Big Al

I trust this man's guess on this one above anyone else's! That means I got TWO right! I think I set a new personal record! Woo hoo!!!!

Holy sh.... you mean I was actually RIGHT about this?!?!?! Wow! I feel so...... legit, y’know? Anyway, I wonder why I couldn’t find it through AMG? I guess I shouldn’t’ve been in such a rush, as all I did was search by song title, not album or group (duhhhhh!). Anyway, I’ve put off ordering this one long enough! Thanks for the confirmation, Mike!

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I laughed so hard; I even ejected the CD out of the player just to make sure I'd put the right disc in!

Once again, without having read what’s come before: Track 1: This is hilarious! The first track of this BFT is the first track of an album whose final track was the final track to MY BFT!!! Like I said in my answers, reissue of the year for me last year! Oddly enough, I PM’d dana about this track, turns out he was going to put this on his BFT long before he heard my BFT! Amazing! Track 2: Brother Ray moanin’ with a nice greeeeeazy big band! My favorite track from this album; I know it’s blasphemy, but I’ve never warmed up to this album. Need to listen to it again. Track 3: Sounds like the JB’s there. With Brother Cheese riffin’ over Brother Chank’s sweet riffs! Hmmm...... wait a second; that’s “Watermelon Man” they’re playing..... lessee if I’m right about this.... Well, I can’t find it. If it is the JB’s, I couldn’t tell you what it comes from. If it ain’t, then I don’t HAFC™. But I sure wanna find out! Track 4: Uhhhhhh.... NMCOT™ I’m afraid. NEXT!!! Track 5: Okaaaaaaaaay..... I’m sure there’s a story behind this. It lost me with the classical arrangement! Track 6: Sounded like “Last Tango in Paris,” but I’ve never heard the original. This could be it for all I know.... Sounds like film music to me..... Track 7: Wow!!! No clue, but I worked up a sweat just listening to it! Loudest party on a BFT!!! Track 8: AAAAAAAARGH!!!! I should know this! It’s a Monk tune. I think I’ve even heard this before! Man, I’m gonna kick myself on this one. Track 9: HAFC™. Very nice, though. Sounds like my man Ben Webster! Track 10: Aaaaagh! Another one I should know or at least I think I’ve heard it before! Man, my butt’s gonna be sore after this BFT! On second thought, I’ve never heard it; I’d remember something this hypnotic. Track 11: Who is that, Mel Gibson? Mick Jagger? David Bowie? Robbie Coltrane?!?!? Anyway, great groove; not sure how this is jazz, but anxious to find out nonetheless! Track 12: I should know this track, I think I have it in a different version on a Ventures CD. It ain’t them, I know that. Further research might help me locate the title, but I’m drawing a blank right now! Track 13: Three Sounds? Last time there was a track like this on a BFT that I thought was the Three Sounds, I was wrong. Hey, I gotta be right SOMEtime!!!! Track 14: A very bluesy “Work Song.” NO clue who’s blowing that wicked harp! Track 15: Sounds like a 60’s go-go thing. HAFC™. Track 16: No clue, but nice! Track 17: If I wasn’t such a Ventures nut, this would’ve been my first guess. But it ain’t. Maybe Kenny Burrell with Chet Atkins? Track 18: This sounds like one of those MGM albums that Erroll Garner did that are available as a bunch of Telarc two-fers. Haven’t heard but a couple of them, and that was so long ago, I’ve forgotten which ones. I’m noticing a theme if not a consistent pattern of sounds & styles. Track 19: Asleep at the Wheel? “Sugarfoot Rag?” Track 20: Where or When? more like WTF? This sounds like the kind of thing Stan Freberg would parody in the 50’s! Track 21: Jackie McLean? No clue otherwise! A nice BFT, dana! Wild variety, and I can’t wait to find out the stories behind these. Now on to read everyone else’s guesses! (Edited cuz MS Word doesn't know how to act when I type "..." )

One of the few remaining artifacts from days of yore.....

