Dan Gould

Good to see you, Vic, and Happy New Year!

I'll echo that nomination, as I think Houston's work over the last ten years or more is of a very consistent quality. In fact, I find his work now much more satisfying than his Prestige soul jazz days. Not groundbreaking, but that huge, soulful tone is oh so satisfying!

Great picture, Chris. I had a spectacular view myself leaving LaGuardia for Fort Lauderdale on Sunday. Usually I am on the aisle but this time I had the right-side window seat and the plane took off to the east, directly over Shea Stadium and the Tennis Center (not something I like to see, but a different view from above) and then we swung out over the Sound and headed south directly over Manhattan, giving me a spectacular view of the George Washington Bridge, Central Park, mid-town, etc. The park was truly spectacular, you don't appreciate its size until you see it from 5 or six thousand feet, flying over its length!

I was just listening to one of Donald Harrison's "Nouveau Swing" discs and I noticed those annoying 90 second or even under-a-minute tunes, and I know Donald's not the only one-a lot of the young lions have done that too, like (I'm pretty sure) Eric Reed. WHAT is up with that? Does anyone get anything out of a 90 second tune? I mean, its not even as if they are trying to duplicate the "say it, and say it quick" aesthetic of the old 3 minute recordings of way back when, it just seems to be filler to me, and annoying filler at that. What do you guys think?

Obviously, this slipped on by, but I'd like to suggest that we try to remember this next year so that we can get it organized by early December, cause I think it would have been fun.

From Mosaic: The Gerald Wilson Box Curtis Amy Select Carmell Jones Select They also charged and shipped the Mulligan box, inexplicably, but since its not at the top of my list at this point, I told Mom to send it back. Also: Johnny Griffin and the Great Danes (Stunt) Dexter Gordon, The Rainbow People (Steeplechase) Dan Papaila, on Timeless, with Johnny Hammond Smith and Rickey Woodard And since Man cannot live by jazz alone:

Up, since its time to put the nose to the grindstone and get my prep work done so I can book some time with Weinstock, so if anyone has any additions for me, like, say .... CHUCK?

Well, let my first post on my return be to wish Moose a very happy birthday! (Actually, I'm not "back" until tomorrow afternoon, but it shows how I can't stay away for long-I'm at the public library in my parent's town, checking e-mail and Organissimo, and not necessarily in that order!

I'm headin to New York bright and early tomorrow morning to an Internet Free Zone otherwise known as the Gould Family Homestead. So, here's hoping everyone stays safe, has a fine holiday and gets lots of music from Santa! See ya when I return to the 21st Century!

And here's the difference between a musician's and a nonmusician's ears: I don't hear a great deal of "quirkiness" or "perversity," I mostly hear the standard hard bop framework.

What??!! Did Chuck get a copy of the Clearwater set?? (Where's the "no fair" smilier?

This was discussed once at Board Krypton. I didn't hate the LP, not by a long shot, but I do recall that Bill Fenohr opined that Leslie had everything except "chops and ideas" or something like that.

The Sounds left BN in 1961 or so, recorded two albums for Verve and three for Mercury, then three more for Limelight before returning to the fold in 1966.

I've done it for over three years, CDs and CDRs alike and never discovered any sort of problem. My question to you would be, do you remember what tune you were listening to and go back, or do you start the CD all over again everytime you start the car?

Well, what the letter says is that they didn't buy the company outright, they are making payments, that's what this means: But I wouldn't at all be surprised that the purchase agreement also explictly assigns those pre-existing debts to the prior ownership. But the problem with this statement is that even if the new ownership gets support from the artists, sells CDs and makes its monthly or quarterly payment to the prior ownership, there's absolutely no guarantee that the prior owners intend to use this money to pay off their debts. In fact, only a fool would believe that-they've got cash out of the business and surely have no intention of honoring the debts they racked up, short of a court judgement. To me, the question is, was the business failing due to slow sales or a revenue sharing plan that was too generous to artists to be sustained, or was the business predicated on fraud from the start (sell CDs on consignment, pocket the $$, don't pay the supplier)? If that's the case, it would be apparent to the new owners when they studied the books, and then, in my layman's opinion, you might have a case against the new owners for colluding in the fraud.

Funny, but pretty pathetic to have typos and mispellings all over the place.

Maybe I'm missing something, but why not relegate all "answers" to a dedicated answers thread? Then those who are interested can post sure answers any time-- no one is forced to look at the answer thread until they are read, the person who compiled the disc can post the answers after a reasonable time, and stragglers are not left out in the cold if they can't "keep up"? I think you're confusing different issues. #1, this is the thread for discussion and guesses. In the interest of not giving things away, it is asked, or, really, expected, that those who know particular tracks will post links to a resource like AMG so that people who don't want to know the answer can skip the link and remain "in the dark". #2, there will be a dedicated "Answers and Further Discussion" thread, started by Jim S. when he chooses to post the answers sometime over the weekend of beginning of next week. As for the suggestion about no activity on this thread before answers get posted, I think its really up to the test giver to make the call. Things tend to wind down on the initial discussion thread naturally, even if there is some level of action here. Furthermore, if there are stragglers, they should still be posting their initial impressions/guesses/commentary to this thread whenever they get around to it, so a requirement of silence here may not be workable anyway.

Note, however, that like a row of men at the urinals, all are strenuously avoiding even a sidelong glance at any "packages".

Actually, I did have a thought of slipping in Gene Harris' version of "I Can't Stop Lovng You" in the middle of the night, see if anyone was listening.

To get back on the specifics of the thread subject, I can tell you that when I got my start at WTNT-Tallahassee, a country station, the Program Director suggested that I come up with an alternative to "Dan Gould" because, I assumed, the hick country listeners wouldn't take to a Jewboy on their station. So, looking for a name I thought wouldn't be hard to remember, I used my mother's maiden name to become "Dan Cunningham;" this led the jock who I followed to refer to me as "Richie Cunningham's little brother."

Now Ann Arbor looks good yet its last in the polls ... I suggest we give this thing through the holidays, but right now it looks like everything is on hold until Chicago decides.

Some being of greater Mass than others.

Its been a while, but my impression of Tower is "no"; Virgin in Time Square was OK but pricey when I was there last. I can't imagine the Jazz Record Center NOT being worthwhile.

Looks like a new poll is in order Actually its a well argued point, Ed, the one thing that would concern me is that the event would need to coincide with a gig, and I wonder how far in advance that notice could be given?

Very nice job guys on a personal favorite of mine. Thanks, Happy Holidays to All, and I eagerly await the new CD!