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Yep. I broadly see easy listening as I describe it as an attempt to keep up with the times. Not just with the songs but the styles. It was mocked at the time, but I find it rather touching that middle-aged people then were seeking a path between their music (big bands and string orchestras) and the music of their children (Beatles, folk, psychedelia). It resulted in a lot of enjoyable music for people of my generation (born 1968) who like both. It clearly had its origins in SABP music too -- that desire to bring an established genre up to date.
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On 28/02/2022 at 5:33 PM, Teasing the Korean said:
For my purposes, I am restricting the era of space-age bachelor pad music to 1946-1964. The 1964 cutoff date is important, in that it represents the worldwide arrival of the Beatles and Bossa Nova, both of which led to the Now Sound and International Jet Set aesthetic, two genres that essentially supplanted space-age bachelor pad music. (These albums may also appear in the jazz section.)
Makes sense to me. I think of what you call SABP music as distinct from easy listening, which came later and encompasses the now sound and jet set stuff you mention. When I googled the origins of the term “easy listening”, I got: "it was coined in 1965 by Claude Hall, radio-TV editor of Billboard magazine". He may have had his own idea of what the term meant, but I see it as very different from what happened before the mid-Sixties, which is as you say more closely allied with jazz. Easy listening I would broadly define as orchestras attempting to do post-rock and roll pop (eg Ray Conniff doing Paul Simon songs). So 1964 is a good cut-off point for SABP music.
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I recall discovering Mosaic in the late 1990s when my office got connected to the internet. I probably found them via the old BNBB. It took me a minute to figure out that these were legit releases -- and in fact by the same people who did the mainstream BN CDs sold in regular shops.
Since I had a bit of catching up to do I would buy them in batches adding up to 12 CDs to sneak in on a particular shipping threshold to the UK. So my first order was for three four-disc sets: Teagarden Capitol, Kenton Presents and Stuff Smith. It was a memorable moment when they arrived -- as others have said upthread, you simply couldn't believe you finally owned this music.
FWIW I quickly followed that order with one for JJ Johnson and Teddy Wilson, then (I think as a Christmas present to myself) the big 12-disc Capitol set. Magical stuff.
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I think this is Mosaic's Lionel Hampton set. It's split into two-disc sections. Also on Spotify
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On 01/12/2021 at 2:42 PM, Teasing the Korean said:
Sondheim was assessing Hart's abilities based on Sondheim's contemporaneous standards of what a successful Broadway show was supposed to accomplish, and not on Hart's reality.
I'm not sure about that. Sondheim praised the lyrics of Hart's contemporary Cole Porter and compared Hart's work unfavourably with that of Dorothy Fields and Frank Loesser, whom he also liked. I think Sondheim understood vintage musicals very well; he was unimpressed with the craftsmanship of Hart. I think I agree with him actually.
BTW I'm not completely sold on Sondheim's critical acumen. I have his book Finishing the Hat in which he also attacks Noel Coward, which is nuts, and praises DuBose Heyward and Truman Capote as lyricists -- each of them wrote just one show each and I can't say I'm very impressed with their work there.
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Also on Spotify (and to buy elsewhere on download) is Woody Herman, The Phillips Recordings. Pretty sure this is the Mosaic Select
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New comp: Lux And Ivy Dig Crime Jazz – Film Noir Grooves & Dangerous Liaisons. Details here.
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I think someone misunderstood the brief.
Anyway, Jacques Prévert, one of the writers of Autumn Leaves, was a poet and screenwriter. The song is actually a setting of one of his poems, it seems.
Ill-fated singer Russ Columbo co-wrote Prisoner of Love
The actor Gene Lockhart co-wrote The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise.
And how could we forget Bertolt Brecht, who co-wrote Mack the Knife?
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Denny Zeitlin The Columbia Studio Sessions on Spotify looks as if it might be the Mosaic Select.
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Joe Pesci didn't write The Folks Who Live On The Hill
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3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Yeah, I think Charlie Chaplin and the "It's All in the Game" guy probably speak more to how I interpreted your questions. Raksin, Romberg, and Kaper were all trained musicians with careers as such, so if they are not qualified to write standards, I don't know who is.
Well Lehar was no amateur either. I interpreted the topic as people outside general songwriting, so film and operetta composers would be OK, but it doesn't matter.
