Teasing the Korean

Can you tell me where on the screen you see the link? I'm not seeing it anywhere.

My bedroom in an old apartment was on the other side of a wall the bedroom of the next apartment. She was a real screamer. I would get out my acoustic guitar and sing "Love Me Tender" right into the wall while she was shrieking. It was pretty funny.

Have our personal messages from the previous version disappeared? I can't find them.

What did I say? I don't have the patience to re-read 18 pages!

WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU. DID YOU SAY IT'S UNBEARABLE?

You will never need to listen to jazz again once you see this video. The journey is over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwhDe56O9f8

Do you sense that they were having an off day, or was there something weird going on between SG & BE?

I've accumulated lots of stuff by both artists over the decades, but I only recently stumbled across this. I'm talking about the 1964 session. It is certainly nothing great, but I don't think it's as bad as some of the reviews I've read. Stan Getz seems really scattered and disjointed at times - it's like he's throwing out ideas with no sense of continuity. Bill Evans generally sounds good. There is a spot on "My Romance," I think, where I expected a piano solo but there's just bass and drums, both of which just continue with the groove as opposed to soloing. Not sure if that was deliberate, or if Bill wanted to abandon the take at that point. I have the 70s twofer vinyl issue. The CD has more tracks. I wonder if the best ones were on the LP and the weaker ones made it to the CD, and if so, if reviewers are picking up on the bonus tracks.

One of the advantages of New York is that, because of all the shoe box apartments, all kinds of amazing stuff ends up on the sidewalk on garbage night.

Agreed. That's the point. Mingus deliberately recorded more music than he would use. Why not listen to false starts, mistakes, and between-song-banter too? That's the difference between listening to a session and a finished album.

Never stopped buying vinyl. Buy CDs too. Buy what I come across at a good price, whatever format. Love finding great stuff on CD, love finding great stuff on vinyl even more. Like CDs more these days - I can listen in the car or at work.

Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Fantasy (later reissue with blue label).

You were WAY ahead of the curve in that regard. During the mono/stereo era, most people assumed that stereo was automatically better because we have two ears. Shorty Rogers - The Swingin' Nutcracker - RCA (Living Stereo Pressing). Above the logo: "Bouncin' Ballet."

Jack, did you know him? Did he ever shop at Stereo Jack's?

Sure, but it's not Mingus's conception of the record.

That's early- to mid-1980s. Columbia probably released about 20 jazz CDs initially. This was surely one of them.

I'll post as soon as I can get my computer keyboard working properly.

God, I wish I had that in mono. The stereo version has horrible separation and out-of-whack levels.

Just received word that the great Boston-based jazz educator Charlie Banacos died on December 8, 2009. I had the pleasure of studying with him for about a year. To say he was by far the best jazz teacher I ever had is a gross understatement. I have a very detailed e-mail from his family, but I'm not sure if it's appropriate to share here.

The expanded has tunes not on the original. It also has longer edits of many of the tunes on the original. The trouble is, while the extra material is well worth having, the complete album is not as effective or as cohesive as the original Mingus version. So, if you're a Mingus freak like I am, you need both. IMHO.

And lascivious yoga at that! I thought that track made a nice segue between Cannonball's "Soul Zodiac" and David Axelrod's "The Sign."

This is a real issue. In recent years I have digitized some of my parents' jingles sessions from reel tapes. If the levels are hot and there's a lot of music going on, you don't notice, but in the quiet passages, you hear it. I have not thought about comparing brands of tape to see if some are better or worse.

Thanks Chas!!! I'm immoral now, at least as long as you have an account!

She's been chasing him for a while.

I had the LP version of this, paired with "This Modern World" with a fairly generic album cover - A mid-century UN-style Man from U.N.C.L.E globe on a black background. I always wanted the original cover art. And like an idiot I scratched it. (Red wine was involved). For years I could not find the vinyl. I REFUSED to by the CD reissue, because they had replaced the original art deco modernerist artwork with a bland cityscape. I did not want to hear this music again with the wrong cover. Now - TONIGHT - I found a very clean ten-inch LP with the right cover!!! FINALLY, I can hear this masterpiece the way it was meant to be heard!!!! I CANNOT WAIT, BUT MY WIFE IS DOING YOGA SO I CAN'T BLAST THE STEREO!!!