Dan Gould

I wanted to see what it is like. They are making all these other changes ... fake applause is just bullshit.

This seems like a pretty obscure LP and discogs indicates never had a CD issue? Strange history to the sessions too, there are three tracks with James Clay that were recorded first week of 1980 and four tracks with Harold Land recorded in April 1986 and the LP was issued in 1987. Cedar and Billy are on all tracks, bass is Dumas with Clay and Buster Williams with Land. No other information on the back. So how come only three tracks were recorded with Clay and seven years before release? Was there a plan for a James Clay record and he wasn't having a good day? And did they just record enough Land in order to get the record out? It's all very confusing but I am glad to have some more James Clay to enjoy. Also confusing: Discogs shows a normal full label on the Clay side but mine is a plain Contemporary label, no info on the tunes on the side. https://www.discogs.com/Billy-Higgins-Bridgework/master/1545388

There is going to be crowd noise with no crowd?

Would this be the one who replaced the one who said you already have enough Miles Davis CDs? Or is it the same person or am I confusing you with someone else's story?

Happy to report that I headed to Mom's this morning and took care of her food needs and bills. She has had no symptoms and its at least six days since last contact with the aide, who also called while I was there to tell Mom that she and her husband feel just fine today. So a few more days for possible symptoms (isn't it first five days but up to 10?) but it looks like no biggie right now.

Apparently the lameness of the Netherlands parcel service effects the USPS too. Not that I expected super fast perfect service after they received it at custom at Miami airport, I did not expect it to take three days to go from Miami Airport (Miami-Dade county) to Opa Locka (also Miami-Dade county).

I answered above - Yes that is the Quebec date and the Grant Green is Gooden's Corner over two discs. For guitarists only.

Well I just shouldn't have posted at all I guess - all my info which was really just suspicion and was completely unfounded. As for the Green, I still have it but agree with you on the musical pleasure to be derived from all of those takes.

Yes to the latter, and I have two discs of the "complete" Gooden's Corner.

Well this should be interesting, didn't seem to move out of Concord NH but a flurry of scans yesterday. Strangest thing is that Pitney Bowes puts it in the Plant City PO right now which means I'll have this on Monday. Yet when you click the "track at carrier website" link on the Pitney Bowes site it shows that the USPS is waiting for the item in Indiana. So which is it? I wonder what deal Pitney Bowes has with the USPS. Is it truly "last mile" delivery? If it is then getting it to the local PO makes sense and Monday will be a happy day. But if its like that horrible DHL system, it will probably be five more days before the USPS sucks its into their maw, and another week to show up from Indiana.

Flip side of TTK's topic. We've heard about your significant other's tolerance for jazz, how do you feel about their preferred genre(s)? I will say I really do not tolerate my wife's musical interests very well but on the positive side she doesn't play music in the house only in her truck and when we are in the same car it is usually mine. But I would voluntarily listen to Sammy Hagar or Def Leppard or about anyone else in her collection only if we were taking a long trip and sharing control of the CD player.

Thank you, I am sure I will post if things go sideways for her or for me.

My understanding at some point was that Bob Belden was the source for the sessions that escaped - including Ike Quebec, the KD date, and the extended Grant Green date, and that all of these were acquired when he had access to the vaults. I am curious about "different home now" - they made it back to BN or to some other person? As far as mono goes my transfers are not - close, no major stereo separation, but different peaks. I've never seen a recording that was mono turn into something not quite mono in the digital realm (as in, mono source, extracted as stereo -> still going to be mono. So David I am not sure of your info and would be interested in further detail. As for tracking and potential alternates, I have a disc of the master takes listed in the discography and just burned in that order so I guess my version is truly chronological. I would need to listen to the full discs to find these potential alternates, I could swear that the few full takes not labelled as the master take featured more squeaky Hank reed than the masters. Maybe my attitude about the recording is colored by exposure to the full session and one shouldn't see how the sausage gets made. But I still think the band wasn't gelling that well which is why there were so many takes, so many breakdowns and so few full takes.

