Dan Gould

Well, I think most would agree its his best studio recording since Blues on the Bayou, before that was the first duets disc with other blues legends, and then about two decades of mediocre to OK LPs. Does it stand up to his best work? Factoring in that he was 82 when it was recorded, I'd say it does.

I don't think anyone has talked about it, but when B.B. wins Grammy number whatever, it will be very well deserved. One Kind Favor is a great recording.

Sometime after 2000, the landlord jacked the rent so Bob condensed to two rooms, but he took the storage unit he had a couple of miles down the road and turned it into a retail outlet for all the jazz and blues stock. So that was the last great hurrah of the store, as a lot of the LPs that were previously in storage were now available for crate diggers in the "Jazz and Blues Annex". About the only complaint was that most of the LPs were upstairs which was unairconditioned, just had a couple of fans spreading warm Florida air around. Eventually though the traffic through the annex dwindled to the point that he couldn't justify having someone there anymore. So he closed it up, moved jazz and blues back into the main store (which was now down to one room) and then a year ago in the summer, the final rent hike pushed him over the edge.

On the other hand, when you listen to performers such as Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Max Roach, to me these people produce noise: discordancy and it's just not what I want to hear. They're extremely adept at playing their respective instruments but for some reason they have no desire to produce enjoyable "music." My 2 cents. Horace Silver, Doin' The Thing: Yeah, Horace Silver makes noise, not toe-tapping music. Like whatever you want, but don't say stupid shit about what you don't like.

Going through the individual tracks wouldn't be very helpful, as only a handful of tracks held much appeal for me, and none of them triggered any strong (or even weak) guesses at the musicians. So a few observations: IMHO, we've exhausted the whole "pick an 'overture' like number for the first track" approach. But of course, YMMV. Too much flute on this BFT ( ) ... and not enough good old swinging rhythm. Seriously, I felt like a lot of the drummers were too busy, too rock-influenced. Of course, no one ever accused me of being too enamored of post-1965 jazz. I enjoyed track 3 a lot, track 4 a bit less, the organ on track 13, the piano on track 5. I'm afraid that's all I got, Bob. Hoping Disc 2 isn't more of the same.

Danny would love you Chewy. Maybe you should make a pilgramge to Cortland, N.Y. CLASP!

Im really interested to hear you elaborate further about this. I would be too but I don't think he can, as I suspect he knows jack shit about what he is talking about.

In my parent's neck of the woods, Sally's Place in Westport, CT. Very small but extremely well stocked in just about every jazz label. Just outside of Danbury is Gerosa's Records, which has been a profitable stop the last couple of times I went home for the holidays. I presume its still there, though they used to have two or three units in the shopping center, now they are down to one. In south Florida, Blue Note Records of North Miami Beach relocated to a storage bay in Hollywood about 14 months ago, after their landlord jacked up their rent. Bob decided to go back to his roots in vinyl and seemed to have managed to keep his best customers, but I've only made it down there a grand total of two times. North of Miami-Dade, Radioactive Records in Fort Lauderdale is about the only store left. They actually expanded their shop and put out a ton of vinyl. Unfortunately I can't support them like I used to but it looks like they are in for the long haul.

The script wasn't that bad until I got to :bad:

Not the word I was going to use, but yes, that is an "interesting" opinion.

Did Crouch have a relative working for Columbia back then?

How do you get Firefox 5.0 when the website only offers 3.0? Are you from the future or something? Anyway, I'm kind of resigned to the whole right click - open in new tab option. But I still find it odd that the simultaneous click works in IE but not in Firefox.

This is a good deal, they've bought out the arbitration years plus at least two years of free agency of a guy who is the reigning MVP and was the RoY. The fact that they did this with Pedroia and haven't with Youkilis shows how much they value young talent. Youk is still a couple of years from free agency, but he's also turning 30 next season. Its unfortunate, but the time he spent on the Pawtucket shuffle, waiting to take over from Billy Mueller, took away what might have been prime seasons of both production and earnings. Given that he will be 32(?) when he reaches free agency - well its just unfortunate that his first big contract will also be his last, and it will probably stretch into some portion of his decline phase.

