Dan Gould

and then you multi-task in a way few other people ever do.

this was provided to me by Jim Gallert, co-author of the "Before Motown" book. I included one track on my second BFT, in fact. Was DG selling an original pressing or a reissue? Because Jim mentioned that Myric was reissuing the music and he (Jim) had written liners for it. If he doesn't see this thread I'll try to tug his sleeve toward it.

Been watching a lot of jazz video the past couple of weeks, and I gotta say, its kind of disconcerting to see someone blowing a chorus with their eyes open. I'm so used to seeing guys with eyes shut, its kind of weird to see Sonny Stitt staring ... So, which is it? I always presumed you were more in touch with the moment and your muse with eyes shut, but then I've seen more than a couple of guys with eyes open ....

Man, you're really a news cycle or two behind ... Ted Koppell is done with ABC and is actively shopping his resume. There won't be no Nightline by the time ABC drops MNF. And anyway, there will still be games on Monday night to drive musicians to murderous rage. That TV over your head will just be tuned to ESPN. *************************** and as far as the whole big-brother ABC being upset - c'mon. This was a corporate decision to let MNF go to the sports network. It still stays in the family, and the fact is, MNF has had declining ratings for quite a few years now. I'm not at all surprised ABC let ESPN get the deal.

Don't think this has come up before, but some interesting comments from Mingus on a BN Dizzy Reece LP, Ornette, among other topics/artists: http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=s..._detail&sid=798

My approach has always been to monitor auctions until the end and then decide what I want to bid. Only time I've placed a max. bid was if the end time was inconvenient, in which case I'd usually still bid late. I figure its also important to minimize the available time any prior winning bidder has to jump back in and bid again. Therefore, I usually bid in the final minute. Its not as efficient as sniping - I have been sniped once or twice - but there are few things I had my heart set on that I didn't get. As far as those incremental bidders go, I ended up manually sniping an antique toy bank that my Mom was interested in - and I didn't even intend to. The situation was, it had a reserve price on it, and someone, in the last couple of minutes, started probing at that reserve price - so the bid went up, but the reserve wasn't met, wasn't met, wasn't met. And the bid had exceeded my Mother's maximum by about $100, so I wasn't even supposed to bid. So with about 30 seconds left, all of a sudden the bid was $400 and reserve met. So, I figured what the hell, the guy probably bid $425 or more, but I'd try $401.25 ... and with three seconds left, my bid was in and I was the winner. Man, that guy must have pissed! He probes and he probes and he finds the reserve price, he's the winner, less than 30 seconds to go and BOOM. He missed out by 75 cents. And, fortunately for me, Mom had no problem with my exceeding her maximum and was absolutely thrilled with the item (it was made by a Connecticut company in the 1880s, so she was getting it for the Historical Society where she is the President). (Actually, its a pretty cool item, called the Tammany Bank. Back then, children were taught the value of thrift and so there were lots of banks to keep their pennies in. This one though was an odd thing because while teaching thrift, it was basically glorifying graft. The bank was in the shape of a large man in a suit, seated in a chair. You put the penny in his hand, and the weight made the hand drop the penny inside the coat, while the man nodded his appreciation. See? Teach graft by showing a payoff to Tammany Hall!)

An interesting question. When I think of some of my favorite jazz tunes, like "Watermelon Man" or "Senor Blues" or "Our Delight" or "Whisper Not" ... is it the catchy theme that "hooks" me? Or is it what Hank/Freddie/Dex/Herbie/Lee/Benny/Bobby do in their solos that "makes" the tune? I guess its the total package - theme and variations - that makes jazz for me, but certainly, "hooks" have a place, too.

Yanks down 8-3 through 7, after Brown gave up 6 runs in two innings (but admittedly pitched well after that) and staring straight at being swept by the O's. What would worry me more if I were a Yankee fan is the possibility that the O's won't roll over and play dead for the Yanks this year. If you take a look at the last few years, I would bet that, since the Yanks and Red Sox have been essentially even head-to-head, the entire difference between the two teams in the standings comes down to the differing performances against the Orioles. For some reason, the Orioles have played the Sox extremely tough, while they roll over for the Yanks. A hard pill to swallow considering how bad the O's have usually been. So, the Orioles playing the Yankees tough does not augur well for them, I don't think.