This is why the current plan to go to Naples on Tuesday to get food for Mom and take care of a couple other things doesn't have me super worried as I am going to wear a mask and gloves and stay safely distant from Mom. (I may be a little less blase about it if she starts showing symptoms between now and Tuesday. But that is really just human nature, don't get too close to a sick person - but as previously discussed there are indications that infectiousness peaks before symptom onset, or right at the beginning thereof.)

Isn't he the guy who has to date hung everybody out to dry on the BFT reveal for June?

Well here's a topic we've seen before, but here goes: Short of holding out to find someone who wants to hear jazz I think I picked the right mate for music. She's a rocker (Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Eric Clapton but also the Eagles) but before I met her she had a gig as audio engineer for a south Florida club that brought NYC cabaret talent down for week long engagements, so she had an appreciation for jazzy singing and already knew and enjoyed people like Ella. I introduced her to Joe Williams music which she definitely loves. She is understanding of love for any form of music and would never ever say I buy too much. I can play jazz in the car or pop in a DVD on occasion and she will not complain a bit. When we lived in south Florida I didn't have to ask if she'd join me at any jazz concert I was interested in, I would just let her know dates and get the tix. And last but not least she's never asked me to take her to a rock concert, she would go to those with her sister, brother, or close friend rather than ask me to go to something I wouldn't enjoy.

Well it is possible I will need to change my answer about knowing someone who has/had it. And since it could effect the family this is potentially serious. Seems the husband of my mom's home health aide is quite ill and got the test yesterday, with a seven day wait for the result (they are in Naples). Now Olga is not feeling well. My sister and I have to consider the possibility that this has gone from hubby to Olga to my 85 year old mother, with a staggered schedule for symptoms. In the immediate term we have to figure out how to make sure she has groceries and I was actually planning a weekend visit for next Friday. Being in Florida I am the go-to person when something happens but this a little more complicated than before considering that she could be asymptomatic right now but also a potent source of spread. She hardly goes out since this started so really the spread would be to me. And considering that we have my wife's elderly aunt/uncle as tenants in the apartment over the barn, me and my wife would have to be very careful in contact with them after I return. If I go. Which she may need because she shouldn't drive. This is really f-ed up.

Thanks all.

I just discovered that Bill Henderson did two 45s with Jimmy Smith backing in 1958 ... was this ever issued in the CD era? Not according to the Blue Note Discography project: https://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/discography-1957-1958/#581014 Is there anything else so totally ignored in the CD era?

And is entirely political.

What say you now? Please note last question is set up as multiple choice for two different aspects of pandemic - personal experience and those you know.

I've done some searching and realized its not Tenor Stuff, as Kevin pointed out. And Two From Duke has four tracks that are Ashby and rhythm - and they are all on an MJR release, Born to Swing, which has four more quartet tracks. What a discographical mess - and the usually informative MJR liners are all about Ashby but nothing about the music or even his colleagues on the date. Anyway this has led me to pursue the Born to Swing release first.

Damn, had no idea they had recorded together - and I've cruised thru Ashby's discogs page many times, so entirely my bad to not know of this one. Amazing that according to discogs he didn't record again as a leader for 17 years after.

(Partial) credit where it is due: my pessimistic nature led me to anticipate that a Brandon route driver would stick it in any old mailbox. In fact they must have a dedicated truck for messed up local PO deliveries from the regional center, as the next scan was instead "Arrived at Plant City PO" and the one ten minutes after that was "Out for Delivery" from Plant City. So hope springs eternal!!

Well this is truly turning into a likely disaster. Apparently they do "upgrade" a mail piece when it goes so far afield. Took only two days from scanning in Phoenix to scanning to in Ybor City which is just east of Tampa. So first thing this morning I had hopes of receiving this today. Now I don't know if I should have any hope of receiving it at all, as it was dropped off at the Brandon PO. Brandon is two towns west of Plant City. If it gets on a truck and says "Out for Delivery" I will bet that someone puts it in a random mailbox and scans it as "delivered". Fucking pathetic.