Dan Gould

Well, if you think you can get with the label and get the info from them-phone number and also address if possible-that would be great. I just figured since Jim had something of a working relationship, that might help him in getting in touch. But anything you can do would be great!

After a ridiculous number of problems, I've finally got an uploadable scan of the Mobley photo. Its not the best, but it will have to do. For those unfamiliar with it from when it was posted on the BNBB, here's the story: The date was March 22, 1980. Steeplechase Records was considering giving Hank a recording date, so he was invited to sit in with the Tete Montoliu Trio. The audition didn't go too well-Hank had lung problems pretty much throughout the '70s and nothing came of it. Nothing was put out originally, but when the date, I Want To Talk About You, came out on CD, Steeplechase added the one usable track, "Autumn Leaves." This picture was on the back of the CD insert. To me, Hank looks like a shell of his former self, like he had a very rough time of it in the seventies and it had aged him markedly. There's also something somehow sad in his eyes-at least the way I see it. If anyone wants to see a better scan and can handle a 1 mb e-mail attachment as a .BMP file, let me know and I can e-mail from work (hotmail won't let me send a file that size, no way no how.)

Guys, I tried my best to upload this sucker, made sure it was under 100K and an uploadable format but it won't happen for me! I've sent it to B3er however, so hopefully he can do something. Otherwise, I could send the image to people, if you can handle 1 MB attachments.

If Vasquez turns out t handle New York better than Weaver, you've made a very good pickup. But at what cost???? Nick Johnson is the greatest prospect to come out of the Yankee system in years and years and years. He has superstar written all over him, and not only have you tossed him away, you've set yourself up for atrocious infield defense from a guy who already needs knee surgery and its feared that it won't even help him that much. I'm not happy you have Vasquez but I am thrilled you gave up Johnson. As far as Weaver for Brown, well ... if that trade gets made than its time for baseball's own Warren Commission, because there is no way that a rich franchise like the Dodgers gives up a pitcher of that quality for Jeff Weaver. It would have to be a conspiracy ... involving the Cubans, the Mob, the CIA AND Marilyn Monroe.

How about St. Louis in June, instead?

And there was a link to this: Master, I beg you to tell me What can I do to please you? Shall I offer you my body? It is young and for your pleasure Would you like me to comfort you? To love you without question My soul is yours if you want it Please take it, Dear Master I live only to tend to your wishes Only to serve your fancies ~Untitled Haiku~ Was it my tear that stroked my breast to fall softly to my naked thigh ~Novelty~ I am a novelty. That little thing you want so bad until you finally get it and then it's not quite as fun to have it as it is to want it. But as with all novelties you can keep me for those moments I might strike your fancy or you can give me to another or throw me away. For I am a novelty and I wish only to bring you pleasure in any way I can. And check out the pic of the author!

Thanks, Jim! I've got the other two of Bubba Brooks CDs on their way to me as we speak!

How about an alternative destination for a get-together next June? From Euclid Records' e-mail: JAZZ COLLECTORS TAKE NOTE- The International Association of Jazz Record Collectors annual convention will be held here in our hometown of St. Louis, MO, June 16-19. The last two days will be open to the public and will feature a Jazz and Blues only record and CD convention. We already have obligations from some of the best record dealers in the U.S. the convention will also feature live music, Jazz films as well as guest speakers. We'll be supplying more information as it develops but this will be an event NOT to miss! For more information about the IAJRC as well as membership info, check the website at http://www.geocities.com/iajrc/ Think of it! It would be the greatest CD/Vinyl Safari of all time, and we could all hang out together and shoot the breeze during what is sure to be a very cool jazz gathering! And St Louis is a pretty fine town, with some great eats, too. If we get enough of a turnout, we could take over O'Connells and chow down on the greatest burgers on the face of the planet! Seriously, I mentioned this event to my wife (we've thought of vacationing in St. Louis) so this is definitely on my radar screen. How about the rest of the Organissimo-ers?

Was "screwball" short for "it'll screw your arm up, big time!"?

GHOUL, Are you suggesting I not respond to posts directed at me?? (Like yours for instance). Soooo, who do you think was the best drummer to have recorded with Lennie Tristano?? Jeff Morton, Shelly Manne, Harold Granowsky, or Art Taylor. Something tells me you're just NOT a Tristano devotee. sssSSSHHHHHH I think I can hear Epsom Salts at work DEEP DEEP (In The Drunk Tank), You know exactly what I am saying, and it has nothing to do with responding or not responding to other's posts directed at you. Let me say it in another way: GET OUT OF THIS THREAD AND SHOW THAT YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COMMUNITY OTHER THAN THE GLORIFICATION OF YOUR MASSIVE EGO.

