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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

#vinyl San Jose stores 1st. Didn’t actually get to San Jose much but did stop by 3 stores if in the city. Overall ranking 4 Bay Area sections for their record stores it’s prob in order 1. SF, 2. East Bay, 3. Marin, 4. San Jose. But there is some good stuff to be found there🧵

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Finally leaving San Francisco / Bay Area after 15+ years. Mostly to be close to family but also Bay Area is too expensive & tired of tech bros esp AI shit. Anyway going to post a bunch about all the records stores in the area. Visiting a bunch before I leave (bad for moving ik…)

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1983 USSR. Back to the Soviet jazz. This is pretty heavy fusion prog leaning stuff. Kinda sounds like a more spaced out Jan Hammer w/ no vocals. Except for last song which gets pretty 80s jazz ballad-y

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#jazz #vinyl prob used up my record digging luck for a long time... (not that this record is that crazy expensive but it was way way up there on my want list and Bonner is one of my favorites)

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1985 us reissue. More from Salvation Army Soviet Jazz haul. Guitar led jazz that kinda toes line between Jim Hall conventionality & poor man’s Larry Coryell fusion (not a bad thing!). Pretty nice stuff that goes a bit harder in spots than the reissue cover art

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

#NowPlaying #jazz 1982 USSR. Ganelin, Cekasin, Tarasov (Ganelin Trio) - Poi Segue. Some Soviet free jazz tonight. Early one from what would eventually be the Ganelin Trio. Live album. 1 long song stretched over 2 sides. Slow build on side 1 then gets looser on side 2

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

1979 us. Oscar Peterson in electric piano w Joe Pass, NHOP & Louie Bellson. Idk what you’re doing now but you need to listen to the final song Teenager on this album. What a groove!

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

And here’s what I picked up. A number of these are different pressings of the same album. Love Namyslowski & aware of Ganelin trio but rest completely new to me

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Taking a break from posting Pablo records to share on here the most exciting thing that happened to me this week

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

1982 us. A great Oscar Peterson live trio album. Worth it for the title track specifically which is from a larger suite he never finished. Stunning song. Also has some of the best sounding live bass recording I’ve ever heard. NHOP sounds immense

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

1975 us. I’ve found that any Joe pass on Pablo is going to be really good. And this is one of the best of the bunch. Pass leads a trio through some Duke Ellington compositions

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

1982 us. Another Pablo favorite. Group title is misleading as it’s actually a quintet album w additional percussion on a couple tracks. Harold Land is the other horn on the album. 1st song especially would have killed on an early CTI album. What were they thinking w Hubbard’s photo tho!?

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

1984 us. 2b of favorite Pablo records so far. Not quite sure why this one works so well compared to others he released on pablo w his orchestra but something very classic about the song choices (mostly blues) on this

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

1974 us. Prob my 2nd favorite of the Pablo albums I’ve picked up. Joe Pass does in fact prove his virtuosity on this album & he would go on to do so 2 more times

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

1975 us. Restarting some posts here since twitter is getting worse again. Been really into Pablo records recently so going to post some favorites I’ve picked up recently. This has probably been my favorite so far. Amazing piano / bass duet album

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1975. Picked this up w/out ever hearing it based on names involved. Opening track has some spoken word poetry & last track closes w the whole group having what sounds like a full on celebration. In between is some great free playing w thundering drums

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#vinyl #Jazz couldn’t stay away from a record fair happening yesterday. For some reason all the good deals were Japanese & 70s blue notes that I didn’t have

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#vinyl #jazz everything I grabbed in Montreal. Despite what it looks like kept it pretty light. 3 or less records per store & every record under 30 CAD whatever that coverts too. But def wanted to spend a lot more at aux 33 tours tho…

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

#vinyl #jazz ended up w less time than hoped to record shop in Montreal. Hit up 4 stores but didn’t make it out to a few that were farther from downtown. Cie la vie…(lol). Aux 33 tours was huge highlight should have just started there. Freesons had an ecm section! Rest a bit meh

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1975 Japan Reissue. A Paul Bley classic. Also will be in Paul Bley’s hometown (Montreal) for a couple days if anyone has any record store recommendations there

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#Jazz #vinyl Labor Day weekend pick ups. The Stephen McCraven-Sam Rivers album was completely new to me as of a couple weeks ago but got obsessed w it pretty quickly. A local store had a copy & made a couple Discogs sales to be able to afford it

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. Happy birthday Art Pepper! Very good later career album. Doesn’t quite hit the high point of Today’s Patricia but is a really nice album. Red Mitchell’s bass playing on here especially adds a really nice dark foreboding touch to the ballads

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

#NowPIaying #jazz 1973 us stereo reissue. Happy birthday Kenny Dorham. An all time great. This is his blue note album I was slowest to come around on oddly. Title track was a little too going for sidewinder and rest never fully clicked. Has now tho. And Hancock on this esp

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz Running thru 3 of the greatest blue note albums this afternoon. Have always viewed these 3 as a trilogy of sorts & finally got a 70s rvg copy of Destination Out to complete it. Some of the best & still most forward sounding jazz that exists

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1982 us. Top tier Waldron w an amazing group here. 1st song let’s Jordan go just about hard bop swing mode for a bit & then things get darker & go deep into vintage Waldron territory. McBee is great on here as usual

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1979 us. No idea what Farrell/label were thinking w this album cover art. Has a very “hey there fellow kids” feel but album is very good. Farrell stays on tenor sax & Chick Corea joins mostly in non-fusion hard bop mode w a little electric piano mixed in

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz early 60s stereo reissue. Happy Birthday Wayne Shorter! His very first as leader. Definitely more Coltrane influence sounding than what his later sound and songwriting would be but this is very good hard bop album

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1970 us. Sunday morning wife is out of town so I can play whatever I want in the morning music.

