Dan Gould

Rodney didn't take any steroids. He took HGH to help an injury heal. It is a banned substance, but it is not a steroid. It is not used to build muscle mass. Get your facts right before you pile more ignorant hate on a team. Sheesh! So its ok to take HGH in the NFL but not in MLB? Its funny how people hold different standards for different sports. Heck a player who got suspended for 4 games last year for steroids was still voted to the pro bowl. First of all, there's no question that baseball has a tougher PED policy than the NFL. Second, HGH makes everything grow bigger - including muscles. To say it doesn't build muscle mass is wrong. Furthermore, because it makes everything grow, HGH has the potential to be more helpful to football players, such as a lineman who grows bigger and wider and fills a larger space. That's a more effective lineman.

I fail to grasp the significance of Belichik not being there for the final snap. Did he not run out to congratulate Coughlin? Didn't the confetti rain down? Who gives a shit if they put another second on the clock - he's supposed to run out and assume his position on the sideline, headset on? I'd understand the criticism if the man trotted off the field without acknowledging the winners, but this is much ado about nothing.

Certainly not, an example would be the Adderley two-fer that I mentioned - only the plain layout of the discographical info pages of the booklet and the back inlay looks rather cheap, otherwise it's fine and a real alternative to the real Savoy CDs. Well everything that I ever received was in black & white.

All of their licensed releases had black & white covers - probably part of how they keep costs down. Or maybe how the licensing companies wanted to keep them from competing with their own reissues. You want a beautiful cover? Buy ours. If you want the music, cheap, buy theirs.

OK, but you've written reviews and commentary for a major metropolitan paper, the most important jazz magazine, and published a collection of articles. I don't think your an amateur, either.

Do you expect that this solo will turn any "admirer of Roberts" into someone who is ashamed that they ever liked him? No -- but it might raise some questions and/or doubts, at the least about what's going on in this performance. I don't think anyone should be judged on a single recorded solo, and I'm surprised that a professional critic would imply that. I'm not a professional critic, I'm an amatory critic.

Do you expect that this solo will turn any "admirer of Roberts" into someone who is ashamed that they ever liked him? No -- but it might raise some questions and/or doubts, at the least about what's going on in this performance. I don't think anyone should be judged on a single recorded solo, and I'm surprised that a professional critic would imply that.

From FFA's comments, at least two of the horn players are extremely young and not very experienced players, so maybe the point here was to give an opportunity to these young players to play some interestingly arranged blues tunes? If Roberts were accompanied only by equally experienced players, I'd agree that the music isn't so important that it deserves this attention. I know Guerin, and Jason Marsalis, and of course Wes Anderson ... but maybe the two saxophonists as well as the two trumpeters are just getting their feet wet in the biz. As for the reason Marcus got attention back then, I think it was somewhat independent of the Lincoln Center connection. He got a big RCA/Novus label push, because he was what was being marketed then - young and serious about the music (not to mention well-dressed )

Do you expect that this solo will turn any "admirer of Roberts" into someone who is ashamed that they ever liked him?

Silveto wasn't a "label"? And the Paris concert was issued by Fantasy, and I'm pretty certain that's a "label".

Interesting review (and I so rarely say that about anything Ratliff writes) of a Marcus Roberts performance of the entirety of his Deep In The Shed album: I remember when this album came out - my collection at that point was mostly hard bop plus Wynton and his followers, of whom I really enjoyed Marcus Roberts' playing. And this was a really strong album as I recall though its been many years since I've listened last. I have to admit Marcus started to lose me when he went into the long string of solo piano discs. So, I thought maybe this review could spark a discussion of the original album - anyone else remember it? What did you think then, what do you think now?

Well, since the Times published its review, I was curious to see if All Music has a review up before the CD hits the stores. Did you spot the pathetic error? Uh, Hank Mobley played tenor on Six Pieces of Silver. What an f-ing moron.

Not that anyone predisposed to grab the new Horace Silver CD needs a review in the NYT to confirm their intention, but here it is anyway: Glad to see they are meeting their anticipated street date of tomorrow.