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Hey DEEP (In the Drunk Tank) Why don't you get the hell out of this thread and go visit some of the other, far more stimulating conversations taking place on this board? Here's a clue as to why you might want to consider that: 1. Hanging here and only here shows you to be a desperate-for-attention buffoon. 2. A watched pot never boils, and a watched thread never gets the response you are so desperate to see.

Actually, Brownie, that was an "inside joke" for (mostly) Americans who remember the TV show, "Married with Children." One of the characters was a dumb blonde type (I mean REALLY dumb) and she used to say "Viola!" when she meant "Voila!" Good looking woman-I'm surprised she hasn't made an appearance in the Babe thread. If I had some time .... As for the Grant Green, I hope the sound is good and that most of the LP is Grant and Kenny, and not one of those single track deals. Still it'd make a good Blindfold test, if they do play together!

DEEP (In the Drunk Tank): The law is serious business. As Moussaui and John Muhammad are learning in Virginia, it pays to set your ego aside and let it be handled by professionals. Or, as Judge Judy might have said, "Don't piss on my bench and tell me its raining!"

Deep, Allow me to interject with what I see as the problem with your "olive branch". You should not, in my opinion, be withdrawing your silly claim that Chris violated the rules and ought to be punished. This has nothing to do with what (rightfully) upset him so. You know what upset him: Your silly "urinal dream" followed by your even more foolish adulteration of his name, either to intentionally hurt him or for a stupid laugh. Either way, it has driven him away and if you are serious in trying to mend the breach in a public way, then at least acknowledge the true cause of the breach. Otherwise, you're just pissing on the Bench, and no Judge likes that.

God, how I love Google! Put "I Giganti Del Jazz Volume 55" in, and VIOLA-a place in the UK had it and as soon as i figure out how to pay them, it will be winging its way to me!!! It was a little more than the $1 or $2 these ought to cost, but nothing outrageous. Including airmail, under $15. Hope the Grant is worth it! And thanks, Brownie for mentioning it!

I undersand SgudMissile's points and totally agree with them ... IF the recording in question is an official release with full copyright protection. And if there are people at a live date who record the show in order to put out a bootleg recording, they are also breaking the law. But I part company when it comes to trading live recordings that have never been issued commercially and are not being traded for cash. This incurs no cost whatsoever on the performer, whether he is alive or dead. There's no sale involved, and there's no commercial release. Therefore, there is no copyright to violate. *************** I see people saying that this software is easy to deal with-but what about people with high speed connections and firewalls? Do I want to leave my firewall open so long to download a 500 meg concert? What are the risks involved?

Well, what happened is that I had the CD and sent a scan to Greg, who hosted it on his website and subsequently lost the image. The good news is, I now have a scanner myself and could either post it on a new thread later tonite or else e-mail copies to people. It was an interesting discussion-in addition to looking much older than he did at the end of his Blue Note career, I felt there was something very empty and hurt in Hank's eyes. Others said it looked like he was reading sheet music slightly off camera-and yet, the tune on the Cd is Autumn Leaves-he needed sheet music for that? But, as Chuck says, he recorded other tunes on the date but Autumn Leaves was regarded as releasable when the CD came out. Anyway, I'll do something tonite, and post, maybe with a warning not to open if you don't wish to see "the picture".

Last I knew, he made his home base here in Fort Lauderdale, but I don't know for sure that is still the case.

I wouldn't be so sure about what is and isn't "unavailable". One of the Blakey downloads I am almost sure is from a European CD I have, maybe a Fontana, I'm not entirely sure. Looking through the FAQs I see that this is peer-to-peer distribution, so I suspect that our firewall is going to be a problem there anyway. But if these are truly live recordings, I frankly see this as a technological advance in the ageless "tape trading" community, just swapping files instead of tapes or CDRs. To the extent that these are live recordings and not bootlegs of copyrighted works, I've never seen why this is a terrible thing. If the material doesn't benefit Horace Silver or Miles Davis to begin with, what is the harm of trading (or downloading)? So, I don't think I'll sign up for this, though I have to admit I have half a mind to post an "In Search of Gene Harris" thread!

