Teasing the Korean

The Best of Alfred Apaka - MCA (twofer reissue of Decca material). God, MCA vinyl from the 1970s has to be about the worst ever.

Thanks all for the replies; it looks like there's a lot out there from both '43 and '44; I haven't even scratched the second half of 1942 yet.

Mickey has an amazing voice IMHO. Incidentally, the vocal take on the single is much better than this. This is the same backing track but a different vocal.

Webley Edwards Presents Hawaii Calls: Romantic Instrumentals of the Islands - Capitol (rainbow, stereo). I'm drinking a rum cocktail and I feel like Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks!

NP: Robert Drasnin - Voodoo - Tops (mono) Later pressing, retitled "Percussion Exotique."

The album on which his pop and jazz aesthetics mesh perfectly.

I know, I couldn't resist.

I have tons of Duke's studio recordings from all phases of his career, but have nothing recorded for V discs or radio; and very few live items. In particular, I'm wondering what Ellington is out there dating from the recording ban, which from my understanding runs from August 1942 to late 1944. In particular, I'm interested in tunes or arrangements that weren't commercially recorded before or after, and also any noteworthy soloists working with Duke who were unrepresented or underrepresented on commercial recordings before or after. I prefer CDs, but am open to LPs, of course. Preferably stuff that hasn't been no-noised to death. Feel free to post comprehensive listings, if you have them, but I'd also like to know if there are certain titles that are hands down must-haves. Thanks in advance.

Bumping up an old thread. My Ellington stuff from this era is spread over a variety of sources - French CDs, French LPs, US LPs, etc. I just picked up the earlier 3-CD set - the one with the dark cover - because it had all the music conveniently in one place, and I couldn't pass it up at that price. Looking online, it seems that people have issues with the sound on both versions. Anyway, I thought this version sounded fine, although I didn't do A/B comparisons with other collections. I haven't heard the newer 3-CD set, so I can't compare.

I'm flying AirTrans in May - Hopefully you'll be my sexy stewardess. Happy Birthday!

I think there's a big difference between not having an audience when you're on the vanguard of a major cultural/sociological/artistic movement and not having an audience when you're at the tail end of a dying one.

I've lost track. A version posted earlier had a major third in the riff. The Yardbirds use a minor third. Otherwise, the riff is the same.

I think there's a big difference between not having an audience when you're on the vanguard of a major cultural/sociological/artistic movement and not having an audience when you're at the tail end of a dying one.

Wine has nothing to do with Pabst Blue Ribbon. And there is no specific mention of cheese in the former. I will amend the thread title if you wish.

Lalo Schifrin - New Fantasy - Verve (mono)

The Yardbirds play a Bb in the riff; the other uses a B natural.

The two go together naturally, of course.

Does champagne count?

Enoch Light - Permissive Polyphonics - Project 3 (stereo) with a KILLER version of "Marakesh Express." Gerald Wilson - The Golden Sword - Pacific Jazz (blue label stereo) Gerald sounding like Bullitt/Mannix-era Lalo.

I have been watching this. Not every episode is great, but if you like jazz, Cassavetes, detective stories, and Eisenhower/Kennedy era swank, there is much to like about this show. How hard is it to become a licensed PI? I think I want to open shop and bill myself as "Television's Jazz Detective."

Even the greatest artists describe situations in which they are consciously doing one thing but something else happening unconsciously. I don't even know if Brian even wrote the words; the song is co-credited to his roommate Bob Norberg, but I know sometimes Brian listed his friends as collaborators to help them earn money.

I've always felt that there is a profound sadness in the Beach Boys' music. Even the "happy" songs seem to have an undercurrent of sadness. Over the years, I've wondered how much of that is really there, or how much I'm projecting, based on the sad life stories of at least two of their members (you know which two). Do you know the song "Your Summer Dream?" It is an album cut from their third album, "Surfer Girl." I'm sure it's shown up on many BBoys compilations over the years. Anyway, I was recently listening to this tune for the first time in ages and it hit me really hard; it's almost like a youthful Brian is singing about something profound and not even realizing it. Ostensibly, he's singing about an idealized day on the beach with an idealized girlfriend, but - at the risk of sounding pretentious - it's like he's singing about how brief and fragile life is. "...Soon you wonder where the time has gone/The sun has almost slipped away/Now it's gone and you're alone..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTliruFliDY

Aloc, if you don't have it, you need his 1959 outer space album "Fantastica" on Liberty. Basta has reissued it on CD.