Dan Gould

Glad it brought such a smile to your face but the first thing that comes to my mind is whether someone got shit-canned for music he selected for the break. Not that its unacceptable as music but what was the event? What was the audience? He picks a playlist by that name and gets those tunes? And interesting too that the musicians sounded utterly ignorant of what you were talking about. That suggests major disconnect between what they delivered in their sets and this playlist that sounds like it was given a joke title. But then again you say the sound guys don't even "hear" music. So how would they know if "lite jazz for a dinner party" "fits"? Personally if I was in charge of the event, hired a band playing mellow "jazzy" type music I might not be happy with that break music even if I personally enjoyed it. On the other hand for the vast majority of people all the music was probably the same as it was for the sound guy: background noise.

No new info from the arts writer. He's tried to contact the family member again.

Regarding sound this is a brand new mastering, not the SHM process that most people find so pleasing. I am guessing people with good to really good set ups will hear whatever difference there is (why hello there Lon! ) but I am not expecting the Third Season tracks to sound like the SHM which I also obtained for that extra track.

Yeah but I am still waiting to hear about the racial component of it. Let alone the "unwritten rules" effecting POC.

That's the most ludicrous thing I've ever read. Is the UK targeting non-white musicians? Or do you think there just happen to be more non-white musicians so there is a disparate impact? And even if there were, is that the intent of the visa system? How the hell do you get to racism?

No problem @King Ubu, and if I am not mistaken I just generated two notices for you - one that I quoted you and another that I mentioned you. Had no idea now that if you use @King Ubu or any other user name you generate a notification. Oops now that's three. Somebody STOP ME.

Since December I have kept in contact with the author of the article but to date he has heard nothing direct from the family about firm plans to finally release. Supposedly a family member in direct charge had been ill and most recently he said there are whispers about not putting it out independently but thru more traditional means and that is a new hang up. I actually just emailed him again as I realize its been two months since our last exchange. I'll let everyone know if there is something new to report.

OK maybe a little hyperbole but over the past year or maybe less I've acquired three he did for the Gemini label of Norway and just finished listening to Atle Hammer Sextet, Arizona Blue (with Jon Gordon in the front line) and its really quite good. That one has a discogs copy for $8.99, the others seemingly pretty rare are two with Red as co-leader, with tenor Kurt Riisnaes and all or most done at the brief time Red was signed to Concord. https://www.discogs.com/Atle-Hammer-Sextet-Arizona-Blue/release/8673209 https://www.discogs.com/Knut-Riisn%C3%A6s-Red-Holloway-Confessin-The-Blues/release/12017917 https://www.discogs.com/Knut-Riisn%C3%A6s-Red-Holloway-The-Gemini-Twins/release/12037289 These are all very enjoyable recordings very much worth it if found at a reasonable cost. Those in Europe will probably have an easier time finding them but anyone who loves Red and is in the States should jump all over that Arizona Blue listing, the $9 copy is from a US seller and its sealed.

When is Zev announcing some Blue Note archival things? I thought that was his new main gig. But agreed this looks like a lot of potential and its nice to see Verve be willing to put out such a release they must see the potential for profitable sales levels. (If Verve is in the reissue biz again how about finding some archival Three Sounds while they were in between Blue Note stints? )

Many extras because you have so many posts and apparently we've never noticed your birthday before?

Hey LA residents: May 2 panel discussion at the Grammy Museum, featuring Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins: https://www.grammymuseum.org/events/detail/art-kane-harlem-1958 (Rollins isn't mentioned at the link but he is in the promo email I got from the Italian publisher.

I ordered a VHS tape of the Jazz Scene USA show with Teddy Edwards. Today marks two months since it was ordered, one month since I received the refund from the Marketplace seller. If that shows up in my mailbox before I die, I'll probably die of shock.

about time! And interestingly enough Amazon has it at $18 for pre-release but CDBaby shows it in stock and only $13. Supposed to be on its way soon ...

I had another box take a strange wacky detour, from North Carolina to Jacksonville but then to Detroit! At least they got it on the next plane to Tampa and it was only delayed a day.

They just got lucky. Made no dent in their run differential and no real improvement in offense, just managed to get wins. Of course if they hadn't managed that feat we'd be talking about next year as they'd be 10-11 games back right now.

Funny I just got one of the Basie/Mills Brothers collaborations by mistake in a discogs order. Now that I find this thread I kinda want to hear Lock on these tunes ... still would prefer the Buck Clayton jam session for the same lousy $1.

From too-many-to-count package deliveries. They do stop at many POs in between its not a straight delivery from one big distribution center to a little PO. And god knows how long it actually takes to be dropped of and actually scanned as arriving at new location.