Dan Gould

I'll be reaching out about selections around middle of February - Figure February 20 deadline. And yes would be asking for MP3s sent to my email so I can send all up to Thom's server.

To be sure I have tried DMing him here, this morning.

Good idea! I imagine Hoffman has PMs? Maybe someone could reach out to let him know and maybe he'd provide a tune himself?

Dibs on a minute and a half, if I stick with my first choice. Or I might be a carbon creditor myself.

The Tony Jerant Memorial BFT Celebration is still open for signups thru the end of November!

Are people open to 13 tunes?

So used to tours having sponsors but this is f-ing brilliant. I saw an ad on a Tampa tv station and when I told my wife that the Stones are sponsored by AARP she laughed and she laughed. I am surprised they haven't hooked up sooner; if they were Americans, they could have been AARP members almost 20 years ago.

This is the pinnacle for me with Ella.

Added, and signup is now closed.

Done and we only need one more contributor!

That's unfortunate news - hoping he is back to his old self soon.

Thanks to Joe and Mike, and no, no theme was being considered.

It recently occurred to me that it's been a while since I noticed a Larry post and checking his account shows its over 3 months since he last visited. Hope he is OK. Has anyone had off-board communication with him?

Please post here if you'd like to contribute a single track to the March 2024 BFT, which is being celebrated as the 20th anniversary BFT (although looking back, the 2nd BFT of all-time had a reveal in September 2003 - it was mine - so I am not sure how we ended up at BFT 240 in March 2024). Regardless, I propose this be named #240 / Tony Jerant Tribute BFT (No I do not know if Tony has passed or not but he is the Granddaddy of 'Em All as the one who conceived the original idea.) EDIT FOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF PARTICIPANT DIVISION INTO FEB/MARCH AND CALL FOR MUSIC: The following members will have their submissions aggregated for the FEBRUARY BFT: sidewinder rcvd mjazzg rcvd Big Al rcvd randyhersom rcvd Rooster_Ties rcvd Eric rcvd webbcity rcvd danasgoodstuff rcvd Dub Modal rcvd Me always bringing up the rear but I'll figure it out. 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 will follow up with DMs for any stragglers. Second group for March will be DrJ rcvd Me JSngrey rcvd Felser rcvd mjzee rcvd medjuk rcvd Tkeith rcvd Joe mikeweil rcvd Ken Dryden

I think 7-8 minutes as a max is probably fine, the total length will depend on the number of participants and how many stay below 7-8 minutes.

One thing that strikes me is that when I and I imagine most people put one together, its with a consideration toward how tough you think the recording ism and having a balance with at least some nods toward easier over harder. Everybody with one track might equal the toughest BFT ever. But this works well for me since the last thing to resolve is "on or off?" and now I have a place to put that excess track.

Well there are about 9-10 regular compilers over the last 2-3 years and a couple of slots that have floated a bit. I think it should be first 12 to express a desire to contribute (if there are that many) and if we don't have a plethora of long tunes, ought to be of manageable length.

There's a possibility if it would work in Thom's player. I imagine would just be alphabetized then Dan_Gould Jim_Sangrey John_Felser etc.

LOL. Well if there is more buy-in, I would take on being the person to accept MP3s from compilers and doing the upload at the end of February. Maybe I should start a thread in January and see if 10-12 people want to contribute one track for March.

I don't know that it has to be, though you would have to put it together on your server.

I am finishing up my January submission and so I was naming tracks and I came to a realization: Whoever takes March will be the 240th, i.e. 20th year anniversary, BFT! Makes me wonder whether the folks still involved should all contribute one single track, a group BFT for #240. Thoughts?

thanks for posting this.

Thanks for sharing that. There is a Smalls Live release I assume this same gig/group. Edit to say Cellar Live, not Smalls.

“You never wanted to play a melody with Larry,” says trumpeter Terell Stafford. “You would end up sounding like such an amateur trying to match his style, dignity and eloquence. When he started to take a solo, forget about it — it was almost like he wasn’t soloing, just writing a bunch of beautiful melodies that lasted chorus after chorus after chorus.” Despite the reverence in which he was held in Philadelphia, McKenna remained largely a hometown secret for the bulk of his career. While music was his livelihood throughout his life, he didn’t release his debut album as a leader, My Shining Hour, until 1997, when he was 60. He followed that with the springtime-themed It Might As Well Be Spring in 2000, but remained under-recorded until a spate of late-life output beginning with Profile in 2009. https://www.wrti.org/wrti-spotlight/2023-11-20/larry-mckenna-tenor-saxophonist-and-philly-jazz-legend-dies-at-86?fbclid=IwAR1DRw4aBQmB_Jg0covaJzszOWgbDcP4qlvMn8984-NPfpgmliWFONVkais

Discogs has four listed, all pre-1980. Alternative reality: Eckert didn't make the mistake or Jacquet didn't even hear a mistake; Jacquet has been a "Beast" to everybody in the band at one time or another and Eckert wasn't going to stand for it any more. Your lack of 'context' cuts both ways. Eckert could be an a-hole, a guy who doesn't respect the gig, and a replaceable nobody. Or Jacquet could be the a-hole. Or a mixture of these two scenarios.