More: Al Jolson contributed to a number of songs; Avalon is probably the best known jazzwise. One of the writers of Too Close For Comfort, Larry Holofcener, was later known as a sculptor (he did that one of Churchill and Roosevelt in New Bond Street in London). Film director Victor Schertzinger co-wrote I Don't Want To Cry Anymore and I Remember You. Eric Maschwitz, who co-wrote These Foolish Things, later became controller of the BBC (among many other achievements). Anthony Newley was an actor who also co-wrote many songs, including the Bill Evans favourites Who Can I Turn To and What Kind of Fool Am I.
And maybe slightly outside jazz (but since you liked the politicians...): screenwriter Edmund Goulding co-wrote Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere and Mam'selle; novelist William Saroyan co-wrote Come On-A My House; and film director Leo McCarey co-wrote the title song for his film An Affair To Remember.
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Bing Crosby, I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
Charlie Chaplin, Smile
David Raksin, Laura
Sigmund Romberg, Lover Come Back to Me & Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
Franz Lehár, Vilia
Eden Ahbez, Nature Boy
Bronislau Kaper, On Green Dolphin Street & All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
Truman Capote, A Sleepin Bee
(Of course on some of these the contribution was minimal)
Maybe not jazz standards, but It's All in the Game was written by US vice president Charles G. Dawes and You Are My Sunshine by Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis
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On 19/06/2021 at 1:37 PM, jazzbo said:
But does it include a pdf of the booklet?
No
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1 hour ago, medjuck said:
- Do the others that are available also show the Mosaic packaging?
Some do, most don't. The Verve ones tend not to but it's obvious that they are the Mosaics.
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1 hour ago, medjuck said:
Wow some good stuff there. And there's that large Nat Cole Trio on Capital set as well. Are they still doing Capitol Vaults at all?
The Cole is available. That was my first Qobuz purchase, after a board member steered me there. Have bought lots since.
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1 hour ago, medjuck said:
Which Mosaic releases now owned by Universal have not gotten the Capital Vaults treatment?
Off the top of my head the Teagarden, Ellington, Kenton, Goodman, Herman and Four Freshmen are unavailable for download and streaming.
Universal has made available other Mosaics from Blue Note and Verve, but there are many it hasn't. I'd like to see the Kid Ory set for example; I debated over that one when it was going oop then decided not to bite. The OP makes a good point -- why not just do it? Apathy or ignorance would be my guess.
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1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:
Let's make that retroactive to JS Bach, or even before. What do you think?
Ha, should have specified recorded music, but now you mention it...
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I don't think any music should be PD. Instead I would like a law whereby any copyright holder who is approached by a third party wishing to license otherwise unused music should be compelled to coooperate. That way instead of a flood of substandard issues of the same material we would be more likely to have professional masters from the original source material and appropriate fees paid. Until that happens I'll support Mosaic, Resonance, Ace, Real Gone etc and ignore the PD merchants. Unfortunately I also miss out on a lot of music.
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2 hours ago, bresna said:
Isn't a MyBook hooked to a Linux PC simply going to show up as a storage device? I think you'd have to run JRiver from the RPI mini-PC (as GregK mentions above) but I would think that you could make it work. I would ask GregK if he thought it could work for you.
I'll look into it, thanks
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Thanks bresna, food for thought. I'd like to free my Macbook from my audio set-up and have thought about the Raspberry Pi but can't see that it would be compatible in an Apple set-up (it's apples and raspberries, I guess).
FWIW my set-up is MyBook EHD > Macbook running JRiver > amp & speakers. I control it with JRemote on an iPad. (I too have 2 more MyBooks as back-up, silly not to.)
Going by what has been posted above In wonder (if I could get it connected) if I could control it with JRiver on the Macbook, which would be great.
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Tavernier's Round Midnight turned me into a jazz fan. Of course I had been exposed to lots of jazz -- as a child of the 1970s/1980s I would hear it often on even quite mainstream TV and radio shows -- but this film was the experience that made me go, "Ah!"
I saw it at the Everyman cinema in Hampstead, north London and remember emerging afterwards, really high on what I had just seen and heard, and a middle-aged lady behind me saying: "Well that was one of the worst films I've ever seen."
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I remember a live box being mooted. Pity it never happened and I wonder if Mosaic would do it.
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I haven't even played my copy yet
Which Box Sets do You Regret Buying, and Why?
in Mosaic and other box sets...
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The Original Jacket Collection classical sets that Sony does. They also did a few jazz sets that way, such ads Brubeck, Dexter, Blakey. They are good to look at and handle and are quite space efficient.