Teasing the Korean

@Jsngry did you know Bob Belden at North Texas State?

You missed his birthday. He was born December 4. I'll place a note on my calendar to wish him a Happy Birthday this coming December.

Yes, we recently celebrated his centennial. April 4, 2022. Ms. TTK played him on the Cocktail Mix segment of her radio show. Much as I love all the scores you mentioned, I would argue that jazz film/TV scoring crystalized around Mancini more than it did Bernstein. Staccato was a reaction to Peter Gunn.

I love that tune. A lot of those wind/reed players doubled and tripled on different instruments. I don't think the Mr. Lucky album credits the players. Some of the other albums do. I always loved this tune from Peter Gunn:

Of course. If I had to pick an all-time favorite jazz score, it would probably be I Want to Live. And, yes, also with Legrand and Mancini in terms of the last standards. The thing with Mancini, though, was that jazz scoring really crystalized with Peter Gunn, and as a result, all of these other private eye shows started using jazz. Also, the Peter Gunn album was a massive seller, and as such, it must have been a gateway into jazz for many viewers and listeners.

I was inspired to revisit Black Dahlia for the first time in a couple of years. I am totally digging it and asking myself why I don't spin it more.

Henry Mancini would have been 98 today. Mancini is well-loved by jazz fans for helping to introduce jazz into dramatic film and TV scoring. Peter Gunn alone opened a floodgate for TV jazz detectives. His tunes, along with those of Michel Legrand, are among the last to attain status as jazz standards. "Fallout" is one of his masterpieces.

This arrived from the InterBays. Been on repeat.

One of my new favorite things to do is, if the album has a stamp or sticker with the complete address, looking up the house on Zillow. It's great to see where these records were first enjoyed.

That was my initial thought. Two of those three adjectives may be subjective.

Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds.

Irving Joseph - Murder, Inc. Mundell Lowe - TV Action Jazz!

Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz and African Jazz

The Latin Jazz All-Stars, with Buddy Collette and Tommy Tedesco, who recorded the Crown masterpiece Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat, arguably the greatest album ever made.

We have a Brutalist credenza, the same model that was in Don Draper's office for a few seasons of Mad Men. One of my speakers is directly beside it, meaning that my credenza comes beside each jazz piece rather than before or after. Here it is:

I have been revisiting Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. I really like the first 6 tracks, but the last two do not seem to go with the others. They are nice enough on their own terms, but I will prefer to delete these from my playlist and find another home for them. IMO, the suite is stronger without them, and it still clocks in at 30 minutes.

I dunno, it has some characteristics that I hear on the more introspective tracks on BD. Anyway, I snagged a cheap copy of Three Days of Rain off of the InterBays.

Some budget label LPs were reissued on CD with hideous and sometimes deceptive cover art. If this were the case here, they would probably emphasize Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey, and place Davis's name in a microscopic font. They would probably also spell "jazz" using a sax for the "J."

Thanks for hipping us to this album. I am listening now on YouTube. It is indeed sublime. I will be sure to avoid the film; I have made the mistake before of falling in love with a soundtrack, and then watching the film, only to find that the film is truly terrible. It sometimes takes years to get the bad taste out of my mouth. I love Black Dahlia. When I saw the film, with a forgettable score my Mark Isham, I wished the score was as good as the Belden album. Of course, Belden is meant to celebrate Elizabeth Short's short life. I admit, though, Black Dahlia it is not an album I play often. I have to put myself in the right mood. The money cut for me is "Dream World."

Did they make it to CD?

Thank you for the clarification!

Do you mean that the previous release was of lesser quality than this version?

Never heard of this. Did you ever see the film? It has only a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Thank you!

Is anyone familiar with Maxwell Davis's big band tribute albums that came out on Crown Records?