Dan Gould

No shipping notice, just found it in the mailbox. Oh happy day. OTOH I only now realize that one of the co-authors is a professor of Political Science. I really hope we do not get bogged down in contemporary "academic" topics.

Here's hoping, cause I am pretty sure I ordered after you did.

I am wondering that myself and I cannot find hide nor hair of the order I placed in November after your tip on their big sale. And I remember emailing someone because the Don Byas biography was a lagging shipment because its print-on-demand. But I don't have my order and I don't have the emails. So they better figure this out and send what I paid for or I will be quite upset.

hmmm hope I get mine soon and then I will have to decide ... set aside the Prestige book to read this first or continue on and then move on to the KD? I have barely cracked Listening to Prestige. Not that it doesn't strike me as something one could pick up and set down and read very piecemeal.

I thought that was a clear implication that there is OP and then there is Tatum, and there is also "look at what I can do" level.

Seems like a ton of chops, is it OP-level or Tatum-level or look-at-me level? When chops like those are used by a guy like Gene Harris, to dig into my bluesy-jazz / Jazzy-blues sweet spot, you have me at "hello". For wider historical range ... I tend to come down on "meh".

Fixed everywhere but the original post which seems to lack an edit option.

but isn't the tune recognized as Oop Bop Sh'Bam? Is there a different tune?

A true rarity here, not sure if it will get many hits or not but worth putting out there ... many years ago in the research that preceded the website, I heard from a female vocalist that Percy sang as well as playing tenor sax. I wondered if any recording would ever show up, and a small handful did between the Gaskin Papers and the Schaap archive. Here though, Percy scats with Dickey Myers, who Allen Lowe recorded with Joe Albany backing him, on Oop Bop Sh'Bam or what Allen called "Who Parked The Car". Be interested to know what people think (I say Dickey gets the best of him but both guys are having fun).

Wondering if this amount of stock is out of line with Da Bastards usual number - which I suspect its not so probably just fair prices for items people might have missed or been unaware of.

Of course there is no reason why other than the fact that baseball is most popular in the Americas, the Far East and maybe Australia. I will always prefer major sports that don't turn on Academy Award level acting to induce BS penalties. Will never comprehend soccer's appeal in the first place but the overlay of outright fraud involved in over-emotive flopping is ridiculous. I always compare it to the tradition in friendly tennis games to call lines in favor of your opponent unless you are completely certain it was out. Or, pre-Cyclops, the handful of players (I recall Gentleman Tim Mayotte especially) who would concede the next point if they had gotten an advantage from a bad line call.

I have seen highlights ... and the players don't treat it as an exhibition. They are all balls-to-the-wall for their "country". You even have teammates on opposing sides, and the catcher declined a pre-at bat handshake. That happened twice in fact. Its unfortunate that this is the only time for this ... nobody would play three weeks past the WS and eat into their offseason recharge. Not to mention players who would have down time for most if not all of October. Clearly though there is interest - sell out or near sell outs - and with that comes the money and the requirement that it continue.

I cannot be made to care about the outcome of the WBC or if the US team might fail to get out of their own bracket. I am far more concerned that nobody from the Sox or Cubs get injured, and especially pitchers throwing hard purposeful pitches 20 days before Opening Day.

I think I'd have written it as "... he plays piano and "sings" too."

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Please see www.percyfrance.info (a hundred green smilies). but seriously its funny to go back to this post, 21 years later, when I needed a handy image of I Should Care and google brought me to it. A long strange trip it's been. PERCY FRANCE LIVES!

Three subscribers off of this one upload ... pleasing.

Reports about B.B. King suggest that he should have stopped before he did. But when you spend so many days on the road your whole adult life I am sure it is hard, not even mentioning the $$$.

I've reached 50 subscribers to my Percy France-centric Youtube channel! So why stop now?

Chuck Berry represents the start of the change ... the convo is early rock n roll and to me that is saxophone. Pretty sure rock n roll started before 1955 and Maybellene.

The consideration of specific tracks is certainly a good place to start. To me "Rock n Roll" signifies the time when a saxophone was the dominant solo instrument. I don't mean that guitar wasn't equally at home but if you are talking early rock n roll tunes its got to be a tenor sax in there. When guitar not only became predominant, but overbearing and frankly, sometimes musically masturbatory, that's when it became "rock".

I've never had trouble just copying and pasting video URL into the body of the post. As to the question of "early rock n roll" maybe Ike got it right (from Wiki): In a later interview, however, Ike Turner offered this comment: "I don't think that 'Rocket 88' is rock 'n' roll. I think that 'Rocket 88' is R&B, but I think 'Rocket 88' is the cause of rock and roll existing"

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I found it at Blue Note Records in Miami years ago, about $20 IIRC. Doubt I would have recognized it though had I listened to the track.