Dan Gould

Time to get caught up from Friday and today: Nat Adderley: Good Company We Remember Cannon The Old Country Live at the 1994 Floating Jazz Festival (That last one is a must have; great tunes, and Nat tells some great stories in between.) Toshiko Akiyoshi Quintet: At The Top of the Gate Eric Alexander: (Now you'll see why I keep defending him Full Range Two of a Kind Solid! New York Calling Mode for Mabes Live at the Keynote The First Milestone In Europe Straight Up Summit Meeting Man with a Horn Alexander the Great Nightlife in Tokyo Extra Innings Monty Alexander: Spunky Joe Alexander: Blue Jubilee (that last one I was interested to get, back in the day, when I learned that when the Three Sounds started out as the Four Sounds, Alexander was one of the saxophonists who played with the trio. OK, but more of historic interest.) 40

Usually I'm listening to something other than Mosaic sets, but right now I have a bunch in the car right now, finishing up with the Stitt today.

Jim's B-Day???? This ought to be the biggest B-Day of all!!!!

Paul, If this guy is this obnoxious, you really ought to start using the cops to hassle him. You might also look into contacting your city's department of Code Enforcement. Dogs pooping on your yard and parking in front of your house (if its illegal to park that way, or on the sidewalk) surely violates codes and they may do something about it. What made it really annoying this time was the fact that it was coming from the house. Usually its someone sitting in their car. Its small consolation to know those jackasses will be stone deaf in ten years-I want to get some sleep TONITE! And as far as that house goes-I'm not about to go knock on their door to tell them to lower their stereo. Might get greeted by a shotgun.

Anything by Benny Carter or Ben Webster on Verve. For Carter: The Urbane Sessions Cosmopolite For Webster: Soulville or any of the "Encounters" sessions (Mulligan, Hawkins) Soul of Ben Webster features Hodges and another small group swing virtuoso, Sweets Edison, if you can find it, its a three LP on two CD set, and very nice. Speaking of Sweets, try to track down The Swinger and Mr. Swing. (Hope you dig Oscar Peterson, cause he's on most of the Verve/Norgran small group swing sessions of the 50s.)

Tomorrow, Wednesday, whenever you're ready Ray.

If that's the case Ray, isn't it just about time to go ahead and reveal?

Who cares about physical matches? This is f-ing Snoop playing Miles, fer chrissake! Makes me sick.

Gary, Your hotmail account is over its limit, so I'll just post the message here: I shipped the package, Priority Mail, today. I finally remembered another LP I have that you may need, so I threw it in with the rest. It's My Mother's Eyes by Sonny Stitt, also on Pacific Jazz. As you may know, it was Charles debut recording, at least that's what the liners say. Glad I remembered that I have it!

Brad, I have the previous release, Philly-New York Junction and have this one on my want-to-buy list. Mags has a number of Criss Cross dates; they're all pretty solid in a Criss Cross sort of way.

Does anyone have experience with white noise machines and noisy neighbors? Our greatest annoyance with our new house is the presence of annoying neighbors who can't seem to understand that people might actually want to sleep, say, after 10:30 at night. Sometimes its the car stereo blasting while the car sales through the neighborhood, but last night it was the stereo inside their house. The cops are worthless, they show up an hour later, if you're lucky. So, as I was desperately trying to shield my ears, I began to wonder about white noise machines and whether they might be the answer. Any advice? Thanks!

Happy birthday, Use!

Well, I'm glad the board is back up, but I don't think my boss will be. No doubt, my productivity will be the same as it usually is; if the board were still down, who knows what I'd get accomplished tomorrow?

