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Watched Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise for the first time last night. Loved it. I wish it had gone on for twice as long.

I try not to let entertainers' opinions cloud my views on their work. I simply didn't think Rita Reys was a very good singer, and I was disappointed that there were no electronics on the album. Note that I say "try." When I listen to Stan Getz, I think I am hearing aspects of his personality that I don't like in his playing, and I consequently have a hard time enjoying his music.

I had an album of hers with arrangements by the great Tom Dissevelt of electronic music fame. I sold it for a lot of money. Not sure if the bidding war was because of Rita Reys or Tom Dissevelt.

The green ones are shorter than regular dolphins?

Just sayin'…not a hipness contest!

My Dad was big on the Pied Pipers, the Hi-Los, and the Double Six of Paris.

Yusef Lateef released an exotica 45 on Riverside in 1961. "Jungle Fantasy" and "Titora." Personnel includes Lateef, plus: Barry Harris (piano) Ernie Farrow (bass) Lex Humphries (drums) Roger Sanders & Garvin Masseaux (percussion) The female vocalist is unidentified. Any idea who she is?

Isn't it amazing that you keep coming across records you'd never seen or heard of before? Esquivel also had the misfortune of working with the Ames Brothers. True story: Back in the day, my Dad was offered a gig to do vocal arrangements for the Ames Brothers, before they'd hit it big. He declined, saying that he didn't know how to arrange for four guys with the same vocal range!

Last night I dreamed that I found two more Sauter-Finegan albums on RCA that were not in the discography. I can't remember the names of the albums, but I remember the cover art for one of them. Of course, they were confusing, combining some common tracks with ones I'd never heard of before. Back to this reality, I am getting a new cartridge for my turntable and will review the two United Artists albums when it arrives.

Perhaps my syntax was confusing. What I was attempting to convey was that the Elliott and Burland partnership was almost exclusively focused on jingles. They had a company together. The Nutty Squirrels would have been an outlier. And incidentally, they both loved writing and recording jingles and took the work very seriously. Also, Sascha Burland released an LP on Riverside circa 1961 called Swingin' the Jingles, with arrangements based on some of the jingles he'd written. I have this album! LOVE IT!

Same guy! I have him as a sideman on several records, and I also have his record where he is riding a Vespa in outer space!

When we discuss all the classic jazz albums from 1959, we rarely mention Bird Watching by the Nutty Squirrels. This is a quintessential be-bop album. The creative forces behind this combo were Sascha Burland And Don Elliott, who were New York jingle composers. (My parents worked with them.) Thrill to the exciting modern jazz sounds and wild improvisations of the Nutty Squirrels!

Don't forget Kenyon Hopkins!

Don't forget Kenyon Hopkins' Sound Tour series, Impressions in Sound of an American on Tour. Five LPs were included in this joint venture between Verve and Esquire. I have France and Spain. Others in the series include Italy and Hawaii. The fifth album was a sampler with tracks from each.

The older I get and the more records I accumulate, I tend to want the best albums by a wider range of artists, rather than everything by my favorite artists.

Think of all the mono Hank Mobley Blue Note albums he can buy!

That 1985 date scares me.

Wouldn't that have been "someone at MCA" at that point?

Apparently, MCA - which is really the first of a mega-conglomerate labels as we know them today - was concerned about shelf space, and they supposedly trashed multi-track masters and mono mixes from all of the labels the acquired, but simply kept the mixed stereo masters for future use. I would not be surprised if a lot of the fringe music that I love was entirely trashed - mono, stereo, multi-tracks - before it was ever digitized.

i had read that impulse masters were trashed prior to the 2008 disaster.

Thinking about all these obscure albums I own on labels such as Decca, Kapp, ABC Paramount, albums that were never reissued, and probably never digitized. They were probably lost in that fire, if MCA didn't trash the masters decades earlier. This only strengthens my resolve to want to own music.

Well, the people who are obsessed with Christmas music and/or the people who are completists of certain artists would care. Incidentally, there is a great documentary about record collectors who focus on obscure Christmas music. It centers on a guy who is obsessed with Nat King Cole's "The Little Boy Santa Claus Forgot." When the guy was a kid, he thought that Nat was singing about him, because his parents had gotten divorced. Bob Dorough makes an appearance in the film.