Teasing the Korean

Gary McFarland/Steve Kuhn - The October Suite - Impulse (ABC pressing, stereo)

Gabor Szabo/Bobby Womack - High Contrast - Blue Thumb The perfect album for today's young couple cooking spinach/feta/walnut pasta after a hard day at the office.

Many labels were definitely beginning to do stereo 45s in '69, though be no means exclusively.

Gigli Colin Blunstone Russell Oberlin

Brasil '66 - Stillness - A&M (mustard label)

Is that record as amazing as the title would suggest?

Eddie Lockjaw Davis - The Cookbook Vols. 1 & 2 - Prestige (stereo) with Shirley Scott on Hammond and Jerome Richardson on flute.

Willie Bobo - Uno Dos Tres - Verve (stereo)

Chico Hamilton - A Different Journey - Reprise (stereo) with Charles Lloyed and Gabor Szabo. Never saw this one before - everything I have from this period is on Impulse.

Edu and Bethania - Elenco (mono)

Not sure if you do vinyl, but the LP is EVERYWHERE in very clean condition for short dough.

No more embarrassing than our conversation after several bottles of wine.

Vince Guaraldi - Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus - Fantasy (blue label stereo)

So I'm with friends and family last night engaged in two of my favorite activities - listening to vinyl and drinking red wine! We're passing around record covers and talking about the music - Jim is reading the back of a record cover - I think it was "Hip Vibrations" by Cal Tjader but I could be wrong - and he says "Chris Albertson wrote the liner notes." I said "You know him?" He did not. I told him, "He's great, posts on Organissimo all the time. Very knowledgeable fellow, long history in the biz, yada yada yada..." Small world.

I assumed he died decades ago, and was like the Brian O'Blivion character in Chronenberg's "Videodrome." I imagined a secure, isolated bunker with shelves and shelves of his tapes running non-stop.

Scott Walker - Scott - Philips (UK, mono) "Montague Terrace" is the greatest record ever made.

No, that's where I found them. I'm excited because it's so perfect that YL did exotica! I never had that twofer, and was excited to find two rare exotica tracks on there. It said they were released on that single but I think that twofer was the first time they showed up on LP.

Gene Ammons - Nice and Cool - Prestige Reissued as half of a 70s Prestige twofer. Stereo, played back in mono to improve the mix.

Yusef Lateef - The Three Faces of... - Riverside LP reissued as part of a 70s Milestone twofer (stereo, I think).

OMFG!

Gary McFarland - Soft Samba - Verve (mono) Beatles covers on this album BLOW AWAY the originals.

Marian McPartland - Bossa Nova + Soul - Time (mono) Featuring the awesome WURLITZER ELECTRIC PIANO on several tracks!

Yusef Lateef - The Centaur and the Phoenix - Riverside LP reissued as part of a 70s Milestone twofer (stereo, I think).

Being that I'm a major Yusef Lateef fan and self-proclaimed exotica junkie, try to imagine my excitement when I found out that our hero recorded a full-on EXOTICA SINGLE! With jungle percussion, wordless vocals, and all! Riverside 4504 featured Morales's "Jungle Fantasy" and Billy Taylor's "Titora!" Just when I think I have every exotica record, another one pops up! THANK YOU, ORO, GOD OF VENGEANCE!

I'm jealous! Dedicated mono mix or collapse of stereo mix?