A Little Bit of Reeds from Rugolo

Tonight's interlude ain't Tiki, but it is pretty good jazz from L.A. Jazzman (and Mercury Recording Director when this LP was cut) Pete Rugolo. I found this sitting on top of a box of reel tapes buried (literally!) beneath about 500 pounds (literally!) of audio cables. So, since I didn't have anything really in line to encode (except for a Patti Page LP that had great backing instrumentals but her voice sounding like she was in a muffled closet... oh yea, THAT was on the Mercury label as well...), I did this one.

It's some very orchestral jazz, no brass, only reeds and saxes and flutes (and rhythm section), with the occasional solo by Andre Previn on piano and Barney Kessel on guitar. Bud Shank, Bob Cooper, Dave Pell, and Chuck Gentry have solos peppered (bad pun) throughout the tracks as well. It swings in places, it lounges in places, it even stretches the musical wings a bit (case in point: "Polytonal Blues").

Pressing quality is good, I only had to remove a few wompies in the celeste opening of the first track and do the usual noise reduction pass on the rest. Godess be praised for CoolEdit :) The result is another 320/44 Fraunhoffer rip in rar format for your enjoyment.

The kids are still on the Great Opus of the Kitty from Hell vs. the Beanie-Baby Armada, so no scans until I forcibly remove the digital camera from their grasps. Or give them another bag of Mexican candy (which may have started this cinematographical binge in the first place!)....

Reedy Rugolo!