Dan Gould

Right now the subscriber model is only a pledge for a certain amount that pledgers were presumably going to donate in 2025 anyway. I think ideally the subscriber donation should be lower but that necessitates more of us. Not sure we get to 38.

Yankees get Cody Bellinger, but which version? The comeback player or the rather mediocre one from last year? A huge part of the answer, at least offensively, is whether this time a lefty power hitter takes advantage of the home park. Consider Rizzo and Verdugo from very recent history - there's no guarantee.

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It's the successor to Cadence. Since Robert Rusch is dead, I haven't had an ethical problem with dealing with them the once or twice that I have done so. Pretty fast shipping as I recall.

Sadik Hakim is someone who has popped up a few times in the Phil Schaap Jazz Collection, backing George Kelly and Percy France among others, so I went googling and found this. Sample graf: I did work a gig with Bird in Chicago. For a while we played at the Sherman Hotel with Hot Lips Page opposite Boyd Raeburn’s Big Band. The second day of the gig, we couldn’t find Bird at all for the second set. We went up to our suite in the hotel, where we found Bird out cold in the bathtub. We got him together, he came down, and his playing just scared everyone to death. Charlie Ventura was with Raeburn’s band. The more Bird played, the paler he got. From Jazz Journal International [London], Vol. 49, No. 8, August 1996, pp. 16-18, 35.

You would think that if the post office gives you a PO box for free they'd know the street addresses of the owners and automatically put it into your box.

I've never had those packages disappear, but DHL does the same thing and they are slow as molasses.

So I am understanding I can encode at 320 but you will convert to the lower bitrate? Is it better to just send you at 128 or you want downloads for those who do so to be a bit better?

Was there some winter weather I missed in Michigan? I ask because a CD envelope has been in USPS custody for 4 days and not left the state yet. If it's weather-related OK but otherwise ... THE USPS SUCKS! <green smilie>

There are too many but searching by Franc Williams, Eddie Durham, George Kelly, Sammy Price, Willis (Gator Tail) Jackson, Red Holloway, Barry Harris, Russell Procope, Howard McGhee, Joe Albany, Eddie Chamblee and of course Percy France will yield many excellent performances in (usually) very good sound. Not to mention The Countsmen, Earle Warren, Buddy Tate, Paul Quinichette, Dicky Wells, Doc Cheatham.

Countless remote recordings preserved for posterity by Phil Schaap and bequeathed to the world via Vanderbilt University's aviary web page. 405 total "Live Sound Recordings" to date: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_type_search_facet_sms][]=Live+sound+recordings&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=created_at_ds+desc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128 I am taking albums/artists a little more broadly perhaps, and I am also not even touching on (as I haven't really gotten to them anyway) but there are 160 recordings under type Interview and I was told this week there are a thousand or more to come.

NYT article hinging on Sonny as the sole survivor from the famous photo: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/12/09/arts/music/harlem-jazz-sonny-rollins.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU4.pSd2.wvnJnXa_wd1k&smid=url-share

Seems as though plot hasn't changed a bit.

Anything that hurts the Yankees gets thumbs up from me, but may the Mets know nothing but pain. I am guessing the reporting will be the Mets kept bidding and that's how they got him. He is a Boras client after all. Now, my guess is that the Yankees get Teoscar Hernandez as their consolation prize, overpaying and outbidding the Red Sox. Maybe I am wrong and the Red Sox do get him as he is reportedly intrigued by taking aim at the Green Monster. I got no problem with Dick Allen and Dave Parker getting to the HoF, but am curious if there was any decent support El Tiante or no.

Looks like a nice way to spend three hours: Jazz Interactions 8th anniversary party at the "Village Gate", upstairs and downstairs, April 29, 1973 https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/139196 Personnel: Hilton Ruiz Quintet [4 tunes], Maurice Waller Trio [5 tunes], Countsmen (Earle Warren, Buddy Tate, Doc Cheatham, Dicky Wells, Dill Jones, Eddie Jones, Eddie Quinn [4 tunes], Joe Newman Quintet (w/Al Gafa, Harold Mabern, Earl May, Mickey Roker) [4 tunes], [Jazz group] (Ruby Braff, Billy Taylor, Earl May, Dotty Dodgion) [4 tunes], Jimmy Owens Quintet (featuring Kenny Barron) [1 tune], Charles McPherson Sextet [1 tune] Wondering who is in the Ruiz, Owens and McPherson groups.

Lucky I bought three from Cellar Music for myself ... I got a shipping notification that said "no later than January 27". That would be really lame if it takes that long.

LMAO

I thought a system was in place to weed out spam bots - like a couple of jazz related questions or something.

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A second Dicky Myers set from the same engagement, this one 90 minutes or so: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/139141?u=t&keywords[]=myers

Is that your photo Michael?

I don't think anyone's ever run the table on a BFT. In fact, years ago I thought about getting a friend of mine (non-jazzer) to join up, post a handful of times, and then run the table on my own BFT, just to see the reaction and if anyone would question his participation and success.

Feeling baritonists less and less lately. Not sure why.

TRACK 1: What's not to like? Hypnotic bass, effective vocal and piano. Didn't really catch a message but ... ****. TRACK 2: Went nowhere, did nothing. I was enchanted. But then came the sax solo. 3 stars for the bassist, minus 3 stars for the sax, but awarded an extra three stars for covering so much of the total run time. That has true value on a Felser BFT. TRACK 3: Started out fine ... I'm returning some pants. Then it takes a most unappealing turn. 3 stars for the bassist, minus two for the guitarist (I assume that is what I heard) and ... Where TF is that vocal coming out of? As I said, most unappealing turn. But that length ... I think I can get it to 1 star total. TRACK 4: Four stars, no debits. How did a non-Felser tune go on a Felser BFT? TRACK 5: Performance/composition ... no stars. Length, 2 stars. TRACK 6: Four star bassist. TRACK 7: 3 1//2 stars. I think it might have been 4 if the baritonist was a tenor instead. TRACK 8: The less said the better. TRACK 9: Hmmm .. no notes. Must have been a full-on Felser. TRACK 10: Yeah, no, nuh huh. TRACK 11: I have a tune on my BFT that is half as long, and I hope, twice as popular. Thanks John!