Teasing the Korean

Mambo Garner:

Now what you think of track 4, the exotica track with the wordless female vocals? That is the money cut IMO. Also, do you think that Joe Henderson may have subconsciously plagiarized the song that sounds like "Blue Bossa?"

That store was great in the early- to mid-90s when everyone was unloading vinyl. You could spend all day just in the dollar section before moving on to the main stock. Those were the days.

I love this Garner original. When I was a kid, this album cover seemed to me like this idealized version of adulthood. I imagined that the parents had someone else looking after the kids, and they were having cocktails and a picnic outside.

Years ago, I made a bossa comp consisting of bossas - or more accurately fake bossas - that appeared on otherwise non-bossa LPs. I included an Erroll Garner bossa from a soundtrack album he did for Mercury. PM me if anyone is interested in my track listing. Here is the track:

Thanks. I confirmed that the track I'm talking about is take 4. I don't know which take the finished version is, unless it is a composite.

It is labeled take 4 on the CD I have, in case there are more than one on the box set.

Does anyone agree with my assessment that the alternate take of "Gone" appearing on the expanded CD is a tighter and more cohesive performance than the originally released version?

I have an exotica and a Latin jazz section. I need to think in terms of genre to retrieve things on short notice, or I would never remember what I have. Several Shades of Jade is filed in the exotica section. Cal's Fantasy albums and some of the Verve are in the Latin Jazz Section. Later Verve and Skye are in the Now Sound section. Now what you think of track 4, the exotica track with the wordless female vocals? That is the money cut IMO. Also, do you think that Joe Henderson may have subconsciously plagiarized the song that sounds like "Blue Bossa?"

Thanks for the detailed reply. I have listened more to the Tjader album mainly because I have it on CD, whereas the Shearing I have only on LP. I just remembered liking the woodwind arrangements on both, and then finding out they were both Clare Fischer, and from the same period. I should spend more time with the Shearing album - with or without a cocktail - to get a better idea of the contrast. Did you listen to Tjader track 4, and exotica track, and do you like that one?

Do you really think so? I've always loved both albums. The money cut on the Tjader is track four, IIRC, an exotica track with wordless female vocals. The woodwinds on that track are really nice.

Here's an inadvertently funny line: "One of the jobs of a jazz musician is to reflect her present day."

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris - Paul Whiteman - Capitol (mono) This is a hi-fi recording from the early 1950s.

Cal Tjader - Latin Concert - Fantasy (mono) Willie Bobo - Spanish Grease - Verve (mono) Stan Getz & Laurindo Almeida - Verve (mono) Martin Denny/Si Zentner - Exotica Suite - Liberty (mono) George Shearing Bossa Nova - Capitol (stereo) - with great cocktail arrangements by Clare Fischer

The Great Les Baxter - Tamboo! - Capitol (mono) Still sipping the Shrunken Skull. It is raining like hell, and the weather, the drink, and the album are perfect.

The Great Les Baxter - African Jazz - Capitol (stereo) Mixing a Shrunken Skull as soon as I post this.

Albert Harris: Bacchanal - Conducted by Frank DeVol (Columbia, mono) An orchestral suite inspired by the Greek Gods. Amazing to think there was a time that a major label would have released something like this.

It would have been recorded on multi-track, meaning likely 8 or 16 tracks at that time, and then mixed to stereo and, presumably, quad. I would assume they are using the quad mix made for the original LP.

Stravinsky: Firebird (revised suite) & Le Sacre du Printemps - Stravinsky conducting the Philharmonic Symphony of New York (Columbia, mono)

Various - Latin American Fiesta - Leonard Bernstein & the New York Phil (Columbia, stereo) Includes Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, Revueltas, Fernandez, Copland, and Chavez.

Cal Tjader Goes Latin - Fantasy (70s brown label reissue, stereo) Chico Buarque - Vida - Philips (Brazilian Philips, stereo)

Thank you both. I will keep my eyes peeled for these in the used bins. I love the Dorati Le Sacre on Mercury, so I would imagine he would do well with the Scythian.

Chopin Polonaises by Brailowsky - Columbia (stereo) I like the Nocturnes much more than the Polonaises, for whatever that's worth.

Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto (Woody Herman); Symphony in 3 Movements (Goosens & LSO) - Everest (stereo)