Teasing the Korean

Airto - Identity (Arista, 1975). I just saw him live on Thursday and he KICKED!

Why would anyone buy a Jim Flora album cover and listen to the record inside??? Instant disappointment.

His solo piece was incredible - A one man carnaval. They did a nice version of "Casa Forte" by Edu Lobo.

Well, hopefully Don Tiki will be playing while you're there. They do full-on jungle exotica: http://www.dontiki.com/

The Marian McPartland Bossa album is the best record she ever made. I have two copies!

This is the third greatest album ever made, next to "Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat" and "Satan in High Heels." My copy is beat to hell. Is there a reissue?

The Byrds - Fifth Dimension - Columbia (2-eye, mono). Mono version is MUCH ballsier. On the other hand, there is a LOT of filler on this album.

As I'm sure you've experienced, a lot of jazz sessions for a couple of years were taped in stereo but originally came out on mono LPs. The stereo versions, for better or worse, began to show up on later LP pressings and/or CDs.

Joao Bosco - Tiro de Misericordia - RCA (Brazil, 1977) Similar to Toquinho's 70s stuff.

Luiz Henrique - Barra Limpa - Verve (stereo)

Coincidentally, he is a sideman on an album I just picked up. Never heard of him before.

McCoy Tyner - Super Trios (Milestone) 70s twofer of two trio sessions.

Dom Um Romao S/T - Muse

Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites - Pablo

Joe Harriott/John Mayer - Indo Jazz Suite - Atlantic (red and purple label, mono).

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?