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Jan 24, 2021 - 10:06 AM
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OnyaBirri
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As I wrote in Mr. Phelps' Jackie Gleason thread: When I was picking up EZ listening LPs in the 1990s for 50 cents a throw, I gravitated toward the wildest, zu-zu-zu, Pow! Pow! space-age big band kind of stuff, with bongos, vibes, Avino Rey slide guitar, and the like. And I passed up a lot of things that, at the time, I considered sleepy or schmaltzy.
While I would always grab Michel Legrand albums, in particular things on the Philips label, I somehow got the idea that Legrand's 1950s Columbia mood music albums fell into the sleepy/schmaltzy category. Boy, was I wrong.
I later picked up Legrand's double-LP of Cole Porter, and parts of it are almost like proto-Esquivel.
Similarly, I am now listening to Legrand's "Rio" album. Lots of wild percussion on this one, and even the more sedate passages feature complex and inventive ensemble writing. "Baia" almost sounds like Les Baxter in parts!
Even the "I Love Paris" album, which I guess may veer a little bit into sleepy/schmlatzy territory, is really fantastic.
If you still have a turntable, these albums can all be had for short dough.
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Why do you need a turntable? I believe I have all his Columbia albums on CD. And where, pray tell, might this Jackie Gleason thread be.
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Why do you need a turntable? I believe I have all his Columbia albums on CD.
Yeah, but for 50 cents a throw? These are thrift store albums!
And where, pray tell, might this Jackie Gleason thread be.
It's on the non-film-score side, titled "Gleasonian Orchestral Melancholia." Jim Phelps and I are the main participants, meaning that you will probably hate the thread. 
You and your label are even mentioned over the course of the discussion (in glowing terms)!
I'll go check it out.
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