Creed Taylor Orchestra
Shock Music In Hi-Fi (LP)
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condition (record/cover): EX- (minimal surface noise) / EX- (light edges wear)
Before CTI, before Wes Montgomery in gauze and Antonio Carlos Jobim in soft focus, Creed Taylor produced this: a horror record for the hi-fi crowd, with music by Kenyon Hopkins (the composer behind Baby Doll and 12 Angry Men), a woman named Toni Darnay screaming on cue, and sound effects layered onto small-group jazz like blood on a cocktail napkin. Titles like The Crank and The Secret run as miniature radio dramas without dialogue, each one a set-up, a creak, a stab of brass, a payoff. The cover is famous for a reason.
What makes the record more than a gimmick is that Hopkins's writing is real: modal vamps, tremolo strings, a walking bass that stops walking when it hears something. Musique concrète for people who had never heard the phrase and would have laughed if they had. Original mono ABC-Paramount pressing, the one to have.
Release notes
A Product Of Am-Par Record Corp. "Conceived by Creed Taylor and Kenyon Hopkins during a conversation on quiet, rainy afternoon." ABC-259 on spine, front cover, ABC 259 on back cover
| A1 | Heartbeat | 3:26 | |
| A2 | The Crank | 2:22 | |
| A3 | Gloomy Sunday | 3:16 | |
| A4 | The Secret (Vaise Triste) | 2:13 | |
| A5 | Jungle Fever | 1:56 | |
| A6 | The Long Walk | 2:55 | |
| B1 | Haunted House | 3:01 | |
| B2 | Spellbound | 2:50 | |
| B3 | In Bedlam | 2:03 | |
| B4 | Time Runs Out | 2:33 | |
| B5 | High On A Windy Hill | 3:06 | |
| B6 | It's So Peaceful In The Country | 2:42 |
- Phil Woods
- Alto Saxophone
- Jerome Richardson
- Alto Saxophone [Second Alto], Flute [Alto], Flute
- Kenyon Hopkins
- Composed By (A1, A2, A5 to B1, B3, B4)
- Matt Shutz
- Design [Front Cover]
- Osie Johnson
- Drums ["Time" Drummer]
- Keen Crockett
- Effects [Sound]
- Ray Alonge
- French Horn
- Barry Galbraith
- Guitar
- Mundell Lowe
- Guitar
- David Drew Zingg
- Liner Notes [Liner Annotation]
- Brad Spinney
- Percussion
- Joe Venuto
- Percussion
- Tony Triolo
- Photography By [Front Cover And Liner Photographs]
- Ray Beckenstein
- Soprano Saxophone, Bass Saxophone
- Gertrude Warner
- Voice Actor [Female Voices, Groans, Screams]
- Toni Darnay
- Voice Actor [Female Voices, Groans, Screams]
