VC Cheap Heat - the Gramavision label - Part 1

Thought I’d try something different & limit the discussion to wonderful, inexpensive LPs from the same label: Gramavision Records - a really excellent independent that flourished from the late 1970s and lasted well into the 1990s before being bought out by Rykodisk.

This is a selection of some of the more accessible, fusion-leaning modern jazz LPs by a number of uncompromising artists - a few inexplicably overlooked.

Notes: Tony Dagradi’s band was called ASTRAL PROJECT
Bobby Previte’s album “Empty Suits” had no LP issue - CD only

Playing: Anthony Davis “Return From Space - Wonder Nonfiction” (C28Y0144, 1985 - Japan-only issue)

Harvie Swartz “Underneath It All” (GR-8202, 1982)
Tony Dagradi “Oasis” (GR-8001, 1980)
Tony Dagradi “Lunar Eclipse” ( GR-8103, 1982)
Tony Dagradi “Sweet Remembrance” (18-8707-1, 1987)
Bob Moses “Visit With The Great Spirit” (GR 8307, 1984)
Bob Moses “When Elephants Dream Of Music” (GR-8203, 1983)
Bobby Previte “Pushing The Envelope” (18-8711-1, 1987)
Bobby Previte “Claude’s Late Morning” (18-8811-1, 1988)
Bobby Previte “Empty Suits” (CD only! R2 79447, 1990)
Ralph Simon “Time Being” (GR8002, 1980)
John Blake “Maiden Dance” (GR 8309, 1983)
Didier Lockwood “Out Of The Blue” (18-8504-1, 1985)
Kazumi Watanabe “Mobo 2” (GR 8406, 1984)
Kazumi Watanabe “Mobo Splash” (18-8602-1, 1986)
Oliver Lake & Jump Up “Plug It” (GR 8206, 1983)