Teasing the Korean

How is the Pat Williams? Is it straight-ahead, or does it have have any hip now-sound elements?

Very happy about Trip to the Mars! That has eluded me? How is the Pat Williams? I bet it is amazing. I wish more of the groovy stuff was included. Maybe a lot that stuff has already come out in one form or another.

Do 45 RPM EPs count?

The film was scored for a big band plus a string section. Elmer apparently didn't know that when you wrote straight eighth notes for jazz guys, that they would automatically swing them. So, anything with a swing feel that should have been written in 4/4, Elmer wrote in 12/8, with a tie between the first two eighth notes of the triplets, so that the musicians reading the charts would "swing." I guess you can see where this is going. The string players had no issues whatsoever reading the oddball notation. But the rhythm, brass, and reed sections, which were primarily if not entirely composed of jazz guys, had no idea what they were looking at. It caused real problems at the sessions. But, of course, it all worked out in the end, because it is a great movie, and a great album, as long as you find the mono version and not the reprocessed-for-stereo version.

Did you ever read Raksin's response to why "Laura" became a standard? He said, "It has a lot of shoulder chords." The interviewer asked him what he meant by "shoulder chords." Raksin replied - and I am paraphrasing - the kind of impressive chords that cocktail pianists like to identify by raising their shoulders right before they play them! Have I ever posted here the story of how Elmer Bernstein notated "swing" in his charts for "The Man with the Golden Arm?" Pretty funny stuff.

Years ago, at a thrift store, I picked up Sgt. Barry Sadler's "Green Berets" album because of the stuff written on the back. At the top left margin, on the back it says, "To Donna." In the margin between the track listing and liner notes, it says: I like navy army airforce green berets marines coast guard etc. Vietnam At the bottom margin, it says: "I feel sorry for the men who have to fight in war. I will write or do anything for the men and boys in war. Viet Nam." Several words in the liner notes are underlined, such as "combat," "missions," "fighting force," etc.

Now that you mention it... Oh, and you're FIRED!

I read Straight Life over several weeks one winter. I was reading it on the subway one morning, bundled up, and seated between two obese women who were also bundled up. It was one of those uncomfortable urban winter subway moments where suddenly it is hot as hell and you want to rip off your clothes and run out into the snow. So I'm reading the part where Art is playing with, I think, Buddy Rich in the late 60s, and he finds he has a distended liver. All of a sudden, my ears start ringing, and I break out into a cold sweat. I thought I was going to faint. I got out at the next stop and just sat on the bench for about 10 minutes, and then got on another train when I'd gotten my bearings. It was the one time in my life that literature made me physically ill, although the two bundled obese women I was sandwiched between may have played a role. It was probably a confluence of everything.

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There are few tracks from this suite on Gerald's Pacific Jazz album "The Golden Sword." Was the suite completed, and did any of the other movements appear on other albums, either previous or subsequent?

Chile Con Soul is one of my favorite Latin jazz records ever. RIP.

When I used to DJ, this track was in regular rotation:

At Max's Kansas City, during the smacked-out Velvets era, all the waitresses were immune to any sort celebrity intoxication, except when Cary Grant showed up, and they all acted like schoolgirls.

The French must be really sick of this thing by now.

While I am not a huge fan of Astrud Gilberto, I always find myself defending her. This video completely reinforces my opinion that she was much more than a pretty face. Despite whatever pitch or vocal control issues I occasionally pick up on from those Verve albums, there is always a sense of natural musicality that shines through. And I agree with sgcim, her vocal timbre is irresistible.

I don't know, but new humans who work in them certainly have. God knows what they do when parts wear out or break, assuming anyone would notice.

Yes, but they have been more prevalent in recent years, at least in my experience. I truly believe that some of these pressing plants and mastering engineers do not know what they are doing.

Of course, and Hitler probably allowed you and I to be born in some way or another. The point of the article is that the sound of golden-age Hollywood film scores, as we know them, would not have existed, because it's primary architects were refugees.

Not a completely uncovered topic, but this article offers a concise account of the composers who fled Nazi-occupied countries in central and eastern Europe, and subsequently created the sound of golden-age Hollywood film scores. Composers inclue Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Miklos Rozsa, and Dimitri Tiomkin. Indirectly, while Schoenberg had a limited career in film scoring, his students included David Raksin and Bernard Herrmann. http://orelfoundation.org/index.php/journal/journalArticle/a_steppe_is_a_steppe_how_hitler_helped_to_create_hollywood_music/

I should add that, beyond the analog/digital issue, there are a number of reasons I avoid contemporary LPs, including off-center pressings, warpage, and excessive sibilance. I've had too much bad luck with recent-ish LPs.

Have you heard the double live Dream Letter album? He does a number of tunes from Hello and Goodbye, but he does them in a style more like Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon. Well worth owning if you like the latter two albums.

So happy to have this slice of 70s bad as grooving so o reel to reel!

Awesome! PLLEEEEZZE ask him about the existence of tapes of Oliver Senior's TV scores, especially The Six Million Dollar Man. In cases where the masters are gone - which is not unusual for TV shows of that era - composers often kept reel-to-reel tapes of their scores.

Thanks. It is BADASS, whoever the hell it is!

…on the Edu Lobo track on the groovy Capitol 70s album?