Teasing the Korean

It looks like that Solar collection has been reissued by Essential Jazz Classics. That may be the way to go. And it also looks like the wordless vocals/bongos/harp may have appeared on more than one album, in varying ratios.

Really? I heard some stuff with wordless female vocals, harp, and Latin percussion. Did they have multiple incarnations under the one name?

I think you have to add forum at the end. I left that part off.

This group seems to be right up may alley, based on what I've heard. How many albums did they make? Are some more interesting than others?

Is anyone else seeing a page that says "Our site is under maintenance" when you go to the main page? I have to navigate here from a known link.

I'm having trouble accessing the site. I was able to get here now only by doing an internet search and navigating from that link.

A few interesting tidbits: That Shorty Rogers The Wild One EP has been collected on the RCA Short Stops compilation. Private Hell 36 was released as a 10" in mono. When it was expanded as a 12" album, under the title Jazz Themes for Cops and Robbers, they made the album "stereo" by overdubbing vibes and bongos onto the existing mono tracks. The overdubs appear left and right, while the original mono recording is centered. Both albums are excellent choices, by the way.

Well, I thought I had several of his records, but I am seeing only one: Proto Bopper, on Revelation, from 1972. I bought this at the same time that I bought several Clare Fischer albums, and I may have been conflating the two.

I can't help you with your specific question, but years ago, I found a number of his LPs for very cheap. I they are still in the massive "to be cleaned" section. Thanks for the nudge!

"Hackney Carriage" by King Palmer "Lots of Pluck" by Joseph Mullendore:

Tony Scott, incidentally, is not on the second volume of Mundell Lowe's TV Action Jazz!, but it is a fantastic album, and in some ways, more interesting than the first, especially given the obscurity of some of the themes. Both albums are very short; it is a shame that there has never been a legit twofer reissue.

I keep getting badges! This new platform seems to really like me!

I don't doubt you, and you've probably heard much more Tony Scott than I. It's just that in the recordings I've heard, I pick up on a rounder, warmer, and more wooden sound than I typically get from clarinet players. Maybe I've just heard the right recordings.

I hear nothing at all shrill in that version of "Riff Blues." Did you listen to it?

Thanks for this. I have no idea who Bill Crow is, but I did not care for his writing style. Here is where I am coming from with Tony Scott: I find the clarinet to be overall an unpleasant instrument that usually produces unpleasant tones. In the instrument's favor, it does have a very wide range, and it can sound very nice in the lower register. (I should add here that I do indeed love the sound of the bass clarinet.) The clarinet in its upper register for me is shrill and annoying, and I have found that most clarinet players - even celebrated ones - often are screeching and piercing to my ears. And I absolutely hate the sound of the Glenn Miller sax section with the clarinet on top. What I like about Tony Scott - or I should clarify what little I've heard of him - is that he tends to coax a more warm and "wooden" sound out of the instrument than a cold "metal" sound that I usually associate with it. I can usually pick him out as a sideman on records for that reason, as I did with the Billie Holiday record I mentioned. I wonder if he modified his instrument at all with an atypical reed. The only Tony Scott album I have is an eastern-tinged thing he did for Verve in the 1960s, and I like the album more for its overall vibe than for anyone's playing. I will reiterate how much I love Tony Scott's playing on "Riff Blues" from TV Action Jazz, which I posted above. The clarinet almost sounds like an alto flute when the tune starts. Anyway, I find the recording to be a great example of an arrangement and a soloist fully complementing each other, where the whole, as they say, is greater than the sum of its parts. No other version of "Riff Blues" comes close to that recording. And as a connoisseur of crime/private eye jazz, I've heard most of them.

A few more: Pete Kelly's Blues - Not sure whose version yet. Intrigue - June Christy

I was just listening to Billie Holiday sing "Everything Happens to Me." When the clarinet solo arrived, I immediately heard in my mind Tony Scott's amazing version of "Riff Blues" that I posted above from TV Action Jazz. I was correct: It is indeed he!

I must have seen this, because I was watching religiously at that time. But I have no recollection of it.

Agree in general, but today's was a bust. There's one in a few weeks. I plan to check that one out also.

I once offered to buy Dan Gould cocktails, but I think he told me he didn't drink. I then offered to buy him a Shirley Temple, under the circumstances.

You didn't miss anything this morning at the model train show, Chuck. It was two extremes: Sellers with overpriced stuff, and sellers who brought cardboard boxes filled with junk. I almost bought a Monon gondola by Tyco, dating from the Mantua period, meaning that it had a metal base and metal trucks, but the guy wanted $5, and the car was not pristine enough for my high standards. Anyway, the experience proved the old adage: Some days you need to go out and buy things for the layout, and other days you need to stay home and work on the layout.

No, but I would certainly pick it up if I stumbled across it. I will look for it on the InterTubes.

Not sure to whom your question is directed. I have the one where he is riding a Vespa in space while carrying a French horn - something we've all attempted at one time or another.

Just had a lovely visit from stonewall15, who made the trek to our humble hamlet. Stonewall is the first Organissimo member whom I've formally met in person, although Ms. TTK met Jim Alfredson when his combo played here. (And I think I've seen Chuck at model train shows.) We enjoyed a higher-end pizza and talked jazz, history - especially related to Veterans Day - and cats. Stonewall is an Eddie Costa fan, and I turned him onto the Mundell Lowe TV Action Jazz! album, which features a great Eddie Costa piano solo on "77 Sunset Strip." And Stonewall hooked me up with The House of Blue Lights. Anyway, this experience has proven to me that I'm ready to reintegrate into society. I look forward to meeting each and every one of you. I'll let you know in advance when I'll show up on your doorstep.

A few more additions: "Lilac Wine" - Eartha Kitt "Lazy Afternoon" - Eartha Kitt "Midnight Indigo" - LHR "Deep in a Dream" - Frank "The Night We Called it a Day - Chet Baker Also, I'm replacing Julie London's version of "Midnight Sun" with Nancy Wilson's version.