Lab '76 - The North Texas State University Jazz Lab Band

Labyrinth

North Texas State University School Of Music
Marceau C. Myers, Dean Presents
Lab '76!
Leon Breeden, Director
Album Design, Liner Notes, Photography: J Frank Lively
Loomis Photo by Gary Rago
Shanklin photo from Dr. Wn. Latham
Distributed by Ray Lawrence LTD., Studio City, California
LJ114
1976

Engineering

Side one:
Love Beams: Omega Audio; Darrell Henke, Engineer
Myth Of Sisyphus: Vestige Recording; Bob Grace, Engineer
Chief's Blues: Alcorn Productions; Jim Alcorn, Engineer
Side two:
Dallasonic Recording: Thom Calceta and Don Smith, Engineers

Personnel

Saxophones: Roger Dismore (Lead)
Dan Higgins (Pete Brewer*)
Steve Spencer
Bev Dahlke

Trumpets
Chuck Schmidt (Lead)
Bill Collins
Ron Bergan (Wayne George*)
Doug Coltman
Clay Jenkins (Mike Davis*)

Piano
Jim Milne (Pat Coil*)

Bass
Marc Johnson (Jim Lacefield, 2nd Bass on "Myth Of Sisyphus)

Drums
John Riley

Guitar
Jim Chirillo (Jett Davang*)

Percussion
Gene Glover
*On "Chief's Blues" Only

The Cover: Those of you who remember the famous "lizard" who appeared on our "Lab '75!" cover will find a relative of his on this year's cover. He's down there in the lower right hand corner, watching the "Monster flute player." (Another visual pun!). Our thanks to Sue Ellen Brown, NTSU senior Advertising Design major, who created the work.

From Billboard - March 19, 1977: This remarkable musical and professional collegiate big band conducted by Dr. Leon Breeden is a model of what contemporary large-scale jazz is all about. Exceptional solos by Dan Higgins, alto; Jim Milne, piano and Clay Jenkins, flugelhorn blend well with adventurous, musically fascinating charts by six different arrangers. A bow, too, to J. Frank Lively's lively annotation, LP design and photos. Best cuts: "Love Beams," "Ballad For Gary," Chief's Blues."

Love Beams
Composer/Arranger Mark Taylor (NTSU) - Dan Higgins, Alto Sax Solo

Myth Of Sisyphus*

Composer/Arranger Paul Loomis (NTSU) - Mark Henderson, Tenor Sax Solo

Chief's Blues
Composer/Arranger Rich Shanklin (NTSU Alumnus) - Roger Dismore, Soprano Sax Solo

Phone A Trois
Composer/Arranger Alf Clausen (NTSU) - Dan Higgins, Alto Sax Solo - Clay Jenkins, Flugelhorn Solo - James Chirillo, Guitar Solo

Ballad For Gary*
Composer/Arranger Alf Clausen - Jim Mike, Piano Solo - Clay Jenkins, Flugelhorn Solo

Labyrinth*
Composer Arranger Jim Milne (NTSU) - Bill Yeager, Trombone Solo - Jim Milne, Piano Solo

Quietly There - Chet Baker

Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most

Quietly There
Chet Baker
Producer: Richard Bock
Arrangers: Harry Betts & Julian Lee
Art Direction: Woody Woodward
Cover Photo: Ken Kim
Engineer: Lanky Linstrot
World Pacific WP-1847
Liberty Records, Inc.
1966

From the back cover: Chet Baker and strings always seem to this writer a natural – if not obvious – paring. The 36-year old Oklahoman is essentially a romantic on his instrument. And since he has forsaken trumpet for flugelhorn, the romantic turn of his musical approach has been that much further evident. The flugelhorn, with its roundness and fullness of tone, lends its character very well to a player with the time to rhapsodize. One recalls that Miles Davis (Chet Baker's stylistic ancestor) took to flugelhorn at a point in his career marking a departure from wholly small group settings and the beginning of adventures in music now considered historic.

