Dan Gould

Curious how people are using AI as well as opinions (or even experiences) with the ways it goes off the rails, inspired by this article in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.OMPy.qvxipUYfiVB1&smid=url-share

Listened to the entire track. Rouse is fine, didn't care especially for the accompaniment.

Thank you for confirming that I have absolutely no need of Rouse on Strata East. @HutchFan's post above does pique my curiosity.

I don't know why I thought he had died already. Maybe I just heard that health issues meant no more public appearances? Anyway I have never gotten deeply into the catalog that made him famous as musical/production genius, I just loved the hits off of Endless Summer which I got as a birthday gift around 1973 I think. RIP.

This should be fun ... Michael Weiss as musician host, spinning his own selections and commenting on the music, with interview by Phil Schaap at the end. https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/145981

I heard most of the first tune and sampled up to about 20:00. Hard pass.

thanks @mikeweil, I am going to have to hear some tracks before I go for this one. I hope Rouse's family is well-compensated for the reissue, I know his son is on FB and a member of the Rare Jazz Photos group.

If anyone can shed light ... this release is a worthy one? Seems slightly surprising to me but if Klabin was the original producer/engineer that's a leg up in giving it the Resonance treatment.

Right now she is afraid to jump off the couch and just stays there as long as someone is with her. She's mostly going to be in crate or playpen we set up next to my wife's desk. We're fortunate so far she's zonked out all morning so far. We have to see if playpen next to chair is better than in crate. We should enjoy the weeks we presumably have before she'll jump out of playpen as easy as pie.

Doesn't this make me Chick (Webb)?

Say Hello to Ella (Fitzgerald), a Rottie - Rhodesian Ridgeback mix we just adopted yesterday. We went to the animal rescue service for a different, older puppy but this 9 week old cutie chose me, instantly reacting to my voice and being relentless for attention. She even very amusingly gave her littermate the stink eye when he tried to horn in. Oh, and also, another NYT article in their usually silly series: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/arts/music/ella-fitzgerald-jazz-music.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.IO2J.pWLcIn80MrmT&smid=url-share

OK but they are working three years ahead ... so to me, absolutely zero assurance that its "just around the corner". Probable that its mastered, no idea what year it might show up.

I read it entirely as (we announce new titles in November, I am not sharing information about the next three years publicly, you'll know 2026 in 5 months.)

the dreaded reverse endorsement or as I first thought when I read this .... Danger Will Robinson!

Considering that the only Sanders I ever kept was an Evidence CD from this era, this goes from a "never" to a "maybe" - if indeed he is more on the "inside" thru out, compared to his fire breathing days of yore. Will be interesting to see if indeed this is judiciously chosen as Mosaic has been more in the mainstream than Sanders is known for, yet this is closer to the mainstream than that earlier era.

First series with Yankees this weekend and I have fewer than zero fucks to give. Thank god the Cubs have an actual roster of talent or baseball season would be over (and cricket is not something I am about to start watching).

I have this courtesy of former board denizen Stereo Jack. Anyone who wishes to hear it can DM their email and I will send an MP3. (the A side was Midnight Cowboy, I guess that did come out on a comp?)

Given his health woes for like, three years in Boston, this is even more impressive.

I own four of these - the Basie, Lazar (love his organ), Carter and Americans in Europe (but only on vinyl and don't even think I transferred to CDR), and plan to pick up the new Bird by the end of summer. Probably a record for BFTs and Me, and more support for Thom asking if this one was something I had curated. Well done - thank you.

I don't love the backings but I don't hate them. They support and set off Gene's piano which is given lots of room to do his thing. The title track is fine by me - and I recall they set off the supposed transitions inherent in the concept of the tune. The shorter tracks don't work as well as the long one, IMO, just because they feel a little time-bound and trying for airplay. Mileage.

Not even Soul Symphony? I don't like the backing much but Gene is great on that record and in the realm of "Three Sounds" but not really Three Sounds, it has to be the go-to record for GHF.

A little surprised Florida is as low as it is, and wondering what makes MI so much lower than any other state. Especially factoring in prevalence of winter weather - consider the rest of the northern tier of states.

All it took to make Milwaukee a .500 club was a visit from Boston. Now, it's Atlanta's turn. What an f-ing joke this team is.

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/annie-knight-gives-update-amid-hospitalization-for-sex-with-583-men/