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Teasing the Korean

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  1. What are you looking for? LPs, track listings, catalog numbers, or something more?
  2. I have wondered this too. It is so obviously bad, how did no one in the chain catch this? Even if the multi-track masters exist, would there be enough of an audience to buy this album even if it were fixed?
  3. It was there and so I played it. If there had been another instrument there, I would have played that other one instead.
  4. 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.
  5. What don't you like about "13?"
  6. My parents worked in NY. The album was never made, but I still have the demo. I need to digitize it.
  7. If I illegally listen to it on YouTube, I might get yelled at by Chuck Nessa!
  8. I don't like it. I LOVE IT! And I have all three - both volumes from the TV show, and the Gunn theatrical film!
  9. 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!
  10. What didn't I answer? I'm happy to clarify.
  11. 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?
  12. Not trolling, I love private eye jazz!
  13. Seriously? Among the greatest jazz ever made. For starters, check out Mundell Lowe's version of "Riff Blues" from Mike Hammer!
  14. 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?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Has Steve Kuhn ever talked about The October Suite in interviews?
  18. 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.
  19. Oooh, is this private eye jazz or noir-esque?
  20. Not boring. Not on my radar.
  21. Oh, I meant jazz in any format.
  22. They still make jazz records? Who knew?
  23. 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.
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