Teasing the Korean

Weed is not addictive.

Assuming we are not talking about Ike here.

Ha ha! Our one party bit, if there is a piano, is our word-for-word rendition of the Angie and Burt Martini & Rossi commercial! My next bongo mentor, after Maynard G. Krebs and Fred Flintstone, will be Jack Lemmon, seen playing bongos with the Candoli Brothers in Bell, Book and Candle. (While Jack really played bongos, I assume a studio pro is on the recording and Jack is only on camera.)

First order of business will be learning this Flintstones sound effect:

OK, squares: After many decades of playing what used to be called “arranger’s piano,” I am embracing my inner beatnik, thanks to a pair of LP bongos thoughtfully purchased for me by Ms. TTK while we were on vacation. I already have the goatee, sunglasses, and several Pocket Poets Series volumes published by City Lights in San Francisco. Now all I need is a beret. While piano is my main instrument, I have learned a thing or two about Latin rhythms over the decades. So, I think it will come down primarily to technique. Even with what little work I've done so far, I am at least as good as Maynard G. Krebs, technically if not stylistically.

It was intended as a humorous reference to a conversation that I thought jsngry and I had been involved in earlier. If I am mixing this up with a different conversation, then my mistake.

Comment deleted. The reference was apparently related to a conversation with someone other than jsngry.

At least that's what Paul Page tells us!

Now listening to his album The Singing Prophet, with Eden Ahbez involvement. This album is amazing, kind of like a Gordon Jenkins concept album, but without the silly aspects.

George Russell did a fantastic exotica track called "Fellow Delegates."

Haha!

Blue inner sleeve, yes.

The Bossa album on Capitol, the one that was pictured on the blue Capitol inner sleeve that came with Meet the Beatles and The Beatles' Second Album.

I love the key change in "Basie Straight Ahead" in the last two bars of the first chorus. One of the Mancini similarities I hear is the melodic phrase in bars 5-6 of the "Basie Straight Ahead" A section, similar to bars 6-8 of the A section of "Fluter's Ball."

Unless people keep responding. The OP was called out by two participants for deleting his/her posts and then returning to the conversation, as though we have specific rules about his.

Maybe change it to "Prosaic," with minimal costs involved in changing the logo.

As a devotee of mid-century modernism, I fully embrace the concept of functional art. The fact that music can serve functional purposes is not only acceptable, but it is a plus. The most perfect music for me is that music which will not bore you while attentively listening, and also not annoy you while you're doing the dishes.

We just had a few participants asking the OP to leave and/or to stop posting. The OP is free to express an opinion, just as we all are free to either join in or ignore the conversation.

Fair enough, but for some participants, the rules seem to be no religion, no politics, and no negative opinions about Mosaic.

Just a friendly reminder: If you participate in a conversation, you may be exposed to opinions that you don't agree with.

These kind of gigs can be very valuable, because you have to keep everything going yourself for 45 minutes at a stretch. It can be very challenging to do this. These situations sharpen your technique and ability to move something along creatively. I disagree with your notion that something is either jazz or it isn't. Music exists on a spectrum. Lots of good cocktail pianists can play jazz, and lots of jazz pianists can play solo cocktail gigs. It's not one or the other. If you can play jazz, I'm sure you would be quite capable of playing solo standards with tasteful chord voicings.

I think he listened to Les Baxter's Le Sacre du Sauvage and Jungle Jazz, as his Afro Bossa album features some distinctive Baxter-esque devices.

He must have listened to Grieg and Tchaikovsky, if for no other reason than to make his own albums of their music.

Frigo did a very nice Picasso Three Musicians knockoff in pastel.

All three of Gene Rains's Decca albums in a playlist, as a storm is brewing, and I'm sipping my first rum cocktail of the season.