Teasing the Korean

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!

For my last combo, which was active roughly between 2009 and 2018, I was the composer and arranger. I did everything old school, writing arrangements with pencil on paper. I would typically start out with some some sort of overall mood/vibe I was going for, and then come up with a motif which I would expand. Sometimes it would branch off and result in two different tunes. While I did write a few things in a more conventional song format, with 8-bar phrases, most of what I wrote involved thematic development, so there would be different sections beyond the typical AABA. Some things were completely arranged top to bottom, and some included stretches with improvisation. I would typically compose at the piano, but I have a good ear, so I can also compose when I'm taking long walks and record myself on my cell phone. Keep in mind I was working in a peformative genre, in which the goal was create music designed to set a certain mood.

I just compared four tracks from the RVG Genius Vol. 2 with the four Monk tracks on the RVG Wizard of the Vibes. I'm hearing distortion on the latter four that I don't hear on Genius.

For as much as I've watched this show, and for as long as I've watched this show, I still occasionally stumble across an episode I've never seen before. It's like they are still being produced in the 4th dimension and secretly delivered to the Syfy channel.

It takes place in Mexico, and IIRC uses a lot of Spanish guitar.

Thanks. The 4 Wizard tracks (Milt Jackson, not Todd Rundgren) sound like 78s to my ears, but many of the tracks on the remastered Genius CDs sound like proto-hi-fi. I will do a more thorough comparison though. Does the set that you reference have different mastering? (I realize that "remastering" can including everything from making entirely fresh transfers to tweaking the treble from the previous remaster.)

Well, there was some copying and pasting going on, so I don't think that makes me an authority. But, I do have the 4-CD set of TZ music (original recordings), along with the 2-CD set of Herrmann's scores (re-recordings), so yes, I have immersed myself in this music, as I have with the show. I agree that TZ had some of the best music ever composed for television, and it was my introduction to several of these composers.

Here are the 19 composers who composed original scores for The Twilight Zone, followed by the number of episodes they scored. All are gone. Tommy Morgan made it to 2022, and Henri Lanoe, whom I never heard of, died this year. Nathan Van Cleave (12) Bernard Herrmann (7) Jerry Goldsmith (7) Fred Steiner (7) Rene Garriguenc (4) Tommy Morgan (3) Jeff Alexander (2) Lucien Moraweck (2) Nathan Scott (2) Leonard Rosenman (1) Robert Drasnin (1) Franz Waxman (1) Leith Stevens (1) Lyn Murray (1) Wilbur Hatch (1) William Lava (1) Richard Shores (1) Henri Lanoe (1) Laurindo Almeida (1)

And Earl stars in the first episode!

I assume that all of the composers have died, though there are a few I would need to look up to be sure.

Muted trumpet playing in unison with an organ is one of Hugo Montenegro's trademark sounds, as heard on the I Dream of Jeannie theme and More Music from The Man from UNCLE RCA LP.

Regarding the four Monk tunes that were yanked from Genius of Modern Music, are the best-sounding versions on the 2001 RVG Wizard of the Vibes CD? I ask because those four on the Milt Jackson CD do not sound as good as the RVG Genius CDs. Perhaps they were not recorded as well?

He recorded with a Wurly. Even better!

...whose senior fellow is Christopher Rufo. Avoid.

Herbie Hancock - Death Wish OST (Columbia) Part of a holy triumvirate of fantastic Charles Bronson scores, the other two being Jerry Fielding's The Mechanic and Morricone's Citta Violenta.

Miles '60s Quintet box, discs 5 and 6.

Saw Herbie last night. Nosebleed balcony seats, five tiny stick figures on stage. Turns out the trumpet player was Terrance Blanchard. Who knew? Overall, the set - a single set - had what I would characterize as a 70s jazz vibe. Herbie was on a grand piano for most of the set, but also had keyboards. Highlights included the opening overture, as he called it, and closing with "Chameleon," on which Herbie played the keytar. The guitarist was using a lot of crazy effects throughout. Downsides were that it was way louder than it needed to be, even in the balcony, and the grand piano sounded kind of harsh. With my earplugs in, the piano sounded like a Wurlitzer electric piano in the middle register. It was one of the more diverse crowds I've seen at a concert in recent years.

Purchased from the Zayre cutout bin for 99 cents, circa 1980. It was the victim of a record purge 8 years later.

Herbie/Yardbirds - Blow Up OST (MGM, mono) For those who don't know, the mono LP has edits of a few tracks that are significantly longer than their stereo counterparts. Mono is definitely the way to go with this one.

Watched a couple of short films. Crimes of the Future (1970), David Cronenberg's directorial debut, not to be confused with his more recent film of the same name. Room 8 (2024), the true story of a domestic cat who wandered into an Echo Park, CA elementary school classroom in 1952 and continued to show up every school day from then until 1968.

Thank you!

Well, that's a relief. Because I have been doing the same with my external drives for the past 15 years or so.

I am going to see Herbie Hancock tomorrow night. I have no idea what he's doing. The entire Headhunters album? Chestnuts from his 1960s Blue Note albums? Something else? We'll see.

So if the answer is routine transferring of files to new hard drives from older ones before they fail, what is the likelihood of errors being introduced into the chain of copies?

Well, it's all subjective, but inaudible bass typically leads to my unloading a record. I can't remember if there is enough bass on the original to bring it out further. But I have the version where Mingus overdubbed the bass, so in that sense, it is probably not the best example.