Teasing the Korean

Are there professional critics anymore?

Machito - Asia Minor - Forum stereo. Sounds mono to my ears.

Henry Mancini - The Mancini Touch - RCA mono Above the logo: "Swing Softly."

Stanley Wilson - M Squad OST - RCA mono. Composed by Wilson, Count Basie, Bennie Carter, and a young Johnny Williams. "Lonely Beat" is intense. Above the logo: "Sounds of TV"

Cleaning the rekkid room, so lots of vinyl today. Riz Ortolani - Women of the World OST - Decca maroon label, mono.

Ahmad Jamal - Poinciana Revisited: At the Top - ABC Impulse stereo.

Claudio Meranda - Carnivale a Rio - (Oscar Disco stereomono) The perfect morning album for young jet-setters having crepes for brunch. One of porcy's finds...

Brasil '66 - Look Around - A&M stereo. The perfect album for today's happening young influentials...

I've heard good things about the Von Freeman.

Thanks. I had one of those Art Tatum albums and unloaded it years ago. I couldn't remember why until I heard the Machito. The Machito album is great, until the tunes start to fade, and then you suddendly hear clinking glasses, applause, and chicks breaking up with their boyfriends. Wonder what happened to the master tapes...

The Anita Kerr Singers Reflect on Burt Bacharach - Dot stereo. Definitive version of "A House is Not a Home."

Where's Stereo Jack when you need him?

Warren Kime - Brass Impact! Command (stereo) One of the loudest non-rock LPs ever recorded. Insane amounts of compression is nothing new.

Are the crowd sounds on these albums, such as the Machito album, fake? They sure sound like it. If so, have they ever been issued without the fake audience?

Walter Wanderley - Batucada - Verve stereo

Is Sona Libre hard to find?

I have noticed the issue with stressed syllables over particular notes over the years. Part of the issue is the fact that, well, most pop songwriters beginning in the rock era did not approach writing lyrics with the level of care that, say, Noel Coward or Larry Hart did (That's Larry Hart, not Kart). I know this is a gross generalization, but even some of my favorite lyricists of the rock era, like Ray Davies, are capable of sloppiness or tossing off a throwaway line between two brilliant ones. That said, I think Andy Partridge of XTC is a brilliant songwriter, and I think he deliberately offsets the stressed syllables and stressed notes to create tension in some of his songs.

Julie Is Her Name - Liberty turquoise label, mono

I have an MPS collection that has a track from an album called "Trip to the Moon," don't remember the name of the artist. Any chance this one will get released?

Love the groovy Italian bossa sound of the 1960s. Not jazz to a purist, perhaps, but jazz related nonetheless.

Don Costa - The Soul of N****r Charley (OST) - MGM I just broke the seal on this bad boy... BAD ASS!!!!!!!

One I like a lot that is often overlooked is "Afro Bossa" on Reprise.

Combustible Edison - Schizophonic - Subpop (stereo). Never knew this came out on vinyl! Arguably their best record. The greatest jazz album you never heard.

Ramsey Lewis - Bossa Nova - Argo mono

Tapas. That way my time on earth can be continued indefinitely.