Teasing the Korean

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.

Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri - Tico (stereo) Warren Barker - A Musical Touch of Far Away Places (WB, stereo) Richard Hayman - Voodoo (Mercury, stereo)

Kai Winding - Kai Ole! (Verve, stereo) My copy says "Latin Stereo Motion" across the top! This album reminds me of Winter Friday nights in Beantown, when Ms. TTK and I would listen to jazz in front of the wood-burning stove and drink wine!

Haha! Different cat, same name.

Harold Vick - Caribbean Suite - RCA (stereo)

Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La (Decca, stereo)

I just saw this in my massive "to be cleaned" section. Maybe I'll spin it today.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Walter Wanderley - Cheganca - Verve (mono)

I think anything recorded prior to the hi-fi era has a big strike against it at the outset, regardless of musical/cultural/historical value.

Eydie Gorme - Blame It On the Bossa Nova (Columbia, mono) The title track is placed at the end of a side, so it's easy to skip.

The Piano of Joao Donato - The New Sound of Brazil (RCA, stereo)

My favorite of his, perpetually in the DJ crate, and part of the Tantric Textures series that I curated.

That was my recollection, a lot of top names all at a good price.

I am interested in how this technology can be used to improve less-than-ideal mixes.

Did anyone here go to this? I was there. I remember Ray Charles and Diz, that's about it.

June 18, 2023 will be the 105th birthday of composer, arranger, violinist, and ethnomusicologist Elisabeth Waldo! She is by all accounts still with us! Happy 105th Birthday!

I completely love this, and there is nothing wrong with the string section. I wonder if they have records.

The change is kind of like when Liberty revised the cover art on the first three Chipmunks LPs. They looked like real chipmunks at first, and they were scary with BIG TEETH - the universal indicator that a cartoon character is dangerous. But they were replaced with the cute, non-aggressive Chipmunks that we all know and love. So that first June Christy cover is like the scary early Chipmunks, and the color replacement is like the cute cartoon Chipmunks.

I've always thought there was something scary about it, but I can't quite say why.

The In-Kraut, Vols. 1-3. Here is one of the money cuts:

This is a fascinating element of design for me. For example, I was surprised to learn years ago that the Noguchi table debuted in 1947.

OK, so it is summertime around these parts. This is the time of year when I mix rum cocktails and bust out the Latin jazz. Where are we currently in our survey of Tito in the 1940s and 50s?