Dan Gould

Hank Crawford: After Hours Mr. Blues/Mr. Blues Plays Lady Soul Sonny Criss: Sonny's Dream Complete Imperial Sessions Mr. Blues Pour flirter Peacock Sessions Scatman Crothers: Scatman Crothers King Curtis: Soul Meeting Dameronia: Dameronia Stop Look and Listen Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris (guess these should be under Philly Joe's name, but) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Lockjaw/Stitt (LRC) Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Lockjaw Three (the latter two Roulette LPs on a superb homemade two-fer)

I'm certain you are wrong. You were thinking, what, they have one person write up the review but everyone listens and gives a rating?

Peter, Just this week I got to this set in my A-to-Z Sojourn. Excellent music! Guaranteed to satisfy.

For playing the crap I imagine he subjected you with, he deserves to have lost what he stood to gain from his father's collection. Hope he tells his mom what she threw away.

Thanks, Brownie!!

Funny Rat. Not Funny. No Rats. Fool me once, shame on you. Never gave you another chance to fool me!!!

"very enjoyable" yet "not essential". I think Yanow should have done a better job (or made some effort) to explain why an album can be very enjoyable but not essential. What keeps it below the other, presumbably essential albums? Perhaps we are nitpicking what is overall a positive review, but I think Jim R. is on to something. Here's my review of Yanow's review: "A worthwhile review, but not essential. Every critic has his off-days, and while Yanow's hits far outweigh his misses, he doesn't quite come through on this one. Maybe he was a bit constipated, or perhaps he had just gotten some positive but less than thrilling news, but Yanow seems to take out his own frustration on Silver, as he chooses to praise faintly with his seemingly contradictory phrase, "although not essential, a very enjoyable set."

I, too, find it interesting that apparently Monk ceased playing at all. I can understand that he would lose interest in public performance, but after living with music his entire adult life, to just stop completely ... Wasn't in the Straight No Chaser documentary that Monk is described as living in a bedroom (in Nica's house?), and when someone played the piano in the adjoining room, if he liked what he heard, the door opened wider, but if he didn't, the door would close ... so his life wasn't devoid of music, but none came out of him for the last six years or so.

Heard a reel-to-reel recording of Prez at the Cafe Bohemia, December 22, 1956, a radio broadcast. Does anyone know if this was put out at any point? There're no details on who is backing him up-was that ever determined? Thanks!

Just read in the Boston Globe that when David Ortiz had his appeal heard with Bob Watson, he received indications that he will not be suspended for the brawl with the Yankees. They considered his actions to be geared toward separating combatants. I think that leaves A-Rod, Varitek, Sturtze, Kapler, and maybe Lofton (did anyone spot what Lofton did to get ejected? The Sox pitcher thinks Lofton punched him, but I never saw where Lofton was even).

Chris, they'll always be a dominant club because they have the revenue to buy every player they want. Where their farm system will fail them is in the ability to swing mid-season deals with the have-not teams when they discover a need (like starting pitching, or a first baseman) that they didn't expect at the start of the season. That's what is happening now.

The reason keeping Johnson is important if not critical is to give the fans a reason to come to the ballpark, especially if the team goes into full rebuild mode. Furthermore, Finley and Johnson aren't just any old farts playing out the string. They're at the top of their game, still, and if they're your best players, why shouldn't you want value, serious value, in return? As far as the Yankees are concerned, I think it isn't just a matter of time that their lack of farm team development catches up with them. It already has: RJ stays in Arizona for at least the remainder of the year. You heard it here first.

Can't argue with that.

I'm with you, Evan. I never knew Yanow panned it like that, I consider it one of Horace's all-time best. I used their version of "My One and Only Love" at my Wedding, in fact. This was one of those albums that I saw for the first time in the first blue Note album cover book and wanted it immediately; it took a while but I found a Liberty pressing a few years ago and I finally heard it, definitely NOT something that didn't live up to its promise.

Did you see the report of the exchange between Unit's agent and Garagiola? "If you don't trade him to the Yankees, you're going to have a very unhappy player." "And I would tell that how?" At this point our best hope (us being Red Sox Nation) is for the D-Backs to continue to insist on real value in exchange for Johnson and never reaching agreement .... or better yet, they wait til the off season when they might have more suitors.

If you like soulful piano that fits into the Three Sounds/Ramsey Lewis vibe, I would start with McCann's Pacific Jazz LPs, which were popular enough that they aren't terribly hard to find, should you be willing to buy vinyl.

And by the way, if you go into My Controls, you can set it so that more posts load per page, and, viola, this thread is only one page.

WHO?

Yeah, speaking of Parcel Post, my Dad sent a book Parcel Post mid-week and was shocked when I called to thank him on Saturday. So, you never know!

Excellent! In fact, I recommend all of Junior's Steeplechase CDs.

For the most part, I am usually left thinking, "what the fuck is wrong with the USPS in Texas?" Seriously, anytime something I've shipped takes extra long to get there, or never makes it at all (Sangrey knows about this) its going to your neck of the woods. So, since the trouble seems to be spreading, maybe the USPS is using Texas as its training center and sending out the graduates around the company, to spread the crappy service everywhere?

Got it over the weekend, Marcus. Looking forward to a chance to listen

John Coltrane: Blue Train Mating Call Black Pearls with Kenny Burrell (technically Burrell's date, I guess) Traneing In Soultrane Bags and Trane Plays the Blues (Before you start criticizing, the Impulse Tranes are digipacks, so they aren't in the three ring binders, so they aren't in this. And Giant Steps is on vinyl. So there! And no Interstellar Space, in any format!!) Harry Connick Jr; When Harry Met Sally We Are in Love Continuum: Mad About Tadd Junior Cook: Junior's Cookin' You Leave Me Breathless The Place to Be On a Misty Night Chick Corea and Friends, Remembering Bud Powell Harold Corbin; Soul Brother Curtis Counce Exploring the Future Sonny Cox The Wailer Kenny Cox Introducing Multidirection

Garner? Mance? Newborn? Jamal? Tatum, for heaven's sake? We need to brush up on reading comprehension.

Bohannon is a trombonist who started in Detroit, led a couple of dates himself on Workshop Jazz, moved to L.A. and did the studio thing along with the jazz thing. I'm pretty sure he's still active. The cover was in one of those Album cover books that came out after the first BN album cover book, and when I saw, as you say, that it was practically a Horace Silver Quintet without Horace, I immediately wanted it. Took a while but Bill Fenohr tracked down a copy, and now I believe its available from one of those Fresh Sound associated companies, isn't it?