Teasing the Korean

I was supposed to see them in 1982, and they cancelled. Oh, well. I recently listened to Sandinista for the first time in literally decades - I don't listen to much "rock" music these days - and I was totally blown away by the range and textures. They sure progressed in a short amount of time.

As Leonard Cohen would say, I'm your man.

He would have been 69 today.

He arranged a lot of groovy late-60s things, and I tend to mix him up with Richard Evans. He worked with Sergio Mendes, among others.

Maybe they could do a Richard Evans/Richard Hazard anthology, so they could sell 20 copies.

Curly Howard

Ditto.

It seems like there should be an anthology for this guy, along the lines of the Axelrod compilations.

Here is what Wiki says. Are there others not listed here? He worked extensively as an arranger and session musician for jazz and popular music recordings, working with Joe Zawinul, Herbie Mann, and Les McCann in the 1960s. In the 1970s, he was associated with Yusef Lateef, Roberta Flack, Gene Ammons, and Junior Mance among others. He led his own group in the 1970s (which recorded an album in 1970) and recorded with Roland Kirk in 1977 and with Pharoah Sanders in 1982.[1]

Well, you got me there!

That's him! The film is called Born to Win. I posted about him in recommendations. The album is Circles. Thank you! Now, I am adding him to my list so I won't have to annoy anyone again. And I used the word "circles" in my first post!

I dunno, that name may sound more like a co-star on 77 Sunset Strip or Hawaiian Eye.

MSNBC has a reporter named Vaughn Hilliard. Doesn't that sound like a guy in Ellington's band? I can just hear Duke's voice on the Newport '56 album: "Ray Nance...Russell Procope...Vaughn Hilliard..."

Yes, I realize this is very vague. It is interesting that the guy is known for one album, and that he scored this one film. I'm also trying to remember if it was a Blaxploitation film, but I don't think it was.

At the time, we were bingeing a lot of films in this category, so they kind of blur together. My best bet at this point is to probably spend some time on this (excellent) website and see if anything rings a bell: https://mubi.com/lists/disillusionment-in-sun-drenched-1970s-american-new-wave-cinema

We were watching the movie, and I noted the composer in the opening credits. I looked to see if there was a soundtrack album, and there was not one, but the composer did release an album that seemed to be reasonably regarded in certain circles. I found videos from the album on the InterTubes. Again, not much to go on, but that's all I got. I thought I may have started a thread here either in artists or recommendations, but I don't remember the name.

I have a couple of those Mulatu reissues that Dusty was selling several years back. One is from 1966 and the other from 1972. They are overdue for a spin.

I LOVE that version of Bill Watrous doing "Aquarius!" That's the kind of music Ms. TTK and I like to listen to when we are cooking dinner and drinking wine on a Saturday or Sunday. I love the cover art, too. It looks like an ad that would be in Playboy circa 1970. Mr. Watrous is accompanied by the Walter Raim Concept. I have two albums by him, and they are also on the MTA label: Endless Possiblities Brave New Concepts Century 21 Orchestra. The first of these consists of mostly originals, but also a couple of Bacharach covers. The second seems to be groovy versions of classics. I need to spin both of these. Does anyone know anything about Walter Raim? He is sporting a Montenegro-like goatee on the album covers. And aspiring to be Hugo Montenegro is a very worthy calling.

No, I am trying to remember who he is. I'm posting what little I remember.

Great guess, not who I'm thinking of though. This was an African American composer/musician who would have been coming up in the early 70s. We were bingeing a lot of early- to mid-70s American auteur existential films, so the film roughly fit into that category. I don't think it was a major film, but it is one that would be known by fans of disillusionment-in-sun-drenched-1970s-American-new-wave cinema. I liked the score and checked to see if it had been released, but it wasn't. IIRC, the music had that early 70s funkified sound, but with definite jazz elements. I then Googled the guy and found that he had done an album in roughly the same period. I don't think it had been reissued on CD, but it had its fans. EDIT: I do think that it may have been reissued on CD, but long out of print. His resume may consist of more than that film and that album, but those seemed to be the two major things that he did. I keep a running list of things I'm looking out for, but I neglected to add this album. Again, not much to go on, but that's what I've got.

Some time ago, I posted about an obscure disillusionment-in-sun-drenched-1970s-American-new-wave-cinema film. It had a score by a guy I never heard of. I looked up the composer. There had never been a soundtrack album for the film. However, the composer released one album, which IIRC was reasonably regarded in jazz circles. He may have been a sideman on other albums, but I can't remember. I realize this is not much to go on. Any ideas?

Raymond Chandler, though I love both.

In the early days of CD-Rs, music obsessives created some really fascinating compilations, many of which contained some incredibly rare stuff. Some of the ones I've heard are very well curated, with a consistent aesthetic throughout but enough variety to keep you guessing. I feel like these represent a valuable shapshot in time, certainly the first time some of this music was ever digitized and subsequently shared with others. And the digitization meant, in theory at least, that fidelity was not lost as copies were made. As late as 2021, Shazam doesn't recognize a lot of this stuff, or if it does, it recognizes an electronica or hip hop record that sampled the original. These compilations are a reminder that listeners are sometimes the best archivists.

DUDZIAK!

Many would consider Dorough, Frishberg, and Blossom Dearie to be "jazz pure." They were jazz singers/pianists.