Dan Gould

Other than life interfering, I don't have much of an excuse either for my slowness. Thanks to Nate; I was expecting a more "out" disc. Nevertheless, I can't say there were any standout discs, a few that appealed, a few that definitely did not, and even the ones that appealed didn't appeal to the level of being "gotta haves". Without further ado, the appealing ones were #s 3, 6 and 8 and 9; highly unappealing were 4, 7 and 10. But thanks again, Nate, I was expecting my ears to bleed several more times than they did.

That may be so, but they aren't on the recording I received.

The info I have doesn't refer to TV, says Baden Baden, circa 1963. It is a minute of solo piano. All told, the set list is shorter: Off Minor, Bye and Bye, Round Midnight, Blue Monk, Criss Cross. What about my question regarding Monk making a stage announcement?

I am completely shocked that he finally went for the one-day record (not shocked that he broke it though, obviously). Notice the little tics and quirks he has in his wagering? Its been a long-running joke that Trebek knows what his wager will be, always, because he likes round numbers. He also seems to get miffed if his challengers go to another category without finishing the present one. Not to nitpick, but when you have an unprecedented run like this, you get to see a person's quirks. I gave my brother an over/under of 1.5 million; I'll be surprised if I lose that bet (I said "over").

Doing another reel transfer, and on this one-from '63, Monk is heard saying this tune, "Bye bye when the morning comes," was made for a French film. Anyone know more about this? Is the movie obscure? Did he record this tune anywhere else? And something else I'm curious about-in all of the live recordings I've heard or seen, I can't recall Monk speaking to the audience. Is this a doubly rare recording, both for the tune and for Monk introducing it?

Glad I Found You has Thad Jones and Eddie Harris and is highly recommended.

This is one of those 70s LPs that Yanow absolutely utterly dismisses. Basically says, if I recall correctly, that it sounds like everyone is waiting for lunch, hardly even bothering to "phone it in".

Joe Cohn Two Funky People Nat "King" Cole: After Midnight Bill Coleman: Funk to Boogie Gloria Coleman: Soul Sisters (paired with Leo Wright's Soul Talk, on Vortex, also with Coleman but Kenny Burrell instead of Grant Green) Sings and Swings Ornette Coleman: Something Else Tomorrow is the Question Johnny Coles: The Warm Sound Little Johnny C New Morning

No. If I recall correctly, its Curtis Amy.

Jimmy Cobb: Only for the Pure at Heart Cobb's Groove Michael Cochrane: Elements Cutting Edge Minor Matrix Quartet Music Song of Change Footprints Impressions Gesture of Faith Lines of Reason Pathways Al Cohn: Night Flight to Dakar America Overtones Nonpareil The Natural Seven Al and Zoot And my new favorite CD: From A to Z and Beyond

Finally, a thread worthy of that smilie. I'm with Lon, been a long, long while since I've gotten smashed. The precipitating event: After college, I returned to Tallahassee for a wedding. That evening, a large group of college friends got together to relive old times. However, a friend had recently decided to stop drinking, and for that night, I decided to join him. It was a real eye opener, watching the stupid things people say and do when drunk and having it dawn on me that is how I was acting when smashed. Since then, its been wine with Christmas dinner and a little bubbly on New Year's and that's it.

For me its Benny Carter, first and always. Here's one of his best:

Still playing through all these years, Illinois spread a lot of joy. RIP.

Buying faster than I can listen? Not so much. Acquiring faster than I can listen? Definitely!

Considering the appearance of this thread, its ironic that I recently received a late 60s radio broadcast of Art and Lee with Kenny Drew and I'm planning to give it a listen when I get home this afternoon.

