Dan Gould

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I just want to say as a regular compiler that while participation is down, we are fortunate to have @JSngry @tkeith @Joe and @webbcity as regular participants as their ears are a serious cut above.

Remember I was catching up on work email after a long break (plus a gusher of requests from those emerging from their extended coma). Distraction always help lighten the burden. Like when I am dealing with work but have my tunes on in the background. I might have figured out "Little Sunflower" eventually ... I associate with Cedar because I think he played it quite a bit. A tad ashamed not to recognize or have any inkling of Houston Person on there.

Your words of the day: Offensive/Inoffensive. That's the best way I can describe a Felser compilation. Listening to his BFTs over many years now, for me it reinforces the "music of my youth" cliche and today I was wondering, if I were his age, and he mine, would we have the same radical differences of opinion, only from a different angle of opposition? It has to be recognized that the jazz I like was not in any way the music of my youth, but I did come to the music when neobop was in its ascendancy, and my earliest listening was a mixture of classic swing and bop/hard bop. Something I pondered while swinging between degrees of offense. On to the specifics: TRACK ONE: I think you had to be there. Is there a jazz connection here aside from the sort of scat the vocalist briefly attempts? Inoffensive: **. TRACK TWO: Sunrise, Sunset? After two minutes I want to say NEXT but I did persevere (work emails helped distract). Is that Elvin? Piano is better ... I think because it is much harder to make ugly sounds on the piano (if you stick to, you know, the keys). Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK THREE: Not my style of piano. Inoffensive: ** 1/2 TRACK FOUR: Really had to be there. What the hell is he singing about? Offensive: * TRACK FIVE: No notes taken, so ... Inoffensive: ** TRACK SIX: See #4, but final evaluation is Inoffensive: ** TRACK SEVEN: Oh hell no. Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK EIGHT: Following up one of the worst with the track for me? Is this a Cedar tune? Hutch? I don't think its his regular partner Mr. Land on tenor. Neither offensive nor inoffensive - *** 1/2 (1/2 star removed for the congas which rarely thrill me that much) TRACK NINE: When the band came in .... I went out. Offensive: Zero stars. TRACK TEN: Wait a sec this is obviously the Dan selection. Doesn't thrill me the way Gene would. *** TRACK ELEVEN: More vocals I have a hard time understanding ... Inoffensive: ** Thanks Mr. Felser and remember, if you were offended by offensive/inoffensive, you always get the last word since my BFT follows yours.

Shocked that (at least) the first tune by Mr. Madman didn't make it on to a Stompin' compilation as its right up their alley.

Now Jimmy Heath has made an appearance: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163542

This one surprised me, just uploaded: Eddie Bert/J.R. Monterose Quintet, Sept. 20, 1991 https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163541

Gotcha.

Did you miss this subsection? A Bud selection was at the very top of it. BY “BEBOP,” I MEAN BUD POWELL

Joey Defrancesco makes his first appearance in the archive - in fine sound https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163518 So does Sir Roland Hanna https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163517

A full list is beyond my capacity but as the former GHF I will always rank this one at or near the top:

Oh c'mon - like people don't read memoirs by mobsters? And this isn't just a mobbed up guy, he was deep in the music we love. That's what makes his story interesting to me.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Godfather-of-the-Music-Business

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/Whistle-Stop The first one I think I want to read after it arrives is the biography of the infamous Morris Levy. $20 and change with free shipping for new hardcovers. - this is a tremendous deal

Thanks so much for posting. I chose 4 more to go with pre-ordering the Dorham book and have covered my "gifts for myself" for the holidays!

This is not the "gotcha" you think it is. Fetishizing original (poor) design choices is not the same. The fact will always remain that they chose to put out archival recordings from an era with classic artwork on the covers in a way that made not the slightest nod toward the era of music it was mining. Did Cuscuna ever say why those covers were used? I always presumed that for a label that was barely an afterthought, they said OK, put out these recordings but we aren't paying shit for the rest of it.

Listening to some recent uploads at Vandy on a road trip to Tallahassee, I realized that separated by a few months in 1979, Percy France expressed some related thoughts about ballads, singing thru your horn, and the importance of love.

Reuben Wilson appears - on piano - in the Schaap archive at Vandy. And backing Gatortail Jackson https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/162818?u=t&keywords[]=reuben There are other recordings as well

I'm not that concerned unless it's something with a lot of orphan tracks that don't exist elsewhere.

Edit to say Track 7! D'OH!

#6 is track 6 from this but it seems to be an alternate take and I can't find an issue that has alternates so I am a tad confused. As for the rest, I have no guesses on #10 and for the remainder I'll follow a lesson from Mom about not saying anything at all if you can't say anything nice.

Very saddened to hear this ... and I had no idea he had such an illustrious career with the AP. Guy was a great asset to the board and exceptionally generous as well - a couple of years ago I reached out to him because he had mentioned a rare Harry Edison CD with Curtis Peagler, and I had not had any luck even finding a copy anywhere. I hoped he would favor me with an upload of mp3 tracks and instead he simply shipped his copy to me and didn't even take payment for the mailing cost. RIP.

There's been an absolute ton of Percy France uploads the last month or so and the vast majority were not ones that the librarian had shared with me as items that were being digitized ... but Buddy Tate has appeared in the archive: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/162657 Actually its not as if Tate was not captured at the West End - but the other recordings are with the Countsmen, sharing the front line with Wells, Cheatham, Warren.