Dan Gould

Everything on philschaapjazz.com is being transferred to the Vanderbilt aviary site. Plus everything he held on to that wasn't yet digitized. There is a five year plan to get thru the material donated and they only started receiving material late last year. It did fill two tractor trailers plus a van when it was moved to Nashville. I am most concerned with the concerts that were broadcast; others are free to have other interests. For instance you can obsess on every dissection of every tune recorded by Bird until you want to beg him to play the damn the music.

Schaap booked the West End and the vast majority of broadcasts were from there. The other sources for some recordings are Third Phase and Birdland and there were far fewer. Maybe this will catch @Rooster_Ties attention. There's a Woody Shaw available for streaming.

The awning collapsed? Couldn't have been Tropical storm Debby.

Your free/avante artists were never going to be booked at the West End. Ellington, Webster, Green, Montgomery were dead before concerts were broadcast live over WKCR, or in the case of Grant Green, long gone from NYC. Schaap billed the West End as "The Uptown Home for Swing" for a reason. Think Ellington and Basie sidemen. Sammy Price. Quinichette, Buddy Tate, Tiny Grimes. Doc Cheatham. Lou Donaldson appeared. Clark Terry has a show uploaded. Junior Cook, Bill Hardman. BTW interviews are a future priority so if any exist of Hawkins or Ellington or the like, they wouldn't fall out of any search.

Who are you looking for, may I ask? Start here: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collection? Put cursor in the search field at top, and "Advanced Search" appears at the right. Click on that. Expand Collection Title (Left column) and check on Phil Schaap Jazz Collection. Go back to the top Search Box and enter artist names. Here's George Kelly: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=George+Kelly&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Percy France: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Percy+France&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Junior Cook: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Junior+Cook&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Richard Wyands (he only appeared as sideman, never as leader AFAIK) https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Richard+Wyands&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search EDIT to add: I recommended selecting Reel to Reel for "source" because there only about 300 uploaded and therefore easy to scroll thru and see the leader names in the titles (and there's a link to see more info on each posting, including sidemen - worthwhile when, for example, a drummer I had never heard of turns out to have Junior Cook and Bill Hardman in his front line one week, and a year later, Ralph Moore and Brian Lynch).

And the way the uploads display there are about 1100 radio shows to scroll thru before you even see any of the amazing West End (and Third Phase - who the hell came up with that name for a jazz club?) recordings.

I reached out to Marc Myers about the Schaap archive ... he said he would write about it. In the end its a little disappointing as it only merited a spot in his 'clearing the decks' post - scroll down to the photo of Bird to see it. https://www.jazzwax.com/2024/08/luke-casey-and-gene.html I really thought that he would write something himself but he only used my words ... I think part of the problem is that he favors youtube uploads for the recordings he promotes on the blog and he can't here.

Thanks for this Brad, I was told to watch for it possibly next week. Edit to add: shoot, I thought this would be an article with Reader Comments enabled and I planned to promote Percy France as the most surprising artist prominently featured in the reels that Phil donated. And Edit again to say .. WTH? Not a thing about the West End and the hundreds of sets broadcast and preserved and now available for streaming. Yes the interviews are important (and I hope a Percy France will show up) and I'd rank them over any edition of Bird Flight since hopefully the artists got a chance to talk but ... those weekly broadcasts are a treasure trove.

Thanks for sharing this Andy. Good to see you around these parts.

Sad to hear. RIP.

The Eddie Johnson is great.

Mikey's litter box and food dishes are within 10 inches of each other at the closest. maybe if that's the way it is from adoption as a baby it doesn't matter?

Wish I had seen this before Debbie came by (she's still here). My wife and I started laying in Pop Tarts as a pre-tropical storm ritual a long time ago. However I have dropped 25 pounds since June 1st and wasn't going to give any of that back. Nevertheless I have to say I lingered at the Pop Tart display on the Walmart end cap when I was shopping on Saturday.

I am sure it was but Crawford did put himself in the record books too. Nobody had ever given up 12 homers (which I was guessing about when I posted) in 3 successive starts. Four pitchers in history had given up 11 homers over three starts (Aaron Harang, 2004; Jose Lima, 2000; Warren Spahn, 1958 and Lynn Nelson, 1939).

Maybe the Red Sox hang on in Arlington, maybe not but Jesus Christ, Kutter Crawford may finally get a win despite having given up, I believe, something like 12 home runs in his last three starts. How the hell does that happen?

The later recording?

Not one I have ever seen in the wild. And I assume you matched track time because he performed it on a later album, post-Muse.

One of his Muse recordings?

Well I gotta say the picking were slim on this one, Ken. When I got to track 4, I thought, comparatively speaking this is 5 stars but in reality, about a *** track. Same on track 6. Track 7 is Sweet Georgia Brown but you can keep this rendition. Track 8 is Star Eyes at ballad tempo and far and away, not even close, the star of the show. 4 stars. Track 9 sounds Pre-Felser to me and that's all I got. Track 10 - Confirmation (?) Al Haig or someone like him? Track 11 - Stitt on alto? 12-15 we're back in that wide zone of not my thang, sorry. Track 8 is of definite interest, 4, 6, 10 and 11 less so. Thanks for putting this together. I am sure others will find more to savor and guess at or ID.

Don't give enough of a shit to think about it.

The time I am spending watching a garbage team fuck games away needs to be replaced with time spent here. FUCK the Red Sox.

Gorts run amok. To be clear Brad, was there a claim that the LA storeowner had pushed someone out the door or was that brought into the conversation about some other unpleasant record store owner?

As I think of it, a couple of shops I would visit in south Florida had CD players (and I recall at least one with a TT also) with headphones available for sampling potential purchases. But they were rather small shops, the ones I went to most (Blue Note in Miami and All Books/Records in Fort Lauderdale) did not. Edit to add, contra Kevin above - these were good quality stereo-type CD players, no DiscMans and no $10 headphones either.