Teasing the Korean

This may be the case with fly-by-night budget labels that release grey-market CDRs from mp3s. But if it is a CDR from a legit label - especially if the title had already been released by that label on a real CD - I'm sure it would be an exact clone of the CD. Converting lossless to mp3 for a CDR would be an unnecessary step in the process.

Of the 37-minute Un Amore album, about 15 minutes' worth is jazz, generally of a minimal, abstract variety, played by a quartet. There are also a couple of pop tunes, some orchestral, and some minimal pieces with percussion, the latter of which may intersect with jazz interests.

I will have to revisit. I picked these up during an Italian/French soundtrack buying spree, and a lot of them run together. I seem to recall at lease some jazz content. I'll report back.

Thanks. I remembered I have one more, Un Amore. I'll see if I can find online rips of those LPs.

I would be interested in hearing these. I know him only through his score to Antonioni's La Notte.

John Keating - Space Experience 2 (EMI) Great version of Bowie's "Life on Mars."

Bernard Parmegiani – Rock (Bande Originale Du Film) Electronic soundtrack to a 1982 film.

I've bought a few CDRs over the years, but Amazon labeled them as such. It is better than nothing. I immediately backed them up. It is basically like buying a lossless download, and the CDRs are/were often cheaper than lossless downloads.

White Noise - An Electric Storm (Island)

Yes! I tried to find the film last night, but it wasn't on the streaming services we use. It must be terrible. It is from 1959, but it reuses stock footage from the 1932 film!

Jack Jones - This Love of Mine (Capitol, mono): Jack's first LP, from 1959, predating his Kapp years. Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan (MGM, mono) Fantastic! A perfect companion piece to Afro-Cuban Influence.

Welcome! The film and album versions are completely different listening experiences. The LP sounds like Gato; the film sounds like Oliver. Unfortunately, the CD of the film version contains a lot of short cues with glacial pauses between. Even worse, some of this silence is embedded in the individual tracks. It is like you are hearing the reference disc from which to compile an album. It has zero sense of momentum or development. So, I loaded the whole thing into ProTools, tightened up the tracks, and in some cases, combined related short cues to create longer tracks. My version provides an infinitely better listening experience, but I was not paid, and I don't think it should be the listener's job to finish someone else's album. Still, it was worth doing, in this case.

If you want to hear Oliver Nelson's contribution, you need to pick up the film version, released on CD by Quartet Records.

Morricone - Autopsy, A.K.A. Macchie Solari (1975) - Arrow Records 2-LP reissue.

I have this on a Columbia 10" with different cover art. Never saw the version you posted.

Roots of Rhythm - Prince Onago and Princess Muana (with Chick Foster and His Quintet) - Jubilee (stereo) Like Chaino and Korla Pandit, this is another example of willful self-exoticism. Onago and Muana claimed to be African royalty; in reality, they were from East St. Louis. This is one of two LPs they recorded, the other for 20th Century Fox. I have both.

I confess ignorance. I always assumed that Sanborn was a lightweight fusion guy. Live and learn. RIP.

That's generous! I'd have said much worse! 😹

Curious, what was the first comparison that came to mind when you started to give GG Allin a listen?

A "prominent" flat-earther spent $20,000 on a professional-grade ring laser gyroscope to prove the earth was flat. It didn't go well...

This is exactly my experience. When Ms. TTK and I got together, circa 1997, she had the middle volume of the Fabs' Anthology, covering 1965-67. I remember I was off from work one day, and I couldn't wait to spin it. I put it in, and couldn't get through more than about 20 seconds of a track before I skipped to the next one. I don't think I ever listened to it top to bottom. While the Beatles still fascinate me as a sociocultural phenomenon, their music wore out its welcome a long time ago. And I agree about Pet Sounds. The Beach Boys are the only pop/rock group of my youth that I have continued to listen to over the decades, and that's because Brian Wilson IMO towers above all the others. What about my Bernard Herrmann example from above? Could the age/time thing play a factor in how he perceived music as he aged?

I don't think so. Based on that logic, an album that I knew since I was 2 years old should have been flying by when I was 13, but I was still getting lost in those albums at that time. Conversely, I haven't listened to the Beatles in decades, so playing one of their albums top to bottom would have become a fresh experience. And I think there is certainly a phenomenon about how we perceive time as we age, because each second we experience represents a successively greater percentage of the time we have remaining.

This is a favorite album of mine. I will review and report back.

For those of us who have hit, say, age 50 or older: Have you ever in recent years put on an album that you had from your childhood or youth, and were amazed at how quickly the thing flew by? The tempos, and the length of tunes? As a kid, I would listen to Beach Boys and Beatles US LPs, and I would totally get lost inside them. All of these albums clock it an under 30 minutes. Some of those Beatles sides are as short as 12 or 13 minutes. I very rarely listen to rock/pop from my youth, but one Friday night a few years ago, I put on side 1 the US Rubber Soul - in mono, of course - went to kitchen to mix a few cocktails, and by the time they were ready and I brought them out into the family room, it was time to flip the record. Bernard Herrmann's late-career recordings of his earlier scores have been criticized for their sluggish tempos. I wonder if he was experiencing the phenomenon I am talking about. Anyone experience this?

George Duning - Toys in the Attic OST (Citadel, mono)