I just read the first couple of sentences and stopped. I don't need to know right now. Just pull her nails out with a pliers and check back for more instructions.
Helen was a strange one. Northwestern Univ. hosted a "women in jazz" symposium around 1980. Don DeMichael and I ran into Helen Keane and Toshiko in a record store in Evanston. Don introduced me to them as a producer and mentioned my Warne Marsh date. Both of the women responded that they each had produced a date recently with Warne - Helen did one with Bill Evans and Konitz and Toshiko a 2 tenor date with Lou Tabackin. We exchanged stories, chatted pleasantly (I was delighted to meet them) and I left to return to work. Don told me after I left Helen said "Did you see that? Every time I meet a male producer he acts like that. They don't think we're worth shit and I'm sick of it". Toshiko said she thought I was "delightful".
Don is a saxophonist who wrote the first positive reviews of Shepp, Dixon. etc in DownBeat in the early '60s. He continued there for a few years. An AllMusic search should turn up something.
I certainly understand loosing patience with the ICP folks. I don't think he's the kind of listener to be "predisposed to not liking" anything.
Since these were "part works" and came with informative "magazine" notes. Do you include these or just the discs?
I have about 40 of these and they are reasonably well done, but JRT did not remaster all of them and the rest are fine too.