Teasing the Korean

Is it me, or does anyone else notice a similarity between a recurring chord - and chord voicing - between these two?

John Dankworth did some spy scores in the 1960s, including Fathom and Modesty Blaise. The latter was one of my first Dankworth albums.

"All I Wanna Do" with A.I. Brian singing lead: You have to use periods with "AI," otherwise you think we are talking about Al Jardine (which is perfectly reasonable).

Oh, I really liked that one! I agree, it will keep getting better. AI is the logical place where we will end up, as everything we have invented since fire and the wheel has led to this.

I get whatever I am getting out of it. I may be picking up on things that you are missing. And vice versa. Either way, I am very happy with this, and I welcome more AI music.

You get Brian's humanity and vulnerability. Yeah, but it's still pretty friggin' good, and way better than the real Sonny Bono on the backing vocals. It captures some of Brian's vocal nuances perfectly. For many years, I have deleted "Bull Session with the Big Daddy" from Beach Boys Today, and included "Guess I'm Dumb" by Glen Campbell. I would open side 2 with "Guess I'm Dumb" and close side 2 with "In the Back of My Mind." I'm eager to try out the Brian version of "Guess I'm Done" in the playlist.

Sonny and Cher? I agree!

I am interpreting the apostrophe in your post to mean "Sound is bland." That is because the person who created likely used multi-track stems from YouTube.

And here is "Guess I'm Dumb!" We can add it to Beach Boys Today!

This is scary!

That was funny! Yeah, that's a good one.

The Roulette album Collaboration is a jazz/symphony hybrid. Here is "Improvisations for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra." This one is overdue for a spin.

My first John Dankworth album was in the Roulette Echoes of an Era series, in which his Roulette album Jazz from Abroad was paired with a live Billy Strayhorn date (which was probably a Duke concert released under Strayhorn's name for contractual reasons). The track that really knocked me out was "String of Camels," which opens side 1 on the original album, but which closes side 1 on the twofer. This would have been early 1990s. I have that one, but it has been a while since I've spun it.

Thanks. I see the twofer with Zodiac, but some other key albums do not seem to be available.

Really? Are these still available? I couldn't readily find them!

If the Google machine can be trusted, we apparently do not have a thread on composer/arranger John Dankworth - that's Sir John Dankworth to you. At least we haven't had one until now. I have probably about 10 of his LPs. It is sad that none of the ones I have seem to be on CD or even available as lossless downloads on Qobuz. My favorite is probably The Zodiac Variations on Fontana, which I happily liberated from the Stereo Jack's dollar jazz bin many moons ago. As he frequently worked with vocalist Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth, we can teeter into discussions of her work here also.

Sometimes, they may alter their approach to the solo, even subconsciously, to outline the harmonic contours if there is no chordal instrument.

I think there is a grey market label called Real Gone, as opposed to Real Gone Music, so it was an easy mistake to make. No, it's the latest target in the cultural appropriation discussion.

Shrinking, dying audience that their pricey box sets have done nothing to grow.

Real Gone Music is a legit US label. As are all the others that I listed above. None of them are grey market. https://realgonemusic.com

I will attribute that up to poor marketing on Mosaic's part. Obviously Numero, Light in the Attic, Real Gone Music, and a number of film score boutique labels (Intrada, La-La-Land, etc.) have made single-disc releases work.

Always loved the album Casa Morelenbaum²/Sakamoto, a Jobim album recorded in Jobim's home using his grand piano.

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/ryuichi-sakamoto-dies-intl/index.html

Yes, as I mentioned in my longer, more recent post. But it's cheaper to buy a single $20 disc than a bunch of $15- or $17-dollar discs at once, which is the problem with Mosaic.

Completely agree. Most of those are pricey box sets, and hardly any of them are singles.