Dan Gould

If you go with her full name, that should be the formal name but Nica is what she is called.

I still like Natasha for obvious reasons but there's your jazz-related choice: Nica! It even sounds like her behavior befits an aristocratic background. Gotta be Nica!

Sorry, but that opening track just does nothing for me. In fact I didn't even save the track for burning, for me, this LP is going to start with "God Bless The Child". To each their own.

Looks like I should keep this thread open at all times for the foreseeable future, as I need to transfer a good portion of the LPs I've sold before I ship them away. What's great is that for a long, long time I really got away from digging into the vinyl outside of making transfers on certain LPs right when I got them. So now I will be revisiting a lot of recordings I last heard a long time ago - all the ones that I never transferred (many bought before I could make transfers) give or take the odd dud and anything that was replaced by a CD release. So, up first was: Junior Mance, Holy Mama (Inner City) - once you get past the first track, a bass happy rendition of "By The Time I Get to Phoenix" this is a nice hard swinging record. Now I'm revisiting two Dexters from way back when I was a Dexaholic and not yet the Gene Harris Fanatic. Don't know why I never got this on CD, The Tower of Power is pretty sweet. More Power to follow.

Do a little research, find out what Sasha Grey does for a living, share it with your wife and I bet she'll swear off that name forever.

He definitely enlivened any date he appeared on - they are probably hard to find at this point but he recorded Roll Call as a leader for Justice Records, easily recommended, with Mel Rhyne on organ. RIP.

I never participate in this thread because my cooking is pretty simple and unless I am cooking in the wok, nothing remotely special. (Yes, I probably cook 95% of the time, not that my wife doesn't but our schedules seem to leave me as the cook if I want to eat at a reasonable hour). Tonight's meal though was something I don't do very often - the never ending pasta dish that allows me to skip doing any cooking for about 4 days. It does turn out pretty nice but then again our tastes are pretty simple. Its basically two boxes of penne, one jar of a gourmet no-salt pasta sauce. I saute six red and green peppers ... oh fuck it this is too boring to even finish the description. I'm not a chef. I don't pretend to be one. I cook so we can eat so we can live. Carry on. :blush2:

I take this to mean that extreme heroin use is in evidence in the grooves? Does this mean that everyone was wasted? Or is it simply a reference to the prevalence of heroin use among the players? Is the playing sloppy because of heroin use? I'd really like to know what you mean by "most heroin records". I think this is the second best 50s Dexter recording, behind Daddy Plays the Horn with Kenny Drew (granted its a small group of 50s recordings, but those two records are awfully good, imo). If you dig Carl Perkins, its a no-brainer to snap this one up, Tom.

For some reason this jogs my memory. First concert was somewhere on Long Island, an outdoor venue, sometime in the early 70s. America performed, and I really liked it because I was 7 years old and loved "Horse With No Name" (and still do, so by all means, shoot me).

First concert was Simon and Garfunkel in Central Park in 1981. First jazz concert was the MJQ in 1988 in St. Louis. Or else the Ray Brown Trio at the Blue Note, I'm not 100% sure.

Actually, this wasn't a new word for me, but this chick was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title of the thread.

I think I should have right of first refusal. Fortunately the original Coltrane (to the upper left) is such a benevolent dictator, he's cool with it.

What, Natasha wasn't a pretty bad-ass spy? Seriously, even if Nikita is considered unisex, I think most people think of it as male. Natasha is undeniably female. And a bad-ass. And I'll bet she wouldn't pound her shoe on the table and say 'we will bury you!'

