Teasing the Korean

Just gave Electric Bath an electric bath on the Nitty Gritty machine and am spinning now. I don't have a rock-oriented teenage son - named Chris or anything else, for that matter. But if I did, I'm sure that he - like me - would flip out over Don Ellis's new band!

I do think that Jack Bruce overall has a good enough pop/rock voice, but he sounds out of his element there.

I know Cream only through their hits. I never cared for them, and this illustrates why.

Yeah. A lot of times the album they hate is a good one, and vice-versa.

Do you know late in his life he kind of went crazy and dismissed Os Afro Sambas as "devil music?"

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Calling (Blue Note, stereo) Played back in mono to boost the bass and piano. Big fan! Still afraid to listen to his remake of Os Afro Sambas.

That looks like it. Thank you!

Or you can buy the lossless download from Qobuz for $52.

I listen to a lot of vocal music from France and Brazil, even though I don't speak French or Portuguese. It is amazing how much is communicated by inflections, even if you don't get the words.

I was kidding with you.

You're turning this into a project! I just received the book as a gift; not sure I'm this invested yet! Seriously, I've long had it on my to-do list to seriously check out the Blues at some point. I have generally avoided this genre, largely because hundreds of bad white "blues" bands playing predictable 12-bar patterns over and over have given me a bad impression. Yes, I'm aware that this is very far from the roots, and I understand at least in a general way how the blues influenced jazz and pop music.

I can't find the thread now, but I remember sometime ago that someone posted a YouTube video of a 1930s Louis Armstrong recording from the metal master, and the fidelity was incredible. I recently tried to find the video on YouTube, but it was not surfacing with any of the search words I was using. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Never heard or saw it. Would you concur that this album sounds different from her Brasil '66 work?

Thanks. Not sure if this will be a cover-to-cover read for me, or if I will selectively read passages based on the index. I may start with railroad references, as I love trains.

1972. It says it is the fifth printing.

Thank you! I just received a paperback copy of this book, with the reissue title, and have not yet looked inside. I appreciate your observations!

Anyone familiar with this 1960 book? Later retitled The Meaning of the Blues.

I have this and at least one other Pete Jolly on A&M. This is overdue for a spin. Only on some comps, such as Morricone comps with their version of "Hurry to Me." This is weird one. Lani trying to reinvent herself in the mold of early-70s female artists such as Carol King or Carly Simon. Her voice sounds very different here than it did with Brasil '66.

The film freaked me out in 1975 or whatever. It was probably the first US mass shooting, based on how we think about these things now. By today's standards, that shooting would make headlines for a few days, until a bigger shooting would take its place.

Yes, Kurt Russell, although I don't really remember many details. You can rent it in the US for $4.29 on Amazon Prime.

I'm the opposite, I don't own anything by any of those artists you mentioned, although Ms. TTK has the Go-Gos, Joe Jackson, and Squeeze. I like it when labels have a strong sense of aesthetics, which A&M in the 1960s did, for the most part. After the Carpenters, not so much.

I saw it when it aired. Maybe 1976 or so? I didn't know at the time the score was by Don Ellis, and I may not have even known about him then, except possibly for Electric Bath.

Don Ellis does not seem to have done too much film or TV, in looking at his IMDB resume. I have both of this French Connection scores, the aforementioned Mission: Impossible score, and his score for the made-for-TV film The Deadly Tower, about the Texas Tower sniper in the 1960s.

Oh, it's bad. We bought a bottle to use for the gag, tasted some, and that was that.

Yeah, I could watch it on a loop for an hour!