Teasing the Korean

What is un-cool becomes cool, and vice-versa. "Cool" is fluid, and is largely determined by how something is generally viewed according to dominant cultural norms. This is always changing.

In the late 1980s/early 1990s, when I was really starting to get into oddball music, there was one retailer that had a huge selection of international records. They had numerous Heino LPs, including multiple copies of several titles, all for very cheap. I had somehow gathered - or was explicitly told - that I would not like the music, but I was totally captivated by the album covers. I bought one copy of each, and since then, I have never passed up a Heino album for picture sleeve 45 at a thrift store or flea market. While I have never really warmed to Heino's teutonic baritone warblings, there are a few songs that I kind of like, including "In Einer Bar en Mexico" and "Die Schwarze Barbara." Maybe I should start investigating the music further, I dunno. It still bugs me that I have never found a cheap copy of Liebe Mutter, pictured in the first post, arguably the greatest album cover of all time.

I didn't know he composed music. I thought all he did was piano exercises.

Villa-Lobos, Forest of the Amazon (1959). This may have been the last thing he wrote, and I believe this is the only stereo recording of him conducting. This version runs 47 minutes. I prefer this recording, and this edit, to the 75-minute version which was recorded posthumously. Here is the full album:

That's what happened the first time Heino came up, a few pages ago. Then Heino made a comeback when discussing music to clear a party.

I am starting a thread devoted to the great Heino, to avoid any further hijacking of the Japanese Jazz thread. This is arguably the greatest album cover ever:

I'll be happy to start a Heino thread if there is interest.

It is one of the greatest album covers ever, and as a would-be Heino completist, it truly bugs me that I have never found a copy. This is another of my favorites:

Not the same chart.

Jello Biafra famously said that this album cover image suggests that the flowers will explode as soon as you take them!

I think it is Al Cohn.

But Heino's evil smile at the end of the opening theme, around the 34-second mark, makes it so worthwhile!

This incredible video was posted in the Sabu thread. The arrangement is fantastic. Does anyone know if there was a commercial release of this arrangement, either by Jose Curbelo or any other Latin/Afro-Cuban bands from this period?

I have used Heino to break up parties, in particular this tune.

I couldn't see the first of the two images you posted. I realize there were exceptions,

Thanks, I will check it out!

Villa-Lobos Nonetto and Quatuor, two chamber works, on a Capitol LP conducted by Roger Wagner. There are fantastic, and they don't seem to have been recorded very often, if at all, since this 1950s LP.

I have Manteca, primarily for Ray Barretto involvement.

Story of a Prostitute - Naozumi Yamamoto

Ginastera: Panambi (1937). Is there another op. 1 as great as this? And I don't mean Tommy Dorsey.

Slavenski - Sinfonia Orienta

Those of you into the Mastersounds should be hep to an album called Perfect Percussion by Roy Harte and Milt Holland (Pacific Jazz 1405). The album was later reissued as Percussion Unabridged on Kimberly 2022. For this album, Pacific Jazz created a first-rate jazz exotica album by overdubbing percussion on some existing Mastersounds tracks. Wes Montgomery completists will note that Wes plays on only one track, "Not Since Ninevah."

John Antill: Corroboree (1946)

Like nearly all threads that I begin, this one died a quick death. But I am reviving it in the hopes that some of you with adventurous taste in music might do a few needle drops on this one. The entire album is on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/378oUOU5vIZvn8VTj2IyHL The album inhabits a space between tightly arranged postwar chamber jazz and futuristic Jetsons cocktail soundscapes.

It was self-imposed. I had some job stress and serious time constraints, so I kicked myself off of the InterWebz for a few months to focus. But now I'm back and better than ever! If you liked the old TTK, just wait until you see what TTK 2.0 has in store for you!