So the romantic Chet has ample opportunity here to make the most of the arrangements of Harry Betts and Julian Lee, two of our leading craftsmen in the canny art of orchestration. If an arranger is really good, he can leave his personal mark on the treatment of a song just as indelibly as may a jazz improvisor. Both men are capable of this, and both do so here. Betts has been trombonist with many of the country's top name bands, from Charlie Barnet on through the alphabet. Lee is a gifted Australian who has been a Hollywood resident for several years. Both were assigned a half dozen tunes apiece to dress up for the Baker horn... what they did with them may be summed up in the words: Good Taste. – John Tynan

Early Autumn
I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Forget Him
Christmas Song
Quietly There
Spring Can Really Hang Up The Most
Stranger On The Shore
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
The More I See You
No More Blues (Chega De Saudade)
Message To Michael
(You're My) Soul And Inspiration

Guitars Unlimited - The Barclay Stars

Opus De Funk

Guitars Unlimited
The Barclay Stars
Musical Supervision: G. Levecque
A&R Director: J. Fernadez
Cover Design: Loring Eutemey
Recording Engineer: Gerhard Lehner
Recorded by Barclay Records, Paris, France
Atco Records SD 33-194
A Division of Atlantic Recording, Corp.
1966

Guitar: Francis Le Maguer, Pierre Cullaz, Raymond Gimenes, Paul Piguillem & Victor Apicella
Piano: Raymond Le Senechal or Jacques Danjean
Bass: Paul Rovere or Guy Pedersen
Drums: Frank Houplain

From Billboard - October 22, 1966: Guitarist Doing Right For Barclay - French guitarist Francis Le Maguer has produced a new sound for Barclay Records with an ensemble called Guitars Unlimited.

Le Maguer uses the guitars to reproduce the sound of the various sections of a big band in faithful interpretations of celebrated jazz standards by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Woody Herman and others.

The album has already sold 6,000 copies in three months and is released in the U.S. by Atlantic and in Britain by Philips. Le Maguer plans a follow-up album shortly in which he will feature further Count Basie and Ellington numbers, Sacha Diestel's "The Good Life," and possibly some Lennon-McCartney tunes.

Fantail
Shiny Silk Stockings
Sophisticated Lady
Flight Of The Foo Birds
In A Mellow Tone
Four Brothers
April In Paris
Satin Doll
Take The A Train
Early Autumn
Opus De Funk

Flamenco Festival In Hi-Fi - Nino de Alicante

Fantasia Espanola

Flamenco Festival In Hi-Fi
Nino de Alicante and His Troupe
Design DCF-1046
A Product Of Pickwick Sales Corp. - Long Island City 1, N. Y.

From the back cover: On the Spanish coast of the Mediterranean, there is a seaport famous for its shipments of wines, oil, cereals, fruit and the finest and greatest of all Flamenco performers, Nino de Alicante is his name, and the seaport is known as Alcanite.

Nino de Alicante was born in a cave halfway up the side of a mountain between the towns of Alicante and Aspe. Here, at his mother's knee he learned all the intricacies of Flamenco with its variety of rhythms; the snapping fingers, castanets, hand clapping (palmas) and of course the wonderful soul-stirring heel work (taconeo). Nino grew to become the leader of his troupe because of his great virtuosity.

The discovery and subsequent famous concert tours of Spain and Europe were brought about because of a statue. The famous sculptor Amleto Cataldi of Rome, Italy had gone in his youth to Valencia, Spain and subsequently to Alicante to sculpt some works for an exhibition that was to be held in Paris featuring the best of the Neoclassical school. He tool ill and returned to Rome. Many, many years after his early death, his daughter Eleanora Cataldi, in going through her father's papers, realized that some of his work existed in Alicante. Off she went by ship across the Mediterranean. Arriving in Alicante, she found nothing remained of her father's work, but she discovered Nino and his troupe working in a little side street cafe: As Miss Cataldi explains it... "Flamenco, when heard and seen at it best, is exciting and infectious; it ensnares us with its sound of 'be alive'... 'be happy'... 'live.'"