Forget Israel and those crazy End Time books. Forget world government, forget the Rapture. REPENT, FOR THE END IS NEAR! DUSTY GROOVE DISSED A RECORD!!

I didn't even know about this one til I saw your mention, so I headed over to the Verve site. Hawk, Getz, Gonsalves and Dizzy with Wynton Kelly? Oh, hell yeah!

Thanks, Jim. Definitely not it. Must be the unissued tune. Since its obviously on one of the videos, maybe I should let Claude know that the unknown tune is 3:25, and maybe I should take Mike up on his offer to ID the tune.

Getting back to this, it occured to me that the unknown title I mention might be "Ray's Idea" but the track times do not match. Is Ray's Idea usually a feature for Blakey? This one is, with the band coming in only in the last minute or so of the 3:25 track. I guess we could assume this is the unknown track Brownie lists from Claude's discography, but he lists it as unissued and without a track length, so it leaves me wondering whether this is a totally different tune? And it gets more curious because now I've realized that Marty has different tapes of the same concert, but while the tracks seem to be the same, on one tape, "Close Your Eyes" is 12:45 instead of the 12:15 Brownie/Claude list (and another tape is 12:15). So perhaps one was edited?

Chris, nefarious or not, your point was as I described it - that things may be better, but some people still have caveman views on race. Number one, you might have taken a shorter section of the article (its not news that newspapers in 1912 wrote such things, it happened outside of the south, too), and then made your point with something specific from the current day. The fact is, outside of neo-nazi and white supremacist websites and newsletters, this sort of casual racism in print doesn't exist anymore. You can't force racists to change. That's an unfortunate fact. At least this kind of casual racism (racism-in-print) is a thing of the past. Now do you see why this belongs in Politics? As for Weinstock, losing my job and embarking on a completely different, more challenging and time-consuming field has put Weinstock way on the back burner, much to my embarrassment. And now, I am more inclined when time permits to work on a piece about the Four Sounds demo instead.

And what exactly is your point, Chris? That in 1912, southern newspapers wrote offensively about black people? And how exactly do you get from that 1912 article to "many of our current citizens seem somewhat stuck in time, don't they?" What, did you hear someone say "pickaninnie" today? And why would you put this here instead of in Politics, if you want to make claims about the backwardness of "many of our current citizens"?

Getting back to the games: Pavano got pummeled and Wells went seven shutout innings. I think everything will be fine.

I think the only way to get what he's looking for is to get a digital recorder and walk around NYC til you find a street musician playing saxophone.

I should probably be taken out and shot now that I realize that I've yet to crack open the HRS box since December 25.

There was nothing whatsoever in your comment to indicate anything other than a straightforward claim: Yankee fans never interfere, Red Sox fans are the scum of the earth. Glad to know your medium-term memory isn't that bad.

Fortunately they have very good security and they don't sell beer in the bleachers. They don't do that at Fenway either.

I agree, Al. I originally had that Sweets/Ben album as one of those super cheap Italian LPs with the flimsy paper sleeves, then I upgraded with that three LPs on two CDs reissue of about 5 years ago ...

Its entirely about the height of the walls. If the wall weren't three feeet there, nothing could happen. If Yankee stadium walls were that low, it'd happen all the time.

TWO WORDS, DAVE: No, make it three: JEFFREY FUCKING MEIER So give me a fucking break. One asshole swipes at the ball, the other asshole pulls a fly out into the stands for a game-breaking home run, in the fucking playoffs. But no, it happens "only at Fenway." We've never ever seen that at the Stadium. No, never.

Simpson is hysterical!!!!

Well, first of all I have to mention that winning a game Randy Johnson starts (and hitting three homers off him for the first time in 45 starts) is SWEET! As for Sheffield, the replays looked to me that he didn't actually touch him, but apparently the swipe at the ball clipped his jaw. AMAZING that Sheffield takes a moment to shove the guy before throwing the ball in! What if it had been Damon motoring around and he tried to make it home, and Sheffield's pause to hit the guy let him score?! Not excusing the fan, he's an idiot, but the sight of Sheffield hitting the guy with the ball in his hand, then going back at him with a clenched fist, was stunning. As for the umpiring, Marty said my comlaining yesterday was 'beneath me' but I tell you what, when the manager and a coach get run out, and Johnson is stewing on the mound, too, you know the home plate umpire was terrible.

"French maid"