Tuesday, 22. January 2008, 01:20:16
Music, Vinyl, Now Sound, Easy
LoungeTracks Presents
The Brass Ring - Best Of The Brass Ring - 1969?
ABC - Dunhill Records # DS-50051
Produced & Arranged by Phil Bodner
Promotional Copy - Not For Sale
A LoungeTracks Vinyl Rip @ 320
LoungeTracks posted here not to long ago, 3 - Brass Ring albums. Unfortunately they were re-released in September 2007 and we had to take them down. LoungeTracks is never one to dissapoint and to appease the masses, clamoring for Brass Ring, has sent us one we know will not be re-released. A best of record featuring the best of the Brass Ring from that all to Groovy year 1969.The Summer of Love! Imagine all the hippies in the mud, at Woodstock, who could have been in the comfort of their own homes enjoying the easy sounds of Phil Bodner.
So those of you who have been hounding me to repost the original (not going to happen) here is the next best thing. Thanks LoungeTracks for this very clean vinyl rip. It's so clean it still has the plastic on it. That's clean. Get it now before they release this one too.
Side One
101 Love Theme From The Flight Of The Phoenix
102 Music To Watch Girls By
103 Lara's Theme
104 Sunny
105 I Will Wait For You (From 'The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg')
106 The Dis-Advantages Of You
Side Two
201 Samba de Orfeo (From 'Black Orpheus')
202 This Guy's In Love With You
203 Monday, Monday
204 Adoro (Don't Tempt Me)
205 Mrs. Robinson (From 'The Graduate')
206 The Look Of Love (From 'Casino Royale')
Best of Brass 
Friday, 20. April 2007, 16:30:00
Music, Vinyl, Now Sound
Warren Kime - Goin' Someplace!
Command Records
RS 935 SD
Stereo
1968
Having eked every last ounce of "oomph" out of this new sound, Becker and Byrne decided to give the listener both barrels of Brass Impact right in the face, leading off the first album with a supercharged "Mas Que Nada," with its signature "Pow! Pow! Pow!" No wonder the album's jacket proclaimed,
Hold onto your head! Hold onto your heart! And get a good grip on the ground! You are about to hear the most amazing musical sounds ever put on records! A new, unbelievable level of brilliance ... A fresh, startling concept of dynamics that produces musical coloration that is ... so subtle you'll never stop discovering new things to listen to in every piece ... and yet so blazingly electrifying that the impact can carry you to the very threshold of pain.
Ouch! Even for Command's typical hyperventilating prose, that's a little extreme. But at a time when many space age pop artists were losing steam, the Brass Impact came on like a bolt of lightning.
Unfortunately, not too many listeners wanted to travel "to the very threshold of pain," and the Brass Impact also disappeared about as fast as a bolt of lightning. Command, too, tossed in the towel not much later, MCA having sucked all the life out. Warren and Donna returned to Chicago, and apparently broke up some time later. Warren went back to work leading jazz and dance bands around Chicago, and left the "now sound" for the security of the "then" sounds of swing and Dixieland with groups like the New Chicago Rhythm Kings. Donna eventually drifted into the Midwest's small but dedicated new age music scene.
Kime revived the Brass Impact concept sometime in the early 1980s, releasing one difficult-to-find album on the Claremont label. Understandably, the ensemble was smaller, with a synthesizer attempting to fill in for a few of the original ace Command session men. He moved to Florida in the late 1990s, and continues to perform, leading a jazz quartet.
And for the moment, only those lucky enough to stumble across a Brass Impact album and give it a spin have the chance to experience some of the most exciting music of the space age pop era. The rest of you can stare at your CD players and keep your fingers crossed.
Source: Space Age Pop
And that my friends wraps up Brass Impact. You could say I am out of Kime! 
On to some Exotica!
