Dan Gould

He was pretty good in Game 1, but yet, its time for a Gould Household Tradition: TOTAL MEDIA BLACKOUT (except of course for Nelson's and Garcia's trial, conviction, and imprisonment )

Lots of pictures were taken, including one of me and the guys. But they stuck with tunes off the CD plus maybe a couple more, but none were identified as coming off of Ron's CD.

How about Philly Joe kicking the ass of his Dameronia band? Both LPs are highly recommended and someday maybe Uptown will manage to reissue them, as long rumored and hoped for.

Brad, what do you think of the Mance/Alexander? Some surprising tune choices like Got My Mojo Workng and Blueberry Hill, but I think the CD is superb overall. And Tony, I probably should have assumed that was what you meant, it just kind of bothered me the "your stuff was all vinyl" made me think others were making the same assumption. In fact, I was really surprised that at least one person and maybe more decided that the Jack Wilson was a vinyl source when it was a Japanese CD source, so I wanted to make clear just what was what.

Ah one, ah two, ah three ...

Yeah, Byrd definitely seems likely, since I am pretty sure by this time he'd done other dates with Coltrane for Prestige. But frankly, I wish I could go in the way back machine, make it KD who had the gig, and do whatever it took to make sure he made it!

Well, Jim, that was too bad with the phone number screw-up, but its cool that you got to meet Chick, Terri Lynn and Eric as well. Maybe when you reach that level of being headliners, you tend to avoid the crush of people who want to meet and greet. Celebrity's a bitch, and may you soon have it! I hate to admit it, but Mike had such an early start on Monday that we had to boogie after the Hazeltine-Alexander set so we couldn't stay for Herbie. Did he go all accoustic or did he have the big set of keyboards? And what did you guys think of Eric? Is Sangrey right? Looking forward to seeing the pics up here. B)

No, its Mack something or other .. Mack Daddy?

After hearing Jim Alfredson sing "I'm A Fool For You" at the Festival Saturday night, it is my devout hope that Organissimo's next project will allow it to qualify as a vocal/b-3 date.

Oh so true, and yet, after Pedro's rocky sixth and seventh, no one would have questioned it because of how well Timlin and Williamson had pitched. If they had come in and proceeded to blow it, I think the attitude would have been, "how appropriate, the bullpen had been crappy, then it performed tremendously, and now with the World Series at stake, it reverts to crappy form. That's the Red Sox-can't do it when its on the line." But seriously, I do not believe the "why didn't he keep Pedro in" second-guessing would have lasted long. I think everyone not in the Red Sox dugout felt that Pedro should be out and would have totally agreed with turning it over to Timlin (ONE HIT ALLOWED) and Willamson (ONE RUN ALLOWED). I do think the Fish can beat them-the Marlins play a great deal like the Angels of last year, small ball, run, steal bases, bunt, great defense ... the Marlins are definitely good enough to win. And God I hope they do, because the bloodletting in the Bronx will happen, just as if the Sox had done it themselves.

Not true, Tony. In fact, I was very surprised at the response to a couple of tracks, where CD sources were identified as being off an LP. For the record, #1, the Ike Isaacs-Jack Wilson CD was purchased from the Groove and is to my knowledge in print, or at least they got a hold of it less than a year ago. #2, Joe Williams-George Shearing was a VHS tape, available at CDUniverse: #3, the LD, is vinyl and has no known Japanese issue. #4, Red Holloway, is an inprint Highnote CD. #5, the flutes LP is definitely a rare one. #6, the Tadd Dameron tribute was just reissued, see this thread: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...?showtopic=4398 #7, Carmell Jones-very rare vinyl. #8, Houston Person, ditto, though I have seen it on ebay. #9, Teddy Edwards, in print on CD and DVD. #10, Eastern Rebellion, I'm pretty sure MusicMasters is out of business, but I am also pretty sure this could be found fairly easily. #11, Michael Cochrane/Wayne Shorter disc, in print Steeplechase CD, available from Stateside Distributors #12, Groove Holmes, definitely a rare vinyl album. #13, Japanese CD, I know that Brad got it from Mr. Tanno after the blindfold test. So, Tony, perhaps you meant that the tunes you enjoyed were all vinyl, but I'd like to reiterate that only five out of the 13 are definitely OOP vinyl albums that will take some tracking to find. And lastly, my opening post actually asks for purchases, on the hunt for, or requested burns of.

