Dan Gould

Happy New Year from the Percy France Memorial management:

So what happened? Red blooded American Males stopped going to Studio 54, but previously they were wearing platform shoes? They just suddenly discovered that dancing and being fashion-lame was suddenly too close to being gay, too? And the white folks who loved Motown kept loving it but started hating on disco because it was created by blacks? Sorry that reminds me of the declaration that Trump voters rediscovered their racism - after voting for Obama twice. This is entirely ludicrous. Maybe Disco Sucks because people who didn't like the music really didn't like the fact that by the late 1970s it completely dominated top 40 radio, and in an era with far fewer choices for what to listen to. And how exactly did Urban Cowboy shift the culture? A few hundred mechanical bulls in bars + a few country cross-over hits is comparable to the dozens and dozens of acts that are still working the oldies circuit today? Let's just say that everything you perceived about it is totally accurate - does it explain Mary Wilson's album sinking like a stone? I would say absolutely not, because the far more likely explanation is that Mary Wilson wasn't much of a name, and she didn't get major promo bucks, and Diana Ross had an album out at the same time. What the writer did was tack on a hyper-woke 2021 perspective, because his audience would enjoy it and nod their heads.

13 tracks, a hair under 85 minutes I believe. And at least one Gene Harris track. Felser said it best last month: ID guesses are great, but responses/opinions are even better. Thanks for your interest and participation! http://thomkeith.net/index.php/blindfold-tests/

Actually I think it's been a while since I did anything but Faux Gene rather than the real thing, so I figured definitely time to bring him back.

And I promise there is at least one Gene Harris on BFT 214! I should point out that I did like the Mangione trumpet, the track was only ruined by that Gerry Neiwood noodling and note-running. Someone once sent me two of the three earliest Mangione records and I always thought they were enjoyable if hardly groundbreaking.

From the NYT end-of-year "Lives They Lived" series, about Mary Wilson After the Supremes stopped recording together, Wilson released a self-titled solo debut in August 1979. The album had the misfortune of being released around the same time as a new Diana Ross record that received better promotion; it also came at the outset of a racist and homophobic backlash against disco music. Says a writer born in ... 1983. Bet his editor was born in 1982, so he could hardly have known otherwise and it fit his presumptions too, so yeah, go with it. And here I sat, believing that Disco Sucks was a movement about Disco ... Sucking. The NYT is what truly SUCKS. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/22/magazine/mary-wilson-death.html

Being in the NY metropolitan area back then, I remember Jerry Grote. Now I will go back to forgetting him.

+1. Same with Dizzy Reece and Dave Bailey. Kind of assumed at this stage they'd moved on, glad to know they are still with us.

You'll have to tell us if it did knock you on your ass, TTK It boggles my mind that it's two years since this was posted. And I have been feeling a little melancholy because I just realized that I will be visiting Mom January 8 at her assisted living apartment, and it dawned on me that my older brother would have turned 59 then. And mostly I just thought how much my brother would have gotten a kick out of this article and recipe.

I wasn't sure how to Eric but you can plug in carolinasoul and you'll get their store. (Usually I end up searching their stock only when I find that they have a copy of what I am searching for that is in acceptable condition/price. Then I know I can find other things at a good price and go with them.) https://www.discogs.com/sell/list?q=carolinasoul

Terry Gibbs is 97.

And I'll doff my cap with respect for oh, about ... 5 minutes before I launch January?

Will anyone come along and engage on those last three tracks before the end of the month? (I feel comfortable in saying ain't no way y'all come close to 77% ID rate on mine. )

That's a really interesting and I suspect, very uncommon approach. I would say I am the opposite considering that I have an Amazon Prime membership and enjoy the quick delivery, if available, on whatever has suddenly struck my fancy.

So you basically get no new music thru the year except for birthday, Easter and Christmas?

+1.

If it weren't for some generous loan officers I wouldn't have had a haul at all (wife's decision, and I am not so sure how this fits into the "happy wife, happy life" paradigm, but there it is). So thanks to those unnamed LOs I have the following to enjoy: The new Blakey in Japan thing; The Mulgrew Miller/Roy Hargrove duets; Houston Person, Live in Paris; Buck Clayton's Jazz World (and it just dawned on me that he had assistance from Nancy Miller Elliott, whose photographs were donated to Rutgers and I had to work with her son to get permission to use two photos of Percy France at Paul Quinichette's memorial service for the website.) A DVD copy of Jazz USA, featuring Cannonball and Teddy Edwards. I tried to get this years ago and one of the few occasions when someone claimed to have shipped and it never arrived. Hopefully second time is the charm. $50 at Discogs to be invested oh, I don't know ... maybe today? How did you do?

I can vouch for the company too.

Tap she likes a lot but I gave her sister the Best in Show DVD as a gift (and Susan delivered it), practically the same movie and the entire family hated it so much they sent it back with Susan.

Inspired by my discovery that my wife really doesn't understand the appeal of A Christmas Story I am curious if anyone else has experienced something similar: a movie or TV show that you love and they don't. Extra points if: The entire civilized world loves it too; He/She looks at you like you're the idiot for enjoying. (I get double points because she is the same way with Seinfeld - hates it when everybody else thought it was great, and gives me nasty looks while I am laughing at it.)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/little-known-recording-louis-armstrong-reciting-night-before-christmas-180979012/

Merry Kwanz-Festi-Mas!

Actually when you use the Washington/smallpox example, you are ignoring the context: A fledgling army, in a state of war. He didn't mandate variolation against smallpox across the community, or that community would have declared his orders liberty-destroying, just like King George, to try to force everybody to try this newfangled method of smallpox prevention. At that time, most people probably thought all you needed was a "good bleeding" to get over the pox.