Dan Gould

Best comment received thru website to date, I don't think it can be topped: Thank you for this labor of love. I've been listening to jazz for nearly 70 years and I never heard of Percy France until now. Better late than never, thanks to you!"

Please choose the option that best describes you, even if my verbiage is slightly off especially on the first Q.

My Virgo nature + your encouragement to keep digging is what gave me the will to keep working at leads ...

That would be great, Brad, I would really appreciate the link. Already visits are slowing as Facebook, Myers and other posts age. (I am thinking about music excerpts on youtube though with links to the site. My post of his audio book doodlings has gotten over 150 hits over time.

Agreed though I can't figure out why there is so much interference if these are tapes from WBEZ. Shouldn't they have been recorded direct from the board?

He gave a tremendous performance as a judge with dementia in a late (maybe last season) Law and Order. Just terrific acting, really gave me a greater appreciation of his skills. RIP.

I am glad I've inspired your consideration of Percy as (perhaps) a superlative musician. I would strongly recommend the full-length tracks found with the Allen Lowe produced sessions and the full length tracks from the Town Crier label releases. They will give you the best taste of Percy in the 1980s, at the top of his craft. If you are allergic to the R&B style, still check the excerpts from the ballads that he recorded with Doggett as they are wonderful examples of his beautiful tone. Last but not least you can hear the entirety (last time I looked) of the Freddie Roach Blue Note recording that features France, Down to Earth, on youtube. I linked to two tunes on the site. I hope you will post your evaluation Ken, I'll be interested to read it.

Thanks - Their first email after the redesign gives me hope - they are still doing links to outside websites, as well as hosting their own material. I still find it odd that they continue to code their links to the Mosaic home page. I will probably reach out to Michael in the next couple of weeks, I am trying to stagger my promotional efforts, this week Organissimo and Facebook, plus Marc Myers' blog (23 folks have come to the site from his link so far ). Speaking of traffic right now I have approximately 1/3 of my unique visitors coming back for at least one more visit. Of course that distribution is assumed, I can't tell how many people come back one time and others come back many times. I am pleased by the site numbers so far, I'll say that.

Didn't notice this post originally and actually have never heard Sid but I have interacted with him about my Percy France website and he kindly delivered his own remembrance of hearing Percy. You can see it here, the second one down. https://www.percyfrance.info/others It's funny you mention his background as a Judge, I had no idea and improvised a credit for him, which he approved by saying it was 110% accurate. Sid promises that he will program a Percy France show sometime, once the KCR studios re-open. With the state of the Pandemic I would think that would be happening soon, with some mask/social distancing as needed. But who knows. If he can mine the archives and find sets that were simulcast on KCR that would be awesome (if the tapes still function). My search for West End gigs that fell on a Friday show there were over a dozen such occasions.

Well I figured that people can go to discogs for issue numbers if they need them. I did give the issue number for the Doggett Chronological Classics at the top of the King section. You can see why in the end the BRIAN software wasn't going to work for my concept. Its great for standardizing discographical layout but I needed a more free-form approach. What I think I will do is ultimately add in composer credits.

Thanks to all for their comments. I'd hoped Marc Myers would have said something along the lines of "Percy France was a fine tenorist who didn't get the attention he deserved. Check out this site that tries to correct that." Instead, one sentence, Dan Gould has a tribute site, go here. That's a ringing endorsement.

WOH! You're not traveling around the world anymore? Had no idea. Where did you settle or was there always a home base you just never stopped over at? Glad you adopted so well.

Marc Myers plug in JazzWax coming this weekend.

Well the time is finally here. I have launched the Percy France Memorial Website: http://percyfrance.info I'd like to thank first everybody who contributed to the Go Fund Me campaign, it was greatly appreciated. I am very pleased with the end result. There are essays and remembrances from many people who knew Percy, and the Sessionagraphy uses photos (80% or more never seen before) and clips from publications plus details on all gigs with known recordings, to tell the full story of his career. And I attempted to include at least one audio clip for every session, usually two, so you can hear Percy's saxophone mastery. Please take a look when you get a chance. I hope people find it engaging and enjoyable, though I know there will be many visitors who spend about 90 seconds and leave. Do let me know what you think and do watch this page as the Summer of Percy France is going to have more highlights than just my website. Edit to add: Site is NOT optimized for smartphone viewing. Best seen on a PC or tablet.

John, I'm glad that while it's involuntary, it's not something that is scrambling your financial picture. I think the consultant thing isn't a bad idea but I would frankly think about going into it as, "if I adjust and like having free time, I'm just gonna call it a career". If you really find out that you want to work, make it something that won't be stressful. It might not have been planned or expected but this could be a good change in the end.

And white ones are on another plane of perfection.

I enjoy them both but apples are a little more of an all-year fruit. Make mine Fuji. And if its the ultimate in fruit, make mine white peach or white nectarine.

Same as "sand". I have some concert recordings with Plas with intro tracks and that's how they said it.

From music native to Brazil to small town USA with buyer's cooperatives and water fountains separated by race, all in a single thread. I love this place.

Sounds like Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man, only applied to shoes or groceries (definitely never heard of grocery stores using the same concept, though I can imagine in a certain time and place that made a lot of sense.)

Just realized how I could have provided a little amusement for Mosaic for this box, for those of you who followed my last BFT from January. Joe trying to land some pot in some unknown location (at 12:30 at night). Ben was his local connection to provide some "smokage".

Well I could dream, but in all seriousness, for me, Kenny Drew was the ultimate accompanist for Dex. I do have to keep my Dexaholic Card active so I will watch this space for someone to tell me its on pre-order at Amazon.

There's a wholesale union for retailers?

I like the setlist (can't recall too many times Dex took on Green Dolphin St or Hi-Fly) but really prefer anyone else to Cables in this group. I'm sure I'll be in for it though ... suddenly occurred to me I could always make my own edits and re-burn, fade out on Cables, in when Dex returns. YMMV, but I tell ya, if I had thought of that sooner I'd have kept the Uptown release of this group, because the problem with Cables "taking it where we want to, Dex didn't care (paraphrasing here)" was especially egregious, IMHO, on ballads.

I am not talking about whether they should get vaccinated. I am saying that the mask-opposed are more likely to have natural immunity and that is part of why we are, at this time, doing rather well, despite loosening or elimination of restrictions. Also, I don't think the first half of your sentence is entirely accurate on either point.