Teasing the Korean

I"m not hearing that, but maybe we've listened to different stuff. He had his bag of tricks, but so does every arranger. Shifting gears, I had high hopes for this album, based on the cover art. Boy was I disappointed.

Capote.

While I have not listened to entire Kenton Kanon, I always felt that Rugolo reinforced the group's modernist ideals without being ponderous nor heavy-handed. His stuff is more fun, a quality that is severely lacking in much of Kenton. I like Rugolo's writing for these reasons. The stuff on his solo albums can really vary track to track, but the best stuff is right up my alley, like this one:

I thought the Kenton/Wagner album would be the loudest album ever made, but it bored me, and after two spins, I dragged it right back to the thrift store that sold it to me for 50 cents.

Seriously, MoMA should sell them! It would be an instant buy.

Rugolo, Graettinger, and Johnny Richards. Neither Holman nor Russo ever did much for me. I file Kenton in the Space Age Bachelor Pad section rather than jazz, because that is where he truly belongs. Although I have two of the Johnny Richards albums in the Latin section and "Hair" in the Now Sound section. Agree, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't want it on a shower curtain.

Thank you! Will do!

Mildly off-topic, but Francy Boland's rare mood music masterpiece Flirt and Dream has been reissued as an mp3 album. No idea if it is from the masters or ripped from an LP. This sounds like an outtake from Les Baxter's Que Mango!

How did Buddy Rich manage financially to keep a 16-piece (or larger?) big band together throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s? It seems like they were constantly on the road. I realize that Buddy Rich had name recognition, and I know there was that delusional "The big bands are coming back" chatter throughout the period, but still, it seems like it must have been a tall order to make a working big band sustainable.

I have a Moog Prodigy 336A, and I used to have a bunch sheets showing the various knobs, where you could write in your own preferred settings for different sounds and different tunes. I am trying to find some blank sheets on the interwebz. I am finding some for other models, but I have not yet found any for the 336A. Does anyone know if there is a Website or forum that may have these? Thanks in advance!

I used to do a lot of solo cocktail piano gigs, and someone once requested "Love Shack" by the B-52s! That is the most memorable request I ever received at a gig. The two requests I always dreaded were "New York, New York" and the insufferable "Memory" from Cats.

Thanks. Since my post, I went to Discogs, and it looks like about 2/3 of Lonely One ended up on Genius Volume 2. I had Japanese Verve reissues of Piano Moods and 57, and I think I unloaded them. With Bud, the only albums I've revisited in recent years are Genius of Bud Powell - the first volume - and the two Amazing volumes on Blue Note. And the Roost album.

I don't know the Bud Powell album referenced. I am assuming that some of it wound up on The Genius of Bud Powell, Vol. 2, the Verve twofer?

You realize that visual aesthetics affect perception of the sound?

And Happy Birthday Jesus! Oh, wait... I say, Sonny Jim, that you are over-thinking this. Ironic that we are discussing this as some of us celebrate the birthday of a guy who was born 2017 years ago.

He told Lee that he studied with Billy, and Lee replied, "All of my friends are dead!"

My friend, who studied guitar with Billy Bauer, just saw Lee live, and they shot a game of pool between sets!

When I interviewed Mundell, I asked him if he still has the charts from that album. He said he kept the title tune but none of the others. Musicians are notoriously terrible for keeping and archiving their own music.

I realize that I am completely out of touch with what constitutes popular culture in 2017, but am I the only one who feels that Keely's checking out isn't getting the attention it should? She and Louis made Las Vegas.

When I interviewed him in the 1990s, he had positive things to say about that album. This tune is killer:

Looking back at "Begin the Beguine," I think the final section is 20 rather than 16 bars, making it a 100-bar standard, if I'm not mistaken.

I would characterize it as A-B-A, each section being 16 bars.