Teasing the Korean

Chief Bey and His Royal Household - Congo Percussion aka Taboo aka Jungle Percussion This percussion LP was a recorded for a budget label and issued three times with three different covers and under three different artist names: I am currently spinning: Chief Bey and His Royal Household - Congo Percussion - Pirouette (stereo) It also came out as: Cawanda and His Group - Taboo - Promenade (I have this in mono) and Sabu and his Jungle Percussionists - Jungle Percussion - Clarity (I have this one in mono too.) This is apparently not THEE Sabu.

Edmundo Ros - New Rhythms of the South - London (mono) Thurston Knudson - Primitive Percussion: African Jungle Drums - Reprise (mono)

I think Springsteen is just awful. Back to Mingus...

Thank you both. As expected. I had no idea that Louis recorded with them.

Whenever I go to an estate sale of a WWII-era guy and I go through his LPs, there are always a bunch of records by the Dukes of Dixieland. Most seem to be on the Audio Fidelity label, but I've seen albums on Columbia also. I instinctively avoid these records. These guys must have been pretty big, if the estate sales of WWII-era guys are any indication. So I know the old story of beboppers calling Dixieland fans "moldy figs" and all. But I am wondering if the Dukes of Dixieland were any good for what they were, or if even fans of early jazz dismiss them as outright kitsch. Just curious.

The Guy Warren Sounds - Themes for African Drums - RCA Victor (mono) Above-logo phrase: Drums in Hi-Fi!

Soul Beat Brazil - The New Rhythms of MENESCAL and His Group with Strings - Kapp (mono)

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Ye-Me-Le - A&M Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 - Stillness - A&M

Sergio Mendes & Brasil 77 - Primal Roots - A&M

Randy Weston - Uhuru Afrika - Roulette (stereo)

A.K. Salim - Afro Soul/Drum Orgy - Prestige (stereo)

Kermit is an amphibian, not a reptile. Johnny Ray's Afro Jazz Septet - Herbie Mann's African Suite - UA (stereo)

SKINS! A Bongo Party with Les Baxter! - Capitol (mono) Includes the amazing "Reverberasia" which would fool even a hardcore Sun Ra fan in a blindfold test.

Break a leg!

Jerry Fielding - Advise and Consent OST - RCA Victor (stereo)

Piero Umiliani - Fischiando in Beat - Schema Italian food for dinner, so I'm transitioning from exotica to Italian.

The Latin Jazz All-Stars - Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat - Crown (mono) Arguably the greatest LP ever recorded in any genre. With Tony Reyes, Tommy Tedesco, Daria, Carlos Mejia, Eddie Cano, Larry Bunker, and Buddy Collette.

Don Ralke - Bongo Madness - Crown (mono) Predating by ten or so years his masterpiece with William Shatner, The Transformed Man.

A great collection, including some rarities, if you are into classic-era spy music.

No they are just not era-appropriate. They look like they are packaged for old men, which I guess at least some of us are now. And they look like they are done by a kid who just got Photoshop. I would prefer that they look like these: http://illustrationchronicles.com/Alex-Steinweiss-and-the-World-s-First-Record-Cover

The packaging on so many big band CDs and LPs scares me away.

Yes, it is a amazing, although I would not quite put it in the category I'm describing here. The title tune does have that fast-paced nervous quality, but overall, the album is more in a general crime/private eye bag.

I don't know, but I admire that fact that Morgenstern has a Wassily chair!

Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits - Kapp (stereo)

Tak Shindo - Brass & Bamboo - Capitol (mono) Enoch Light - Spaced Out! - Project 3 (stereo) - Bach, Bacharach, Beatles!