quadraphonic Sampler
Nice version of Spinning Wheel as mentioned on the main site
White Noise - An Electric Storm
Knew nothing about this but had to pick it up after reading the amazing sleeve notes - hasn't dissappointed!

Chazza's turned up

The Godfathers - Hit by Hit
First album featuring an inspired cover of Sun Arise
Human League - Travelogue
Pre-chart bothering nonsense
London Cast Recording - Hair
Marconi Career Opportunities for Graduates
Haven't listened to this yet but look for to learning what exciting future awaits Engineering Graduates at Marconi

and 7's

Ken Ishii - Circular Motion
Kurtis Blow - If I ruled the world

Also picked up a load of cheap 7's from Rob's Records

James Brown - The World Pt 1&2
James Brown - Get up offa that thing
James Brown - Bring it up
James Brown - Get it together
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Lee Dorsey - Get out my life woman
Parliament - Get up for the down stroke
Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle
James & Bobby Purify - I'm your Puppet
Temptations - Ball of Confusion
Nina Simone - I got Life
Rufus Thomas - The World is Round

[d7bohs]

Nothing special but I want to see if i can do this photo thing:



Hoodoo Gurus - Magnum Cum Louder
Johnny Thunders- So Alone
The Johnstons S/T
JT and the Heartbreakers - Live at the Lyceum
Dr Sir Warrior -Onje Ije
Caravan - If I could Do it All Over Again
Jake Thackray - Jakes Progress

and a pair of these...

[wallace]

Whaddabout Georgie Porgie's "Electronic Sound" on Apple ? Allegedly pretty fucked up synthy noodling isn't it ?

Always wanted to hear this.

Ardmittin' an avid fondness towards belittlin' musical crap, Wallace will herein state dis lp is juist tha.

Baith sides be single sidelang tracks wif arbsolutely noo melody an' noo muckle developement -especial loikes oan side one which is George's babby - tis a 'ell o' a lort o' whooshes and hisses (an' sum echoplex). It saarnds nuffink mair innerestin' den firewarks goin' arf.

Side twa is 25 min. & mainly Bernie Krause (o' Beaver & Krause) compersitioon & playin' whan 'im wor teachin' George th'syn in Californay.
(Krause wrote th' whole story in hissen buik , "In the Sanctuary...summat")
Aybit Harrison's patchcord-art oan frunt cower, sumwhaurs ah read tha th' bit o' sprayid-oan silver paint oan bottum left corner kin be seen ter be cowerin' wards -repootidly Krause's name!

Ah keepits dis lp in me electronic kerlectioon, bur ainnly fer th
rarity valoo. Probs th' warse electronic lp ah hus.

.......
Wonderwall oan th' orther 'and is pure magic. Lorts o' varietay o' instruments usid. Whan ah fairst 'eard o' dis, ah forts: "Borin' Indian wif juist tablas & sitar." Noo so, Jhammie. Dis is a winna lp!

[Viva Chiba]

I went out for 4 hours and found fuck all

A crap Geno Washington single from '75. . .a crap Animal Magnet single from '80. . . a reasonable hardcore-tekno 12" from 1994. . .and, worst of all, something good but totally fucked

Cousineau - S/T (flip top gold cover) - nice French Canadian prog - few decent tracks on this, which I can just about discern through the hiss.

Is this particularly hard to bag in Cana. . err. .Leutonia, Wallace ?

[Plainstone]

I went out for 4 hours and found fuck all

Heh heh ... never mind, luscious Laura G is winging her way to you this very moment

I popped into Recofan for 10 minutes on the way back from the Kahimi Karie concert and picked up these to christen my new record bag:

Electraglide in Blue ost reissue. Still sealed.

Papa Wemba et Viva la Musica & Stino L'As de la Chorale. More classic SAPE action on the cover.

Thomas Mapfumo - Chimurenga Singles 76-80

Peter King - Omo Lewa. Reallly looking forward to this one. Nearly paid through the nose for a beat up copy a few years ago, so nice to pick it up minty for a song.

[wallace]

Cousineau - S/T (flip top gold cover) - nice French Canadian prog - few decent tracks on this, which I can just about discern through the hiss.

Is this particularly hard to bag in Cana. . err. .Leutonia, Wallace ?

Aye, it maist definitalay is. (Bur, tha by noo means meanit tis warth mair den 30 bucks.)

Gold cower? Yer meanit brun -see me pitchur o' it in me "Crass Wallace" trade threid.

Thaur's annover Cousineau lp callit "same" alser wif 'im in a poncho oan cower. Tis all-instrumpetmentool an' Wallace deems it hissen baist. Sorta loike instrumpetmentool pairts oan Harmonium lps.

[Viva Chiba]

Cheers Wallace.

I guess it is sort of brownish, catalogue number is CSN1001. Fool's gold anyway, in this bloody shape.

I'll revisit it, maybe I may want to trade for it. It certainly would have been a nice find, in better condition. ..

[Willy-Fogg]

Cousineau - S/T (flip top gold cover) - nice French Canadian prog - few decent tracks on this, which I can just about discern through the hiss.

Lemme guess... Walworth Road?

WF

[Viva Chiba]

Indeed, sir.

Got it for 50p, mainly to satiate me curiosity.

I also think I might know who put the LP there in the first place, maybe. . .

Have found some reasonable gear there over the past few years, been pretty crap since I got back from xmas though - first time I've done it in ages. Local boots were ok last week though - got a reish of "Gorilla" by Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band, and a reasonable OG of of Upendo ni Palumbar (or whatever it's called) by Ramsey Lewis, ft. lovely chilled "Slippin' into darkness".

