Dan Gould

DING DING DING. Glad I didn't have to add "ex-pat" as an additional hint. And now I realize Jim thought this was a game of Concentration and provided a photo of a pony. I think I would have gone with this instead. So both of you get credit. or for the full Concentration effort we'd have +

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I didn't even know their larger group efforts included a vocalist. First clue of the month then: The vocalist on number 1 is one of the soloists.

No. (And that strikes me as a little off the wall given the three-horn frontline unless you were thinking one of the larger bands. Anyway ... nope. Recorded several years before their earliest effort.)

And we're two for two so far on submissions for February. Not that I couldn't live without either one of them, but no clinkers so far. Way to go, @Big Al

Two recent uploads to Youtube, Percy in a mellow mood.

Thanks for joining in the fun, Mark.

Rcvd. Will be listening later when more of the household is awake. From the edited Opening Post: Please send an mp3 to my email, which is a hotmail account with my screen name run together. If you have not participated before, MP3 encoding should be 256 mps or 320 mps. Naming convention is your screen name. (I reserve the right to reject any track for any reason whatsoever. KIDDING.) Target date is by January 20. You may send at any time. I am not sure where to start if you have not made an MP3 before. But you would need audio software - lots of free ones available - to "rip" a CD track to an mp3. Looking forward to your contribution.

Awesome to hear! I conceived of Fungii Mama as a potential gimme because I thought the release would have caught some listeners here. I enjoyed the whole set ... and when I settled on Minor Move, then I had to program the Blue Mitchell cover next.

Dropping Severino and getting Stroman in his place is a huge upgrade for Yankee fans. For the rest of us, we can hope that his recent injury struggles are exacerbated by the alleged shortcomings of the training staff and he will be on the shelf as often as Severino was.

I was looking for video of the fight with Rose and remembered that it really sucked and the best views were still photographs. A fight like that today in a WS or LCS would have so many cameras on second base ...

Thanks Big Al, glad you joined in the fun!

No it was entirely in jest. Yeah umm no. https://www.101soundboards.com/sounds/286768-those-we-would-find-acceptable-here-would-include-lawrence-welk-jim-nabors-mantovani-percy

Nope.

Thanks Randy, you are always ready to put a name on a tune and that's appreciated. I hope some of the tunes were enjoyed?

Here's hoping at the 1/3rd mark that there are regular commenters getting ready to post sometime ...

Thanks for posting this.

Not anymore, I know the secret is out!

I've considered Whittaker cuts for prior BFTs. A strong Blakey influence.

No mixing topics please.

Yes and the link in the first post opens to a headshot that definitely stirs up memories of his contributions here. Thanks to Bresna for letting us know and condolences to his family and friends and all here who interacted with him.

I will gladly take credit for that, not something I quite anticipated ...

I haven't gone looking for verification but didn't Stan Levey also live in NYC? The whole "white musicians skedaddled" out of town is just hopeless wokery run amok. It should also be noted that this writer is just a couple of years out of Yale and with a degree in Applied Mathematics. And this being run in the Real Estate section made it even less likely any editor would have a clue about the problems with it.

I figured it did but I had to joke about my extensive Percy Faith collection.

Thanks for posting this Brad, I also saw Allen comment on it on his FB feed which warned me of such gems as Gillespie, together with Charlie Parker, is largely considered a pioneer of the rebellious jazz style that diverged from mainstream swing jazz’s emphasis on orchestrated productions and collective harmony. Instead, it ushered in an era of artistic experimentation that better reflected the realities of Black urban life and the talents of Black musicians. This piece continues the tradition of the NYT proving it knows nothing, institutionally, about jazz anymore.