Teasing the Korean

17 posts and no mention of THEE GREAT DAVID AXELROD!

Was very happy for him! I must own more albums by Morricone than any other artist!

"Soul Zodiac" is better than 99.99% of the records that are routinely discussed by 99.99% of the regulars here.

The Price You Got to Pay has the greatest album cover ever. I have it on LP and reel-to-reel!

I am overdue for a spinning of Afro Eurasian Eclipse. Thanks or the nudge!

Here is a Les Baxter original from Jungle Jazz called "Coco" that shows a Duke Ellington influence. You can imagine this track on Afro Bossa. And this Afro Bossa track has something of a Les Baxter sound: Here is Duke using the prepared piano sound (kicking in around one minute) that Les Baxter used on Le Sacre du Sauvage and a few tracks from Tamboo! And here is Les using the prepared piano sound. It kicks in around 1:30

Then more objectively, I would say it does not have the stylistic consistency of Afro Bossa, not that stylistic consistency is everything.

Eclipse is not as good as Afro Bossa, IMNSHO.

What do you guys think of this album? Considering the fact that "Caravan" is proto-exotica, it is interesting that it took Duke until 1963 to release a full exotica album, after the fad had died down somewhat. And even though he would do "exotic" things throughout his career, he never did another album that was as full-on exotica as Afro Bossa. The percussion adds nice color. It is clear that Duke is in places channeling Les Baxter (who loved Duke), especially in some of the chord progressions, ornamentation, and the prepared piano sound that was used quite a bit on Ritual of the Savage. I wondered if it was a producer's idea for Duke to do this record, and I wonder if he listened to any Les Baxter, particularly Jungle Jazz and African Jazz.

RIP.

Agree, and this aspect of jazz's impact on western society's collective psyche seems to get overlooked in a conversations about "the sad status of jazz today."

The four classic Sinatra heartbreak albums on Capitol: Wee Small Hours Where Are You? Only the Lonely No One Cares.

Let's talk about Lalo Schifrin. Do you have any favorites? Jazz, film, TV?

From the liner notes to the expanded "Bullitt" CD: "For technical reasons, Schifrin had to re-record the music [Song for Cathy] during his scoring sessions, and opted to compose a new piece (performed by Bud Shank, Ray Brown and Howard Roberts) that matched the screen action…"

The full title cuts off when viewing the list of topics, and I thought it said "Ramsey Lewis Solo on Rhodes!"

Well, lots of people will hear the name John Hammond for the first time in their lives. Using jazz to sell a lifestyle - or the image of a supposed lifestyle - is really no different from (US) advertising's use of classical music, which has gone on for decades.

I would say it owes more to bad digital transfers rather than state-of-the-art vinyl pressings. But nevertheless, there are a lot of bad digital transfers out there that are either no-noised to death or very thin and brittle sounding.

So would I, along with the other unqualified notion that "vinyl is better than digital." As someone with a room full of vinyl and CDs, I can say that both formats have their advantages and drawbacks, and there are way too many links in the chain that can lead to either sounding amazing, terrible, or anything in between. I have LPs that blow away their CD counterparts, and vice-versa. I love both for what they are and will continue to do so.

"Monk's Advice" sounds like the title of a Columbia-era tune!

Thanks, I never read that one. I will seek it out. EDIT: Do you have an Amazon link? I can't find it.

This looks like utter crap. I won't waste my time watching this on Netflix, in a theatre, in a house, with a mouse, in a box, with a fox, or whatever.

I don't have the source(s) handy, but I have read that had he been able to record during the 1942-44 recording ban, Byas would have received much wider recognition as a bebop pioneer. I'm no expert on this, so I would be interested to hear some responses to this.

I hope there is a car chase scene with an explosion. Wouldn't that be AWESOME?

I'm psyched that it is a comedy!

There's a good reason to not read it! I will have to seek out the version without him!