Dan Gould

I don't think the pieces are sold separately. But I think Office Depot stocks them, 10 for $5. (Too bad you didn't say something sooner. When I switched to the three ring binder system of CD storage, I pitched about 2400 jewel boxes, and just saved a few on the assumption that there will be some CDs I'll end up selling.)

Eddie Higgins told me a wonderful story about Mancini and Mandel in our interview, but you'll have to wait til Cadence publishes it to hear it!

All I hear about are Early Records orders here and CDUniverse orders there and $300 monthly music habits and ... Am I the only one who has essentially no budget for new music? I must admit that the adjustment hasn't been that difficult, I mean, when you ponder a music order and balance that against making the next mortgage payment (WOO HOO, only 359 more to go!) the decision is pretty easy. But is there anyone else who can commiserate with me?

Glad you enjoyed the trip, Chuck. My wife and I plan to return for the 400th anniversary of Jamestown a few years down the road. Wish we had a "friend of a friend" like yours!

Found a used Japanese CD, Papa Jo Jones last studio date, "Our Man Papa Jo!" on Denon. Major Holley, Hank Jones and Jimmy Oliver on tenor. Already gave it a listen, its real nice.

I'm with Chuck-I don't think Frank "composed" his photos very often-they were usually just on-the-job shots or guys relaxing or discussing the music. That one was obviously carefully lined up and I think its a keeper, one of his best.

I headed to Borders with the 20% off coupon, didn't find the Benny Carter reissue but when I stumbled across this, I didn't hesitate. I think Rotondi is a superior trumpeter, and its nice to see Jesse Davis on several cuts as well.

I am seriously jealous, Chris. Mance, Woodard, Hamilton alone would be worth whatever the price of admission is.

The Yanks and Devil Rays split in Tokyo, but Sunday is the first real Opening Day game, Pedro vs the Orioles in Camden Yards. So before it gets going, what're your predictions (Division Champs, Pennant, World Series, Awards, whatever)? Call me a fool, but I gotta go with: AL Champions: Red Sox NL Champions: Cubs World Series: Red Sox AL Co-Cy Young Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling NL Co-Cy Young: Kerry Wood and Mark Prior NL MVP: Sammy Sosa AL MVP: David Ortiz Hey, like they say, hope springs eternal! So what about you, are you hopeful or are you hanging 'em up already?

First, I'd get his new release, New York, New Sound on mack Avenue. Then you'll be ready for the full investment in his Mosaic set of his Pacific Jazz recordings!

Welcome to the club, Moose! And if you start to suffer withdrawal symptoms, just let me know, and I'll be happy to berate you in a PM.

A haircut Saturday morning, and Bob Weinstock interview transcribing the rest of the weekend, until 8 pm when Pedro takes the mound against the O's!!

Yeah, that's the one-but my source says that a small part of the second set is missing. Do you have the same recording or is yours complete?

Oh, I'm done. Just had to do something "publicly" after John posted the PM and kept up with the coward crap. See ya in the music forums!

For the record, I now find it necessary to announce that, since I was in fact sincere about my declaration regarding the Politics Forum, at my request B3-er has made the political forum disappear from my account. Nevertheless, since I had this done after I had started a thread regarding my decision (here), I wanted to see how this self-banishment was being treated. So, as Claude pointed out, if I logged on as a guest, I could see the political forum but not post. And it was there that I saw that not only were the usual suspects taking their free shots at me (Jerry, Minew, 7/4) but Mr. "I Love My conservative friends", Johnny, had put his own spin and interpretation on my decision, not remotely supported by anything but his rabid partisanship, and declared me a "coward". I didn't take kindly to it-but I couldn't respond to it because B3-er disabled the Political Forum at my request. Quite a conundrum. So, I did the only thing I could, and sent a PM to Johnny. A PM he has now seen fit to post to that thread. Draw your own conclusions about our resident Hero of the Left.

Roots is another terrific effort. The only difference is the band covers some of his better known compositions, while Composer is more new stuff, I think. Similar group of younger lions too. Funny thing you mention Martha's Prize-I am awaiting receipt of an audience recording of a concert that has a number of tunes from the Astor Place albums, but instead of Hargrove, its Art Farmer on trumpet. And Victor Lewis was on drums too. Really ought to be a keeper!

Terrible news. Makes me glad the new music room is on the second floor.

