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  1. Herbie Hancock, My Point of View, 1963 on Blue Note

    Hancock's sophomore album as a leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs NJ. Hancock joined by Donald Byrd (trumpet), Gracham Moncur III (trombone), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Grant Green (guitar), Chuck Isreals (bass), and Anthony Williams (drums). Herbie Hancock is a master, and it is wonderful to find the early Blue Note albums - I now have the first five in good vinyl editions. All the tracks on this one are Hancock originals - love "Blind Man, Blind Man" which recalls & […]

    goatless.org/2026/05/28/herbie

  2. Grant Green, Green is Beautiful, 1970 on Blue Note

    Green joined here by Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Claude Bartee (tenor sax), Emmanuel Riggens (organ), Jimmy Lewis (bass), and Idris Muhammad (drums) plus Richard Lendrum (bongos) and Candido Camero (congas). Recorded in 1970 by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. My copy—via Salem Flea Marketplace—is the 2023 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series reissue, mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at Optimal, which sounds (and looks) great.

    goatless.org/2026/05/16/grant-

  3. Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is the 2024 Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue, with lacquer by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. Although they used the "mono" labels here and the spine also says mono, the LP is […]

    goatless.org/2026/04/28/cliff-

  4. Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is the 2024 Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue, with lacquer by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. Although they used the "mono" labels here and the spine also says mono, the LP is […]

    goatless.org/2026/04/28/cliff-

  5. Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is the 2024 Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue, with lacquer by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. Although they used the "mono" labels here and the spine also says mono, the LP is […]

    goatless.org/2026/04/28/cliff-

  6. Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is the 2024 Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue, with lacquer by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. Although they used the "mono" labels here and the spine also says mono, the LP is […]

    goatless.org/2026/04/28/cliff-

  7. Cliff Jordan, Cliff Jordan, 1957 on Blue Note

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, Jordan is joined by John Jenkins (alto sax), Art Taylor (drums), Ray Bryant (piano), Curtis Fuller (trombone) and Lee Morgan (trumpet). This is one of two Blue Note LPs he put out in 1957 (the other was Blowing in From Chicago with John Gilmore). My copy—via Amazon—is the 2024 Blue Note Tone Poet Series reissue, with lacquer by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. Although they used the "mono" labels here and the spine also says mono, the LP is […]

    goatless.org/2026/04/28/cliff-

  8. Freddie Roach, Good Move!, 1964 on Blue Note

    Freddie Roach’s third album as a leader, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliff with Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Hank Mobley (tenor sax), Eddie Wright (guitar), and Clarence Johnston (drums).

    Tunes include “It Ain’t Necessarily So” (Gerswhin) and Pastel (Garner) as well as “T’Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It).” Great soul-jazz organ here.

    My copy—via Amazon—is the Tone Poet Series reissue from 2024, with lacquer cut by Kevin Gray and pressing at RTI. As you can expect from this series it’s a great sounding pressing with lovely packaging.

    #1960s #1964 #2024 #BlueMitchell #BlueNote #ClarenceJohnston #EddieWright #EnglewoodCliffsNJ #FreddieRoach #HankMobley #jazz #KevinGray #Reissue #RudyVanGelder #TonePoet #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  9. Big John Patton, Let ‘Em Roll, 1966 on Blue Note

    Patton joined by Otis Finch (drums), Grant Green (guitar), and Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), and recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Fantastic Hammond B3 driven mid-sixties Blue Note jazz – can’t go wrong.

    My copy—direct from Amazon, which often has deals on these—is the Blue Note Tone Poet series reissue from 2023, with lacquer cut by Kevin Grey and Joe Harley and pressing at RTI.

    #1960s #1966 #2023 #amazon #BlueNote #BobbyHutcherson #EnglewoodCliffsNJ #GrantGreen #jazz #JoeHarley #JohnPatton #KevinGray #OtisFinch #Reissue #RTI #RudyVanGelder #TonePoet #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  10. Lou Donaldson, Midnight Creeper, 1968 on Blue Note

    Donaldson joined here by Leo Morris (drums), George Benson (guitar), Lonnie Smith (organ) and Blue Mitchell (trumpet). Very groovy soul-jazz LP from late sixties Blue Note.

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs and produced by Francis Wolff.

    My copy—via Amazon—is the Blue Note Tone Poet reissue from 2024, mastered by Kevin Gray and pressed at RTI.

