Teasing the Korean

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Not my intention. Can I buy you a drink?

Why the hostility? I was posting a legitimate observation and a question. You inferred something other than what I meant. I revised the title to clarify. That's no reason to freak out.

Please see revised thread title.

That's separate from the point I was making. Still, Raymond Scott made really original music and was also a professional.

Last night I was auditioning music for an upcoming radio show (shameless plug): http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=55990 ...and I was listening to some of Raymond Scott's 1950s/60s electronic music composed for commercials and industrial films (collected on "Manhattan Research Project"). Then, this evening, I was channel surfing, and a commercial for a national chain (Walgreen's) came on, with "Frosty the Snowman" in the background; and the hack who arranged it couldn't even get the melody right. This is a SIMPLE, SIMPLE melody. I would think one of the pre-requisites for being a professional musician would be an ability to correctly transcribe something along the lines of, say, "Row Row Row Your Boat." But I guess not. I just got depressed thinking of all the talented people out there, and wondering how this hack got such a (presumably) well paying gig. That's all. Thanks for indulging me.

I think that a number of film and TV composers did a better job of organically combining elements of "Jazz" and "Classical" music than did the Third Stream crowd.

My fave of the 4 albums I have by him.

You were indeed correct. The mastering does suck. But so do the pressings.

No, it can be a combination of mastering AND pressings. Bad pressings can create distortion on high-end frequencies, including cymbals, strings, and the "S" consonant. The same mastering can sound acceptable on a CD because you don't get that groove distortion. MGM stereo albums from the late 60s - and maybe before and/or after - are pressed badly. The mastering may suck too but the pressings are bad.

NP: Michel Legrand - Ice Station Zebra OST - MGM (blue and gold label, stereo) Always hated MGM pressings. Very shrill, no middle or bottom.

Great album. I once had an arrow-themed LP cover display on my wall, and included this, a Junior Mance album on Capitol, and Maynard Ferguson's "Straightaway" LP. NP: Henry Mancini - More Music from Peter Gunn (RCA Living Stereo) Red-tinted cover variation.

I have never been bothered by the strings or choir on LAWR. After all, there were other Beatles tunes with that sort of production. My main gripe with the original "Let It Be" LP was that it didn't include "Don't Let Me Down," which is totally a part of that album.

THANK YOU! I just played a gig with (really good) tenor player I never played with before. The first ballad on the gig came, and we kept it SLOW. At the end of the tune, he said, "Wow! A piano player who's not afraid to play a ballad!" The double time thing on ballads drives me crazy, it's such a cliche, like when they use a sax image for the letter "J" in "jazz" on the sign.

I loves you, Porcy.

Big fan of Weldon Kees, e.e. cummings, Wallace Stevens. Read poetry pretty regularly on the bus or subway during the 12 years or so I lived in the northeast. Since I've gone over to the dark side and drive a car, I don't get to read as much in general as I used to. I lugged all of my poetry books to my office. It's nice to close the door once in a while and revisit a favorite poem I haven't read in a long time. --------------------------- Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? - Robert Hayden

TTK, everyone's favorite Big-O agent provocateur, will guest host WMNF's "Step Outside" on Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday Nov. 25th, 9 pm to 10:30 pm EST. I will be spinning alternating sets of nervous caffeine-jag Freudian nightmare jazz, 20th century longhair classical, egghead electronic, unsettling soundtracks, introspective 70s cosmic soul-jazz, and - if you behave - Horst Jankowski's version of "Light My Fire" sung in German. You may listen online at www.wmnf.org and the show will be archived for exactly one week before it disappears forever into the ether. See you there!

Yeah, a really obscure tune by an unknown named Burt Bacharach that was a mammoth hit for Herb Alpert, Martin Denny and others.

Dick Schory - Re-Percussion - Everest (stereo, 70s blue and red label reissue)

Now playing "Switched on Ashanti" by Roy Travis (Orion label), for percussion, synths, tape and flute. I'm digging this, kind of like 70s PBS bumper music with African percussion.

Gotcha. I spoke too soon about that "Bebop Boys" comp. Bud is only on four tracks, one session, with Kenny Dorham and Sonny Stitt from 1946.

So how was the sound/pitch on the individual Roost disc that came out on BN in the 80s or 90s?

The Roost stuff was elusive for many years. There was an individual CD of it, but I think it is now available only as part of a Blue Note box set. There was also a 2-LP compilation called "The Bebop Boys," consisting of early bop sessions on Savoy. Bud Powell is a sideman on several sides. Not sure if or how this material is presented on CD.

I watched the whole 6 hours. Nothing great, but more worthwhile than some have suggested. Ian McKellen as Number 2 was the best thing about it. The Number 6 guy was pretty ordinary.

Any sign of a reissue of "Stress," his collaboration with Marius Constant?