Teasing the Korean

Ella & Louis - Decca Master Takes (Decca, iMONO!)

I only now learned that Idris was married to La La Brooks of the Crystals. When worlds collide...

School of Rebellion, by that Pernod-sipping, Proust-reading, Brooks Brother suit-wearing bon vivant Bill Russo. (Roulette, iMONO!)

Agreed. What's especially crazy if that if I had Shazamed a recording of that Sonata that was not in their database, it would typically read "no result."

I just sat at the piano and played "This Guy's in Love with You." Just for yucks, Ms. TTK Shazamed me, and Shazam told her it was Mozart's Piano Sonata in C major, first movement, the famous movement that Raymond Scott adapted for "18th Century Drawing Room." I wonder what Shazam was picking up on. Maybe the descending piano figure that occurs between lines on the chorus. Strange...

Yes, she was with Perry from the late-1950s through the mid-1960s. She is on the Christmas album from 1959 or 1960, which I believe is Season's Greetings. A few years back, there was a PBS Christmas variety show retrospective that had a version of "Home for the Holidays," with an interlude that is not on the recording. My mom is polishing silver in the kitchen, and she sings a few solo lines. I have not been able to find this on YouTube, but I bought the DVD from PBS.

I'm tired of media coverage that increases the prices of already expensive items!

Since our Siamese cat sadly crossed over about two months ago, our male Maine Coon cat has really bonded with us, and he is sleeping with us through the night, something he never typically used to do.

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WOW!!!

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We were still within the window. Eleven pipers piping.

Last night I dreamed that @JSngry invited us all to a Christmas party, and asked us to bring LPs or CDs with jazz versions of Christmas songs. Then things got a little hallucinogenic. He said that some obscure Christmas movie was playing on TCM, and we had to organize the records we brought into a specific order to be played in synch with the film, kind of like the crazy thing with Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz. The film made absolutely no sense, and I can't remember what the music sounded like with the film.

If you have a mono button on your amp, most of the Rudy Van Gelder-produced Blue Note albums will collapse to mono more or less as they sounded on LP.

Les McCann Layers (Atlantic) Invitation to Openness (Atlantic) Stormy Monday, with Lou Rawls (Capitol, iMONO!)

Yes, we did so, and I did see a number of his pieces.

For a character study to work, I have to be invested in the the character, and if it is based on a real person, I have to be able to place that character into a larger context to fully appreciate the character study. The film did not for me convey who Bernstein was, and his being gay and navigating a relationship with his wife and family did not produce a particularly compelling story. YM, as they say, MV.

😹 🥂 I had a similar reaction to the Dorothy Parker biopic with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

We watched Maestro last night. While Bradley Cooper did a good job, I thought the film really failed at conveying who Bernstein was and what he accomplished. They barely mentioned On the Waterfront or West Side Story. It concentrated way too much on his personal life, to the detriment of his professional life. It is now on Netflix. Maybe worth watching, if you're already subscribing, but not necessarily worth paying for.

The RCA Victor Ain't Misbehavin' LP was released in the 1950s and stayed in print for decades. Should be easy to find one in decent shape.

His Sinatra joke is the best.

I like his spaced-out, delirious, early 70s albums.

I like how Bock overdubbed exotic percussion onto some Montgomery Brothers tracks to create an exotica LP.

A very funny guy. Here is his Johnny Carson impression.

The gig did happen, and it went very well! And my question wasn't about comping for vibes per se, but for vibes and Latin Percussion, where there is a lot of percussive qualities and not a lot of space.