Teasing the Korean

Mine is on a label called Black Ark. It has 10 tracks. The only copyright date is 1975. EDIT: It is on P-Vine, 2009.

Each summer, when we hang out in our tiki room and sip rum cocktails, this album gets at least one spin.

Andy couldn't swing to save his life, as the Count Basie and Ray Charles videos attest. L7. But it is interesting to hear him with S&G, outside of his element, but blending in with his surroundings well enough. Try to find the Ray Charles video if you can. I couldn't find it.

I was going to raise you one with the Andy Williams/Ray Charles duet on "What'd I Say," but it has thankfully been yanked from the InterTubez. This, on the other hand, is sublime.

No worries!

I meant "him/them" regarding Joe as a person and his orchestra as an ensemble, not in a he/him/his way.

Thank you both! Those albums are from roughly the same time period as the Glengarry Glen Ross soundtrack.

What do you know about him/them? They contribute two tracks to the Glengarry Glen Ross soundtrack, "Tear-Filled Skies" and "Blue Lou."

Have there been any releases of Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen since the Japanese CD? I had a pristine copy of the LP, which I bought for 25 cents and then sold for an absurd amount of money. I was disappointed in the sound of the CD.

I have only one album by any of these guys, Terance Blanchard's Jazz in Film. I listen to it once every few years.

Ostensibly a Cal Tjader album, Several Shades of Jade is really a Lalo Schifrin album with Cal Tjader as featured soloist. Another tone poem to the concrete jungle, Bobby Scott's The City, credited to Larry Elgart.

I could listen to that on a loop for HOURS!

In the mid-1990s, Ms. TTK interviewed Dick Hyman for NPR. It was a pretty balanced piece, in terms of jazz, Woody Allen, and session work. At one point, she brought up the Moog albums and shared that these LPs had found a new audience. He kind of laughed it off in the interview, and they moved onto the next topic. By the late 1990s, the space-age-bachelor-pad thing was in full swing, and Hyman fully embraced those albums at that time. Ms. TTK was a few years ahead of the curve. We digitized the interview, and I must have it here someplace.

That has certainly been his focus in recent decades.

That is beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

No. I can't find it on the InterTubez, either. Any good?

An exotica classic by George Russell:

When I was first teaching myself about jazz, I was also into sci-fi, so through the Columbia Record Club, I got Civilized Evil for the cover art alone. The cover is the only thing I remember about the album, which was a victim of my first big vinyl purge in the early 1980s.

Tone poems depicting the many facets of the concrete jungle usually deliver on space-age content.

Did you play anything from his masterpiece Moon Gas (MGM) or any of his Command/Project 3 Moog tracks?

More like the British Mancini. He did lots of cool library stuff. Here is one of his 1960s scores.

I missed the other quote. Sort of, not quite.

The Nervous Beat!

He is looking upward toward outer space, and to a beautiful, mechanized future in which technology will solve all of our problems! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Did you guys know that beloved film and TV composer Oliver Nelson slummed it as a jazz musician before he got a real job? And the opening track from his obscure 1961 jazz album shows that he was already auditioning for the gig. It would fit nicely on Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn album.

Jack Quigley - Class in Session