Teasing the Korean

Another vote for "Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen."

Is this the same Peter King who was very active as an arranger for vocalists?

Membership in the Republican party? The order is usually the other way around.

The Swingle Singers - Christmastime - Philips (stereo) I love this album. It makes me want to drink hot buttered rum.

You guys with HO trains who do not have layouts: You really have to check out this snap-together roadbed track. They've made it within the last decade or so. The track never comes apart, and the trains never derail. Perfect for setting up under a Christmas tree.

JH, feel free to share your thoughts on these albums here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=49118

Beautiful. I'm trying to imagine if Ursula Andress or Edwich Fenech is behind the wheel waiting for you. Now playing: Various - Jingle Bell Jazz - Columbia (80s pressing, stereo) This is the version where they ditch the godawful dixieland track and replace it with "Deck the Halls" by Jack Ackerman (from the Cassavetes film "Faces").

Anyone seen him live recently and/or have any idea what his recent music has been like? Truth be told I didn't know he was still performing.

Kenny Burrell - Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas - Cadet (mono)

It's so boring now when you stop at tracks for a train. Everything is CSX. There is no variety in the car designs or logos. There are all these cars - I don't even know what you call them - that are kind of like flat cars with these boxes stacked on them. It's not like when you used to see box cars from all different railroads with different slogans in brush script, like "The Peoria Gateway" or "A Smoother Ride" or "The Katy Serves the Southwest." And there are no more cabooses.

You should digitize those super-8 films and put them on Youtube. There is some great train stuff on Youtube.

And he hears jazz in the house!

Back to TTK's world: I'm watching the train go around the tree, and I'm spinning Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker Suite," on a Columbia 6-eye mono LP, conducted by Kostelanetz.

Wow! I love those art deco steam engines too!

I have HO trains. I don't have a layout, but now that they make that track where the roadbed snaps together, I can run it around the Christmas tree for hours and it never derails. The newer track never comes apart. I have all steam-to-diesel era freight cars, most of which are vintage Athearns. I have a two-piece diesel engine. I hate taking down the tree every year because I have to say bye bye to the train.

Just Curious...

Reading all of Porcy's posts about listening to classical music, I have this romantic image of Porcy, based on watching lots of 1960s European films. I imagine that he lives in this totally modular white apartment in a Mondrian-looking building in Rome. There are all of these white modular bookshelves filled with books on modern art and leftist politics. He puts a Haydn LP - preferably on the Philips label - on a big, thick-based turntable and plays it through his tube amp. Then, he kicks back in his Eames recliner, on a flokati rug, with an arco lamp hanging over. On one side, there is a glass-and-metal Bauhaus end table holding a bottle of Sherry, and on the other side, a potted plant, preferably a monstera deliciosa...

No, but I can't drive around and hear it in my car - not that I ever loved driving in Boston too much!

I love your show Steve. One of the things I miss about Beantown.

Yeah, TTK, that's a great idea. Tell us about his proto-exotica tunes. I, too, would like to hear more about these.

I like the album with Herbie Mann too.

Four words: JAZZ HEAT BONGO BEAT

I posted this a few days ago in the Youtube thread. I am now officially finished with jazz after watching this. I have ended my journey.

In the liner note to the 70s twofer album I picked up, Bob Blumenthal states that the reason the LP wasn't issued at the time had to do with Getz's commercial success with bossa nova. Then again, he says a bunch of things about Brazilian music and bossa nova that indicate a lack of knowledge of the subject matter, so I'll take the whole essay with a grain of salt.

Thanks! That did it.