On May 1st my wife continued her Mother’s May Day tradition of creating flower baskets and hanging them on the doorknobs of friends and family. We placed a few locally around Edgewater Park and Beverly and then took one to Hopewell where we placed it on the front of her corner next door neighbor.
Since we were nearby, we decided to stop in Princeton so I could visit the Princeton Record Exchange. I was shopping with a gift card I received for Christmas!
For the last several years, I have bought mainly jazz or New Age music at the Exchange. And this trip yielded the same genres.
The three jazz albums I bought on CD…
Brother Jack McDuff – that’s the way I feel about it
From AllMusic….
At times, McDuff demonstrates how soul-jazz organ stars used to make albums back in their ’60s heyday, playing then-current pop hits like “The Age of Aquarius” and the theme from Mission: Impossible (which, thanks to cinema, was a hit all over again in 1996 when this CD was made)……his is another fine, home-cookin’ soul-jazz session, with McDuff‘s Hammond B-3 burning at its usual low-intensity, high-blues-content level. Chris Potter dances around the organ on flutes, Andrew Beals and Jerry Weldon offer solid solos on alto and tenor respectively, and the rest of the Heatin’ System runs the gamut from Latin to soul-deep grooves Full Review
Hammond B-3 is one of my favorite jazz instruments. While Jimmy Smith is my favorite. Brother Jack McDuff, Joey Defrancisco and Dr Lonnie Smith aren’t far behind!
Blue note Records
Spotify
AllMusic
Cyrus Chestnut – Another Direction
Cyrus Chestnut is one of my favorite jazz pianists. I have several of his albums in my music library. And while I bought this album for his piano His bad mates on the album made its purchase a no-brainer. With Christian McBride on bass and Carl Allen on drumsticks can it not be a great album! It can’t it is!!
Artist’s Website
Spotify
AllMusic
Wes Montgomery –Verve Jazz Around Midnight 12 (compilation)
Wes Montgomery is my favorite jazz musician, with apologies to Milt Jackson, Gary Burton and Jimmy Smith. This collections contains cuts from various Verve albums. I have many of those albums in my collection, but still it’s nice just to put in the CD and enjoy them again!
I made on more purchase a vinyl edition of Woody Shaw’s – Woody III. Maybe I’ll put that one on the turntable tomorrow and let you know what I think!
I think the total price for all my purchase was around $11. Which means I still have $14 to spend on my next visit! Thank Tou Princeton Record Exchange!
