Teasing the Korean

Mike, are you hip to that Third Wave album?

Stanley Turrentine - ZT's Blus - Blue Note 80s issue of a previously unreleased 1961 session with Grant Green. Great music, Godawful 80s cover art.

Don't forget the brilliant Third Wave album on MPS featuring George Duke.

i gotta find me that Third Wave album on MPS with George Duke.

Joe Cuba - Wanted Dead or Alive - Tico (mono)

Jung - The Big Band Syndrome - Command

In addition to those MF Horn albums, there is also Maynard's self-titled Columbia album, with killer versions of "Aquarius" and "Fire and Rain."

Johnny Colon - Boogaloo Blues - Cotique (mono)

Gerald Wilson - California Soul - World Pacific

Machito - Soul of Machito - Cotique (stereo) Killer Latin soul/boogaloo session!

Just curious if any members here within a certain age group were as obsessed with Aurora monster models as I was when I was a kid. My older brother had a couple of these, and then I built several more when I got older. Still, there were some I never built. For example, the Forgotten Prisoner was always hard to find for some reason. Also, they had phased out the Bride of Frankenstein by the time I was buying them in the early/mid 70s. I never got into the glow in the dark versions. The concept made more sense with, say, Dracula, where all of the skin pieces glowed (i.e. hands and face). But it made no sense with Godzilla, where his head and hands glow but not the rest of him. Also, I loved the bases, which always included rats, skulls, salamanders, etc. Polar Lights has reissued some of these. Are they any good?

Bud Shank - Brazil Brazil Brazil - World Pacific (blue label stereo) with Joao Donato, Clare Fischer, Laurindo Almeida, and many many more!

Did Sundazed use the mono master? The stereo is one of the WORST stereo mixes I've ever heard: Carla in one speaker, Otis in the other; the bass in one speaker, the rest of the rhythm section and horns in the other. There are parts of the album (when one singer is featured) where all the action is in one speaker and there's a lone bass plunking away in the other corner of the room. What were they thinking?

First, I'm amazed that this thread received all these responses so quickly! Secondly, I'm thrilled that all my favorite BIG-O HIPSTERS are the ones who replied! It will be broadcast Wed. June 18 from 9am-10am EST. I may be on the following week also, depending on whether there is a pledge drive that week. Each show will then be archived for a week, until the next show is broadcast. Now that I know all the hipsters are listening, I have to put together an extra-cool show!!!

Manfredo Fest - After Hours - Daybreak (stereo)

Everyone's favorite Organissimo agent provocateur - Teasing the Korean - will be guest-hosting the June 18 (and possibly June 25) editions of "Latino 54" on WMNF. The show airs from 9 am to 10 am Wednesday, and you can listen live at www.wmnf.org . The show will also be archived for a week (until the following show). I will be pre-recording these shows and delivering them, so you can't call up and swear at me while I'm DJing. I will be spinning classic 1950s Afro Cuban Jazz, Latin Soul, boogaloo, bossa, and exotica. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

Dorothy Ashby - The Fantastic Jazz Harp Of... - Atlantic (red and purple, mono).

Freddie McCoy - Spiderman - Prestige (stereo)

FWIW, my favorite of these albums is the one with Laurindo Almeida with the brown cover with sun.

The LPs are readily available at the Goodwill or Salvation Army, if you want to go that route. Just an option.

Oh hai

I hear what you're saying, but I don't feel this is always the case. Some of us - myself included - tend to buy interesting things that we stumble upon by chance, rather than thinking, "I have to buy this Blue Note title this week and this other one next week." Also, some of us are more knowledgeable about or immersed in certain subgenres of jazz. I have a room full of LPs, and an entire wall of them is either jazz or jazz related. However, my tastes and approach to buying are somewhat idiosyncratic, and I know there are certain "essential" missing albums in my collection. If I stumble upon them, I may pick them up, but I'm not necessarily looking for them.

Just got me some Aztec Sweet for $6.99. Can't get enough Chico O'Farrill. Now, it's only a matter of time before we get a twofer of "Jungle Jazz" and "African Jazz" by The Great Les Baxter, featuring Plas Johnson and Larry Bunker.

Sonny Stitt - The Matadors Meet the Bull - Roulette (mono). An odd one. Why have Joe Cuba, Tito Puente and Ray Barretto on your record and then hardly include any latin content?

The software could be improved. Think of how bad 80s digital recordings sounded.