    #1960s #1968 #2024 #BlueMitchell #BlueNote #EnglewoodCliffsNJ #FrancisWolff #GeorgeBenson #jazz #KevinGray #LeoMorris #LonnieSmith #LouDonaldson #Reissue #RTI #RudyVanGelder #TonePoet #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  11. Blue Mitchell, Down With It, 1966 on Blue Note

    Another fantastic Blue Note jazz LP, this came out originally in 1966. It features Mitchell (trumpet) with Junior Cook (tenor sax), Chick Corea (piano), Gene Taylor (bass), and Aloysius Foster (drums), and was recorded at Van Gelder Studios in New Jersey.

    My copy- via a private sale – is the Blue Note Tone Poet reissue from 2024, cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI. Great sound and packaging.

    #1960s #1966 #AloysiusFoster #BlueMitchell #BlueNote #ChickCorea #CohearentAudio #EnglewoodCliffsNJ #GeneTaylor #jazz #JuniorCook #KevinGray #RTI #RudyVanGelder #TonePoet #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  12. Bud Powell, Time Waits (The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume 4), 1958 on Blue Note

    Powell joined by Sam Jones and Philly Joe Jones, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Hackensack NJ, and produced by Alfred Lion. Sleeve notes by Leonard Feather.

    My copy is the 2022 Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series reissue, pressed at Optimal GmbH and mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent – wonderful pressing.

    #1950s #1958 #2022 #BlueNote #BlueNoteClassicVinylSeries #BudPowell #CohearentAudio #jazz #KevinGray #OptimalGmbH #PhillyJoeJones #Reissue #SamJones #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
  13. Herbie Hancock, Inventions and Dimensions, 1964 on Blue Note

    Hancock is joined by Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo and Chihuahua Martinez—though it’s not really what you’d call a Latin jazz album so much as post-bop or modal.

    Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at his Englewood Cliffs studio.

    My copy—direct from Blue Note—is the 2019 Blue Note 80 Vinyl Series reissue mastered for vinyl by Kevin Gray and pressed at Optimal Media GmbH – sounds great.

    #1960s #1964 #2019 #BlueNote #BlueNote80VinylReissueSeries #ChihuhuaMartinez #herbieHancock #jazz #KevinGray #Modal #OptimalGmbH #PaulChambers #PostBop #Reissue #RudyVanGelder #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieBobo
  14. My soundspace this week has been 1970 Hermosa Beach. Imagine blowing off every other plan to sit front and center at The Lighthouse July 10-12, four sets each night from Lee Morgan. I'd eyeballed the 2xLP for years but Blue Note just released the 12LP complete recordings including audience banter. Morgan is sharp as can be. Unfathomably, he'd be shot on stage at Slug's less than two years later.

    Lee Morgan – trumpet, flugelhorn
    Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
    Harold Mabern – piano
    Jymie Merritt – electric upright bass
    Mickey Roker – drums (DeJohnette sits in on Friday for "Speedball" and goes OFF.)
    bluenote.com/lee-morgan-the-co

    #jazz #LeeMorgan #BlueNote

  15. My soundspace this week has been 1970 Hermosa Beach. Imagine blowing off every other plan to sit front and center at The Lighthouse July 10-12, four sets each night from Lee Morgan. I'd eyeballed the 2xLP for years but Blue Note just released the 12LP complete recordings including audience banter. Morgan is sharp as can be. Unfathomably, he'd be shot on stage at Slug's less than two years later.

    Lee Morgan – trumpet, flugelhorn
    Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
    Harold Mabern – piano
    Jymie Merritt – electric upright bass
    Mickey Roker – drums (DeJohnette sits in on Friday for "Speedball" and goes OFF.)
    bluenote.com/lee-morgan-the-co

    #jazz #LeeMorgan #BlueNote

  16. My soundspace this week has been 1970 Hermosa Beach. Imagine blowing off every other plan to sit front and center at The Lighthouse July 10-12, four sets each night from Lee Morgan. I'd eyeballed the 2xLP for years but Blue Note just released the 12LP complete recordings including audience banter. Morgan is sharp as can be. Unfathomably, he'd be shot on stage at Slug's less than two years later.

    Lee Morgan – trumpet, flugelhorn
    Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
    Harold Mabern – piano
    Jymie Merritt – electric upright bass
    Mickey Roker – drums (DeJohnette sits in on Friday for "Speedball" and goes OFF.)
    bluenote.com/lee-morgan-the-co

    #jazz #LeeMorgan #BlueNote

  17. My soundspace this week has been 1970 Hermosa Beach. Imagine blowing off every other plan to sit front and center at The Lighthouse July 10-12, four sets each night from Lee Morgan. I'd eyeballed the 2xLP for years but Blue Note just released the 12LP complete recordings including audience banter. Morgan is sharp as can be. Unfathomably, he'd be shot on stage at Slug's less than two years later.

