Dan Gould

Until about four years ago I had a minimum 90 minute commute five days a week and that is where most of my listening took place. Then my wife and I moved from south Florida to outside Tampa and I became a remote agent with a 20 step commute from couch to office. My driving plummeted which is great for saving on gas and maintenance, terrible for listening time. I would occasionally play a CD while working but inevitably phone calls would come in, the CD would be paused, and it would never go back on. And even when I was able to play uninterrupted I found I wasn't able to listen as closely as I can in the car. (Some shopping is a longer drive than before but one drive for one CD once a week is hardly enough listening time.) So perhaps the silver-lining of getting fired in October (nine years in with the same company and with no warning whatsoever the "book of business" is sold to someone with no interest in keeping any employee on - and we all got the same one month severance regardless of longevity) is that my new gig looks to be the same 90 minute commute so that starting Monday I will have a full CD book ready to go with many discs I've only listened once or twice .... never thought consciously of keeping box sets for the car, and I also do sometimes have a thumb drive filled of LP transfers that I haven't burned to a CDR that I listen to in the car. So I'm glad to have a new job, very glad to have new time to devote to listening, and even more glad that this gig isn't so far away as to involve I-4, I-75 or I-275. Just SR 60 to Brandon.

OH I think that's worse than the usual coveree of a hot dog. Seriously if I have to put something on a burger I'd prefer barbeque sauce but really, 2-3 tomatoes get you the ketchup flavor without the added sugar. Mustard plus ketchup is like, what do I want here? Its as bad as bad as the mustard/mayo combo I see being requested on subs. Go for the spice of mustard of the creamy mayo don't do both! Commit!!! Speaking of mustard it is required on ham - nothing else can go on ham. Your post-Thanksgiving sandwich better have mayo on that bird though.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/59211/french-fries-around-world https://firstwefeast.com/features/mayo-with-fries-is-the-best

In the hierarchy of such crimes, this pales next to mayo on french fries. You mean herbs and spices?

Specifically on a hot dog!

Not to change subjects, but on rice cakes? If that is for weight loss I gotta tell ya the cream cheese and the PB kinda defeat the purpose of the rice cakes. Oh, and ...

Just enjoyed an amusing/bemusing/utterly insane twitter thread "controversial food opinions" so I thought we might see what people come up with here. I have many but I'll start with these two: There's a toasty place in hell for people who put mustard AND ketchup on anything. (my wife is exempt from this, because she's my wife. The rest of you are riding the express elevator DOWN.) Cream cheese may be infused with lox (chunks or flavor), chives, or herbs/chives combo. It should NEVER be infused with maple walnut or heaven help us, chocolate (there were several other flavor abominations I saw yesterday at Brandon Bagels, but I'll start with those two).

Does the arm move? That's great but as I remarked earlier that type of track can won't make the necessary noise ...

I think this is an even bigger font than the infamous Booby. And if you're wondering, there is a ton of space to the right to get that "E" in there.

For me that would be the Mosaic treatment for Chicago, or maybe Bob Seger.

They were labeled but I think he was labeling by the so-called "name" of the session not track title. First track is the title track I don't have the other track titles handy.

CORRECTION: This youtube playlist is not six takes of Blues for Mr Tatum. It's the 6 tracks floating around from that unissued date.

Joe Louis must have a different fuller version of this date than what has leaked out otherwise ... the only multi-take tapes I've seen are the ill-fated Messengers session discussed elsewhere (oh and two discs of Grant Green breakdowns). I should listen to these takes and see if there's an alternate worth adding.

87 years young - your cake might burn the house down.

Always good listening but I have to say as nice as it is to hear the band cooking on the unissued tunes, Alfred created a stone cold classic when he selected the original tracks for Blue Hour.

https://www.mlb.com/news/jacoby-ellsbury-released-greg-bird-designated Well you can read it in the URL but Ellsbury released and Greg Bird DFA'd. Ellsbury batted .264/.330/.386 with 39 home runs and 198 RBIs in his four seasons wearing pinstripes, appearing in 520 games. He was a .297/.350/.439 hitter with 65 homers and 314 RBIs over his previous seven seasons with the Red Sox. Undoubtedly one of the worst free agent contracts of all time. And he's released when they know that Hicks will miss three months after his TJ surgery - so is Ellsbury literally incapable of playing, therefore almost certainly incapable of helping in 4 months? Oh, and the last year of his contract didn't have insurance purchased. I don't know how that happens ...

Gotcha. Agreed on Moods but I would have selected that super slow take of "Things Ain't" on a best-of comp.

Well y'all know how I feel about the group and the potential for a Mosaic. Years ago I suggested a Mosaic/Mosaic Select of the unissued/unrejected tracks listed in the BN Discography. I understand Michael's reasons for not doing a Mosaic - for whatever reason the group sells far less well in the CD era than they did when they were a band whose consistent sales kept BN going (among other popular acts). What I don't understand is Michael's statement that he wanted to get more reissues out or shrdlu's about US reissues and the timing. Both of these seem a little misplaced. For the time frame under discussion, Michael got reissued in the US: The complete "Introducing" set with many unissued tracks that had been issued in Japan as "volume 2"; Standards, consisting entirely of unissued tracks (1998); Babe's Blues (1986), also all unissued tracks; Black Orchid (1998) which had almost double the amount of music as the original LP The Complete Blue Hour which had a second CD worth of material (2000); All of these came out prior to the 2015 date Shrdlu mentions. As to Three Sounds recordings outside this time frame, Michael got the two It Club volumes issued - which were supposedly meant to be issued at the time but weren't, plus an expanded Live at the Lighthouse which is an even better CD than the LP was. So Michael has really done a lot in the CD era, outside of Japan, to get Three Sounds music out there. I for one am grateful. Edit to add: What I would love is to hear is this 1965 Mercury session that was never issued.

Gheorghe, jsngrey introduced Billy Preston into the thread because his song "Will it Go 'round in Circles" captured the fact that I posted two articles about Helen Morgan, who shot Lee, in this thread about the movie about Helen Morgan, and Larry Kart posted a link to the same thread that we were already in. We were going around in circles which is why Jim posted the Billy Preston.

No I was adding other sources of information about Helen Morgan ... and placed that info in the thread that discussed the movie. Which you then helpfully referenced. "...go 'round in circles" indeed.

You referred us to the same thread we're in?

Did we ever discuss "The Lady Who Shot Lee Morgan"? Stumbled across this, by the author https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/55701567/pure-jazz-magazine-vol-7-issue-1-horace-silver-pjm-2016 (you have to "flip" the pages to find the article) - and I don't recall seeing this article posted: https://narratively.com/death-of-a-sidewinder/

That Astros fan was ignorance/stupidity personified but there's one problem with this "smoking gun": The trash can has to be metal to make that noise and that don't look like its metal to me. Still no other reason I can think of to have a video set up like that.