Teasing the Korean

Varese Sarabande is having a spring cleaning sale: https://www.varesesarabande.com/collections/on-sale-1?page=1 For the folks who frequent this site, of particular note is Franz Waxman's Crime in the Streets, originally issued on a Decca LP. https://www.varesesarabande.com/collections/on-sale-1/products/crime-in-the-streets If you love the sound of nervous, Twilight Zone jazz as much as I, this is a must-have, and it is only five bucks!

Last night: Bob Dorough - Multiplication Rock - Capitol Bob Dorough - Devil May Care - Bethlehem The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 2 - Blue Note (reprocessed stereo)

John Coltrane - Bahia - Prestige twofer

Don't know what DB or RTF are. I shopped in places like mall record stores, and then the larger stores like Peaches when they were around. By the time I started buying, I could find twofers on Groove Merchant but nothing on Solid State. Maybe it was a regional thing.

LOVE this album. I've stumbled across exactly one copy in my life - the one I bought - and I've never seen another since. I file it in the zodiac section, which also includes "Soul Zodiac" by the Adderlys and Axelrod.

Thanks. Amazing that they couldn't find space for this in a gatefold cover, yet they devote space to printing - in a giant font, no less - Chick Corea's poem that he wrote as stoned sophomore. I read that Chick rates this as his favorite among his own albums. This was never in the bins when I started shopping for jazz in the late 1970s. I found a used copy for two bucks.

Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Solid State Anyone know who is backing him? There are no credits on my copy.

Hampton Hawes - The Seance - Contemporary (stereo)

That is the money cut!

He most certainly did at Iridium, and he would bring people up from the audience who knew the songs to sing backup! My fave Bob Dorough tune:

Schoolhouse Rock was a huge part of my childhood. RIP.

I watched this against my better judgment. Ehtan Hawke was just not convincing as Chet, reflecting neither Chet's cowboy resolve nor his somewhat effeminate quality. And the narrative framed everything according to those tired biopic cliches. On the plus side, I liked Richard Bock's moderne house. I wish there was more of it in the film.

Bill Evans Trio Live (w/Chuck Israels and Larry Bunker) - Verve (stereo) 1971 issue of previously unreleased 1964 recordings.

The A&M era of CTI in general had a lighter, more pop sound. There are more tracks per album. The Fantasy era tends to include a lot of long tracks with delirious grooves.

The Electric Vince Guaraldi - WB In which our hero plays Rhodes, clarinet, acoustic piano, guitar, and even sings!

HOLY #$%@! He really does look like the killer in a 70s Italian giallo! Was that the original cover?

Ha ha! From all those CTI albums, he seemed like he would be a guy in an Italian giallo film, sipping sherry in an Eames recliner and listening to music on a reel-to-reel. I changed the title to "Ideas and/or Money," as some of these look like cheap photos taken by someone's mom or girlfriend.

The Intimate Dean Martin - Reprise (stereo) Dino backed by a quiet quartet.

Kokee Band - Exotica 1970 - Solid State (stereo) From 1966, as you might surmise.

Perfect Percussion - Milt Holland and Roy Harte - World Pacific (stereo) In which our heroes overdub percussion onto Mastersounds recordings to turn them into exotica.

Charles Earland - Charles III - Prestige This is srsly badass. Srsly.

As if jazz albums don't sell enough already...

JJ & K - Israel - A&M/CTI (stereo) Arranged by Don Sebesky Adiophile pressing (allegedly).

That makes sense. I saw him live in the late 1990s or early 2000s.