Woo-Hoo! great news!! I walked into the Shady Dog record store, which is on the "main line" outta Philly, in Berwyn, PA, on "black friday" and they were havin their biggest sale of the year! 30% off! I picked up a load 'a' great stuff, including the CTI Summer Jazz, featuring George Benson, on vinyl. Which is something I've been hoping to run across for years. They even had part 2 of the same show, which is a completely separate record. Naturally I bought that too. I'll tell ya that "California Dreamin" is the single best jam in my entire collection, and as I've done here before, I highly recommend it.
Here's what else I brought home:
The California Concert at the Hollywood Palladium(another George Benson and friends jam, recorded 7/18/71)
Newport in New York '72, the soul sessions, featuring: Roberta Flack, B.B. King, Curtis Mayfield, Herbie Mann, Les McCann and Billy Eckstine
Blue Note Live at the Roxy, featuring: Donald Byrd, Earl Klugh, Ronnie Laws, Carmen McRae, Alphonse Mouzon, The Blue Note all-stars, Gerry Brown, Gene Harris, Bobby Hutcherson and John Lee
In Concert, Volume 2, featuring: Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Ron Carter, Jack Dejohnette and Eric Gale
Jazz Critics Choice(Columbia,'80)
In Performance at the Playboy Jazz Festival, featuring Grover Washington, Jr., Weather Report, the Manhattan Transfer, Art Farmer and others too numerable to list
Cal Tjader_Soul Sauce
Brother Can You Spare a Dime, American Song During the Great Depression(New World records, '77. A compilation containing the likes 'a' Bing Crosby, Big Bill Broonzy and of course Woody Guthrie)
Stanley Clarke_Modern Man
Yusef Lateef_Prestige
A Jazz Piano Anthology(CBS, "Columbia" Records, '73)
Jazz Spectrum, featuring: Don Byas, Coleman Hawkins and Stan Getz
Jazz Spectrum, featuring Sarah Vaughan, Dizzie Gillespie, Chalrie Mingus and Miles Davis
Sax Greats, featuring Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and others.(Looks like a collection of live recordings but I haven't listened to this one yet)
They All Played Bebop(another compilation)
Nica's Dream, Small Jazz Groups of the 50s and Early 60s(MJQ, Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins & Co., Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet and others)
Little Feat_Waiting For Columbus(Great to finally have this on vinyl!)
Robert Palmer_Pressure Drop(Most of the members of Little Feat appear on this record, including Lowell George on guitar)
Leon Russell and the Shelter People_self-titled
Hot Tuna_Double Dose and Recorded Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley
Fleetwood Mac_Future Games and Vintage Years and Fleetwood Mac Live
Mick Fleetwood_Visitor
Gregg Allman_Laid Back
Allman Joys_Early Allman, featuring Gregg and Duane Allman
Gregg and Duane Allman_self-titled(Springboard Records)
Phil Collins_Face Value(had to get this for "I missed Again")
George Harrison_The Concert For Bangladesh
J. Geils Band_Bloodshot
U2_(no title; a 10" 45 containing "New Years Day"(long version), "Treasure(Whatever happened to Pete the Chop)", "Fire" and "I Threw a Brick Through a Window/A Day Without Me"
Terence Trent D'arby_Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'arby
Crosby, Stills and Nash_Daylight Again
Average White Band_Person to Person
Black Flag_In My Head
Collectors History of Classic Jazz, a 5 record box set
The Worlds Greatest Music Series 'Pop' Jazz, 5 record box set
and at the very end the cat who runs the place threw in:
Maxell Jazz Sampler, Paul Simon_There Goes Rhymin Simon, and as an early Christmas present, the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz(6 record box set with booklet)
Oh and just as I was checkin out I noticed a Jello Biafra spoken word cd sittin right next to the cash register so I picked that up too. It's called "In the Grip of Official Treason, spoken word album # 8". Very entertaining...
...so that's it...
Rock on survivors :cheers: :rocker: :poison: :peace: :poison:
