Freedom Now Suite on Candid. Recorded in 1960.

Track listing: Driva’ Man; Freedom Day; Triptych (Prayer, Protest, Peace); All Africa; Tears For Johannesburg.

Personnel: Max Roach: drums; Booker Little: trumpet; Julian Priester: trombone; Coleman Hawkins: tenor saxophone (1); Walter Benton: tenor saxophone; James Schenck: bass; Michael Olatunji: congas; Ray Mantilla: percussion; Tomas DuVall: percussion; Abbey Lincoln: vocals.

(21 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)

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This incredible, essential Sinatra Capitol 10″ includes “Violets for Your Furs,” “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” “I Get a Kick Out of Your” and other “Songs For Lovers” that set the standard for standards and provided the make-out soundtrack for a generation of bobby-sockers in the fifties. Nelson Riddle conducts! This one’s for Jerry who told me about Tom Waits on stage with a mini light post.

(27 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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ELVIS – NBC – TV SPECIAL (LP) (US) RCA LPM 4088 Released: December 1968

(29 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5)

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Have you met Miss Jones?   This is “the great” Grace Bumbry from Kerstan in Germany.

(22 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)

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Before parts in “The King of Marvin Gardens,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” and “The Shining” with Jack Nicholson and supporting roles in 1960’s and 70’s TV shows and blaxploitation movies, Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers sang and danced and wrote jazz and early R&B and Rock ‘n Roll.   Here’s a cool low budget lp of his.   Find a copy of his song “Keep That Coffee Hot” too!

(13 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Beautiful.   Like a German expressionist painting.   Lotte Lenya was married to Kurt Weill who wrote “Three Penny Opera” with Bertolt Brecht.   Lotte played the main role of Jenny in the original staging.   Fyi, she was also in the movie “From Russia With Love”.   Thanks again to Kerstan for sending this in.

(13 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

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I was charmed by your lp cover log that I ran into over the weekend.

Most of my unusual covers were picked up in the early 90s when I could go to places like the local “Off Broadway Flea Market” and pick up my favorite jazz stars for around a dollar. I kept running into these odd covers that reminded me of when this kind of thing looked normal. Frankly it seems to me like it was more fun when wacky covers were a normal part of marketing these things. I hope some of these covers might find a place on your log.   — Steve Talley, Muncie, In

Georgie Gibbs on Halo Records.

(33 votes, average: 4.15 out of 5)

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Frank, Frank Jr., Nancy and Tina Sinatra.

(17 votes, average: 2.65 out of 5)

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With Ellis Larkins at the Piano and Joe Benjamin on Bass.   Decca Records (1958)

(28 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5)

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