“Une Soiree Au Carroll’s” From the late fifties. This looks a lot like a film noir movie poster.

(20 votes, average: 4.30 out of 5)

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Billy Taylor at the London House ABC-Paramount. (1956)   With Earl May on Bass and Percy Brice on Drums.   This was one of those albums that was in my house growing up and that turned me on to jazz as a teenager.   I met Billy Taylor once I moved to New York.   He started a New York City non-profit organization called Jazzmobile that for 40+ years has brought jazz musicians to neighborhoods around the city for free concerts on the back of a flatbed truck.   I spent many a Wednesday night in the late 80’s at Grant’s Tomb on 125th and Riverside Drive listening to Billy, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Horace Silver and other legends swinging hard and easy under summer skies.

(20 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5)

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Serge Gainsbourg “Percussions” A French Philips picture sleeve from 1964. These cuts and the album “Percussions” overall feature Afro-Caribbean rhythms, a female choir, and lots of percussion. “Couleur Cafe” is a great song with Serge in a delivery so expressive you can hear the smirk on his face. “New York – U.S.A.” basically amounts to a cataloguing of buildings that Serge saw on a trip to New York.

(18 votes, average: 2.72 out of 5)

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“Natal Alegre”   Lira do Mestre Lila   Musidisc Records

(34 votes, average: 4.03 out of 5)

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Pepe Lopez Y Su Mariachi ’70 on Pops Records

(29 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)

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Costinha   “O Peru da Festa”   Cid Records.   How to carve a turkey.

(26 votes, average: 3.27 out of 5)

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This is the weirdest K-Tel record I’ve ever seen!

(24 votes, average: 2.79 out of 5)

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Nigerian “Afrobeat” music legend Fela Ransome Kuti and the Africa ’70 “Shakara” Editions Makossa EMI.

(47 votes, average: 3.36 out of 5)

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Vincent Price Presents Great Paintings in Musical Impressions by Ned Freeman and Performed by the Orchestra dei Concerti di Roma, Paul Baron Conducting. Dot Records.

In 1951, Price donated some 90 pieces from his own collection to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, thus establishing the first “teaching art collection” owned by a community college in the U.S. Today, the Vincent Price Art Gallery continues to present world-class exhibitions, and remains one of the actor’s most enduring legacies. The collection contains over 2,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of five million dollars. – Wikipedia

(31 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5)

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A nice French ep by The Miracles and The Contours two early Motown hitmakers.   Jerk it like you feel it.

(24 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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