Teasing the Korean

Herbie Mann - The Wailing Dervishes (Atlantic, stereo) A companion album to Impressions of the Middle East from the same period.

Roy Ayers - Ubiquity (Polydor, reissue) This is a great pressing. Usually, contemporary vinyl I've come across has very harsh treble. This is nicely rounded. I like that you can sing certain lines from "The Raven" to lines in "Pretty Brown Skin:" Ah, distinctly I remember/It was in the bleak December... EDIT: This album also has a very nice version of one of my least favorite Bacharach tunes, "Raindrops."

Downtown Blaine Gets Festive for Fall - WITH PIC! https://www.thenorthernlight.com/stories/downtown-blaine-gets-festive-for-fall,34434

Agreed. Neither JALC nor contemporary jazz critics factor into my listening choices, so I may be underestimating their impact or influence.

Yes, and JALC is hardly the first stupid thing that a philanthropist has thrown his/her money at. People will be free to contextualize and recontextualize music however they please, with or without the extraneous noise.

That has gone on since Day One, and these examples are hardly cash cows. Contemporary listeners are just as capable of having visceral reactions to music as OG audiences.

Who is making money on false jazz narratives?

Based on sales, this doesn't seem to be working in the market's favor.

I agree about the importance of contemporaneous accounts, but they may not necessarily affect how future audiences receive the music.

I am able to write what I hear in my head, but if you put a strange piece of music in front of me, I may struggle with it.

That's a given, for jazz or any other cultural product. And that is precisely what gives a piece of art longevity - the fact that it can be recontextualized by future audiences.

Lost power again 4 hours later. Maybe they are repatching as they make repairs.

We lost ower at around 4 pm yesterday and it is still out. No idea when it will be back. UPDATE: Power is back!

Real Gone reissued the five LPs individually, but given all the problems with contemporary vinyl pressings, to say nothing of the prohibitive costs, I am more excited about the 2-CD set, which includes all five LPs. Like the budget-label Batman album, these are rumored to include members of the Blues Project and Arkestra. In fact, some of the backing tracks on the Batman album were originally used (with different titles) on Frankie Stein albums. https://realgonemusic.com/products/frankie-stein-and-his-ghouls-the-complete-ghoul-lection-2-cd-set?_pos=4&_sid=b236130d8&_ss=r

Yup! That's why we call it space-age bachelor pad music!

Bracing ourselves for this storm. Even though it is way out in the Gulf of Mexico and we are not in the direct path, the storm surge and winds are supposed to be pretty bad here, especially 2 pm today to 1 am. Sending positive vibes to @Dan Gould @Stonewall15 and everyone else in Florida - and further north, based on the predicted path.

Frankie Stein and his Ghouls - The Complete Ghoul-lecction (Real Gone Music) All five Frankie Stein LPs on 2 CDs!!!

If that's true, Comstock was not a bad replacement, considering that recorded one of the greatest LPs of all time.

Does anyone know which 1960s TV commercial "The Golden Glow" was used on? Or was it added to the Tune In, Turn On album in hopes of it being picked up by an ad agency?

RIP.

Brasil '66 - Equinox (A&M iiiMONO!!!)

👍 Lonnie Liston Smith - Expansions (Flying Dutchman)

My copy does not credit any of the musicians, but they do credit the arrangers.

Next up: Another Motown Now Sound album: The Jerry Ross Symposium, Vol. 2 (Motown) The previous album on Rare Earth had a brassier, heavier "rock" sound, kind of like Mandingo, the Incredible Bongo Band, or a 70s Wide World of Sports bumper. This album, by contrast, is gentler, and alternately sounds like the score to a 70s made-for-TV movie or an in-store tape that would have been played at K-Mart or Zayre. The unexpected highlight so far is Morricone's theme to Duck You, Sucker.

The Impact of Brass - Down at the Brass Works (Rare Earth) This is Motown's take on the Now Sound, and they got it pretty right, especially when they break out the electric sitar!