Ken Dryden

Getting into the unheard boxes... I should have gotten to it a lot sooner... !

There's a long list of artists that I wish I had seen in concert, especially many of the ones I've interviewed over the years. Of artists still alive and active in my lifetime, I wish I had heard Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Willie The Lion Smith, Earl Hines, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Jaki Byard, Art Farmer, just for starters. Having spent my entire life in the southeastern US, I haven't had as many opportunities to see live jazz by major artists. I try to catch some favorites when I go to NYC, but I haven't been there since two trips in 2019. I did catch Lee Konitz in a trio with Paul Motian and Dan Tepfer. IAJE was a good place to catch a number of artists, while it lasted. JEN just isn't the same. Of course, my wife and I have brought several artists to Chattanooga for benefit concerts, including Ken Peplowski, Alan Broadbent, Fred Hersch and Benny Green. Maybe we will have to do more concerts, if we can find a replacement venue, as the hall we've used is undergoing repairs soon.

It was funny hearing all of the talking heads projecting a big win last night for the Dodgers before the game. The tag team of pitchers that Walt Weiss assembled did a great job, while Michael Harris' aggressive base-running got them the third run that they would end up needing.

Still listening to this CD in the car when I got home from dinner:

Part of an order I received today:

I wonder if any of these Tiberi recordings sound as horrible as those infamous live from the last row audience recorded bootleg LPs of the 1970s?

Mine arrived today.

The problem with complete boxed sets is when the label strives to include every breakdown, false start, incomplete track or obviously grossly unlistenable piece of music, all in the name of completeness. One can't imagine John Coltrane approving of this packaging of his music, even with his surviving descendants benefitting from the royalties of the sale of this set.

Margerita Fava is a talented composer and pianist, a graduate of MSU with a masters at UT Knoxville, she currently teaches at UT and has a Friday Night show on WUOT-FM. She came to Chattanooga with several of her students to attend Benny Green's afternoon workshop and evening concert. I dug out her CD from the unheard boxes piled on my floor, it deserved a more prompt hearing!

Benny Green tonight in Chattanooga, he led a workshop for students this afternoon, which was enjoyable,

I just searched for credits, I failed to look at the back cover images. My local friend told me that James Williams was in the B band at first, but the A band pianist was killed in a car wreck.

I found a copy of The Memphis State University Jazz Band A On Tour '70-'71 during a recent trip to New Orleans, where I visited Euclid Records. I was talking with a local musician who was surprised that neither James Williams nor Mulgrew Miller played piano on the LP, while I think that he mentioned Donald Brown was an alum as well. Does anyone know of the existence of such LPs? I picked it up because of the guest soloists, which included Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans and Marvin Stamm.

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