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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:38:05 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) organ records
G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk wrote:
> I did think about getting on board this train for a while, and for about 6
months bought every organ record I saw.
Its too much, and there is so much crap, I think possibly more than any
other. But it is well sub-genred.
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You left off Organ & Chimes lps. These exist at the intersection of organ/percussion/hifi/holiday (most of them feature xmas carols).
I collected a large handful of these back a few years ago. They were all beat to s!@# implying they were listened to often on not quite perfect systems. Anyone know anything about this sub-genre? Are there stars of Organ&Chimes? Did all the lps come out in a narrow time span. What triggered the fad, if fad it was, and what killed it off?
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:42:13 -0000
From: "james brouwer" <jamesbrouwer@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) organ LP finds.....
Dan wrote:
>The organ certainly has a lot of potential for weirdness, though I've never
>ventured down the perilous road of organ records beyond one or two Earl
>Grant and Jackie Davis LP's. But have oft wondered whether there are some
>slept-on organ records that I shouldn't be passing up at the thrifts. Any
>recommendations? Clayton (if you are a Lenny Dee fan)? Anyone?
I've mentioned this disc before, but it can't hurt again. "The Amzing Sounds
of Eddie Baxter" on DOT records has a few choice cuts on it. His 'Quiet
Village' is one of my all-time faves (he makes these screeching bird sounds
with the ole Lowery!). I have two other Eddie Baxter records but they're
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:58:36 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <hagar@mindspring.net>
Subject: Re: (exotica) soft pop/rock query
The New Colony Six are generally very sugary without spice. Sweety
>almost bubblegummy but they do a few killer melodies. I have heard
>this whole album but I would buy it if I saw it.
The New Colony Six to know is "At the River's Edge" on Sundazed. This has
all of their Sentar sides and little of the Mercury stuff and they do
indeed get sugary at times. The title cut however is a real stomping good
time, though. I have footage of them performing on "Mulqueen's
Kiddie-Au-Go-Go" which is a delight, not only the music but for the
wonderfully arrhythmic kiddies.
Your pun inserted here,
Brian Phillips
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:11:46 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Isaac "Ike" Cole
Isaac Cole
SUN LAKES, Ariz. (AP) -- Jazz pianist-composer Isaac Cole, brother of the late singer Nat King Cole who worked on his niece Natalie's multiple Grammy-winning 1991 album, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73.
Ike Cole said he may have benefited from being compared with his more famous brother, who died in 1965 of lung cancer at 45, but that he disliked being accused of ``trying to live off the name.''
Ike Cole said he decided against changing his name because, shortly before dying, Nat asked him not to.
He and brother Freddy toured in 1990 with a show saluting their famous brother.
Ike Cole had played a bass drum in an Army band but in 1957, he formed the Ike Cole Trio in Chicago, where he was born, and went on the road.
Winning major TV exposure, he soon was booked steadily for Las Vegas shows. His trio also regularly toured Japan, Australia and Europe as well as the United States.
Though he often sang a medley of his older brother's hits, Ike primarily was a jazzman.
He played keyboard when Natalie Cole recorded her late father's songs for a 1991 album that won three Grammys.
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:52:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: delicado@cheerful.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent buys/organ music
Re: Organ music, I would recommend Shirley Scott. She did some great albums on prestige, cadet and Impulse. Some of it could be described as more straight ahead jazz, but a lot of it is very much the type of stuff people on this would like (e.g. her killer version of Mancini's 'A shot in the dark'). The 'Shirley Scott - talkin verve' CD compilation seems quite good.
Re:
>...jonny's musical taste site...
>>I always miss audio examples on sites like this.
>>edward in amsterdam.
I'm happy to announce that there are now audio samples on the site. I added around 20 clips last night (mp3 format); look for the 'LISTEN' button in each individual song recommendation. I will be adding more over the next week.