Here we present Flamenco at its best. A true art form that is exciting to the ear. While listening, Spain will blossom before your eyes. All the romance and mystery is there – If you get the urge to holler "Ole" or "Viva Espana" ... go ahead... it's part of enjoying the listening.

Nino Alicante and his troupe have never appeared in the United States and it gives us great pleasure to bring their first recording to this country.

We guarantee you many hour of exciting listening. Each time you play this record the sounds will develop more and more in your mind. This is something you must share and play for your friends. – Abbot Lutz

Danza Oriental
Fiesta del Rocio
En Un Cuadro Flamenco
Brisas de Malaga
Fragua Audaluza
Albaicin Granadino
Garrotin Feo
Mezquita Cordobesa
Fantasia Espanola

Waltz Favorites - The 77 Strings Orchestra

Danube Waves

Waltz Favorites
The 77 String Orchestra
Golden Tone Hi-Fidelity C4043

Skaters' Waltz
Danube Waves
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Over The Waves
It's A Grand Night For Sharing
Wunderbar
Falling In Love With Love
Beautiful Dreamer
Merry Widow Waltz
Fasciation

Gene Vincent Rocks! And The Blue Caps Roll

Gene Vincent Rocks!
And The Blue Caps Roll
Capitol Records T970
1958

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover art and jacket notes.

From the back cover: Exciting because the songs, each in a brand new arrangement, range from the frantic Brand New Beat to the inspiring You'll Never Walk Alone and the traditional By The Light Of The Silvery Moon.

Gene Vincent, the young man behind it all, is pretty exciting himself. Untrained, he stepped from Norfolk, Virginia, into national prominence with his first Capitol recording Be-Bop A-Lula. Today, at 21, he continues the same style of singing that zoomed him to the top – a style that's fresh, action-packed and unrestrained.

Exciting too, are Gene's Blue Caps – a group of talented young musicians with a sound that that can set a statue to clapping its hands and tapping its feet.

Finally, there are some particularly unusual and exciting in this album items in this album. One is a modernized Rock n' Roll version of the folk classic, Frankie And Johnnie, with new words by Gene himself. Another is It's No Lie, a new song from Otis Blackwell, who wrote the sensational Teddy Bear and Don't Be Cruel.

It all adde up to an explosive, different kind of musical experience when "Gene Vincent Rocks and The Blue Caps Roll" – for these are 'hits that won't quit."

From Billboard - March 17, 1958: Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps have a hot album here, one that could rack up healthy sales to teen-agers. There are new songs and oldies, ranging from the frantic, like "Brand New Beat," the the quieter , country styled efforts like "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon. Of the new items, "It's No Lie" could get action as a single. A strong new album for Vincent and his Blue Caps.

Brand New Beat
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
You'll Never Walk Alone
Frankie And Johnnie
In My Dreams
Flea Brain
Time Will Bring You Everything
Should I Ever Love Again
It's No Lie

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - Sammy Kaye

I Want You

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Sammy Kaye ande His Orchestra
Produced by Milt Gabler
Arranged by Dave Mullaney
Engineer: Elvin Campbell
Decca Records - A Division of MCA, Inc., New York, N. Y., USA
DL 75176
1970

From the back cover: Everybody's talking about the return of the big bands and I like that kind of talk. Not that me and my band have been "away," but I have to admit the band business has seen better days, even though we've been working regularly. Possibly we've been more fortunate than a lot of the other bands that can't say the same, but we have seen a period of time when bands weren't drawing crowds and were therefore finding it difficult to get bookings. That appears to be changing and people are starting to see and hear the bands again and what's even more important, people are starting to dance again.