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

#nowplaying #jazz 1981 us. 1st ever listen to this. Don’t think it’s on streaming tho can buy digital from artist’s Bandcamp! Really nice stuff. Berne is def very Julius Hemphill influenced here but some very interesting compositions w plenty of room for each musician involved

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

#vinyl #Jazz pickups at Autumn Records in Winooski, VT. Would have grabbed more but I’m kinda broke. Only 1 ecm from their ecm section but it’s one I’ve never seen before. Tho tbh a bit scared of it (I’ve never actually listened) but love the very non-ecm cover art.

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1976/77 Germany repress. One of the very best ecm records. An absolute classic. Combo of Rivers & Braxton works perfectly on these Holland compositions. Can’t understate how good Altschul is too, even appears on marimba. Amazing stuff

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

#jazz #vinyl Weekend pickups. Failed again at staying away from record stores. First 3 are represses or reissues (Dorham Japanese pressing obvs) so weren’t that expensive and all of the records after that were all bargain bin grabs..

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1983 us. Possibly my favorite of the sextet(t) albums. Doesn’t quite swing as much as pass the bucked but has some of his most interesting compositions imo. Really great stuff!

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1978 Italy. Prob the hardest anyone has ever looked on a jazz album cover. Great great album. Always mesmerized by Abdul Wadud’s cello playing on the final song on this

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

#NowPlaying️ #jazz 1971 us. Sunday morning music. Absolute classic imo. Balances modal & spiritual jazz adds just a touch of electric instruments & even vocals on a song. 1 of if not his very best. Too lazy to make a top 10 jazz list but this 1 might have made it on mine

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#NowPlaying️ 2025 purple variant. Should be a national holiday each year (or more than once a year)- Osees, Thee Oh Sees, etc. album release day. Another psych-punk/synth-punk scorcher here

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1976 Japan. Friday morning music. Booker Little 4 & Max Roach. Great group, great album

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

#vinyl #Jazz Recent cheap pick ups. Do I need need any of these? prob not, but all were good prices (only 1 over $10 the George Lewis) and all looked really interesting. Need an intervention!

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1979 us. Sunday morning music. This combo of McBee & Chico Freeman made some of my very favorite jazz music. Don Pullen is added here for a rare McBee led studio session. This was not cheap but never thought I’d see it in wild. Really top tier spiritual jazz

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

#Jazz #vinyl On a budget and have floor piles galore but still raided the dollar bins of a local store. Not sure if any of these are good but all looked kinda interesting

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Lewis the Light has hundreds of badly recorded and half baked albums you can buy from Bandcamp or even download for free!! Or just get on there & support other real artists making good music!

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz early 70s repress w alternate title. Original title is better imo tho. A top tier west coast jazz album. Land’s debut as leader. Includes the great Carl Perkins who wrote the song Grooveyard. Also Watts tower on cover!

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

#Jazz #vinyl was in Dallas(ish) for work (grapevine). Went to a small record fair happening at grapevine convention center then josey records. Night train is UK, Bob James 73 reissue, Monterose Japanese, & Jarrett/DeJohnette German. Been after Ralph Peterson album for a bit

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1976 Poland. Prob most fun album I got in Budapest. Amazing jazz fusion / prog at times. Others can probably explain sound better but to me it’s like a funky Eastern Euro Return to Forever. Has mostly wordless vocals in parts that function as another instrument.

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1980 Poland. Some nice Polish fusion jazz. Bit on the smooth side but Namyslowski is an interesting player so keeps it from being too smooth. A lot of nice guitar work on here too. Would cite the name of the guitarist but way too lazy to deal w auto-correct

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1977 us. RIP Hal Galper. He’s got a number of great ones & played on a bunch of other great stuff but this 1 here is an all timer for me. Crazy good lineup & compositions. Harnesses Hino, McBee, & Williams to create an incredibly cohesive & amazing album

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1965 us mono. Hbd Carmell Jones! Really great session on prestige. Doesn’t quite have the magic he had w Harold Land w Jimmy Heath but very high quality mid 60s hard bop

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

#NowPlaying #jazz 1967 us stereo. Brown doesn’t get enough credit for the run he went on at the beginning of his career. This 1 is an offshoot of Shepp’s Four for Trane from year before. 3 Brown songs & 3 Shepp songs that fit together seamlessly. Tremendous band here too

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#NowPlaying️ #Jazz 1972 France. Waldron w Steve Lacy’s group. A lot of cacophony on the 1st song then into calmer waters on back half of side 1. Blue Wee on side 2 is where the group really hits their stride a big highlight for Waldron and Lacy’s long long history of recordings

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Lewis the Light @lewisthelight.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#NowPlaying #Jazz 1973 us. An 11/10 early morning chill album. Ups the groove a bit on swamp demon (great song name) but mostly sticks to an introspective spiritual mode w some Latin touches

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