Cook Laboratories: The Compleat In Fidelytie

This 1956 hi-fi test record / sound effects LP is going to be irrelevant to nearly 100% of the world's population. I'll admit it - I bought it for the cover.

Large Sounds: Jets, Steam Trains
Medium-Sized Little Sounds: Baby, Phone
Old Cylinder Recordings: Thunderer March, He Goes To Church On Sunday
Sounds You Never Expected To Meet: Mexican Firecrackers, 1893 Pump, 10,000 Hens, Early American Violinist
Technical Section: Wide-Range Distortion (Organ, Fly)
Wind in the house, wind in the trees

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The New York Woodwind Quintet Plays Alec Wilder Woodwind Quintets Nos. 3, 4, and 6

Once more the New York Woodwind Quintet take on Alec Wilder, this time his Quintets No. 3, No. 4, and No. 6.

Quintet No. 3: Allegro Fugato
Quintet No. 3: In Choral Style
Quintet No. 3: Allegro Scherzando
Quintet No. 3: Andante - Allegro
Quintet No. 4: Andante Cantabile
Quintet No. 4: Allegro Energetico
Quintet No. 4: Allegro
Quintet No. 4: Slowly, with warmth and intensity
Quintet No. 6: Allegro
Quintet No. 6: Andante

Quintet No. 6: March
Quintet No. 6: Allegro Giocoso

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The New York Woodwind Quintet Plays the Music of Alec Wilder

More goodness from Alec Wilder, as performed by the New York Woodwind Quintet. The last three tracks are cover arrangements by Wilder of various standards.

Quintet No. 2 for Woodwinds: Allegro
Quintet No. 2 for Woodwinds: Andante e Rubato
Quintet No. 2 for Woodwinds: Presto
Quintet No. 2 for Woodwinds: Allegro
Suite for Woodwinds: Scherzo for Flute
Suite for Woodwinds: Andante for Oboe
Suite for Woodwinds: Air for Clarinet
Suite for Woodwinds: Blues for Horn
Suite for Woodwinds: Buffoonery for Bassoon
Dinah
Pavan
Chorale Prelude - Jesu, Joy and Treasure

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Mundell Lowe and his Orchestra: New Music of Alec Wilder

File under “Pop”, because there’s no “Polymath” aisle at Amoeba. Alec Wilder was seldom appreciated in his lifetime, but the names of those who did, from Frank Sinatra to Spike Milligan to Peggy Lee, indicates something of the eccentric grace and wit in this American composer’s songbook. Wilder first hit the public consciousness in 1939 thanks to Mitch Miller’s productions of his Octets, which immediately established Wilder as the best namer of pop tunes since Raymond Scott with titles like “Neurotic Goldfish”, “Jack, This is My Husband” and “It’s Silk, Feel It!” New Music of Alec Wilder was commissioned by guitarist/arranger Wendell Lowe for his Tentet, and picked up for distribution by Riverside Records, the late-fifties home of Thelonius Monk and Bill Evans.

Suggestion for Bored Dancers
She Never Wore Makeup
What Happened Last Night?
Walk Softly
Let's Get Together and Cry
Mama Never Dug This Scene
Pop, What's a Passacaglia?
No Plans
The Endless Quest
Around the World in 2:34
An Unrelenting Memory
Tacet for Neurotics

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