Since our Decca albums have been so well received by you folks, we've been recording regularly, too, which gives us a reason to be thankful and continue making more. This latest album of ours gives me a special kind of satisfaction, for it represents a giant step for the Sammy Kaye Orchestra into the contemporary music scene. There's a lot of good music being written these days and I'm particularly impressed with the current crop of tunes on today's hit parade. Writers like Bacharach and David, Lennon and McCartney, George Harrison and Paul Vance have spun a magic web of music and lyrics on a whole new generation of people, young and old alike, and their songs relate the kind of feeling and impact of today's way of life to these people. We've selected some of the best of the many excellent tunes we feel are destined to become standards and the choice wasn't easy because of the quality of those we couldn't use being equal to the quality of the ones we did include.

From the movies, we chose the title song, Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, and The Old Fun City, both of which are in "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" which stars Paul Newman; from Alfred Hitchcock's suspense thriller, "Topaz," we took the Juanita Love Theme (Strange My Love), written by Academy Award winning composer, Maurice Jarre; and from "The Sterile Cuckoo," we burrowed the beautiful Come Saturday Morning. The prolific writing talents of The Beatles were responsible for three of my favorites in the album, Something, Maxwell's Silver Hammer and I Want You (She's So Heavy). Early In The Morning, Backfield In Motion and She Let's Her Hair Down (Early In The Morning) are three more fine songs and ideally lend themselves to a big band sound. For an unusual blend of yesterday and today, we thought we'd include two great standards on one great arrangement, Hold Me/Oh, How I Miss You Tonight. And there you have it... the newest album by the Sammy Kaye Orchestra. Before I sign off, I have to give credit where it's deservingly due, so here's a tip of the Kaye clarinet to Dave Mullaney, whose imaginative, inventive, contemporary arrangements made this album a rewarding experience for all of us. I look forward to doing more of the same on future albums and I hope our fans, both new and old, enjoy hearing un "do our thing" with today's kind of music. – My best to you always, Sammy Kaye

From Billboard - February 28, 1970: Dance bands have come and gone, but Sammy Kaye is still around, and sounding better than ever. He's right in today's groove with his topnotch arrangements of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," "Early In The Morning and a medley that blends the oldies "Hold Me" and "Oh How I Miss You Tonight." For listening or dancing, this album will prove a must item for his many fans.

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
She Lets Her Hair Down
Something
Juanita Love Theme
That Old Fun City
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Early In The Morning
Come Saturday Morning
Hold Me/On, How I Miss You Tonight
Backfield In Motion
I Want You

Dream Dust - Gordon Jenkins

Never Let Me Go

Dream Dust
Gordon Jenkins and His Chorus
Capitol Records T1032
1958

From Billboard - June 16, 1958: Here's an album of smooth, listenable mood music by the Gordon Jenkins ork and chorus. The voices with fem choristers predominant are lush. The arrangements feature alto flute, the Jenkins piano and conga and bongo drums. Tunes include standards like "Yours," Time Was," plus the title tune, an original

Dream Dust
Yours
Never Let Me Go
Prenez Garde
The Lamp Is Low
Something To Dream About
Baubles, Bangles And Beads
I'll Remember April
Time Was
For Want Of A Star
Arrivederci Roma
Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo

Big Boss Mann - Herbie Mann

Senor Blues

The Big Boss Mann
Herbie Mann
Cover Design: Lloyd Ziff
Cover Photo: Pete Turner
Columbia CS 1068
1970

From the back cover: The flute is an instrument comparatively new to jazz. As recently as twenty years ago, it was hard to find anyone who could really play jazz flute. The situation is very different today. A studio sax man is expected to double on flute, alto flute, perhaps bass flute, and sometimes piccolo, oboe and English horn.

One of the men who did most to popularize the use of the flute in jazz was Herbie Mann.

