Teasing the Korean

I'm into mid-century modern.

Arthur Lyman - Taboo II - HiFi (mono)

Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon - Straight (reissue)

Walter Wanderley - From Rio with Love - Tower stereo One of his Brasilian sessions released in the US in the wake of the success of "Summer Samba."

Can a government be competent?

I've been there too in real life. No records like the back room in the dream, though...

I believe you, but I keep having this recurring dream about the AMAZING UPSTAIRS BACKROOM! How can I stop?

Wow, we'll never be able to find any more vinyl by that obscure Miles Davis guy...

Greatest record store in the US, in Beantown. Cambridge, actually. And that's where Stereojack gets his name from... All is clear, now, since he's from that area. MG I believe he is the proprietor, if I'm not mistaken.

Greatest record store in the US, in Beantown. Cambridge, actually.

As a vinyl junkie, few things thrill me more than finding obscure 20th century longhair stuff on small labels by composers who barely or never made it to CD. Lots of this stuff is amazing.

Best in the land. At least there was one when I lived in Beantown.

In the dream, I'm finding all these amazing records in the dollar bin. Then someone brings me to this amazing back room (which does not exist as far as I know), with an upstairs and even BETTER dollar records. I have an armload of albums and I'm ready to plunk down the cash, and I wake up. I'm grabbing for the albums as I awake but they remain in this parallel universe.

Color of covers, in spectral order.

Gants Galore - Liberty mono THIS ROCKS!!!!!

You are obviously an amateur drinker. There are few things in life more serious than what music to put on with a hangover. And Walter Wanderley, Herb Alpert, and Esquivel should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES be experienced with a hangover.

On a serious note, I love jazz and a lot of music that is decidedly "not jazz," even if jazz-related. An artist's ability to play well in another context, while impressive, doesn't make me like the person's records any more or less. Even if WW's abilities were limited to what you hear on those records, he made the most of what he had, and made very enjoyable records. I wouldn't recommend listening to him with a hangover, though...

Remember the Sid Ceasar joke, "Bebop groups are hiring an extra guy on radar, to warn them when they're getting too close to the melody!"

LOL! I was fuming and then I saw your post! WW made a number of Brazilian albums (prior to Rain Forest) that got picked up by Philips or Capitol/Tower. Some of these are among his very best, while at least one of them sounds like a straightforward latin session with little "Brazilian" content.Yes, he did some "loungy" stuff, but that's a plus in my book. I'll take an interesting "lounge" record over a mediocre jazz record any day. Cheganca and Batucada on Verve are really solid. My favorite, though, is his CTI/A&M album "When It Was Done," which I would have sworn was an MPS album in a blindfold test.

In the internet age, critics simply do not carry the weight they once did. I have read amazon reviews from people who (presumably) are not critics that are far more insightful than things I've read by blowhards like Dave Marsh.

Jorge Ben - Tropical - Island (1976) Includes a version of "Taj Mahal," infamously (and expensively) stolen by Rod Stewart.

Interesting that Starsailor and Blue Afternoon are available. The CDs have been out of print for years and fetch big bucks.

You guys are lucky to have seen him live. I recently picked up the DVD "My Fleeting House" with lots of live TV performances, and it's absolutely essential if you're into Tim. It's interesting that so many people, including me, love "Blue Afternoon." Tim's guitarist, Lee Underwood, claims that his record label asked him to do that one, even though he'd moved on into Lorca/Starsailor territory. Lee claims that Tim's heart wasn't really in "Blue Afternoon," but you'd never know it.

Let's talk about Tim. Anyone here into his music? What are your favorites? Mine is "Happy/Sad," but I love nearly every aspect of his career.