Dan Gould

Did that Heart of the Forrest also come out as a Muse CD?

Randy played with Jimmy Forrest and Shirley Scott? And I thought he was a young 'un, like Joe and Jim!

It wasn't just Chicago. In Dallas, it was Green Valley Raceway. "Green Valley"...sounds like a cemetary of sorts, no? It was in the New York Metropolitan area ... Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, if I recall.

After wading through this, the most worthless thread in Organissimo history, is there somewhere I can go to get the last five minutes of my life back? The only good thing to say about 80s pop and rock is that it was so bad, I started to investigate jazz and turned my back on pop music ever since.

If anyone's curious, I dug out the vinyl: Introducing George Freeman Live with Charlie Earland Sitting In (Giant Step Records GS005) Wonder what the first four albums the label issued? No dates given, but the liners have a reference to the June 10, 1971 DB, so this must have been the second leader date George had, after the one Delmark put out (the liners also refer to his brother "Vaughan"-is that an alternate spelling of "Von"?). Recorded at the Aqua Lounge, no other personnel identified, tunes are: Stormy Monday Blues, A Very Good Year, 3 O'Clock in the Morning Blues, Let it Be, Something, Getting To Know You, Funky Walk, Wine and Roses, Girl Talk, Strangers in the Night and Old Folks. Pretty neat thing to hear, though it would have been nicer if it had been me finding it at the thrift store.

The best advice I could give is to look at the sidemen on the trumpet discs you have and go from there.

Tell me that doesn't sound familiar!

I gots me a super, super rare George Freeman date, his first as a leader, I think, with Charlie Earland, on a local Philly label, I think ... I need to dig it out. Wish I could scan the cover. Got it on ebay, the seller turned out to be in Miami, told me he haunts the thrifts for these rare finds. He probably paid a quarter for it. I got it for a bit more. Quite a bit more. And he wouldn't tell me what thrift stores he haunts.

There's a lot of good stuff on Nagel Heyer, but I'd have to think a bit before making recommendations. But a nice mainstream label for sure. One disc I've been curious about, can't recall the title, but it looked like an intriguing mix of outcats and straightahead guys. Anyone know the one I'm thinking of? Oh, in the swing vein, I'd definitely recommend the two Buck Clayton CDs (from when Buck was only arranging and conducting) and the two Count Basie tribute discs are real nice, with some fine, still going strong even though he was near the end, Billy Mitchell solos.

Would you like to touch my monkey?

John Hicks: Music in the Key of Clark inc 1 Eddie Higgins: Time On My Hands Smoke Gets in Your Eyes My Foolish Heart Soulero Dear Old Stockholm Haunted Heart Live at the Van Dyke By Request Speaking of Jobim Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Andrew Hill: Grass Roots Black Fire Buck Hill: I'm Beginning to See the Light Capital Hill The Buck Stops Here Jutta Hipp: with Zoot Sims at the Hickory House Volume 1 Johnny Hodges: Mosaic '51-'55

I figure he's either bored with the ether or also a member of AAJ and therefore visits "either board"

Maybe he ain't natural. Actually, there's no basis for your assumption of how long a champion might last without the previous system of artificial 'term limits', because he was one of the first champions after the rules change. There were some five day champions who kicked ass-who knows how long they might have lasted. If no one ever again goes beyond the two or three weeks you are postulating as the "natural" limit, then I might consider your hypothesis. But remember, outliers are data, too. They just happen to be off the charts. And another thing to consider: The quiz show scandal almost destroyed game shows. Why would a producer risk it all for something like this?

And to Take the Money and Run: "I have a gub" Playing cello in the marching band! Or the interviews with the parents who are so ashamed, they're wearing Groucho glasses.

Nobody's mentioned "Take The Money and Run" or "Bananas"?

And here comes Soul Symphony (BST-84341) Liberty Pressing - no year listed Side 1 Soul Symphony (M. Higgins) 26:05 Side 2 Repeat After Me (M. Higgins) 6:45 Upper Four Hundred (D. Ervin - M. Higgins) 4:03 Popsicle Pimp (D. Ervin - M. Higgins) 2:53 Black Sugar (D. Ervin - M. Higgins) 4:15

For all boys of a certain age, this will always be our favorite poster:

And that was really worth it? I seem to recall reading that record dealers will buy a record for something like 20% of what they plan to sell it for. I know a dealer down here who found a man living in a vermin infested trailer with boxes and boxes and boxes, hundreds if not thousands of mint or unopened original jazz lps from the 50s-60s. He offered the man a thousand dollars for records he anticipated would sell for perhaps $100,000.00.

I went with J.J. but would have preferred Bennie Green if he had been listed.

You know, reading about the extent of his collection, the fact that my personal Holy Grail, Richard Evans' Home Cookin' (Argo) doesn't appear in that list really makes me wonder whether the dang album even exists!

I had, and ultimately disposed of, his 95th birthday party disc: It was nice and all, but at some point in a previous sweep for deadwood, I decided to trade it in. Of course, being a saxophonist, you'd probably pick up on a whole lot more than I did ... too bad I can't just send it to you so you'd know.

Gary Alderman is still active.

At this point I would propose that, unless at least a few more signups come in by week's end, this idea should be put out of its misery.

Have you read his books?

I'd have to go with Wycliffe Gordon.