Dan Gould

OK, now up next is Kiss Me Deadly, on this person's youtube feed, tenor sounds absolutely the same, and audiobooks.com also says September 1990. We also have Killing Man, identified as December 1989. Kiss Me Deadly opening: https://www.audiobooks.com/book/stream/44183 But then there's The Big Kill https://www.audiobooks.com/book/stream/44181 which is June 1994 release, two years after Percy died. I would have to bet that he was hired to record a bunch of short intros and outros in one session, for all planned Spillane audio books, so it could be one in the can that they used. To me it sounds a little different though Then there's One Lonely Night https://www.audiobooks.com/book/stream/44184 released barely more than six months before he died ... It's tough to be certain that this is Percy when I'm going mostly on Phil Schaap's assertions. Paging Allen Lowe ....

If Schaap is telling the truth, this page https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/vengeance-is-mine/44182 gives a September 1990 date, whether that is recording date or release date its while Percy was still active, prior to his cancer diagnosis I believe. So this youtube capture could definitely be Percy.

Thanks. Sounds potentially like Percy but I wish I knew when this audio book was recorded to be more certain. Just a bit of tenor at start and a little more at end. Now if I could find the Douglas book but that doesn't seem to be up on youtube.

Well this is the longest of long shots but does anyone have audio books of Kirk Douglas, The Ragman's Son or Mickey Spillane, Vengeance is Mine? According to Phil Schaap, Percy France was involved in providing musical interludes for books on tape and he specifically mentioned these two in the Percy France Memorial Broadcast back in 1992. There's a copy of the Douglas audiobook on Amazon for $75 but hearing snippets of Percy ain't worth that much dough. Anyone??

Pedestrian. I also learned from schaap's broadcast that Percy's frontline partner in Sammy Price's two tenor boogie, Eddie barefield, died a year before to the day.

Until now it has been a mystery as to when Percy France died. Any page you find on the internet only says January 1992. I can now report that Percy France died at the age of 63 on January 4, 1992 after being struck by a car. I know that because I have acquired most, though not the entirety, of Phil Schaap's WKCR Percy France Memorial broadcast, which aired January 11 1992. Other than that info, I've verified that Schaap didn't have a clue about what recordings Percy really played on with Doggett, or for how long he was in the band. And this was six years after the Ruppli discography came out.

Excellent but unfortunately King's decision to put a picture of Percy on the back cover has led a lot of people to think the entire album is Percy on tenor but its not. Percy tracks are #2, Honey Boy, #7 Percy Speaks, #11, Who's Who (Clifford Scott is the second soloist) and #12, Early Bird.

NL pinch hitters are an inevitability unless they finally adopt the DH. In the AL there's what, maybe 2 guys coming off the bench in a big spot? And almost always they are only marginally better than the hitter they are replacing. I'll be honest I haven't thought that much of pinch-hitters, the flipside of the parade of relief hitters. What we really need is some good intelligence on who is going to PH. What about cameras that are manned by lip readers? Cheating/not cheating?

Well you may end up with the pretend "whoops I tweaked my hammy" mound visit/fake warm up throw/I'm outta here" shimmy, or you just may get some more mid and late inning offense because of fewer match-up driven pitching changes. I wouldn't get behind a "no shift" defense rule (I'm a Willie Keeler hit 'em where they ain't guy) but minimizing the dominance of bullpen specialists sounds good to me.

This is the only worthwhile rule change in years. Fewer pitching changes, and presumably fewer lefty/lefty matchups. Less specialization, more generalized skill. Me likey.

Funny to revisit this post Vincent, Paris Veteran Groover Members 217 posts Location:Paris, France Posted 10 Oct 2004 (edited) · Report post Seriously? Or are you kidding? This is what Michael Cuscuna recently said to me about this session this year, in his own words: Ah! if you heard it, you would think that it was five high school students trying to play like the Jazz Messengers. It is so horrible! I don’t know, all I can think of is that maybe the guy selling the drugs didn’t show up, I don’t know. Everybody’s playing very bad. Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan sound horrible. Art Blakey is not even swinging, nothing happens, it’s just really embarrassing. So that’s one that will never come out, never. - But it’s a complete session. They didn’t stop. They didn’t stop, but they should have! It was terrible, it’s really terrible. No, that one will never come out, it’s just bad, bad music. Obviously they realized it too because they rerecorded everything live, you know, live at Birdland. Edited 10 Oct 2004 by Vincent, Paris So new management, new ears and viola, new archival Messengers. We really can only assume Don Was and, if he was involved, Zev, felt like this deserved to be heard. Someone should ask MC how he feels about that decision. I remember reading that Alfred was wondering who was going into his old recordings and putting things out, now Michael is getting the same second-guessing. So I ask again, new look at Grant/Gene? The unissued Three Sounds? The Wayne or The Train(wreck)?

