Teasing the Korean

I did have Blue Afternoon on vinyl. I never explored the two albums after Greetings from LA. I have heard generally bad things about them. As for posthumous released, my favorite is Dream Letter, the live two-CD set. I also have Live at the Troubadour, and live solo album recorded in Greenwich Village someplace (forget the name). Ms. TTK has the LA Nuggets box set comp, and IIRC, there is an early non-LP Tim Buckley track on it, probably from around the same time as his solo debut.

I bought many of the Tim Buckley CDs when they were in print. I more recently got the "Original Album Classics" set of the first five albums, because it had Blue Afternoon, which I had missed the first time around.

Thank you! You know why I didn't find it? It is spelled on the CD "Did'nt" When I searched for "I Didn't," it didn't show up. I mean it did'nt show up! Now I just need to waddle over to Qobuz to buy lossless versions of "Tenderly" and "Summertime" so I can complete the "You're Hearing George Shearing" album.

My copy is missing at least one quintet track, "I Didn't Know What Time it Was," unless it is incorrectly unidentified. On the bright side, I count 24 tracks that did not appear on any of the 7 MGM LPs released in the US in the 1950s.

So I've used that red George Shearing Quintet box to replicate some of the 1950s MGM LPs (which I realize were comps). There are a few missing quintet tracks. For example, I cannot find "I Didn't Know What Time it Was," unless it is mislabeled. I adore this version of "When Your Lover Has Gone."

Last night, I was a bachelor, so I spent the night - as you may guess - at home, drinking wine and listening to music. I put together a Happy/Sad playlist that included the album and some of the non-duplicated tracks from the Rhino Handmade collection, notably the acoustic version of "Song of the Siren." You know, I cannot hear "Here I am, here I am/Waiting to hold you" without expecting to hear "For Pete's Sake," the Monkees' closing theme, directly afterward. I then put together a "Frodis Caper" playlist that went like this: Theme from The Monkees (TV version) Zor and Zam (mono version) Song of the Siren (Happy/Sad outtake) For Pete's Sake (mono version) So, despite what stereotypes you may have of me exclusively listening to space-age bachelor pad music, last night I proved that I am indeed capable of turning on and tuning in to the moods, feelings, and vibrations of today!

Well, Gilberto's naïveté doesn't make Stan Getz any nicer of a human being.

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It's a Roger Vadim film. Surprisingly, there are no reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I will have to seek it out.

Yes, I have his "Monk" soundtrack! And I don't mean Thelonious!

I really like the MJQ LP. Do you happen to know if the music as heard in the film was MJQ, or was it orchestrated?

That very well could be.

Lots of records, so little money! I was originally thinking of people like Schuller and Lewis who were self-consciously part of the third stream. If there are others who were part of that rat pack, I would be interested in learning about them, but I'm also looking at things more broadly.

No apologies necessary. Agree about the "quickly made extension of the movie theme." I wondered if Herbie originally wrote only what was needed for the film, and then decided to flesh it out for this recording. I think that Hutcherson went to the melody 4 bars early, and then the bass and piano quickly caught up, but it's hard to say for sure. I will check out that other version!

Yes, this is great!

Does anyone remember how the back covers of Columbia and MCA/Decca reissue LPs looked like Xeroxes of the previous edition? By the time you got to an 1980s reissue of a 1950s album, you couldn't even read the liner notes.

This album appears to be a part of the CD collection that you recommended.

For a while, I kept finding copies of the Gunther Schuller LP for brass, with the white cover. I couldn't give them away! I may still have two copies. I will have to re-spin this.

Ruy Castro addresses this in his Bossa Nova book. I saw Caetano live about 15 years ago. He was with young band with electric guitars and drums. Then, about halfway through the concert, they leave the stage, Caetano grabs a nylon string guitar, sits down, and sings and plays "Ho-Ba-La-La" solo. He brought the house down.

I thought we had an old thread on Third Stream, but I could not find it. Given my tastes, Third Stream is a genre that I should like in theory, but from what I've heard, it rarely delivers. For example, I have several things by John Lewis, and they come off as precious, mannered, and - I'll just say it - boring. Is Rolf Liebermann's 12-tone "Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony" considered Third Stream? It gets off to a good start, but ultimately, it is not satisfying to me. What are some of these best "Third Stream" albums/ pieces, either by composers 1) who deliberately set out to to Third Stream, or 2) who accidentally ended up there? I love a lot of film and TV scoring that combines 20th-century orchestral devices with jazz. I would love to find a Third Stream album as good as some of those. Thanks in advance.

We were discussing the Hutcherson recording of "Blow Up." You wrote "Use the Melody as Your Guide" and "Creative minds follow their ideas, not formulas." I inferred that you were talking about the four musicians on the record, since we have not been discussing anyone else. Apologies if I misunderstood.

I especially love his compositions, many of which neatly fit into my beloved Twilight Zone Jazz subgenre.

Then some of the creative minds who recorded "Blow Up" that day were not particularly creative during that one brief second. Or, it was simply human error.

Except that this particular tune is essentially all changes/groove with hardly any melody. Compare the Hutcherson version to the film and album versions. The A phrase, which is 12 bars long, has melody primarily only on the first five bars, and even that is fluid. After the melody peters out, Hutcherson plays the vamp along with the piano. I think the musicians weren't 100% percent sure it the return to E after the A7 sus. to G7 sus. marked the beginning of a new phrase or not.

Wishing you positive vibes, Allen, and congrats on winning best artist!