Teasing the Korean

What's wrong with Bossa Nova USA?

The track "Ravi" from his Pacific Jazz album "Portraits" is one of my signature DJ tunes.

It's always a good day when I find one of those Capitol LPs in good shape. Yeah, every turquoise copy of this I've ever found has been beat to hell. This is a pretty clean copy, gorgeous cover, with some very light noise in the quieter passages. As is, it sounds a hell of a lot better than the mint re-processed stereo reissue from the 1980s, which sounds like it was mastered from an 8 track that had left on the dashboard all summer. This one jumps right out of the speakers.

Stan Kenton/Johnny Richards - Cuban Fire - Capitol (turquoise mono) Sound on the original vinyl is dramatically more present than that on the CD reissue.

Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones - Blue Note (stereo, 70s issue, played back in mono to improve the mix).

I just spun this a few pages back. A real solid album, but then so is everything I've heard by Dankworth. Get the Zodiac Suite on Fontana if you don't already have it!

Lalo is one of my heroes. Lots of LPs and CDs by him.

NOT EVEN ONE semitone off. First song in D minor. On LP, in the cracks between D minor and Eb minor. Big deal. Unless you're trying to play along with the record.

Not to gloat, but I have a pristine mono six eye. Gorgeous...

Cal Tjader/Lalo Schifrin - Several Shades of Jade - Verve (mono)

Never heard of it. Is it any good?

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath - London (US red label, MONO) Blows away the stereo version.

Maybe they're just trying to keep the riff raff out. I stopped surfing that site ages ago.

Chaino - Night of the Spectre - Tampa (mono)

Thanks for the info. The original cover is gorgeous.

Johnny Rae Septet - Herbie Mann's African Suite - UA stereo EXCELLENT Latin jazz/exotica record! Music is almost as great as the cover image! This was later released under Herbie Mann's name under the title "St. Thomas" on Solid State with ugly cover art. SEEK OUT THE ORIGINAL!!!

I LOVE Peggy Lee's now sound stuff! I have her promotional Placidil album on Capitol, which includes a card thanking the doctors for medicating her!!!

And in everything he writes, he has to work in that he was listening to "black music" before any other white people were. Useless.

For a long time, histories of pop music in the rock era completely overlooked the influence of Tin Pan Alley and the Film/Broadway songwriters - what is now known as the "Great American Songbook." Blowhards like Dave Marsh reduced rock music to simplified formula that went something like C&W + R&B = Rock 'n' Roll. As ubiquitous as rock has become, it's easy to forget that when the Beatles came along, there was only a few years worth of rock to copy or steal from. Naturally, creative types HAD to look to other sources.

Agreed. All these years later, I am still impressed by the rhythms of the melodic phrases in some of their early songs.

My thoughts on this issue are... Click here...

I never even made it through the Anthology CDs.

I mentioned Les Baxter and Villa Lobos using the celeste - to stunning effect - earlier. I forgot about Sun Ra. Talk about a trifecta. Three geniuses of 20th Century Music. We may as well close the thread.

I can't be the only jazz listener who has no idea who is dead or alive. I'm always shocked to find out who is turning 80 who I'd assumed passed onto the next realm already. And vice versa. Any good ones? Of either realm?

A CD doesn't really 'spin': it's a cold and mercyless laser that count holes...and it isn't John Lennon, so do yourself a favour and get the LP. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill a CD.