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Teasing the Korean

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  1. 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.
  2. @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.
  3. Yup! I'll tell the story tomorrow. Though it will probably be boring...
  4. Neither. The Milestone twofer called Zulu, which included Trio and Solo, With These Hands, and two tracks from Plays Cole Porter.
  5. Leon Thomas - Spirits Known and Unknown - Flying Dutchman
  6. Pete Rugolo - The Sweet Ride (20th Century Fox, stereo) Title track sung by Dusty Springfield. Did I ever tell the story about the time I moved, and I brought only one jazz LP with me, the 70s twofer of early Randy Weston stuff?
  7. I also have both the 1986 and 2003, and to my ears, both have issues sonically. I will be interested to hear if the new version sounds better, given advances in technology, but I'm not sure that I'll buy it a third time.
  8. Mel Torme - That's All (Columbia, stereo) with a bunch of bonus tracks. Mel gets the Columbia 30th-Street studio reverb on his voice, like Tony, Johnny, Andy, and Eydie.
  9. Sides 7 and 8 of the Smithsonian American Popular Song box set.
  10. Sides 9 and 10 of the Smithsonian American Popular Song box set.
  11. Charlie Byrd - Mo' Brazilian Byrd (Columbia, stereo)
  12. Agreed, but that isn't the point of the article cited in this thread.
  13. Yes. And as you posted further up, the trend began before AI and digital culture.
  14. Pat Williams - The Streets of San Francisco (La-La-Land, 2-CD set)
  15. Moondog and His Friends, Vol. 1 - Epic (mono, EP) Featuring the smash hit "Why Spend the Dark Night with You" and many more!
  16. The more "culture" a society accumulates, the more that society is competing with its own back catalog.
  17. I was the handsome guy perpetually going through the dollar bins. You weren't the person who grabbed Hefti in Gotham City right before I reached for it, were you?
  18. Of course. If you didn't have any guardrails, think of how many copies of Merry Christmas from Firestone Tires you would have!
  19. The suite takes up one side of the record, and the other side is stand-alone tunes. Both sides are good, but the suite side is the sweet side.
  20. This album was later reissued as St. Thomas under Herbie Mann's name on the Solid State label, with boring cover art. As I was never able to find a clean LP of the UA release, I ended up placing the Solid State vinyl inside of a pristine UA sleeve. This made me very happy!
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