Teasing the Korean

Thanks. I have never liked nor understood chronological album presentations. It takes a certain amount of skill and creativity to create a compelling track sequence.

Throughout the 1970s, and as late as 1984 - I remember the specific conversation from 1984 - I often heard middle-aged Americans say, word-for-word, "The big bands are coming back," almost in a brainwashed, Manchurian Candidate sort of manner. Whether it was a marketing campaign or a mind-control experiment by Chinese assets, I don't know.

There was this whole "The Big Bands are Coming Back" hype that began at least by the late 1960s if not the early 1970s. It of course never came true. The hype was probably exacerbated by things like the early-70s The Swing Era box set, with hi-fi/stereo recreations or earlier records, all they way down to the soloists playing transcribed solos from the original 78s. Somebody must have bought this thing, considering all the copies I've stumbled over in thrift stores and record store dollar bins through the years. I have wondered if the few working bands at the time were able to capitalize on the TBBACB hype, and the degrees to which their existence/success was a cause or effect. The economics of the (small) resurgence always puzzled me. I know that some of those bands played as a labor of love on Monday nights, when most musicians had a free night. They made their money elsewhere.

Good to know. I have no interest in a boring jazz piano trio record.

Does it sound anything like this?

In fairness, there is a lot of Kenton out there, and I may not have heard the best Holman or Russo.

Now I wonder if I have a false memory of owning this album. I have the CD. Could I be mixing up Alfie with Mal Waldron's Sweet Love Bitter, also in the jazz soundtracks section, and also with a fat impulse! spine? But I could have sworn I have Alfie on LP. The mystery deepens...

I am the opposite. For me, I prefer Graettinger, Rugolo, and Richards. Holman and Russo charts tend to be plodding and tedious IMO. The CD version of City of Glass is poorly sequenced.

Yeah.

He enjoyed their time together, but he knew their separation was inevitable, because I would eventually see those fat CTI spines in the wrong place.

Thanks. Hopefully it will turn up. My Jackie and Roy LPs accidentally were filed with Hugo Montenegro. I eventually found them.

I have misfiled my Sonny Rollins Alfie LP. I assume that this has a fat orange-and-black impulse! spine, correct?

Robert Farnon composed and arranged several pieces in my beloved Happy Housewife genre. For example, "Portrait of a Flirt": "Manhattan Playboy" "Main Street"

I'm always here for you, bro. Pete Jacques - "Bacana": "Young Sound" - Heinz Kiessling "Little Racer" - Horst Jankowski "My Life" - Nelson Riddle "We Could Be Flying" - Singers Unlimited "Volcano's Daughter" - Nelson Riddle

MPS to me epitomizes 1970s jet set decadence. It is perfect for fondue parties. You can't go wrong with the wonderful Snowflakes compilation. Here is the amazing "Wave's Lament" by the Third Wave. Francy Boland's "Claudia" would fit nicely on the Les Baxter/101 Strings classic iQue Mango! Here is Horst Jankwoski's cover of "How Short is the Time for Love" by Jerry Van Rooyen, a tune worthy of Michel Legrand. "Uptown Dance" by Nelson Riddle Roland Kovac Trip to the Mars George Shearing, "The World is a Ghetto."

It's a great one-stop shopping set.

It is on The Kink Kronikles.

Just found out that Ray is 78 today!

Did you watch that video? I LOVE it!

I encourage you to use numbers in a way that suits you. Yes, I recognize this. I still would like to have drinks with you next time you are in town. My treat.

Not by my calculations. Maybe you use different numbers than I.

Did you know "The Cat" comes from an early Schifrin score to the French film Les Felins, with Alain Delon and Jane Fonda? Check this out! You can't go wrong with three of his classics: Bullitt, Enter the Dragon, and Dirty Harry. If you spring for Bullitt, I would get the FSM release, which includes both the film and album versions. For Dirty Harry, I would go with the first film, available from Schifrin's label Aleph. There is also a Dirty Harry Anthology that you may be able to find inexpensively. Cool Hand Luke is very highly regarded, but while I like it in the context of the film, it is not one that I reach for. The Hellstrom Chronicles is another I love. It is fairly all-over-the-map stylistically that delirious early-70s way, ranging from atonal symphonic, to jazz, to Bossa, and everything else. There are others that are excellent but were released only in limited edition formats. These include The President's Analyst and The Liquidator. Finally, his TV "soundtracks" for Mission: Impossible and Mannix are excellent, but these are really more tie-ins than actual soundtracks.

In honor of Lalo Schifrin's 90th birthday: Enter the Dragon Mannix Mission: Impossible Mo' Mission Impossible

Numbers don't have biases with regard to how they are applied.