On the other hand, flute has long been a staple of what we generally classify as "Latin" music. In Cuba, where most of the "mother rhythms" as they are called, of Latin music were developed, the wooden flute has been in use since a time predating musicological curiosity about it. Its uses in folk music, of course, go back long before the discovery of Cuba. Next to the drum, the flute is perhaps our oldest instrument.

Herbie Mann has been on of the great experimenters in mixing Latin music with jazz. The word "Latin" must be used advisedly, so rich and varied are the rhythms we call Latin. African musicians claim they can identify tribal sources in the rhythms they hear in the different Latin American countries, and even the basic jazz rhythm.

Jazz musicians have long shown a fascination with Latin American rhythms. Traces of Latin influence can be heard in jazz as far back as 1912. But in the early 1950s, the cross-pollination began to accelerate. Stan Kenton experimented with it. So did Dizzy Gillespie, who added a Cuban drummer named Luciano Gonzales, but better known as Chano Pozo, to his big band. And the Cuban composer-arranger Chico O'Farrill became an important figure in the movement with his writing for various bands, including both Kenton's and Gillespie's.

Herbie Mann formed his first Latin-influenced group in 1959, and has been at it ever since. It has, in fact, become his primary groove, though of late he has been incorporating rhythm and blues influences into his work. Herbie was one of the first to be caught by the subtle fascination of the modern Brazilian samba, and he went so far as to hie himself to Brazil to record at one point.

This album covers a board range of Herbie's Latin interests, and at the same time it shows how other American musicians have been influenced by it. All but two of the melodies were written by norte americano – Ave Maria Morena is a well known Cuban song, and Easy Morales wrote Jungle Fantasy. Manteca might be considered one-third Latin in origin: Chano Pozo wrote it in collaboration with Dizzy Gillespie and Gil Fuller. But Jive Samba is by Nat Adderley, Watermelon Man by pianist Herbie Hancock, Señor Blues by pianist Horace Silver, What'd I Say by Ray Charles. Pete Rugolo write Interlude for the Stan Kenton band, and Ralph Burns wrote Bijou for the Woody Herman band. Let's Boom Chitty Boom is by Herbie Mann.

Herbie has always used excellent sidemen, and this is true in this album. The arrangements are by the gifted Oliver Nelson, now emerging as an important film composer. The Latin percussion section includes some of the best men in the field in New York City. The soloists include pianist Which Corea, vibraharpist Dave Pike, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath, and trumpeter Carmell Jones.

A few years ago, musicians talked of Afro-Cuban jazz. But with a Brazilian influence now added to it, perhaps it should simply be known as Latin Jazz. And this album explores many facets of this lush and propulsive kind of music. – Gene Lees, Contributing Editor, High Fidelity

From Billboard - September 5, 1970: Mann shows another side of his musical character with this album, focusing on improvisation with a Latin rhythm with tunes such as "Señor Blues," "The Jive Samba," and "Manteca," while stylizing such standards as "Watermelon Man," and "What'd I Say." With a Latin percussion section and such notable soloists as Chick Corea on piano and saxophonist Jimmy Heath, Mann has a sound that will create some nostalgia and many new friends.

Let's Boom Chitty Boom
What'd I Say
Senor Blues
Bijou
Jungle Fantasy
Watermelon Man
Interlude
The Jive Samba
Ave Maria Morena
Manteca

Jonah Jones At The Embers

Tin Roof Blues

Jonah Jones At The Embers

The Jonah Jones Quartet
RCA Victor LPM-2004
1959

Jonah Jones At The Embers

The Jonah Jones Quartet

Photo: Paul Schützer

Vik LX-1135

1957

Jonah Jones - Trumpet

George Rhodes - Piano

John Browne - Bass

Harold Austin - Drums

From the back cover: Jonah Jones and his trumpet have been a phenomenon on the New York music scene at the famed jazz emporium, The Embers, where he and his group have been featured for a record-breaking run. The group went into The Embers on an off-day engagement. They ended up playing nightly for fourteen weeks in a row, with return engagements scheduled for the next five years.

