Dan Gould

Hope so, Brad! With the Braves and then the Brewers their path is the most challenging of any team this year.

That Cub loss last night was a gut-punch of the 1969 black cat past the dugout type. I know, Braves, at home, but blowing a lead and then losing like that ... f-ing painful and mostly since my elderly and declining Mother may not have many more memorable Cub seasons left. They got to make it count.

They are listing his bass/drum partners. It's obvious to me that McCann is on all tracks.

I never watched NCIS but I recall my Mother commenting about how old McCallum was compared to how old he looked in that show. I was pretty amazed myself.

Since I will almost certainly use an Amazon gift card or other non-personal-payment method I will probably be less sensitive to the additional cost of making it three CDs instead of two. Curious about the retail price they set.

Thanks for that; I'll say I am in based on the track list; no deep reliance on the tunes that made him famous on PJ. I never did pick up the Hyena release so his patter, if present, will be new to me.

At this stage, pretty sure it was? And an argument could be made that the original trio was the ultimate group to present that material. YMMV.

Does make you wonder about the distribution of music on each, and especially whether they are gouging a bit. I mean, three shows at the Penthouse didn't equate to that much music, maybe 1 1/2 CDs? How much do they have from the Vanguard?

Was trying to find a list of Black Friday Record Store releases and up pops this announcement. I won't pay "audiophile LP" prices but in assumption there's a CD coming too, I am way more likely a yes than a no. And now I see the "3-CD" mention above ... that's a lot of live McCann. Might have to be a Christmas request or Amazon gift card kinda thing but I would lean that way for sure.

Pretty sure the Phils were deeply flawed in one way or another last year but came within two wins so ... this is why they play the games.

Strange to realize nobody posted on this thread in between Jim's declaration of surrender to the inevitable and the huge change in their fortunes noted by GoM. Do I get a prize for knowing that despite the Yankees August collapse that inevitably they would rise back above the Sox? I am left to hope that the Cubs can navigate their challenging last week (Braves and Brewers on the road) and preserve the Wild Card slot. If they do then I can hope and pray for a run like the Phils had last year.

Hearing his breakthrough BN release 30 years (or whatever) ago was enough to tell me I didn't need to see him live.

You don't need a Quadrophonic Blaupunkt, what you need is a curveball! -Crash Davis

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For my Organissimo friends not on FB, a just-discovered photo of Percy France and his daughter, sometime in the 80s at the West End Cafe. Her name is Niomi Renee and she posted a podcast about "absent Dads." I haven't listened yet but I was able to secure contact info and have reached out to her, waiting and hoping that she replies and can answer questions about what she knows or has been told about her Dad. Not to mention, more pictures if she has any.

None of the above. Is the dog they started with even a Dacshund? It's like they just matched up general color and went with it.

Which is on the West Coast - an advantage for some, theoretically. My order of the Philly Joe and Al Grey/Billy Mitchell took a bit longer than I expected and was from the US warehouse. Closer to two weeks. (And I really wish I had known of this release at the time as I would have definitely gone for it with the other two.)

Well apparently I didn't look closely enough at the Al Grey/Billy Mitchell details. Disc 1 puts together live recordings issued by Argo. Al Grey-Billy Mitchell Sextet in it's entirety and 1/2 of Al Grey Snap Your Fingers. Both items I already own. Now it's on to the new radio broadcasts which of course have the usual warning about audible faults that can't be fixed, blah blah blah. Fingers crossed.

Jordi's website https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/philly-joe-jones-albums/56771-live-at-birdland-historic-unreleased-1962-recordings.html https://www.freshsoundrecords.com/al-grey-billy-mitchell-albums/56637-sextet-septet-live-at-the-museum-of-modern-art-at-birdland-2-cd.html with shipping to the states I paid $30 or so.

I received this and the Al Grey/Billy Mitchell thing and noticed an interesting credit at the end of the fairly extensive liners: "Compiled by Jordi Sunol" Huh? So he took from various sources without attribution? I guess it's part and parcel of his business model. Anyway, sound is listenable, drums pretty up front. I need to listen more carefully a couple of times but I have a feeling this will make some "best archival releases" lists. And about the Al Grey/Billy Mitchell, not noted before: I think they start with an issued Argo LP because they needed space on an extra CD for the entirety of the available broadcasts from Birdland. They start with three tunes, about 20 minutes, on disc 1 (after the Argo LP) and then fill disc 2. It's a lot of live performance by a great group and this may ultimately appeal most to me out of these two CD releases.

Booty has one major thing to recommend it: The unissued Charles Williams recording of Willow. While for some unknown reason they list the whole group from the issued LP, the fact is that it is a great performance from his core group, featuring Bubba Brooks and Don Pullen and no one else. Its up on youtube for those interested.

Good for you.

you look thinner than the photo I've seen playing sax; is the cane a permanent thing or a temporary one? (Feel free not to respond.)

Ah so that Part 3 was not issued in the series En Concert ... that makes some of this new to me.

I thought that release was two discs but this shows three.