Teasing the Korean

I have so many of his LPs but this has eluded me. How is it? Any exotica content or anything out of the ordinary?

I should have been more clear. The album I'm speaking of is an LP on Spanish RCA which has a "Fresh Sounds" sticker on the back. I thought the two were somehow related. Lots of RCA jazz and oddball instrumental albums have been coming out on RCA Spain CDs also.

The Singers Unlimited with Oscar Peterson - In Tune - MPS A chilly night, so I needed some MPS and a shot of Baileys!

Can't be far off from the truth. My first crush was the Lost in Space robot.

I saw JACK JONES live and he ROCKED! He can rival Robert Plant on these heavy metal screams, I kid you not. He let out a shriek during "Our Love is Here to Stay" that frightened the codgers in the crowd. Highlight of the show was Michel Legrand's "One at a Time," with the Legrand arrangement from the JJ/ML RCA album. Also did Jobim's "Useless Landscape."

It was a bad period for Chick. Early 80s, kind of meandering pseudo-fusion.

Thanks for the detail. The Telly album pictured earlier in the thread is a real favorite of mine. It has that decadent, delerious, 70s Euro quality that I love.

Thanks for the detail, Larry. Surprised to hear that about the Fresh Sounds label. I have a stereo pressing of Mundell Lowe's "TV Action Jazz" from Fresh Sounds that is superb. When did they get their act together?

Chuck, did you mic and mix the piano better than that one guy who recorded a lot of jazz albums?

Everybody has Blue Note albums. If I'm trying to impress someone, I pull out my Italian giallo soundtracks or bossa nova LPs.

I have some stuff with Shorty Rogers. I may have some other stuff where he's a sideman but I don't recall what off the top of my head. What do you suggest by him as either a leader or sideman?

Shorty Rogers - Wherever the Five Winds Blow - RCA Spain (mono). Liner notes by a meteorologist!

Here's the tally thus far: Marcello saw TELLY FUCKIN' SAVALAS LIVE! Whereas the rest of you saw a pack of losers live. So, MARCELLO WINS (thus far). HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Chick Corea About 100 times more embarrassing than Telly Savalas.

Nothing to be ashamed about. If the concert was even one tenth as great as that album, it was worth it.

Phil Sr. did the Mercury date and had the Phil Moore Four. That's Phil Jr. with Curtis Amy, to the best of my knowledge. So they're father and son?

Is the pianist Phil Moore who played with Curtis Amy the same Phil Moore as the arranger (who recorded "New York Sweet" for Mercury)?

In fairness, the cost of the sessions can vary greatly, depending on the number of musicians, number of hours, etc. The manufacturing aspect is the cheapest part of the process. Curiously, most CDs have list prices in the same range, despite the range of costs involved. A record that someone records at home is obviously much cheaper to produce, although the list price will typically be the same.

Very interesting. I had no idea! Thank God Jacques Loussier and the Swingle Singers committed these compositions to wax before they were lost forever!

Robert Drasnin - Voodoo II

So aside from the four studio albums, what's out there, and is any of it worthwhile?

Glad to hear it!

Yes, but will you stay? I for one have enjoyed your contributions to this board.

Walter Wanderley - When It Was Done - CTI/A&M One of his best. It sounds like an MPS album.

Thanks. But did the original stereo LPs have the same dodgy bass placement as these? Again, I have most of these in mono. It's surprising to me that by the mid-60s Columbia wasn't centering the bass, as they did with previous Miles LPs, Brubeck, etc.