Dan Gould

The only thing better would have been if it came in 2020 to brighten up the Annus Horribilis.

Or as I noted, you can click on the extreme right of the audio player and choose "download" to get whatever file is playing.

Must be exciting for fans of that era ... doesn't really thrill me but I do see what looks like significant chunk of recordings from Left Bank concerts led by Elvin. I don't have the booklet handy for the George Coleman but was Vernon Welsh the dude running the cassette off the soundboard? Looking thru the other "Collections" its pretty sparse, this is the only guy with audio links for all, the other people hardly have any clips at all. Noticed a Teddy Edwards, one or two Eddie Higgins, a Scott Hamilton. By the way you don't have to stream it to record these clips live. Click on the play button, the player loads at the bottom of the page and then just click on the three dots at the far right. Brings up a download option.

Oh yeah, the Warren for sure, plus the Basie/Joe Williams and Joe feature. So was it your idea to get Junior Cook? Not who I would have been expecting, and very interested to hear when I get in the car to head to Naples this weekend.

If you helped book the Johnson/Serrano, then thank you.

Fantastic source of radio broadcasts, most jazz or blues: https://archive.org/details/fmradioarchive?sort=-addeddate Particularly check out the Jimmy Smith all-stars as the front line is LD and Bill Hardman plus Junior Cook. And I've been wanting to find the Eddie Johnson-Paul Serrano quintet show ever since I first heard about it about a year ago. You can stream or download MP3s and other things. Only been uploading since January and they were active this weekend, so a place to bookmark and check back, too. Edit to clarify: A lot of recordings uploaded actually, and the further back you go the fewer jazz items. But a lot of solid jazz up in the past few months and some interesting ones further back too.

This is where not investing in a "special" system pays off (for me). If you listen in the car or on high-end PC speakers only, you'll miss both subtle and unsubtle differences.

Did not know that they were like that - I haven't sought out JVC XRCDs, only encountered them once at a used CD shop, $8.99 for a Johnny Griffin OJC in that format/engineering. And OMG the sound! Other than that maybe I've found one here or there, and there was a Japan-only Hamp with the Ray Brown Trio recording that was only a JVC XRCD as far as I could tell anyway.

I wasn't looking at the specific, Publix sets you up for the proper second appointment which is April 28.

Every JVC XRCD release I have has the best sound of the recording in question I've heard. Not sure I want to spend for them, but still ...

What do you say now?

Well today I was reminded of a close high school friend's senior quote: The eternal optimist can only be disappointed while the eternal pessimist can only be pleasantly surprised. Today, this eternal pessimist got in the Publix booking system after just 10 minutes of page refreshes, and am booked for Moderna #1 on Wed with second shot three weeks later. Unfortunately while I could have set an appointment for Mom in Naples, I was blocked by the lack of knowing her last four of her Social.

Sid Gribbetz of WKCR has published a Freddie Redd discography: https://jazzdiscography.com/freddie-redd-discography/

Man I have just been the worst on this month's BFT. No listening time, and I'm the one who posted about how a shorter comp should mean fewer excuses for not participating. Need about a dozen of these:

I don't know when any "exclusive" contract ever existed; Walgreens is also distributing, I think CVS and Winn Dixie too. I've been watching Walgreens website but they keep showing "no vaccines within 20 miles of your zip code for the next four days" or some such shit. Interesting to watch the end of today's open registration for Publix. Seems as though NE FL (Jacksonville basically) and Leon County (capitol city Tallahassee) in the panhandle were the laggards for signing up. How come? Especially Jax, Duval county is quite large I can't imagine why they didn't have similar demand as south Florida or the Tampa metro area. Unless they actually just got more of it, so while other counties got booked, Duval and a couple of other counties in the NE still had availability? I am pretty much reconciled to the fact that I won't be jabbed before the end of April ... part of which I admit is the fact that I am not availing myself of every possible option anywhere. I can't take time off work for lengthy car rides and I am not interested in driving to the football stadium for an all-day wait. I continue to wear the mask and hardly venture out, so ... whatever.

Of course, eventually I outran the surplus of people trying to book, but although Hillsborough county appears to still have slots, none at any of the locations I try. This is because Publix' system is incompetently designed, with no indication of whether a location even has slots until you select it. They can't eliminate locations, you have to search for that needle in the haystack. That is, after the haystack has blown away and your needle becomes a "chosen" one. For no available slots.

And now I am just f-ing infuriated. Last Friday, I am not allowed to register for a shot on a day when my age group would be eligible. Today, I find out that everybody can register in Florida, even though they won't take everybody until April 5. So when Publix opens the floodgates at 7 am, what are the chances their server crashes/freezes from everybody trying to get in? 55 and obese? Too damn bad.

I had no idea that Archer's mom was played by the actress who played the psycho on Misty. Sad news. RIP.

Funny I think I may have passed on the Smith Standards, due to the lack of, say Stanley T.? Revoke my BN card, I guess.

Oh that's right I think Michael got the idea of the standard series from the Sonny Clark and Grant Japan issues? So if there can't be prior LPs involved than the Lee and the Sounds are the only ones that fit the OPs (frankly non-sensical, but it's been fun to look things up while I should be working) question.

Oh good call. That adds the Three Sounds "standards" as well. What was the third one? I could swear there was one wasn't there?

Hey you might win the prize if that one had an LP and CD at the same time. These others all went with LP first and CD two years or more later.

Yeah, and Comin' Your Way, too.

I don't think so, if he is only interested in non-Conn, CD only debut of unissued sessions. If that is the definition, even Babe's Blues doesn't make it, it actually came out in 1986 in France and the US on LP. All of these vault discoveries that are pre-conn and no 70s LT or Brown series material - the three Mobleys, the Morgan, the Grant, the Three Sounds - they all had LP releases prior to CD. And wasn't Six Views of the Blues a Conn?

I thought Rooster's point of interest was non-Conn releases only? So most of the images here fail on that point. Three Mobleys that were otherwise "new" - Faraway Lands, Another Workout, and Straight No Chaser - all had US LP releases prior to CD by 1989.