Dan Gould

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.

My wife and I are fine waiting until supplies are plentiful in 6 or 10 weeks (hopefully) but I am concerned now about getting my Mom situated as I just read that Florida says 50% of seniors are vaccinated, but they are also opening up for police/firemen/teachers. It's not like they are going to keep going on the elderly until exhausted. So the same high demand is going to be pouring into sign-up sites just from different segments of the population and it will probably be just as hard to get her scheduled as before her fall/hospitalization/rehab visit. She may end up getting vaccinated about the same time we do - when most of the people who want it have gotten it and you're down to the hardcore of anti-vaccers.

This is an 80s release?

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I can't listen but 15 tapes under consideration for issuance? All Cory/Zev or BN or what? That would be my follow up, especially since if anything is under consideration for BN you have an idea of who was under contract in that era. But 15 tapes, that's something to give hope that there are some gems coming this decade.

Took me a sec to remember but that tiny little label put out the best non-BN, non-Concord Gene Harris record, Live at Otter Crest (it was eventually purchased or licensed or something by Concord which also put it out). Certainly belongs in this thread. (there are pieces of video from the full concert on youtube here. Great stuff.)

Not DG but I made low offers on eBay items (like, 50% less) and had all of them accepted. So now a big test for the 2-6 week time frame. I didn't realize seller is in Washington state. So, unless I was still in south Florida, this is the longest distance across the nation for a package that can get kicked into some dark corner at any point in the chain.

The existence of one pit of despair was not meant to imply there are not many more, especially the two you mention. Not sure if its all major metropolitan areas - Tampa, #11 media market, does not seem to be having trouble getting things out into the USPS system or bringing them to me once received.

My Dusty Groove order is now officially tracking as 'arriving late' and for all I know it is still stuck in that pit of despair known as the Chicago Regional processing center, as it never had a departure scan. If this Priority mail package gets Media mail service I am going to be f-ing pissed.

At 33 minutes nobody has an excuse for not at least listening thru.

without sacrificing the swing or the blues-derived expressive devices of the older jazz forms." There it is, and in the Paper of Record.

Here's another way: When we were both short of cash for Christmas, we'd verify that both had $20 in our respective pockets, exchange the money, and say Merry Christmas, no muss, no fuss, nothing out of pocket.

I'd ask Colin Mochrie for five improvised "here now the news" intros a la "Whose Line ..." And, frankly, I am already thinking about a custom script for Tia Carrere to deliver for my buddy, especially since, for four years before the pandemic, we had a monthly dinner. Hard to believe its a year since we've seen each other. Since the odds don't look good for either of us, let alone both, to be innoculated by April 6, I think a personalized birthday wish from his young-adult crush, Ms. Carrere would be just the ticket. And just about the same as I would have spent on a birthday dinner. (We had the perfect system, BTW, for our monthly get-togethers. We'd alternate checks all thru the year, and with his birthday in April and mine in September, we set it up so that the birthday boy got a regularly scheduled free meal for his birthday month anyway.)

Makes Tia Carrere downright cheap. In a good way. You know my closest friend has had a crush on her forever and a birthday April 6. Or how about a personalized "no soup for you" from the Soup Nazi? Only $80.