In several ways Jonah's career corresponds to others of our most seasoned jazz musicians. He first played horn when he was twelve, in the Louisville, Kentucky, Booker T. Washington Community Center Band. This band was composed of a large group of youngsters brought together by a local philanthropist in an effort to keep children off the streets.

Jonah wanted to play trombone because he had noticed that it always led the band at picnic outings or funeral processions. But he ended up with the alto horn – the only free instrument available – on which he performed for his first seasons. Later he graduated to trumpet. There were seventeen other trumpeters in the band, but in a short time he moved up to first trumpet and his career began in earnest.

Jonah's first professional assignment came in his early teens on a pleasure boat named the "Island Queen," which plied between Kentucky and Ohio. As trumpeter with the fifteen piece orchestra, Jonah played popular dance music. Once he had gained a firm musical foundation from this experience, he furthered his career as sideman with various bands, commencing with Horace Henderson, Fletcher's brother.

During the subsequent years Jones was featured on trumpet with Jimmie Lunceford, Lil Armstrong and McKinney's Cotton Pickers. In 1936, in Buffalo, he formed a six-piece group with Stuff Smith. This group was booked into the Onyx Club in New York for an eventful eight-month flurry into musical history, the highlight of which was Jones' collaboration both in composing and performing that bright novelty sensation of the Thirties, I'se A-Muggin'.

The list of bands to which Jonah's trumpet has contributed its sleek stylings includes such variegated groups as Ben Bernie's and Dick Stabile's. Later he graduated at the more rarefied atmosphere of Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter and the accompaniments to some of Billie Holiday's most famous early recordings.

Jonah was with Cab Calloway for eleven years and then was brought to Paris by Charles Delaunay, noted French jazz authority. He was an immediate sensation. While in France, he was featured at a jazz festival in the Salle Pleyel to tumultuous acclaim, made many records, played the Olympia Music Hall, and appeared on innumerable broadcasts as well as in film.

One of Jonah's many musical attributes has been his versatility. This was evidenced upon his return from Paris, when he performed awhile with Park Avenue maestros Lester Lanin and Meyer Davis at society "gigs" – to use Jonah's own terminology.

Also at this time, through Cab Calloway's influence, Jonah began an engagement with the musical production of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," in which Calloway was portraying the role of Sportin' Life. Jones both performed in the pit under the direction of Alexander Smallens and appeared briefly in a musical sequence on stage.

All this diversified experience, which has ranged from New Orleans jazz to its 52nd Street counterpart in the Thirties, through solid commercial dance stints to the ersatz society variety, has tempered Jonah's style to the razor-fine, "middle-ground" type of technique and tone which electrified the audiences at The Embers.

In addition to Jones himself, the soft-swinging Jonah Jones Quartet consists of George Rhodes, piano; John Browne, bass; and Harold Austin, drums.

Jonah prefers performing with a small group to anything he has ever done. It gives him a chance to swing, to play the subtle, sophisticated medleys and rousing jump style tunes in the way that he likes best. After more than two decades of seasoning, Jonah's diversified background now has crystallized into the finely mellow and subtly shaded musical expression contained in this album, Jonah Jones At The Embers – Bob Kemper

From Billboard - April 6, 1959: Jonah Jones' trumpet traces elaborate figures around such standard melodies as "Lullaby Of Birdland," "High Society" and "All Of You," to name a few. Quartet is bright and bouncy and highly inventive thruout. Jones adds new fans every day and this disk, cut when he started at the Embers in 1956 will enhance his reputation. For all lovers of small combo jazz.

