Brad

I'm partial to the mints. The rest don't do it for me.

Dan, doing his best Aric imitation I'd be really impressed if there was a street called "Gene Harris Fanatic Boulevard".

Late, The first cd posted by Lon is the one doubleM is referring to. There also Thelonious Monk, The Early Thelonious Monk, on Moon Records (MCD 086-2), which has 1941 Monk on it. I don't know how easy that is to get anymore.

The number to call is 212-851-2699.

I don't think that's correct although I can't point to anything right now. I believe many others do in the interest of having a true and correct discography.

WKCR, 89.9 FM in New York and WKCR on the web, which broadcasts principally jazz is in financial trouble and is trying to raise money through a pledge-a-thon. They are approximately $700,000 in debt, principally due to having replace equipment destroyed on 9/11. WKCR has been broadcasting jazz since 1941 and there is a real possibility that unless they raise sufficient funds to retire some of this debt, it will be the end of jazz programming. WKCR holds several birthday broadcasts where they broadcast a person's music for 24 hours straight. The next one is this Sunday for Roy Eldridge. They also have 70 minutes daily just devoted to Charlie Parker as well as programming from 6 am to 930 am (including the Bird show), 12 pm to 3 pm and 6pm to 9pm daily as well as after midnight. They also have public programming and are required to broadcast Columbia sports but the main focus is jazz. I doubt that I'd be the jazz fan today I am it weren't for this station. Where else can you get so much daily attention on Charlie Parker? I know that many of you complain about Phil Schapp but where else can you get that much time every day on Bird, not to mention the other jazz programming they have throughout the weekdays and the weekends. If you can, please pledge at WKCR. Losing this station as a jazz resource would be a big loss for jazz.

That was a nice writeup. Looks like it must have helped. Way to go!

Well she had her 15 minutes of fame or is that more like 18 and 1/2 minutes. HBO played All the Presidents Men on the 20th and it's scary what that ilk tried to do. Of course, it's also scary what the present crew is trying to do also.

He did a nice session for SteepleChase that I like quite a bit (although I haven't listened to it in a while) called "What's Up" that features Junior Cook among others.

I think that Ike Quebec 45s is a fantastic idea. Kudos to Sandy for suggesting it.

Thanks Lon. I've got a line on the one with Dick Katz and will look for the others.

GOM, Are you planning to include Dizzy in that program. There was 3 cds put out a few years ago (at different times) by a company called Consolidated Artists Production called Dizzy in South America Official U.S. State Department Tour. I have volume 1 but never got around to picking up the other 2.

I find that very hard to understand.

Besides her singing, I just loved the way she talked about the sessions and about singing and jazz in general. Any recommendations, by the way?

Do you mean the "annoying" moniker. That's kind of different.

On Wednesday night when I was driving home, WKCR played an interview that Schapp did with Helen Merrill from a few years ago during a Clifford Brown birthday broadcast. She got a last chance to talk and reminesce about the sessions with Brownie and I had never heard her talk before but she seemed like a person with a lot to say. She said that she didn't remember a lot of details because she was so nervous about the sessions but under some prodding from Schapp a lot of details came back to her. She sounded like a very interesting person and they played some of the music and she has a very beautiful voice. I've listened to the Brownie box but never really noticed before what a nice voice she had.

It would be nice to see the Elmo Hope come out again, especially in improved sound.

I live in northwestern NJ and it's coming down pretty good now. I don't mind being socked in. I get some guy to do the plowing. It's about $35 a pop but it's worth it, what with a bad back. Plus, how many times do we hear about guys getting heart attacks. No thanks I'd rather pay the guy to do it. Takes him about 15 minutes to get it done.

Didn't know you were into Elvis

The link isn't working. I get an error message that there's a bug in my Mozilla browser. Weird, since I'm using IE6... Same here.

I have only the Jazz Masters of the 40s but it's an essential part of a bop library. A good companion piece is Gitler's From Swing to Bop. An indispensible book in my view.

I haven't got the last 2 Dexters from SteepleChase so I'll be calling to get this and the 2 others. Mike, how do you know that the blurb is incorrect since so little info is given. Is there a bootleg or review copy out there?

Does True Blue fit in here or was that a Conn?

I don't see how some of the records mentioned could be way out (unless swing is your only thing). Setting the Pace? Wouldn't think so, not with Dex. Joe Gordon? Huh. Eric Dolphy, Eric Kloss, Prince Lasha, yeah that I could see but I don't think Prestige put out that much stuff that I would consider really avant garde.

Dude, when the Chuckster gets ahold of you, well, you don't want to know