From today's NYT: He Can Play Guitar, but Can He Grimace? By RANDY KENNEDY Published: July 22, 2004 In England they call it, rather elegantly, "throwing shapes." One American practitioner says he thinks of it as "selling a move." But to most people who have seen it up close as a rock concert, it is simply that nutty face that the guitar player makes: a contorted grimace, sometimes involving liberal amounts of tongue, that suggests either ecstasy or accidental electrocution. "My sister always asked me: why do you make those faces when you play?" said Gary Lucas, who played for Captain Beefheart and was interviewed recently while touring England with the Magic Band. Mr. Lucas could never exactly explain it to his sister, except to say that the "strings have always seemed like an extension of the nervous system." And somehow, too, making the face was sexy. Mr. Lucas remembers that when he was young, he even noticed the familiar look of pained pleasure on the face of the second or third cellist in the New York Philharmonic. "He had a certain female section of the audience absolutely swooning," he said. Now both men and women — professionals, nonprofessionals and air guitarists alike — are being given a chance to put their best swoon-inducing faces on display. As a way to promote a video-on-demand guitar instruction show on cable television called "Guitar Xpress," the company that owns the service, Rainbow Media Holdings, recently came up with the idea of holding a national "guitar face" contest. Pretenders to the throne of, say, Angus Young of AC/DC (among the widely acknowledged kings of extreme-pain guitar face) or Stevie Ray Vaughn (who patented a kind of uncontrolled hideous laughing look) or Eddie Van Halen (of the prolonged wide-open-mouth school) can take a picture of their own look and send it via e-mail to guitarface@magrack.com or mail it to the company, which has lined up a panel of celebrity guitarist judges including Dick Dale, Roger McGuinn and J. J. French of Twisted Sister. When the contest ends in October, the winner will end up with an Epiphone guitar, 15 or maybe even 20 seconds of fame and possibly calls from reality-show casting directors offering more. Sal Cataldi, a public relations executive and part-time guitar player who came up with the idea for the contest, said that when he started trying to recruit judges "they all immediately knew what I was talking about. "And they all had these great stories about the guys they thought had the world-class guitar faces," he said, adding that B. B. King's was mentioned often as a classic, an intensely painful look, as if he were playing with broken fingers or had intestinal spasms. The faces break down into a few general categories: the pout, the pucker, the catfish (open mouth), the heavy squint and the full-face wince. There are combinations, such as the catfish crossed with the heavy squint, which one Web site describes as the Mr. Magoo, after the seeing-impaired cartoon character. And there are also regional variants, like the angry, disdainful no-expression look of the New York guitar player, a face used frequently by Mr. French, the Twisted Sister guitarist, who admits that he adapted his techniques from early performances by Mick Ronson, David Bowie's guitarist. "This is the J. J. really cool New York look," Mr. French said the other day in an interview at the Sam Ash guitar store on West 48th Street in Manhattan, demonstrating his special almost-no-expression snarl with sunglasses. But then Mr. French, who owns a management company and still tours in full makeup with Twisted Sister ("We always looked like a bunch of middle-aged hookers, but now we really do") showed how his look can change into a tortured but blissful squint when playing high notes at the top of the guitar neck and then relax into a kind of pouty, elongated gape with the lower notes. Once during a big stadium show in the 1980's, he recalled, he achieved his all-time most successful guitar face after jumping from a drum stand and sliding across the stage, smashing his knee badly against an amplifier. "At which point," he said, "the pain and the expression on my face probably out-Hendrixed Hendrix. And when I was in all that pain, I remember saying to myself, `Go with it, J. J. Milk it. The crowd is eating this up.' " Which of course brings up the ongoing debate regarding guitar face: how much of it is an expression of genuine, unfiltered musical passion and how much is calculated, the well-honed moves of a seasoned performer? Mr. French says that he was aware of the need to perform boldly onstage, especially for huge audiences, and that the facial expressions helped.He said they helped "sell the move" he was about to make by windmilling his strumming arm or kicking up one of his waxed legs. But he swears that he never put that much forethought into the look on his face and thinks few professional rock guitarists do. "I don't think it's like professional wrestling where guys sit around and figure out how they're going to con the audience," he said. "Forgive me for not being that cynical. I like to think we really feel it." They may, but Mark Weiss, a veteran rock photographer who is a judge for the contest, says that in his 30 years of watching guitarists, he has seen quite a few who were not only very aware of their stage expressions but worked on them. "That's probably how they got into playing in the first place — it's that they figured out how cool they looked doing it," said Mr. Weiss, who has spent many hours focusing his camera on the faces of Ted Nugent, Mr. Van Halen and the guitarists for extreme-guitar-face hair bands like Poison and Mötley Crüe. While he will not say which guitarists, he described how some in photo shoots for album covers or magazines "insisted that I have a mirror behind me while I was shooting so they could see their own poses." "They were thinking about the look a lot," he said. Mr. Lucas, for one, admits that he did. When he was young, he says, he decided to give up playing the French horn for reasons other than not being so good at it. "Basically," he said, "I couldn't put on a good rock face while I was playing it."

I went with Ringo cause he seems like a carefree, easygoing bloke who knows just how much life smiled upon him.

Thanks, I've already got 25 burns done; maybe I'll do another five between now and then.

How many participants, Marcus? It'll give me an idea of how many are around to participate in the dog days ...

Yup, I'll be hearing it sometime in the fall when I get to the "Mar"s.

James Clay I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart Cookin' at the Continental Double Dose of Soul The Right Chemistry (co-led by Bill Perkins) Buck Clayton Buck & Buddy (with Buddy Tate) In Paris Mosaic Set (this was a trade, that's why its in amongst the other CDs rather than amongst the regular Mosaic sets) Copenhagen Concert Songs for Swingers Swings the Village Live from NYC (the last two on Nagel-Heyer, proof that after he quit playing, Buck kept right on swinging by organizing and leading a big band) Jimmy Cleveland: Cleveland Style Arnett Cobb Party Time More Party Time Movin' Right Along Keep on Pushin' Blue and Sentimental

Now I see, its in the upcoming releases section. Thanks.

el bastards list them as available starting today... Funny, I don't see any of them listed now ...

I am totally shocked and dismayed. A really fine player who should have brightened the world with his music for a far longer time than he was given. RIP.

So, anyone know of any English websites selling these?