Well, that sort of works, but the cure may be worse than the disease. That plugin has an option that makes all links open in a new tab - but sometimes you want a new tab (when you're going through a splash page like the NY Times) and other times you don't (like when you want to reply to a post here). Thanks for the help.

It just occurred to me that the problem could be assigning the right/left click to scroll would be part of the problem, but when I changed it to "unassigned", it doesn't change the fact that left/right click doesn't bring up new tabs in Firefox. ARGH!

We had to wipe out our hard drive and reinstall Windows XP last night. Now we've reinstalled all the programs we use, including Firefox 3.0, as well as the software for our Logitech trackball mouse. Here's the weird thing: Before, when I wanted to open a link in a tab, all I had to do was click left and right simultaneously. Now, that only works for tabbed browsing in IE, and I end up triggering the trackball scrolling when I do it in Firefox. Any ideas? I really like Firefox 3.0 so far, but if I can't easily use the tabs, what's the point? I only seem to get tabs if I right click and choose open in a new tab. Weird. And I've already gone to tools - options - tabs and chosen "new windows open in a new tab".

See, I honestly had no idea if the contract got signed or not, though I guess if I sat down and thought about it I would have guessed "no". So now I am extra curious as to how things fell apart, and how Glaser was viewed in the immediate aftermath.

MP3 downloads are compressed and lossy. They do not match up to CDs or CDRs burned from lossless files. These are facts, even if downloads are less "crappy" than before, they will always be a degraded representation of the source tracks. RDK posted a link to one piece of software, there are others that demonstrate quite graphically what a compressed MP3 looks like vs what an uncompressed, lossless audio wave looks like.

I browse on dustygroove.com quite a bit, and have discovered things that way. Still, there's something about randomly stumbling across something in a shop, having it in your hand, and feeling compelled to buy it. I guess that's the main difference for me. A good percentage of my record buying has been based more on what I randomly find rather than looking for a particular title. I agree the tactile difference is important, but on the other hand, there's one big advantage to discovering unknown titles in the way I described: You can consult online sources like AMG to figure out if you really want it or not! Most of us have probably bought something in a shop and not realized til we got home that it was something we already had in a different form.

I was just wondering what that really means. Does that mean that it can go bad in a few years with constant regular play or it can go bad in a few years regardless? Does it "go bad" from playing? If you only played it two or three times a year, wouldn't it conceivably last decades? I'm really curious about what the difference might be between a CD-R and a regular CD issue as far as longevity is concerned. I may be wrong but I believe it is not related to being played or not. Consumer CDRs protect the 0s and 1s less effectively, supposedly, than manufactured CDs, and therefore may cease to be readable by your CD player. On the other hand, on the very rare occasions that this has happened to me, I have always been able to use my audio software to extract the audio files to WAV files and re-burn the CD.

That's the big difference. On-line is great for finding something you specifically want, but not necessarily for stumbling across things you never heard of. Searching major online shops, true. But Ebay does have a nice link called "Visit Sellers Store" which can often reveal things you've never heard of. I've also had luck in the past with one or two GEMM dealers, after I stumbled upon their listing in search of one item, I've found a number of other things I didn't know about by scrolling through their stock.

Now I really am on pins and needles.

The Department of Redundancy and Repetition Department awards you a Gold Star, along with an emblem with five points, star-shaped, gilded.

Well, I never did follow up on the jazz programmer list idea, but after spending another fruitless hour chasing Google hits (the CD appears to be available on the MSN Zune site but when you try to purchase it, it takes you to a page with other items, not the CD), I tried to look up the review I had seen on AMG. And what do I find? A link to someone selling a copy on half.com for $8. :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: :excited: Three days late, but I finally have something to be truly thankful for!

hel-LO! For those who want something to hold in their hands, this seems like an excellent compromise. I don't think I'd hesitate if I saw something OOP that I wanted in this form.