This week technical problems at the station required me to alternate tracks between CD and vinyl, which provided a pretty exciting raft of discoveries in the record shelves. When I started at WNUR, the CD library was still pretty small and we played a lot of records, but almost everything new (for jazz, at least) has come in on CD for years now. Still, there’s lots of great stuff and I’m looking forward to getting back in that habit.

The first track from vinyl was from Kahil El’ Zabar’s “Another Kind of Groove,” which is a great recording which both WNUR and I each used to have on CD, but alas, no more. I was also happy to find some of those Henry Threadgill Sextett albums that I’d been wanting to hear for a while, and a very nice live Gato Barbieri album from 1984. Oh yeah, and Malachi Thompson getting funky in 1974 — I didn’t realize he had it in him!