Лембит Саарсалу & Леонид Винцкевич: Джаз вдвоем / Lembit Saarsalu & Leonid Vintskevich: Two Playing Jazz

Some fierce Estonian jazz from tenor saxophonist Lembit Saarsalu and pianist Leonid Vintskevich, whom I first saw rip off a chunk of spacetime at the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in 1989. This Russian LP on the Melodiya label has a big dynamic range, and unfortunately is a tad crackly in the quiet bits. According to the liner notes, it was recorded digitally in 1986, and Melodiya does offer a CD reissue of the duo’s 1991 LP Blues for the Night with bonus tracks; so just maybe out of the thousands of recordings by thousands of artists in their back catalogue, one day they may see fit to give this a proper digital reissue too.

I have cassette copies of Saarsalu and Vintskevich performing at clinics at the LHJF in 1992 and 1997, which I’ll digitize and post at a later date.

ВСЁ В ТЕБЕ (All of You) (Cole Porter)

ЭСТОНСКИЙ ДИАЛОГ (Estonia Dialogue) (Estonian folk melody, arr. Saarsalu)

ВЕЧЕРНЯЯ МУЗЫКА (Night Music) (Saarsalu)

ПОЛЫНЬ-ТРАВА (Sagebrush-Grass) (Vintskevich)

ПЕСНЯ ДЛЯ ИРМЕЛИ (Song for Irmeli) (Saarsalu)

Я ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ (I Love You) (Cole Porter)

Album audio & artwork, plus transcription & English translation of Russian text

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Various Artists: Rhino Royale

Body slam! Eight Rhino artists compete for groove space on this 1978 LP, only the second full-length ever to come out of Rhino Records.

Ruben Guevara “The Star-Spangled Banner”

Gefilte Joe and the Fish “Walk on the Kosher Side”

Snickers “Joe Louis School of Elocution”

Rockin’ Richie Ray “Baseball Card Lover”

Fred Blassie “Blassie, King of Men”

Snickers “A Cowboy Needs a Horse”

Richie Balance “Rock ‘n’ Roll Hell”

Temple City Kazoo Orchestra “Whole Lotta Love”

Wild Man Fischer “Go to Rhino Records”

Little Stevie Weingold “Be True to Your Shul”

Snickers “West Coast School for Famous Ballpark Vendors”

Fred Blassie “No Bout Adoubt It”

The Credibility Gap “Hello, World—This Here’s Wrong Number”

Snickers “Ace Guard Snail Co.”

The Winos “Nose Job”

Ruben Guevara “America the Beautiful”

Album audio & artwork

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Private Eye's Blue Record

A really scarce classic from 1965, featuring the voices of Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, William Rushton, Barry Humphries, John Glashan, John Wells, and Richard Ingrams. The deathless classics here include “Le Pizz Off Song”, “Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea” and “Stick a Finger Up Your Bum” (with the caveat that there are no track titles listed on the album itself; I copied them all from Discogs.com, and they all sound reasonable).

Frosty Winds May Blow

Lenny Drob

Chunder in the Old Pacific Sea

The Seductive Brethren

Le Pizz Off Song

Macmillan Sings

St. Francis of Assisi

I Wouldn’t Say No

John Osbum on Arthur Cock / Stick a Finger Up Your Bum

Spiggy Topes and the Turds

Listen with Mother

God Save the Queen

Album audio & artwork

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Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band (a.k.a. Andre Popp): Delirium in Hi-Fi

How many Marcel Duchamp does it take to screw in a light bulb? The exquisite corpse drinks the new wine as conductor/arranger Andre Popp and sound effects wizard Pierre Fatosme cook up some of the most outrageously surreal pop arrangements ever to hit vinyl. This came out on CD several years ago, but meanwhile here’s the original LP artwork including cover art by William Steig.

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Ralph Platt & Lorin Whitney: The Birds Sing His Praise Vol. 2

Volume 2 of Messers Platt & Whitney doing Christian dirges to organ & bird-calling accompaniment. I threatened to post it and now I’m posting it. Lugubrious, somnolent, pathetic, bathetic, mood music for the loved one in your life whose metabolic processes have stopped. The perfect soundtrack, it turns out, for reading this article about the slow death of Radio Shack, which I know because I did so just now.

Hallelujah What a Savoir

In Times Like These

It Took a Miracle

In the Garden of My Heart

Just When I Need Him Most

The Cross Is Not Greater

How Can I Be Lonely?

My Jesus, I Love Thee

I Choose Jesus

Near to the Heart of God

More About Jesus

I Surrender All

Album audio & artwork

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Wilfred Numkena: The Boy from Hopi Land

Before he was director of the Utah Division of Indian Affairs, local boy Wilfred Numkena from the very local Hopi tribe rocked out. This 1965 LP on the Red Feather imprint from the DIY era of homespun Southwest rock-n-folk features Wilfred on guitar and vocals.

Lonesome Town
Over the Mountain
Blowing in the Wind
Bony  Maroni
Jamaica Farewell
Johnny Be Good
All My Trials
Memphis
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Wreck of the Captain John B.

Album audio & artwork

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National Lampoon: The Missing White House Tapes

A 1974 cut-and-paste classic in which the National Lampoon uses Nixon’s own words to give a giant middle finger and a hearty fuck-you-and-goodbye to Tricky Dick. If tonight is a day of the week ending in “Y”, it’s probably a good time to keep in mind that everything, EVERYTHING, ever said by anyone elected to higher office in our country is a lie; and this album is a great way to keep that concept fresh in your memory. Here’s a fun drinking game: listen to this LP, realize nothing’s changed, drink, repeat.

Checkers

Calendar

Oval Office

President’s Qualities

The New VP

Inspiration

Energy Crisis

Hearings

Send Money

Admission Speech

Wrap Up

Introduction and Impeachment Parade

Pennsylvania Avenue

News

Plumber Commercial

Impeachment Parade Continued

The Constitution Game

News

Senate Hearings

Impeachment Parade Continued

Tooth Commercial

Mission: Impeachable

News

The FBI

Impeachment, Swearing Out

The Gerry Ford Show

Album audio & artwork

DISCLAIMER: To the best of my knowledge, this work is out of print and not available for purchase in any format. If you are the artist and are planning a reissue, please let me know and I’ll remove it from the blog. Also please get in touch if you’ve lost your art &/or sound masters and would like to talk with me about my restoration work.