Teasing the Korean

Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos - The Rat Fink Collection All three Capitol albums collected on two CDs.

Not really sure yet, as this first 12" LP represents the first 12 tracks she recorded. The 10" sequence was a little different. I have several of these on LP, and those were the sequences I was used to, much like the Shearing MGM LPs.

Finally getting around to a project I've wanted to do for a long time: Taking the Billie Holiday Verve box set - the rusty lunchbox with hideous artwork and accordion CD tray - and re-sequencing the tracks into playlists recreating the original Clef/Norgran albums. Now listening to the first: Billie Holiday Sings. I did the same with the Shearing Quintet MGM albums, using the complete quintet box set.

Great question, TTK. I too would be interested in knowing if this is a complete, more or less, listing of 1950s-60s TV shows focused on jazz.

What is the talking-to-music ratio?

Not to mention a fascination with guns!

Personality disorders tend to get worse with time, not better.

Yeah, second-hand Ahmad Jamal and Ramsey Lewis albums in my experience tend to be very well-loved, depending on how you use that phrase. They must have been party records.

That's Les on the upper left. And Ginny Mancini, Hank's future wife, is on the bottom left.

That means you have at least one Les Baxter record!

My own interest in Mel Torme is tangential at best. I got the Swingin' on the Moon album primarily because of Russ Garcia's arrangements, and for the blonde model in the bubble helmet on the cover. I quite liked the title tune, written by Mel, but found some of the album's other aspects puzzling, like taking "How High the Moon" as a ballad. The other Mel albums we have are his Now Sound albums, including the aforementioned Right Now and a pair of groovy Capitol albums, circa 1970, with cover art like a Playboy Cutty Sark ad.

Atlantic's art department must have had the day off.

Molding young minds!

Yes, I've seen that clip! But I saw it in B&W. Cool to see it in color! I just never knew there was an Atlantic single version prior to the Columbia LP!

Black Heat - No Time to Burn - Atlantic

Never saw that LP!

I guess so. The Columbia version features Mel's over-enunciation.

Various - The Curtom Story (3-disc version)

I always knew the version from his 1966 Columbia album: But I didn't realize that it had been a single on Atlantic a few years earlier.

Various - Walk on the Wild Side: The Jazz Side of Mod (Soul Jazz)

NP: Osibisa - Woyaya (Decca)

I think this one was intended as a crossover album, but not in a deliberately dumbed-down way. There are 12 tunes, so nothing is too long. I remembered really liking it 20+ years ago in front of the wood-burning stove, and yesterday it did not disappoint!

Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace - impulse! (stereo)

Agree and agree.

They are already releasing albums using AI demixing to make "stereo" recordings from mono. Granted, this is happening more in the pop music realm, to milk whatever value is left in older recordings. If they haven't gotten around to using this technology on older jazz records yet, it is probably because there is little commercial reward in doing so. But this technology is out there, and lots of music is in the public domain in Europe, so it will probably begin happening if it has not already. I am less interested in "stereo" versions of older recordings than I am in the ability to bring down instruments that are overbearingly forward in the original mixes.