Teasing the Korean

What is the excuse for labels NOT to put their entire back catalogs on iTunes or whatever? They're going to digitize everything for posterity anyway (one would think). There's no cost for printing or jewel cases. They can still manufacture CDs of the name artists.

I really love that Dizzy album. A clean copy has eluded me.

I have found that most mono Brubeck albums have a better balances between the drums and piano, Time Out being a prime example. That said, I prefer his bossa album in stereo.

Just saw "muscular" again. Still banned for 2009.

St. Patrick's Day means only one thing at our place: An excuse for a CHICO O'FARRILL MARATHON! First up: Married Well - Verve (blue label, mono).

I have the Rodgers and Hart and Bacharach for the Ladies, but I don't know offhand if he is on these. My recollection is that he is.

Straight Life.

My wife and I are having fondue for dinner. What else could we possibly listen to except: Horst Jankowski - Black Forest Explosion! MPS "Mais Que Nada" is so ON THE BEAT!

Mingus Dynasty - Columbia (Scorpio reissue, MONO). Mingus Moves - Atlantic (original) Lester Young - Pres and Teddy and Oscar - Verve (twofer, mono).

I like the full-length Firebird but it doesn't pack as much of a punch as the suite. Stravinsky arranged a loner suite in the 1940s, presumably to extend the copyright. I've never heard it. It supposedly contains everything in the shorter suite with about 10 minutes of music added.

For a group that embodied what was at the time hip, fashionable, and counter-cultural, the Beatles brand has been marketed in the most conservative, stuffy fashion for the past few decades.

Some of the capitol monos are better than the parlophones, imho.

From what I read, he was the one that pushed for the first four being released in mono. There's been so much revisionist history with these guys you have to wade through so much to figure out what's what. Lately, GM has said that he had nothing to do with the stereo albums until around Revolver, and that Junior engineers did them back in the day. George Harrison claims he didn't even know you could buy those early albums in stereo back then. It has been confirmed that they put all of their work and time into the mono mixes, and that the stereo mixes were done really quickly, shortly before they were released. The audio evidence bears this out. That changes with the White Album though. They put more work into the stereo version, and that's obvious when you hear the mono one (which is disappointing IMHO).

I like ALL of Randy's stuff from that period, with the exception of a UA album of tunes from a failed Broadway play, which I unloaded. Everything else from UA, Jubilee, and Riverside is top notch. Hard to single out a favorite.

I qualified it by saying "groovy funky."

Some of the early 70s Up with People albums have some groovy funky tracks mixed in with the schlock. Someone needs to do a best of, if they haven't already.

That and Dolby. If you make a cassette of a heavy metal album using Dolby noise reduction, you end up with a blank cassette.

What a waste of a good sound system ! Great for testing the limits of noise reduction!

Do you know offhand the ratio of instrumental grooviness to vocal beat group stuff on this collection?

Wow, that's pretty cool! I'd buy a whole CD of that kind of material easily (for the right price, of course). You should get "Soul of Mann."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGAEJ3TJao Most everything else on youtube is either the pop stuff or the dreaded "Blinded by the Light."

I have found "Soul of Mann" - which was actually an album and not a collection - on CD. I used to have this on cassette, glad it's out there. I forgot about "Up the Junction" - that is on CD too. Regarding "Down the Road Apiece" - What percentage of that stuff is groovy jazzy instrumental stuff, as compared to "Do Wah Diddy?" Not that there is anything wrong with the pop stuff, it's just not what I'm looking for right now.

Yes, but not exclusively. Thanks all for the replies - I'll start looking!

Looking for a good comp focused on their instrumental 60s groovy/jazzy stuff, if it exists.

Second vote for Everest. Also, Capitol mono classical LPs from the 1950s sound much better than repressings on Angel.