Teasing the Korean

The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim - WB gold label stereo Much as I love mono records, these early WB stereo LPs are among the best sounding you'll find.

Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions - Flying Dutchman

Klaus Schulze - En=Trance - Thunderbolt

I've got several monos of classical music...and I'll get a mono cartdrige soon. Doesn't hitting the mono button do the same thing? and so on... and so on... and so on...

Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra - Stokowski/Houston Symphony - Everest mono

Alex North - A Streetcar Named Desire - Conducted by Heindorf - Capitol 10" One of the earliest jazz scores (or jazz-influenced scores, for the purists).

I do too, it gives it more of a creepy, noir quality. That said, it's nice to have the option to listen to the tracks dry.

Spellbound: The Classic Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa - Charles Gerhardt & the National Philharmonic - RCA Red Seal Rozsa volume from what is perhaps the greatest ever anthology series of classic Hollywood film soundtracks, superbly recorded.

Debussy Nocturnes - Monteux & BSO - Victrola mono

Percussion Music - New Jersey Percussion Ensemble - Nonesuch stereo Works by Varese, Cowell, et. al.

Dean Martin did a couple of jazz-tinged albums, such as "The Intimate Dean Martin" on Reprise, just him and a rhythm section.

The Monday - Friday Matchgame shows were all taped at a single session. They would start drinking at the beginning and be sloshed by the end. So, when the shows were originally aired, they would get progressively intoxicated as the week went on. Those were the days...

Remember her??? She is my ROLE MODEL! Time for a drink...

Deodato/Airto - In Concert - CTI

Now that has to be one of the GREAT smart-arse remarks of the year! MG Robert Seigel said to him that this was the only time he'd read a book by a high-ranking government official who describes being in rooms filled with marijauna smoke!

I wish I were The Magnificent Goldberg. He gets to listen to groovy rekkids all day long!

There was a period in which, if I had something on CD and then found it on LP, I would burn the CD onto a CD-R and unload it. It makes sense on one level, but the more time that goes by, the more undependable CD playing devices become. So, I wish I had some of them after all.

Ever heard his soundtrack to "Bedazzled?" One of the very best soundtracks of the 1960s. "The Millionaire" and "Lillian Lust," for starters, are very solid compositions with interesting arrangements and nice playing. A lot of working jazz artists would be lucky to make an album as cool as this.

He was interviewed on "All Things Considered." Robert Siegel asked about his jazz days. He said he's out of practice on wind instruments, but picks one up every so often and sounds lousy. He plays piano though, and can recognized the smell of pot from great distances.

A second vote for insanity.

Am I the only one who finds your reaction presumptuous and judgmental?

In a bar, although she remembers seeing me at a party prior. She supports my jazz habit - both playing it and lugging LPs into the house. She's responsible for a good number of the LPs, too. Once we merged our record collections and unloaded the duplicates, I knew it was forever.

It doesn't matter what you name your cats. I can assure you, you'll come up 50 ridiculous pet names for each of them, and you'll rarely call them by their real names.