Tom, as I come down from the pain and anguish, I begin to understand and almost agree with your opinion of Little. I think he is the right guy for the clubhouse and over a 162 game season. In that regard, he is exactly like Dusty Baker-great to create a winning season, crappy on strategic decision-making. There is a fine column about this in today's Boston Globe-available at http://www.boston.com which argues effectively that no one should make a snap judgement on whether to retain Grady Little, and to think in terms of whether you can find someone who will bring both the season-long handling of a group of 25 men AND the strategic decision-making you need. And think about what his replacement will walk into, a situation where he can say to his new bosses, "OK-the old guy won 95 games, got the team to game seven of the LCS and lost in the 11th inning. If I do anything less, I'm a failure?" Its a good point, as well as the point of how well Grady handled Boston and the media and the expectations. There aren't a lot of managers who would do as well in that killer cauldron as Grady Little did. Nevertheless, he's a FUCKING MORON!! ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Yes, Jim had a DAT off the board and was very pleased.

I figured this post-festival report needed a new thread ... I am very pleased to report that Organissimo knocked the Clearwater Jazz Festival on its collective ass! I was able to attend mostly because a close friend recently moved to St. Petersburg, affording me a place to crash. He's not a jazz fan but believe me, by the time the set was over and we headed to the CD Purchase/Autograph booth, he was pulling out his wallet so that I could get a signed CD and I could give him my old copy of "Waiting for the Sisters" I managed to attract Jim's attention during set-up so we had a moment to introduce ourselves before the show, and when I saw the "tropical" shirt Jim had picked for the gig, I had to tell him I was going to have to give him some shit over that .... but then the band hit, and the only thing I could say about the shirt afterwards was: The crowd was even louder than Jim's shirt, and that's saying something! Many highlights-too many to list, but Ron Blake on tenor was fabulous (though the first tune was marred by his tenor mike not being turned on, we were close enough to realize that what we could hear was actually coming through *over* the speakers, not through them. ) The best tune (and biggest surprise) featured Jim on vocals on the Ray Charles classic "I'm A Fool For You". This really knocked out the people near us-there was a large African American family, bobbing their heads and just lapping it up, and when Jim started testifying, it was like a Pentacostal church-"Say it!" (Oh, and by the way, Joe told me afterwards that Jim added the tune to their setlist just a week earlier!!) A nice-sized crowd awaited the guys at the autograph/CD tent, including one older man-probably mid-50s, who said that he loved "Jimmy Smith Goes To Washington" and that he hadn't heard organ like that since he heard Smith in his heyday. And then things really got enjoyable when I got a chance to chat with Joe and Randy, two of the finest, friendliest sorts you'll ever meet, and after a picture was taken of me with all four musicians, Jim got a hold of one of the festival poo-bahs and landed hospitality badges for us so that we got to hang backstage, enjoying the free food and great company of these superlative individuals. And it may not be over yet, as the boys are currently planning to stay through today (Sunday) to catch Eric Alexander/David Hazeltine and then Herbie's Trio, so hopefully we will hook up again and hang out some more. Jim had loads of pictures taken so hopefully sometime next week you'll see many of them right here. And hopefully this great opportunity and tremendous performance will help these guys break through and get the attention and success they deserve so much. Great show, guys, and I'm damn glad I met ya! B)

I think it would be gratifying to the test-givers if people post which artist/album they have purchased or, perhaps, are on the search for, or have requested burns if it is long out of print item. I realize people post things like "I want this" in the discussion thread, but who's actually gone out and gotten it?

I can beat that-I got PM notifications over twenty four hours after they arrived.

Happiest of Happy's, my pinko friend!