Side A
01 - Song Of India
02 - Japanese Sandman
03 - Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
04 - Volare
05 - Goin' Someplace
Side B
06 - It's A Big Wide Wonderful World
07 - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
08 - On My Mind
09 - Tequila
10 - Let's Get Away From It All
11 - Cielito Lindo
No Password
Goin' Someplace
Thursday, 5. April 2007, 07:53:00
Now Sound, Vinyl, Music
Warren Kime - Brass Impact
Command Records
RS-910-SD
1967
Stereo
Warren Kime deserves top billing in the "now sound" hall of fame for his three remarkable Command albums featuring his Brass Impact band. With their bright yellow-brass covers, these records stand out from the crowd in the bins and on the turntable, and offer an intense, delicious blend of groovy tunes, splashy instrumental arrangements, and ecstatic vocal highlights (featuring Warren's wife Donna in the lead). If I were recording magnate for a day, these would be the first things I'd reissue. Run--don't walk--to your nearest thrift store and start hunting for them.
Kime was a big band vet. He played trumpet and even took the mike as a singer on occasion, and toured as a member of bands led by Ray Anthony, Ralph Marterie, and others, before settling in Chicago in the mid-1950s, where he worked as a staff musician for CBS.
Who really deserves the credit for the Brass Impact sound is hard to tell. I suspect the kudos should be shared among Kime, his wife, and Command's house arranger, Jack Andrews, for it's a sound dramatically different from any of Kime's other recordings. Before Brass Impact, Kime was a nameless anchorman of countless big band trumpet sections, working for Ray Anthony, Les Elgart, Ralph Marterie, Tex Beneke, Doc Severinsen, Skitch Henderson, and others. He played with Art Van Damme for several years and did some arranging for Van Damme's Septet of the late 1950s.
Source: Space Age Pop
More to come on Warren and the music he made!
Track List
Side A
01 - Mas Que Nada (Pow, Pow, Pow)
02 - Eleanor Rigby
03 - The Breeze And I
04 - One Note Samba
05 - Mr. Lucky
06 - Baubles, Bangles And Beads
Side B
07 - In The Still Of The Night
08 - Brasilia
09 - The Sweetest Sounds
10 - What Now My Love
11 - Prelude To A Kiss
12 - A Foggy Day
No Password
Brass Impact
Wednesday, 15. November 2006, 22:20:03
Music, Now Sound, Vinyl
Verve
V/V6-8573
1963
Winding moved to the United States with his family in 1934 and began working professionally with Shorty Allen's band in 1940. He played with Alvino Rey before joining the Coast Guard during World War II. After the war, he worked with Benny Goodman briefly before joining Stan Kenton's band and becoming a featured soloist. He left Kenton to work with small groups, including Miles Davis' ensemble on the influential Birth of the Cool session.
Winding is best remembered for two-trombone combo he led with J.J. Johnson from 1954 to 1956. Although the pair went their separate ways, they reunited often--at times anonymously--on numerous recordings by other artists and even released a reunion album for Impulse in 1964. Known as "K and JJ," their smooth blended sounds were as much imitated in the 1950s as Billy May's "slurping saxes."
Looking for more of a good thing, Winding then formed a four-trombone sextet which recorded on Impulse from 1956 to 1961. Winding then became the musical director for Hugh Hefner's chain of Playboy Clubs and was enticed by producer Creed Taylor to the Verve label. For the rest of the 1960s, Winding cranked out a steady flow of middle-of-the road popular jazz that latched onto every popular trend--bossa nova, countrypolitan, Beatles. Winding's cover of "More", featuring the spooky sounds of the ondioline, was a Top 10 single in 1963. Claus Ogerman provided most of the arrangements for Winding's Verve albums, which include some of the groovin'-est cuts of now sounds you could ever want to frug to.
Winding moved with Taylor to A&M briefly, then returned to more serious jazz work on a variety of labels in the 1970s. In the late 1970s, he joined forces with Curtis Fuller in the group "Giant Bones," which attempted to update the classic "K JJ" sound. Source:Space Age Pop
And this is the follow up album to the afore mentioned "More" album! Right here at Licorice Pizza 
Track List
Side One
01 Mondo Cane # 2
02 Simian Theme
03 Till
04 Python
05 The Moldau
06 Now And Forever
Side Two
07 Portrait Of My Love
08 Warm
09 The Gospel Truth
10 Theme From Nowhere
11 Blue Star
12 The Struggle
pw = atov
Mondo Cane
