Teasing the Korean

The arrangements are, in general, L7. I will say that the Cole Porter arrangements are a tad better than those on the Rodgers and Hart set. A missed opportunity: Great songs, great singer, third-rate arrangements.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IktXk2PhwMk

I'm not a fan of the sets with Buddy Bregman arrangements (Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter), although both contain a few gems.

Not to get off topic, but "Mickey One" was on TCM last night and I taped it. Really looking forward to watching; I've had the LP for decades but the film has been very hard to find, in my experience at least. I watched the opening credits, and the host described it as the closest thing to an American French New Wave film that she has seen.

Considering the small percentage of people who go out of their way to actively listen to jazz, think of how many people in the US heard those amazing drum fills of his every night of the week going into and out of commercial ads. RIP. EDIT: I might add that Ed played drums on one of the greatest albums ever made, Mundell Lowe's "Satan in High Heels." I will spin this in his honor, along with volumes 1 and 2 of TV ACTION JAZZ!

Thanks. I must have about 40 Cal Tjader LPs/CDs, but I will have to fill some holes with those OJC CDs; That red and blue vinyl is getting pricey these days!

I was browsing Amazon looking at the CDs of the (first) Fantasy era and had no idea that many had made it to CD. (Most of my Cal Tjader is on vinyl.). How is the sound on those OJC/Fantasy CDs? I may want to pick up a few...

The Bernstein is en route. A professional musician friend of mine who listens to every version of Rite he can find told me he listened to the Bernstein on Pandora after it was released that it was "amazing."

Exactly when was Don on Blue Note?

I have a couple of those Cadence LPs. His arrangement of "I Cover the Waterfront" is gorgeous.

Libraries sometimes gave tunes different titles to differentiate them. For example, Keith Mansfield's "Powerhouse Pop" had a different title when recorded by Maynard Ferguson with the identical arrangement. Same thing happened with Les Baxter tunes from the "Africa Blue" album. So, even if these are different recordings, you may recogonize much of what you hear from other albums.

For what it's worth, Duke didn't write this tune. It was written by Jim Farmer and J.B. McNeely. Duke's name, and that of the publisher, were added to the credits, as was common at the time.

Inspired by Allen Lowe's comment about the Eddie Sauter/Stan Getz "Focus" album (in the Stan Getz thread in the Artists forum), I'd like to discuss some pieces/albums along these lines in which the match works. I will have to revisit "Focus." I remember liking it quite a bit when I first picked it up, but it's been ages since I've given it a spin. One example, for me at least, is the Gary McFarland/Steve Kuhn "The October Suite."

Les Baxter's Capitol Exotica albums: Le Sacre de Sauvage Tamboo Caribbean Moonlight Ports of Pleasure African Jazz Jungle Jazz The Sacred Idol Jewels of the Sea 8 LPs on 4 CDs. Of course, even if they were cool enough to do this, the cover art would be ugly, as all the others are, and I wouldn't buy it. Still, a girl can dream, can't she?

Coltrane could not have played with those musicians in person, true, but it is well known that he and Diz were able to record together by e-mailing pro-tools files. How do they keep screwing this up?

Not the most exciting I've heard, but at these prices, worth a listen.

Listening now to the Tennstedt 2-CD set on EMI.

Possibly a silly question, but have any of these made it to CD, and if so, how did they do the transfer? Did they run at tape machine at these sessions, in addition to going direct to disc? I am listening to the Wagner LP with the LA Phil and it sounds amazing.

Well, she's being sacrificed, so I'm assuming that someone else did the research and spared me of the responsibility.

Yes, but he's not as hip as a a bearded guy suspending a topless virgin over his head.

Why do the CD versions have such square cover art? Why not the original? Why no topless virgin on the Ansermet? Why no dancing tiki on the Dorati?

Yeah, I may have had the year wrong. And yes, I knew it was available as part of a box, but not individually.

Jazz of Smithsonian (JOS), a concert series organized by Norman Granz.

http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Indysolo/media/WGS-8126a.jpg.html

I'm not interested in Bernstein in general, but the circumstances of the orchestra when the LP was made are interesting. For what it's worth, my favorite versions are by Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony on Mercury, with the tiki album cover art, and the the Ansermet on London with the topless virgin. (Later printings altered her dress).