Dan Gould

Which brings up a suspicion I've had: The era of the BN LT reissues, and those brown double LP sets, like the Booker ... they were made basically from the mid 70s to around 1980 or so, right? In other words, the era when fusion was at its height, or at least accoustic jazz was at its lowest. I think the release of those sessions was partially an attempt to appeal to the jazz fan who hadn't followed the fusion bandwagon and was probably plenty pleased to hear unissued dates by their favorites. Nevertheless, I like almost all of them, including the Booker. The Horace Parlan date is very fine, in fact, and the Booker is a worthy, if not exactly stellar, session, too.

What do records mean? Che. They mean all kinds of funny things if you play 'em backwards. That's true. Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" says "Start to smoke marijuana." No lie.

Here's an update: I think the cleaning was pretty effective but I'm hoping Allen can fix it up a bit more. Much to my extreme dismay, I discovered yesterday that my wife's turntable, the only one that has a 78 setting, somehow got broken sometime in the last year or two. So, faced with the option of not making any sort of transfer myself and playing Postal Roulette again, I decided to do the only thing I could: I made a transfer at 45 rpm with my usual turntable. I can clean up the worst of the pops manually, and then I'm going to experiment with Goldwave's "time warp" function to speed up the recording and we'll see what happens, just in case anything terrible happens on its way to Mr. Lowe. The initial impression: For all the hope that this would be a great recording of Gene Harris, it turns out the Demo is more of a feature for the tenor saxophonist, Lonnie "The Sound" Walker. "Inez" is a ballad and is really all Walker, with a quick fade at the end of his solo as Gene starts his own (so that really makes me hope the recording studio is gonna tell me that they have the original masters. I can dream, can't I? Ten days ago, I'd never have dreamed there was a Four Sounds Demo out there, so .... ) "Hot Bread," as might be expected is a blues. Again, most solo space given to the tenor, but Gene does take a turn and so does Andy Simpkins. I guess the bottom line is, if this is all I get from this 78, I guess at least I got a recording of Gene playing with the funkiest Gerry Mulligan ever captured on wax.

Anyone see this? *********************************** The Associated Press Updated: 11:17 a.m. ET March 21, 2005 MICHIGANTOWN, Ind. - A turtle that was the only survivor of a pet shop fire may have emerged with a hellish memento. The palm-sized red-eared slider turtle, named Lucky, was the only animal to survive a fire last October at Dora’s A-Dora-ble Pet Shop in nearby Frankfort, about 40 miles northwest of Indianapolis. Owner Bryan Dora now says he sees an image of Satan’s face on the critter’s shell. He can spot lips, eyes, a goatee, shoulders and a pair of pointy horns on Lucky’s back. “The marking on the shell was like the devil wanted us to know he was down there,” Dora said. “To me, it’s too coincidental that the only thing to come out unscathed would have this image on it.” The image was not visible before the fire and Dora speculates the intense heat might have caused the shell’s color to change. The turtle is healthy and there was no change in its behavior, he said. The cause of fire that destroyed nine businesses or offices in the 1912 building in downtown Frankfort has not been determined. “Turtles can hold their breath quite awhile,” Dora said. “He may have taken one breath just before and held it through the fire. Except that the fire went on and on for hours.” Dora has produced a D-V-D of the turtle’s story that he plans to auction on the Internet. He will also offer the winning bidder the chance to buy Lucky off-line.

And the set includes Royal Flush which is a real good 'un, and I believe Herbie's BN debut.

McBride appeared on Love Scenes so they were not new to each other.

Uh, you live in New York. Ever hear of Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall?

Either that, or that worst "erotic" writing award.

Sitting in Orioles Stadium on Thursday for the Red Sox - O's game, I heard Sweets Edison. OK, it was Sinatra, "Fly Me To The Moon" but when Sweets played those three notes he knew (as Sinatra once put it when he asked him to play on a record) there wasn't any doubt who it was, and I thought it was awfully cool to be hearing Sweets at a ballgame. Made me wish my wife could have been there, so I'd have had someone to tell.

Like Jim, I don't know what to say, Mike, except that I'm sorry you feel like its time to throw in the towel.

I think I would probably say this one:

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.