Teasing the Korean

Spinning these three, as an offering to Chango: Gene Rains - Rains in the Tropics (Decca, stereo) Gene Rains - Lotus Land (Decca, stereo) Gene Rains - Far Across the Sea (Decca, stereo)

You and I have talked about that Wayne Shorter passage in a different thread. (I'll have to find it.) I use lots of passing chords in my arrangement, so I can't write in much detail here, but this is what I play, more or less, in the last 8 bars: dm7, cm7 / bm7, E7 alt / am7 / D7 / ebm7 Ab7 / G7 / C etc. I think it is much more effective to delay the tonic chord until bar 31, but that's just me. However, in my arrangement, I don't hit the tonic chord at all in the first chorus at all. Where I would in theory hit the C on bar 31, I hit a Bbm with a major 7, so the last note (on the word "dream") becames the first note of a new chorus in Db. I then finally hit the tonic chord in bar 31 of the second chorus.

Hubler & Schwab - Vampyros Lesbos (Crippled Dick/Hot Wax)

Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz (Capitol) Les Baxter - African Jazz (Capitol) Bobby Montez - Jungle Fantastique (EMI reissue of Jubilee LP)

Buddy Morrow - Poe for Moderns (RCA, stereo) Featuring, on a couple of tracks, the Skip Jacks!

I think they are trying to get as much in as possible as early as possible. I'm sure they will make the call to change directions, possibly overnight. Latest I'm seeing is that landfall is supposed to occur Wednesday at around 2pm EST.

To allow emergency vehicles in. It is likely that they will open this up at some point for last-minute evacuees.

"Laura" has an ambiguous tonal center; some may say shifting tonal centers. Anyway, the big reveal comes at measure 27 (if my math is correct), when the tonic chord is played for the first time, on the words "kiss to you." This would be C major as the tune is written or at least frequently transcribed. In my solo piano arrangement, I play the relative minor there - am7 - and save the C major chord for bar 31. I have played it this way for years, and after listening to other versions, I think the relative minor is more effective in that passage. Curious to hear anyone's thoughts on this, and if anyone else plays it this way.

Also @Stonewall15.

Thank you! We live in an area where people evacuate to, so that's our rationale. No guarantees, but given the choice, I would rather be here than closer to the coastline.

Staying.

I couldn't find in the recent threads listing.

Well, we have another bearing down on the west coast of Florida. I learned yesterday that the west coast of Florida is most likely to experience direct hits in October, when cold fronts from the north can push the Gulf hurricanes eastward. Sending positive vibes to @Dan Gould and @Stonewall15.

Pete Rugolo - Jack the Ripper (RCA, mono)

Pete Rugolo - Thriller (Time, stereo)

That was cool! Yes, I'd forgotten! (Capitol didn't always credit the players on the back sleeves.)

This gets a lot of airplay at TTK's pad this time of year. Killer arrangement.

Same cat!

Who knew?

In 1979, a community radio station, WMNF 88.5, was launched in our humble hamlet. At that time, they played jazz in prime time, 7-10 if not 7-11, Monday through Thursday (possibly more.) Each night of the week featured a different host, and as a result, different aesthetics and musical/cultural perspectives. While most of the jazz DJs were white, the Thursday night DJ was an African American gentleman by the name of Charles Van. He played primarily organ grove. As a white kid (That is not me in my profile pic; I'm not that handsome), I had never heard this music before and was mesmerized. I didn't know it at the time, but Charles Van was playing this stuff 10 years after it had gone out of fashion, and 10 years before hipsters rediscovered it. Anyway, my anecdotal experience seems to reinforce the book's thesis. The "jazz" that anyone was talking about, writing about, or listening to at that time was all very "serious." But I could tell instinctively as a teenager listening to this organ groove stuff that it was party music. Fast foward another 20 or so years. In the late 1990s, I was living in Beantown, and Ms. TTK and I went to a small jazz club in Roxbury - forget the name of the club - where there was an organ trio playing. The audience was a blend of both demographics - younger white hipsters getting into this stuff, and older African American couples who were probably spinning these records 30 years earlier.

Keith Richards is 80 today. If researchers want to cure death, they know where to look.

I like most of the MGM-era stuff, but from Capitol on, my favorite Shearing albums (and individual tracks) have Latin percussion. I like his solo piano albums, too, though I don't spin them often.

I found the LP years ago without ever having heard it, and bought it just for that track. I couldn't even imagine how the quintet would play it. Turns out it's a killer version!

This is as good a place as any to post the George Shearing version:

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