Dan Gould

In Valerie's honor, I've offered her Daddy a great deal on rare Three Sounds CDs.

Please see the New Stupendous Sale Thread!

Update: Since most everyone has paid or isn't waffling on what they've asked for, I've updated the list to remove all "On Hold" items. I've also added a Count Basie Roulette that you don't see very often. And its got a jewel box, too. Otherwise, everything else is still available, and everyone who has paid to date, your CDs are on their way. C's and beyond are coming up ...

I know that a few people inquired about Dizzy Reece, Blues in Trinity. Since I didn't save PMs for items that are spoken for, I figured I should make a general announcement that this is available again. Its a promo copy. There's a sticker across the top of the CD, and there is sticker residue/discoloration on the insert. If you must know what that means in practice, send me your email and I will send you the scan that sunk the original deal. $8 to the first person with a firm commitment. $9 if you want a lovely white jewel box with it. And I'll include media mail shipping with or without the jewel box.

You might also consider that there are a lot of people in those stands not even born when those guys ended their careers. They are just another old guy on the field, clinging to past glory. That's not how me, my wife or my brothers or father would look at it, but that is how it is.

Uh, 91 is major league average FB. 91 gets hit if its in the wrong place. 97 doesn't get hit as often, whether its in the wrong place or the right place.

Then why should a few inconsequential results in June make the difference? A crappy team like the Royals beat good teams in the NL - that makes the AL superior? I think the smarter move would be awarding it to the team with the best record, and have those team's interleague results be the tie-breaker. You'd have the problem of each playing different opponents, but its a stronger basis than overall results, methinks. I do agree that basing it on the results of an exhibitiion is pretty foolish though.

A true Renaissance Man - he loves blues AND jazz. Happy Birthday, Tom! :party:

I hope to post the C's and D's later today or tomorrow but in the meantime, UP for more sales. Seriously, I expected some of those Blakeys to go like hot cakes. I've had those live European discs forever, and never seen them aside from the time I snatched them up. I figured they'd go quick but no one has grabbed one yet, except for the TCB release.

Well, huge news on the Clemens front this morning that sheds light on the whole "Kirk Randomski can testify that he shipped HGH to the Clemens home" part of McNamee's court filing: Randomski turned over to the Feds receipts for a shipment of HGH to Clemens "care of" McNamee, coinciding with the time that Debbie Clemens used HGH for her SI cover shoot. If this is true, that's it for Roger. Even if the HGH were for Debbie, he told a whopper of a lie under oath to Congress about his wife's use, where the PEDs came from, etc. That's lying to Congress. That's a felony conviction. So long, Roger. Your drive, determination and character might have set you apart on the diamond, but in the end, it destroyed you. No Hall of Fame and it will be jail time soon enough.

for a game that started out as a major snooze, the last half was pretty good. I gave up and went to bed at 12:30 AM, and now that I see how much longer it took, I'm glad I did. I really am kind of torn about the whole result though: My number one outcome is for the Cubs to win - and not having home field could definitely effect that. My number two result is for the Sox to repeat, and this helps them. But on the other hand, since they seem to think "sweep" with every WS lately, the last outcome I'd like to see is for them to clinch at Fenway. So this could make it tougher.

The former Gene Harris Fanatic recommends Soul Symphony ahead of Elegant Soul. I hope that "former" only refers to the handle, and not to fanatic. but of course.

You're a year late with that one, pal. The NY tabloids gave him that name when he was photographed with the she-male stripper last year.

Why did they allow Boggs to wear a Yankee cap when he went into the Hall with a Red Sox cap??? I mean seriously. Yeah, its Yankee Stadium. But he's there as a living member of the Hall of Fame, and he went into the Hall wearing a Red Sox cap. Yankee fans were going to cheer him anyway, and he should have been forced to wear the cap that is on the plaque. I always thought he was an asshole anyway. And where was Joe Morgan? He's not working the game, even if ESPN is going to have him on the post-game coverage, he had no duties for Fox. I'll bet that incredibly stupid old asshole boycotted it, because he would have been introduced alongside Rhyne Sandburg, a man he desperately tried to keep out of the Hall, and when he failed, for the only time in memory, he didn't show up the induction ceremony. I laugh at that fucker almost every week on the Fire Joe Morgan site, but I really hate him for being a classless piece of shit. At least when Youk was introduced, you couldn't be sure if it was "boo" or "Youk" they were yelling. Pedroia and Manny, not so much.

I'm also thinking John Malkovich for some reason ...

The former Gene Harris Fanatic recommends Soul Symphony ahead of Elegant Soul.

