Teasing the Korean

Lots of Rodgers and Hart verses. Offhand, Glad to Be Unhappy (recorded by Sinatra) Ten Cents a Dance (Ella) Bewitched (many singers)

Elmer Bernstein - Movie and TV Themes - AVA/Choreo (mono) Some great Hollywood private eye jazz on this album, although the version of "Man with the Golden Arm" is less powerful than the Decca version.

It's about time. How many nights can you eat meat loaf or macaroni and cheese?

That is my assumption with at least 50% of the artists I care about! When I find out someone is still alive, I'm pleasantly surprised.

The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler.

My sense is - and feel free to correct me, anyone - that most of the "with strings" jazz albums were created with the goal of trying to quickly broaden the audience for jazz artists. Maybe that is why more thought didn't go into choosing the arrangers or aiming for more adventurous approaches. Still, some of these albums are better than others. I like Ralph Burns's arrangements for Lester Young. Also like the arrangements on the Sonny Still album (can't remember who did them). If you mean the Stitt album with strings of Ellington-associated material on Catalyst, the arranger was Bill Finegan (of Sauter-Finegan Orchestra fame). There were, I believe, at least two other dates with Stitt and strings, one for Granz with Ralph Burns charts, another for Prestige with charts by Billy Ver Planck. It's the Stitt-Burns album, Sensuous Sounds, on Verve.

My sense is - and feel free to correct me, anyone - that most of the "with strings" jazz albums were created with the goal of trying to quickly broaden the audience for jazz artists. Maybe that is why more thought didn't go into choosing the arrangers or aiming for more adventurous approaches. Still, some of these albums are better than others. I like Ralph Burns's arrangements for Lester Young. Also like the arrangements on the Sonny Still album (can't remember who did them).

The "F" chord in measure 13 - and the Bb m6 that you may play for the first two beats of that measure - both sound SO much better with a C in the bass, IMHO.

One of their later records that wasn't a hit, "Born to Be Together," is incredible. I often wish Phil Spector would have kept on with Darlene Love and the Ronettes and skipped out on the Righteous Brothers entirely.

Hope you included some Jonathan and Darlene Edwards!

Capitol had THEE BEST album covers of any of the big labels through at least the early 60s.

Thanks, nice video!

The arrangements are simply not up to the standard of some of the more adventurous orchestral mood music of the period.

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I just received a promo of the two-disc version, no DVD. Is this the new version everyone is talking about? The 2nd disc has the session with Stella.

I've heard that once it's there, they always smell it, regardless, and they keep peeing there. Any truth to this? It seems like if this were true, the whole planet would smell like cat pee, but what do I know?

Verbatims are good - I've had some for 10 years that play perfectly. The worst are the generic silver ones, without any deep coloring on the audio side. I have some CD-Rs from the late 90s that are absolutely unplayable - they make a horrible sound, and are impossible to extract to make a new copy. Not sure if it was the software, discs, or both. This is why I won't buy official CD-Rs from Amazon, rare titles or not.

Fuad Hassan - Music of the Bedouin Bandits - RCA Living Stereo "A Sound Treat"

Herbie Hancock - Thrust - Columbia

My dad stuck by mono till the bitter end, claiming stereo was a gimmick. He was right.

This album is an early example of a jazz/African drumming hybrid (discounting the fact that jazz derived in part from African music, duh...)

Gabor Szabo Live with Charles Lloyd - Blue Thumb

Yes, I've had that same thought.

Frank - September of my Years - Reprise (Paddleboat, mono) Hearing Blossom do "Don't Wait Too Long" made me want to spin this album.

Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough and Dave Frishberg are the coolest rat pack ever, or the second coolest ever, depending on your ranking system.