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Obsolete media being evaluated by old guys whose hearing is shot. Keep it comin'!

Anyone have this or heard it? Pretty amazing. Anyone know if it was actually recorded on vintage gear, or did they process it to sound as such?

We're in the age of digital downloads and people are still debating vinyl vs. CDs? Anyone who cares anymore already made of their minds years if not decades ago, and their hearing is probably no longer reliable enough to trust their opinion.

I want to believe.

I recently picked up both the Beau Hunks Raymond Scott tributes, one on the Basta label and the other on Koch. They do incredible recreations of the Quintette sides, getting both the notes and spirit right. It's cool to hear this stuff in hi-fi.

For some reason, Nina's Colpix albums are always trashed when I find them, like Ahmad Jamal albums. Don't know what's up with that. Anyway, I found the 2-disc Rhino anthology of her Colpix years for cheap recently, and it's nice to finally hear this stuff without the surface noise.

Herb and Lani.

Cool one-hour documentary from Euro TV circa 1970: Virtually all his films are covered, although the Bond films are treated as a group. The way he discusses his contribution to the Bond theme and "Dr. No" in general is fascinating in light of later developments with regard to Monty Norman's lawsuits. Interesting comments regarding "The Ipcress File," "The Knack" and "The Quiller Memorandum." His opinions on "Born Free" - the film, the director, and the score - are surprisingly frank in a way that you don't typically encounter these days. Also, a nice time capsule of the '60s and European style and sensibilities from that period.

Thanks. I'd forgotten about the Free Jazz album, the result of having accumulated too many LPs and not enough time to revisit them all.

What are the typical or atypical approaches to using two bassists from a conceptual or arrangement standpoint?

I don't have many albums with two bassists, that I can think of at least. The aforementioned Andrew Hill is one. What are the typical approaches to using two bassists from a conceptual or arrangement standpoint?

One of the Andrew Hill Blue Note LPs has two bassists.

Who is your favorite? Don Elliott played trumpet, vibes and mellophone, and also sang. He was very active on the New York jingle scene in the 1950s and 1960s. On my turntable, he is most well known for his Design LP "Music from the 1960s," with beautiful cover art depicting our hero riding a Vespa in outer space; and, of course, The Nutty Squirrels, a hipster beat version of the Chipmunks that he put together with Sascha Burland. I know less about Dean Elliott, but he did a nervous jazz score for the B-film "College Confidential" (Chancellor Records); and arranged and recorded the space-age bachelor pad classic, "Zounds, What Sounds!" on Capitol, in which various sounds from telephones to cement mixers are mixed in with space-age hi-fi big band. I like them both equally.

I love "Girl on a Swing."

Seeing reports on the interwebz that Kevin Ayers crossed over to the next realm. RIP.

While I would never recommend the Monk/Oliver Nelson album as being prime Oliver Nelson record, I do find it oddly compelling. It is like a weird time capsule of where jazz and pop culture were at that time (1968). It's like if Monk sat in with the Tonight Show band with Doc conducting. I just imagine Johnny Carson yelling "Yeah" at that end of every track.

As a kid and young adult, I was obsessed with girl group music and got my hands on everything I could find. As an adult, I feel I have largely outgrown this genre, but I still find the Shangri Las to be strangely compelling. http://www.nytimes.c...at-71.html?_r=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosXg_bBkE4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eosXg_bBkE4

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Get some glasses, Grampa.

Will blast "Street Lady" in his honor. Byrd Lives!

This sounds like a headline from the Onion.

Zig Zag Skull Session

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