Teasing the Korean

That is a very good version!

Noticing the Vertigo poster on the right, have you ever found Bernard Herrmann's soundtrack LP, the original one on the Mercury label? The cover was a close-up of Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. The late-70s Netherlands reissue unfortunately had hideous cover art.

Since Ms. TTK shares my obsession with music, it just kind of happened naturally.

This is as good a place as any to mention that one of my glass frames went crashing to the floor, damaging the cover of our pristine copy of Robert Mitchum's Calypso album on Capitol. I switched to plastic frames after that. Pics of the Rekkid Room are in this thread:

Maybe they needed to fill space so they resurrected it here? Nothing wrong with the tune, but it doesn't quite fit the rest of the album. Ending the album with "Purple Gazelle" would have paralleled Thee Great Les Baxter closing African Jazz with "Balinese Bongos."

Let me say, first of all, that when Ms. TTK and I got together, we had a lot of album covers on the wall, primarily because we did not own a lot of art at the time. Our first apartment had a Tiki Room and an Outer Space Room, and we framed thematically-appropriate cover art in each room. The Scotch and Music Room is where the stereo is located, and it doubles a a guest room. (The speakers in the adjacent family room are wired to the stereo in the Scotch and Music Room.) All of the artwork is music-related, and the Mambo for Cats album is the only album framed on that wall. Unfortunately, I have only the cover for that one. The Record Room is where the LPs and most of the CDs are housed. I posted a pic a few years back in the vinyl forum. I will link it here if I can find it. The decor in the Record Room is Clockwork Orange/Italian Modern Futurism, lots of plastic and bubbly kind of stuff. We have a hand chair and pedestal chairs in that room. The other two covers I posted are in that room, and they reflect the room's decor. I have only the cover of the Afro Blues Quintet album. The Enoch Light I have never played; I bought it for the outstanding cover art only.

Guy Warren recorded two library albums for KPM: Native Africa 1 and Native Africa 2. Both of these are available as lossless downloads from Qobuz. I may have to get these. I have his African Drums RCA LP and also Africa Speaks, America Answers on Decca. HIs other Decca album African Rhythms is very hard to find. I don't have any of those UK albums that were referenced earlier.

In the scotch and music room: In the record room:

I am not a fan of high life music, but the reason I have the Blue Note Connoisseur CD is because of the three bonus tracks from a different session. The three tracks add up to about 39 minutes, so it is like getting an additional album. It is basically a jazz group - Donald Byrd, Hubert Laws, Elvin Jones, Bob Cranshaw, and a bunch of percussionists. It is nicely recorded, with the bass centered (as usual with BN albums) and the percussionists spread out left and right. I wonder why this was left in the can. Perhaps the fact that the three tracks couldn't be split into two 20-minute sides was a factor. I highly recommend this for the three bonus tracks. As for the original album, YMMV.

Andre Kostelanetz - Lure of the Tropics (Columbia, 1955)

I see that she is cataloguing Manny Albam's work. I hope the charts to his masterpiece Soul of the City survive.

Spinning this gem for the first time this summer. While I love this album, I have often wondered if I would love it more if it had stylistically appropriate cover art.

I just realized that I also have the LP reissued on the Salsoul label, of all things. I will spin this over the weekend and determine if I really need the new CD. I'm guessing Bethlehem tapes were lost or inaccessible for a while. I have the Herbie Nichols Bethlehem 70s LP reissue, dating from the same period as the Nina Simone, and they are both out-of-phase needle drops.

Dunno.

More Bob Thompson: And...

This is being reissued on Oct. 22. I have a 70s vinyl reissue of this one. It sounds out-of-phase and like it is mastered from vinyl. Worth the upgrade for me. And it is nice that this is being released in the Autumn. For some reason, I like to spin jazz vocals between Halloween and Thanksgiving. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Girl-Blue-2021-Remaster/dp/B095MPVJR8/ref=tmm_acd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=&tag=shforums-20

Shifting gears, The Hi-Los and All That Jazz includes some wordless vocals, including on this track. Les Baxter fan Sun Ra employs some wordless female vocals on "Circe," from one of my fave Sun Ra albums, When Sun Comes Out.

...and this amazing track by Cal Tjader: A must for your noir playlist: Stan Kenton and June Christy on a track titled..."June Christy." The 70s examples sound to me more decadent, suggesting the jet set and fondue parties. Of the ones you mentioned: Communications '72 by Stan Getz & Michel Legrand - Love this, and it is overdue for a spin! Another example is Love Songs by Mike Westbrook Concert Band - Never heard of this, but I like the track you posted. And the Singers Unlimited is, of course, very good... the track you posted is on the essential MPS compilation titled Snowflakes. It perfectly encapsulates 70s international decadence. Did you like that Vocal Shades and Tones track that I posted earlier? That is very much in the bag you are describing.

A man who eats meat Wants to get his teeth into something A man who does not eat meat Wants to get his teeth into something else If these thoughts interest you even for a moment You're lost - Leonard Cohen

This track is nice: If we are getting into wordless vocals in Latin Jazz, then we open up into Shorty Rogers, Perez Prado, and Thee Great Les Baxter...

He produced the early Beatles records while he was at Polydor. Kaempfert had nothing to do with the Fabs' Decca audition.

Never cared for him.

Yes, Spellbinder. I have that one, just checked. Here is a fantastic track by Barbara Moore from a DeWolfe Library album.

Thanks for clarifying. Was "Yearning" on the Simpatico album? That one has eluded me.

Back when I used to DJ, this album was perpetually in the crate, because of this one track.