Here's the discussion from the summer, and the discussion from further back: I wonder if David was revisiting because he had some connection to this incubating (at the time) issue?

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan, trumpet; Hank Mobley, tenor sax; Bobby Timmons, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass; Art Blakey, drums. Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, March 8, 1959 tk.5 Jimerick Blue Note rejected tk.10 Quick Trick - tk.14 Hipsippy Blues - tk.15 M And M - tk.19 Close Your Eyes - tk.21 Just Foolin' - Are you sure about March 11? The jazzdisco says it was March 8 and it wasn't too long ago there was a discussion among those who have heard it about the value of the date. But I guess now everybody can enjoy Hank Mobley and his squeaky reed? Strange there would be an ad without a release date. Can't imagine there's an actual truly-worthy session in the can that nobody knew about, from three days later. If "Blue Note rejected" no longer means anything then they better get around to releasing that Grant Green/Gene Harris set too.

I was thinking about the fact that this was announced in the first week of 2019, the 80th anniversary and all ... and we've saw zip, nada, zilch in the 80th year of the label. Hope Zev blows us away with some classic BN artist material ... some day.

I'm seeing the videos of Chapman and Sanchez about Altuve's walk off and whether he knew what was coming ... and you know what stands out? The fact that Chapman threw an utterly flat 84 mile-an-hour slider that sat, up and over the plate, like a BP fastball. Had a damn sign on it that said hit me to the moon. I really don't care if Altuve was wearing a wire. Chapman threw a piece of shit pitch that professional ball players hit out of the park every damn day.

The more I think about it the more I actually like this system. I'd get behind it on one condition: Every team that gets to "pick" its opponent has to cut a pro-wrestling style promo on their opponent. Rule #1 is that only the defending champion can use a Flair-esque "To BE the man, you've got to BEAT the man! WOOOH!" I can just see Aaron Judge saying "Whatcha gonna do Tampa Bay, when these 24 inch pythons run wild on you?" Or maybe his GM ... "If you SMEELLLLLLLLL what the CASH is cookin'!"

https://lsupress.org/assets/images/book-covers/12496.jpg Just finishing this one up definitely gets an overall recommendation though with a few caveats: There are a lot - make that a ton - of paragraphs that simply list out Slim gigs in different years based on advertising he found in local papers. Maybe necessary but honestly a little goes a long way. Very good for pretty detailed info, as available, on the other musicians in the area, those who played and didn't play with Slim, a definite plus. At the same time I found his critical opinions questionable. Basically almost no one but Harpo, Lightnin' and Lazy Lester had any real skill, in this author's opinion. And he hates on the late 60s - early 70s recordings that featured a lot of those guys like Silas Hogan. (Does anyone else like the Lightnin' Slim recording made with a horn section? London Gumbo? Somehow I enjoy that one quite a bit)

Not particularly but when Mark died I'd begun to wonder if your cancer had gotten worse and you also shuffled off this mortal coil. So there's that. Glad you are among the living!

Idiotic.

Better to get two decent prospects than a mediocre 83rd ranked reliever with questionable medicals.

That would be great. Adding musicians who are willing to try this and maybe become regulars would go a long way to improve the compiler experience. IMO.

Tiny light at end of very dark day. Thanks GoM!

He is not a big bulky slow guy I have a hard time imagining him not being elite to 35 or so. And again John Henry could make any payroll and eat that payroll if he is worthless at the very end. Ticket prices aren't going down after this KB.

Even if they won 2-3 more titles between now and then? Simple fact for me is it's a lost season already and I won't give a seconds thought about extra innings or paying any real attention. John Henry can pay the price for a big payroll but now refuses. F him.

If we consider Gene Harris as leader of the Three Sounds, (and if you consider changeover in members starting in 1966 I think you have to) you have: 1958-1962 1966-1971 (last use of Three Sounds in album graphics) 1972-1976 (Gene Harris albums) That's 16 total years, last 11 successively, with a total of 22 released albums (Sounds) + 6 (Gene Harris) = 28. And that's not treating Introducing Volume 2 and Blue Hour Volume 2 as separate releases or else you'd have an even 30.