Teasing the Korean

I've always loved the TV Action Jazz album and didn't know there was a Volume 2. Who's on it? The usual New York session cats of that era - George Duvivier, Eddie Costa, Clark Terry, Phil Bodner, Ed Shaughnessy. Main difference with this album is that it includes a four-man trombone section with Urbie Green. Also, some of the tunes on this album don't pop up very frequently on crime jazz albums, like "Tightrope," "The Detectives Theme," "Markham Theme." Also, the full name of this album is "Themes from Mr. Lucky, The Untouchables, and other TV Action Jazz." I think "TV Action Jazz" has to be one of the greatest LP titles ever. It's like everything I dreamed of as a kid packed into three words.

No, didn't even know that one came out in mono. That must have been toward the end of mono in the US, right?

Phil Collins sucks.

Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley Sage - Columbia (2 eye, MONO) Mono blows away the stereo version.

THEE GREAT KENYON HOPKINS - The Yellow Canary OST - Verve (mono) With LALO SCHIFRIN on piano!!!

Mundell Lowe - TV Action Jazz Vol. 2!!! - RCA Camden (blue and purple label, stereo). Better than Vol. 1, IMHO. Though I would love to have both on a single CD.

Ferrante and Teicher with Percussion - ABC Paramount (black label, mono) From their prepared piano period. Featuring a stunning, proto-ambient version of "The Nearness of You."

Just found out that Jerry (Jerome) Slosberg entered the next realm in January 2010. He was 88. Jerry was a (terrific) drummer and percussionist based primarily out of Chicago. He played in a famous trio with Johnny Frigo and Dick Marx. He is on some of Ken Nordine's classic recordings on Dot also. Along the way, he appeared on many percussion albums by the likes of Dick Schory and David Carroll. He was Sammy Davis's first choice for a drummer when Sammy was in town. There were obits in the St. Pete Times and in the Las Vegas newspaper, but I've not been able to find them online.

What is that?!?

That guy has been full of himself for too long. Imagine my surprise watching the Scott Walker documentary and Sting has to intrude at one point.

My voodoo exotica combo does a killer version of "Mating Call." It may be on our first album, which should be out soon.

A seller can classify titles in any manner that can move product.

Johnny Lytle - Swingin' at the Gate - Pacific Jazz (stereo, black and orange label)

Andy Williams - Under Paris Skies - Cadence (stereo) with arrangements by Q and Billy Byers. Surprisingly swingin' album, coming from a guy who later said that Obama was a socialist.

"Julie is Her Name" has strings - exactly 10 of them: 6 on the guitar and 4 on the bass. That's all the instrumentation on it. Most of her 1950s albums are on the jazzy side of the spectrum and few have strings. "Julie at Home" is a great little jazzy date that was supposedly recorded at her home. Somewhere around the early 1960s - when her hairstyle changes - her records get into more contemporary pop territory - "End of the World," etc. She continued to do jazzy albums along the way, though, like the "Cole Porter" album from the mid or late 1960s. I'm a big fan. I often felt that she didn't get taken seriously as a singer because of the cheesecake nature of the record covers and her pinup image. But the proof is in the grooves of those records. I'm happy to see that so much stuff has made it to CD.

Morricone 2000 (Dagored)

Art Farmer - Something You Got - CTI

Bobbi Humphrey - Dig This! Blue Note (blue label with black 70s logo)

Eddie Harris - Bossa Nova - Vee Jay (stereo, rainbow label). With THEE GREAT LALO SCHIFRIN! VJ stereo jazz sessions from this period had some of the most natural sounding and least annoying stereo separation of any label. Contemporary Records also. IMHO.

Yes, is that the one about the beat poets? IIRC, it has a similar approach to Fred Katz's "Little Shop of Horrors," which is a definitive example of what I'm talking about.

Chico Hamilton - Man from Two Worlds - Impulse! (stereo, Capitol pressing) with THEE GREAT GABOR SZABO.

Various - Amarcord Nino Rota (Hannibal) Hal Wilner project, maybe the most consistent of all of them.

Debussy - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fuan; Jeux - Columbia (Great Performances series, stereo) Boulez/New Philaharmonia

Ormandy/Philadelphia Orch - Ports of Call - Columbia (grey label Masterworks, mono) Collection of exotic stuff by Ravel, Debussy, Chabrier and Ibert. This was my Dad's album. Partially responsible for my heading down the exotica path.