Teasing the Korean

This is likely my own ignorance showing, but did Chet Baker actually ever record for Blue Note? I thought he only ended up being reissued by BN because EMI bought Pacific Jazz and put it under BN's control. Better check with Blue Note! Both Julie London and Chet Baker show up on Blue Note compilations; so, they MUST have recorded for Blue Note, right? Blue Note would NEVER dream of misrepresenting their back catalog, would they?

Any of the Blue Note CD compilations including such important Blue Note artists such as Chet Baker or Julie London would be fine with me.

Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace (ABC/Impulse!).

Joe Morello, It's About Time, RCA Dynagroove Stereo (with stupid separation). Still waiting for a mono copy.

Thank you. I still have dreams about the dollar bins at Stereo Jack's, pathetic though that may sound...

What was the deal with these? Were they manufactured for the Capitol Record Club? Over the years I've come across a number of Verve albums - mostly mid to late 60s releases - and a couple of Atlantics. They usually have a Capitol-esque catalog number listed somewhere on the cover and/or label, while leaving the original catalog number intact elsewhere.

Canadian RCA is one of the labels that did the mono fold-downs of the stereo mixes. Based on the 1969 date, I'm guessing this is a stereo album, right?

In some cases, mono Canadian pressings of US masters used fold-downs of the stereo mixes rather than the original mono mixes, and as we know, fold-downs can be disastrous. If you're buying mono, try to get specific info first.

Good Lord, how many times was this album reissued? Landmark??? TTK, as I recall Orrin Keepnews reissued all of the Cannonball Riverside albums owned by Capitol in 1985 on the Landmark label. Maybe not all of them, but I think so. This album was also released on Capitol, Pickwick, and Everest. There was a whole thread about this album recently...

Good Lord, how many times was this album reissued? Landmark???

US Atlantic Collection drawn from Joao's first three Brazilian Odeon LPs.

Gary McFarland does the definitive version of this ditty (originally done by a forgotten beat group) on his Verve album "Soft Samba." The album also includes three other songs by said beat group. I hope they're grateful that he chose to immortalize them...

Mike Love in the role of Levin, from the 1972 Broadway adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The portrayal won Love a Tony nomination.

If you Google "Mike Love" and "Toga," you get TEN TIMES as many hits as you do Googling "Mike Love" and "combover." Interesting...

El Chicano - Viva Tirado (Kapp)

That's an error on AMG's part. It came out in the mid 90s, at the height of the cocktail nation.

I'm amazed too. I would think if John B has access to record/CD stores with decent secondhand Xmas sections, he could still find one for cheap. It's a very short album - less than 30 minutes. It is made up 10 cuts drawn from various sources, along with spoken greetings at the top and end.

Al Hirt is in regular rotation at thrift stores. What's incredible is when you find the gem sandwiched in a group of lame albums.

Thanks for this. I've never heard it, but I love John Dankworth's "Zodiac Variations." I'll have to give it a spin.

I had to laugh when I saw that Herb's "Whipped Cream" was reissued on CD. Who could possibly be left on earth who still needs it and doesn't already have it (for a buck or less)?

Thrift Stores: Johnny Mathis Jerry Vale Robert Goulet Mantovani Herb Alpert and of course: Merry Christmas from Firestone Tires, Vols. 1-927 I once went to a thrift store where some wise guy put all the Dan Fogelberg albums in one area and grouped them by title. It took up an entire row of a bin.

For about a year and a half, I was working a full time day job (which frequently required overtime), AND playing a regular five night a week gig. I would actually come home many nights and practice, simply because I had no other time to do so. I remember sometimes falling asleep in the middle of exercises. Not ideal by any means, but I suppose bad practice is better than none...