    Lee Morgan – trumpet, flugelhorn
    Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
    Harold Mabern – piano
    Jymie Merritt – electric upright bass
    Mickey Roker – drums (DeJohnette sits in on Friday for "Speedball" and goes OFF.)
    bluenote.com/lee-morgan-the-co

    #jazz #LeeMorgan #BlueNote

  18. My soundspace this week has been 1970 Hermosa Beach. Imagine blowing off every other plan to sit front and center at The Lighthouse July 10-12, four sets each night from Lee Morgan. I'd eyeballed the 2xLP for years but Blue Note just released the 12LP complete recordings including audience banter. Morgan is sharp as can be. Unfathomably, he'd be shot on stage at Slug's less than two years later.

    Lee Morgan – trumpet, flugelhorn
    Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
    Harold Mabern – piano
    Jymie Merritt – electric upright bass
    Mickey Roker – drums (DeJohnette sits in on Friday for "Speedball" and goes OFF.)
    bluenote.com/lee-morgan-the-co

    #jazz #LeeMorgan #BlueNote

  19. NOT enjoying being back at work today. #NowSpinning some #Jazz to help make work bullshit (of which there was plenty to come back to) a little less blistering.

    Also breaking in a new cartridge, a Christmas present to myself. So far it sounds incredible. This being an #RVG recording also helps quite a bit…

    #LeeMorgan The Sidewinder (1963)

    #Vinyl #RecordCollecting #BlueNote

  20. NOT enjoying being back at work today. #NowSpinning some #Jazz to help make work bullshit (of which there was plenty to come back to) a little less blistering.

    Also breaking in a new cartridge, a Christmas present to myself. So far it sounds incredible. This being an #RVG recording also helps quite a bit…

    #LeeMorgan The Sidewinder (1963)

    #Vinyl #RecordCollecting #BlueNote

  21. NOT enjoying being back at work today. #NowSpinning some #Jazz to help make work bullshit (of which there was plenty to come back to) a little less blistering.

    Also breaking in a new cartridge, a Christmas present to myself. So far it sounds incredible. This being an #RVG recording also helps quite a bit…

    #LeeMorgan The Sidewinder (1963)

    #Vinyl #RecordCollecting #BlueNote

  22. NOT enjoying being back at work today. #NowSpinning some #Jazz to help make work bullshit (of which there was plenty to come back to) a little less blistering.

    Also breaking in a new cartridge, a Christmas present to myself. So far it sounds incredible. This being an #RVG recording also helps quite a bit…

    #LeeMorgan The Sidewinder (1963)

    #Vinyl #RecordCollecting #BlueNote

  23. Time for some #Coltrane - an #NC native! Add to that one of my favorite trumpet players - #LeeMorgan. Playing one of only a few #BlueNote #TonePoet issues I have…I love the way they sound, but I don’t know that they sound any better than the Classic Vinyl Series reissues…which are also absolutely fantastic. (And were on sale last week…I may have been a bit irresponsible…)

    But I’m sure some audiophile with a much more expensive system will claim there is a huge difference…

    Tone Poet or not it sounds amazing. Someday I need to get the RVG stereo mix.

    #Vinyl #Jazz #RecordCollecting

  24. Time for some #Coltrane - an #NC native! Add to that one of my favorite trumpet players - #LeeMorgan. Playing one of only a few #BlueNote #TonePoet issues I have…I love the way they sound, but I don’t know that they sound any better than the Classic Vinyl Series reissues…which are also absolutely fantastic. (And were on sale last week…I may have been a bit irresponsible…)

    But I’m sure some audiophile with a much more expensive system will claim there is a huge difference…

    Tone Poet or not it sounds amazing. Someday I need to get the RVG stereo mix.

    #Vinyl #Jazz #RecordCollecting

  25. Time for some #Coltrane - an #NC native! Add to that one of my favorite trumpet players - #LeeMorgan. Playing one of only a few #BlueNote #TonePoet issues I have…I love the way they sound, but I don’t know that they sound any better than the Classic Vinyl Series reissues…which are also absolutely fantastic. (And were on sale last week…I may have been a bit irresponsible…)

    But I’m sure some audiophile with a much more expensive system will claim there is a huge difference…

    Tone Poet or not it sounds amazing. Someday I need to get the RVG stereo mix.

    #Vinyl #Jazz #RecordCollecting

  26. Time for some #Coltrane - an #NC native! Add to that one of my favorite trumpet players - #LeeMorgan. Playing one of only a few #BlueNote #TonePoet issues I have…I love the way they sound, but I don’t know that they sound any better than the Classic Vinyl Series reissues…which are also absolutely fantastic. (And were on sale last week…I may have been a bit irresponsible…)

    But I’m sure some audiophile with a much more expensive system will claim there is a huge difference…

    Tone Poet or not it sounds amazing. Someday I need to get the RVG stereo mix.

