Peter Appleyard - Percussive Jazz (1960)

"In a recording with so many varied percussive sounds, there is a violent interaction between the stylus and the abruptly changing route taken by the walls of the record grooves..."  Well, that's what it says on the back of the sleeve anyway.  I'll leave you to judge whether this record is a little too dangerous to listen to.

You have been warned!

EDIT:  Files now fixed and in true stereo.

Ralph Ferraro - Let's Dance To The Movies (1965)

I've only had this album for a week and it's already become a firm favourite, particularly the first track,  L'Onuri Di Ascaluni.   Big thanks for David.

I've had a numberof requests to fix broken links.  I'll get onto that as soon as I can.

Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini - Satanik (1966)

Again, more apologies for the lack of posts.  This is another excellent soundtrack from Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini.  Had a  lot of positive comments about Kriminal so hopefully you'll enjoy this one just as much.  Once again it's recorded from a picture disc so the quality isn't as good as it could be, but it's worth it.  

Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini ‎- Kriminal Soundtrack (1966)

Well after another hiatus I'm back with this thrilling soundtrack from Roberto Pregadio and Romano Mussolini and the 1966 film, Kriminal.  This wasn't available at the time and was recently released on vinyl and CD (which has more tracks).  This is the vinyl version, of course, but is pressed as a picture disc so the quality isn't as good, but is still a treat.

Here's Sequence One.

I'll post another of their soundtracks soon.

Gianni Ferrio & Gino Marinacci - Lady Bossa Nova In Italy (1963)

Great Italian album from 1963.  Mainly instrumental but there are a few vocal tracks featuring Marina Moran.

Lady Bossa Nova In Italy

Piero Umiliani - Una Bella Grinta (1965)

Superb jazz-lounge soundtrack from Piero Umiliani.

Una Bella Grinta

Happy New Year!

Christmas With Mantovani

This'll be the last one from me before Christmas, so I hope you and yours have a good one.

Rene Armand - Cocktail Piano (1970)

Great little album this.  The tracks run in to each other so I've just recorded it as two tracks; side one and side two.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1978)

I've wanted to post this for a while (a good couple of years) but I've been searching for another copy as this one, unfortunately, is a little sad.  I bought it at the time and for some reason didn't look after it as much as I should.  I've given up getting a better copy, so I thought I'd post as is, so apologies for the surface noise, etc.

Side one is standard fare, nice enough.  Side two is unusual though as they are self-penned tracks from the producer and others and are pretty cool (if dated) ambient sounding affairs.

EDIT:  Thanks to Brian for cleaning my original files.  There are now new links to the cleaned version and I recommend you grabbing those.

Christmas With Ronnie Aldrich (1964)

Had a couple of requests for this although the original link still seems OK.  Bit scratchy.

Dave Pike - Jazz For The Jet Set (1966)

Apologies once again for the lack of posts.  Sometimes life gets in the way of the fun stuff.

I'll catch up on the repost requests when I get chance.

Bobby Hackett - Plays Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits (1966)

Harry Stoneham Sextet - In The Still Of The Night (1977)

Johnny Harris - All To Bring You Morning (1973)

I recently dug my vinyl copy out, but unfortunately it was too warped to record.  I don't normally post CDs but I didn't have much choice as I've wanted to post this for a while.

It's a brilliant album from Johnny Harris and a classic along side his 1970 album, Movements.  This album features members of Yes and Chris Spedding too; a real session musicians who's who.

Sadly, now out of print on CD, so if you ever see a copy I would buy it.

Quincy Jones - Plays Hip Hits (1963)

Wonderful album.  Perfect for my Saturday night.
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Erroll Garner - A New Kind Of Love (1963)

Beautiful record.  Here's the title track.

Brasilia Nueve - How Insensitive (1967)

One of my absolute favourite albums and a truly remarkable lineup of New York's finest including Bill Potts and Zoot Sims.  Mine is a mono copy and I've been looking for a stereo copy for years, so if you have one, let me know.

Here's a Bill Potts' original, Brasilville.

Franck Pourcel - Americano Latino (1965)

Apologies for the lack of posts, been away.  Had a lovely time but disappointingly didn't get any records, which is unusual.

Nevermind.  This will get me back in the swing of things.  A lovely early S2S record which they tried to make all exotic for the mid-60s record buying public by adding the letter "O" to the end of every word.

Paul Mauriat - Latin Nights (1968)

Contains a great version of Perfidia.

Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Magic Fountains (1968)

Nice LP from Geoff Love's alter ego.  Here's the title track.

Henry Mancini - The Best Of Henry Mancini (1964)

A classic to end the weekend.  Lujon.

In glorious mono.

Pepe Jaramillo - Tequila Cocktail (1971)

Apologies in advance as this is a little crackly in places, but it's worth it.

Tequila Cocktail

The Hollyridge Strings - The Beatles Songbook (1966)

Dimitri Tiomkin - Wild Is The Wind (1957)

Great Western Film Themes Collection

Excellent collection of western themes.  The majority of tracks on this double LP are from the original soundtracks, but there are a few re-recordings most notably the Leroy Holmes Morricone recordings.

Jerry Goldsmith - The Hour Of The Gun