Dan Gould

For a moment I was wondering if this was a truly organic result or a reflection of Allen's not insubstantial FB presence but beating out Metheny and Emmet Cohen definitely says something. Congrats, Allen!

The website cannot be optimized for phones. It really has to be seen on a laptop/tablet/PC. I hope you'll take the time to do that. There is no connection between his name and the city in France other than the fact that it makes web searches and in particular newspaper archive searches a bit more messy. Especially since that town had some role in WWII because a lot of obits of veterans mention "Percy, France".

Yes - I am surprised a regular member such as yourself hasn't seen any prior mentions especially last year. Hope you like it, how did you come across it?

From Sid Gribetz: To honor and preserve the memory of the career of Phil Schaap, WKCR presents a 126 hour long marathon radio tribute broadcast, beginning 6 PM Tuesday February 1st, then running continuously for five more full days through midnight, Sunday February 6. Phil passed away on September 7, 2021 at the age of 70. For over 50 years he was the guiding light and spiritual leader of jazz programming at our radio station. His death affected us all dearly, but we have gathered ourselves to honor him the way he taught us to do for all jazz luminaries, with a long running in depth radio broadcast. The Tribute will touch on all aspects of Phil’s career, but especially his radio broadcasts. As the cornerstone of the Tribute, we will be playing Phil’s shows from the WKCR archives, such as Traditions In Swing, Birthday Broadcasts, Phil’s interviews with jazz legends, Bird Flights, and excerpts from our Festivals. The program will also focus on some of Phil’s contributions to other aspects of the jazz community, as an educator, record producer, sound engineer, record vault researcher, concert producer at the West End Cafe, and so much more. We will play representative musical selections to acknowledge these many activities. Furthermore, the program will allow us to reminisce in tempo to include interviews with figures from the jazz world, panel discussions with WKCR colleagues from across the decades, and other features. That’s WKCR, 89.9 on the FM radio dial in New York City, and available around the world over the internet at www.wckr.org and on various mobile apps.

Well I guess no one wants to figure out tracks for the revealed names let alone source recording ... Reveal coming Sunday AM.

As some of you may have noticed, been hearing a lot of the Oliver Jackson Trio featuring Percy France, and I wanted to highlight how musical a drummer I think OJ was. Now I love me some Blakey, make no mistake, but Oliver Jackson had a real gift for using the whole kit, always driving the band but maybe with a wider range of sounds and accents? I wish I could describe it better but to me its just summed up in the word musical. Whose with me? Any other especially musical drummers you adore?

I naturally fall asleep in silence, being practically deaf when the hearing aids come out, and being a weird fellow (I'm told), one pillow goes below my head and one on top. I feel very fortunate that tinnitus is not a problem for me. My wife's uncle would benefit from hearing aids at least as much as I do but they can't distinguish between tinnitus and sounds you'd like to hear.

So one extra inning, with the apparently now-standard runner at 2B to start, then a half-inning in which the home manager chooses to play offense or defense. Runner at 1B, if he scores, team on offense wins, if the defense posts a scoreless inning, they win. Some thoughts: 1. How does this get entered in the record books if the score stays tied? 2. Too much advantage to the home team. Statistically the odds aren't that great a runner at 1B with no outs actually scores, and home manager not only chooses, but if he chooses defense and has done the standard bullpen approach - save your closer for the "save situation" when at home - I could see a lot of home team wins. Keep it far away from the major leagues and ditch the manager choice. Coin flip decides.

I've noticed that frozen potatoes are hard to come by ... whether Ore-Ida or Publix brand. There was a handful of frozen fries and shredded potato but not Tot to be found. Otherwise no big gaps in the shelves when I go to the store.

I was never part of a Last Chance stampede, both because I relied on Christmas/birthdays for my Mosaic needs, and because I never considered sets I wasn't certain I wanted to hear.

True yet you're still ahead in Views.

Yes, Claytons. So which track might be the Claytons? For that matter, which is Singer? Which is Easley and Benny Waters?

Ok well I think that one place a thread shouldn't get derailed is BFTs. Can we stick with the question at hand? Brothers, not as young as the Hollydays, not old as the Heaths/Farmers/Jones/etc. This ain't rocket science and to give one more clue seems redonkelous.

No idea what their last names are but no.

Hey, I am in charge of hints on this thread. Kindly move your misdirection elsewhere.

Are those the Holtzmans?

Except it isn't. Everybody is thinking of "classic era" so here's your last hint when it comes to the brothers: More recent than classic era, not as recent as the Hollydays.

Sorry but this reminds me of the SNL bit with Elvis' Coat.

Looks like you gave some thought to some tracks, wish you had jumped in with a rundown of your reactions. BTW it's funny that we have the "didn't achieve heights of fame" brothers ID'd but still an oh-fer on the ones that toured the world and made fine records. And no one wants to figure out the Hal Singer track?

When you think about it, it's interesting that Novus didn't go for the brothers together, perhaps to match the Harper Brothers schtick. Richard is to me the more appealing player but I guess he stopped sometime after. As for his more famous brother, he makes it out that without Novus' backing (the label went out of business(?)), he didn't have the gigs so easily and found himself in academia.

Unfortunately, while you have identified arranger/composer and the singular reason I had to give the record a chance, you have not identified the correct recording. Mine says recorded 1980 and has ten tracks. Would you look at that hair and those faces? And per discogs, Medeski was almost ten years from his next recording.

And a little Discogs-ing would reveal if that track is one of the "brothers" tracks. Since you found that, might as well reveal the rest.

OK one more then, to help narrow it down. He had a burst of recordings then disappeared. He returned to recording recently - to some notice on this board. Yes track No. 3 is Johnny Board. Who was on an Argo record helmed by Sonny Stitt and Chuck Nessa had said that he once had plans, or at least a strong desire, to record him. I really wish he had given him the Eddie Johnson opportunity, maybe even more so because Eddie got a few other chances to record in his later years. For Board playing jazz, its pretty much the Stitt record, and this one.

I said musical, not physical DNA.