Teasing the Korean

"Jungle Soul" was the original title. It was re-titled to cash in on bossa nova. The album is a good jungle soul album, but indeed a bad bossa nova album - There's nothing bossa about it.

There has been a big scientific debate in recent decades over perfect pitch, including what constitutes perfect pitch, whether it is inherent or can be learned, and if there is more than one category of perfect pitch. Charlie Banacos told me I had near-perfect pitch (in his words), for whatever that is worth. His ear-training exercises were the only ones that I didn't have to practice.

I have, over the years, unloaded albums because of out-of-tune instruments (I have near-perfect pitch). It never occurred to me to unload this one, and I've had it for decades.

Is your copy mono or stereo? What is interesting about this album is that, while recorded in mono, they made it stereo by placing the mono recording in the center channel and overdubbing percussion and vibes left and right. NP: Duke Jordan - Dangerous Liaisons - Charlie Parker Records (red label, stereo) The Bob Crewe Generation - Let Me Touch You - Forget the label, the cover is in the next room.

Bumping up an old thread that I started, inspired by my recent spinning of "Soft Samba Strings." Since I started this thread, "Eye of the Devil" has been released on CD. I need to spin a bunch of Gary's stuff - it has been a while.

So life as we know it is wiped out, AND we have to go out listening to Gilmore-era Pink Floyd. Talk about adding insult to injury. The asteroid could at least play "Lucifer Sam" or "Bike."

Those Discovery reissues had some hideous cover art, huh?

Stanley Turrentine/Thad Jones - The Look of Love - Blue Note (dark blue label, white font).

Gary McFarland - Soft Samba Strings - Verve (stereo) Wow, parts of this are really out of tune, especially the piano. I never noticed this on the mono version I have. I wonder what went wrong. EDIT. The mono is out of tune, apparently just the piano. I wonder if the piano is isolated on the master, and if this could be corrected for a reissue. It's not a question of the piano being out of tune; it sounds like more of a tape-synching issue.

PM sent.

Been listening to some Bernard Herrmann in advance of Halloween. Fahrenheit 451, which must be one of my top 5 Herrmann scores. And his own version of "Psycho" which he did for a stereo LP in the 70s. Some people complain that the tempo is too slow, but I like it.

I'm not an expert, but I have many, many Verve albums that I have accumulated over many, many years. It seems like the titles I've encountered numerous times over the years are consistent as far as gatefold or not. There must be exceptions to this, but I can't think of any offhand.

Zacherle - Monster Mash - Parkway (mono) featuring "Dinner with Drac."

Ken Nordine - Son of Word Jazz - Dot (mono)

Bossa Rio - s/t - A&M (white label promo, stereo) Presenting Edu Lobo - Philips (white label promo, stereo)

I would love to put together a conceptual early 70s jazz big band, where everyone would have to wear matching leisure suits, mutton chop sideburns and aviator frame glasses. The brass and reed sections would sit on Saarinen pedestal chairs. The guys would have to grow their hair, part it on the side and not wash it for a few days prior to gigs. Bald guys would have to grow combovers. It would be amazing, but a real challenge to find 18 guys who were good players and willing to embrace the concept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNxUMiunrX8

Or at least determining the period where most were issued as gatefolds. This would include all those Jimmy Smith albums and Getz/Gilberto albums.

Don Elliott and Rusty Dedirck - Counterpoint for Six Valves featuring the modern jazz compositions of DICK HYMAN!!! Riverside (white label, mono)

Here are a couple of high-number Verve black label gatefolds I have: 8756 - Don Sebeskey & The Jazz Rock Syndrome 8807 - Stan Getz/Michel Legrand - Communications '72 8809 - Jimmy Smith - Bluesmith

That was blue label not black. I must be color blind. My copy has a black label and gatefold.

Victor Feldman Plays Nearly Everything In Sight - Pacific Jazz (stereo)

Stan doesn't need any moldy figs in his club.

The Velvet Underground and Nico.

Oh, clearly there's no improvisation in it, luckily for us.