Teasing the Korean

Thanks. I sold Destry to Dusty Groove years ago. I didn't like it any more than Randy. I have much but not all of this stuff on LP, so the CD is more of a convenience factor. I don't like Mosaic because of their boring archival presentations of music, so I don't patronize them. So I guess I'm left with finding these as individual CD releases, or going with EuroMusiPorn. But still, I would love to know if these were sourced from digital, vinyl, or 8-tracks baking on the dashboards of someone's car all summer. EDIT: Any description with the words "Euro" and "Porn" together is a ringing endorsement.

Has anyone heard either of these Randy Weston sets on Enlightenment? https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Recordings-1955-1957-DELUXE-DISC/dp/B01BSW1O7Q/ref=sr_1_6?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1519435214&sr=1-6&keywords=randy+weston https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Recordings-1958-1960-DELUXE-DISC/dp/B01BSW1NWW/ref=pd_bxgy_15_img_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01BSW1NWW&pd_rd_r=Z1XPQW9DMH6Z5AAA06K5&pd_rd_w=4FHyx&pd_rd_wg=t7MDy&psc=1&refRID=Z1XPQW9DMH6Z5AAA06K5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SslYwr5Mci8

Interesting. I wonder if there is anyone on the board who is planning to attend.

Does the deluxe version include my piano overdub, making it a quartet session?

DING DING DING DING DING! We have a winner! Thank you! Thanks to everyone else; you've given me some albums to check out!

Thanks all. Not Bill Frisell - he is too well known. And not Gregory Porter. This was not a vocal album. Can't remember the arranger. The album I'm referring to was not simply a tribute to someone or guy playing standards. It was a large-scale, big-budget, cinematic experience, like something Hal Wilner would have produced. There were some standards but some unusual things too. Now I'm wondering if it was not on Blue Note, but rather another classic jazz label. But how many of those are in existence? Is there such a thing as Verve anymore? I think this album came out in late 2015 or maybe 2016. Thanks all again. There can't be too many albums in the category I'm describing, so I'm sure we will find it.

Thanks, your link isn't working for me, but that doesn't seem to be the guy. There was nothing contemporary about the album. It was 100% throwback to mood music albums.

This album was very hyped when it was released a few years a go, and IIRC it was fairly divisive. I think there was discussion about it here. The artist was self-consciously making a throwback mood-music album. The arrangements, though, were very interesting. There were YouTube clips.

Thanks. I have that one. This is much more recent, like last three years or so.

I remember reading about an album that came out in the last few years. It may have been on Blue Note, but I can't remember the artist. It was described as kind of an homage to postwar late night, jazz with strings, mood music kind of albums. It had an orchestra. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

Allen, I didn't know you were a writer for the New York Times!

Interesting discussion. Thanks all!

Thanks for the detailed reply. Regarding your question, US albums I have by an artist like Heifetz would generally be recorded with US orchestras for US labels. So in that sense, they would count as a "US" recording for the purposes of this discussion. For all I know, Heifetz may have recorded the same pieces with European orchestras for European labels.

I first started buying classical LPs in the late 1970s or early 1980s. This was in the U.S. At that time, import LPs from labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and Philips were fairly easily available - at least certain titles were in the right stores - along with the US LPs on labels such Columbia, RCA, EMI Angel, etc. I am curious what the availability was like on the other side of the Atlantic, and I am also curious as to what was available on either side of the pond during the 1950s and 1960s. Could you buy, for example, Deutsche Grammophon LPs in the US then? The US LPs of symphonic music featured US orchestras. Did Europeans have access to US orchestras, or did they even care to? How about the other way around? Were there US listeners who sought out recordings by particular European orchestras and ensembles? In the CD era, it seems you can easily get classical music from numerous sources. What was it like back then?

This must have inspired Mosaic cover art.

Jackie Paris recorded it also.

Jazz schmazz. Disney has a killer tiki bar called Trader Sam's with great decor and high-end rum cocktails along the lines of Don the Beachcomber's and old-skool Trader Vic's. None of that Jimmy Buffet beach dive swill. It is located in Disney's Polynesian Village. I highly advise anyone who is going to Disney and who appreciates good cocktails to waddle over there and have a drink. Or four.

S'all good, man. In the US, I've found that Latin LPs, Ahmad Jamal LPs, and Nina Simone Colpix albums are usually beat. I guess they were party records. Not saying that you can't find them in good shape, but it is tough. On the other hand, LPs of 20th Century "classical" music are almost always pristine. The previous owner either hated the music, or knew enough to take good care of it!

I'm talking about the condition of the LPs, not the content.

Only that contemporary film composers are lazy and that they should spend more time listening to Bernard Herrmann. (I'm paraphrasing.)

Far less interesting than what he has to say about Truman Capote. I guess the Beatles get headlines in way that Truman Capote or Bernard Herrman cannot.

I wrote elsewhere about my love for what I call "Twilight Zone jazz." Here are some examples:

Steve Allen was the coolest.