Dan Gould

You're not kidding, Ray.

And here they are:

This sounds like a personal problem that's none of our effing business either. We're getting perilously close to Too Much Information here, frankly. I can understand people who share personal details like job loss and even marital problems-we've all been there in some way or another. But what exactly do you expect from the group here? Here's my advice: If you need therapy about your past life, get it. If you like the woman, stay in touch with her. If you don't like the other people in the same orbit, avoid them.

I'm just glad I went from "GHF" to "Dan Gould": I've got the Ted Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval!

Unless you use the voicemail service from the phone company and don't actually have a machine.

Thanks for including the NYT pieces, Mike. I caught the first article but not the follow-ups.

Easily recommended.

Funny, I was thinking about that but my sister-in-law borrowed the digital camera. When I get it back I will. Are you curious about the conditio or just want to see the 10 inch record and hand-written label?

WBGO is on the web, too, isn't it?

Just remember its filed under "T", for Tyrone, Trainwreck, and Toot Toot.

Because there are still sessions that have not been reissued or were reissued and deleted or only reissued in Japan. Of these there are many. Of sessions never issued in the first place, I do not think there are any left that are worthy of release.

I really don't think this is accurate, Brad. The fact is that from the start, Michael was putting things out that Alfred didn't. Before Alfred was introduced to Michael, he supposedly wanted to know who this person was who was putting out all those LT dates. Further, there have been a number of issues of material that Alfred explicitly rejected, like Brooks' Minor Move and Grant's first session. I'm pretty sure there have been several others as well, though I'm not sure if The Kicker was actually rejected at the time or not. So I don't think Michael is just protecting Alfred's legacy or image. He has respect for Alfred's original judgement, but its hardly kept him from putting out music that Alfred didn't want to issue. Remember that he's been dealing with the Blue Note vaults since the mid-70s, thirty years of reissues. If its worth putting out, wouldn't it have come out by now? My personal opinion is that we are down to the truly "unworthy of release" sessions, and maybe the only way to hope for something to see the light of day, would be a Mosaic Select dedicated to those sessions that everyone wonders about but have no chance of coming out as regular reissues. Maybe you could get the train wreck, this date, and the rest of the Dex/Stitt session, complete with Alfred yelling, "Vhat the hell are you doing?"

IT MADE IT HERE SAFELY! IT MADE IT HERE SAFELY! I'm wondering now if this could actually be a regular 33 1/3 master. The label isn't entirely blank, its got the recording company name printed, and also: 78 33 And neither one is marked in anyway. It looks like it could be a 33 with a reasonable amount of stretching out space on each track. If it turns out to be 3 minutes a side, what was the point of making a demo record? No matterl - I just need to clean it up and get it on the TT to figure it out. But unfortunately, there's no way for me to start that work before Thursday night. Oh well ... at least IT MADE IT HERE SAFELY! IT MADE IT HERE SAFELY!

I remember seeing this, the Amazing someone or other. I got it: Craig Hundley, right? Since Bill Fenohr has the PJ catalog, he probably knows how it is.

I would say it isn't legal.

Since no link was provided, here it is: http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/series.aspx...ob=bf&src=vault Interesting that they're putting out some Argo/Cadet material, maybe there's hope that my Argo "Holy Grail" album, Richard Evans' Home Cookin' might actually appear some day? The Johnny Griffin and James Clay CDs from the late 80s-early 90s are highly recommended.

This is not consistent with this... "The agreement still needs to be ratified by the players, but there is an agreement by the negotiators to drop that language," Michael Weiner, general counsel for the players union, told the New York Times. Yeah, actually it is consistent, if you understood the process of ratification for the Baseball Player's Union: It is NOT a simple matter of holding a single comprehensive ratification vote. Throughout Spring Training, each team gets a presentation from representatives of the union, and then votes to ratify. Votes are staggered throughout Spring Training. Therefore, the players still have to ratify because not all players have ratified the agreement in the first place. Sorry if I'm offending you but arguments that are in my opinion ridiculous aren't going to get a lot of respect from me. If you based your opposition on the ability of cheaters to use masking agents to defeat tests, fine. That's a legitimate problem with all testing regimens. But the fact is that baseball now has as legitimate a testing program as any professional sport, it carries legitimate penalties, public disclosure, and in the brief time that steroid testing has been in place, positive tests have gone down by over 70%. ************************************* As far as what Slide is saying, I think you are wrong. Players use steroids not to stay healthier - overuse of steroids ends up creating muscle bulk that the bones and ligaments of the body are not designed to support. While steroids add muscle power, they also increase bat speed (which is, after all, the ability of the body to move the bat through the hitting zone, or a direct function of muscle strength.

