Dan Gould

As I mentioned above - he started digitizing cassettes during the pandemic. Its entirely possible that his soundboard recording only got pulled out in the last few years.

A Jordi archive series is a great idea - he told me that during the pandemic shut down he started digitizing his cassettes collected from 40 or so years of promoting jazz concerts. Can't wait to see what other gems will come out.

Hey I like altos! It's the soprano that grates for me - most of the time.

Bob Neloms' wife Karen put Dorothy Longo in touch with me regarding the Smithsonian as a possible spot for her husband's musical archive - due to my work plumbing the Leonard Gaskin Papers. I couldn't help her much but this looks like an interesting book and I am glad she is putting Mike Longo's story out on paper.

An answer in and of itself.

Last night one of our mares, Penny, gave birth about 5 1/2 weeks early. The foal was too weak to stand up let alone walk to her Mama's belly to nurse (and Mama had no milk to give that early). About 3 am we made the decision to send her off to the big, wide open field in the sky. What broke my heart this morning was seeing Penny stand over the body, protective Mama standing watch over "sleeping" baby. She hasn't figured out what happened yet but its starting to dawn on her now.

I was thinking that the anniversary was coming up ... 20 years is a long time, that is for sure. I'd say here's to 20 more but I have my doubts about a 40th anniversary.

And how does an animator/producer/director DO a rendition of Eckstine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Clampett

I'm astonished people are reacting so positively to this guy. It's the first track I actually cut off in the middle.

Worked for me, thank you.

Tell that to Loren on FB. I made a point about how 30 second clips can't demonstrate anything and he believes this sort of thing is crucial these days for promoting jazz.

Is Hopkins' link working for others? I had a network failure so was curious. Thanks for your efforts.

I had used that site many times in the past for DB and other music publications but was confused how you had the root directory. People better grab what they might be interested in quickly: DownBeat Magazine We have been ordered by the publisher to remove DownBeat magazine or we will be contacted by attorneys. So we have closed the DownBeat page. This is the only music magazine in the world that has prohibited the use of older issues on our site, and we had hoped to include their in-depth jazz coverage... a genre not generally covered in depth in other publications. And, further confusing us, issues as recent as 2020 of DownBeat are on Internet Archive! Note: This site had the only searchable index of the magazine on this or any other place on this planet. That resource is now deleted. Also it sucks that the search feature is gone as I had become curious about pulling and compiling Kenny Dorham's reviews specifically.

It was a total blow away and I am not even sure "not his primary instrument" was a fair hint because it led to guesses for people who play one instrument mostly and trumpet occasionally. I don't even know that saying it was a singer would have let people to Mose.

This was a surprisingly (mostly) laid back BFT. Once again we had quite a few at the start that were at least enjoyable. In the end, and as might be expected, I am (mostly) the opposite of Felser's reactions. 😜 The first 6-7 plus #9 I enjoyed most and wouldn't call "background" music. But then I saw (increasingly) reduced returns after that. OK, everything after the best in the bunch, the Blue Note classic era track - had no doubt that was Grant Green. I'll also add I hate-hate-hated the big band vocal of "Somewhere" - really dislike the tune and the singer did nada for me, didn't even really think it was a recognizable jazz guy. Thanks Randy!

Thanks Mike - my fears turned out to be unfounded as I never saw a HipBop release with Gato and I wouldn't have bought it if I had. I should go back to #10 as I would think "Mama G" would have at least triggered an "I know this tune but I am awful at names" reaction. Did no one else catch it either?

For those not on Cory Weeds' email list, his Condition Blue radio show will feature tunes from the Shirley Scott and Walter Bishop releases this Wed 3-5 pm and I presume its Pacific Time since its out of Vancouver, BC. https://thebeaumontstudios.com/bside-radio/?ml_subscriber=2159967326382853741&ml_subscriber_hash=l9k7&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_cellar_sound_whirlwind&utm_term=2023-02-27

This seems to fall under 'be careful what you wish for' as it just might turn out to be more "I'll give you a dollar" than fights breaking out.

One could almost say that these are words that we hardly see "neither hide nor hair of" anymore.

Seems like something extraordinarily rare .. Eddy DeVerteuil, who recorded with Benny Carter and Cootie Williams (that's him behind him, I presume) before getting solo space on a recording by Kenny Clarke and His 52nd Street Boys which included heavy hitters like Fats navarro, Kenny Dorham, Sonny Stitt, Ray Abrams and Bud Powell. Then he seems to have disappeared. A google image suggests that this may be the only known photograph of him. Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

Oh great, so a good chance that we could have a new record of tunes on a BFT that I own.

I agree, dress the part! If we have Jazz Hangover do we need Strung Out Jazzer too?

Zev already started the label with the Ahmad Jamal release from the Penthouse, and has another coming up in April too: archival Chet Baker in Holland (can't stand his vocals so that's a hard pass from me.) I wonder how it came to be Jazz Detective's release ... is the quality not great and Cory Weeds didn't want it on his label? In the end, I'll take all of these releases even if I don't grab them right away because that ought to mean more goodies in November, right? Maybe this flood of Left Bank recordings will become a deluge.

Good to know there is a two CD set but all of a sudden I am wondering: was Stitt off the varitone by 1973?

Glad you are enjoying my submissions, Gheorge.