So, the WFMU fair in brief: I went for 3 hours on Friday night. Weird place to be at that time, after a long week at work. I felt pretty jaded, to be honest, and not really up for it. I had a much needed pizza break in the middle. In general, I guess my tastes have changed slightly. I found myself lamenting the paltry selection brazilian music there, and wishing the jazz could be neatly sorted by label like it can when you are searching on the internet…

Anyway, my purchases in full, in order of most memorable:
1. Don Sebesky – the jazz/rock syndrome. This is a really great LP -funky, slightly brassy late 60s instros. Apparently Sebesky made the LP after becoming bored with ornate jazz scoring, and becoming obsessed with the Mama’s and Papa’s. This was sealed and quite pricey, but worth it.

2. Kenyon Hopkins – Mr Buddwing. I scored a sealed copy of this great (1960?) soundtrack. It’s beautiful, understated cinematic crime jazz with a lot of vibes. Very cool, although slightly less my thing than it would have been 5 years ago.

3. Marty Gold – Classic bossa nova. How could I not buy this one! I love pop-classical records, whether they are classical interpretations of pop (e.g. ‘Bacharach Baroque’) or pop interpretation of classical (e.g. Caterina Valente singing ‘My Reverie’ on ‘Superfonics’, or Cy Coleman‘s ‘Ages of Rock’ album). This is the latter, a nice album of bossa nova takes on classical pieces. It’s pleasant, if not exactly earth shattering. I think this one was recorded in 1964, like many bossa nova cash-in records.

4. The Ray Bloch Singers – Hits of 67. I bought this after the group were recommended by musical taste user tinks. It’s a pretty wild, low budget affair. I like it though! Esther’s comment was that ‘these people don’t sing, they shout’!

5. Galt Macdermot – Disinhairited. I bought this because it was cheap and sealed. I was hoping it was going to be an instrumental offshoot of hair, like Galt Macdermot’s ‘Hair Pieces’, Mort Garson’s ‘Electronic Hair Pieces’ and countless other albums. Instead, it’s just more of what is on the Hair Original Cast Album. The vocals kind of bug me, I can’t help it! Esther is big on it though, so it’s not a complete waste of money.

6. Idris Mohammed – < can't remember the title >. This is a late 70s record; this guy looks cool as hell on the cover, and he did some drumming with Galt Macdermot in the 60s and 70s; it was cheap, so I thought what the hell. It really isn’t so hot though. There are some really cheesy-cool sounds which could be sampled, but overall the songs are long and a bit stupid. The guy who sold me this told me a tidbit about the woman he was married to. I forgot immediately though.

7. The Association/Charles Fox – Goodbye Columbus OST – I haven’t really listened to this yet; see below for a story about it.

8. Hmm, I must have bought something else. But I can’t remember. It really can’t have been very memorable!