Dan Gould

If you enjoy electric piano with a lot of 70s sounding effects, you'll enjoy all of the Pauer disc. For me those tracks made me want to . Won't be listening to those again but his acoustic piano tracks are all very nice.

Mileage and all that, but the Candoli/Rosolino lost its charm on the scat tune at the end. Rest of it was awfully good though. Mileage and all that, but the Candoli/Rosolino lost its charm on the scat tune at the end. Rest of it was awfully good though.

Because they don't have the working capital to justify a re-stock of what has been for a long time a slow seller. And because the issue never came up before because stock never fell this low.

That is definitely the "no big deal" interpretation - they've offered it damn near forever now, surelyy had a surge of orders when the worrisome news came out, and have made a reasonable determination that at this time its reached market saturation and there aren't enough future orders to justify a re-stock order.

Yup. https://www.discogs.com/Night-Blooming-Jazzmen-Freedom-Jazz-Dance/master/391042 Similar but not the same group. Watts, Kynard, Mitchell remain, with Andy Simpkins, Joe Pass, Tabackin among others added.

Got the box set from Da Bastards and just listening to the Pony set has me groovin right along. Definitely on the trail of the Pony LP so thanks to Mike Weil for mentioning it (and I should point out that the Pony set included in the box set has a fine Benny Bailey in the front line - not on the MPS LP I don't think).

Well I've only given one listen to each but I will give a bigger then Jim or Hutch did. Not great music but enjoyable (Blue Mitchell! Charles Kynard!) and sounds less dated than some of those other Mainstreams which is a plus for me although YMMV. If flute wasn't a less-than-favorite tone in jazz, I'd probably like some of these tracks more but we all have our cross to bear. And I have to say this Stan Hope trio record is excellent! Solidly in the Gene Harris/Les McCann/Ramsey Lewis swinging bluesy style and for the time something of a throwback. I've dug Hope with Houston Person on some of the latter's High Note releases. This is a nice addition to his limited discography.

Didn't look like half a motherfucker to me. Also did not look like a female impersonating a male, which I seem to recall Chris Albertson saying about him. Very unexpected pleasure, thanks Marla!

Listened to Freedom Jazz Dance first, the title track is a keeper for sure, IMO. A few good moments otherwise, on first listen. First release up tomorrow.

Well the box showed in the mailbox so I shall, soon.

Any comments on the Nightbloomin' Jazzmen? Good looking band, but Leonard Feather "leadership" ... I missed out on the first reissue from Da Bastards then saw a second one at CDJapan and ended up ordering both, plus the Stan Hope trio recording. Probably arriving in a day or so but wondering as I don't think anyone has mentioned this group in a five page thread on the label.

Surprised no one's posted about this I can't imagine I'm the only one on the email list. But there is a new Rob Schneiderman date on Brian Lynch's label. Recording two full years ago, wonder why it took so long. Anyway digital release is available here (CD release is September 1): https://robschneiderman.bandcamp.com/album/tone-twister-advance-release A real treat to find Ralph Moore on a new recording, and Schneiderman - Lynch - Moore have already released some fine recordings on the Reservoir label so I am sure this will be excellent.

We just found out that we'll be off Internet-by-Satellite in a few short weeks and that means I'll be able to stream this without worry about eating up too much of my data plan. Definitely looking forward to seeing this, even if it is as depressing as Kevin says.

I can definitely get what you're sayin' there.

Thanks for the reminder to revisit. It definitely has its charms (another vote for Curtis Amy) but I was reminded that when I first heard it I thought too many of the tracks were on the short side. 7 of 10 less than 4 minutes? Makes it feel like an album of singles. I'd give this ***1/2*, would have been 4.5 with more stretching out.

Thanks for your work Claude but if this is what is left, I'm stuffed, not hungry. Don't need any breakdowns, thanks. I see six or seven complete takes most are under 90 seconds? and one is almost 7 minutes? I'll take the seven minute track and I'd agree no reason not to put it on here. < 90 second tracks just reminds me this was conceived as a soundtrack, sounds like Monk with a muzzle on him to me.

First since Borg in 1976 to win Wimbledon without dropping a set. Borg was at the start of his Wimbledon run, Roger does it for his record 8th title. Just ridiculous.

Found a copy of Detroit saxophonist George Benson's debut on the Regent label, Nearness of You / Begin the Beguine. Surprisingly the seller included another 78 and I wonder if this was actually by mistake. I found a website offering this one for $25?! I think I am just going to keep my mouth shut about this one ... I am sure these won't sound as good as they could, I only have a 33/45 turntable, no special stylus, and I dumped the audio into the PC and used the Time Warp effect to get it to 78 speed. But it sounds plenty good for me especially when I get rid of the clicks.

I have no idea Tom, those pictures have been a huge part of my home office décor for a long time! Here are two of them located directly above the work computer. (I assume these came from the same calendar, its definitely been a while.)

Amazingly this was finally issued on CD: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/842131?sf=bert+myrick&incl_oos=1&incl_cs=1&kwfilter=bert+myrick&sort_order=artist

Gene Phillips, Swinging The Blues (Ace) One of many, many Norton Records sale acquisitions and this is a keeper. Need to get the other volume from Ace now.

Gene Harris, Nature's Way (JAM Records - and I just discovered it was distributed by jem Records of New Jersey ) This is such a schizophrenic album, when I found it way back when I saw Ron Eschete on guitar and Luther Hughes on bass, both future members of the quartet, but also Gene and someone else listed on synthesizers, so major red flags went up. Still, its Gene, and Side 2 consists of Hymn to Freedom, It Might as Well be Spring, St Thomas so I figured I'd at least like half of it. And that's the part I transferred to CDR with the slightly better Hot Lips also on JAM. So fast forward to last night and I see this on eBay as a Japanese CD and I think, could there be alternates or unissued tracks from the good side of this record? No, but I notice "You Don't Know Me" on the first, awful side of the LP, and that's a track that was used as Gene's feature with Ray Brown at one time. So I transferred side 1 into the PC this morning, sadly verified that "Rewind" "Nature's Way" and "Vinegar Kisses" were appalling but buried in between is a very fine performance. Not as great as this one But basically because of an idle search on eBay (or is that "idol" search considering my former GHF status?) I found NEW Gene Harris in the stacks!!! If I'd only known about "You Don't Know Me" at the time, I wouldn't have given up on Side 1 of Nature's Way, way back when. Oh Happy Day!!!

Well I would think ownership and known provenance of the reels confers rights to them, but there are other rights involved. But its no different for Resonance than when they got the Willke tapes and made arrangements to release the Sounds material, and the Wes-Wynton material. Estates must be paid, and if an artist was exclusive to a label at the time I'd think the label or its corporate descendants have to be compensated or sign off on the release. Honestly I think that its an uphill battle because so much has been released from this tour already. Crazed collectors would be interested but are there enough? If this were tapes of a different backing group, earlier in the decade, something that made it really stand out as unique ... but as much as I'd like to hear it, in best sound possible, at the end of the day its different performances of the same tunes we've heard elsewhere. That had to play into Resonance's thinking.

All of those listed are now spoken for; however there's an extra copy of Stompin' volume 32 available for $7.