Teasing the Korean

As we all know, jazz fans would not even consider getting married unless their significant other shared their passion for music. This is a thread to share great albums that your wives, husbands, or significant others brought home. I will begin with a yard sale in Beantown, at which Ms. TTK found a pristine original MONO copy of this album:

His Verve album The Sensuous Side of Sonny Stitt, with string arrangements by Ralph Burns is a favorite. Sonny also managed to do at least three Latin albums for three different labels: The Matadors Meet the Bull (Roulette) Stitt Goes Latin Primitivo Soul (Prestige) These three albums offer perfect summertime listening for Mr. and Ms. TTK while they enjoy rum cocktails in the Bora Bora room.

His entire Palm Springs digs were pretty impressive. https://www.naturalretreats.com/palm-springs-luxury-vacation-rentals/accommodation/frank-sinatra-twin-palms-estate You can rent it out if you like. It's only $2,500 a night.

That bastion of veracity, Wikipedia, says that Goin' Places was indeed the first to feature recordings of the band, but that it is a mix of studio musicians and the touring band.

I thought SRO was the first one with the real band.

Crazy! I first became aware of Duane Tatro via his music for the 1960s TV show The Invaders. I think I learned of Jazz for Moderns here. I have played the album quite a bit, and I like the whole record, but I have not yet gotten to the point where I can really distinguish the tunes from each other. The ensemble textures are very similar from track to track. Not meant as a criticism; I will just have to spend more time with the album to really absorb the individual melodies and chord structures.

Duane Tatro - Jazz for Moderns, a perfect album for TTK!

Don't know this one! Do tell! EDIT: Looks like a different Sabu.

I thought you were cueing up a Herb Alpert album!

Never heard of it!

I recently found a CD titled Birth of a Band Volume 2. It has the same artwork as Birth of a Band, except that the background is yellow and not red. This apparently was not an LP, but is a collection of various odds and ends, mostly singles, that Q recorded while at Mercury. Most of these are novelty tracks, and overall, this album is very disappointing compared to its namesake.

I live in a place with a lot of unvaccinated, unmasked yahoos, and very high hospitalization rates. At work, since we went back in late July, mask wearers have been 50/50. No vax mandate. I have been wearing a mask and insisting that everyone wear one if they expect me to be in the same room with them. They just announced mandatory masks yesterday. I suspect that many of us will go back to a remote work situation soon, given the hospitalization rates.

When they started reissuing these from the master tapes a few years back, I got about 45 or so of these albums, depending on how you count. I organized them in to three folders - Chicago, New York, and Philly. I am about halfway through the New York period. It is a lot to absorb, and this from someone who already had lot of this stuff on 1990s Evidence reissues.

By the late 1970s, that one was available only as a budget label Harmony reissue. Sorry, "Columbia Limited Edition."

When I started getting interested in jazz and buying my first Dave Brubeck records in the late 70s, there was not a lot of Fantasy stuff in print. In fact, I think there was a two-LP compilation available, and that was it. It had a tan cover IIRC. Similarly, most of Brubeck's pre-Time Out Columbia albums had gone out print.

I loved the Pharcyde! If you've never heard no other Lou Rawls tracks, you surely must have heard this one at some point: And if you know "Bring It On Home" by Sam Cooke, Lou Rawls sings the lower harmony.

Wow, Wayne Shorter noticed that passage also! The Laura arrangement I wrote was for solo piano, written during a time when I was doing lots of arrangements. I kept tweaking it, and added that intro a while after I'd written the rest of it. I was working semi-regularly with a group for about 10 years, and wrote all the arrangements. I always wanted to adapt my piano arrangement of "Laura" for that group, but it never happened.

There is a lovely passage that appears a few times in David Raksin's Laura score. He also uses a variation of it on the 6-minute suite he recorded for RCA. In this version, the passage in question appears from 0:55 to 1:35. Years ago, I wrote an arrangement of "Laura," and used this as the introduction. I wonder if any other versions of "Laura" have used this passage.

When Ms. TTK and I got together, we had an outer space room in our apartment. This was among the albums we had framed on the wall! This is a favorite. I have this as part of a Randy Weston 70s twofer.

Oh, there's lots of stuff on there that is very hard to find on LP or CD. It is worth looking. While I prefer the physical object, this is the next best thing.

So I listened to this LP for the first time in a while. This album seems to switch from track to track between eastern and jazz, although there is some crossover. I forgot that "La Ibkey" is on this album. I first heard this on a Prestige comp titled The Jazz Soul of Cleopatra. In the 1990s, when I used to DJ, this track was often included in my Tantric Textures sets.

Jazzhattan Suite by the Jazz Interactions Orchestra, composed and arranged by Oliver Nelson (Verve, stereo). My copy includes a hype sticker reading "music conducted by Joe Newman." Good thing they added that: I might not have spent the dollar on this record without knowing that Joe Newman contributed his expertise to the session.

They sell CD-quality or better downloads. If it's between spending $50 for a Japanese CD or $10.99 for a CD-quality download, the decision is easy.

I don't stream either.