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Check out tenorman Wardell Grey. Good stuff….

Sonny Rollins’ “Plus Four”, with the tragically short-lived group he fronted with Clifford Brown, then his post-Brown “Saxophone Colossus.” Stuff he did in the early 60’s was also great, like “The Bridge”, and the theme song from “Alfie”.

As for Coltrane, aside from all the wonderful Atlantic recordings, there’s an Impulse recording called “Coltrane” that has “Out of This World” and “Inchworm” on it that’s great. Also look for a live recording he did with his Impulse-years quartet where the great Eric Dolphy is on board. For early stuff, around the time he was with Miles Davis, and before his Atlantic years, find the albums with “Little Melonae” and “Lush Life”.

Get any small-group recordings by Lester Young from the 1940’s.

Wayne Shorter, in his first Blue Note albums like “Speak No Evil”, “Night Dreamer” or “Juju”, and with the Miles Davis quintet, particularly “ESP”. Before Shorter, Davis had an underrated guy named George Coleman, who was memorable on his great live “My Funny Valentine”.

300 replies and no hank mobley? :/sigh:

And only one vote for Jan Garbarek!?

Has anyone tried to digitize a vinyl collection? I’ve got about 300 albums I really don’t want to throw out, but I haven’t found a really satisfactory way of burning them to CD yet. There’s a TEAC turntable-CD option, but it’s pricey. ION makes one, but it has tricky software.

My set up works for me: my turntable is located on a desk next to my work desk >> it is hooked up to a little device called an “Audiophile USB” which is hooked up to a little amp I bought from Radio Shack. (So far, this may seem like a lot of equipment, but the amp and usb device were cheap).

This is then hooked up to my computer. It’s as simple as playing the record and “recording” it with the computer using whatever software you like best. I then “edit” out the pops using Audacity (free software), it literally allows you to cut out the pops. The results are a very clean record that does not over process the file.

To date I’ve probably converted three or four hundred LPs, almost all of them out-of-print material (classical and jazz mostly since just about everything else has been reissued on CD).

By the way, the original post states “I recently digitized all my CD’s” — too funny (since CDs contain digitized music). It reminds me of the guy who walked into the record store right after CDs first came out and tried to return a CD. “What’s wrong with it”, the store clerk asks. “Won’t play, I think the hole is too large” the customer replies. The clerk takes out the CD looks at the surface and asks “how did these scratches get on it?” Before the customer coould answer the clerk started to laugh. “Your needle, right?” The customer nodded. “That’s why I think the hole’s too big, the needle just skimmed right over the record.” (True story from an old “Wherehouse Records” store in California — circa early to mid-80s.)

A more poppy fav is Gato Barberie.

This thread wouldn’t be complete without a mention of Paul Gonsalves’ performance with Ellington at Newport. Doesn’t get more rousing than that!

Thanks to Cozumel for the King Curtis – A Whiter Shade of Pale link! T’is my favorite Procul Harum piece.