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  1. Nat King Cole

    in Artists

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Ken Dryden said:

    The first version of After Musnight that I bought in the 1970s was a 10 track reissue that deleted two tracks. I found a used original, than an import lp with bonus tracks, the Mosaic set, then I think there was another cd reissue with additional music.

    Yes, the CD has 5 bonus tracks for a total of 17.

    I even have a French LP reissue with all 17 tracks, but it teeters into groove-cramming territory.  Luckily, because it is mono, you can hit the mono button and reduce distortion.

  2. Gulf Coast Jazz Collective - Music of Miles Davis Nov 17 Fort Myers

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    1 hour ago, JSngry said:

    It's really not that much different than a Classical player being able to perform a recital of a variety of musics. EXCEPT - Jazz was not created to be this, Jazz was created for people to find THEIR voices. That's a major difference imo, and also a deal-breaker as to what I would want to support in any way.

    I completely agree with your statement, but this concert - or at least the way the concert is being promoted - is not designed for folks with hundreds of jazz albums, or who frequent message boards like this.  If there is an audience willing to pay for this kind of thing, some players will line up to exploit the opportunity.  It is one more example of jazz becoming a legacy genre.

     

  7. Thomas M. Bresnahan - RIP

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    My Dad has been gone for more than 30 years.  We shared music in common.  When a pianist or arranger used an interesting chord substitution, we would intuitively make eye contact, both thinking the same thing.  One of my last musical memories was riding in the car with him listening to an early Randy Weston album on a cassette.  I remember we had pulled into the garage just when "Again" started.  I said, "Wait, you have to hear this."  And we sat in the parked car listening to Randy Weston play "Again" without saying a word.

  9. Joe Castro - Mood Jazz (Atlantic)

    in Recommendations

    Posted · Edited by Teasing the Korean

    Prepping for a yard sale, I'm going through stacks and stacks of never played, never cleaned LPs, and I came across this one.  It seems promising, as it features strings and voices, with some tunes arranged by Neal Hefti.  I suspect that this will teeter into my beloved Space-Age Bachelor Pad aesthetic.  Giving it a scrub on the ol' Nitty Gritty.  Will report back.  

    EDIT:  The YouTube needle drops I just did confirm my suspicions!

  10. Tito Puente in the 1940' and 1950's

    in Discography

    Posted

    On 6/10/2021 at 8:25 PM, HutchFan said:

    TTK,

    I only picked up Puente in Percussion recently, so these are still-evolving impressions.  But I would say that Puente in Percussion compares VERY favorably with Top Percussion.  I may even prefer the Tico album over the RCA.

    One aside: The cover on my Tico CD reissue is different than the illustration above.  The cover I have is shown below:

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    So more than a year after asking about this album, I am going through my massive stack of "new" acquisitions, "to be cleaned," etc.  No rhyme or reason to the filing.  "New" can mean it is as recent as 15 years old!

    And I come across a Tito Puente album I've never spun called Rhythm + Drums + Timbales + Percussion.  It is on Roulette, courtesy of French Vogue. 

    I turn it over and look at the track titles.  It is a French release of Puente in Percussion, with different cover art!  It looks to be in great shape. Can't wait to clean it and give it a spin!

    The cover says it's stereo.  Was this actually recorded in stereo, or do you think is electronically reprocessed from mono?

    So here I was, looking high and low for an affordable copy of an album I had all along.  I doubt I paid more than a dollar for it. 

     

  11. Bernard Herrmann Twilight Zone Score in Rod Serling's Hometown

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    10 hours ago, Ken Dryden said:

    That should be fun. I got to hear Rod Serling give a speech in 1974 when I was in college, the year before he died.

    Whenever the topic comes of the WWII generation looking older than their counterparts today, I like to bring up the fact that Serling, during The Twilight Zone, was roughly between the ages of 36 and 40!  He left us way too early.

    3 hours ago, sidewinder said:

    I was in Binghamton some years ago and remember seeing the memorial to Serling  that they have - might have been at the airport. In early December the place was bone-chillingly cold.

    I can imagine!  Nice that they recognize his contributions!

    Here is the score.  Many Herrmann fans cite this as one of the most beautiful things he wrote.

     

  16. Bernard Herrmann Twilight Zone Score in Rod Serling's Hometown

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    The Binghamton Philharmonic, in Rod Serling's hometown of Binghamton, NY, will present Bernard Herrmann's score to the Twilight Zone episode "Walking Distance" on October 22. They will first play it instrumentally as a suite, and then perform it again with actors reading the script.  

    https://broomearts.org/classic-twilight-zone-episode-to-be-recreated-through-music-and-staged-reading/?fbclid=IwAR0wC5fd6gLhGmxPJA7ztO90KwLcHLewwf1oIoFp1qziiJMxqjBRXOOo78I

  23. Miles Davis: First Nine Albums On Prestige

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Of course they were cheap. This was before Prestige got bought by Fantasy. A totally indie label then. Bob Weinstock was making his money from Bob Porter & Soul Jazz. There was not necessarily a big market for this stuff yet. Yet. But the times were changing and not everybody was enjoying that. So they created a rather interesting "series" (or two...) and gave it a unified look. Cheap, but unified. 

    Well, there's cheap, and then there's cheap.

  25. Miles Davis: First Nine Albums On Prestige

    in Recommendations

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    I loved it. The photos were more or less always time-period accurate, which was a real changeup for Prestige.

    Agree about the photos.  The graphics struck me as cheap.  Keep in mind I saw these in an era during which there were lots of cheap jazz reissues, and it was sometimes hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, especially for a kid who was still learning about all this stuff.

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