Dan Gould

Long time since I've listened to Bennie but thinking very seriously about pulling several discs, inspired by this thread. Bennie communicates a great deal of joy in his playing, a characteristic I always find extremely attractive. Should add: I have to check that I have that 45 Sessions disc (almost sure) and how about this one issued seeming three ways - Bennie Green as leader, Gene Ammons as leader (aka Juggin Around) and the two as co-leaders. Anyway you get its some fine music. https://www.discogs.com/master/442725-Benny-Green-The-Swinginest

Is there particular significance to that?

Haven't been uploading as much but here are the two latest:

Without a doubt there was an Ella tv ad for Memorex - many in fact. If there any with Count Basie the same search below doesn't turn them up. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ella+firtzgerald+memorex

I realize that MLB.com is basically the owner's mouthpiece until a new CBA is reached but even allowing for that and the fact that I am not seeking out alternative reporting, I cannot say that the PA is impressing me with their desire to deal. Last time they countered a proposal of $20 million for something or other by going from $105 mil to $100 mil? That's not a serious bargaining tactic, IMO. Its kind of like the Old Man on Pawn Stars making a new offer lower than the old one, when a customer is trying to squeeze more out of him. I also do not see how a proposal to eliminate revenue sharing helps competitiveness or the league. What exactly is their rationale? Right now a delay in the season is more on the players than the owners, IMO. (Also not a good look that the players refused arbitration. Not binding arbitration, mind you. Just plain old Federal-mediated arbitration.)

Thanks for posting Tom.

Well I received the comp that made me wonder and post about the thread topic. Appears that for "A Little 3/4 for God and Country" they made a pretty smooth edit straight to Stanley Turrentine's solo, so not only no "new" Frank Haynes but no Frank Haynes at all. One More Hamhock Please is really odd though and I am concluding that they did a remarkable editing job ... Amy's solo is about 50 seconds on the comp - much longer on the track that was issued. It actually lines up more or less perfectly, but on the CD issued track, there's a sort of a Blakey press roll into the piano solo, and same thing on the edited version. But there was no press roll at that point in Amy's solo, so as near as I can tell they cross-faded Amy out, because the press roll leading into the piano solo is present on the version on the comp. Very artfully done. How many channels were they recording at the PJ studio back then? Or maybe in 1978 they had more channels to work with when they edited it down. (Glad I only spent $8 including shipping on this record.)

I already know they are ... I own the record, ironically enough. Oh well the show should be good to hear anyway. Thanks.

Thank you for going above and beyond!

Nobody can help me out?

I keep going off topic but as long as hearing aids have to be sold thru licensed professionals, like audiologists, it ought to be a great field to go into. How long has it been since you first pulled up to someone at a stoplight whose music made the body of your car shake, rattle and hum? The number of old people needing hearing aids is probably constant (as a percentage) but then think about all the people who wreck/are wrecking/have wrecked their hearing because of their car stereo system.

Not quite the same thing but what about large-ish groups on small club stages? On a trip to NYC in the early 2000s, my wife and I went up to Smoke to see the George Coleman Octet. What I remember most is how tall Harold Mabern was, folded over his piano, and how Gary Smulyan was placed right next to Jim Rotundi and when they both played, Smulyan did it one-handed due to that piercing tone of Rotundi's right next to his ear.

Well for one thing, "you got to be in it to win it," as the old ads used to say, and the cost of admission is $1-2 vs a helluva lot more, to win the same money trading stocks. Unless, you know, there's a $2 share of stock you can buy that will magically turn into $200 million.

Can anyone help me out by going to this page: https://www.wnyc.org/story/phil-schaaps-50-year-career-the-raconteur-raised-on-jazz/ and trying to "listen" to the broadcast? I am not sure if its a technical problem on my end or that this show is not available for streaming, but I would really like to hear the two George Kelly and the Jazz Sultans tunes that were played. Thanks in advance!

That's interesting, did not know his booking career got interrupted. Obviously the West End brought him back in fairly short order. I really wish I could find the article I saw that went into depth about both the West End and the steadiness of the WKCR broadcasts from the club. Thanks.

I did hear of the Third Phase in my newspaper searching, but not sure why you are calling it a post-West End club in that time frame? I had a Schaap profile putting him in charge of booking the West End from something like 1973 to late 80s at least, maybe into 1990 with the West End Gate. And all thru those years WKCR was doing Friday night broadcasts from the West End. BTW that Jazz Session graphic was for Phil's record label - I got the whole set of 45s from Phil's website about a year and a half ago. Like the West End, many recordings by swing guys who weren't getting many opportunities. WKCR tried to play some of those 45s Friday night, some were in really rough shape.

Yes, it's called audio editing software. I use Goldwave and run a mini plug from my headphone plug to my line-in and record away.

What a nearly complete waste of air time. One highlight: They had a single solitary show broadcast from the West End, from 1985, a quartet led by Ruby Braff. Among the lowlights: An announcer who didn't know her ass from her elbow, going by one name, presumably for plausible deniability that she was ever on the air. My favorite mispronunciation: "We just heard "TOOK-see-doh Junction ..." Completely unprepared to talk with any authority about the West End or Phil's role there, when there are articles about it easily findable on the web (well, I just looked and the articles are a bit crowded out by his obits but still ... she had a subject for her broadcast and barely did anything to prepare for it.) And the real disappointment is only having a single, 35 minute tape from an actual broadcast from the club. Was this due to an inability to search the archive properly due to Covid restrictions or because of all the tapes they found, Braff's was the only one judged to be worthy of broadcast due to tape degradation?

Can't wait to roll "tape" just before 9 pm and then find out what was broadcast from the West End first thing tomorrow. These are club concerts not heard ever except by the broadcast audience and the patrons "live" at the club (I'm assuming). I'd give my left nut for a complete Percy France show. (I'll give your left nut for one Percy tune).

Nobody tell Chewy.

I laughed, then I realized there probably is such a thing as a Vegan Pet shop.

Yeah but part of that was my original post and thread title not being as specific. Otherwise I'm sure Mark wouldn't have hit us with 100 Donald Byrd's in like three year's time.

Should have added "Calendar Year".

Not only, but how about first year's recordings, too? Should have put it that way. Clearly I didn't state this very well and I wish I could just start a new thread. First recording year, sideman only. My simple point was that Frank Haynes started very fast and made great records especially for someone almost entirely forgotten.

So I decided to put a Frank Haynes compilation together - a single MP3 disc of all known recordings, in chronological order. (Here's a great source about his discography - since he doesn't solo at all on two of the known recordings, I am excluding them - helpful since I don't own them either: http://www.jazzarcheology.com/frank_haynes/ ) Anyway I looked at those first recordings, and what a year Frank Haynes had in 1961. March - Dave Bailey Reaching Out session with Billy Gardner and Grant Green - later reissued under Grant's name as Green Blues on Muse. October - Dave Bailey Bash with Kenny Dorham, Curtis Fuller - later reissued as Osmosis under KD's leadership. October - Dave Bailey Two Feet in the Gutter session with Bill Hardman. December - Les McCann In New York with Blue Mitchell and Stanley Turrentine. What do you all think? And can anyone think of a single year in which a soloist was on so many excellent sessions? (Let's say for the sake of argument that we eliminate all "rhythm section" members discographies. I'm talking reeds/horns/guitarists, not pianists/bass/drums. (Now watch, I am sure there are calendar years where Hank, Lee and many others have been as productive. But I bet some or all were leader dates and these are all sideman.)