Dan Gould

So the home page has just been updated/redesigned to highlight freshly received thoughts/memories from the one and only Sonny Rollins. Hope people like it. www.percyfrance.info

Thanks for posting this.

There were many ..... and for the record I did not watch during the initial Luke/Laura storyline. That was during high school and I didn't have time or interest in that shit. But Grant the Russian spy and Celia Quartermaine who was a total hottie? Oh hell yeah. And IIRC, they knew how silly the storyline was (there were two Grants, the exact duplicate being the body double Russian spy) and named his spy bosses Boris and Natasha.

And still cheap and easily recommended.

This makes me laugh. I was a Genital Hospital fan at the time (going to FSU so time to watch most afternoons). I even recall the character's name who was the subject of the tune: Felicia. The Quartermaines made me laugh, but the Russian spy storyline was the height of silliness.

Not on first page for me. But as "Bud Powell Copenhagen" it is third down. So is this new or not? Gheorge seems to know it already. I am definitely interested for the addition of the tenors.

Oh, I have been watching because the Cubs have matched them, more or less, only in the other direction. Pathetic timing for team-wide suckitude. They have a small window now to avoid being sellers at the end of the month, and that will be more or less it for the championship team. Sad.

Five MLB.com reporters (four of them beat reporters for the Red Sox, Jays, Rays and Yankees) all pick the Red Sox to win the East. https://www.mlb.com/news/roundtable-which-team-will-win-al-east Sounds like the kiss of death to me.

When I was growing up it was my parent's set up, which was a pretty good Harmon Kardon turntable and receiver ... in college it was a boombox which was suitcase-size and purchased at a tremendous discount at what I am going to say was the Macy's in Stamford CT. My first encounter with a real stereo store was when I got into jazz and was purchasing vinyl although I didn't own a turntable, had a roommate with one. I was in St. Louis at the time and changed housing arrangements, and decided it was time for a decent stereo set up. I did no research whatsoever, though I do recall I brought Stitt Plays Bird, and MJQ Last Concert to audition at the shop ... bottom line I got the full-on pressure sales pitch and crumbled, spending way too much money. The next day I returned it all, and I remember the salesman had to come out to sign off on the return since he was getting no money out of me in the end. Got a taste of the same pitch but at that point I had made up my mind and that was it. Dude was pissed. In the end I purchased an all-inclusive set from some catalog company and it did me very well for a good long time. (And sounded even better when I married my wife and added her studio-monitor quality speakers.) Nowadays though its higher-end PC speakers and the Kia car stereo that came standard. I do recall Crazy Eddie's in Westport, CT but that was only when I needed a car stereo to replace the original Am/Fm radio that came with the Mustang II I purchased before moving to St Louis for Grad school. What can I say I've always been about the music and not exactly how it gets reproduced.

This is not remotely how I expected you to respond on this subject. I expected to read that your collection is organized according to what spirit with which it goes best.

That would necessitate listening and identifying tracks and anyone who reads my BFT posts knows, I suck at that. I'm pretty sure though I had Lee's follow up, The Rumproller, The Turnaround, A Caddy for Daddy, Cornbread, Yes I Can, No You Can't. I don't think I adhered to your definition ... my approach was simply tunes from subsequent releases with the strong "soul" element meant to garner airplay, not whether there was a vamp or a walking bass. I always thought those were the ones meant by Michael's "Son of Sidewinder" descriptor. Even better, Les McCann with Stanley and/or Curtis Amy.

C. Everett Koop "Hawkeye" Pierce The Last of the Mohicans

My short listen to #3 briefly me put me in mind of him though.

One man's gimme is another man's DKDC(tm)

Years ago I compiled a disc "Sidewinder and Sons," same idea but obliquely recalling Sanford & Son. I shared with a board member but can't recall who, maybe Cary in NC. I still pull it out and enjoy it in the car ... though I really don't know if what I chose fits perfectly with OP's requirements.

Is anyone really shocked at this turn of events? It was obvious at the time of the trial that there were two very strong grounds for appeal: This, plus the trial judge also allowing testimony from others to show a pattern, when he was not on trial for those presumed offenses. In the end, he will be recognized for what he did to others, up to and beyond the day he dies. Nothing is changed. He essentially admitted that qualudes were his preferred method of "seduction" and what victims described reminded me of nothing other than what I have found to be the very least erotic genre of porn, in which comatose women are violated. That can't even register on my scale of "erotic" yet that's apparently how America's dad got his jollies. Anyway he's blind now (is that almost biblical punishment?), spent three years in prison, and will probably die soon. All things considered, including whether I thought the deposition should have been used, I'm OK with this in toto.