2nd hand bookshop at Elephant also worth a gander - bit pricey, but interesting tomes in there man. Picked up a book by some Chilean cat about the ideologies of popular culture, disney cartoons, Babar etc. Helps pass away a music-less afternoon!

Off to badlands of Victoria tomorrow methinx.

[Willy-Fogg]

I started working on the Walworth Road just before Christmas and have been hitting those charity shops at least twice a week since. I'm yet to find anything noteworthy but hopefully my luck will change soon. I'm also back on the bike now after a couple of months injured so the delights of Camberwell and Peckham will soon be within reach in my lunch hour.

Agreed, that E&C bookshop is pretty good but I read that it's closing down soon.

Good luck tomorrow - are there any charity shops in Victoria?

WF

[Viva Chiba]

Hi WF.

Fuckin' hell, if you're hitting them twice a week I might as well give up. Hit them once every 2 weeks, if that! They ain't all that productive, but occasionally yield gems. . . Hooded Claw apparently used to work in Walworth Road and also said they used to be great. I think he hit them every day ! Best finds for me there have been a Jynx 7" which I traded for a nice orig of the 1st Egg Lp, and Roland Alphonso - James Bond 7". . also found Cross & Switchblade OST and Bernt Staf S.T. in them thar hills. I live at Oval, you mayhaps might want to meet up of a lunchhour at some point then.

Not ever really dug in Peckham - remember to take your kevlar undies if you're cycling that way!

No charity shops in Victoria at all though mate, I only go to, err, look at the trains

Rat Records in Camberwell also well worth a lunchtime dig - the odd interesting thing turns up there, it will be well under book prices and - egads - you can actually LISTEN to stuff! Also a chazza just up the road from there.

There was actually a music shop which stocked 2nd hand gear in the Elephant a year or so ago, now long gone. . . shame about that bookshop - like I said, pricey, but seems to have quality tomes littered about the shelves. Suppose it'll be turned into something more "profitable" and homogeneous like a BHS or something. . . bah.

[space debris]

Coupla spares here :

[SPARES]

Francis de Roubaix : playing now - brilliant comp with tracks from Le Samouraï, La Mer est Grande and the mad rare L'Homme Orchestre. De Roubaix has the touch - even Inca flutes material sounds way out in his hands...

Pop In Belgium : split LP - one side has The Pebbles - sorta straigth 60s pop - when I bought this a bystander asked "The Pebbles c'est pas du Belge ça?" and recalled watching them play back in the day
The B side is the real deal, though - Jess & James - a solid selection containing two killer popcorn soul cuts MOVE and Changes.

Udo 71 : Udo Jurgens backed by Alain Goraguer ao. lays down the funky in the uptempo stormer Peace Now.

Jacques Dutronc : a side is cack but Stercock on side B - an instro by Georges Raudi - is a mad euro groove organ classic. Cheap but good

[/SPARES]

Haven't spend much time on the others. Nuits d'Orient is far too orchestral to hold interest, Two Man Sound are lame, Perez Prado is a nice sleeve and side B (Why Wait?) is OK-ish (I hate Patricia on side A though...)

Les Tricheurs is a nice cool jazz OST with cuts by Dizzie, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and Roy Eldridge...

The Impulse is early 70s avant fuze or something - cover looks like it's been left in the rain but the vinyl is beautiful. Also the most memorable fleamarket exchange with a seller this year. After enquiring how much he asked for the albums he told me to sod off
So I asked him, "no - seriously - how much ?" when he told me again to sod off (vas te faire foutre!) I said "OK - but WITH the record..." which made him blink for a sec. But then he sais "yeah - with the record !"
So I said cheers and walked away with the LP.

Insulting yours truly always comes at a price

[effi_deep]

arrrgh, that udo 71 lp!
i really don't know why this never shows up here!
found the sleeve two times so far.
i guess i'm only so keen about it because i can't find it

[Hayes]

nothing major for me this w/e, but i did find a copy of dennis bovvell's 'braindamaged' double lp from 81.. i generally prefer stuff between 82-84 at the moment, but this has it's moments and dennis is one of my favourite uk reggae producers

[Payback3000]

no luck in the charities this weekend but picked some stuff up from a couple of dealers...spending a lot more than I'm used too

Roland Shaw & His Orchestra 'The Phase 4 World of Thrillers' £4.99

Really enjoying this...Peter Gun is ace as are the Bond themes and Mission Impossible themes included.

The Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church Choir LP (Myrrh 1973) £4.99
Some nice groovey tracks on here...need to listen properly!

The Ray Davies Orchestra 'Flashpoint' (Phillips 1975) £10
Given up ever finding a copy cheap...the blow was softened as the dealer actually gave me the following 2 for FREE:

Various 'The Phase 4 World of Thrillers' Lovely sleeve - nice Roland Shaw Avengers Theme.

Jack Hawkins Sounds of the 70's 'Psychedelic 70's Plexium 197? live LP...cheesey 'recorded live in blackpool' LP but with some stompin' soul covers including Billy's bag & In The Midnight Hour...a right knees up!

And these 2 from another dealer:
Bert Kaempfert Now! LP (polydor 197?) £1
with 2 great tracks 'In our Time' & Falling Free'

The Prophet Kahil Gibran: A Musical Interpretation feat. Richard Harris. £2.99
Not listened to it all but i like it a lot...very funk in parts and obviously pretty mad!