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What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Teasing the Korean replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Mose Allison Sings (Prestige, mono) -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Teasing the Korean replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Frank DeVol - The Happening OST (Colgems, mono) -
That Distinctive Brasil '66 Drum Hit
Teasing the Korean replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in Artists
Listening to Walter Wanderley's When It Was Done on CTI/A&M, and this drum hit is all over the place on this album. -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Teasing the Korean replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Rita Graham - Vibrations (Tangerine, stereo) -
What vinyl are you spinning right now??
Teasing the Korean replied to wolff's topic in The Vinyl Frontier
Walter Wanderley - When It Was Done (CTI, stereo) -
My wife has been in public/community radio for her entire career, and things are getting very "conservative" - and moderators, that's a lower-case "c" conservative, to clarify - in terms of what is allowed on the radio. Ironically, these kinds of public/community stations were created decades ago specifically to escape the rigid guidelines of what was permissible on commercial radio. One of her counterparts at another public/community station told her that National Lampoon, Monty Python, and Firesign Theatre were all banned from his station. Every year on her annual Christmas show, Ms. TTK plays a version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside," and every year, someone calls to complain. In the meantime, that same station hosted a Rolling Stones tribute event, in which various bands played such enlightened tunes as "Brown Sugar" and "Stupid Girl," which must be more offensive to some than Loesser's standard. So, the point is, everyone at these stations seems willing to find a sacrificial lamb to demonstrate their adherence to "principles of community," but they have zero formal guidelines about where the lines are drawn. No one would dare to ban the Stones, because the aging hippies would all have strokes.
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One of the characteristics of any Cole Porter tunes is that, if a tune is in AABA form or a similar extended form, there are subtle melodic variations between the A sections, and singers and instrumentalists will often get these wrong. I just heard Eartha Kitt's version of "Let's Do It," and she sings most or all of the A sections with the melody from the final A section. Similarly, Esquivel misses some of the variations in the A sections of "Begin the Beguine." I'm sure there are many other examples, but these two come to mind.
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Quincy Jones Mid-60s Jazz (or Quasi-Jazz) Scores
Teasing the Korean replied to Teasing the Korean's topic in Artists
Agree. I really hate, though, the title song as sung by that kid in an overwrought manner. I always skip it, and I don't think the kid ever did anything else. I'm guessing his inclusion was done as a favor to someone. In the Heat is marred by some unfortunate hee-haw tunes, easily skipped if you have the CD version, but otherwise is pretty solid, ranging from R&B-ish stuff to dramatic jazzy. Mirage is the most Mancini-ish, at least the LP version is, especially with the vocal chorus singing the main theme. "Shoot to Kill" on that album is fantastic. -
I wonder if Dean Martin was influenced by Frankie Laine. Hearing these videos posted above, I hear some similarities. I think Dino is a better singer than Frankie, although Dino recorded at least as much schlock as Frankie did, maybe even more so.
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Jazz musicians with the same names
Teasing the Korean replied to Rabshakeh's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Allen Lowe Allen Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -
What do you think of Q's mid-60s jazz or pseudo-jazz scores? In particular, I am thinking of: The Pawnbroker Deadly Affair Mirage The Slender Thread In the Heat of the Night But also not limiting it to these, either. These albums/scores, along with those by Kenyon Hopkins and Lalo Schifrin from this period, really form the basis of US jazz scoring from this period, and went a long way toward shaping the aesthetics of TTK. I also love the concentric circle designs used on four of the five albums I listed.
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Shorty Rogers' "Chances Are It Swings"
Teasing the Korean replied to Larry Kart's topic in Recommendations
Glad you picked it up! I think I like the side with the four stand-alone tunes even more than the side with the suite, though I like the whole album. -
Jazz musicians with the same names
Teasing the Korean replied to Rabshakeh's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I love John Williams' 1950s session work, in particular: Stanley Wilson - M Squad (RCA) Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn, Combo! (RCA) Robert Drasnin - Voodoo (Tops) Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz (Capitol) Of course, playing music written by such fantastic arrangers often brings out the best in musicians. -
I don't know how old everyone is, but it is my understanding that age-related hearing loss has to do with the neural pathways between the ear and brain, and not with the ear itself. Can hearing aids do anything for this?
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Today I was asking Alexa to play some jazz, and a very nice piano trio version of "Georgia on My Mind" came on. I stopped what I was doing and listened. After the first chorus, an alto sax came in, and I knew immediately that it was Paul Desmond, and I knew that this must have been the version from the Brubeck Gone with the Wind album on Columbia. When I was a kid, I borrowed this album from our family friend Bob Davis, who had been in the jazz vocal group the Honey Dreamers. (Bob also lent me Jazz Impressions of Japan.). That version of "Georgia" captivated me as a 13-year-old. Over the years, I have accumulated a reasonable amount of Brubeck albums, but I don't think I've heard that particular LP since I was a teenager. Interesting that it made an impression on me then, and that I sat up and took notice hearing the tune out of context, decades later. Bob Davis sadly died when I was about 16 or 17. I inherited from him a thin black necktie dating from the early 1960s. I wore it for decades, and at some point, it got lost. I never understand how neckties get lost, but it happens. It still makes me sad when I think about this. EDIT: The other thing I remember about that album is Paul quoting "St. Thomas" in his solo on "Gone with the Wind."
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Jazz musicians with the same names
Teasing the Korean replied to Rabshakeh's topic in Miscellaneous Music
When I was living in Beantown and getting serious again about jazz, many years after my horrible university jazz experience, I got on Charlie Banacos's waiting list, which was around 2 to 3 years at that point. But I wanted to start studying with someone while I was waiting. I was told that George Russell, Jr. at NEC was taking students. I thought, "Wow! I can study the Lydian Chromatic Concept with George Russell's son!" But it turned out that he was not the son of THE George Russell. What are the odds? You have the same name, play piano, and teach at NEC! Anyway, I never studied with him. Now I'm beginning to worry that maybe I was studying with the wrong Charlie Banacos also! 🤪 -
Jazz musicians with the same names
Teasing the Korean replied to Rabshakeh's topic in Miscellaneous Music
Phil Moore Phil Moore -
The first of those three was pretty good. I did not care for the other two.
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He lived to age 93. I think I had an LP he did with Legrand, but I unloaded it. He wound up doing a lot of C&W stuff by the late '50s/early '60s. I never really got a handle on him, and what little I heard over the decades did not necessarily inspire me to. I was surprised to learn that he co-wrote the standard "We'll Be Together Again."