Teasing the Korean

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.

http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...st&p=951444

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.

We're very impressed by your ability to do internet searches. Let us know when you learn how to use the Dewey Decimal System.

A ringing endorsement in my book. And the writer of that article exemplifies the embarrassingly narrow musical perspective exhibited by Beatles obsessives. I am not interested.

The stereo version has no balls.

Gabor Szabo - Bacchanal - Skye (stereo)

As well he should have. He improved them in many cases. But all of this does not really matter to me. His involvement with Capitol in the 1950s far eclipses anything he did afterward.

Let's agree to disagree on that one. I can actually hear the band on the mono version.

Considering how wimpy and lifeless George Martin's stereo mixes of Beatles tunes were, I'm sure that either Norman Rockwell or Milton Berle may have provided viable alternatives.

Sun Ra - Pictures of Infinity - Black Lion (UK Polydor pressing, stereo)

In several cases, Dexter improved the sound of those recordings (e.g. "The Beatles Second Album). Don't forget that the Beatles signed off on the Capitol albums, and that they were under contract to that label. "Beatles for Sale" has one of the wimpiest, most lopsided stereo mixes I've ever heard on a 60s pop record. I have easy listening covers of Beatles tunes with more balls than that album. And Sinatra, Ellington, Kenton, Peggy Lee and Nat "King" Cole" trump the Beatles any day, in my book.

The Beau Brummels - Triangle - WB (gold label mono)

Pepper Adams - Pure Pepper - Savoy (mono, 70s issue) with two Joneses, George Duvivier, and Bernard McKinney/Kiane Zawadi on euphonium.

Now there's an inadvertently hilarious album title!

Hardcore Beatles fans often exhibit an inability or unwillingness to place anyone even remotely associated with their heroes into any sort of larger sociological, historical or artistic context. For Beatles fans, people's lives begin somewhere around 1962 and end somewhere around 1970. Any of their achievements or disasters occurring before or after these dates are ignored. This subculture's vilification of that "bozo" you reference is a prime example. Dave Dexter played a huge role in making Capitol Records the great label that is was in the 1940s and 1950s. He signed, among others, such has-beens as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee, and Stan Kenton. No other major mainstream pop label had a roster of artists as strong as Capitol's during this period; and Dexter's contributions far, far outweigh both his later degradations of - and improvements to - the Beatles' catalog. Whether you like what Dexter did with the Beatles or not, dismissing him as a "bozo" suggests a lack of understanding of pop music, and also perpetuates unfavorable stereotypes of Beatles fans. The Beatles and Dave Dexter both deserve better.

That is a long-disproved urban myth. It was one shot in a larger series of artsy photographs.

You made the right decision in choosing the mono box - to the degree that you feel good about giving Heather Mills any more money than she already has.

In a recent Sinatra thread, I told a similar story: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...15&start=15 My Dad had a Capitol 78 of "I've Got the World on a String." As many of you know, late-era 78s that were recorded on tape and pressed on modern vinyl, with those wide grooves, had the potential of sounding incredible. My Dad had this big tube mono hi-fi, and I swear to God this record used to JUMP out of those speakers, it was like Nelson Riddle's band was right there in the room. I have yet to hear a version of this tune on LP or CD that sounds anything close to this experience. The version on the 3-disc Capitol Years box set sounded like they were trying to suffocate it with a pillow.

I'll do it if you promise to wear a white lab coat and feed punch cards into a large mainframe computer during the study.

I LOVE it when stuff like that happens!

A lot of the RCA New York stuff was recorded there. Mundell Lowe's volumes of TV Action Jazz were done there.

I listen to records. As long as I have electricity and a stylus, jazz is alive.

Gil Evans Plus 10 - Prestige (mono) Reissued as half of "The Arrangers' Touch," a 70s twofer also on Prestige.