Back to the Tracks was sequenced, mastered, given a catalog number and cover and was pictured in other jacket sleeves. It wasn't unreleased due to the sales of True Blue, Alfred later said he couldn't remember why it was never actually released except that it was a very busy time and it must have somehow just fallen by the wayside. He fully intended to release it.

If Bonds doesn't come back because of the testing regimen, what does that say about your objections and suspicions????? And furthermore, if he never comes back for whatever reason, good riddance. There are, if I recall correctly, 15, 30 and 60 day DISABLED LISTS - injured reserve is NFL. Players do NOT go on the DL at their own decision. Disabling a player - especially if he is an important member of the team - is not something any team does lightly, and its nothing they would do on the players say-so. The player would have to convince the medical staff that he is legitimately injured and cannot help the team for a minimum of 15 days from the last day he played. NO TEAM is going to use the DL to help players get 'clean' and furthermore there is another reason that your objections are misplaced and misguided: Drug tests are RANDOM. HOW does a player know he needs to get himself on the DL then? He DOESN'T KNOW when he will be tested. If he's using drugs, cycling on and off, what is he going to do? Every three weeks say he has a hangnail and get himself on the DL? What if he gets tested in the interim period? Your objections on this are flat out silly. As for your suspicions over the wording of the penalties, fine. If you believe with all your heart that baseball isn't serious about drug tests and the union doesn't want them, then that fits right in with your beliefs. But the fact is that NO ONE on the union side said that this was what was negotiated. NO ONE on the Union side objected to changing the wording to reflect what was negotiated in the first place. The holier-than-thou congressman can huff and puff all they want, but there was no evidence ever presented that indicated this was anything other than what baseball and the union said it was: An incorrect copy of the agreement being sent to Congress. Are you aware that there were PLAYERS saying that this is not what was negotiated? PLAYERS saying that they understood that the penalty was suspension, period. Its a non-issue unless you actually think that Congress did a great job last week in their "investigation". Furthermore, the fact is that this is the ONLY thing that Congress hammered the commish and the union on. Its the only thing they found wrong with the testing agreement, and it was a false issue all along. I know I am not going to convince you otherwise and I don't intend to continue to try. But try to remember at least one thing: In the first year of testing, positive steroid tests were 5-7%. In the second year, it was 1-2%. What do you think it will be this year? Yes, I suspect that dedicated cheaters will continue to use steroids and masking agents to try to cheat the system. But as players get caught, ARE SUSPENDED and publicly identified, the number of players who continue to cheat will continue to decline. Someone mentioned Human Growth Hormone: yeah, its a serious problem, and its something that there aren't very good tests on, as I understand it. But tests keep getting developed and evaluated, and baseball is supporting those efforts. At some point in the relatively near future, HGH will be something that can be tested on, and according to this agreement, it WILL be tested on, without further agreement or discussion with the player's Union. Yeah, it is a crappy drug testing program ....

Evan, I have the Gene Harris Maybeck volume and its very good (and other people who aren't a GHF have said the same thing). Hank Jones is also very good.

Except that it is the only opinion that counts, cuz he's the one who's in charge of Blue Note reissues. And, his opinion happens to coincide with the opinion of the label's founder.

Its true that Green's First Session was rejected originally and then put out after Cuscuna was prevailed upon to give it another listen ... but like Tom says, I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope. It seems likely this is one of those dates people will always wonder about, but if the guy's didn't have it that day, there's no reason it should be released, or even get all that much of a re-listening. Your best bet to hear it would be to become the next generation's Michael Cuscuna, the guy who realizes his life's dream and gets access to the tape vault and control over the reissue program. But I don't think Michael's going anywhere anytime soon.

Whatever happened to Michigan? If its urban sprawl that is bothering you, I do not recommend New York, New Jersey or most of Connecticut. Another factor working against those states (and Pennsylvania, I think) is that there are state income taxes. You will definitely take a major hit there. On the other hand, if you are in Westchester County or Connecticut, we'd be able to hook up whenever I visit the folks. Then I'd be able to knock off another name from my list of organissimo buds. Er, I mean, scratch off another name from my list of organissimo buds. Aw hell, you know what I mean.

Father comes home to find his 9 year old son needing help with his homework. He needs to learn the difference between theoretically and realistically. Father says no problem and tells him to go ask his mother if she would sleep with the mailman for a million dollars. The son goes to his mother and then comes back and tells his father that she said yes, she'd sleep with the mailman for a million dollars. Father says, go find your older sister and ask her the same question. Kid comes back and tells his father that she, too, would sleep with the mail man for a million dollars. Father says, "OK. theoretically we're sitting a on a two million dollar windfall. Realistically, we live with a couple of whores."

Supposedly the gun was his grandfather's, who was a veteran of the police force. So, there's really no way to have kept it out of his hands short of the grandfather keeping it locked in a shatter-proof case.