Dan Gould

I'll be flamed but I don't care cause I put my Dex-aholic bona fides up against anyone, but I have never gotten into the Keystone recordings because of Cables' piano. Love Dex but just can't get into Cables' style. Give me Kenny Drew!

"Your face is my case!" Even better,

I thought the Prestige titles came out as a two-fer CD from a British company?

I'm transferring audio off of video tape of this group, and have other radio audio sources. Definitely worth hearing!

Does the album really consist of 50 favorites of Hollywood stars? Sounds like the worst kind of cocktail piano imaginable.

Anybody seen that Amy/Bolton? Would love to see/hear that one! How ironic that this gets mentioned. Just last night I started to do some audio transfers of videos borrowed from a board member, and the first one I wanted to hear was the Amy/Bolton tape. I was doing it into the computer so I wasn't even looking at the video (yet) but judging from the audio signal, the source was in pretty good shape. Here are the details: 1) Summertime 2) Katanga 3) Laura (Bolton feature) 4) Blues for Amy 5) theme Curtis Amy, tenor sax Dupree Bolton, trumpet Dolo Coker, piano Ray Crawford, guitar Victor Gaskin, bass Ronnie Selico, drums Date is given as the 60s, but I noticed that the host mentioned that "Tippin on Through" was the current release by Curtis Amy, so that would help narrow the date down (not sure but I think that was about 1966?).

Yes, that's exactly what it means. It's the prosecutions job to convince the jury. If they didn't do it, they didn't meet their burden. and it is the jury's job to seriously evaluate the evidence presented to them, to judge the relative merits of the opposing sides by using their God-given intelligence. So, in reality, the jury failed to meet their burden, and their burden is every bit as important a part of the system of justice as the prosecution's.

Um...afraid not. Just because the jury fell for a snow job doesn't mean the prosecution didn't meet its burden. The glove, blood and DNA evidence alone met the burden.

It should not be forgotten that the Bruno Magli pictures were brought out during the civil trial, not the criminal trial. For most people it only confirmed what we knew from the criminal trial, and certainly the state met its burden in the criminal trial, but the fact is that while the Magli pictures go to O.J.'s guilt, they have nothing to do with the Cochran defense in the criminal trial.

The more I think about Chuck's comments the more I disagree. Courts of law are supposed to find truth. Lawyers are supposed to zealously represent their client. They aren't supposed to perpetrate frauds, which is what the Simpson defense consisted of (like the nonsensical Furhman was a racist who found two gloves at the murder scene and, not having anyway of knowing if Simpson was even in town, took one glove with him to the Simpson estate so that he could frame O.J. And then there's the final piece of the system, the jurors. The jurors in this case were a joke, because intelligent people who took their duties seriously would have seen through all of the crap the defense threw up and would have convicted him. The adversarial system is a great thing. Facts and interpretations of fact should be tested by opposing parties, and yes, the state has the higher burden of proving "beyond and to the exclusion of all reasonable doubt". It is most certainly not a great thing when a no-brainer case is corrupted by a fraudulent defense. It is most certainly not a great thing when a murderer who's guilt no intelligent person can deny walked free due to the "adversarial system". It is not a net gain to the nation.

Do we win more when a murderer walks free because of the scummy defense used? Wouldn't it be better to point to the TOUGH cases that the defense wins and say that the country is better off because of the adversarial system and the higher burder on the government? This was not a tough case. No one with a brain can seriously deny that Simpson was guilty. Therefore, it cannot be regarded as "good" that he walks free. Its unfortunate that he killed them in the era before the rise of "CSI" and its imitators. Then, DNA was boring, confusing and easy to ignore. Now, everyone seems to know that this kind of evidence is impossible to deny or ignore. (I should credit sports columnist Bill Simmons for that observation. He wrote a fine piece about the Simpson trial on the ten year anniversary.)

What parts of the next two items "seem possible" to you? (my emphasis added)

Anyone else NOT agree with this opinion? I certainly do not agree with it either. It was the fundamentally fraudulent and deceitful defense that was offensive, not Cochran's race.

Not necessarily my favorite character, but it was definitely spot-on and very funny.

What exactly makes this a likely scam? The guy gives reasonable disclaimers, and obviously some people believed what he's saying about this item.

