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  1. Teasing the Korean
    Well, you're talking to someone whose music accumulation is primarily film scores. I think 13 plays very well as an album on its own terms, and for a guy who scored only two films, Gary shows that his dramatic instincts were dead-on. He also eschews many of the gothic/macabre/supernatural cliches.
  2. Teasing the Korean
    What don't you like about "13?"
  3. Teasing the Korean
    My parents worked in NY. The album was never made, but I still have the demo. I need to digitize it.
  4. Teasing the Korean
    If I illegally listen to it on YouTube, I might get yelled at by Chuck Nessa!
  5. Teasing the Korean
    I don't like it. I LOVE IT! And I have all three - both volumes from the TV show, and the Gunn theatrical film!
  6. Teasing the Korean
    When I have had friends over, I have sometimes played "A Martini Built for Two" from the Hugo Montenegro Man from UNCLE soundtrack album and sang along doing my best Gary Mac imitation. With worldless vocals, it sounds remarkably like a Gary McFarland track! Learn the melody and try it at home!
  7. Teasing the Korean
    What didn't I answer? I'm happy to clarify.
  8. Teasing the Korean
    My pleasure! And my question was clearly meant in jest. Now, can anyone tell me if the album pictured above has any private-eye jazz or noir content?
  9. Teasing the Korean
    Not trolling, I love private eye jazz!
  10. Teasing the Korean
    Seriously? Among the greatest jazz ever made. For starters, check out Mundell Lowe's version of "Riff Blues" from Mike Hammer!
  11. Teasing the Korean
    It is helpful to read in context. I wrote what I did in response to an outrageous claim by our friend KH1958 or whatever that exotica is not dead. Exotica is dead. As for "denigrating music that many of us care about deeply," I have money taken out of my paycheck each week for a non-profit jazz education program. I have been doing so for years and years. This is money that I could be using to buy second-hand copies of albums by contemporary jazz artists and depriving them of making money off of the sales. I wonder how many on this board do the same. And no one bothered to answer my question as to whether or not that album pictured above has private-eye jazz or noir content. Do you happen to know?
  12. Teasing the Korean
    Yeah, that is THEE DEFINITIVE version of "Riff Blues." My parents were in the biz, and they both worked with Mundell Lowe when he was a session musician. I need to digitize the demo of the concept album that my Dad wrote. The demo is my mom singing accompanied my Mundell on guitar. Between each song is a five-voice, close-harmony a cappella bridge, functioning as a Freudian subconscious Greek chorus. Good stuff, very much of the era.
  13. Teasing the Korean
    The first two that I played would have been my Dad's copies of TV Action Jazz! by Mundell Lowe and The Double Six of Paris US debut on Capitol. So I started out with two of the best jazz albums ever made, which set the bar pretty high for me in terms of expectations of what a great jazz LP should be. The first one I bought would have been Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits on Columbia, at age 13. I felt very adult listening to it.
  14. Teasing the Korean
    Has Steve Kuhn ever talked about The October Suite in interviews?
  15. Teasing the Korean
    Is this private eye jazz or noir-esque? I disagree. Exotica is every bit as dead as jazz is, in terms of its contemporary cultural relevance. What jazz and exotica share in common is that the only cultural relevance they have in the new millennium is when they are sampled in electronica and hip hop. Art forms have lifespans, just like artists.
  16. Teasing the Korean
    Oooh, is this private eye jazz or noir-esque?
  17. Teasing the Korean
    Not boring. Not on my radar.
  18. Teasing the Korean
    Here it is:
  19. Teasing the Korean
    Correct!
  20. Teasing the Korean
    Oh, I meant jazz in any format.
  21. Teasing the Korean
    They still make jazz records? Who knew?
  22. Teasing the Korean
    I have special inner sleeves for some records but not all. At the very least, I will replace the old sleeves with archival paper sleeves.
  23. Teasing the Korean
    Great story!
  24. Teasing the Korean
    I listened to this film the other night. I say "listened to" because there are no subtitles, and I don't speak French, so I didn't want to spoil the experience, in the event that a version with subtitles becomes available. I just had it on YouTube with the volume up high, while I did things around the house. What is interesting is that Coltrane is used in the first half of the film, and the baroque music is used in the second half. This suggests some sort of a shift in the narrative, but again, I didn't watch the film. When I compile my soundtrack album, I will probably alternate Coltrane and the baroque pieces to create a more varied listening experience. And because "Naima" is used more than once, and because the film is in French, I will also include the stunning vocal version of "Naima" by the Double Six of Paris.
  25. Teasing the Korean
    Thanks. What is interesting is that only three musicians are listed, but it is a quartet with piano and vibes. Do we assume that Feldman played both piano and vibes, via overdubs, or was the pianist or vibist not credited for contractual reasons? The pianist uses some Bill Evans-esque devices, including ascending triads derived from the melodic minor scale, but otherwise it does not necessarily sound like Bill Evans.
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