It's All Right With Me
From This Moment On
Learnin' The Blues
Something's Gotta Give
All Of You
Lullaby Of Birdland
Basin Street Blues
High Society
Tin Roof Blues
Muskrat Ramble
At Sundown

Lov And All That Jazz - Eric Kloss

Just For Fun-K

Love And All That Jazz
Eric Kloss
With Don Patterson & Groove Holmes
Produced by Cal Lampley
Notes: Richard Steele (May 1966)
Recording: Rudy Van Gelder
Prestige Records PR 7469
Design & Photo: Don Schlitten

From the back cover: Love And All That Jazz marks the second appearance of Eric Kloss on the Prestige label, and it is probably that the new album will be fully as successful as the earlier one (Introducing Eric Kloss. Prestige 7442). The young saxophonist again displays a frequently dazzling technique, a marked degree of musical inventiveness, and an astonishingly mature sense of structural discipline.

Eric is backed by the organ trios of Don Patterson and Richard "Groove" Holmes. Both combos, functioning with swinging precision, provide Kloss with bedrock support which is always invigorating, and frequently exciting.

Patterson, one of the best of the younger jazz organists, employs a modern concept which loses nothing of the essential funkiness and drive which characterizes the jazz organ today. His drummer is Billy James, a sensitive and discreetly enthusiastic percussionist who always seems to contribute substantially to any musical effort in which he is involved. Vinnie Corrao is the guitarist. He is fleet without being facile, and he moves easily and effectively throughout the session.

Richard "Groove" Holmes is a powerful swinger whose propulsive effect upon a soloist can and does produce a singularly satisfying results. With him on the drums is Grady Tate, who consistently lays down a rhythm which is reassuring in its unobtrusive potency. The guitarist is Gene Edwards, a blues-saturated stalwart who may always be counted upon for stimulating moments during any set.

The music on the album represents a variety of moods, tempos, and textures. Cole Porter's You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To, taken at a mild uptempo, swings along buoyantly, retaining the lyrical quality with no trace of harshness or undue intensity. It is faintly tinctured with the blues nuances which appear again and again in so much of Eric's playing. Billy James drumming is outstanding on this track.

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home
Just For Fun-K
The Shadow Of Your Smile
No Blues
Love For Sale
I'm Glad There Is You
Gemini

Superman Book And Record Set

The Best Cop In The World

Superman
Book And Record Set
Power Records BR 514
Peter Pan Industries - Newark, N. J.
1976

Mannix - Lalo Schifrin

Mannix
Arranged & Conducted by Lalo Schifrin
Themes From The Original Score Of The Paramount Television Show
Producer: Tom Mack
Engineer: John Neal
Paramount Records PAS-5004
1969

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover and jacket notes excerpt.

From the back cover: I go through phases of hating television. However, watching the three record sessions which produced this album just brought me out of such a phase, for I realized that television, that vast and wonderful wasteland, is producing almost as much first-rate music these days as are motion pictures. Most of our finest composing talent functions in one or both fields.

Among the leaders is Argentine-born Lalo Schifrin (everyone pronounces it Schif-rin except Lalo, who says Schif-reen), a man of charming disposition, enormous talent and startling creative energies. Along with his TV music, Schifrin is also an active film score composer. His score for "Cool Hand Luke (Dot DLP 25833), the South American whirlwind not only wrote and arranged, but played the piano as well. Yes, but what has he done lately? It depends on which day you mean.

It was a sunny day when Schifrin met and hit it off with another young and hyper-active talent, TV producer Bruce Geller. Together they created the winning formula of Mission: Impossible from which came Schifin's now-famous 5/4 Mission theme, plus two successful albums, Mission: Impossible (Dot DLP 25831) and More Mission: Impossible (PAS 5002), Geller and Schifrin's most recent TV project is Mannix, from which this remarkable album comes, and once again the composer displays his penchant for making unlikely musical ideas work. Who else would have thought of using a waltz as a theme for a private detective? Anyone can tell you it doesn't make sense – until you watch the credits at the beginning of the show and find yourself caught up.

