Teasing the Korean

Jazz soundtracks are an area of specialization for me. As much as I like "real" jazz soundtracks, the ones by classically-trained film composers are often very interesting. It's like they created their own version of third stream jazz. I have posted some of these in my Twilight Zone Jazz thread. For example, here is Franz Waxman's Crime in the Streets. As for a favorite jazz score, I may have to choose Johnny Mandel's score for I Want to Live!

"Night Bird" on that same Anita O'Day album fits in with this vibe also. Maybe even "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" also, with its tough lingo.

Thank you! For those who have not heard it, here is "Lonelyville" by Combustible Edison.

Both of my copies are pristine. It's a mono LP. The groove noise is out of phase, and when you play it back in mono, the stylus travel noise disappears.

Very cool! In the 1990s, when I lived in Beantown, I saw Schuller conduct a concert at NEC. It was, IIRC, his transcriptions of early big band arrangements whose charts were lost.

So here is my initial playlist, in no order. (I hit the "shuffle" button.) I was limited to things I had on CD, so there were some tracks I would have included, but have only on LP.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/09/arts/music/gal-costa-dead.html

The vinyl on both copies is very clean. The covers have some wear, but nothing you can't live with.

Finally putting together a playlist based on this thread.

Funny you mention this, TTK. Last night I was randomly pulling up albums that I have backed up on my hard drive. I pulled up a seldom-spun Anita O'Day record on Verve titled Anita. I'm listening and I'm thinking, "Wow, these arrangements are really subpar." So I waddled over to the jazz/pop vocal section of my CD library, pulled out the album, and lo and behold, it was arranged by none other than our old friend Buddy Bregman.

OK, the thrift store truck is taking the first two, but I'm not parting with my two extra copies of Music for Brass by Gunther Schuller, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre & JJ Johnson. I'm determined to find a good home for them.

I have TWO copies of an early Columbia LP called: Music for Brass by Gunther Schuller, John Lewis, Jimmy Giuffre & JJ Johnson. By the way, I keep a copy of this LP; it's just that I keep running across additional copies and can't bear to leave them behind. PM me this evening for details on each, if you're interested.

If that is 1999, that is the one that Felser is getting! As a bonus, when Felser goes to the December page, he will also get my brother-in-law's phone number; my deceased mother-in-law's former phone number; and my jury duty date in February 2000.

The following are still available. Priced to move: Terrence Blanchard - Jazz in Film (Sony) Ted Nash - The Mancini Project (Palmetto) National Youth Jazz Orchestra - Jazz in Film Dave Peck Trio (Let's Play Stella) Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Anthology (both the Dot and Paramount Mission: Impossible LPs on one CD) (MCA/One Way) Kenny Werner Trio - A Delicate Balance (BMG) Various - Liebermann: Concerto for Jazz Band & Symphony Orchestra; Ellington: Harlem; Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto (Akademia) Various - Verve Unmixed (Verve) Various - Ken Burns Jazz Sampler - As Seen on TV! With Armstrong, Ellington, and others made famous by Ken Burns (Verve)

Understood that it was not a jam. But were there any other long cuts by 1956 that could compare?

I remember many decades ago picking up the reissue of Saxophone Colossus and reading liner notes written by Martin Williams in 1964, eight years after the recording of the album in 1956. He writes that "Blue 7," at 11:18, represents "one of the few truly successful extended performances on record." He later calls it a masterpiece, and mentions that Gunther Schuller writes about it in Jazz Panorama. Obviously, jazz recorded during the 78 era was by necessity limited to three-minute running times, and the LP allowed for longer explorations in which soloists could play more than one chorus. My question is - and my collection is not arranged chronologically - were there many 10- to 12-minute tracks on jazz LPs prior to "Blue 7," and if so, how do they stack up against "Blue 7?" I know offhand that there are long tracks on the Ellington Masterpieces and Uptown albums. And "Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue" on the Newport '56 album clocks in at around 14 minutes. How much competition did "Blue 7" have, in terms of length, by 1956?

Ed Thigpen - Out of the Storm - Verve (mono)

I had that but I'm not sure if I still do. Was "White Christmas" on it? Did not know this!

Thanks. I have owned a couple of these over the decades. I think I have volume 2 now. I take it the LPs were issued only in reprocessed (fake) stereo and not mono?

A couple of questions on these: How many volumes were there, and what was the source of the music? Air checks or similar? Have these been collected on CD? Mildly off-topic, but is there a label other than Everest that went from being a high-end audiophile label to a budget label?

I still have a 1999 BN calendar. The images for each month are a B&W Francis Wolff image of the different BN artist, as opposed to album oovers. Don't know if anyone cares about these, but I wouldn't want to throw it away if there is an interest.

Prices are cheap. All inserts are intact except where noted. PM me if interested. Terrence Blanchard - Jazz in Film (Sony) Stan Getz/Arthur Fiedler - A Song at Sundown (RCA) SOLD Steve Kuhn - Mostly Coltrane (ECM) SOLD Michel Legrand - The Thomas Crown Affair (no rear insert) ( Ryko) SOLD Michel Legrand - Legrand Jazz (Philips) SOLD Buddy Morrow - Impact/Double Impact (Collectibles twofer of RCA LPs, sealed) SOLD Ted Nash - The Mancini Project (Palmetto) National Youth Jazz Orchestra - Jazz in Film Dave Peck Trio (Let's Play Stella) Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Anthology (both the Dot and Paramount Mission: Impossible LPs on one CD) (MCA/One Way) Kenny Werner Trio - A Delicate Balance (BMG) Various - Liebermann: Concerto for Jazz Band & Symphony Orchestra; Ellington: Harlem; Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto (Akademia) Various - Droppin' Science: Greatest Samples from the Blue Note Lab (Blue Note) SOLD Various - Verve Unmixed (Verve) Various - Ken Burns Jazz Sampler - As Seen on TV! With Armstrong, Ellington, and others made famous by Ken Burns (Verve)

I have Bernard Herrmann's Obsession on Blu-Ray. I can't really tell a difference between it and the standard CD.

Nosey Parker.

A friend of mine once said that Lena Horne sounds like she's going to come through the speaker and bite your nose off!