Vinyl Me Please Classics

[keylime_5]

The Miles Davis/Coltrane album was a live album. Half of Fathers & Sons is live as well.

 

[Jeff Lerner]

The Miles Davis/Coltrane album was a live album. Half of Fathers & Sons is live as well.

You are correct sir. I stand corrected

 

[TCell]

I'll go:

April: Otis Rush - Mourning in the Morning
May: King Curtis - Live at Fillmore West
June: The Jazz Crusaders - Old Socks, New Shoes...New Socks Old Shoes

From Storf (in response to my guesses):
“You have 1, and the band is in the wrong month”

So Jazz Crusaders is wrong and Soul-Jazz is a solo artist. (I’d rather they did a different Crusaders album anyway.)

And either Otis Rush (likely) or King Curtis is correct.

 

[keylime_5]

Very likely that the blues is a solo artist. So that probably means May is the band.

 

[NewsFedora]

Mar-Keys looking like the May front runner now.

That leaves June as a solo act which narrows it down to about 200 albums instead of 500.

 

[keylime_5]

June could be Ray Charles- My Kind Of Jazz. Seems like a VMP move, take a big name artist and put out one is his lesser known gem albums.

 

[TCell]

Another tidbit from Storf:
“And fwiw, I've seen the blues and the soul instrumental albums guessed on the net. Not a single person has guessed the soul jazz, which I honestly thought was going to be the easiest one.”

So, presumably someone (@keylime_5 ?) has guessed the first two correctly on Reddit.

 

[keylime_5]

Also looking at Roy Ayers' Ubiquity which was 1970 and never reissued. VMP likes to put out Classics albums that are frequently sampled and Roy Ayers is like a rap sample king.

 

[NewsFedora]

I'm not a huge blues fan but I am definitely digging this Otis Rush album. Hope it's the April pick.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Also looking at Roy Ayers' Ubiquity which was 1970 and never reissued. VMP likes to put out Classics albums that are frequently sampled and Roy Ayers is like a rap sample king.

Ayers might get me to re-sign up

 

[NewsFedora]

The case for Ayers grows! Ubiquity came out under Polydor, currently owned by UMG, same as Blue Note.

 

[NewsFedora]

And fwiw Ray Charles' My Kind of Jazz is also under the UMG umbrella.

 

[yukbon]

I would be quite OK with either Ray or Roy. solid picks.

 

[Boognotik Reaktion]

Can somebody please ask Storf to rule out King Curtis once and for all. Suspense is killing me.

 

[keylime_5]

Can somebody please ask Storf to rule out King Curtis once and for all. Suspense is killing me.

Based on the clues I think it's a pretty safe bet that it's not King Curtis in May. May is pretty certainly a band/group.

 

[Boognotik Reaktion]

You’re right but I’m still holding out hope that it’s King Curtis & The Kingpins....

 

[dhodo]

Also would not be surprised if Storf thought King Curtis was a band name. I'm sure he would have learned otherwise if it was the pick though.

 

[mitchwagz]

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The case for Ayers grows! Ubiquity came out under Polydor, currently owned by UMG, same as Blue Note.

I love the distorted vibraphone on some of the songs. It’s is such a flex ha! That album is so much more jazz-funk to me but maybe it’s semantics. The non vocal, slower stuff miiight classify as soul-jazz and on Discogs there is a soul-jazz tag but I still feel like it’s stretching.

 

[Boognotik Reaktion]

If it’s not KC, I’m not very optimistic about the quality of the instrumental soul pick.

 

[NathanRicaud]

If it’s not KC, I’m not very optimistic about the quality of the instrumental soul pick.

Roy Ayers’ Ubiquity is a beautiful, colourful and engaging album! Ubiquity also has a cozy, homely sound yet is very adventurous in spirit! I really hope Ubiquity ends up being a Classics ROTM! An audiophile pressing would be delightful!