Dan Gould

I am like Chuck, its been ages since I've heard his leader date.

Gotcha. Sort of a new way to express the old "what got you started on your jazz journey" threads. So what I could contribute is that this recording is what led to my ongoing efforts to raise Percy France's profile in jazz. The discovery of unissued material that featured Percy France led me to ask the seemingly innocent question, "how hard would it be to acquire and arrange every known Percy France recording chronologically?" Simple question that led me down many paths and ultimately to creating www.percyfrance.info.

Which life plan was directed by this recording?

This seems like a very limited topic that would be easy or relatively easy to tick off the people who had "recordings" grab and direct their life plan. Let's see: Michael Weiss David Weiss Sangrey Alexander Hawkins I know I am missing a few but not many.

That first one is an all-time classic.

For sure it's exciting to see this kind of release, the sort of thing Mosaic started out doing. If predictable Blue Note sets help to keep the lights on for more like this set, that is fantastic and I say "bring 'em both on".

But on the other hand I was excited to read this: The Savoy and National sessions which are owned by the Concord Music Group Hasn't it been said before "that's owned by Concord now and they won't deal with Mosaic"? If that is changing ...

LMAO - and looking forward to December! Well it had to be a WWE thing and if they are actually shortening that descriptor to "BFT" then A. We did it first B. They shouldn't do it period in the context of their programming because it sounds stupid (not that Blunt Force Trauma is a lot better).

So this came up on my youtube feed this morning. So does this mean that if I pitch a shutout in my January BFT I can tell y'all that I layeth the smackdown on your candy asses? (don't worry my planned BFT has enough easy ones so almost everybody will feel good about themselves.)

And no pimping, he actually ran out of the box.

I posted an image of this at 12:55 pm yesterday.

Completely agree with you on quality of music and packaging ... I always figured that they fell victim to the decline in CD sales. Discogs shows they were active from 1999 to 2013 with a Ben Wolfe release being their last.

I am sure I never opened up this thread before as I think I would have remembered learning that Nat Cole found new "collaborators" from beyond the grave. <BARF>

Which, just two years ago, each lost over 100 games: Diamondbacks, 110 (and tied with the 2023 AL East Champion Orioles that year) and Rangers, 102. Either of those accomplishments is pretty remarkable, but both squaring off in the World Series two years later is downright ridiculous. Something to say for warmer weather when it stretches into November.

A little bit of the dude who got drilled (and won MVP for the series) is going a long way for me. A little more pimping and I'll be rooting for the NL team to drill him a time or two. Lucky that he stole 2B after that long single. If it weren't the playoffs I'd like to see an informal suspension when shit like that happens. My 2c.

Boney James would be a worse signee (YMMV) but Volume 1 sounds like a threat to me.

and with Scherzer on the mound I am presuming. If he can come up big, who knows.

Like I said there is a ton of music from that gig, some tracks are repeated but for all I am sure of they could be different performances entirely. I was listening to Truly Wonderful and it is indeed truly wonderful.

I did not know (I don't think so) that Live at Rick's came out on CD and it looks like more music, too. Guess I have to go on the hunt. Edit to add: Actually significant differences in track list, and per Discogs, the LP has her on organ? Anyway for additional tracks I need to figure out this CD issue for sure. Editing again to add: They must have really recorded all of these three days of gigs ... I discovered or was reminded of Truly Wonderful, also recorded at Rick's. And I am disturbed to say that my transfer of the original LP isn't leaping out of the shelves. Would be nice to put together a single MP3 disc of all the tracks by this group at Rick's that have been released.

Hoping for pitching to show up for the final dance whichever way it goes. And I am not sure about Texas' park but it really seems like both Philly and Houston play like total little league dimensions. And the Phils are impressive but not quite the same advantage having won at home. D-Backs can still make this a series.

I'll take the odds needing to win two out of 5 with next three at home.

Definitely enjoyed waking up to Altuve's blunder. The funny thing to me was that he was straddling the base he could have easily dragged his toe across and he wouldn't have been out. Glad to know too that these are reviewable plays. I question why the ump admitted that he was watching the outfielder and couldn't know if he had touched the base, run past it, or what, yet me makes a call. Aren't they trained nowadays to seek help? The 1B ump probably had a good enough view to help make the call.

I am trying to find a source for top 25 rankings as of December 3 or whatever, with records included. Not coming up as easily I'd hoped. Not convinced a two loss team could end up 12th in final poll after conference championships.

Well if you subscribed to What are you Listening to I think you'd cover 90% of all posts.