Dan Gould

It sure does.......I remember some REALLY bitter winters in Chicago. I had some gigs in Fargo and Duluth (in January) some years ago, and it was RIDICULOUSLY cold. Like 100-below-zero wind chill, it just burned to try to breathe. Well, are you enjoying the first bitter cold temps in Tallahassee? I saw mid-20s this morning, there were snow flurries in central Florida, and 48 right now in Palm Beach county. See? I told you it would get cold in the winter.

I want to say it was issued with the Kenny Drew New Faces, New Sounds reissue - but AMG isn't helping.

Now I've seen it all. Reading the comments, I see that he admits that most are Liberty-era BNs, but even though I can't believe he's throwing them around like that, and apparently never heard of a poly bag either. But really the most mind-blowing part was reading this comment: I mean, damn.

If you aren't averse to paying them money, I am pretty sure that the Andorran thieves have some good Lou Levy Trio recordings available, as well as the Stan Getz recording that Paul mentioned.

Now wait a minute. If this was Sheena Easton circa "Morning Train" then OK, but if it was Sheena Easton when she was singing "Sugar Walls" and doing spots for a chain of gyms, then I have to say that I wouldn't have cared what she sang - I'd have dumped the date if she couldn't compare to the talent on the stage.

Well, Clemens has gone on the warpath but no one has commented so far. For once, Murray Chass wasn't a complete dumbass in his column in the NYT today, which focused mostly on the problem that Clemens and his high-priced mouthpiece should have with the fact that Pettitte admitted that the trainer's statements were true while Roger is sticking with the deny, deny, deny response. I can't wait to see this 60 Minutes interview on January 6 but I have serious doubts about Mike Wallace as the interviewer. As has been noted in reports about the interview, not only is Wallace a regular fixture at Yankee Stadium, he's described as a "friend" of Clemens. So why does he do the interview instead of someone without any potential conflicts of interest? It will really suck if its a puffball interview - Mike Wallace in his prime would have wiped the floor with Clemens. The bottom line is that it is obvious that he is going to have his lawyer try to slime his former trainer to somehow prove that he is not trustworthy. But that Pettitte confession will always be out there. I am still amazed that Pettitte even issued the "If I did something wrong" pseudo-apology, when he had to know what he was saying would be devastating to Clemens. I really hope that Clemens goes too far and McNamee's attorneys file suit for defamation. Then we'll find out if Clemens has the Bonds-sized balls to lie under oath, too.

hey, you just gave me a great idea for another thread ! I shudder to guess what it will be .....

By a landslide, it was the blues more than any other genre this year for me. Most significant artists, in chronological order: Lowell Fulson Jimmy McCracklin Junior Parker (who I now cannot get enough of and am deeply distressed that he died so young - in the early 70s)

Wow - the things you miss when you take a trip outside of the 21st Century. I hadn't even known OP had died, let alone how the board went bat-shit over it. Really all I can say about it is: OP was OK, but he was no Gene Harris.

Just got home from seeing the folks, rejoined the 21st Century ... to come upon this thread first as I wade through the threads I've missed. Very sorry to hear of this, Mark, but like others, I think you'll discover you are better off in the long run. So I'll leave you with this thought: Aren't moose like cats - they always land on their feet? I think the subspecies Jazzmoose will prove that its true.

Cool! Maybe we can talk about those Baby Face 45s. Pretty much share Chuck's view. You don't even want to drink with yourself?

FFA stole my post. Happy birthday, anyway, Aloc!

Perhaps its because reading and posting on the board is free (aside from the occasional crisis-averting donation) while attending a conference involves considerable expense for anyone who doesn't live close by. And what, aside from seeing your pretty face, is the difference between discussing these topics in person and discussing them on the board? One more observation: who exactly is going to pay Wayne Shorter to play for us? I don't think a $35 conference fee is going to cover it. My guess is that the reality is that those who would be interested would want to meet up someplace and see, face to face, the people they've been interacting with online for, in some cases, going on 8 or ten years. We don't need conference rooms and panel discussions or vendor tables. We need a cash bar and a stage for any musicians who want to jam. Located in a major city, we can plan vinyl and/or CD safaris. We want to hang with fellow O-people. If I could afford it, I'd love to sit down and drink a beer while Larry, Chuck, Chris or Jim regale us with stories. I don't have a great deal of interest in sitting in an audience while they sit on a dais and talk at me.