South Arlington, just north of Mansfield. Remember how Cooper used to be a two-lane going down to dinky little Mansfield? Now there's this little section of area right between Arlington and Mansfield where people actually live in Arlington proper, but they're in the Mansfield school district. Seems our city "leaders," back around 20 years or so ago, thought that Mansfield would always be just a little hick town and practically gave 'em all this land. Now Mansfield's growth is rapidly outpacing that of Arlington's, and they are reaping the lucrative benefits of the school taxes that Arlington could be getting right now if our "leaders"--then AND now--weren't so damn myopic!!! Sorry to go off on a tear there. After I took that picture, I just shook my head in realizing how different the background of each picture was about 15 years ago. Nothin' but trees. Was nice while it lasted.

Agree that it's a classic album, but I've never been able to warm to it. Maybe I just don't dig pianoless trios as much as I used to. But this will be a fun discussion to watch, nonetheless!

Here's a link to Dan Gould Drive, lest any of y'all think I'm Photoshopping some pictures (like I have THAT kind of talent!).

Here's another picture:

In the BFT #21 Answer thread, .:.impossible asked if Dan was from Texas. I don't know either; all I know is that there is a street close to where I live that bears his name. I took a couple of pictures of it today, cuz I happened to have my camera with me:

Recording dates have been added to the answer posts!

I was trying to mess with the sound levels on this track, seeing as how it's from a disc manufactured in '89. On my test run of this BFT, this track was barely audible. I guess I still have a bit to learn about audio engineering! In a manner of speaking..... I thought I was going to get hammered for saying that, but I couldn't agree more. Yeeeaahh buddy!!!! Ha ha. GOTCHA!!!

Thanks for clearing that up! I was left scratching my head for a second there.

Snow? What's that? Sangrey? rostasi? anyone.......?

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I know I did!

Now THAT I can hang with. I may heartily disagree with you on that, but it's a very reasoned and civil response to everything that had gone on before. I dare say that had you said that the first time, we might not be having this conversation right now. But I like ya, Dan, and will not for a second offer an FU to you at all. And I mean that.

Y'know Dan, for someone who doesn't care for Kart or his book one whit, you sure do like to hang out in this thread a lot. Dan take something personal? I'd like to see evidence of THAT! No offense taken, BTW.

What, you don't think reducing a man's life's work to terms such as "ramblings," "convoluted meanderings," and "utterly vacuous" isn't "nasty and contemptuous?" Tell us what you do for a living, Dan, so that we may have the opportunity to reduce YOUR life's work into a series of petty and uncalled for blasts against what you've dedicated your life to. For that matter, just pick up the damn book (even Cornelius has done that, and he's made some excellent and debate-worthy points) and you will see, even with a cursory glance, that these are not the “ramblings” and “meanderings” of someone who woke up one morning and decided, “Hey, I think I’ll jot down some thoughts about my opinions of jazz.” Far from it. This is a collection of interviews, reviews, and yes, opinions, on the vast landscape of jazz from the LAST FORTY YEARS!!! Yet, you act as if any one of us just picked up a pen, wrote down some thoughts, sent ‘em off to a publisher, and voila, a book is published. You don’t like the book? Fine. Say so. But is it asking too much to do that WITHOUT insulting the man’s work? Or are you just sore that no one’s contacted you about that grand list of CDs you felt compelled to tell us all about? BTW, I do hope you don’t find that last comment to be ‘nasty and contemptuous.’ It isn’t. It’s just that I got nothing, absolutely nothing, out of looking at your list of CDs. But hey, that’s just me, others may dig it, and your mileage may vary. It’s certainly a better CD collection than mine, Gunga Din. Again, no nastiness or contemptuousness intended.

I'll look 'em up and post them in the original answer posts!

NO big thang at all! I just hope you enjoy both discs (call me biased, but of the two, Milan's disc is FAR superior to mine!)! Would still love to read your comments, though!

Wow!!!! I need to look further into this!

All we gotta do is subject him to the Bastards, and he'll be officially de-flowered!

Aren't you supposed to go to school from time to time? Dude, whattya think the "jam" is?