Dan Gould

The jury's deliberating, so you better vote quick! I know its a circumstantial case, but his behavior while his wife was "missing"-selling her car, talking to a realtor about selling the house, altering the baby's room to a storage room-is just too much. Added to the lies he told, the extramarital affair, I can't help but believe he did it.

It was. Maybe its time to adopt the BFT signup method to the AOTW? One advantage here might be that people could announce their future picks far enough in advance that people could have plenty of lead time to either give some listening to the album or get it in hand well in time for the discussion.

Thanks. Don't think that Bethlehem made it out in that since-aborted series of reissues.

I know this will make Chuck abhor me even more, but here's the way I've tried to look at those Spanish labels with the dubious ethics: If they're ripping off new reissues, avoid them like the plague. If they put out obscurities that would otherwise never be seen or are hard to find on ebay, I'll consider them. Case in point: The recent reissue of Rusty Bryant Dot recordings. I had one of these on a noisy LP and was shocked to find Rusty blowing very nicely (and rather Pres-like) on a group of standards with a band of west coast mainstays like Gerry Wiggins. So, shoot me, but I'm happy to have the complete west coast Dot sessions in decent sound. So that brings me to one item in their latest batch: Complete Frank Rosolino Quartet featuring Sonny Clark. One date therein is with Sonny, the other is with Lou Levy. It looks like the Levy set is from a Mode album last put out by VSOP. My question is, does anyone know what the Clark date is? If its another VSOP reissue, then I'll surely try to hunt it down (AMG isn't helping). But if its something more obscure and less easily attainable ...

Tell that to Garth Brooks!

And a tad grayer than the last picture I saw!

Tony, Cables sounds fine, and that's coming from someone who isn't a fan. So now you really have no excuse!

Mike, I'd like in for #40-whatever. This time, no complaints about too many blues!

The Vanguard reissues: Great music that shouldn't have been put out as comps.

Polls open at 7 am, and close as late as 8 or 9 pm (never before 7 pm). So many people go to vote before or after work. I'd imagine that employers would be understanding if one went to vote at lunch time and were a bit late getting back.

I liked Robin Williams in the flick about the creepy photo shop dude.

OOPS, my bad!

UP, cause this CD is flat out terrific! Morgan may come straight out of Bird, but I just love his tone, so expressive, soulful and personal. Great tunes on this, too: two Monks, two Coltranes, and an excellent cover of "All Blues". I'd heard when Morgan had a stroke a couple or so ago, but I was surprised to learn in the liners that he actually was gigging again about six months after. Clearly, his playing has not suffered the way OP's playing did after his stroke, and I really can't recommend this set enough, to Morgan fans, or anyone wanting to check him out.

Well, if I'm not mistaken, the Four Freshman and this set are the first Mosaics for vocalists, aren't they? Myself, I wouldn't at all mind a Joe Williams Roulette Mosaic. There's some good stuff in there, aside from the two sets that came out on the Williams/Sweets reissue a few years back.

Maybe the hyperbole is in direct relationship to the fact that these albums are known to have been originally aimed at the pop side of things? In other words, Michael knows this one is a tougher sell, so he's pushing it a bit harder.

I realize this may be considered a "political" issue but electoral incompetence is non-partisan, so I figure it belongs in this forum. So my question is: How well organized was your voter precinct? Was the wait long, short? Do you have touchscreen machines or something from the last millenium? Did they work without a hitch? And do any of you have precincts located in Churches? I do, and frankly I think its wrong. Voting should take place in public buildings, schools, etc. Not churches, where I found three different signs encouraging me to pray for my country and for my leaders. I also had some woman walk down the line telling people, "pray before you vote!" to which I had to respond, "Excuse me, this is America-we may choose to pray before we vote, or we may choose NOT to pray before we vote." That shut her Christian Fascist mouth pretty quick. But I digress. How did the machinery of elections work for you? While the touchscreen system seemed to work well, it was ridiculous that there were only three machines for my precinct. The bottom line-I was in line ten minutes before the polls opened, there were about thirty people ahead of me. I didn't complete the ballot until an hour after the polls opened.

Maybe people would if you gave us a label.

A blog is a soliloquy. A bulletin board is a conversation.

He's quite the Renassaince Man! Bass Player, Blakey Lover, Advice Columnist Extraordinaire!

We didn't touch on that, but yes, Eddie and Meredith remain together. Thanks for the compliment.

UP! I have fixed the operating system issues and can now offer burns of these two movies in both Quicktime format and as Flash movies. No reason why they shouldn't run on any PC, so I hope I can get a few people interested. Blues for Bartok, where are you?

Maybe sometime after I get it transcribed! I know, its terrible, but that's the truth. Technical problems made it difficult when I had time to transcribe, and since the technical problems were solved, certain other stuff has conspired to keep me from returning to it.

The Mosaic Select consists of all of his Blue Note albums, so Star Bright is contained in its entirety.

He lives in Miami and gigs when he feels like it. About a year or two ago I missed a chance to see Ira gig with Eddie Higgins. And speaking of Higgins, after my interview with him, I tried to use that connection to get an interview with Ira. Eddie graciously agreed to call him. He told him that he had done an interview with me, it went very well, and would he consider doing one also? Ira asked Eddie if he'd been paid for doing the interview and when told he hadn't been, said in no uncertain terms that without payment, he wouldn't do it! Who did he think I was working for, the National Enquirer? After relaying this, Eddie told me that Ira can be a bit of an "odd duck". No sh*t.

I got this from the Bastards a few years back in original vinyl form. I second the recommendation, though perhaps not quite so enthusiastically.