what are your favorite records on Impulse!
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top 5 right this second (besides A Love Supreme, which should automatically be at the top of everyone's list):
and i didn't count this since it's a "box set" and not an "album", but this is probably my all-time #1 regardless of label or genre:
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Grope
Guest
Buddy Montgomery - This Tather Than That
Clifford Coulter - Do It Now! Worry 'Bout It Later
Alice Coltrane
Milt Jackson / Ray Brown
Clifford Coulter - Do It Now! Worry 'Bout It Later
Alice Coltrane
Milt Jackson / Ray Brown
^i need this!!!^
some of mine:
Coltrane- s/t (the one with Tunji)
Pharoah- Karma
Roy Haynes- Out of the Afternoon
Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Honorable mentions:
Charlie Haden- Liberation Music Orch
Sam Rivers- Crystals
Michael White- Land of Spirit and Light; Pneuma
My favw Impulse rekkid is my 45 of John Handy's "Hard Work!"
Also...I've never heard an album of his that was good all the way through, but I gotta cop a plea for Mel Brown. That cat was totally underrated. Impulse was not exactly famous for soul-jazz, but Mel did some worthwhile stuff. (I'd also put "Hard Work" in the s-j category, although I understand that most of Handy's records were a little more "out" than that.)
Oh shit, speaking of soul-jazz on Impulse, I forgot - Shirley Scott's Everybody Loves A Lover. You heard of one-trackers? To me, this is a one-sider, but that one side works well. It's the one with "Shirley" (a Chicago steppers' classic) on it
Also...I've never heard an album of his that was good all the way through, but I gotta cop a plea for Mel Brown. That cat was totally underrated. Impulse was not exactly famous for soul-jazz, but Mel did some worthwhile stuff. (I'd also put "Hard Work" in the s-j category, although I understand that most of Handy's records were a little more "out" than that.)
Oh shit, speaking of soul-jazz on Impulse, I forgot - Shirley Scott's Everybody Loves A Lover. You heard of one-trackers? To me, this is a one-sider, but that one side works well. It's the one with "Shirley" (a Chicago steppers' classic) on it
My dad used to play that for me all the time when I was real young. It is definitely one of my sentimental favorites.
really like that one too, better than his first...
Was the first one East Side San Jose? I wasn't feeling that one, but the cover, with a pic of a San Jose street ca. 1969 (?), should be sold as a poster. Woulda posted it in the "fave album covers" thread if I could find an online image - the (now) vintage cars and fast-food restaurant signs were killin' it.
