Teasing the Korean

David Axelrod - Strange Ladies - MCA Surprisingly good for 1977.

That Aleratec looks pretty good. I may check it out. Thanks.

Yes, "Jo + Jazz" is a great album, I never heard the other one. Another nice Columbia album is "Jo Stafford Sings Broadway's Best." I think some tracks from this are on CD but I don't know if it has been released intact.

That lasted at least until 1983. I remember being at Third Street Jazz in Philly in Summer 1983 and buying an armload of Blue Note and Impulse! cutouts for like a buck ninety-nine a throw. The Peaches chain had BNs in the cutout bin at least through 1982 if not longer.

I have a few CDs that have gotten scratched and that are, for practical purposes, irreplaceable. Anyone have any experience with these kits? Do they work or are they a gimmick?

The CDs are a lot cheaper. I'm happy with them. Still, it's a real thrill to find a mono BN LP in clean shape for short dough. It happens, but not as often as it used to.

Trouble is, there is lots of hyperbole but little hard evidence for what happens in concert or rehearsal settings, to say nothing of who was in the audience. Recording and release dates at least establish some basic chronological benchmarks. That said, your argument serves to reinforce my point. Chico, like other jazz artists, was likely performing the music and arrangements heard on those albums months prior to the recording sessions. The rock and pop groups of this era, by contrast, were generally working things out in the studio just prior to the sessions. They were often playing Chuck Berry and Little Richard live while they were adapting the Tibetan Book of the Dead for lyrics in the studio. So, if anything, Chico would have been a greater influence on the aforementioned groups than the other way around, at least in terms of the eastern influence.

Of course. But I'm talking specifically about Chico's drum patterns combined with Gabor's guitar, which were a little closer to "rock" than what Coltrane was doing, and which certainly at times sound like a precursor to, among others, the Yardbirds. I see a definite thread, but I've never read anything that addressed this specifically. The following five albums were recorded between 1962 (maybe 1961) and September 1965, predating "Norwegian Wood," "Eight Miles High," "Paint it, Black" and "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago." The only early "eastern" rock tunes that may have overlapped with only the last album listed below were "Still I'm Sad" and "See My Friends:" 1962 A Different Journey (Reprise) 1962 Passin' Thru (Impulse! Records) 1963 Man From Two Worlds (Impulse!) 1965 Chic Chic Chico (Impulse!) 1966 El Chico (Impulse!)

Well, with the Gabor Szabo solo albums, you're absolutely right. But there are Chico Hamilton albums with Gabor Szabo on Impulse!, and at least one on Reprise, that were recorded circa 1962-64 and that feature some Eastern-tinged tracks. The Eastern rock stuff didn't really happen until the tail end of 1965 and peaking in 1966. So Chico was ahead of the game.

Have they perfected spinning headphones yet?

Love Chico Hamilton, both the 1950s quintets with Fred Katz et. al. and the 60s group with Gabor Szabo. I am curious to know if the eastern-tinged stuff he started doing with Gabor Szabo in the early-mid 60s was ever cited as an influence on groups such as the Beatles, Yardbirds, Stones, Byrds, or others who went the eastern route.

Supposedly, black was chosen as the vinyl color standard because it hid imperfections better than other colors. AFAIK, there is no difference with solid colored vinyl of different colors. Multi-colored picture discs are another story, though, and do not sound as good.

Gene Ammons - Greatest Hits Volume 1: The 60s - Prestige (OJC pressing stereo). Gorgeous version of "Canadian Sunset."

Cannonball Adderley - Country Preacher - Capitol (green and purple label). Featuring Jesse Jackson. Every record on the green and purple Capitol label kicks ass. Including the Mel Torme album with Spinning Wheel.

Love the two genius Pieros of Italian jazz - Umiliani and Piccioni!

I have the film "Repulstion" but not the score. Has it been released? The CD that was supposed to come out a few years back got delayed, and then I lost track. Yes, very into Komeda also, but don't have too much of this stuff. I need to get more.

I have all of these. They are great albums, but respectfully, they are not in the sub-genre I'm focusing on. Another GREAT example are a few of the Chico Hamilton tracks from the "Sweet Smell of Success" album.

My Dad did a number of sessions with the Dave Lambert Singers prior to Lambert Hendricks and Ross. He had good memories of those sessions, liked the music, and said that Dave Lambert was a great guy. When I was a kid and didn't know anything about anything, my Dad would occasionally reconnect with an old friend from his session days. After a few drinks, they would inevitably get to the story about a colleague who got killed changing a tire on, I think, the Jersey Turnpike. Decades later I realized they were talking about Dave Lambert.

Bud Powell (Julius Epstein) Richie Powell (Leonard Epstein).

Dream with Dean: The Intimate Dean Martin - Reprise (steamboat label, stereo). Dean backed by a quartet featuring Barney Kessel.

Martin Denny In Person - Liberty (rainbow, stereo).

Baden Powell - Fresh Winds - UA International (stereo)

Bud Shank - Laurindo Almeida - Braziliance (World Pacific, later liberty pressing, faux stereo).

Chewy, I hope you mean the mono version. The stereo sucks, regardless of which pressing.