Jim is 100% correct. Berigan, your head remains firmly implanted in your ass. Who gave up smoked hits that happened to luckily land in someone's glove in the seventh? THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING CLUE YOU NEED. IF PEDRO PITCHES A PERFECT SEVENTH WITH MORE WEAK-ASS FLY BALLS, ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY HE SHOULD GO OUT THERE FOR THE 8TH. But he didn't. Little says Pedro was the best pitcher on the staff at that moment and that's a pathetic crock of fucking shit. TIMLIN HAD AN ERA OF ZERO. WILLIAMSON WOULD HAVE HAD AN ERA OF ZERO EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HE GAVE UP A SINGLE, NO-BIG-WHOOP SOLO JACK TO A PINCH-HITTER IN A THREE RUN GAME BACK IN BOSTON. AND FUCK THE LITTLE FISTED BLOOP. IN SUCCESSION, JETER, WILLIAMS AND MATSUI CRUSHED PEDRO'S PITCHES.

Berigan get your head out of your ass. It wasn't Pedro. It was Little! You are hereby invited to join all the Yankee fans and EAT SHITANDDIE

and bring some of that prime latte stuff y'all are poundin' down all the time. I've always wanted to try me some of that ...

From your lips to God's ears, my man! Won't make this any easier to take, but at least it will mean we Yankee haters will have a Winter of Steinbrenner's Discontent to look forward to.

Good deal, and it looks like some new names, too! I think its way cool that we have got this thing up and running, that people step up to help out and that everyone has such a good time doing it. Bravo to everyone! Long may the Discs O' Mystery be circulated!

So what was the final number of burns? It looks like we came back down from my stratsopheric 30+ Actually, a steady 20-25 participants is probably easily handled by the test-giver, meaning less need for assistance, outside of the the US/Non-US distribution.

Well, I am not going to get any closer to the truth and won't have time to try, so here goes: 1. Nice tune, very familiar but I have no clue, while the bass doesn't sound right, I wondered if it could be Ray Brown when he was playing with Monty Alexander. 3.5 stars. 2. Nother excellent 3.5 star track, I'm going to go counter-intuitive and say, "not Bags". 3. This one I kept going back and forth between Miles and Sweets Edison. I might be wrong of course (hell, I probably am wrong) but I felt like I didn't recognize the tenor as any of Miles' partners (then again, I missed Trane on Dr. J's test, so really, what the heck do I know?) so I went back to Sweets and am going to say Sweets and Zoot. Another 4 star track. 4. If I am not mistaken, I got this from Good Mr. Rowan, so I will keep it to myself. 5. My notes say mid-50s, for some reason but I am probably wrong. I dug it alot though. 6. Nice but no clue. Liked the bass solo a lot. 7. Nice but no clue. 8. ditto 9. ditto 10. ditto 11. Ditto. I know that there is no theme here, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that he actually did stumble onto a theme-Songs Dan Will Dig 12. Didn't do much for me. There goes the theme 13. I know this song but I have no urge to go figuring it out, and anyway, I don't want to spoil it for everyone else. 14. No clue. 15. did nothing for me. I prefer my girl singers to sound more like girls. 16. Another one I recognize and know and its killing me not to name it but ... I just turned 38 and you know how its the memory that's first to go. Thanks once again to the esteemed Mr. Rowan who has put together a terrific disc. Hard, but really quite nice overall with very, very few misses for me and lots of tunes that were easily three or four stars.

You're completely wrong. If this were June or July when the bullpen was the Gas Can Gang, then yes, by all means, let Pedro pitch. 8th inning against Tampa Bay? Pedro all the way. But everyone in that bullpen was pitching to their absolute best level of the season. The bullpen ERA was barely over 1, for fucking God's sake! Every game we won went 8th inning, Timlin, 9th inning, Williamson, and absolutely no damage was done to either one of them except for the harmless solo homer Williamson gave up with a three run lead in game 4. And Embree is very tough on lefties (hell, who got Giambi out with the winning run at second?). It is inexcusable and unforgiveable to think that Pedro has earned any right to stay in the game. He's been babied the entire year, and now they keep him in? He was NOT the best pitcher on that team by the time the 8th inning came around. And yes, Posada's hit was a flare, but what about Matsui or Jeter? Those balls were clobbered, and they got clobbered in the seventh, too, except that they were hit at people. The writing was on the wall and there was never a goddamn reason in the world to leave Pedro in after the seventh. And absolutely never a goddamn reason in the world to leave him in after he got into any sort of trouble. GRADY LITTLE IS A FUCKING MORON WHO SHOULD RETURN TO THE OBSCURITY HE RICHLY DESERVES.