Ken Dryden

So do I have May? I requested either April or May back on October 21.

Her vocal duets with Eddie Erickson were always fun at jazz parties.

I met her years ago at the Triangle Jazz Party in Kingsport, Tennessee, I think her first Arbors CD was fairly new. I got to know her over the years attending both the Triangle and Atlanta Jazz Parties, my wife and I were also present for one night of the Feinstein’s recording. Don’t overlook her CDs as a part of the group BED with Eddie Errickson and Dan Barrett.

I didn't find out about it until 2005.

When I lived in Broward County, jazz offerings were slim. I never made it to Bubba's, but I did catch one great evening in Sunrise while visiting home from either grad school or work, a show that opened with Oscar Peterson solo, followed by Ella Fitzgerald with Count Basie & His Orchestra. I think Butch Miles was his drummer.

At least no one was promoting collecting 8 tracks and cassettes, two flimsy, unreliable formats. I actually see that cassettes of recordings long available are being made once more.

There's nothing wrong with collecting vinyl, I still buy out of print LPs, LP sets with tracks not available on the CD editions, new LPs not issued at all on CDs, etc. But for the most part, I prefer CDs, they sound just as good to me, take up less storage space and usually have bonus tracks that the LP versions do not include. I do find the LP prices for today's releases a bit high for my tastes, especially labels that ask a fortune, only to find out they are reissued on CD by other labels with bonus tracks a few years later.

Less music for more money and more space taken up on shelving for the privilege.

I recorded some of the shows when we carried it, but I missed some and I'm not sure that we aired every season. I'm glad I brought up the series with Lewis Porter.

Lewis Porter shared this link with me when I brought up the NPR series Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center: https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TOJB/browse/?q=billy&t=fulltext&sort= In addition to those shows, there are interviews by Owens, along with some (but not all) of the Jazz Alive! shows that he produced. Enjoy! Happy New Year!

One of their worst was the compilation of Jaki Byard Solo and Jaki Byard With Strings. They resequenced the tracks, alternating between the two albums and omitted his solo version of “Hello, Young Lovers.” They should have reissued them separately in the original track order. I have been trying to find Oleo without success. I am surprised that I overlooked it when I could get Fantasy CDs for $5 each at a media discount. I took frequent advantage of it before the catalog was sold to Concord.

I was pleased when Lewis Porter asked me for a copy of my 2007 phone interview with Sonny Rollins during the summer, which was done to write a feature in Hot House promoting his 50th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall. It was published today on his Playback with Lewis Porter Substack page, here is the link: https://lewisporter.substack.com/p/sonny-rollins-phone-interview-with I asked Lewis if I could edit the interview, as phone interviews inevitably have gaffs that would be edited out of a transcription or radio broadcast, but he believes it is important to share the conversation as it happened, He also shared a link to my original Hot House article. The interview has never been broadcast or shared on line in any form. Merry Christmas, everyone!

I have only seen bits and pieces of it and it is little wonder how little Ken Burns knew about jazz. What was bizarre to me was having Wynton Marsalis talking about what it was like playing with Duke Ellington, the question would have been better asked of Clark Terry.

Philology has quite a run, Paolo Piangiarelli was a dedicated fan but with a small marketing budget. He attended IAJE IN 2004 and raved about the young alto saxophonist FraHe was long frustrated with US jazz magazines not reviewing his recordings because he didn't have the funds to buy ads. Just his array of releases by Phil Woods and Lee Konitz, along with Italian jazz greats like Franco D'Andrea and Renato Sellani, to name just a few, is very impressive. I heard that he was battling depression around the time that his website went off line. He died on January 1, 2022. Philology titles regularly appear on Dusty Groove, but some are hard to find.

Can you share a scan of that article?

When I wrote liner notes for an Oscar Peterson compilation on Pablo, I found two errors for the track where Oscar Peterson took over from Duke Ellington for a song. Both the date and the drummer were incorrect, Eric Miller disagreed and he was a bit stubborn, then I provided the relevant page from Timmer’s Ellingtonia discography and the citation from Mercer Ellington’s bio of Duke that cited him firing Bobby Durham and replacing him with Chris Columbus. Eric Miller relented and made the edits. Thanks for sharing the update provided by David Wild.

Zev Feldman has been trying to locate a tape of the Monterey Jazz Festival gig featuring John Coltrane with both Eric Dolphy and Wes Montgomery, but he has been unsuccessful. It is possible that the tape never existed at all, or it was misfiled, lost or stolen. There was also a gig within the time period at a club in Oakland, though no tape is known.

The new Tone Poet LP.

Now if I can just find my misplaced Denny Zeitlin and Jim McNeely CDs.

A high school classmate played with Patti Smith, Benji King. He died from a head injury while taking subway stairs in NYC a few years ago. https://www.discogs.com/artist/850459-Benjy-King?superFilter=Credits

Honeydew was the label that recorded Dave McKenna then made two LPs by spiltting his date with one by the Wilbur Little Quartet. McKenna told me in an interview "It sounded like it was recorded in a toilet and I never got paid."

The advance files that I received to review labeled “Old Folks” as “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was.” I informed the label, which hadn’t printed the sleeve yet. Unfortunately, the liner notes mention the incorrect title, so I am unsure if a song was substituted late or the writer didn’t recognize the mislabeled song.

Another gem from Resonance Records...

He was. If i called and he was home and available, he always took time to talk to me. I miss the Brubecks, they were a sweet couple.

Issued on CD in 1989 and very affordable on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/release/9138756-Gerry-Mulligan-Mullenium