Dan Gould

Back, with my ears just waiting for that first sign of a Gould Reject. TRACK 6: Well this ain't it - it's fantasic. Arnett Cobb without any honks? Whatever it is I have to get it. 5 stars .... 5 million stars. Track 7: Nope. Most curious about the tenor. 4 stars. Track 8: Yeah that's the one. And by one I mean zero stars. Track 9: And again. Track 10: Cannot handle the singer. Nope not at all. Track 11: I can't figure out what this is going for ... the Bari wears out his welcome but then we move into mellow trumpet and 'bone. For coming after the past three, 2 1/2 stars. Wish it had been cohesive and stayed in the mellow mood the other horns maintained. ******************************************** Well #6 is the shit and I mean in that in the good sense. If I don't have it I will have to correct that ASAP. Thanks, Thom.

I thought Turner was not a favorite but I went for it. And much of the above was my own attempt at humor. (As in, I have big ears only in the literal sense.)

TRACK 1: Peppy! Enjoying the tenor sax a lot. Strange guitar sound is harshing my mellow though. Get rid of the guitar and this is a 3.5 star tune easily. Combined rating 2.5. TRACK 2: Mark Turner? 3 stars, no demerits. Track 3: Extra Peppy! Liking solos a lot more than ensemble. This was closest to a Gould Reject (tm) but I refused to give in to negativity and listened with open heart and mind. 3 stars. TRACK 4: OH HELL NO. Fake Coltrane. Yeah, no. I don't have all that much time tonight but didn't want to end on a downer (I'm a people person with big ears, doncha know. And I mean that literally) so: TRACK 5: Not a reject. 2.5 stars. Tomorrow night is a quiet night in MLB so I will try to listen to the rest then. There's gots to be something aggravating coming up.

And I always go in with a deep well of open-mindedness. It sucks to be pigeonholed.

This is hysterical that you posted this Lon. I am a member of the Rare Jazz Photos group on FB, and somebody asked a question about how common it was to post photos without crediting the photographer. I posted on the thread that I credit the author when known but there are a lot of photos on the interweb without credits, and that gets perpetuated. The next thing I know the thread starter is telling me I didn't make much of an effort on his photo. And I am completely baffled. As it turns out, he said it was this photo that he took and I posted. Didn't even get an apology when I set him straight and he named somebody else as the dastardly person who posted his photo. I will not say here who the photographer is. F that guy. According to Grease, it starts with C, Am and F. IIRC.

Nice to see the Yankees finally come back to earth a bit while the Sox have been playing mostly well. 7 1/2 is a lot more do-able than 13.

I hope this was worth the wait, DM: TRACK 1: I like this, wish there was more tenor. 3.5 stars. TRACK 2: It Had to Be You. Not for Felser but I like it fine. 3 stars. TRACK 3: Not feeling this as much. 2 1/2 stars. TRACK 4: Still in a pre-bop zone and I am starting to wish the clarinet was not so heavily featured in that era. Piano is the highlight for me here. 3 stars. TRACK 5: Really reaching my limit on clarinet. 2 1/2 stars. TRACK 6 thru 9: Oh how I wish there was more pre-bop clarinet you could have chosen. 0 stars. (And special mention for Track 9 which reminds me why I don't find Bill Evan's post-Miles work remotely special. Give me some swing and blues. Junior Mance. Gene Harris. Not this.) TRACK 10: Back to pre-bop and not a moment too soon. 3.5 stars. TRACK 11: Nice. 3 stars. TRACK 12: This grew on me and gets the highest mark: 4 stars. TRACK 13: OK organ groover. Would have preferred more solo voices, less organ. 3 stars. TRACK 14: A little of this classic Coltrane style goes a long way for me. 2 3/4 stars. **************************** I did read the thread and can say I am on the hunt for the Cliff Jordan recording, which I had never heard before. So that is the definite benefit of finally listening to this BFT. Thanks!

I was in the jazz section of a chain music store and overheard a customer ask for help finding "Dave Cruisin". 90 seems really old but I had no idea if he was doing film or tv work in the 60s.

Maybe its just me but "archival release" doesn't cover a concert from 10 years ago. This maybe exciting for some but I still hold out hope for something from a BN artist from the Left Bank tapes or something like that.

Honest injun, I got a plan for listening this week.

Took a bit more than that and had I not found the original box with instructions inside I'd still be clueless about getting it to output audio.

got it to work!

Does anyone have a micro-cassette player they could loan out to me? Long story short, I am in contact with board member Listeningtoprestige who is working on a book about the label. Years ago Chris Albertson put me in touch with Bob Weinstock who sat for a fairly length interview. Nothing came of it ultimately and my search for the audio to share turned up two digital files that are at most, 1/2 of what I recorded. I finally found what I am sure are the micro-cassettes but alas, the old micro-cassette player has bitten the dust. And Amazon shows that true mini-cassette devices are now over $100! So I am hoping someone has one that is functional and can ship to me so I can output the tapes to digital. I would gladly pay your shipping costs to send to me. Please DM. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the reminder ... I will do my darndest to listen and post (weakly) this weekend.

About a week from 81 games in the books and the division races are almost all a joke. You have the Yankees and Orioles in a legit race, and Minnesota and the Royals trying to hang on against Cleveland at 6-6.5 games back and every other race you can practically book right now. Maybe that changes but it seems like this season's stretch drive will be among weak-ass teams battling for last WC spot.

Not to derail the thread but I recently tipped into the "diabetic" A1C from a steady "pre-diabetic" state before. Treating as wake up call to fix diet; a friend had same thing happen a short while before, he made dietary changes and first new measurement afterwards was lowest in years. Hoping to duplicate his results.

Well that proves how different a world it is. Calling the catcher "motherfucker" is an invite for a very high and very tight fastball not that long ago. And its somewhat amusing to think that "motherfucker" isn't as bad, in this context, as saying "it was a ball, bitch."

Intrigued. Thanks for posting.

Number one, if a robo ump were in use, they wouldn't miss calls. So the question is moot. Number two (and its 6 am, speakers are off, I was reading lips myself - if he was audible on the game microphone then I am wrong - but I don't think you punctuate a correction with "motherfucker" and are in the box for the next pitch. More likely he said "motherfuck".

I suggest you follow his channel. He does a lot of lip reading and seems very accurate. Not sure his secret. There have been other posts of his "breakdowns" and they almost always feature lip reading.

This is pretty darn funny/entertaining

Pretty certain that having volumes 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 of 7 volume series is an indication that there was interest in the series, now or in the past. Who wants to start with 1 and 2 knowing that 3 doesn't exist at the library? I agree completely with Kevin at least on his example.

I intend to make sure my wife knows to contact Dusty Groove or maybe the SC seller whose name escapes me now, to come and take a look at it all and make a fair offer. f they aren't impossibly cheap on the offer it will be worth it. I've also thought about marking certain LPs, mostly blues, that I think are not run-of-the-mill and worth something.

Not that I want to search out a Madonna recording but where does this come from?

I had absolutely no clue that the same guy wrote "hooked on a feeling" "suspicous minds" and "Always on My Mind". That's some serious talent. RIP.