Teasing the Korean

Johnny Mandel - The Sandpiper (film version) - FSM

In a thread I started years ago called something like "Jazz" albums by "pop" singers, I mentioned the Patti Page/Pete Rugolo Mercury albums, of which there are at least three.

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Here is a great tune in Esperanto. Take three minutes out of your life and listen.

Group 1 - The Brothers Go to Mothers (RCA, stereo) The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Island)

Luiz Henrique - Barra Limpa (Verve, stereo)

Edu Lobo - Presenting (Philips, stereo)

Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia) Stereo recording conducted by the composer.

Various - Blue Brazil, Vol. 2 - nominally on Blue Note, really Brasilian Odeon.

I get what you're saying, although I think that he swings on "Come Dance with Me," on Capitol. That said, my two favorite "swinging" albums of his are "Swingin' Brass" with Neal Hefti and "Ring a Ding" with Johnny Mandel, both early Reprise albums. There is a narrative suggesting that Sinatra's Capitol years are unequivocally his best. I would say while Capitol is more consistent, the highs were higher on Reprise. Unfortunately, the lows were lower also. But those who ignore the Reprise era are missing some of his best albums.

Various - American Popular Song, sides 5 & 6 - Smithsonian (CSP)

The label that we know as Columbia in the US was CBS in England. The older, pre-1948 Columbia Records was part of EMI in the UK, hence the older Columbia label. UK EMI Columbia used the logo with the two 16th notes well into the 1960s if not later. Are you familiar with Frank's Columbia album Swing and Dance With Frank Sinatra from 1950? It sounds in some ways like a precursor to what he would do at Capitol, but he's not really there yet, not fully formed. Frankie Laine seems much more in his element doing this kind of stuff than Sinatra did concurrently. A few years and one record label later, though, that would change, at least to these ears.

I don't think I have that one. Will check it out!

I am the opposite. I don't like her vibrato on the later stuff. I reach for the Columbia or earlier Mercury recordings.

Ms. TTK just did a Sarah Vaughan set on her radio show, and she played the Columbia version of this tune from the early 1950s!

Sarah's 100th birthday was March 27.

@JSngry, Just curious, where does Jackie Paris fit into your chronology relative to Frankie Laine, in terms of jazz/swing vs. white pop?

Various - Treme Season 1 OST Thank you @Stonewall15!

Jerry Fielding - Hunters are for Killing (FSM)

I love his playing on "Laura" with Jeanne Lee. Is there more like this? I may be mistaken, but at least one of his albums with "noir" in the title had synths. I love me some vintage mono synths, but not with film noir. Correct me if I'm wrong.

@JSngry @Chuck Nessa @HutchFan So here is my Randy Weston Zulu album story. I told the story in another thread about my negative university jazz experience, which made it difficult for me to listen to or enjoy jazz for a few years. After I finished my BA (not in music), I was going through some heavy family stuff, and I decided that I was going to pack up and move to a strange city, make a fresh start, and leave behind any vestiges of my past that I did not want to revisit. I chose a city halfway across the country, where I had a single friend living. He was the only person I knew there. If you've never packed up an moved to a strange place, with no connections and virtually no real reason for being there, it is very liberating, but because you have no familiar reference points, it also forces you to discover who you are and what you want, and it's not always easy. I had packed a box of about 50 or so LPs to bring with me, and I deliberately didn't bring any jazz with me, because I thought I was finished with it. What was funny, was that after being there for only a few days, I suddenly wanted to listen to and play jazz. This snuck up on me from nowhere. So I'm frantically going through my LPs, thinking, "Did you really not pack any jazz records, you idiot?" and lo and behold, I find Randy Weston's Zulu. I have no idea how it got in the box; it must have been accidental. Anyway, I played that album to death for several weeks, as it was my only jazz album. I credit this album - and this whole experience - with reinforcing my love for jazz and getting me back into it.

Yup! I'll tell the story tomorrow. Though it will probably be boring...

Neither. The Milestone twofer called Zulu, which included Trio and Solo, With These Hands, and two tracks from Plays Cole Porter.