Teasing the Korean

The Best of Pharoah Sanders - ABC Impulse Two records for the price of one!

This tune is by THEE GREAT RAYMOND SCOTT, unless Stuff wrote another tune with the same title...

I can't read who the artist is on that Flower Drum Song. What's it like?

If the collection is as great as the guy claims, $80K would be a great price, especially if you live nearby.

What blows me away even more than that, if you read that thread, is that there is market for $50 audiophile pressings of ZZ Top albums. Why not just go to the Goodwill?

Have you heard the UK mono versions? They're even better.

Duplicate post (threads were merged).

I've played Farfisas and Vox Continentals, but I've never been aware of them making the particular sound I'm referring to, unless it was run through an effect. I will post a link to a sound sample if I can find one. Thanks for the replies.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/20/p...t.ap/index.html Jazz connection? She starred in "Mr. Buddwing," scored by THEE GREAT KENYON HOPKINS!!! And what a sexy voice!

The Beatles' Second Album was a US concoction by Dave Dexter, Jr. He was responsible for all that compression. The UK versions sound completely different (and not necessarily better). I think the Who album was conceived as an album, at least to the degree that existed at the time for rock/pop groups.

Agree 100%. I was simply saying that there was a long, long road leading to this "recent" phenomenon.

We can all give a big round of applause to commercial radio, which - in the US at least - compressed the hell out their signals for decades. It was not uncommon for a rock or pop group to finish a recording and wonder why it didn't sound right - until they heard it on the radio with all that compression. When the Raspberries recorded "Go All the Way," they thought it lacked punch and wanted to scrap the whole thing. The producer went in and squashed the bejesus out of the levels, resulting in the hit that we all know and love today. The Who's first album, "My Generation," rivals any of the more recent albums discussed in that article as far as compression and limiting. I remember as a teenager making a cassette of that record. I set the levels at the opening guitar chords of "Out in the Street" so they were just on the cusp the red. The needles stayed in that exact position through the whole album, barely moving. A close second to that Who album would be the US stereo version of "The Beatles' Second Album," which is either their best sounding or worst sounding early record, depending on your aesthetics. Frankly, I go back and forth on this one. Leaving rock music for a while, spin any of the early Enoch Light Command albums. Most of these are not very good musically - and I love much so-called "easy listening" from that era - though they will sometimes have a great track or two. The liner notes brag about the amount of compression used, and the evidence is right there in the grooves. Talk about ear fatigue. While the "loudness war" may be a recent phenomenon in terms of sheer number of artists who feel compelled to over-compress their records, it is really nothing new.

I spun side one of "Tonal Expressions" last night. This is the only DS album I have or heard. Shirley on piano and Richard Davis on bass. The back cover has endorsements by everyone from Al Jazzbo Collins to Stravinsky. Overall, the ornamentation seemed to obscure whatever kind of development was going on within the tunes (most of which are standards). An emphasis on baroque, impressionistic and faux-Gershwin stylings. He seemed to rush the tempos on a couple of the faster tunes. Not much in the way of jazz content, certainly not from a purist's definition of jazz. That said, the side starts off with a really beautiful impressionistic take on "I Cover the Waterfront" which is by far the best thing on that side of the record. This is the reason I hung onto this album in the first place. I should add that this is one of his earlier albums, so I really can't say if my assessment would apply to the rest of his output.

I think I only have one or two Clebanoff albums, on Mercury. One is a gatefold with a Latin/exotica bent to it, with a version of Quiet Village. Not sure about the other one.

More exotica: The Out-Islanders - Polynesian Fantasy - Capitol rainbow stereo. Arrangements by Billy May wordless wailing by Marni Nixon!

Can any of you organ experts tell me the type of organ that you sometimes hear on 1960s European soundtracks? You typically hear it doing single note lines in a lower register, and it has a fat, distorted kind of sound. Nino Rota used it. I think some of the other Italian film composers, like Piero Piccioni and Piero Umiliani used it too, along with Peter Thomas. What is it?

If that is how he feels, I disagree with him; but that doesn't mean that his approach doesn't produce good music.

That's sad to hear. I have one of his early Cadence albums - the one with the all blue hue where he's looking at sheet music - and his playing on it is really incredible. He does some very impressionistic takes on standards, I think "I Cover the Waterfront" is one of them. I need to spin this album again. Thanks for the reminder.

Warren Barker - Far Away Places - WB stereo top shelf exotica!

Jazz and Jazz, Kenny Clarke and the one by the two guys named Bernard just arrived. Spinning Jazz & Jazz now and it is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Nervous, angular, longhair. Flutes, vibes, and wordless female vocals. THANK YOU!!!

McCoy Tyner - Atlantis - Milestone

funny, you are...

Interesting. Inverted sentence orders in Spanish are fairly common, and I think it's far easier to rhyme in espanol than ingles.