Dan Gould

Yes, it is I, the former Gene Harris Fanatic. As I said, good memory, but I'm not sure who you might have been at a different time on a different BBS. As for the LP, I generally agree with you; if you like Timmons and Sonny Red, its something to be curious about, but its a loose live gig that doesn't have a great deal to recommend it other than the two principals being on board.

You've got a good memory to specifically not include me in your question!

I think I have the Sweets as an American Record Society LP, the one with the pink inner sleeves. Got it on ebay for a nice price, and it is indeed a great album.

the Joe Newman is pretty nice, Oliver Nelson is the other horn if memory serves.

I had no idea this had become common. I thought the "in" thing was putting the name of your school on seat of the shorts. Personalizing the fantasy is a bit much, when the American way is to advertise a thing not a person.

Oops, now I see that it seems to only cover recorded concerts and recording sessions, not just gigs. Sorry.

Ray, There was a link posted in my thread about Bird and Don Wilkerson. Here you go.

Congrats, guys! Looks like Greg's earning his keep!

The passing of shrdlu's wife was quite some time before his recent hiatus. He announced it, wasn't around much for a while, and then came back and was a fairly regular contributor.

The Times review was positive if not a rave.

Thanks for the links, Ray. I particularly like these directions. They're simple, and seem a lot better than my wife's warm water and soft cloth suggestion:

I did think about it, but I'm going to let it come to me first. I've bothered the seller enough about this. And I do think that I'll work on the cleaning myself, either with my wife's suggestion or with the local record dealer, so I'm hopeful that at minimum I can get a transfer done with my own set-up, and then decide whether to pass it on for possible re-mastering, depending on the results.

All I'm hoping for is audibility! BTW, I got the seller in time - he's agreed to double-box. I'm feelin' better that this can make the journey intact.

I went back to the auction item page, and I couldn't believe what the page visit counter is at: 63. When I won this thing last night, it was at 26. Nothing like a link from Organissimo to drive traffic to another site!

Actually, Allen, they gave me a different name, Vince Caro. Looks like he lives in the 'burbs of Westchester County, New York-maybe they use him cuz he's closer to Stamford.

Allen, believe me, I am not putting you on the side in favor of the "pro" (though I honestly did not know how extensive your experience is). Free help is much better than from another guy who i supposedly "reasonable" especially if its using the same equipment with the same expertise!

And thanks, Kevin, for talking with Michael about it. Maybe if this yields good sonics, it could go onto the start of a Mosaic Select that Michael's been thinking about. I could certainly get Michael in touch with Janie Harris.

I've already talked to the seller and he promises to do the utmost with the packaging. I don't even want to think of the possibility of it arriving in pieces. I'm going to email again and ask for double boxing, too.

Allen, I may take you up on that! I'll send you an email after I get the 78 next week and I see what I can do. I definitely want to get the best possible transfer I can, and it sounds like you've got the equipment to work on it. Thanks!

As mentioned in this thread, I have landed a truly rare test pressing of a demo recording by the Four Sounds, the earlier incarnation of what would become the Blue Note recording group, the Three Sounds. As mentioned in the ebay listing, so I know I am going to have to do something to get the maximum fidelity from this, and I ask for any advice people may have. I have no super handy-dandy record cleaning machine, only one of those Discwasher thingies - the wood block with the felt side. I am afraid that while this does ok to get stray bits of hair and frizzies off, it is more likely to grind any dirt into the grooves and make things worse. Right now, I have two options: Contact a local record dealer, see if his record cleaner can handle it; Follow the advice of my wife, who has training as an audio engineer, who suggests the following: Warm water A soft towel gentle rubbing in the direction of the grooves Does anyone have any objections to that approach or better alternatives? Thanks!

And if your Miles thread was meant in jest, prove that you are seriously interested in participating by going back to your first post in the thread and delete the topic so that your "joke" doesn't spawn more misunderstandings and doubts about whether you are a serious jazz fan or a troll.

My comments were based entirely on bluesforbartok's comments as an example of a particular kind of jazz book and on your reply. I made no implication that I had read the specific book in question (note that I said, "I'd be damn disappointed if I found myself spending money for a book that had no serious interest in jazz." I'm sure you recognize that tense as future conditional.) On the other hand, I am pretty confident that there are many books that get published which use jazz in a superficial way to flog some current academic theory or to approach it from some tangential field, and it is not at all clear that those writers love jazz or even know jack shit about it.

Happy B-Day, Tom!

Bertrand, I'm pretty sure that the book is being printed right now, and considering that the disc is described as "fairly dirty" I don't know that there would be anyway to meet such a deadline, if there could still be time anyway. Interesting what you say about including a CD with the book. Last year, I asked her about it, and she told me:

Bill, Janie mentioned that Benny is still alive and still gigging in Jackson! Also, if you go to that publishing website I linked above, scroll down to the bottom of the page; in the middle there's a picture I asked Janie about, turns out its Gene, bass player Leonard Hall and Benny Poole. And the news gets better: her book includes a picture of the Four Sounds who made this demo recording, including Lonnie "The Sound" Walker, so I'll be able to make a super-duper extra special CDR cover for this once the book is published. B-)