Teasing the Korean

My pleasure! I'll tell you about more of the jazz albums I discovered on my busboy's salary!

When I was 16, for Christmas, I asked for "Unit Structures." On spinning the LP on Christmas Day, my parents thought I'd lost my mind. RIP.

Ah, Third Street Jazz. I liberated many Blue Note and impulse! albums from their cutout bin!

I remember buying these albums for 25 cents a throw at the flea market. Those were the days...

Kind of surprised this thread has not received more responses. Or maybe not.

I need a time machine for the thrift stores and flea markets!

Ha ha! I know all too well...

Looking forward. Two of my favorites, and one of my least favorites, are coming up.

Plas is the featured soloist on Les Baxter's "Jungle Jazz" and "African Jazz." Unfortunately, the current CDs of these albums are sourced from vinyl.

You missed where I mentioned the King Cole Trio. I was thinking of Moore. I also mentioned Plas and posted a link to one of his two greatest albums. (I'll let you guess the other one.)

How could I forget my beloved Buddy Collette?!? "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat" on Crown is arguably the greatest album ever made! Oh, and of course Plas Johnson!

Well, I was referring to jazz labels geographically based on the west coast. The degree to which they released music that could stylistically be described as "west coast jazz" could vary.

While I am not familiar with the complete catalogs, the rosters of Contemporary and Fantasy seem to be predominantly white artists. When I think of African American west coast jazz musicians or African American-led west coast jazz sessions, I think of Hampton Hawes, Gerald Wilson, the Nat King Cole Trio, Curtis Amy, Dupree Bolton, Harold Land, Curtis Counce, Jimmy Bond, Leroy Vinegar and the early-ish Eric Dolphy sessions. Maybe a dumb question, but did this reflect west coast demographics at the time or stylistic biases? Or did these labels overtly favor white artists? I suspect the latter, but have never really looked into this before. I have both of the Savoy "Black California" collections, and while there are some familiar names on these, I don't know if some of those musicians lived in LA or simply recorded some sessions while they were in town.

So LaLaLand's two-disc set of music from "The Invaders" includes 4 scores by Dominic Frontiere, the composer most associated with the show, and who also famously scored season 1 of "The Outer Limits." But "The Invaders" collection includes SIX scores by Duane Tatro: The Saucer Valley of the Shadow The Spores The Prophet The Captive Counter-Attack I plan to listen to "Jazz for Moderns" on repeat for a while, and then compare to these six scores. Thanks, I have that on LP but have not spun it in a while. I will revisit.

Or as the Tao Te Ching teaches us, "The farther ya travel, the less Yanow."

Great guy, and my favorite record store ever. I still have dreams about shopping there. Happy Birthday!

My favorite Morricone period is roughly late-60s to about mid-70s. There was a definite drop-off after he stopped working with Bruno Nicolai, although there are some great scores afterwards. Morricone's sense of development is fascinating. During his Bacharach-influenced period, some of those tracks sound like a usual Bacharach-esque progression slowed down to a glacial tempo. It has a mildly unsettling effect, because you lose track of where the home key is when slowed down so much. I also feel that the Morricone's thematic development is telegraphing something on a subliminal level that you can't quite grasp, like you are looking at individual pieces of a puzzle and then seeing the whole image only much later. I listen primarily to film music, and I am constantly awed by Morricone.

In TTK's universe, that Scott Yanow review is a ringing endorsement of the album! Also, this is not the only album to come out under Duane Tatro's name: Several of Duane Tatro's scores from The Invaders are now available on CD! https://lalalandrecords.com/quinn-martin-collection-the-vol-2-the-invaders-limited-edition-2-cd-set/

I own more albums by Ennio Morricone than any other artist. Ellington and Sun Ra would rank second and third, and not necessarily in that order. RIP.

Charlie Parker? Is it char-LAY par-CARE?

YES! Both album combined on a single CD by Rykodisc!

It's incredible that RCA would release TWO box sets and randomly spread the tracks from individual LPs over the two boxes. You wonder why they would go through the trouble to do the box sets in the first place and then organize them in such a haphazard fashion.

While we're talking about Singers Unlimited... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfcpcIujsjY

Enjoying the 3-CD FSM Johnny Mandel set with The Americanization of Emily, The Sandpiper, and Drums of Africa. Easy to forget what a huge influence Henry Mancini was on film scores at that time. He really created the template for this kind of thing,

Yeah, the colors are wrong. And as we know, album covers are the reason we love music. If they had done the cover correctly, I would have been tempted, even if the music is sub-par. But I think I'll pass on this.