Teasing the Korean

Do you ever hear music in the white noise as you drift off to sleep? I do sometimes!

Thanks. I'm guessing these could picked up from far away at night.

I am wondering what it was like before FM radio really became a thing, but we may not have any members old enough to remember that.

That is interesting. That makes sense about the Iowa station, as AM waves were easier to pick up from far off at night, presumably because of less interference.

By the time I was coming up, jazz was almost entirely an FM thing. Does anyone remember AM jazz stations, and did anyone ever pick up far-off AM jazz stations at night?

By the way, some of the tracks from the Phil Moore album have appeared on the Lux and Ivy exotica compilations on Righteous.

Before we get all snobby about Crown, don't forget that two of the greatest albums ever made were recorded for Crown: Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat by the Latin Jazz All-Stars, featuring Buddy Collette; and Kapu by Milt Raskin, later reissued as Exotic Percussion. Crown will always be an important record label to TTK because of these two masterpieces.

I like the RCA album with Latin percussion. I think there is a painting on the cover.

So you are suggesting that the Bill Evans I've been listening to all these years is not a choreographer? His versatility was one of the things I most admired about him!

I am on a hybrid remote/in-office schedule. About 15 co-workers in my building have had COVID recently, probably Omicron, but I don't know for sure. Management keep silent regarding our working remotely. Many of us shifted primarily to remote work because of this. I am going in only when I need to. There is no one there anyway.

We have a string of porch lights with Edison bulbs. They have a very retro-futurist look!

Let's hope the seller packs it well!

BTW, Sparks did a series of shows in which the opening set was an album in its entirety. They had to learn their entire back catalog so they could play a different album every night!

I'm not going period. I hate live shows. I'm all about experiencing music at home in mid-century moderne splendor, paired with an appropriate cocktail.

At TTK's pad, she ain't. If it were me, I would not hesitate for a second to choose Sparks over Patti Smith. That's what makes horse racing.

Paul Horn/Lalo Schifrin - Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts (RCA, mono) In January and February, I love listening to religious jazz rock concept albums of the 1960s and 70s.

I always assumed they were British, and I had no idea they had continued working all these decades.

Watched the Sparks doc last night. Unbelievable.

And many A-list composers and arrangers did library music between assignments. Ennio Morricone, for example.

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When I lived in Beantown, they used to do free summer outdoor concerts at Government Center, which was Scollay Square before the sad destruction of the West End. I worked in one of the buildings that was part of the West End Urban Renewal project, the State Services building. This imposing brutalist structure was designed by Paul Rudolph, who is better known for his Sarasota mid-century modern homes. While I have mixed feelings about brutalism, the destruction of the West End impedes my ability to assess the building purely on aesthetic terms. I once described it as a fascist headquarters as if designed by M.C. Escher. At any rate, I was finishing my shift, and just as I stepped onto Staniford Street, I heard: Boom ba-boom POP Boom ba-boom POP. As I walked up the hill on Staniford Street, I listened. I then heard Ronnie Spector: "The night we met I knew I needed you so..." She was performing that day. I continued on Staniford, and made a left on Cambridge, walking toward Government Center. Ronnie kept singing. The song ended as I walked through the turnstile to take the Green Line. My walk was perfectly timed with "Be My Baby;" it accompanied me the whole way.