Teasing the Korean

I hate Macero's ballad. Monk plays it like he's mad at it. At any rate, if you lose the two Macero tunes and reinstate "Blue Monk," you have a solid album. IMO.

I imagine the album with Oliver Nelson as a Monk MPS album, and it is not a huge stretch of the imagination! I am apparently the only person on the planet who loves that album, incidentally.

Because I'm into film scores and French music, I often think to reach for either Coltrane's Le Chat Dans Le Sac or any of the three albums called Les Liaisons Dangereuses. I file them in the French section.

Well, you said you didn't spin it much. I am simply suggesting that the presentation may be a stumbling block for you. It certainly was for me.

In this case, I would argue that you need a digital version to program a satisfying album. For example, why three versions of "Pannonica" in a row on disc 1? Also, the 45 version of "Light Blue" on disc 2 is much more satisfying than the 2-minute version on disc 1. They also could have fit the whole thing on a single CD if they omitted the 14-minute "Making of Light Blue."

Did the LP come with a download card? There is actually a very good album hiding in there; you just have to program it yourself.

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This indeed has some great stuff, though the presentation is off. I would have preferred a tight album presentation for disc 1, with all of the alternates and archival stuff on disc 2. I had to burn a CD-R that plays like a real album. I agree about the weird version of "Light Blue" with the Proto-"rock" beat. Interesting, but nothing I want to revisit anytime soon. I would also have preferred appropriate cover art, rather than an image of Monk. (Coltrane's score for Le Chat Dans Le Sac similarly used inappropriate cover art.) One of these days, I need to get digital versions of either the Art Blakey or Duke Jordan albums, so I can integrate those into the program and create an Extremely Dangerous Liaison.

Do you know if the top voice in the reed section is a clarinet?

Interesting. Is that top voice in the reed section a clarinet? If so, that is a determining factor also.

Well, they were a society band, and there was once an audience for this kind of stuff. Actually, do society bands still exist?

Some may be surprised to learn that in the mid-1980s, Steve Allen had a show on the Disney Channel called The Music Room, featuring artists from jazz as well as other genres. His sidekick was a young Bill Maher. Terry Gibbs led the band. I don't think the show has been commercially released, but most or all are on the InterTubez. May I also add that one of the things that got me through the years 2017-2020 was getting into bed and, right before going to sleep, watching vintage episodes of What's My Line, the classic lineup with Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, and Steve Allen. I am grateful that so many of these have survived.

I should add here that I have been very happy with the few transfers I have done using "isolate center." I have not analyzed the results with headphones or waveforms, but listening on the stereo, they sound very clean. One of them you would think may have been from the master tapes.

Thanks for this! I have transferred a few mono LPs using isolate center, but I have not noticed the effect you mention. I will listen more closely. 1.0 is the default setting. If I notice the artifact, I will try pulling back some. Still, I'm guessing the artifact would be less of a distraction for me than the surface noise.

That makes sense. Instruments of all kinds seem to keep getting louder with newer and newer models. Also, I would gingerly push back regarding Ms. TTK's "dead people music" comment. Some styles have a longer shelf life than others, and the musicians have no control over this.

So what's up with the distinctive sax section sound? Is it just the vibrato, or is there more going on than that?

Nobody knows if the vibrato is the culprit, or if it is more insidious than this? Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

This is Scott Walker, Vol. 2 - Philips A (presumably) budget-line comp with a few tracks that have yet to make it to CD. A gift from Ms. TTK's brother to her.

Various - Paradise Found A gift from my brother to Ms. TTK and myself. An excellent CD compilation of exotica, including some rare tracks..

Various - Total Exotica, as Dug by Lux and Ivy (Righteous) A gift from my brother to Ms. TTK and myself. An excellent 2-CD compilation of jazz and exotica from Lux and Ivy's collection.

To a brighter year in 2022! Mr. Tristano will be either my first or last jazz purchase of the year, depending on whether you are going by buy date or arrival date!

Here's our chance to make a huge financial killing.

On the rare occasion that we hear Guy Lombardo - which is about once a year this time, and generally accidental - Ms. TTK will describe the sound as "dead people music." I think she is picking up on the sax section sound, and I tend to agree with her. Does that distinctive sound have to do solely with the players' use of vibrato, or is there some other weird doubling/orchestration going on? Whatever the device, I'm glad that sound went out of vogue. But obviously some people dug it, and you can't blame a brother for trying to earn a living.

Thanks all. I realize my description was very subjective and vague. I will try to find the track that I heard from one of those albums posted above.

This should be moved to the "artists" sub-forum. Because she was an artist. RIP.