Teasing the Korean

Jobim - The Adventurers (Paramount, stereo)

Piero Piccioni - The Tenth Victim (Mainstream, re-channeled for stereo)

Hugo Montenegro - The Man from UNCLE (RCA, stereo) Harry Betts - The Jazz Soul of Dr. Kildare (Choreo, stereo). Surprised to learn that this album was released on a Mobile Fidelity gold CD. On the other hand, the musician lineup is pretty amazing.

Did either of them happen to know where I misfiled Soul Espagnole?

Thinking about it. I still have an ancient Pioneer PL-516 that I paid $15 for.

In other news, I apparently misfiled my copy of Soul Espagnole on the Limelight label...

How do you like that Rega turntable?

Baden Powell - Fresh Winds - UA International (stereo) with Paul Mauriat.

Oscar Peterson. And I probably never paid more than a dollar for any of them, except for maybe the Bossa album on Limelight and the groovy album on MPS.

I do not disagree with what you and Big Beat Steve have said about these kinds of collections - I also have seen these jazz artists represented in these collections. But I do question the qualifying or stratifying of "jazz fans" or "jazz fandom," something that I have admittedly done myself. I would certainly consider someone with a 60/40 split of classical to jazz to be a classical fan and a jazz fan. These listeners represented a substantial part of the jazz audience at that time. I would venture to guess that in 2024, there are more listeners like them and fewer jazz purists, if the latter even exist anymore.

RIP. He was very funny in Curb. I don't think I'm familiar with his work outside of that show.

No, that's already happened. That's already happened, too.

It is all available as a lossless download from Qobuz.

An effective but seldom-used device that made a big impression on me was the use of major thirds moving chromatically up and down beneath a melody. This results in some unsettling harmonic ambiguities, particular with regard to the augmented chords that are formed along the way. I am going to post three representative examples. Kenyon Hopkins uses this device more than anyone else I've encountered, across many of his albums and soundtracks. You can hear it in his version of “Spellbound” at the 10 second mark: Elmer Bernstein uses it in this track from the Staccato soundtrack album: And finally, Nino Rota uses it at the 0:33 mark in this track from La Dolce Vita: This sound brings to mind the eerie blueish glow of a B&W TV set late at night, with all the other lights off.

Cooking with Keith Richards would make a hilarious series.

Does anyone have any detail on the two different edits of "Witch Fire?" There is a version that clocks in at 4:34, and another at 5:16.

I'm getting this. Nina's Colpix albums are in my experience hard to find, and when you find them, they are often trashed.

Duke's full-on exotica album! I wish that it had different cover art, though.

Leonard Bernstein - The Age of Anxiety (Columbia, stereo) Need to get the taste of the biopic out of my mouth.

Sinatra/Basie/Hefti - Reprise (mono)

Mose Allison Sings (Prestige, mono)

Frank DeVol - The Happening OST (Colgems, mono)

Listening to Walter Wanderley's When It Was Done on CTI/A&M, and this drum hit is all over the place on this album.