Dan Gould

I got this one, for the Joe Williams session which is quite nice.

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HEY! Look what I said back in November!! I only missed which archives would have some Hank.

Very cool, though not really a surprise, wasn't there an interview with Feldman in which he mentioned unissued studio Monk and it was quickly deduced that this was what he must have been talking about? Anyway, I am confused. The WBGO piece states no new music was composed. The press release GoM posted in the other thread quotes TS Monk as saying there is new music. So which will it be? I hereby predict that almost everyone will be excited by this, but Allen is going to mention how disappointing it is that Rouse is on the date.

All of these sessions slipped out of the vault in the past 10-15 years and have circulated a bit (for better or for worse not to the hands of the Andorrans). I am guessing that before long the KD Blue Lament session will show up on youtube and so will the Ike Quebec with Roach and Green. As far as the Blakey goes I made a CD of the tracks that weren't marked rejected or broke down. Personally my feeling was that Hank's chirpy reed ruined the date more than anything else.

So now we know what is next in the Live from the Penthouse Jim Wilke tapes.

The label was discussed here:

I remember it well but I think its impossible to say, today, whether it would be decent entertainment without giving it a shot first. Similarly, two Christmas's ago I bought the DVD set of "When Things Were Rotten" a short-lived Mel Brooks tv show produced at the time of his huge movie successes. I remembered my 8 year old self thinking this was hysterical and wondering if my not-8-anymore self would still find it so. But my wife had never seen it so I went with it and ... turned out it held up surprisingly well. So who knows on In Search Of but if anyone is thinking about When Things Were Rotten, I say "go for it!"

Update: ordered, listened to twice. HATE HATE HATE. First time, I thought, maybe I'm just not in the mood. But now I've given a second spin and its the same thing. I think its his tone - strangled, pinched? But this is doing nothing for me and there isn't nearly enough to Holmes or Pass to make up for it. Free to a good home, just send me a PM.

This made it out of the vaults to youtube land? Then why oh why can't I hear the Gene Harris/Grant Green date, also rejected?

Well too late now but thanks for the heads up.

I am going to be a bit behind the curve (but way ahead of those waiting for reviews) because while I ordered from Jazz messengers it was indirectly, as I got an offer from Tommy's Jazz for the entire catalog of these releases, about $1 less and substantially better shipping so I ordered a bunch in addition to the Mobes.

Some of us don't need no stinking reviews.

Hold on a minute folks, the umpires are conferring, did Gould bat out of order? Yes, yes he did and he is ruled out. And look at Brett come flying out of the Royals dugout, they're going to have to restrain him .....

The dude had serious skills. Listening to the album again - which believe it or not I'd only listened to in the car, once, in its entirety. This was a late purchase and I started out with Moten Swing because I thought, wrongly, that I could tie it in to the trombonist on the Harlem LP but that wasn't his song. Anyway I'm listening again and it continues to delight, even more. Jumpin' at the Woodside had me laughing out loud.

Well isn't that the mark of a great BFT? <Gould would like to thank the sportswriters for nominating a mere pinch hitter to the All-Star game>

