Teasing the Korean

I was working in a record store when that came out, and I remember thinking at the time that it had to be one of the worst album covers ever. Three decades' worth of album covers since, and it is still a contender for that title. God, everything about the 80s was so terrible, except for David Lynch.

Thanks. This album seems hard to find. (I didn't even know about it until the other night). I was disappointed to not get the right Yusef Lateef album, but I'm kinda glad I got this one instead!

OK, definitely Harold Land. (Thanks Rotasi!). The side of the LP I have starts with "Timetable," which is the first of four tunes on that side. Can anyone confirm if this corresponds to the standard LP lineup?

It's summer, and I tend to wear skirts.

Who knew that Stanley Black's "Exotic Percussion" was on CD? That has to be one of my favorite non-Bernard Herrmann Phase 4 albums and one of my favorite exotica albums. The stereo LP that I had was very distorted, but I found a mono version that's perfect.

Tenor? Cut me some slack. I just dragged the album home and did a few needle drops before posting. I was expecting to hear flute, oboe and gongs.

My copy of Cadet's 'The Peace-Maker' (side 2) has 'WARS-5127, also #17115, also LPS-813, also S-2 in the deadwax, all handwritten. Interesting. Was there more than one issue of this album on Cadet? It certainly sounds like Land/Hutcherson, at least from the needledrops I did. Are there audio samples of the album anywhere? Could this be a screwed up test pressing or something?

Imagine trying to figure this out before the interwebz! I was able to solve the mystery in an hour or so!

OK, I just checked Amazon for Lou Donaldson "Tangerine" and I heard the same version, with the organ, that is on this LP. I guess the online discography is wrong, and I must have one side of Lou Donaldson "At His Best" with one side of Harold Land "The Peace-Maker" with Yusef Lateef labels in a Yusef Lateef cover. What a fortuitous purchase!!!! Thanks all!

I have the "Mellow Yellow" LP. I did a search but cannot find any Odell Brown albums with "Tangerine" as the second track.

It was suggested that this is Lou Donaldgson "At His Best," but from what I see, this album has piano and conga. The album side I have has tenor, trumpet, organ, guitar, and drums.

I thought I was buying a Yusef Lateef LP on Cadet. Turns out that Yusef Lateef labels, corresponding to the album cover, were attached to the LP, but the music is not Yusef Lateef. To confuse things even more, the two sides of the record are not even the same album or band! I believe that one side of the album, from my research and also from what my ears tell me, is a Harold Land/Bobby Hutcherson Cadet album called "The Peace-Maker," Cadet LPS 813. It has 4 tunes, and judging from the letter "B" in the dead wax, is probably side 2 of the album. I'm having trouble pinpointing the other side, though. It is an organ groove album, 4 tunes, with organ, tenor, trumpet, guitar and drums. There are 4 tunes, and the second tune is "Tangerine." The other tunes are generally bluesy organ groove stuff. It looks like the number scratched into the dead wax is either 1336 A or 1356 A, but then there is also the number CA 813? A, the question mark being a scratched out number. I paid $3.99 for this, and am not taking it back. But I really want to know what the other side of the album is! Thanks in advance!

Well that makes sense. Thanks.

This has probably been discussed, but I couldn't find the thread. I've had later pressings of the LPs, Vol. 1 and 2, and later, had the Blue Note "Best of Monk" CD from the 1990s. I recently picked up the RVG versions of both Genius Vol. 1 and 2 on CD, for the bonus tracks, RVG remastering and the original 10" cover art. Does anyone know why the 1948 session with Milt Jackson is omitted? I could have fit. It's especially weird that tracks from those sessions were on the LPs, and a few are even listed on the 10" LP covers used for the CDs, even though they don't appear on the CDs. I realize that those 6 tracks with Milt are on a Milt Jackson RVG CD, so they are available. Still, I don't think anyone would have minded the duplication between the Monk and Milt albums. Seems strange.

I trust Allen Lowe's taste. I'll wait for him to weigh in on whether this is worth buying.

I hope they play his Moog album, which is easily my favorite moog album ever, and I have lots of them.

Benny Carter - Additions to Further Dimensions - Impulse! (mono)

Wow, I like it quite a bit as a standalone. Granted, it's a challenging listen on some levels, but no more so than lots of out jazz. It certainly creates its own world.

This is one of my favorite Howard Shore scores. I don't know why Ornette didn't share the title card with Shore in the opening credits.

I can't tell you how many times I've passed on getting armloads' worth of these releases for short dough. They are usually in pristine shape. I've seen them numerous times for $5 a throw and under. I should really investigate some of these. Truth is - and this may sound silly - I have some sort of a mental block with box sets. I just don't think of putting them on as often as I think about single LPs or single CDs.

I have this two-disc set but I have unfortunately lost disc 2. I can live without it in July, but when fondue season approaches, I will absolutely need both discs. Thanks in advance.

So if you want suggestions for jazz scores, I'll have some ideas, but it seems like that is a secondary consideration.

You're not addressing my question. The aesthetic of alcohol in the 70s is completely different from that of the 60s and 50s. If you placed "and Rossi" after your use of the word "Martini," I never would have chimed in, other than to offer you some great musical suggestions that haven't been posted yet. I'll get to that part later. Also, ALL good Brazilian and jazz is quintessential cocktail music.

The iPod has rendered the "desert island disc" concept obsolete, hasn't it? I would just say "I'd bring my iPod," which has far more than ten albums.

How do you associate a 1950s drink with 70s instrumentation and production values? i suspect for the same reason I do. Martini TV adverts were a dubious 'highlight' of 70s viewing in the UK - 'anytime, anyplace, anywhere' - Joan Collins, Leonard Rossiter, spilt drink. traffic dodging waiters.... and we're not talking classy cocktail here, either OK, that explains it. Not the case in the US. When I picture Burt in his cable knit sweater at the ski lodge, circa 1973, I think of brandy, sherry and/or Martini and Rossi. Those were the major 70s beverages in the US, as seen in TV commercials and lots of made-for-TV movies. "Could I get you a brandy?" You could also add Lowenbrau, for whom Arthur Prysock did a commercial. When I think of martini music, the first thing that comes to mind is the 1950s George Shearing Quintet, who did some of the most elegant cocktail music imaginable. And "cocktail music" is not an insult. I don't want to listen to ANY music that I can't enjoy a drink with. So I consider all jazz cocktail music, except for godawful smooth jazz.