AL East: Red Sox AL Central: Indians Al West: Angels Wild Card: Yanks or Twins NL East: Braves NL Central: Cubs NL West: Dodgers Wild Card: Marlins Reasons why the Yankee streak of Division Championships will come to an end: 1. The continuing aging of the team. Bringing back Tino and Stanton won't turn the clock back to 1998 - they're past their prime, period. 2. What rational person would say that Pavano and Wright will be more effective or bigger winners than Leiber and El Duque were? So, Johnson if healthy is a big improvement, but two times out of five, you run out a worse pitcher than last year. How does that add up to more wins overall? 3. The Sox have greater pitching depth, including a legit ace waiting in the wings - Wade Miller - plus Halama in the bullpen if anyone gets hurt. The Yanks have 5 pitchers and nothing else, two of the five are 40+ and injury prone and one is 29 and has had multiple shoulder surgeries. I know, Schilling is starting the season on the DL, but there's nothing wrong with the ankle, its simply a function of getting his arm ready for the season. 4. The Sox have a healthy Nixon to start the season, an outstanding fourth outfielder (Jay Payton) who would start for most teams, and added one of the very best shortstops in the league, Renteria.

Thanks for sharing that memory, Brownie. Interesting that people like Dex had been booking three or four week stays at the Montmartre, and Ben Webster was gigging pretty regularly, too. Was it stiff competition for work among musicians of the next generation as well as competition from rock and fusion and A/G?

I don't think "somewhat tragic" adequately describes someone who, after being a Blue Note recording artist for 16 years, spent the last 16 years of his life making but a single record, losing a lung and sometimes living on the streets. ****************** Thanks, SW, for completing the transcription job. Interesting that this author gives Mobley's work on Breakthrough such high marks.

Paul, there was a time there where I was hearing real, legit jazz on the Weather Channel also - but they didn't keep it up, at least not when I've been tuning in.

Right now I mostly only get commercial work but oh, yeah, there's a whole world of VOs out there that I should be pursuing. Sounds like your friend does imaging mostly. That's one area I could get into more, even though I've worked like a dog to lose my pukey announcer voice. A whole nother area is industrials, which are all of those straight narrations for videos, DVDs, training materials, promotional material for the general public ... unfortunately I really need time and some training to produce other types of demos in order to properly pursue those other areas.

Doin Allright is terrific and shouldn't be missed. I still haven't voted on this one becaue its really impossible to choose. It would be easier to pick the least favorites which would be Dexter's Calling, Landslide and Our Man in Paris but only because I reach for those less frequently than Doin Allright, One Flight Up, Go and Swingin' Affair. But they're all great. Just those latter four are a bit greater for me.

Paul, What's your source for Florida being a "bubble" state? I've read about suspicions of a developing real estate bubble, but no specifics of what states are considered "bubble states" and how that is determined. While rates are rising of course, my strong feeling is that short of the return of Carter-era interest rates, or a season full of Category 5 Hurricanes, the demand for Florida real estate isn't ending anytime soon. Yes, refi's are going to decline as rates rise, but Florida continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and its always a churning market with people constantly on the move. I think that in a situation of rising rates, loan originators will still find an active market in places like Florida, Texas, California, Arizona.

While this will definitely effect my time for posting, believe me, I'm not leavin' the Org behind. There'll be plenty of time to lock horns as the Sox roll toward a repeat. In fact, I'll start: How do you think David Wells will be received at Yankee stadium on Sunday, wearing the uniform of the World Champions?

I made reference to it in my now defunct A to Z thread, but now that there's a path going forward, I thought I'd share: I lost my job on March 1 but in the past month I have been working on satisfying the state licensing requirements to become a Mortgage Broker. And, the test results just came in - I got a 95 (75 is passing, surprisingly, 55% fail the first time they take the test) and now its only a matter of time before I get the official piece of paper from the state. I'm hoping to place my license with the same company that has hired my wife, and I've got an appointment with the boss on Tuesday, so hopefully I will starting my new job shortly. I call it a "job" rather than a career, because I plan to continue to do voice overs whenever I get called, and we have worked on the studio equipment at home to allow for a better recording environment so I can pursue morevoice over castings via the internet. In fact, being a Mortgage Broker is especially appealing because by law, you are an independent contractor. So, whenever I get called for a spot, I will be free to go do it without having to ask the boss. That is very helpful because, if I were to pursue "regular" 40 hour a week employment, it would be very awkward to tell people during interviews that I'm very interested in the job and will work hard, but oh, by the way, I do voice overs and I usually get booked about two hours in advance, so there will be some days when I may give you a two hour heads up and then have to leave for Miami. Not bloody likely. Then the alternative becomes something horrible like evenings and weekends at the 7-11 or doing telemarketing and there's no way I could last very long doing that. So, if anyone has advice about the mortgage origination business, feel free to share. And anyone in the state of Florida looking for a mortgage or a re-fi, I'm your guy! And BTW, I'd say that the A to Z thread is officially kaput, as this job will require lots and lots of phone time and I won't even be able to lug the boom box and CDs into the office.

Uh, was that you or JERRY SEINFELD? I think we know the answer.