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Mark Gould and Friends: The Unsuspecting Moment

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2003

There are no losers here. That this album was recorded at all is a triumph, as leader / tenor saxophonist Mark Gould was almost killed in a house fire about a year before the session was held. That it turned out as well as it has is a tribute to Gould and his talented friends from midwest Florida, especially trumpeter Tom Parmerter, pianist Richard Drexler and guitarist LaRue Nickelson.

Gould, who plays with the enthusiasm and drive ...