Teasing the Korean

I hope it's not true. Talk about a waste of shelf space. Season 2 has nothing to do with David Lynch, aside from the last episode, which isn't even all that great. Get season 1 and pretend that season 2 never occured.

Ghost, I'm giving my sister June's Got Rhythm for Christmas. Do you have an opinion of it? Her most respected album seems to be Something Cool which I got years ago and enjoy. But I chose this one because Something Cool has her in front of an orchestra, while Rhythm has her with a small group. All of her Capitol albums - at least up to the early 60s - are really solid; but the BEST ones by far are with Pete Rugolo.

I primarily listened to jazz (in the broadest sense) or at least jazz-related. Unfortunately, I listened to lots of stuff only once – often with other stimuli competing for my attention - so I don't know how much of it I really absorbed. Sometimes I miss the days when I had about 25 albums and knew them all intimately, but I suppose that’s another topic!

I love Sundays. Nothing like rekkids and wine...

Vera Brasil - US Revelation label reissue of 1964 Brasilian session (mono).

Ramsey Lewis - Bossa Nova (Argo, mono)

Bernard Herrmann - Sisters - Entr'acte

Swingle Singers - Anyone for Mozart? (Philips)

Gary McFarland, Point of Departure, Impulse!

I used to hate "Carol of the Bells" until my wife pointed out to me that it sounds like it's from one of Dario Argento's giallo films. Just imagine if Goblin had covered it. Now it's one of my favorites. It just goes to show you how context can determine whether you like something or not.

Rolling Stones, Aftermath, London, US MONO (FAT!) red label.

Journeys of Odysseus - A Jazz Suite for Chamber Orchestra by Bob Freedman - Cobblestone/Skye (w/Gary McFarland involvment).

I've accumulated lots of Auger stuff through the years. My favorite is Closer to It. I often spin "Whenever You're Ready" when DJing. Auger has a band now with a couple of his kids. On youtube, there's a live performance of "Happiness is Just Around the Bend."

In no particular order... Sergio Mendes & Brasil '65 - BLP 2294 Howard Roberts - Spinning Wheel - BLP 336 Cannonball Adderly - Mercy Mercy - BLP 2663 Gerald Wilson - Portraits - BLP 90047 Bud Shank/Laurindo Almeida - Braziliance - BLP 1204 Chet Baker - Chet & Crew - BLP 5005 June Christy - Ballads for Night People - BLP 1308 Lou Rawls - What is Was, What it Is - BLP 0215 Peggy Lee/George Shearing - Beauty and the Beat - BLP 1219 The Hollyridge Strings play the Beatles Songbook Volume 5 - BLP 2876

Julie London - Julie is Her Name Chet Baker - Chet Baker and the Mariachi Brass, Vol. 17 These are the two greatest Blue Note releases ever!

This is likely my own ignorance showing, but did Chet Baker actually ever record for Blue Note? I thought he only ended up being reissued by BN because EMI bought Pacific Jazz and put it under BN's control. Better check with Blue Note! Both Julie London and Chet Baker show up on Blue Note compilations; so, they MUST have recorded for Blue Note, right? Blue Note would NEVER dream of misrepresenting their back catalog, would they?

Any of the Blue Note CD compilations including such important Blue Note artists such as Chet Baker or Julie London would be fine with me.

Ahmad Jamal - Outertimeinnerspace (ABC/Impulse!).

Joe Morello, It's About Time, RCA Dynagroove Stereo (with stupid separation). Still waiting for a mono copy.

Thank you. I still have dreams about the dollar bins at Stereo Jack's, pathetic though that may sound...

What was the deal with these? Were they manufactured for the Capitol Record Club? Over the years I've come across a number of Verve albums - mostly mid to late 60s releases - and a couple of Atlantics. They usually have a Capitol-esque catalog number listed somewhere on the cover and/or label, while leaving the original catalog number intact elsewhere.

Canadian RCA is one of the labels that did the mono fold-downs of the stereo mixes. Based on the 1969 date, I'm guessing this is a stereo album, right?

In some cases, mono Canadian pressings of US masters used fold-downs of the stereo mixes rather than the original mono mixes, and as we know, fold-downs can be disastrous. If you're buying mono, try to get specific info first.

Good Lord, how many times was this album reissued? Landmark??? TTK, as I recall Orrin Keepnews reissued all of the Cannonball Riverside albums owned by Capitol in 1985 on the Landmark label. Maybe not all of them, but I think so. This album was also released on Capitol, Pickwick, and Everest. There was a whole thread about this album recently...