Thanks for bringing this up. I couldn't find it before, this may be easier in terms of listing things out, at least for a while. Only difference is that my A to Z included CDRs of both CD reissues and LP transfers, so it doesn't reflect what I will be offering in this commercial CD Stupendous Sale.

I've updated the list for the latest "holds" and also please note that there are several late additions, italicized, including several discs that weren't led by Bubba Brooks but feature him in the band.

Its purely financial for me, Paul.

After fielding some requests, it occurs to me that there is another way to go about this sale. I have a lot of Blue Notes from the late 80s on. I have a lot of Criss Cross releases. I have a lot of Steeplechase releases. I have older Fresh Sound releases by Blue Note artists like Lee Morgan and the Messengers. All domestic Blue Notes in my possession will be available on a first come, first serve basis, at $8 a piece (per CD) (not including anything already listed in the A's or B's). If there's something you want, send in your list to get first dibs before I reach that part of the alphabet. Same with Criss Cross releases - $8 per CD. The One For All gang, individually and collectively, older Criss Cross CDs. Send in your list. Steeplechase - Mainly Dex but a lot of others too. $8 for that one you've been on the hunt for, if I've got it and you contact me first. Fresh Sound - that price will be $9 per. Don't have as many but give it a shot and we'll see. I do have some Morgan and Messengers that are pretty hard to come by. Same ground rules as before: Shipping is $2.00 for the first CD, .75 each additional. Insurance encouraged though I will do my best to pad the padded mailer. International will be quoted. NO jewel boxes available (that's for Soul Stream, mostly ). Emails can also be sent - dangould@hotmail.com, and remember, Paypal preferred, check or money order accepted.

There's always someone with reading comprehension problems. Yes, Mike, no jewel boxes means no plastic. But you do get disc, tray card and inserts.

Thank you Jim, but I'll be most appreciative if you don't start your sale just yet.

Haven't seen the PM yet, but I've already put them on hold for you.

All current PMs have been processed for "holds". I've also added a note at the top but if anyone misses it: None of the Verves listed here are digipack. All are older regular CD reissues. I'll have digipacks offered after I've gone through all the CDs in the binders.

Different bari player every take! The whole saxophone section! The driver keeps missing the car seat so....fire the band. Maybe only one take a day? I thought that was part of the joke, reinforced by the increasingly compressed rhythm of the editing and the anxiety displayed by Jack Lemmon and Louis Nye at one point -- that the whole shtick was so elaborate that when they screwed up everyone had to start over from scratch the next day (with subs in the band being inevitable). Also, as a commentator on YouTube explains, when the actor finally lands in the seat properly, he takes a puff on a cigarette and says (in the English-language original), "Man -- that's coffee!" I need to see this movie. And the Hi-Los are fabulous -- that "shake"! Different conductor, too (or at least different clothes). AND the Hi-Lo's are wearing different clothes on each take: Sweaters, then shirts and ties, then jackets. CONTINUITY!!!!! As for the budget on corporate ads, yeah some companies spread the dough pretty thick. I took some arranging lessons with Manny Mendelson in Chicago and he had/has the account with United Airlines for all of those Rhapsody in Blue ads. Every time they did a new ad, even if they wanted the essentially the same music, they would pay Manny to "re-orchestrate", then book the studio downtown, then contract a small orchestra (usually CSO players) and re-record the whole thing. Session after session... And the sessions would be long enough to record :30, :60, :15, :20 spots (as opposed to editing in post). There was a guy (or group) at United Airlines or an ad agency who runs the ad campaign, and his (their) salary was justified in part by the size of the budget for what they're working on. The bigger the annual budget, the more important that guy must be. There apparently was also a rush near the end of the fiscal year to "zero out" the account by doing a whole bunch of ads in a short period of time. Thus justifying the big budget for this year, and a bigger one for next year. Nice work, if you can get it. There was an agency in south Florida that paid voice talents ridiculously well. They used me regularly for a period of about 12 weeks. Then it stopped, and then I found out they closed shop. Probably because they were so damn expensive with the client's money! Seriously, they'd do one year buy-outs on a regional TV spot for two grand. I never had to bargain with them, I'd ask what they were looking to pay, they'd tell me, my jaw would drop, and I'd say "that's cool." Best one though was when they paid me not record. See, they booked me for a gig on a Monday morning, and Friday afternoon they called me to say that they had to reschedule the session, and I was like, fine, no problem. Then they said, "We'll pay you your fee of course." And I was stunned. The thing was, they were treating a non-Union talent like a Union talent. If you cancel a union gig without twenty four hours notice (not including weekends) the talent is supposed to get the session fee anyway. Only thing was, their session fees were way over SAG or AFTRA rates. So I got paid exceptionally well, and twice no less, for recording one spot one time.