Hey Dan...good eye. That is THE Ian Hendrickson-Smith. He's a full-on member of the Daps these days and has been for a while. Ian actually plays Tenor now live and they have another guy playing Bari live. Ian and the rest of the horn guys came out an sat it with me after their gig a couple of weeks ago here in Austin. They are BAAAAAADDDDDDD...., and Ian in particular is just about my favorite cat! Well good for Ian, I am sure that its easier to make a living as a member of the band than trying to scrounge jazz gigs. When I checked All Music I discovered that he has a live CD out on Cellar Live - the sound clips sound very good, I hope to pick this one up real soon.

I don't care if he's nice or not, hip enough to appreciate pre-bop music or not, or likes or hates the blues - that was a very funny story told by a very funny man.

I certainly expected that I would but the fact is I've given this newest CD three listens, and my reaction each time is a great big 'meh'. World class vocal chops and a tight band, but ... maybe I'm missing the point (shaking your ass) but I expected better songs. There was only a single song that I wanted to play a second time. BTW, did anyone else notice "Ian Hendrickson-Smith" on bari in the credits? Checking the info on the Cellar Live website for his live CD, its the same guy who records for Sharp Nine. Not that you could tell by his playing on the CD.

Notwithstanding the fact that if your record-breaking offense can't score and you can't keep Eli FUCKING Manning out of the end zone you deserve to go home with the most embarrassing failure in the history of the league, FUCK THE GIANTS AND MOST OF ALL FUCK THOSE ASSHOLES ON THE '72 DOLPHINS. The thought of those assholes celebrating tonight is like Joe Morgan, Bucky Dent and Aaron Fucking Boone all rolled into one huge fucking sucker punch in the gut - the kind that killed Houdini. I never in a million years imagined that I would now be instituting a Total Media Blackout

Looks like someone well aware of the potential copyright violation, and thinks this rigamorole will keep his ass safe. To take this approach to law breaking, its like trying to prevent a police raid of a drug dealer's stash by making everyone who enters sign a pledge that they aren't there to investigate criminal acts. Jim or one of the Mods should delete this shit forthwith.

Jack, Keep in mind that we normally try to let the existing BFT play out (in terms of discussion) before opening the new one. I know we're into February and its a short month, but I'd hate to tread on Al's fine discs, and there are several people yet to be heard from on his BFT.

I joke about what "sweetie" means but the fact is I read this thread and I am so grateful that my wife does none of the manipulative, controlling (yet seemingly passive) shit that other people are talking about. Apparently she really is one in a million.

Might be the distance from Mass to south Florida, but I have gone with Newbury a couple of times in the last six weeks or so - and they have not been fast at all. Mind you, I wasn't concerned because I was confident from what everyone else has said that they would come through but ... it wasn't the perfect, super fast response I'd been led to expect. Caiman in fact beat them twice when placing near-simultaneous orders for different discs.

Well, this I can't understand, Kimmel was extremely funny on "Win Ben Stein's Money" and Silverman can be pretty funny too. This gets a thousand from me. (I guess "My D*ck in a Box" really opened things up as far as what used to be called "Standards and Practices" is concerned.)

I am beginning to suspect that "sweetie" no longer carries its former meaning.

I have some potential concerns with copyright/trademark/use of celebrity "image" legalities and would appreciate any advice that any of the O-lawyers might have. I don't want to bring it out in public though so please PM me and I'll give you the rundown. Thanks!

Oh, and one more thing - the Times reports that Knoblauch spoke for an hour and a half - but Jim Murray's interview lasted three and a half hours. If Murray denied that he had contemporaneous discussions with McNamee about Clemens' potential exposure to testing positive, why would it take three and a half hours? The mere fact that the interview took that long suggests pretty strongly that he chose to tell the truth about what happened rather than protect Clemens and risk perjury, and that the conversation lasted so long because there were plenty of follow-up questions, starting with what he did after talking to McNamee - what did he tell the Hendricks brothers? What did he tell Clemens ... It really is looking worse and worse for the Rocket.