    #Vinyl #Jazz #RecordCollecting

  27. Time for some #Coltrane - an #NC native! Add to that one of my favorite trumpet players - #LeeMorgan. Playing one of only a few #BlueNote #TonePoet issues I have…I love the way they sound, but I don’t know that they sound any better than the Classic Vinyl Series reissues…which are also absolutely fantastic. (And were on sale last week…I may have been a bit irresponsible…)

    But I’m sure some audiophile with a much more expensive system will claim there is a huge difference…

    Tone Poet or not it sounds amazing. Someday I need to get the RVG stereo mix.

    #Vinyl #Jazz #RecordCollecting

  28. Joe Henderson, Mode for Joe, 1966 on Blue Note

    This was Henderson’s fifth studio album (as a band leader), joined by: Lee Morgan (trumpet), Chris Fuller (trombone), Bobby Hutcherson (vibes), Cedar Walton (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Joe Chambers (drums). Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder. Really wonderful Blue Note 60s jazz.

    My copy is a 2024 reissue in the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series – all-analog 180g vinyl pressings mastered […]

    #1960s #1966 #BlueNote #BlueNoteClassicVinylSeries #BobbyHutcherson #CedarWalton #ChrisFuller #jazz #JoeChambers #JoeHenderson #KevinGray #LeeMorgan #OptimalGmBH #RonCarter #RudyVanGelder #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

    wp.me/p4tTZ-6Fw

  29. Bill Charlap Trio - Street of Dreams

    To think I thought I’d never heard of Charlap, who has been around for a long time…and even plays on Steely Dan’s “Everything Must Go”. And given he’s played with lots of people I’ve heard…

    Anyway, this is a well played, great sounding record, with nuanced accompaniment, highlighting Charlap’s touch and swing.

    #nowplaying #jazz #pianojazz #billcharlaptrio #billcharlap #bluenote #vinyl

  30. sometimes the cd 💿 is really hard to find or expensive, so that a Tone Poet release just fits perfectly & seems reasonably priced. ⚫
    🐺

    jack wilson - easterly winds
    1967/11.2023 blue note records
    lee morgan
    garnett brown
    jackie mclean
    jack wilson
    bob cranshaw
    billy higgins

    #jazz @jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords
    #JackWilson #LeeMorgan #bluenote #tonepoet #recordcollection

    #caturday #CatsAndVinyl

  31. sometimes the cd 💿 is really hard to find or expensive, so that a Tone Poet release just fits perfectly & seems reasonably priced. ⚫
    🐺

    jack wilson - easterly winds
    1967/11.2023 blue note records
    lee morgan
    garnett brown
    jackie mclean
    jack wilson
    bob cranshaw
    billy higgins

    #jazz @jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords
    #JackWilson #LeeMorgan #bluenote #tonepoet #recordcollection

    #caturday #CatsAndVinyl

  32. sometimes the cd 💿 is really hard to find or expensive, so that a Tone Poet release just fits perfectly & seems reasonably priced. ⚫
    🐺

    jack wilson - easterly winds
    1967/11.2023 blue note records
    lee morgan
    garnett brown
    jackie mclean
    jack wilson
    bob cranshaw
    billy higgins

    #jazz @jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords
    #JackWilson #LeeMorgan #bluenote #tonepoet #recordcollection

    #caturday #CatsAndVinyl

  33. sometimes the cd 💿 is really hard to find or expensive, so that a Tone Poet release just fits perfectly & seems reasonably priced. ⚫
    🐺

    jack wilson - easterly winds
    1967/11.2023 blue note records
    lee morgan
    garnett brown
    jackie mclean
    jack wilson
    bob cranshaw
    billy higgins

    #jazz @jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords
    #JackWilson #LeeMorgan #bluenote #tonepoet #recordcollection

    #caturday #CatsAndVinyl

  34. sometimes the cd 💿 is really hard to find or expensive, so that a Tone Poet release just fits perfectly & seems reasonably priced. ⚫
    🐺

    jack wilson - easterly winds
    1967/11.2023 blue note records
    lee morgan
    garnett brown
    jackie mclean
    jack wilson
    bob cranshaw
    billy higgins

    #jazz @jazz #vinyl @vinylrecords
    #JackWilson #LeeMorgan #bluenote #tonepoet #recordcollection

    #caturday #CatsAndVinyl