polyphony.

i want to make love to sarah vaughan's voice.

dude.
like, for serious.

anyway.

i went out, bought some records today. giving them a listen now, sarah to be exact, as you might gather.

this sarah joint is a beautiful album. i lucked out with this one.

anyway, the purchases:


maybe tomorrow - the jackson five

um, never can say goodbye much?
chea.

together again - willis jackson with jack mcduff

this was actually pretty good. not sure why i was surprised, i think i was expecting the worst because i'm not very familiar with either name. but the organ stuff is real good.

genius + soul = jazz - ray charles

nice, i didn't buy this for samples. i think ray's voice is too ill. soul for real, and i don't mean craig mack's little brothers.

hamp's golden favorites - lionel hampton

nice, i'm always feeling open vibes.

JAWS - eddie davis and shirley scott

jury's out here. gotta give it another listen.

the sounds 3 - gene harris

yes! love gene harris man... it's not really HIS album, but he's the standout to me, so i'm giving him credit. blue note has some of the dopest shit under their belt... i mean. madlib could honestly do a hundred shades of blue albums from their catalog. i already sampled one joint off of it.

the battle of birdland - sonny stitt, eddie davis

jury's out on this too. it's got lots of organ sounds on it. i'm sure once i figure out how to really flex chops, i'll be able to use it.
it's a good listen tho, as with shirley scott.

milestones - miles davis

good shit. nothing really loopable, but it's the same combo from round about midnight, with paul chambers, joe jones, red garland, john coltrane and the addition of cannonball adderly(sextet verses quintet). it's fly.

the modern jazz quartet - the modern jazz quartet

the vibes here are very nice. i like these guys, not as well versed in their music as i'd like to be.

sweet beginnings - marlena shaw

this album is hot. some disco-esque jams, but some fly joints too. i already sampled one song.

abraxas - santana
(come to find that i the actual purchase was a otis redding greatest hits compilation. it's gravy tho, we got it here already.)

in person - the cannonball adderley quartet feat. nancy wilson and lou rawls

super bad - james brown

this album is nice... it's a live joint, but it's pretty dope. i bought it with the intent of maybe snatching some open drums off it, but open breaks were amiss. i think. i'll give it a correct listen in the upcoming week.

sarah vaughn - sarah vaughn

i could listen to her sing all day. and this album is spectacular. really, i dig her voice more than billie holiday's... i'm an ella fitzgerald fan myself, but yeah. sarah has sickening range, and unreal control. they don't make voices like this anymore, the lazy fuckholes.
beyonce, come fuck with this.

mr. watermelon man - mongo santamaria

this is the album that houses the famed la bamba. i like mongo santamaria a whole lot.. his incorporation of latin rhythm/percussion with straight jazz elements like saxes and such, it's real dope. plus i'm a big fan of hubert laws, who's on all of the albums i own by mongo. love the flute.

bursting out - the oscar peterson trio

this is aight. i expect more out of oscar peterson, but i can't really fault him here. i'm not really into big band. at all.
'here's that rainy day' has some nice horns on it tho.

i'll play with this one some more.

volume IV - ahmad jamal

ahmad's just being ahmad. what can i say. dude has probably thee best piano breaks.
it's the way he plays... sparse, kinda open, real rhythmic tho.

it's a live joint, so you can hear people talking and laughing in the back ground. it's ill, kind of like a extra percussion track. i love it.

so yeah, all of that for $2.00. not bad.

i love music.