Enoch Light - Volume 2: Provocative and similar items

Catalog Number: RS-810-SD Condition Details: Vinyl plays with occasional crackles (play-graded). Gate-fold cover has light scuffing and some discoloration with darker spots (front/back/inner-gate); name on back near top right corner. Inner-sleeve is generic white. Spine is mostly easy-to-read with mild wear. Little shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Hernando's Hideaway Speak To Me Of Love - Cha Cha Matilda Good Night Sweetheart - Cha Cha What Is This Thing Called Love Lady Is A Tramp Speak Low I've Got The Right To Sing The Blues Mack The Knife Temptation The Natives Are Restless Tonight Foggy Day Cha Cha About The Record: Pushing his own identity as the leader of ensembles such as the apparently well-illuminated Enoch Light the Light Brigade, the maestro carefully sketched out musical arrangements in which percussion instruments would be featured as an integrated, essential aspect of the music, not the sore thumb or acne illumination associated with the ping pong plank of the platform. The second volume of a series presented as Provocative Percussion really doesn't feature percussion any more heavily than a good big band, especially one steeped in Latin jazz. Compared to these standards, the opening snare drum solo played with brushes on Speak Low is superb, while a Hernando's Hideaway outing with castanets and cowbells sounds a bit like a big-band station broadcasting while the radio itself bounces around inside a metal shopping cart, but not enough like that to really provoke anyone. Light can be a heavyweight when it comes to big-band charts -- the only thing to perplex picky percussion people is how often other sections of the band are featured just as strongly, from a brass fanfare ringing like Harry James to the hot saxophone swaggering swing of The Lady Is a Tramp.