Prices include shipping to US addresses. Foreign shipping to be determined. Payment: Paypal checking account is preferred, or Money Orders. Paypal credit card is not preferred due to the fees involved. This can be negotiable though, perhaps with a slight bump in price, or through volume purchasing. Hope you understand. Checks are also acceptable, with a shipping delay for clearance. email dangould@hotmail.com All are in mint or near mint condition. FINAL REDUCTIONS: Cannonball in Japan, Cannonball Adderley Quintet (Capital) $8 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. Bill Cosby, Hello Friend, to ennis with love, (Verve) $8 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. (If you've not heard of this, its hard bop/soul jazz standards with Bobby Watson, Craig Handy, Phillip Harper, Cedar Walton, and to keep things interesting, Lester Bowie gives some nice slightly out touches to the tunes) Sonny Stitt, with the New Yorkers (Fresh Sound reissue of the Roost LP) $8 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. Robert Watson Sextet, Jewel (Evidence) $8 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. James Williams All-Stars, Classic Encounters (DIW import) $12 Now $10 ON HOLD Steve Wilson, Step Lively, (Criss Cross) $10 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. ON HOLD Phil Woods Quintet Plays the Music of Jim McNeely (TCB) $8 Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. Jazz Futures, Live in Concert (RCA Novus) $8 (If you've not heard this, George Wein took some "young lions" and sent them out on tour as the "Jazz Futures". They were Hargrove, Marlon Jordon, Antonio Hart, Tim Warfield, Mark Whitfield, Benny Green, Chris McBride and Carl Allen) Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. Kansas City, soundtrack to the Robert Altman film (Verve) $8 (A lot of people will say this was the best part of the film) Now $6, 2 for $10, 3 for $15, etc. NOTE: Multiple disc orders will be shipped without jewel boxes

I told Gary that the picture of his brother on Where it's At made him look like an axe-murderer or something. So, since I made color copies of the cover over the weekend, I figured I would share the pic here. Now I ask you, does this man look 100% harmless to you?

Shameless self-promotion or not, congrats, Chris.

Thanks for your explanation, Larry, but I do feel you are wrong here. I mean, Hamilton's story was that growing up, these were the records that his father had, and he loved the style so much, they formed his major inspiration. He's clearly a technically skilled musician, so it seems unlikely that he would make the kind of "mistake" you describe. I guess different ears hear different things. But maybe a listen to a more recent Hamilton CD would surprise you. Anyway, Hamilton meets the Sangrey standard, and that's good enough for me!

Well, we'll still have to disagree, Dana. Its not just responding to an attack on artists I enjoy. Larry said that Hamilton and Vache (I'm paraphrasing here) can't even get the language right from the artists they steal from. He talked about "syntax"-what exactly does that mean? If Hamilton appropriates a Websterian-like whisper or growl or that vibrating column of air, that he does it wrong, or picks the wrong moment to do it? I'm sorry, but that was wrong then, and its even more wrong now. I do feel that John Tapscott got it right and put it best.

Continuing with Cannonball: Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Paris, 1960 (Pablo) At The Lighthouse In San Francisco Somethin' Else Cannonball in Japan (AMG kind of pans this one, and I can kind of see why. Don't think the band was terribly inspired here.) Cannonball Adderley Collection, Vol. 1, Them Dirty Blues (Landmark) That RTE disc, En Concert Nat Adderley: Branching Out (Man, was I thrilled when this came out and I could get my hands on a rare Three Sounds appearance away from Blue Note!) Introducing Nat Adderley Naturally! 18

I agree with Brad, except that I fear that in addition to maturity, it takes an appreciation of beauty, passion, art. And that's why I expect that the people growing up with rap or any other genre of music over the past 20 years will never discover jazz. When they are old, they will be going to shows where bands cover rap or the Britney Spears or Christina Aguilerra songbook, and jazz as we know it will not even muster 1% of total sales. I see the same thing now at the concerts the south Florida jazz societies put on: the audience is 55+, and often more like 65+, white, and they're trying to relive their youth. In fact, one of the Jazz Societies even advertise with "songs you are likely to hear" and will list Dixieland or Swing standards, hoping that the old folks will be motivated by the memories to turn out. Its sad really, but that's the way it is.

Mark was nice enough to send me two of his digital photographs and at this request, I've uploaded them to my photo server website: Here's Charles McPherson: And McPherson and Donald Byrd: Sorry about the way the Byrd/McPherson photo scanned, obviously the black perimeter wasn't in the original, but when I re-scanned, it actually took the whole tray to be the picture, so this was the best I could get!

What John Tapscott said.

Dan, If I remember correctly, he worked with disabled kids in the (LA?) area. Hopefully Gary can share a little more. Eric As he just did, while you were composing your post. Charles sounds like a great, giving guy!

Not to step on Gary's toes, but he already told me that Ben Kynard is his uncle. He's set up a family-website Here Which has info about both Charles and Ben.

Gary, Thanks for joining up and sharing things about your brother. But what "non-jazz Professional activities" is Eric referring to? Was Charles a multi-talented guy?