Teasing the Korean

Dutch jazz composer and arranger Jerry van Rooyen (birth name Jerry van Rooijen) died on September 14th. He was 80 years old. Van Rooyen was born on December 31st, 1928 in the Hague, the Netherlands. Jerry took his first music lessons at age eight and immediately joined a brass band in his hometown as a trumpet player. Van Rooyen studied for several years with the lead trumpet player of the Netherlands Symphonic Orchestra and further studied music at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he eventually graduated as a music teacher. In 1944 Van Rooyen joined a Dutch revue show as first trumpet player. He toured Indonesia, America and Scandinavia with such famous Dutch and Scandinavian musicians as Ernst Van't Hoff, Boyd Bachman, Bengt Hallberg, Ake Persson and Lars Gullin. In 1955 Jerry signed on as first trumpet player and arranger for the Dutch radio orchestra the Ramblers and performed with his own jazz combo in numerous Amsterdam nightclubs. Van Rooyen went to Paris, France in 1959, where he was a conductor and arranger for Fantana Records and worked with such artists as Michel Legrand, Claude Bolling and Gilbert Becaud. In 1965 Jerry moved to Berlin, Germany and became the arranger for the S.F.B. Dance Orchestra. Van Rooyen composed the wonderfully groovy and offbeat experimental jazz scores for the Jess Franco pictures "Succubus," "Red Lips," and "Kiss Me, Monster." Moreover, he also supplied the funky music for the films "The Vampire Happening," "Castle of the Creeping Flesh," "Death on a Rainy Day," and "How Short is the Time for Love." His marvelously hip composition "The Great Train Robbery" was used as the opening credits theme for the hilarious cult indie comedy "Free Enterprise." Van Rooyen wrote the opening theme of the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. He then returned to the Netherlands, where he worked as both a producer and program director for the AVRO radio station as well as continued producing and arranging for various jazz orchestras all over the world. In 1985 Van Rooyen became the director of the WDR Radio Big Band and toured all over Asia. Jerry van Rooyen's brother Ack Van Rooyen is a renowned trumpet and flugelhorn player. best wishes, Marco Kalnenek http://www.weirdomusic.com Weirdomusic.com PO Box 26 6400 AA Heerlen The Netherlands

This will make many of them significantly worse - unless your software allows you to adjust the center phantom channel in the fold down. The main problem with most Beatles and 60s pop stereo mixes is that the vocals are in the center, and they tend to dominate the mix. The mono generally has a better balance between vocals and instruments, and hence have way more punch. The only way I can listen to these in stereo is by reducing the center channel.

Cool! I saw him circa 1982. I have an autograph somewhere, probably in an LP. EDIT - Just found it with my mono six-eye of "Time Out." This is the earlier pressing that has less text and more artwork on the cover.

Sounds like a jump blues number!

I was not familiar with him until the 1980s when I started to by Chet Baker's 1950s stuff. As a pianist, I was really knocked out by his innate ability to do such "simple" yet intricate comping. Really nice chord voicings and a rhythmic attack. There's no one else quite like him. Is he still around? EDIT - I just read your post Allen. I'm sorry.

Paul could not have been the bitch you heard, because from all reports he was a whiny bitch and not a quiet one.

Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo OST - Polygram (European pressing, stereo)

I think you mean the "end" of the modern era and maybe the beginning of the "contemporary" era. It's very jarring these days when people interchange those two words.

Or jazz bagpipers?

The Lasting Impression of Hugh Masakela - MGM (blue and gold label, stereo)

Blues Project - Projections - Verve Forecast (mono) "Flute Thing" is the money cut. It sounds like the soundtrack to a 1966 American International exploitation flick about Sunset Strip kids getting high.

Allen, I ask this with all due respect: Given your previous projects, why devote time and energy to the most overused, over-hyped, and cliched instrument on the planet? I'm not knocking the guitar, so guitarists, please don't beat me up; It's just that the rock era has ruined the guitar in so many ways, it is so overused, and no one can envision any sort of ensemble without a guitar anymore. That said, if you proceed with this, you HAVE to include Joao Gilberto.

You're all drunk.

I thought the same thing about 10 pages in!

The major difference in all of the mono mixes is that they are BALLSY, not wimpy like the stereo versions. "Revolution" and "Paperback Writer" in mono will knock you out. Once you hear the mono you won't be able to go back.

Why can't you imagine someone as hip as Sinatra hanging out with jazz cats?

IMHO, The White Album is the first album that is better in stereo. According to session logs, it is the first album where the stereo mixes were the priority. Everything until then is better in mono. IMHO.

Great! For me, that works out to $57.50 per song.

Can you tell us what is on the odds and ends disc(s)?

I'd rather they bury it in the liner notes as opposed to not listing it at all. I can't tell you how many albums I have that don't bother to list the personnel.

You will also need the Yellow Submarine album, which only has 4 additional Beatles tunes, but more importantly, that wonderful George Martin underscore. There was a mono LP for this in the UK but it was a fold down, which did not make sense since mono mixes were made for the film. Go figure.

As some have mentioned, lots of good crime jazz on RCA - TV Action Jazz, Peter Gunn, M Squad, Mike Hammer, Impact. Also, lots of space age stuff that's not all jazz (strictly speaking) but is at least partially or tangentially jazz.

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Ok, we get it! You don't like the Beatles or Rock 'n Roll. Fine, now go listen to some Sinatra. If you post or lurk in the "What Vinyl Are You Spinning" sub-forum, you will note that just yesterday I played my beloved mono copy of "Triangle" by the Beau Brummels on WB. I like the Beatles and rock music just fine. I also like what came before and after them. I simply objected to what I see as a two-dimensional, cartoonish image of Dave Dexter that has been perpetuated by Beatles obsessives, that's all. We don't all agree on everything here. That would be boring.

This is almost like a missing track from "Pet Sounds." There used to be an album called "The Brian Wilson Productions" that included this, the Honeys tracks, "Pamela Jean" and other non-BB Brian Wilson stuff. Not sure if it's made it to CD.