One more thread idea before I get my butt in gear to finish my travel preparations ... since we're talking about Santa, anyone care to recall a time that Santa really disappointed them? When you had that certain something you were dying for and it wasn't under the tree ... or it was there, but broke or was broken as soon as you started playing with it? In memory of the "recent" classic film, A Christmas Story, anyone have their own equivalent of the Red Ryder B.B. Gun? My one great disappointment was when I was dying for one of those electric race car tracks - a neighbor had one and I desperately wanted one, too - only the one Mom bought didn't work, and when we brought it back to exchange, they were sold out (anyone else remember Consumers Distributing? I think that was the name - discounted merchandise you ordered out of the catalog at the showroom (only the cheap jewelry was on display).) That was where we got the toy, and they didn't have one to replace it - so I got a Chuck Connors Shooting Gallery toy. You put empty cans on top of this box, the shotgun shot a red light and when it hit the "eye" just right, a plastic piece popped up and knocked the can off, just like it had been shot. That was fun for about two minutes, but I never did get the electric race car set.

I'll be heading to my folk's home in Connecticut early Sunday morning, where I will enter an Internet-less Stone Age environment (I'm lucky they got cable TV recently). I don't know how I'll manage, but I won't be around to wish the 0-Board Happy Holidays. So, Merry Christmas, I hope Santa is generous in ways big and small. See you in 2008.

Obviously she's yelling "will you f-ing hurry up? I got things to do ...."

Man, they really nailed those vacant eyes. So life-like ... so real.

Not that its important but Eddie Higgins attended Northwestern.

You remind me of a scrooge boss I once had. He told me that he and his wife didn't believe in giving gifts to each other - if they need something, they buy it. Otherwise - forget it. But they did decorate, and had gift-wrapped boxes they would put under the tree. If you and your wife don't celebrate Christmas - or don't celebrate it with gift-giving - then raise your child accordingly.

I'm not sure when I learned the truth, probably about the same age as Paul. No one had to spill the beans; I was a brat who wanted to know what he was getting for Christmas and I found Mom's hiding place for gifts. Some were wrapped, some weren't, but the ones that were wrapped and said "To Danny From Santa" were clearly not from Santa at all, unless he was subcontracting to UPS.

This one is also another "all-muted" session. Pretty nice, if also pretty mellow, with Benny Green, Rufus Reid, Carl Allen, and on several tracks, Kenny Garrett in support.

A really wild "Air Emergency" is on right now - the story of a suicidal FedEx flight engineer, who hitched a ride on a flight he wasn't scheduled for, with the intention of attacking the flight crew and dying in the resulting crash. He even twice turned the circuit breaker off for the cockpit flight recorder - hoping that if the sounds of the struggle aren't recorded, investigators won't know what he did (he did it twice because the engineer noticed it both times and flipped it back on). The attack was so brutal its remarkable that the flight crew survived.

And now, the guy that everyone said was "unfairly" identified because one person claimed that he told him he had used steroids, Brian Roberts, 'fessed up, too. And the admission says he used them once, the report said that he had stated that he used them "once or twice". Aggie is right, the people who deny deny deny will get their just rewards in the end. But less than a week after it was released, the Mitchell Report is looking more and more accurate. Its hardly complete, and there may be an unfair bias toward the Mets and Yankees because of the location of the two main sources, but its clear that the sources were honest. Clemens needs to come clean but then again he's been a congenital liar for a long time so why change now?

Sad news - he was someone who had such a positive impact on the music - it leaves me wondering whatever happened to the Left Bank tapes that one of his companies had the rights.

Good porn title. Exactly what I was going to say, but my PC antenna suppressed the post... I had my PC antenna surgically removed, it was an outpatient procedure performed by Dr. Allen Lowe.