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Yes there was: As for Dolan, his signature speaks for itself (in more ways than one). Suffice it to say, there's a lot more to the story than that. Onward.

Now you're talkin'!

Minor League Baseball, doesn't look good: https://www.axios.com/mlb-minor-league-baseball-overhaul-ccf68975-c3b6-484a-b5da-f30418af7c39.html Then again, when I was a kid, there were still remnants of, like, Class C and D teams scattered across the landscape.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/04/gods-caravan Ever so vaguely (but insistently) puts me in mind of Sun Ra, or at least one element of him.

RIP Name Three People????

The original LP had just four cuts, two per side, and programmed/played perfectly as either two single sides or as an entire album.

Hope the money is there for you to go long and had into the good night of living the rest of your life doing exactly what you want to do. Congrats!

1950 Columbia 10" Lp Does anybody still play Virgil Thompson? Did anybody ever, really? If so, why, and if not, why not? Seems like there's a case to be made either way.

One clarification about Red Clay - "Cold Turkey" was not on the original LP and didn't surface until a few decades later. It still sounds funny to me hearing it when I play the CD, like oh wow, where did this come from?!?!?!?! Kinda "destroys" the otherwise icon-icity of the record, especially the LP which was a model of programming and symmetry across two sides.

You are not mistaken.

At some point, by the time I remember if something was recorded in the 21st Century or not, I could be halfway through listening to it.

You're welcome, but let's both thank Allen Lowe. I'd never have crossed paths with this in 50 bajillion years otherwise, of that I am certain.

Ok, this startles me. Will now be officially interested in this when it comes out: : https://www.archeophone.com/catalogue/gus-haenschen-the-missing-link/

Just ordered a copy. Again, thanks!

I've only known Gramophone as a classical music publication, so my bad?

This one's with Claus Ogerman and is just different enough to walk both sides of the jazz/MOR sides of the street: some people are just not able to make these kinds of records. To the extent that these kinds of records don't really need to be made, so much the better. But when they do get made, I want to hear somebody like Stan getz make them, somebody who understands enough about music to not jsut jam or to play by rote, but to freakin' sing.

Totally unaware of it until now (thank god for Google, as well as for Paul Gonsalves being pretty much unmistakable (although Tony Coe can get there, which is why the initial hesitancy, but at some point...you know)) sounds like a most interesting lineup, and this cut is very nice. Gonna have to look into it. Thanks for bringing it out!

Technically, not Verve but MGM! One that was on Verve that might end up getting lost (unfaily, imo) is this one: This one as well: Neither are "great" by any stretch of the imagination, but the object was to make an MOR/Easy Listening record, and Getz was musician enough to play the melodies with thought and feeling, at least enough of each to distinguish them as being him being the one who did it. I think there's props to be given for that, for keeping your voice true no matter what the surroundings.

So is "Sister Sadie" from that Nat Pierce record, The Ballad Of Jazz Street?

Got a nice Saturday morning window to do this, so carpe diem! TRACK ONE - Wasn't sure but that it wasn't going to be "Shaky Ground", judging by that bassline! Ensembles are a little shaky in a few spots, but nothing deal-breaking. Solos are fully aware that this is a "for the older people" number, and play with both that and themselves in mind. I like the drummer pretty well, actually. sounds like it might be his/her date. This is the kind of thing you play in a club where there may or may not be people dancing at any given moment, becuase you may or may not be being presentend as a "jazz" band. I like it because it sounds like a place I've been. Places, actually. And no smack about the electric bass, please - that is being done exactly correct and well. TRACK TWO - Horace's father sure must have sired a lot of sons! This one brought along a pretty interesting tenor player...Bubba Brooks? One of those "old style" players who kept moving ahead within their own space. TRACK THREE - Sadie getting as good as she gives. Not Paul Gonsalves, but coming from that place. Oh, there's two tenors! And one might well be PG?!?!? This is a good track, good band, good chart, just good on all sides. TRACK FOUR - Now there's a pocket that says we're playing for dancers, and if they don't dance, fuck 'em, that's their loss. Norris Turney? Cat Anderson? Hmmm...Solid. TRACK FIVE - Dan-Dan The Dancing Man, Damn Dan, you dancin' for sure! Almost Laurence Brown? Nobody's in a hurry, they're right where they want to be. Imminently human. TRACK SIX - WHOA! Last time I heard tuba down that low that strong was on an Anthony Braxton record, and this is not that. I'll give the nod to the guitarist, but for whatever reason, this sounds a little more "after the fact" than have the previous tunes. But that tuba lick, that little upward squiggly thing, I remember hearing Howard Johnson doing that on Svengali, on "Thoroughbred". So.. TRACK SEVEN - Ok, that's real time like a mo! Two grownass tenor players with a rhythm section to match (especially that good Billy-esque sproingy drumming, hell, I think it is Billy, tbh). My time of having all these voices on total recall is long past, but I can still tell real from baloney, and this is ALL real. *****, WAY up! TRACK EIGHT - Hey, more electric bass!!!! And nobody dies!!!! Splanky Shout Chorus, played for keeps. Tell me that's not Bobby Durham on drums...sounds like something Concord-ian, but not in a bad way, just kinda runny-onny after a while. If this is the worst music I hear today, then today will be a pretty good day. It's pretty much a closed room, but it's not like a trap room or escape house, or whatever the kids today go to play in when they have money to burn. TRACK NINE - Sounds like the seeds are ready to eat, maybe a little past ready. Familiarity breeds...complacency. TRACK TEN - Who knew? https://www.discogs.com/Spike-Robinson-Al-Cohn-Quintet-Henry-B-Meets-Alvin-G-Once-In-A-Wild/release/6513511 TRACK ELEVEN - Sounds like a TV show?!?!? Definitely Sonny Criss doing "Tin Tin Deo". That was one soulful cat, Sonny Criss was. Must be this: https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Criss-with-Georges-Arvanitas-Trio-Live-In-Italy/release/3143197 TRACK TWELVE - The record skipped on the first bridge, that was a shock! Not sure about this one, it's got a good pocket but is maybe trying too hard, a little "after the fact" maybe? Ok, I would like to take that Chinese cymbal and crack it over that drummer's head. Classic example of you because you can do something...like the song title says... Sorry to say it, but more strut than butt on this one. TRACK THIRTEEN - Somebody who was once a little kid, apparently. Knowing Dan's recent exploratory proclivities, I'll say this is a Percy France performance. I like it! TRACK FOURTEEN - Yeah, it should be so easy...you gotta work like hell to make it that easy. Thanks Dan, again you have shed some light into the deeper nooks and crannies of what might seem to be a narrow parcel of the jazz landscape, proving again that, never mind the forest, never mind the trees, there's also the soil, underneath which the roots run far, wide, and deep. Kudos for never forgetting that!

Just saying - the "trio sides only" concept of the old 2-fer has not been released digitally. That set included all trio material that Horace did for BN, across his run at the label. It spanned the years 1952-1968.

James Harrod does damn good work.

That's a wonderful thought, really it is, but it might just mean that they're shipping them as they get them in and they ain't getting them in all too quickly from the manufacturer.

but does it have a good DVD bonus track? of THIS?!?!?!?!?!