Sorry I never participated, an interesting mix, some definitely not my speed but others certainly enjoyable. But thanks very much for the link to the McPherson website I am interested in both CDs listed for sale, and just wish they still had larger sizes on his sweet looking t-shirt.

The remarkable thing is the runs scored stat, only two runs better than Detroit for dead last in the league??? That's insane for a Yankee team. Their runs allowed is actually quite good, barely worse than Houston and third best in the league. I guess the question is which will get better/worse in the second half? The starting pitching ought to regress and the offense should get closer to normal, is my guess.

And if you do, can you not help but hear "Take it Trummy Young" as part of the lyrics? For 30 years I've heard it that way, and more often now because Percy France played it a lot. Are there any other tunes that, when you hear it, a particular exclamation by the singer is "part" of the song, for you?

Strange to have such a quiet baseball thread this deep into the season. Is it all quiet Yankee fans with little to talk about? The Mets are in first place in a weak division ... Aside from the Red Sox you have the Giants as major surprises - and three very good teams in the NL West. And Houston rolling right along. At the moment I think Houston has the best shot at a trip the World Series in the AL. Red Sox need to win the division to have much of a shot - and they have to field better to do that, not to mention better starting pitching. Can Sale make a difference in August-September? That would be a huge addition if he is the Sale of old, and I do think its smarter to keep him a starter than as a bullpen weapon. 5-6 innings of ace starter is big, I do think the bullpen is more than capable of handling the load the way that it has so far.

No, he was given that name by the Humane Society of Fort Lauderdale. My wife and I had been married about two years and were, collectively and individually without a pet for the first time in a very long time. Her 23 year old, two-time cancer surviving kitty had died suddenly about a year before, and my beagle, Bailey, had finally succumbed to some sort of cancerous growth on one of her legs. I wasn't sure I was ready for another pet so my wife went to the Humane Society on her own and walked thru the kennel, the only dog that reacted to her was this odd looking black & white dog, built like a wedge, with a curved tail. . When she looked up at the name and saw "Coltrane" she thought this was kismet and brought me down to see him the next weekend. I couldn't help but agree with her and we put down a deposit. It would take four years or so to find out he was a Karelian Bear dog and that was only because we got a catalog in the mail with one on the cover, and I said to her "does that look like your son?"

I've never heard of such a thing and could care even less. So my write in candidate is Coltrane the Super Dog. I'll give you an example, but let me say up front that this dog never once fell for the "pump-fake" trick with the tennis ball in the back yard. He really liked to play with a tennis ball on the couch, wherein I would extract it from his mouth, tease him with it, then throw it off the opposite chair, or off the wall so it would head down the hallway to the front of the house and he would give chase. One time, I got it out of his mouth and, having twisted him around so he couldn't see what I was doing, put the ball behind my neck, so it rested on top of the couch, pinned by my neck against the wall behind it. I then showed Coltrane that I didn't have the ball, and that he should go find it. He went thru the couch looking for it, checking around my legs. Then he systematically went from left to right on the floor, searching the objects on the floor, each chair in succession, and then checked down the hall. No ball, so he came back to me, jumped on the couch, looking at me and pretty much saying with his eyes, "you had it last, what did you do with it?" Now, he resumes searching on the couch, and he looks at the top of the cushion and spots the ball, diving for it and triumphantly pulling it out from behind my neck. For the rest of his life, every single time that I pulled that trick on him, he always jumped on the couch back and first checked behind my neck for the tennis ball.

(Parenthetically (am I being redundant if I use parentheses and also say "parenthetically"?) That Swiss show booked some fine talent. Our friend Flurin has found shows with Lou Donaldson backed by Herman Foster on piano, Jay McShann (not singing one of his usuals, either), Oliver Jones, Monty Alexander, Buddy DeFranco, Tal Farlow/Philippe Petit (g-duo) and even Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron. I really wonder what other short-but-sweet performances exist in the Swiss archives of "Carousel"?)

And there were still 300 lurkers online. Maybe a little surprising none of our Brit friends were on at that moment but still ...

Sorry: Alina, Flurina and Geneva.