Funny, I share the same feeling about Gary McFarland music vs singing/humming. Thanks for sharing your jazz experience about all these albums, you provide one of the most valuable knowledge about jazz. I’m interested in the TBM package you’re getting, like you, I collect their releases and the ones made by Impex.
I personally have a soft spot for those “do da da” samba-ish records from McFarland. But if we’re talking real quality you can’t forget about The October Suite with Steve Kuhn. A true gem!! Also his stuff with Gabor Szabo is great
McFarland, Dailey & Soul Call were new to me so thanks. The Quota has always been a favorite. Spanish Bitch is not on Amazon Unlimited, bummed. Always luved the syncopation of Just A Riff but wish the Jazz a la Bohemia recording quality was better, a missed opportunity, I wonder how an original LP vs my OJC CD compares? Cheers!
I’m interested to know more about your experiences as a DJ. I have an opportunity to spin some Jazz records once a month at a local coffee shop but I’m reluctant to do so because I’d be using a single turntable. No mixing, blending, fading in and out etc. Not that I posses any of those skills, I’m just concerned that without anything to enhance the experience for the audience, I’m just a guy up there playing single tracks off of records. Anything you could share about your approach would be greatly appreciated.
I’ve only ever done a dual turntable setup with mixing board, but I’ve definitely never done any real mixing or blending or beat matching. The most I do is fade one up and one down to maintain the constant music. It may be that a coffee shop audience wouldn’t notice as much if it’s during the day and you had to switch records out. Otherwise, you’d be surprised how often the tracks I want to play are the first one on the side, which makes switching out that much faster since you don’t need to worry about dropping the needle too carefully to cue something up
