Tokyo Night Club   Armando Federico “in His Japanese Mood”     Victor Japan.

(44 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)

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Los Impala.   Musart.

(21 votes, average: 3.76 out of 5)

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Johnny Otis’ DIG Records Jazz Series presents Modern Afro-American Jazz featuring many of the stars of the West Coast jazz scene Budy Collette, Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Hall, Curtis Counce, John Anderson and Gerald Wiggins. “Tanganyika” Produced by Sleepy Stein!   (1956)

A real lost slice of work from the career of Chico Hamilton — recorded for the short-lived Dig label, owned by R&B artist Johnny Otis in the mid 50s! The group here is slightly different than Hamilton’s quintet that recorded for Pacific Jazz — in that it’s got a sound that’s a bit less arranged, and which often opens up into some more freewheeling jazz styles at times. Buddy Collette and Jim Hall are on the session from Chico’s regular group — and Buddy’s really the co-leader of the set, and contributed some fantastic original tunes that are perfect for his colorful work on reeds. And the group’s also got Curtis Counce on bass and Gerald Wiggins on piano — bringing a decidedly heavier groove to the record than on most 50s Hamilton work — one that’s topped off by the trumpet of John Anderson, often muted but still powerful enough to make its presence known on the set. Titles include the Collette originals “It’s You”, “Green Dream”, “Jungle Pogo Stick”, “Tanganyika”, and “A Walk On The Veldt” — plus other session originals “And So Is Love”, “Wagnervous”, and “The Blindfold Test”.   – Dusty Groove

(15 votes, average: 3.73 out of 5)

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Here’s a great jazz album! “One Foot in the Gutter” by The Dave Bailey Sextet on (Columbia) Epic Records. The lineup here is amazing with Clark Terry on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Horace Parlan on piano, and Peck Morrison on bass. The songs are: One Foot In The Gutter; Well You Needn’t; and Sandu. Blue Note, Riverside and Prestige weren’t the only labels putting out driving, hard bop jazz classics in the early sixties.   In addition to this try Bailey’s “Two Feet and the Gutter” and “Gettin into Something” also on Epic.

(16 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)

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Super-saturated colors on this one. I like the little record player and who doesn’t remember those metal records holders? She’s nice too.

(16 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

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“Music for Morticians” “Les Pallbearer and His All-Ghoul Orchestra” This has to be one of my rarest records. I believe it was made as a goof by guys working in the design department at Capitol records Who knows how many were made.   It’s dated on the label 1951.   I’m assuming it’s them in the cover photo. I wonder who they got to be the corpse?! I’d love to hear from anyone who might know anything about it, though I imagine that’s unlikely. Still, a great cover and right in the spirit of our obsession.

(65 votes, average: 4.26 out of 5)

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“Tina”   “Her Portrait in Hi-Fi”   Tina Louise sings.   (1957)   Louise made four record albums, this one and “It’s Time for Tina” on Concert Hall, and two others on the Urania label in 1958 and 1959.   Before being forever remembered as Ginger on the TV Land staple, “Gilligan’s Island”, Tina Louise was in films like “God’s Little Acre,” on Broadway in the musical “Lil’ Abner (with Batman’s future “Catwoman” Julie Newmar) and one of the favorite pin-up girls and models of the fifties, appearing in Playboy and many other men’s magazines of the time.   Her last notable film role was in 1975’s “Stepford Wives”.

(38 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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