No worries! Thanks for giving a listen and hope you enjoyed it.
Reveal post coming soon. Work is crushing me at the moment and I've been too constrained by time and fatigue to write it up.
I'd hazard a guess that it's mainly his albums on CBS and Elektra, and those probably got excellent worldwide distribution. His wiki page is pretty interesting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadao_Watanabe_(musician)
Been to Rome twice, never to a record store. No personal experience but this one popped up on a search and looks pretty good: https://www.millerecords.it/en/
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I'm not sure but a couple of ideas on what you're searching for (please excuse if these are way off the mark):
First track, Daphne:
Second possibility:
First track, Minor Swing:
I can't explain it, but I'm a total sucker for city skyline album covers, especially when it comes to jazz records. 32 Jazz almost never has good cover art but they punched above their weight class on that one.
My girlfriend likes Elsbeth. But it's definitely the same show over and over again. I think she likes the character as well as the famous guest stars that show up.
I don't know who that is, or if it's actually library stock music or not. It's kind of got a laid back feel to it. Maybe try some west coast stuff. Like this:
I'd recommend just about any Chico Hamilton record post '75. I haven't heard them all but the ones I've heard are all solid. Starting with Nomad, but can go as far as Believe and Twelve Tones of Love.
Way better than I expected. I havent seen any of the other Marvel series installments so I don't know how it measures up, but as a standalone this is a good watch and the music picks are stellar.
All right, that's a partial ID on 3 and a full ID on 9.
That leaves track 6 as the only remaining full mystery. No hints on that unless it's still mysterious come next week.