Post #53372 by donhonyc on Wed, Oct 1, 2003 3:14 PM

I hear you Jab.

Shearing's stuff is just a couple notches away from being complete overblown cheeze. As soon as the Vibe sounds kicked in, I knew I was in safe territory. The cover art is very cool though, and with alot of these old LPs that's a big selling point. In fact, my girlfriend, as cool as she is, picked up a Jackie Gleason album with cover art by Salvador Dali. Another near mint condition LP for a dollar. Maybe you've seen this one. It's cool enough that the cover is designed by Dali, but what's even cooler, or perhaps bizarre is the photo on the back of the jacket with Gleason & Dali shaking hands!! Wow, wish I was there having Martinis when that meeting was taking place. The "great one" and, uh...the "strange one". But yeah, Gleason's music is on par with Shearing. I'll give it a thumbs up on the cool, cheeze scale. But on the interesting, f*ck with my head music rating, I'd have to put on some Denny or Yma Sumac.

By the way I saw this Andre' Previn LP today (also in the dollar bin) with an interesting cover. I think it was called 'Like Blue'. My first thought was that maybe this is there answer to Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue'. But then I thought, 'wasn't Andre Previn married to Mia Farrow?'. So somehow this dismantled any coolness that could be attached to this album. Anybody know this title?

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2003-10-01 15:20 ]