Teasing the Korean

And then there is the pop-psych ditty "Donkey Rides, a Penny a Glass" by The Small Faces, although the donkey makes only a single appearance in the lyric, if memory serves.

If we can expand the criteria to encompass mules, there is Morricone's score for Two Mules for Sister Sara.

He did the arrangements on the George Shearing bossa album for Capitol, circa 1963. It's a very good record, scored with woodwinds and rhythm section. The vibes and guitar got the day off.

She is on a number of space age bachelor pad albums, including Henri Rene's Riot in Rhythm and Russ Garcia's Fantastica.

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I'm confused. So I missed it and it's gone?

I don't see this installment linked on the website. Can you let us know when it is live? Looking forward to listening!

i got burned by one of those albums. Nothing wrong with the music, but crediting the artist as "Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Pozo" was misleading, to say the least. I don't think there was a single Afro-Cuban track on the album.

Thanks. I wish there was a comprehensive, multi-label collection of all of Dizzy's Afro Cuban stuff. Everything that I have been able to find is organized by label and/or year, with bebop and Afro-Cuban stuff collected together. I guess Capitol could have combined the Dizzy session with the James Moody/Chano Pozo session (if I am remembering correctly).

It is my understanding that U.S. orchestras routinely programmed works of U.S.-born composers throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. Toscanini probably did more than any single figure to solidify the Eurocentric classical repertoire that has been dominant throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. Not sure if the League of American Orchestras still publishes this information, but back when they were the ASOL, they annually published spreadsheets detailing which works were programmed by professional US orchestras in a given year, along with frequency of performances, e.g., zillions of Beethoven 5th performances and not many by Charles ives.

Thanks all for the replies! So what do we have from the period in question (1940s-50s)? Obviously, there are the Manteca, Aztec, and Afro Cuban Jazz Suites, all of which came out under the names of different artists but have been well marketed and in some cases sold under O'Farrill's name. So, beyond those? Gone City - Machito Vaya Nina - Machito Undercurrent Blues and other stuff for Benny Goodman, presumably none of which has Afro-Cuban rhythms (?). Carambola - Dizzy (unreleased?) Cuban Episode - Stan Kenton Any others?

That may have been his intention, but t find that the swing charts he did for Granz are less interesting harmonically. The swing section of the Second Afro Cuban Jazz Suite just doesn't work for me.

I love this except for the uptempo swing section. It seems strangely dated in relation to the music that surrounds it. I agree about the second movement - It is O'Farrill in his prime Les Baxter mode. The album "Torrid Zone" is not among his best, but it contains one amazing Baxter-esque track, "Mambotanga." Back to the swing section: I find O'Farrill's swing stuff to be generally less compelling than his Latin stuff, with the exception of his stunning ballad arrangement of "Flamingo." It is almost as though the Latin rhythms inspired a greater degree of harmonic complexity.

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Bossa is fine, just not exactly what I'm seeking. Really looking for Afro-Cuban stuff from roughly the same era as the Clef/Norgran stuff that came out under his name. I have most of his 1960s albums, including "Torrid Zone," "Nine Flags, "Spanish Rice," "Married Well," etc.

Does anyone have any leads on which tunes Chico O'Farrill arranged for Machito, Stan Kenton, etc. in the 1940s and 1950s? I have lots of Afro Cuban jazz from that period, but the LPs and CDs don't always credit arrangers. I suppose I can assume that he arranged things that he wrote, such as "Gone City," but beyond that I don't know. Looking more for his Afro Cuban stuff rather than swing stuff. Thanks in advance.

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I will respectfully disagree. Ditch the two (awful) Teo Macero tunes and replace them with the Monk tunes that appear as bonus cuts on the CD and you get a consistent album. It sounds like Monk sitting in with the Tonight Show band.

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So why didn't they just release it from a clone of the Japanese CD?!? An LP transfer makes no sense in this situation.

It is off-ten silent.

I find these recordings to be incredibly creepy. I cannot hear them without seeing images from Eraserhead.

Well, I don't want to discount what else he may have done, I just hate that one particular style and sound. It is like bad jazz clubs that use a saxophone graphic for the letter "J."

I've never seen Gil Evans wear a hat, good or bad. The hat reference comes from guys I've seen at jam sessions who play SNL sax. And then I ask myself why I bothered to show up. I've never owned a David Sanborn record, and if that is what he sounds like, I will be sure to avoid him.

Considering the fact that I started a thread on one topic and you changed the topic to attack the OP, I would consider you the troll, but don't think twice, it's alright. And to clarify: I am talking about a genre or sub-genre. Not a particular player. Because I don't listen to this style of music, I associate the style with SNL. I doubt that anyone associated with that show created the sound.