Teasing the Korean

"I'd always meant to buy more jazz, but every time I went record shopping, there'd be something I wanted more," Bergkamp said. "Finally, after seeing the thing on PBS, I decided to commit to getting some. I went down to Tower [Records] to get a Miles Davis CD, but there were, like, dozens of them, not to mention all these 40-disc Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel—1965 box sets or whatever. I ended up buying an Ornette Coleman CD, since I knew he's supposed to be pretty important, but that ended up being a total mistake. So a few days later, I went back for the Burns box." https://www.theonion.com/five-disc-jazz-anthology-still-unopened-1819566936

Thank you! The aural evidence would suggest that the other 8 tunes run fast also. I also surmised that these run a half-step sharp.

This one? https://www.discogs.com/Dizzy-Gillespie-And-His-Quintet-Featuring-Lalo-Schifrin-The-Gillespiana-Suite-Paris-Jazz-Concert-Sal/release/11642504

Adolph Deutsch - The Matchmaker

Can you share the cover art or a Discogs link? I'm not sure if I have this. I have tons of Lalo Schifrin, including a lot of his work with Did. I really like that group that Dizzy was playing with at that point, also sometimes with Elek Bacsik on guitar.

Thanks all. I hope that someone here has both versions and can comment. I can easily speed/pitch correct these; I just wanna be sure I'm not doin' it wrong.

This afternoon: Herbie Nichols - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love Bob Brookmeyer & Friends Billy May - The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown Alex North - Hot Spell

I used to spend almost the entire day looking at the dollar LPs on the floor, under the main racks. I would then spend the last hour quickly going through the jazz and soundtracks section. Those were fun times. Princeton Record Exchange and Stereo Jack's are my two favorite record stores, but that is based in part on the geography where I was the and the era in which I was buying lots of LPs.

Yes, I used the connect-the-dots approach, but my buying was also fairly haphazard, i.e., what I stumped upon for a good price.

I have had Bob Brookmeyer and Friends on vinyl (mono) for a long time, and a few years back found the CD for very cheap. The stereo separation on the CD is severe. (Having subwoofers helps with this slightly; at least they help to center the bass.) While the album is nothing spectacular, it has a relaxed, rainy Sunday kind of feel to it.

Thanks. I did a quick search for audio samples from the box you posted above, but I could not find any.

Thanks. Do you have the other version, and if so, can you comment on the speed/pitch difference?

Does anyone happen to know if the speed is off by the same percentage throughout the CD, or does it vary? Everything sounds like it runs a bit fast to my ears. While musicians can play tunes in whatever keys they want, the keys would suggest that many of these run a half-step sharp. Others seem to be in reasonable keys. Any insights?

Based on something that @Rooster_Ties posted in the Clifford Brown thread, I would be interested in hearing about our particular parameters, or lack thereof, when it came to buying jazz records when we were first learning about the music. I don't think I had very many. I was fortunate to have been exposed to jazz, big band, and pseudo-jazz through my parents, so I had heard Fats Waller, Ellington, Benny Goodman, and the Great American Songbook before I ever bought a jazz record. The first jazz record I bought, when I was in junior high, was Dave Brubeck - either Time Out or Greatest Hits, can't remember which was first. I remember early on that I was more interested in getting at least one record by as many artists as possible, rather than being a completist. That said, I did go on a Bud Powell binge in high school and bought several of his Blue Note and Verve albums. I was open to all kinds of styles and periods, but I was on the fence about fusion. There are some sub-genres of fusion that I like to this day, and others of which have never appealed to me. The subgrenre in which everyone seems to be playing never ending lines of 16th notes, regardless of who is soloing, is my least favorite. Two things that I gravitated towards were the cutout bin - there were lots of great jazz cutouts in the late 70s/early 80s - and the twofer LP reissues, which offered a lot of music at a reasonable price. But I generally went for acoustic-based jazz, everything from swing to free jazz, and tended to avoid fusion, or anything that had cover art like albums by Dave Grusin (whose film scores I adore, incidentally). I also avoided CTI albums at that time. I now like many pre-disco CTI albums as long as Bob James is not involved. As Ralph Freed famously asked, how about you?

Given that you are near Philly, I assume that over the years you have made the trek to Princeton Record Exchange? I used to love that place, but based on my most recent experiences - which frankly aren't all that recent - it's not what it was in the early- to mid-1990s.

May I ask what became of Chris's collection/accumulation?

I have nice memories of getting cheap BN and impulse! LPs from the Third Street Jazz cutout bin.

Now listening to the Blue Note & Pacific Jazz tracks. I rearranged these onto two CD-Rs to avoid song duplication.

I had a copy of this album that I bought used, and inside was a delusional collage that included images from 70s porn mags and excerpts from a Playboy piece on EST. There were also what appeared to be ads for call girls, in German. I unloaded the LP - it was too lo-fi for me - but I kept the collage.

I have to say, I love all three of the Catwomen in different ways. It took a while for me to get Lee Meriwether, but I do now. Do you have the Batman Viewmaster reels? I do, and Julie Newmar, as luck would have it, is in the episode that they photographed.

Thanks all!

Here is the money cut, "Maika:"

Batman - Chad & Jeremy episode, with Julie Newmar as Catwoman. The building climbing sequence featured a cameo by DON HO!!!

Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd. - Colgems (mono)