This is how I got the two or three negative feedbacks I have, when I posted negative feedback, I got B.S. tit-for-tat negative feedback in return, totally unearned (in one case, I paid with a money order but he didn't ship for two weeks after receipt, which I thought was outrageous). Please note, though, I am NOT implying that you would be in the wrong to "go negative" if he does-he's the jerk in this transaction, not you! As far as feedback extortion goes, I've only encountered it with one seller. A guy who sells used VHS, he had a horror film I thought my wife would enjoy. But I was pissed when he said that in order to get feedback, I had to post feedback first. I told him that as a member of the community, it is his responsibility to report on the transaction, good, bad, or indifferent, regardless of what I do. His response was that until he instituted this policy, he never got any feedback at all-maybe 5% would post feedback voluntarily, but with the new policy, 80 or 90% would post, and as a result, he was getting what he wanted-a very high number of positive feedbacks. In the end, the transaction was so smooth and the shipping so quick, I gave him his positive feedback as I would have anyway, despite my misgivings. But with my feedback number around 50, I needed more feedback more than he needed it!

Forgive my ignorance, but is this another one of those late 70s, Japanese-only, never previously issued dates? Or was this a west coast date that Alfred leased? Or for that matter, was it an LT "rainbow series" LP in the states?

In the period in between their terms with Blue Note, I think that on the trio albums, the Sounds continued apace. Perhaps the results weren't quite as satisfying as the best BNs, but I don't feel there is a drastic drop-off in quality. It should also be noted that it was here that you got their first live recordings ("Live at the Living Room" on Mercury and "Today's Sounds" on Limelight) and both are excellent. The only non-BN recordings that don't do much for me are the Limelights which matched the trio with big bands and other accoutrements. OK, but not really necessary. As far as when they returned to BN, they had already started to change with the times, as both Vibrations and Live at the Lighthouse include Harris' overdubbed organ on some tracks. Who was responsible for that? Well, no one knows, and it was probably both Alfred and Gene who made the decision. But it was Alfred who took the chance during their first tenure with the company to record Gene on organ with Ike Quebec. I think they were looking to see if they could catch lightning again as they did with Jimmy Smith. In fact, doesn't the discography show that the unissued session with Grant Green was with Gene on organ, too? After those two albums, the band really started to change with the times, and it became much more the Gene Harris band, with assorted add-ons like strings on Elegant Soul, big band on Cold Water Flat and modern grooves on Soul Symphony. I can understand if people don't care for those albums, but what was the driving force behind them? Was it the fact that the original group had broken up? Was it Gene looking to broaden the sound? Did Gene want to do these types of albums and that drove the group apart? Bill Dowdy left first, when the band was still a trio and sounding pretty similar to what it had been. Another thing to remember is that those "oddball" records were studio efforts. The band continued to tour as a trio, as documented on the Live at the It Club CDs. Again, the band was changing with the times, with more modern rhythms and tune choices (like the Beatles set on Volume 2) but the band still played the old stuff, too-I think there are at least three tunes on Volume 1 of the It Club recordings that come from the first tenure at BN and the arrangements are the same. I don't think its a loss of "pizzazz" if there was any. It was a natural evolution and changing with the times more than anything else.

You know, I never checked this thread til now, I figured it was a request for directions on how to establish an avatar. From the stretch drive til this week, I used a Norman Rockwell Cub painting, can't recall the name now, but I kept it up because it seemed to coincide with the cubbies great run, and after it ended in embarassment, I just didn't change it, until this week, when I put up my all-purpose, Opening Day is here, animated bat swinging man avatar. After that, inspired by Berigan's hypnotic cutie, I think its time to bring back Miss Blonde Bouncing Boobs!

Speaking of Eric's comments regarding lemmings and dummies, I made a memorable gaffe on the air once: An imaging statement that was supposed to be "Playing the music you've told us you like the best, we're Mello 105" became "Playing the music we've told you you like the best, we're Mello 105" Luckily, the boss and his entire oafish family was out of town at the time, or I'd have been shit-canned right there. As far as the effects of jazz vs the effects of other music, I'd say I'm far more tolerant than wesbed, though far less tolerant than a lot of people. But at that radio station I worked at, the son of the owner once told me that jazz (and we're talking the smooth variety here) made him "nervous". Then again, a lot of things made this guy nervous, I think he was on every psychotropic drug his Doctor could prescribe.

Blues for Bartok- Do my eyes deceive me? A fellow Red Sox fan, living in the center of the Evil Empire???

What Jazzmoose said. Regardless of whether you think he "worked" you, you freely offered a full refund; you have no choice but to honor the terms that were offered and accepted. One last point: are you certain he kept the set an extra ten days before shipping, or is it possible the delay was due to the postal system? Its not clear from your message.

Well, isn't "Body and Soul" always associated with Coleman Hawkins?