> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gokhan Karakus [SMTP:gokhan@superonline.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 10:16 AM
> To: 'acid-jazz@UCSD.Edu'
> Subject: Talkin' Jazz Series from Talkin' Loud
>
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> For the last week I've been listening to vol. 3 of the Talkin Jazz
> series compiled by Gilles Peterson and Rainer Trudy. Most of the
> material is from the late 60s. It starts out in a ethnic direction --
> Indian, Latin -- and then moves to a jazzy big band sound from what
> looks like predominantly German groups. Does anyone else have other
> editions of Talkin' Jazz that they would recommend?
>
> Vol. 3 is a real gem with nuggets like Ella Fitzgerald's big band
> version of Sunshine of Your Love, Jazz Meets India's spaced out Yaad,
> and a cool xylophonic number by the Roland Kovac Orchestra, Blue
> Dance.
>
> As a comparison I have also been listening to the IRMA compilations of
> Italian Easy Listening music from the same period, late 60s, early
> 70s.
> I have the MIRAGEMAN and CORDARA ORCHESTRA compilations. Although the
> band and the musicians are top notch, their sound is clean and
> exciting,
> the songs themselves are weak suffering from overly simple
> arrangements
> more akin to pop tunes.
>
> Gokhan