Hey GoM (and all you other Yankee fans), here's a column from ESPN.com with scary implications for the future: Tuesday, December 2, 2003 THE OLD BOSS IS BACK By Buster Olney ESPN The Magazine The Yankees are George Steinbrenner's team, more than at any time since 1990. The Boss negotiated Gary Sheffield's contract personally last week, meeting the slugger in Tampa, Fla. and allowing him to choose from three proposals. And in the last year, Steinbrenner was the driving force behind the deals for third baseman Aaron Boone and pitchers Chris Hammond and Jose Contreras. He wanted outfielder Raul Mondesi in 2002, and he got him. George Steinbrenner is pulling nearly all the strings this offseason for the Yankees. There was a time when Steinbrenner deferred to his underlings. Gene Michael, the Yankees' general manager for five seasons, and Brian Cashman, who took over as GM in 1998, fought to keep Steinbrenner tethered to a measured course of management. They wanted to develop good and cheap, young talent, they looked for players who fit New York, and they stood their ground. Steinbrenner usually backed off. Because of that, Bernie Williams was not traded in 1994, Andy Pettitte in 1999 and Alfonso Soriano in 2000. Steinbrenner occasionally stepped in and pushed through a smaller move, such as the signing of Dwight Gooden in 2000. But by and large, the professionals rebuilt and refined the team, the Yankees won four championships in five seasons from 1996-2000 and began making the playoffs every year, after failing to advance to the postseason for 14 years. After losing the 1981 World Series, they had stayed home in October until 1995. But the Yankees lost the 2001 World Series to Arizona and Steinbrenner determined that his executives could not be trusted. He met David Wells for lunch and signed the left-handed pitcher to a two-year contract, a deal that worked out for the Yankees. Others have not. Slowly, Steinbrenner's vision for a championship team has begun taking shape. Sheffield will get a three-year deal and it's possible that within that time frame, he will be one of four excellent candidates to be the Yankees' designated hitter. He's 35 years old, adequate defensively. First baseman Jason Giambi is almost 32 and moves like somebody 10 years older: he has a damaged knee mostly unaided by recent surgery, and is so immobile that he couldn't start Game 5 of the World Series. There is talk that Williams, also 35, might have to move out of center field because of shoulder and knee trouble; he could shift to DH if the Yankees sign Kenny Lofton. But then, where would Giambi play if he can't play first base? Or catcher Jorge Posada, who might begin feeling the effects of a heavy workload in the next couple of seasons? Or Sheffield, if age or injury overcome him? Steinbrenner apparently was unconcerned about Sheffield's history of unhappiness and intermittent effort. Sheffield does have great stats, something that many of the championship Yankees did not have. The Yankees are paying about $10 million for third basemen next season, the combined salaries of Boone and Drew Henson, and Boone is a free-swinger who was almost completely overmatched in the postseason, save for one Tim Wakefield knuckler. Gary Sheffield will be the first big free-agent signing for the Yankees this offseason. The Yankees signed one right-handed set-up man -- 36-year-old Tom Gordon. They are also close to signing another righty reliever -- 35-year-old Paul Quantrill. That's because the army of middle relievers the Yankees have tried in the latest Steinbrenner era have either been hit with injury or been ineffective. If you project Contreras for the bullpen -- the role in which he served during the postseason, then the Yankees will have about $25 million in middle relief, or about $5 million less than the Brewers will pay their entire team. But Contreras is probably headed to the starting rotation, once the pride of the Yankees. There's Mike Mussina and probably Pettitte, once he reconsiders his flirtation with Houston, and maybe Contreras and maybe Jon Lieber and perhaps Jeff Weaver and even Wells (if he re-signs). There are question marks and Steinbrenner doesn't like question marks, and so the Yankees owner may throw another $40 million at talented Bartolo Colon, whose weight problem remains a question. Steinbrenner might negotiate that deal himself, as well. They need a young, cheap starter. Too bad that Brandon Claussen, left-handed and a hard-thrower and graced with a maturity that greatly impressed the Yankees' coaching staff, went to Cincinnati for Boone. It all seems familiar. From 1976-1981 -- a period of six years -- the Yankees had dominant pitching, with Sparky Lyle and Ron Guidry and Goose Gossage and Catfish Hunter, won two World Series and played in two others and made the playoffs every year but one. Steinbrenner asserted even greater control, lured free agents, stripped the farm system. By 1983 the Yankees had a lineup of Roy Smalleys and Steve Kemps, aging hitters who had seen their best years, and by 1986 the Yankees' leading starter was Dennis Rasmussen, an 18-game winner; no other pitcher won 10 games. Steinbrenner was running the show, and the Yankees' victory total declined. Ninety wins in 1986, then 89 victories, 85, 74, and 67. That's when Steinbrenner was suspended, and Michael became general manager. But Steinbrenner's in charge now. More than ever. ************************************* It's just like you said, Ghost.

You're so pathetic, Johnny. What bothers you so much, that a handful of people are taking advantage of the software to avoid seeing your retching all over the Political section? Try to remember, there has always been great debate about the appropriateness of a Political forum on a JAZZ board. There are quite a few people who felt strongly that there ought not to be one. This allows them to pretend that there isn't.

You're sure that's not Cheap Ho Lay? B)

Well ... I was thankful you were offline.

And Johnny, I should let you know that if it says "0%" its a warning that you are being too nice to Republicans and need to start piling abuse on them in the most profane way possible. And I mean really profane.