Track 001 “The Theme” Eddie Vinson, Fun in London (JSP) John Burch (piano) Lennie Bush (bass) Bobby Orr (drums) First of all let me say that I practically cackled with glee when I decided to program The Theme, aka Set Closer, as the first track. Yet of course not one person said “is this playing right? This song at the start? Huh?” Not only that, it didn’t get great reviews either. Oh well. Track 002 “Julian’s Dash” Julian Dash, A Portrait Of (Master Jazz) Dash, (tenor) Jimmy Shirley (guitar) Milt Hinton (bass) Cliff Smalls (piano) George Foster (drums) The first of the guitar tracks picked with Jim R. in mind and … well at least some people liked this track more than the first one. Chuck Nessa praised Shirley’s contributions to the record and all I’ll say is that I am happy I picked it up. Track 003 “When Things Go Wrong” Archie Shepp – Horace Parlan, Trouble in Mind (Steeplechase) At last a successful pick. One for three, the pinch hitter is hitting .333! Too bad that’s a case of small sample size. Track 004 “Johnny Come Lately” Ben Webster, Meets Piet Noordijk, Nederlands Jazz Archief Webster (tenor) Noordijk (alto) Irv Rochlin (piano) Rob Langereis (drums) Tony Inzalaco (drums) Was curious to see how Ben’s frontline partner would be regarded, and apparently I’m the only one who didn’t think he nearly ruined the record. Track 005 “Please Don’t Talk About Me” Harlem One More Time Live at Pluckemin! (Harlem One More Time) Norris Turney (alto) Bobby Ashton (tenor) Taft Jordan (trumpet) Benny Morton (trombone) Norman Simmons (piano) Al Casey (guitar) Johnny Williams (bass) Ronnie Cole (drums) As I said, not a minor league version of JATP. I don’t know anything about Bobby Ashton who so confused Mr. Sangrey. I love the entire record. One of my best pick ups of 2016. Mileage. Track 006 “Broadway” Rickie Kamuca & Buddy Tate Live at Donte’s 1970 w. Mundell Lowe (guitar) and probably Monty Budwig (bass) and Chuck Flores (drums) See, the other tenor had a name, and not a bad one. Dory Kamuca brought these tapes to light a few years ago and a Japanese label put it out. I actually tried to sell this on the board a few months ago but had no takers. I have no problem keeping it. Track 007 “Willow Weep For Me” King Curtis It never even occurred to me how this one could be automatically assumed to be Turrentine and The Sounds, so I call that one a flare that fell over the 1B head and Gould hustled into 2nd with a stand up double. In BFT terms. Track 008 “Sister Sadie” Phil Upchurch, Dolphin Dance (King Japan) w. John Clayton (bass) and Harvey Mason (drums) Boy was this one giant whiff. I thought MG might know one of his favorite guitarists but … I see in the credits that it was originally produced by Upchurch, March 9 1987 and digitally recorded live to two tracks with no mixing or overdubbing. Maybe King should have left it in the can? Maybe I should have picked something else from the disc? Track 009 “Billy Boy” Three Sounds, Hey There (Blue Note Japan SHM Series) Gene Harris (piano) Andy Simpkins (bass) Bill Dowdy (drums) Michael Cuscuna rescued this unreleased track when they put out Hey There with 99% of the Babe’s Blues release as a complete record of the August 13 1961 recording session. Track 010 “Intro” Dusko Goykovich Blues in the Gutter (Cosmic Sounds London – 2000 reissue) Goykovich (trumpet) Erich Kleinschuster (trombone and composition) Milos Krstic (piano) Kreso Rameta (bass) Alvin Queen (drums) Track 011 “Low Tide” Bertha Hope, Elmo’s Fire (Steeplechase) Hope, piano, Eddie Henderson (trumpet) Junior Cook (tenor) Walter Booker (bass) Leroy Williams (drums) Track 012 “Moten Swing” Sonny Thompson, Swings in Paris (Black & Blue) Thompson, piano, Roland Lobligeois (bass) Michael Silva (drums) Was this a home run or a triple to Death Valley? Regardless I’ve found the two Black & Blue LPs Thompson recorded at the end of his career to be fascinating documents. He spent a lifetime in the R&B field, limited to 3 minute 78s and 45s, sharing the spotlight with singers, guitarists and tenors. But this blues pianist, apparently inspired by Tatum, could play compelling jazz when given the chance to stretch out. Both of his records are highly recommended. Secret Sauce, indeed. Not only could Thompson play jazz but he also had the good sense to hire Bubba Brooks, which was why I’ve been on a Thompson kick and ended up giving the Black & Blue LPs a shot: Track 013 “Anahuac Breackdown” Bill Doggett, Am I Blue (Blues Reference AKA Black & Blue) Bubba Brooks (tenor) Pete Mayes (guitar) Larry Trott (bass) Howard Overton (drums) Only a portion of this session was released in the Midnight Slows series but for the CD reissue they put it all out and I am damn glad they did as I like all of the unissued material especially this track. Kinda confused though why MG said he’d never heard it because I tugged his coat toward it at the end of last year and he told me in January that he’d picked it up. What can I say, I’ve had a love affair with Bubba Brooks since I first heard him, and since this BFT was put together I even found an obscurity from the end of his life in which he guested on one track. It’s led by a guitarist sure to aggravate the hell out of Jim R., so … see y’all next time! And thanks for playing. (Cues up the Liza Minelli version of “New York, New York”)

Not Hannibal. I'll be posting answers soon though so the stumping will end.

Up for any final thoughts or guesses. I will post the reveal tomorrow.

Welcome, and I hope you've got a whole lot of CDs coming from your pressing plant, cause this is going to be a very popular release, I think!

Thanks for posting this, I only recently heard the Steeplechase duo recordings and the idea of both stretching out more on a similar program is very appealing. Then I found the CD issue which is two discs worth, and I was sold. Hopefully Amazon's one copy was available when I clicked "purchase".