Dan Gould

I received this yesterday from Amazon and listened yesterday while the board was down. This is a terrific recording of prime Dex and Tete not to mention Alex Riel and NHOP. Excellent sound too and great liners with remembrances by Riel and Bo Stief and the main section is an excerpt from a chapter about Dex from a book about the Montmartre which is really vivid and well-written. Palo Alto has competition for best archival recording of this annus horribilis - and I love the new Monk unreservedly.

Everyone at my new job works remotely yet in addition to the loan processor who ended up hospitalized (doing better, on the five day Remsdivir IV treatment), there's a Loan Officer diagnosed, and just found out last night that the boss and his wife (who is also CFO) had been diagnosed. They decided to keep it to themselves because of fear that Loan Officers would jump ship if they thought the company was headed down the tubes. The boss is doing better and didn't have terrible symptoms, just powered thru, the CFO has a persistent cough still and had worse symptoms earlier. So they should be all right but certainly disconcerting to find out ...

Panama Francis & His Savoy Sultans, Feb 11 1979 - featuring George Kelly, Norris Turney, Irv Stokes and Red Richards.

I thought I did see one in the 80s? Anyway only in the 90s do I own 5 of 10. That 70s list is all of 1.

Hey Dodger fans, Vin Scully is nominating this year's World Series movie: https://www.mlb.com/news/vin-scully-to-narrate-2020-world-series-documentary Not really a surprise as I would think it would be his so long as he's able but still ...

Win Ben Stein's Money was must-watch TV. His only regret should be inflicting Jimmy Kimmel on the country. (I liked him on the show but he's nothing short of contemptible now in his appalling political rants. Among many who drove viewers away in the wake of Jon Stewart's clown nose on/clown nose off routine. Is it too much to expect comedians to be funny?)

Thanks Lazaro I noticed that one in all of the links on that splash page you posted. What I wasn't aware of until now is the second performance with Paul Brewer, will check that out soon.

Years ago I recorded a stream of the Arno w. Organissimo concert and used it in a BFT. No one got it. Everyone should check out this blast from the past!

I found this LP years ago must have been on eBay. I think I sold it here during a financial crisis ... solid Dexter as I recall, I should pull out the transfer I made and listen again. Not sure one extra track is making me buy it again unless I realize that my copy wasn't very clean and the transfer has loads of annoying clicks.

Does this mean that jazz CD reissues will eventually cease in Japan, too?

Jack Walrath featuring Michael Cochrane - early 80s in France. Wish I had more info. Quite tasty.

Excellent info Bertrand. It's interesting that Tina needed a horn to make this gig, yet he was playing so well apparently.. Wonder if he was a bit rough at the start of this long-term gig. Needing a horn suggests that he wasn't very active before getting hired. I would not assume that it was his last gig just because he cancelled out of the later one. Getting the later one in and of itself would be an indication of recent or fairly recent activity at the time. I have a question or two now ... What was the club like? Was it for listeners or for drinkers and the owner booked jazz cause he liked it? How attentive were patrons? Did he ever see copies of True Blue brought in for autographs, or other Tina recordings? How much did Rick know about Tina before getting the gig, since he was in High School?

Sammy Price Sextet featuring George Kelly, November 12 1977. Somewhere in France I think.

Perhaps but we're back to the typical level for me: I own one, the Griff.

One copy of a very large box set, and only 750 made 14 years ago .... oh forget it, let me go for the joke: Imagine if every single one was a verified "Hot Stamper"? That's a six figure set right there.

I think my issue, back when he was one of the instrumentalists I'd be forced to spin on Mello 105 was this feeling that the stage name was like a put-on or something. Only in smooth jazz and pop do you get one name artists, right? Anyway Wikipedia says, without attribution, that his inspirations are: Coltrane, Bird, Lateef, JoeHen, Grover and Ronnie Laws, plus Hubert Laws and James Galway. Also says that at the New England Conservatory he performed with the George Russell and Jaki Byard Big Bands.

I think the questions you had are good ... maybe whether he was using at the time or completely professional, on time etc.

About 90 minutes of The Two Tenor Boogie: Sammy Price (piano, vocals), Percy France & George Kelly (saxophones), Leonard Gaskin (bass) Ronnie Coles (drums), about a week before their appearance at the 1987 Bern Jazz Festival. Worth every penny of the $50 transfer fee to the Smithsonian.

Boston Globe reports Cora is coming back. Too bad the 2018 roster isn't, though I guess I like that George Springer rumor SP posted about a few days ago - if you can't beat them with pitching, club them into submission.

I guess I can say I now "know" someone in real life with Covid - someone at my new job who I've only interacted with via email was diagnosed last week or over the weekend (husband and child also positive). Just found out from my wife (her supervisor) that her fever spiked to 105.7 and she is on her way to the ER.

Huh? In this day and age you can go online at I don't know how many different site, create a design and have it in your hands in about 10 days or less. I've designed many t-shirts at Zazzle.com and used other companies for shirts Zazzle refused to make (supposed rights infringement).

Sorry I was traumatized at the age of 6 when a friend's birthday party featured his teenage brother taking each invitee out for wheelies on their driveway. Scared the living crap out of me and you couldn't pay me to get on a motorcycle under any circumstances. Well, maybe those old-folks three wheelers? Naah. I'll pass.

Cheathams. Interesting to hear McPherson in a not-quite bop band.

Always grateful to the MIA Magnificent Goldberg for tugging my coat toward Johnnie Bassett: