Dan Gould

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Certainly think it looks like him, and wiki says he played with Bostic after high school and before Silver so it fits 1953 time frame. Which I may have neglected to mention.

I believe so (and Loren Schoenberg did also). But my first instinct was on the trumpeter, in the profile shot.

trumpeter at center and alto are the question marks. The others I have no idea about.

Guesses?

Hour and a half interview with our own Chris Albertson on Bessie Smith https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/140891

That's the presumption, or perhaps drug-related theft? Bill Doggett said on the WKCR memorial broadcast that "Everybody that met Percy loved him. Now some of the things that happened later on in his life people didn't necessarily like, but Percy as an individual was a beautiful person." That suggests to me it wasn't a stretch for possession. He was well liked. Everybody that met Percy loved him. You know, some of the things that happened later on in his life people didn't necessarily like, but Percy as an individual was a beautiful person. A wonderful man, a wonderful friend, a wonderful musician.

I have not as I do not have enough personal info for such a thing. I do have hope - at least some - that a Percy France interview exists in the Schaap archive and will appear at the Vanderbilt website some day. Allen Lowe told me that he did record an interview with France but he has never found cassette. Phil Schaap would have been a great source but his physical decline was well under way when the website was still under construction. I was told that Phil was invited to dinner with Percy's parents at one time so his was a pretty personal relationship. A good example of the missing information is that it has been said by about every musician asked that they 'heard' Percy spent time at Riker's Island, the (especially now) infamous NYC jail. But nobody seems to know what put him there.

More Percy uploaded from the Schaap Collection, this time two tracks from one of the best, and to me, most surprising WKCR broadcasts: Percy as sideman with Harry "Sweets" Edison. Three tracks on the short broadcast (and the only disappointment was that it was only 30 minutes, along with the fact that track three was a Sweets feature, no Percy).

Cat Sank is a phonetic spelling (more or less) of four and five in French.

It's very impressive - I would never have the dedication to undertake such a thing. Bravo!