Dan Gould

The only thing I know about Reddit is their video uploads to youtube, in which they collect the "best" answers to certain topics. I've enjoyed the "NSFW" subjects like "worst morning after a one-night stand" "What were you thinking the first time you gave oral sex" etc etc. Is there a hierarchy of "upvotes"? Do "gold" pieces have monetary value? WTH?

FWIW, the Ultra-Vybe reissue of the Oliver Jackson Trio Feat Percy France - Le Quartet which came out not too long ago has terrific sound.

Yeah but if you're an addict too, you need to replace that dope you're using as cash. And I don't think they'll give you more if you play a pretty ballad for them, you gotta, you know, hand over the cash. And if the dope is perfectly calibrated to the cash owed, the only thing saved is the time/expense of getting the money to pay in the normal way. I like Larry's theory of Getz doing it just to fuck with people.

Thanks to Bertrand for his donation today and all other donors ... hoping for a few more if they are on the fence? Making slow progress toward the minimum $500 hoped for on the website.

I wondered how my name might be handled - well played sir.

Interesting from an economic perspective. Was there an inefficiency between the value of cash and the cost of heroin, or did Stan just have too much of the latter and didn't want to bother with getting any of the former for a more traditional sideman payment? I don't know about currency but Eddie Higgins told me that he had an offer from Blakey to join the Messengers after his sideman appearance on the Morgan VeeJay LP but ultimately declined because he had a family to support and he heard that after paying the hotel and paying the connection, there might not be enough money left for salaries at the end of an engagement.

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Mike LeDonne told me this story about his first recording session: A little piece of trivia is that I wanted Percy France to play tenor on my first date for Criss Cross as a leader. I had a few originals that were a bit different than playing standards that I felt were important to have on my first date so I gave them to Percy in advance. But this wasn’t the way Percy operated and when he never showed up at the rehearsal I knew something was wrong. I insisted he come by my apt a couple of days before the date so we could go over the tunes and when he started playing it was obvious he hadn’t even looked at them. I felt terrible but I had to tell him I couldn’t go into the studio like that. The producer of the date had someone else in mind for my date and I was going to have to go with that before I blew the whole thing. Funny thing was that Percy was totally cool with it and just said OK no problem and packed up his horn and left, no anger and no bad vibes at all. I felt that he knew this wasn’t a good fit for him and was relieved to be free of it. The date was with Tom Harrell, Dennis Irwin, Kenny Washington and wound up being Gary Smulyan’s first record date of all time.

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I was unaware of a direct line from 9-11 to Sonny having to stop playing. I find it a little remarkable that it took 18 or so years to reach that point. Was anyone noticing an effect on his sound or stamina before close to the end of his public concerts?

Back in the 90s I discovered an enormous amount of music via the Cadence text lists ... but that shit was small. I think with my present eyesight I'd give up on that stuff, even if there were no internet.

Thanks very much, Denis! O-People are the best - should have realized that and not worried about trying to leverage other's Facebook audiences. Apparently the "like" button is easy, opening the wallet not so much.

UP ... could really use another couple of hundred to be able to hire a website creator. Thanks.

Glad they've been enjoyed so much ... the Paul Plummer and the Enyard/Miller are available new at Cadnor, the former Cadence, at least earlier in the summer. As Jim has said, Cadnor is giving very good service lately on sales processing, too. The Escalera recordings ... can't be too much demand I don't think, check Amazon Marketplace.

Good thought but no, several song titles aren't on either of those. I want to say that this was a soundboard tape of a local gig that Duffy was selling.

It's a very fine record I'd recommend for sure.

Is this for shows you witnessed? Best I can recall would be a Lincoln Center tribute to Art Blakey after he died. I want to say three groups were utilized, two drummers were used, Elvin and I think Lewis Nash. There was a (more or less) recreation of the Bobby Watson/Wynton group, Mulgrew Miller and probably James Williams on piano, Jackie Mac, Curtis Fuller (weak solos and I caught him checking his watch at one point, very disappointing), I don't think Wayne was in the 'old' group, I think it was Golson. And there was a 'recent' group with Brian Lynch among others. Far and away the largest agglomeration of talent seen in one night, one stage, one continuous show. All the other shows I've ever made would be for single groups so nothing remotely compares.

Sad news to hear. When we lived in south Florida, I found out that Duffy was selling a CDR - the contents I cannot recall at all now - but I found an email and we met midway between (I think) Palm Beach and Delray Beach. A very brief conversation, I'm just not that ebullient a guy with people I've never met, but he was certainly pleasant. Sometime after that I saw him at a converted church/performance space in an outdoor mall somewhere in Palm Beach County. The more I think about it, I want to say that this was the concert with Red Holloway and Eddie Higgins, and Duffy was the drummer. The one thing I remember is that on the second trio tune before Red came out, there was an intricate stop/start thing going, and when it ended, Eddie sort of rose off of the piano bench, huge grin on his face, looking at Duffy, with the fist-clench "YEAH!" expression. Got the feeling that if they had rehearsal, it wasn't happening but then the magic came in front of a crowd. Nice memory, made nicer by hearing Mr. Holloway with the group. RIP. Edit to add: Just found the disc, Chubby & Duffy Presents The Grand Masters of Swing: Givin' The Beat Back to the People. Going to listen soon, wish I had a clue who was in the band.

Mine arrived only a day late, so I guess Priority was money well spent. It's been quite a while though ... does DG habitually ship LPs with vinyl inside jacket? I was surprised the two LPs (unsealed) didn't have vinyl outside the jacket, inside the poly outer bag.

The presence of Big Nick Nicolas leads me to wonder if I helped that track get selected, as I have recently shared my discovery that the Leonard Gaskin Papers @ the Smithsonian is filled with cassettes of Big Nick shows - considerably more cassettes than Percy France. Anyone who wanted to do for Big Nick what I am trying to do for Percy would find an incredible wealth of material. This picture is from 1986 at a club in NJ. Photo credit: Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Sorry for the interruption, back to the BFT currently in progress.

I find the contrast of facial expressions remarkable. Also, he's a pig, and I am loving the slow-motion car-wreck end of his career. And that shouldn't be considered political since I don't know anyone who actually likes the guy, even if you think he's the greatest Governor in the history of the state.