I think I've talked a bit about Coltrane and Gracie so here is the dog I grew up with, Chauncey. A word about his name(s). I suggested Chauncey because he reminded us of a local newscaster named Chauncey Howell (a little goofy and a little weird). Folks in the NYC area should remember him. He also went by "Big Guy" because we got him when WKRP in Cincinnati was at its height of popularity. He was about as smart as Arthur Carlson, and he liked to spend his days playing. We did not understand when he adopted him that Irish Setter puppies should come with a brick because one is needed in order to get their attention. Chauncey failed obedience school too many times to count, until finally we were asked not to bring him back because he was too much of a distraction to the other dogs. Yet he had plenty of brains when it mattered. We used to share graham crackers - I'd hold one half in my mouth and half out, and he'd take half and I'd take half. I couldn't hug my Mom without him making it a group hug. And heaven forbid if you left for college. Upon your return, his joy was so overwhelming that his entire 80 pound body would tremble from nose to tail. You had to sit with him and love him up before you could greet any other member of the family. He would calm down at first but inevitably as soon as I stood up to go hug Mom, he'd go back into hysterics and you'd have to do it all over again. And I loved how he let you know that he was ready to get into the bed with you (I slept in a single). He'd drag his paw across my leg once. If I didn't move, he'd drag it again, a little harder. If I still didn't move, then he'd just keep dragging his paw until I gave him room. It was: Move your leg. Move your leg. MOVE YOUR LEG MOVE YOUR LEG MOVE YOUR LEG And it was the same every night. I loved making him say MOVE YOUR LEG.

It has the added advantage of offering the option of naming the next addition "Boris".

A high quality collection expecially if you're in some metropolitan area like NY or LA is easy to sell, just contact the common big stores. Selling individual LP may be an hassle, I mean that for getting the most you have to work on it. Like everything in life, but lottery. Yes, I am sure Fred Cohen of Jazz Record Center would be happy to get his hands on such a collection. OTOH, dealers offer pennies on the dollar so why accept $20 for one of those BNs that you see go for $1000? I think its also been mentioned recently that the JRC was pretty packed to the gills lately, which might make Fred less eager to spend money on stock. Its definitely the easiest way to get rid of a collection but it won't get you the most, that's for sure.

I'm disappointed that Blue and Natasha got rejected.

Does anyone know if lot sales like that ever work out well, even if its high quality? If your friend is interested in raising the greatest amount possible she should really sell things individually online. Otherwise she'll be left with offers from dealers that will likely be very cheap relative to what they'll get by putting the LPs up themselves. But if she just wants to get it over and done with, that course of action will be easiest.

Just looked at AMG - 1960 was definitely a peak, if not the peak for the band with Feelin' Good, Moods and Here We Come all coming out that year.

Yeah, that's what I thought it might be - really depends on how he is using the word "spot" in Is it "spot" meaning "part of the recording" or is he using it in the actual radio meaning of the term? Seems to me that "head over to the Blue Note studio" or the like doesn't sound that special or distinctive - its just a transition into the interview. Soon we'll know "... the rest of the story."

Then I am definitely curious if its an actual Blue Note radio ad at the start, or is the seller misinterpreting the announcer opening ... because an actual Blue Note radio ad would be too cool to hear - and may not exist anywhere else but for these radio show discs. It does seem to me that a reasonable "trade" for doing the interview would be a promotional spot for the record label.

That's what makes me wonder the format and how much will be interview time and whether there are spot breaks in the middle, or a complete program with ads at the start and finish that wouldn't be mastered to the record itself? Iirc, Gene served in the Army (hated it because he was stationed in the south and wasn't prepared for Jim Crow) and volunteered to be a paratrooper even though he was terrified of flying. I guess having a parachute and knowing how to use it eases the fear of getting on the plane. I'm also real curious about this opening that the listing mentions, and also the possibility of even a little more info about the days of the "Four Sounds" since it was only a few years before that they dropped the saxophonist.

I was thinking I might post a transcript or figure out how to share the audio once I get it and do the pop removal. There's no way; the auction didn't show a jacket... Definitely! My curiosity is killing me! I can understand that but I will probably stop listening to the B side once a schmaltzy performance of "That's Amore" comes up.

I am sure they weren't. For one thing, he didn't record as a leader for another five years. And for another, there was a vocalist named Don Cherry who recorded for Columbia. But I'll let you know for sure in a week or two.

I know I am not offering anything great but if you love vinyl there is still a lot of great music available in my sale. And its not like you're risking much on the price (though the shipping won't be cheap, its no different than what you'd pay other international sellers).