A curious and heartening thing occurs when two media are meshed with intelligence and skill; each stands as an entity. That's how it is with this album. I don't think anyone, even Lalo, knew how good it was until the end of the third date. While Schifrin is flatly the captain of this ship, he is surrounded by extraordinary able hands. Thus are all good albums made. Foremost is producer Tom Mack, himself a former arranger, a quiet man with a talent for seducing the best work out of people by putting them at their ease. And a word must be said about the musicians. Schifrin's arrangements are not easy; only the best players are used for his dates. Such is their ability that, even while running down a tune, there is little "rehearsing" involved. There is only the matter of reed players getting the feel of their parts in relation to brass, piano feeling what bass and drums are going to do, 35 or so individuals making the agile transition into a whole. Execution is all but instantaneous. Often the second or third run-through is a finished take. These are a special breed of people. At the end of a successful take, the feeling in the studio is one of mild elation, mutual pride. At the end of the album, the only word for the feeling is love. – Morgan Ames

Mannix
The Edge Of Night
The Girl Who Came In With The Tide
Beyond The Shadow Of Today
The Shadow
Turn Every Stone
Hunt Down
Warning: Live Blueberries
Fear
The End Of The Rainbow
End Game

Here's Jimmy Wakely

Dusty Skies

Here's Jimmy Wakely
Vocalion - A Product of Decca Records
A Division of MCA, Inc., New York, N.Y.
VL 73857
1968

The Life Of The Party - Jimmy Wakely
You Can't Break The Chains Of Love - With Trio (Jimmy Wakely, F.j. Tableporter, L. Porter)
Dusty Skies - Cindy Walker
My Mother's Eyes - L Wolfe Gilbert, Abel Baer
My And My Shadow - Al Jolson, Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose
When I Lost You - Irving Berlin
The Keeper Of The Key - With Chorus (Harlan Howard, Kenny Devine, Lance Guynes, Beverly) Stewart
Sleep Kentucky Babe - With Trio (Traditional)
Out In The Cold Again - With Trio (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom)
As Time Goes By - Herman Hupfeld

Light Cavalry Overture - Berlin Symphony Orchestra

Song Of India

Light Cavalry Overture
Berlin Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Alfred Van Weth
Rondo Record Company ST 571

Dance Of The Polevetski Maidens
Night On Bald Mountain
Song Of India
Hungarian Dance #5

Nutcracker Suite - The Viennese Symphonic Orchestra

Nutcracker Suite Op. 71

Tschaikowsky
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71
1812 Overture Op. 49
The Viennese Symphonic Orchestra
Kurt Woess, Conductor
Recorded in Europe
Masterseal Records MSLP-5004
1957

Off Shore - Santo & Johnny

The Wandering Sea

Off Shore
Santo & Johnny
Orchestra and Chorus Conducted by Mort Garson
Produced by Bernie Lawrence
Recorded at Regent Sound Studios
Recording Engineer: Bob Liftin
Album Coordination: Beverly Weinstein
Cover Photo: Jack Zehrt from Shostal
Canadian American Records LTD., New York, N. Y.
SCALP 1011
1963

From the back cover: This entire album was recorded on the new experimental tape (Number LR 1278) – Working Number 201.), manufactured by the 3M Company. The inherent noise on this tape is 6 d.b. lower than any tape previously used. This insures top quality performance without annoying tape hiss.

From Billboard - August 3, 1963: This is one of the best Santo and Johnny albums in some time and it has a chance to turn into a strong seller. It features the duo in warm and tender arrangements of songs of the sea, aided by smooth arrangements, spotlighting a big band under the baton of Mort Garson. Best tracks include the title song, plus "Stranger On The Shore," "Red Sails In The Sunset" and "Beyond The Sea."

Off Shore
Stranger On The Shore
Ebb Tide
Lido Beach
The Enchanted Sea
How Deep Is The Ocean
Beyond The Sea
Red Sails In The Sunset
Midnight Beach Party
Love Letters In The Sand
The Wandering Sea
Beyond The Reef