Dan Gould

Neither do I but in 2004 this was a chance to see Tina Brooks and youtube hadn't even launched yet.

This isn't exactly new. Live in Brazil came out in 2004 and is super cheap for anyone who didn't buy it then: https://www.discogs.com/master/875051-Ray-Charles-%C3%94-Genio-Live-In-Brazil-1963

In 1942 Percy France was a 13 year old clarinetist. Then he heard the Earl Hines Orchestra recording of "Second Balcony Jump" featuring Budd Johnson's arrangement and tenor sax solo. Percy went out and bought himself a tenor sax with his own money. Forty years later in March 1982 in Switzerland, Percy France was joined onstage by his first tenor inspiration, Budd Johnson (and the Oliver Jackson Trio). The first tune of the first night concert? "Second Balcony Jump".

Stupidity resumes ... Tampa ->Ybor City -> next stop should be Plant City but no, somehow up to Tallahassee and all in the course of two hours. ( And it's a 5 hour drive to Tallahassee from here, so did it fly?) Wonder if it will show Out for Delivery in Tallahassee soon. And BTW this wasn't a cheap purchase, I really wanted this CD and got the seller down to $35 on eBay. If it disappears that will be infuriating. And while this isn't USPS fault, I have another box from a discogs seller who took ten days to "find" my purchases, then an additional three days to 'create the label' and now three days after that, USPS is still waiting for the package. About to give those asshats a serious sense of what I think of them.

Sad news ... he was on a lot of really fine recordings led by Junior Cook, Bill Hardman and of course Barry Harris. Plus Allen tells me that he put together a unique Percy France Trio: Percy, Bob Neloms and Leroy Williams, that played a decent bit at the West End. Wish I had a recording of that.

Yes the entire group from the album.

Seems like the right place to post this: I came across Bill Dowdy's son on Facebook and he just informed me that his dad used to tell him about the time that the boys from Blue Hour appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. I am not convinced that this was the case, or perhaps they appeared when Jack Paar still hosted? The album was recorded in 1960 and Billboard published a review in March 1961. Carson didn't take over until 1962. I guess it could have still been a hit that much later? Or he said it was Carson when it was Paar. I don't think that Dowdy would lie about being on the Tonight Show and that's good enough for me.

Thank you for posting this. (And may I say, they didn't need the super short continuation. That paragraph about the no-name "cutting" contest begs for a trim.) I think this demonstrates that at the time, Hank was not homeless. But I believe the reports were that he was "sometimes homeless."

Big John Patton on piano with Percy France, Leonard Gaskin, Wes Anderson

That was the moment I said "this is a garbage movie, disgusting for disgusting's sake." Liotta's breakthrough in Something Wild was extremely impressive, IMO. But I am a little biased, it was filmed partially in Tallahassee when I was an undergrad, and I remember watching it in a theater, and the audience reaction to the first recognizable Tallahassee location (the restaurant where he runs out on the check). Plus a favorite Poli-Sci professor, Glenn Parker, was an extra in the reunion scene - very visible in a theater, on a TV not so much. Simple fact is Liotta had charisma and screen presence to spare, right from the start.

A search for "Hank Mobley" on newspapers.com last June found adverts or club listings in 1980, 1981,1983 and 1986, in the NY Daily News, Philly Daily News and Philly Enquirer.

Came across these on FB:

Paxlovid may have a much more permanent effect of taste alteration. And it's also now been reported that not long after treatment and seeming recovery, the virus comes back among Pax users, sometimes just testing positive, sometimes with worse symptoms. https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/24/paxlovid-rebound-has-covid-researchers-looking-for-theories/?utm_campaign=rss https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/pfizer-paxlovid-covid-pill-side-effects/629772/ So hopeflly she avoids that as well and gets better soon.

I thought he was very recognizable but the gray hair was offputting and as I recall I said something about seeing a certain "sadness" in Hank's eyes. I sold my copy of the CD during the Great Purge in 2008-9 and I can't find the photo online at all. BTW they did play Hank's Early Morning Stroll but the take of Autumn Leaves must have been the best of the bunch.

Now I remember the other people who were included on the 45. (I should dig out my CDRs, I always thought my transfers sounded pretty darn good for a cheap rig.)

In 1980 Hank was at the Steeplechase studios for a Tete Montoliu session, I Want to Talk About You. They recorded several takes of two tunes and when it appeared on CD one Hank tune was included ("Autumn Leaves") along with a photo of Hank. I posted that photo years ago but I think the thread was lost in one of the server mishaps - can't find it on a search. Edit to add: it's funny how we forget things, Gheorge was on the board and posted on some of the threads I found about the Montoliu recording.

Early on Organissimo - I still have a folder of emails labelled Mobley Box Set - mid-July 2005 to be exact. Gheorge has the details pretty much. It was a rather short speech.

There was a box set of LPs issued which included a 45 of Hank's speech. A group of us went in on a joint purchasing effort and I sent out burns to all members. Damn that was almost 20 years ago, I am thinking.

I posted this on FB and am getting pushback on what I hear, so maybe should put here too to get other's opinions. This is a truncated performance of "Honky Tonk" as I had to fade it out on Bob Neloms' solo. I hear a second tenor sax "answering" Percy France in the first 20 seconds. Others think it's someone "singing along". I have reason to believe that "Big Nick" Nicholas was in the audience, leading me to the conclusion that its Big Nick doing the playing but maybe its him doing the singing? I don't know what to say anymore.

Is everyone aware that South Carolina sports teams are the Gamecocks? (Or as we said at Florida State, the Lamecocks.)

Thought about the Musicians forum but no ...

Shades of Good Morning Vietnam. Congrats GoM, what an awesome "get"!

Hardly "recordings" in the sense you mean, but I have been posting many youtube uploads featuring Neloms in the Percy France thread in the artists forum.

I thought Country Joe West and Angel Hernandez were the worst of the worst but there's a new ump in the competition: MLB is f*cked up if they don't announce a suspension of this asshat. Or frankly, that he's been fired.