Dan Gould

Thanks for the link, Claude. Definitely want the Carter, the Bop Session, and probably the Stitt/Blakey. On the Carter, I notice that Nat Adderley takes a vocal-is it reasonable to assume he sings the Oscar Brown lyrics to Work Song, and if so, did he ever do that before or after?

And which classic would that be? The Budweisser song?

Just the original album, Brownie. Had no idea there had ever been Sonet CDs, let alone a new reissue program.

I have Motoring Along, too, picked it up for about $5, in excellent shape. I'd like to get that Benny Carter for sure ...

A second session was issued with the original reissue of Home Cooking, so I am sure its the same stuff.

Jim, Doesn't a club gig in Chicago offer the possibility of being a "loss leader"? I mean, obviously you couldn't do the gigs regularly and not be making enough bread, but what about subsidizing hoped for opportunity by taking one or two of those offers? It kind of reminds me of one method of trying to break into voice overs-talk to creative directors and offer to work, for a minimal fee, on their "spec" spots, the spots produced to show a potential client what they can do and hopefully land future business. They get to pitch their client, and you get to show them what you can do.

Get over the fact that there are women out there more successful than you. You can't put them all in jail. What possibly makes you think I want "women more successful than me" in jail? Get over YOURSELF, Rainy.

Get it through your exceedingly thick head, Rainy: She was convicted by a jury of her peers. She's a felon. And she'll never admit to it because she doesn't think the rules apply to her or her friends.

I guess I need to check my copy to see if its mono or not ...

Check out this article from the NYT about the different drafts of the letter she sent to the Judge. Such remorse! And a completely false description of the acts of her buddy Waksal. She's lucky she didn't send the first letter to the judge-maybe then she'd gotten the upper range of the sentence guidelines. Stewart's Letter to the Judge Shows Up Online, in Two Versions By CONSTANCE L. HAYS Published: July 19, 2004 Online, the public can see a presentencing letter that Martha Stewart sent to the judge who oversaw her trial - and, for a while, they could see one she did not send. The unsent letter, posted on the Web shortly after Ms. Stewart was sentenced on Friday to five months in prison and five months of house arrest, was a draft version of the letter she did send. The draft included a long apologia for the behavior of Ms. Stewart's friend Samuel D. Waksal, the founder and former chief executive of ImClone Systems. He is serving a seven-year prison term for arranging stock trades before a critical announcement from ImClone in 2001. But the letter that the judge received made no mention of Dr. Waksal or ImClone. "I am sure and have heard from others that his attempted stock sales were only attempts to stem serious margin calls," Ms. Stewart wrote in the first version. "So far as I know Sam never sold or tried to sell his stock because of fear of non-success - rather he sold for just the opposite reason - because he believed so much in the future of his company that he leveraged his own stock way beyond what any sensible person would do, and a temporary delay, a temporary setback, could and actually did, wipe him out." In the first version, Ms. Stewart also offered an explanation of her own ImClone trade, the one that led to her conviction: it was "not because I was secretly tipped, but because I set a price, made a profit, and knew I could always reinvest if I wanted to. To believe that I sold because Sam was trying to sell is so very, very wrong." The letters appeared on www.marthatalks.com, a Web site that Ms. Stewart set up shortly after she was indicted. The posting of both letters can be traced to public relations people who were trying to stay on top of things, and to the industriousness of Ms. Stewart, who wrote a heart-to-heart to Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum that she delivered the day before the sentencing. "In an attempt to put information out quickly, a preliminary version not sent to Judge Cedarbaum was accidentally posted on the Web site for a brief period of time," a spokesman for Ms. Stewart, George Sard, said. Ms. Stewart wrote both letters herself and included all sorts of detail, including the fact that her perfectionism was inspired by the handbook of the American Poultry Association, and that as a child she read the novels of Willa Cather, Upton Sinclair, Dostoyevsky and Gogol. Originally, Ms. Stewart made reference to one juror in her trial, whom her lawyers accused of having lied on a screening questionnaire. She ended her letter by telling the judge: "My hopes that my life will not be completely destroyed lie unfortunately entirely in your hands." In the final version, the word "unfortunately" had been excised, and there was no mention of the jury. Maybe someone told her that first sentence is not a good way to win friends and influence people ...

Don't know if this eases the pain, but the fact that no sale is being run might be taken to indicate: A. They are managing inventory better (when it comes to the True Blue catalog-I think that lagging sales there is what forced the $5 off sale) B. Mosaic is doing well with the Selects and therefore we may see even more; or that the company as a whole is doing well enough that no sales are necessary; as disappointing as that may be, it does indicate continued success and longevity.

Berigan is right-if bundling were done away with, would there be enough people choosing, say, Trio, one of the pseudo-cultural channels, to keep it viable? Of course, strangely enough, this puts me and Berigan arguing against letting the market decide, but there you go!

I have received the disc but bad timing as far as listening time goes. Hopefully soon-or at least before Marcus' CD arrives! In the meantime, thanks to Emergency Command Post Leader Big Al (and Nate)!

I don't think that would constitute a double life under the rules established by the esteemed Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

I have a very bad copy of the record with lots of pops. I don't even have the album cover. I found it at http://www.djangomusic.com If its important to you, PM me, and I can xerox the front and back for you.

Available in what sense? Burns for trade? Are you only looking for vinyl? A lot of the later BNs you list show up on ebay regularly. Do you actually own Ronnie Foster's Live at Montreux? That is an lp that eluded our own BN fanatic, Bill Fenohr, until I found it on Ebay's German site.

Marcus, Are you hoping people may buy these for you here for repayment? Or are you hoping to trade with someone who already has these? Its possible I could land a couple of these ....

You misunderstand-Danbury is not a country club, but its close to NYC and Westport, and it happens to be where Helmsley served her time, so I put two and two together and flippantly added the "Lovely Helmsley Suite".

I am sure she will spend her five months in the lovely Leona Helmsley Suite of the Danbury Federal Correctional Facility.

"Never mind!"

Sonny Clark: Trio (Time) Trio (BN) Sonny's Crib My Perception Leapin and Lopin' Dial 'S' for Sonny Standards Cool Struttin' Kenny Clarke: Bohemia After Dark Seleno Clarke: Live at Smoke (pretty nice CDR available from Cadence, got some good young guys like Eric Alexander and Jim Rotondi) James Clay and Marchel Ivery: Texas Tenors (rare 80s recording, found this on ebay. Of course, since no one knows what it is, I had no competition for it More James Clay to look forward to on Monday, then a bunch of Buck Clayton. Other than it being Monday, the 19th looks pretty good

If it was auspicious to you, that's good enough for me (or at least good enough for this thread)!

I was just listening to Kenny Clarke's Bohemia After Dark and since this is Cannonball's knockout recording debut, what are some other knock-out first performances? To keep it narrow, lets make it recording debut as opposed to leader debut.

I'm sure someone with a BN discography will be along shortly to help.

I think we need more info in order to have any idea. What was the original label, date, etc.?