Teasing the Korean

Do you have a favorite version? I have a digital recording conducted by Simon Rattle in which the dynamic range is so extreme, the quiet passages disappear. I am listening to the RCA (analog) LP by the BSO, but it is combined with the Third Symphony, and as a result, some groove-cramming is going on. What's a great version, preferably from the LP (analog) era?

Sounds like it might be the same guy. The Phil Moore I know was a pianist and arranger. Is it from the 1950s or 60s? NP: Prokofieff: 3rd Symphony & the Scythian Suite - Leinsdorf & the BSO - RCA (stereo)

Is that the same Phil Moore who was making records in the 1950s, including the amazing Portrait of Leda?

Agreed, but other passages are really beautiful, and I hear some colors more clearly in places than in other versions. Now playing: Berg, Shoenberg, Webern - Ormandy & Philadelphia Orch - Columbia (mono) A 12-tone extravaganza, featuring a 33-minute suite from Lulu!

Various - Exotic Nights - Andre Kostelanetz (Columbia, stereo) Exotic symphonic pieces by Guarnieri, Hohvaness, Mussorgsky, Miyagi, Albeniz, and Gottschalk- Shanet.

Debussy: La Mer, Iberia - Paul Paray & Detroit Symphony - Mercury Living Presence (stereo) A nice performance and a gorgeous recording, but Paray takes some passages of La Mer faster than I've heard them elsewhere.

I had no idea they played with Dave Brubeck!

What?!? This is the EPITOME of a cocktail jazz album, and I have often spun it while enjoying Shrunken Skulls or Ancient Mariners. Are you part of the Ladies' Temperance League?

I stopped reading when the author referred to "Poinciana" as a "bland old standard." It is an exotica classic. This is what happens when out-of-touch people are hired to cover the arts.

I LIVE for record covers like this.

Are you going to see Isabella Rossalini sing at the Slow Club?

The Eddie Lockjaw Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2 - Prestige (stereo) Tadd Dameron - The Magic Touch - Riverside (stereo, OJC reissue). Does anyone know when this album is from? My copy doesn't have any dates. I assume very late 1950s or very early 1960s.

The Eddie Lockjaw Davis Cookbook, Vol. 1 - Prestige (stereo)

What became of Sun Ra's written scores?

Had family over yesterday for dinner and cocktails. Here is what was played: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 - Blue Note (rechanneled stereo) Clare Fischer - So Danco Samba - World Pacific (mono) Piano of Joao Donato - RCA (stereo) Cal Tjader - Live and Direct - Fantasy (mono, red vinyl) The Bossa Tres - Audio Fidelity (stereo reissue) Various - Jazz Tempo, Latin Accents - Audio Fidelity (stereo) Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga - impuse! (stereo) Ramsey Lewis' Newly Recorded All-Time Non-Stop Golden HIts - Columbia (stereo), featuring an AMAZING version of "Slippin' Into Darkness." I also played the Duke Ellington record that my Dad wrote and told the story of how it came to be recorded. This morning: Manfredo Fest - After Hours - Daybreak (stereo)

Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri - El Sonido Nuevo - Verve (mono) Featuring the theme from MODESTY BLAISE!!!!!

I was incorrect about the Sabu album in my previous post. I just played it. It is a separate session, but also one that was released under multiple titles by multiple artists.

John Dankworth - The $1 Million Collection - Fontana (stereo) These 1960s Dankworth albums typify space-age bachelor pad music, for me at least.

Elmer Bernstein - Toccata for Toy Trains - Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection Records (not the best name for a record label, IMO, stereo) This is the score to the film by Charles and Ray Eames.

Paul Desmond (with Jim Hall) - Bossa Antigua - RCA (70s Japan release with yellow/orange label, stereo) I sometimes wonder if it had been Desmond/Gilberto instead of Getz/Gilberto how that album would have turned out.

Luiz Bonfa - Jacaranda - Ranwood (stereo)

Les Baxter - Tamboo - Capitol (Duophonic) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds - Capitol (Duophonic) I don't care what the snobs say, Duophonic sounds killer on my system in this room!

Axel Stordahl - Jasmine and Jade - Dot (mono)

The Out Islanders - Polynesian Fantasy - Capitol (mono)

Mongo Santamaria - Yambu - Fantasy (OJC reissue, stereo)