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This is what I am waiting for ... getting Mom vaccinated was postponed because she had a pain shot for her back and the doctor said no Covid vaccine for two weeks, and now she had a fall this week and is headed to a rehab facility for her severely bruised shoulder. I have been thinking that we aren't terribly far away when production ramps up enough that supply does start to exceed demand and the ability to get one or another will be no muss no fuss. Can't happen soon enough.

Ah. So he took it in reverse, finish with the Flintstones.

I don't know but is there something similar between "The Theme" and "Meet The Flintstones"? I ask because Percy goes into The Theme at the end of a set but finishes with the Flintstones theme. They kinda laughed about it.

https://www.mlb.com/news/andrew-benintendi-trade?partnerId=zh-20210211-156906-MLB&qid=1026&bt_ee=xBgEz4jZYmr8OySIqDeXITRRH47vPhAS%2FV%2Fq8pMJm99ZzNrRxEciQFqU7pAU8RQj&bt_ts=1613046728031 And the Red Sox collapse to total irrelevance continues. Benitendi, cost controlled for at least a couple more seasons, I believe, sent away for ... bare potential talent plus the inevitable "player to be named later". When in the history of major league baseball has a PTBNL turned out to have a decent career??? And the "prospects" they got are incredibly underwhelming, one of whom has nothing to recommend except "raw power", and he just had surgery on his broken hamate bone, proven to rob players of power even post-rehab. Fucking A this is pathetic.

Excellent. (And also giving me ideas for my planned Percy France website.)

Please PM an address Peter. Thanks. The item is now on hold.

At whatever rate? Would be $16 plus true shipping cost. I could find out this weekend and advise. Let me know and I'll declare it on hold.

Here's the discogs entry for details: https://www.discogs.com/The-Hal-Singer-Jazz-Quartet-Soweto-To-Harlem/release/8398291 This is a fantastic set, a bit on the short side is its only flaw. Great piano in addition to Singer's preaching on tenor. Could easily have been an early 60s Prestige date. According to popsike the LP last sold in 2011 on ebay for over $100. There's an 8-track up on discogs for $8 but another $32 for shipping from South Africa. I'll let this go for $16, with media mail shipping to the US. Your chance to hear a great recording at a fair price on a possibly inconvenient format. Cassette plays without flaw (obviously), J-card is clean if a little crinkly when removed. Cassette case hinges intact at this time. Hopefully padded mailer will protect. Thanks for looking.

I checked my order history. Often my searching is for a specific LP heard about somewhere, and then comes the consideration of who has it, and what else do they got, because normally I won't buy a single LP without serious consideration of overall costs if I find other fairly priced things of interest. Condition ... I don't go lower than VG+ and I already expect to dump the vinyl into the PC and manually clean it up in Goldwave. I don't have a proper rig wherein I can listen to vinyl but I will take time to make it as quiet as possible for digital transfer. And then most of my listening is in the car, or while working, thru the same PC I use for the LP transfer process. (sometimes I listen to the unedited raw file on the PC).

A discogs seller I would heartily recommend: https://www.discogs.com/seller/carolinasoul/profile (they are also on eBay with weekly themed large-batch auctions of rarities.) But on discogs they have very fair prices, low shipping domestically (I wanna say unlimited Media Mail for $5 or something), and IIRC they also clean every record before sale and ship with polybags, if that's important to you. Oh - and they are open to just about any offer, though I have gone that route only on the low price point ones. $4, offer $3 I guarantee they'll take it. And you can easily find enough records to do that and cover your shipping cost. Grading is not egregiously wrong and if you concentrate on the $2-$10 range what have you lost if they mess up?

We have a new(?) competitor for worst regional/local USPS office, to go with Newark and Chicago: Philadelphia. I shipped something to former member Joel Fass who lives in Philly. Its been at the Philadelphia Network Distribution Center since February 2nd, a week ago.

Very cool thanks for letting us know.

What can I get for a finder's fee? I want a better credit than that dude from the Left Bank always demands. Edit to add: I found Cory on FB and sent him a message.

You do realize you deserve considerable credit too for putting it into my mind that it even could be Big John. I was already prepared to say "oh well, we'll never know anything about this obscure pianist because any web search for information about John Patton, pianist, will be subsumed in a tidal wave of hits for Big John Patton, organist."

Like a freakin' bloodhound I wouldn't stop until I had acceptable proof. But can you imagine trying to do this pre-Internet/Facebook?

Case closed: Ed Cherry has just informed me that it is Big John Patton saying "rippin' my shit" on the clip I sent him. And he should know the man's voice since they were neighbors in Montclair NJ for a while back in the day. So could I interest Zev and Cory in this recording? Too bad this is owned by the Smithsonian and they'd have to negotiate an arrangement.

https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37328/PDF/1/play/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/sports/leon-spinks-dead.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210207&instance_id=26877&nl=the-morning&regi_id=68486788&segment_id=51209&te=1&user_id=97b4d9b18a0aa595e5cd5740f64bf5db (I wonder if that link will get anyone in since I was signed in on my NYT account?) Anyway ... Leon Spinks is dead. Back in the mid and late 70s I loved boxing and hated Ali. I didn't care about the history or the person, I just wanted to see Ali get beat, by Foreman, or Kenny Norton or Joe Frazier or even Ernie Shavers. So when in 8th grade I watched Spinks keep throwing punches and win the decision it was amazing and made me so happy. Too bad he didn't handle his money well and had a tough time afterwards.

Well thanks to Andy Bleaden I ended up finding a guy who plays the organ, was part of the Newark NJ scene and ultimately wrote a dissertation on the organ club circuit and in particular the Newark scene. Unsurprisingly he knew Patton pretty well and told me that he saw him play piano twice at a couple of impromptu jam sessions. Radam Schwartz says: "I think it's a good chance to be Patton. The picture is hard to tell, but that's the way he had his head when he played, and it's his complexion. His playing is sort of sparse using space and that's sort of his style, he was not a technician on the organ either. So all in all I would say it's a good bet to be Patton. "

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Thanks for this post I may check this out, because I got into a FB conversation with Ms Elkins about Percy France and I got a nice remembrance from her about him. She told me that he sang on their gigs and that was something no one else seems to have known about Percy that he could carry a tune, at least for Wedding-type gigs. I've been curious since about Ms. Elkins singing.

I like Booker too, maybe not to the level shown here but I am always reminded of our Chuck Nessa's description of his solos: There were two - fast and slow.

For the record, old friend Mike Flanigin AKA Soulstream has ID'd Big John Patton from his voice, his vocalizations, and now his body language in the above photo.

So I have secured a photo from this gig ... but this is the only one and the pianist is looking down ... how I wish Leonard had gotten a nice group photo of the musicians together but alas, no. So what do you think? Interestingly, Michael mentions the upright piano yet this is a nice grand piano. To me, that's circumstantial that BJP wanted something nice to play and got it. There are other reasons why a club would have a grand piano of course but ... Photo credit: Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution