Teasing the Korean

Jimmy Castor - Hey Leroy! You're Mama's Callin' You! - Smash (stereo)

Curtis Mayfield - Roots - Curtom

Tito Rodriguez - West Side Beat - UA (black label, mono) Bola Sete - Autentico! - Fantasy (Blue label stereo, red wax, OJC reissue) Some of the tracks on this Bola Sete album are like a prototype for the stuff Gabor Szabo would do a few years later.

Does anyone else have any records on the United Artists Latino label from the 1960s? The sessions tend to be very solid. Liner notes are in both English and Spanish. While many labels were of course releasing Latin and Brazilian music during that decade, what other major US label at that time devoted a subsidiary to the Latino demographic? I think it was both forward-thinking from a sociological standpoint and shrewd from a business perspective.

I think that you can get a pretty solid album combining the best of Sunflower and Surf's Up, but there's a lot of filler and/or schmaltz on both records.

June 29, 2011 marks the 100 year anniversary of Herrmann's birth. That night, from 10 pm to midnight EST, TTK will guest-host 88.5 WMNF's Step Outside and present an all-Herrmann show. If you can't listen in real time, the show is archived on the station's Website for one magical week, before disappearing forever into the ether... www.wmnf.org

Any updates?

Bumping up this old thread. While the Kimberly issue credits Wes, the World Pacific release credits him as playing on only "Not Since Nineveh," track 1 on side 2. I'm guessing this was either sloppiness on Kimberly's part, or that they deliberately tried to make buyers think that Wes played throughout the record. Anyway, this reinforces my earlier comments about Wes being "in a support role." He is barely on the album. Still it's a great one, whichever label you find it on.

Positive vibes.

Andrew Gold died June 3 at age 59. This is a pretty amazing Byrds homage that Andrew did. If you love the Byrds, it's worth hearing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-oBob2-tg

My wife insisted I add this one. Personally, I think he's kind of hot...

I do exotica DJ sets, and in addition to the usual Martin Denny/Les Baxter kind of stuff, I often throw in Latin jazz or jazz tunes that have an exotic bent, e.g. Mating Call, Totem Pole, Curacao, etc. They work, believe me. The lines between genres are often tenuous. Change the instrumentation in Mating Call and throw in some screaming chimps, and it's pure exotica. Denny covered Caravan. He could have covered Mating Call also.

I was kidding - I love Tadd Dameron. But yes, the title tune works very well in an exotica setting.

It was nice that Tadd wrote a hip exotica tune, in contrast to all that square jazz stuff he'd been doing.

I'm always learning stuff here. I had no idea Crown was associated with R&B or country. I thought that they were a march/polka/Hawaiian label that occasionally released a jazz album along the way.

He wrote "Cubano Chant," a favorite of TTK.

Understood. I didn't mean to come off as argumentative in my previous post. In terms of "typically Crown," I think of Crown as being all over the map, as a casual perusal of their releases on the back cover of any album will show. I don't really think of them as a jazz label per se, although "Jazz Heat Bongo Beat" is both a solid jazz album and bongo record. My Milt Raskin mp3 is on Amazon and iTunes under a number of different versions. I have one on "Flair" that is in true stereo. I think it's from vinyl but it's pretty clean, cleaner than most Crown vinyl I've heard. I'm not sure what label "Jazz Heat" is on; I don't have it nearby at the moment. Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Nothing that I mentioned was a "lounge act." The Latin Jazz All-Stars were a studio group consisting of jazz/session musicians. They never gigged live, in a lounge or elsewhere. Milt Raskin and Don Ralke were studio arrangers. I gave these as examples because I knew for a fact that these CDs/mp3s were mastered from vinyl. The other Crown albums I have are on vinyl, so I have no idea if there are CDs or what they are mastered from.

Understood, but there were some really great original sessions recorded for Crown (as far as I know), such as Milt Raskin's "Kapu," Don Ralke's "Bongo Madness" and the Latin Jazz All-Stars' "Jazz Heat Bongo Beat."

I have a couple of things that were on Crown that have been reissued (one on CD; one download). Both seem to be mastered from vinyl. Does anyone know what happened to Crown's master tapes, or does it vary from one title to the next?

The Markko Polo Adventurers - Orienta - RCA (black label, mono) Herbie Mann's African Suite - UA (stereo)

Martin Denny - Exotic Percussion - Liberty (stereo)

Martin Denny/Si Zentner - The Exotica Suite - Liberty (gold label, mono) Composed by Les Baxter; Arranged by Bob Florence.