Teasing the Korean

I'm sure there are exceptions to what I've encountered - especially if different mastering was used between pressings. But in my experience, a lot of mid- to late-60s US stereo albums on UA, Pacific Jazz, and a few other labels sound harsh to my ears, shrill highs and not much lower end. Their mono counterparts - when I have found them - tend to have a fuller sound with more rounded highs and more bass.

Buddy Rich - Big Swing Face - Pacific Jazz (stereo) I guess so many of these albums are live is because he was always on the road, and they didn't have to book studio time.

Swinging Sights & Sounds - An Advertising Spectacular for Valvoline '69! I need to digitize this for my Formula 1 compilation that I'm curating.

It's been a while. I don't remember anything particularly bad that sticks out. I'm off for a few days and will give it a spin.

Yup, but they are far too conservative. Will never happen.

Loves me those Pete Rugolo Mercury records!

I still have my Applause LP of Inventions and Dimensions by Herbie Hancock. At least I don't have to worry about the cover yellowing: It came that way!

One Way released a CD twofer of Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible (Dot) and More MI (Paramount), and added "Secret Code" from There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On!

Burt Bacharach.

Buddy Rich - Swingin' New Big Band - Pacific Jazz, MONO!!! Stereo Jack's dollar sticker still in place! The mono pressings of Pacific Jazz records are nowhere near as shrill as the stereo, similar to United Artists LPs from this period.

Buddy Rich - Buddy & Soul (Pacific Jazz, stereo) Boy, these Pacific Jazz stereo albums from the late 1960s are SHRILL! I have to turn the treble way down. All Buddy Rich albums, all Gerald Wilson albums...

Oh, no, this is a vocal album! And the vocalist is...Woody Herman!

About 20 years ago, the Parrotheads tried to infiltrate the tiki community. It did not go well for them.

Or this one:

My Dad would buy these on cassette, for a buck a throw, and blast them while driving his Buick. I still remember how badass he looked behind the wheel while "Society Red" was playing.

Watching this morning's race while drinking Champaign! I wish they would let me program the music for these races. It would be so much better. Imagine this for the opening theme: OK, so I'm quietly playing in the background a playlist of KPM 1000 series stuff, like the track above, and it is FANTASTIC with the race and Champaign!

I think the only Woody Herman I have is a UK album on HMV called Songs for Hip Lovers. I assume this was on Verve in the US, given Norman Granz's involvement. It is arranged and conducted by Marty Paich, whose writing is hit or miss for me. I got it primarily for the cover art, which is hopefully posted in the Album Covers with Moderne Furniture thread. EDIT: I see that the UK album is a different photo shoot based on the US album. Different models, different chairs. I like the UK better.

Wow, I was totally bummed that they did not use the original 10" cover art.

I file stuff just as much be cultural considerations as I do by the music itself, so take my idiosyncratic filing system with a grain of salt.

So ESPN 2 is airing a race at 7:25 am EST on Sept. 1, and another on the same day 10:55 am EST. I will tape these.

Alec Wilder's American Popular Song 1900-1950 focuses on the songs themselves as written. He notes in the intro how many songs were "improved" over the decades by instrumentalists, singers, and arrangers who revised melodies and/or chord progressions. He does not go into specifics on these, which seems to be what you're seeking, but he references the very topic the OP is addressing.

Discussed in the "University Jazz Program" thread, if you can find it. Probably in the "musicians" sub-forum. I had a bad college experience and couldn't listen to jazz for several years. I came back to jazz through Sinatra, Ella, and other singers of the Great American Songbook. I've continued listening to and loving jazz through the decades, so this was a one-time aberration. Here you go:

Hillsborough County schools are reopening tomorrow. So rest assured, Florida youth will resume their study of history.

My first McCoy Tyner album under his own name was Expansions on Blue Note. I was in high school. I remember how much I loved the opening track "Vision." I got the Milestone albums only after I had returned to jazz, after a fairly lengthy period of not being able to listen to it.

Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for it.