Teasing the Korean

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.

They are MORE MODERN than many contemporary bands.

Maria Bethania - Drama 3o Ato - Philips (Brasil)

Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz! - Capitol (rainbow, mono) With Plas Johnson and Larry Bunker.

I meant to mention him in my post. The height of modernism, so much more modern than many contemporary arrangers.

Warren Barker - William Holden presents Far Away Places - WB (grey label, mono) One of my top 10 exotica albums outside of Les Baxter and Martin Denny.

John Evans - Exotic Percussion & Brilliant Brass - Directional Sound (stereo) Featuring Chaino on percussion and wild screaming chimps! Liner notes by Nat Hentoff, before he went off the deep end.

Sad. I love his stuff on Flying Dutchman.

Depends on if they're Dynaflex or not.

Modern or contemporary? My favorite modern big bands are Kenton, Rugolo, Oliver Nelson, Dizzy Gillespie (with Lalo Schifrin arrangements), Chico O'Farrill, Sauter-Finegan, Quincy Jones, Andrei Hodeir, Gerald Wilson...

I love Wanda de Sah. Never heard of Wanda Sa.

So is that the last of the old Vegas hotels? Is the Tropicana still there?

I read in an article someplace - don't ask me where - that there is way to tell the correct speed by some sort of an electrical hum on the records.

Was that question about the correct speed ever settled?

The 60s is my favorite decade for Blue Note, although I generally buy them on CD (the vinyl is either too pricey or trashed). There is certainly more variety in that decade, because in addition to the players who came out of the hard bop era, you also get McCoy, Herbie, Shorter, Hill, Hutcherson. etc.

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Billy May - Johnny Cool OST - UA (black label, mono) Lalo Schifrin - The Liquidator OST - MGM (yellow label promo, mono)

This album is out of print, by the way. I hope when it's reissued, they use the original 10" cover art. The ugly cover art on the previous CD prevented me from buying it. Happy to have the original 10" though.

Amazing that there was a time when the sales of an experimental, avant-garde jazz album could have been measured in the fives of thousands.

Amazing that there was a time that the sales of an experimental, avant-garde jazz album could have been measured in the tens of thousands.

Did anyone think this sentence was odd? "Police stopped short of classifying Wright's death as a homicide." I suppose he could have: 1) crawled into the trunk for fun and died while he happened to be there; 2) committed suicide by locking himself into the trunk; 3) been found dead by a friend, who thoughtfully packed him into the trunk for safe keeping until the authorities arrived. I understand the police need to be cautious, but jeez...

Dave Lambert's Pre-LHR groups were largely, if not entirely, studio projects using available singers from a pool of New York session singers from the period. I too have tried to find this information on the Web to little avail. Even if we had the names of the singers, they would be largely unknown to most of us. That said, I can tell you that two of the singers he used on occasion were Gabe Drake and Jim Farmer.

Various - Best of Studio 1 - Heartbeat