Ken Dryden

Checkmate King 2, this is white rook, over.

It is a shame that Sony never did a Dave Brubeck & Gerry Mulligan on Columbia boxed set like they did with the Brubeck & Desmond studio recordings. Also, the Brubeck & Desmond Columbia live recordings would make a good set, surely there is unissued music in the vault.

That mystified me as well, the Germans having good cover then charging out into open ground to get gunned down. The other thing was their failure to hold grenades for a few seconds after arming, giving the Americans time to toss them back. I guess they didn’t use combat veterans to review the scripts.

I recorded the satellite broadcast onto cassette so I didn’t own any rights to the music. I am not sure that the bootleg CD was dubbed from my copy, which I traded at least once with other collectors of live shows. I also don’t know if Hi Hat copied my article about this show from All About Jazz, it was one of my Not For Sale columns, to use as liner notes.

I will try to get to it the next couple of days. I recorded Joe Pass, which ended up on a Hi Hat bootleg CD, Ken Peplowski, Terry Gibbs & Buddy DeFranco, Toshiko Akiyoshi (posted on my archive.org page), while I was traded a few others that I haven't digitized. This is just off the top of my head, there may be more.

I remember when that originally aired. Linda Day George wrote about how hard doing the show was on her husband Christopher’s back. The Germans were almost comical with their inability to fight the enemy in the series. Soap opera star Eric Braden was still using his birth name of Hans Gudegast (spelled something like that) back then.

This broadcast is not a physical bootleg that I know of but a copy of a satellite recording that I made when I was working in public radio at the time it aired. I wish that I had recorded more Four Wueens Jazz Night From Las Vegas shows but this one was a nice surprise.

Buono was in the pilot, he really camped it up. An even worse film made after a series ended was “Homcide: Life on the Streets.” Every regular cast member was included, even those whose characters were killed off or written out. But the writing and the plot line were very unsatisfactory, especially the ending.

I will stick with August, thanks!

The Peggy Lee Band - A Giving Way Songlines SGL1636-2 $7

I was surprised that this series only ran four seasons, I could have sworn it was longer. I don't know if I started watching it during season 2 or 3, but none of the season 1 shows bring back any memories. I just finished the 24th episode of season 1. I get a kick out of the guest stars, which include Michael Dunn as Dr. Miguelito Loveless (a recurring villain), his henchman Voltaire (played by Richard Kiel), others included Don Rickles as a Satanic magician, Burgess Meredith, John Dehner and a lot of veteran character actors whose faces I knew though not necessarily their names. The fight scenes are low budget, as Robert Conrad did his own stunts, but the doubles for the guest star villains were about as believable as those fighting Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek series.

I am not sure. The reason for my email was to suggest changing the estimated delivery time, not to ask for a shipping cost adjustment.

Good news! I emailed Dusty Groove about USPS incompetence and received a $10.90 credit since the order didn’t arrive within the delivery window. They take care of customers!

Warning to those shopping at Dusty Groove: Take their delivery estimate with a grain of salt for Express Mail. The USPS is screwing things up like my package is media mail. It bounced around the Chicago are for several days, made it to Knoxville, Chattanooga, then rerouted to Nashville. Maybe I will get it a week after it was shipped. They must throw stuff in random bins for fun.

Still awaiting my copy of the CD and getting paid for the liner notes. For some reason, the label won't use PayPal or any similar options, though they are paying the wire transfer fee.

Years ago I remember running into a Warner Bros. label rep at a jazz conference and asked why they didn't do a retake or edit on one recent George Benson album, where he started singing when he wasn't supposed to, stopped and they released it like that. I got a dumb answer, "We liked the overall feeling of the take." I knew it was this LP but I was away from my computer and Discogs searches are troublesome on my phone.

Benson appears on several tracks on a Columbia LP that was a part of a special series of unissued recordings.

Tom Lord’s Jazz Discography is also useful for such a project, though you have to subscribe or buy a static CD-Rom

New additions: Clark Terry - Ow Live At E.J.'s JLP 103601 2 CDs still sealed a great live set that is out of print, the Storyville CD reissue omits 5 tracks $13 Satoko Fujii - Torrent Libra 201-072 $24 still sealed Japanese import Nicholas Payton, Bob Belden, Sam Yahel, John Hart, Billy Drummond - Mysterious Shorter Checky SACD321 $11 SACD NM/VG+ punched upc MIchel Portal - Radar - Live at Theater Gutersloh Intuition INTCHR 71319 $8 NM/VG+ Slight wear on edges of digipak and tiny tear on upper left corner/spine.

I prefer the early Impulse! era, particularly recordings that included Eric Dolphy. My least favorite period is the post-McCoy Tyner later years.

I have it but it is in the always growing to be heard stacks.

A few more additions, see shipping information at top of the thread: Anthony Braxton Trio and Duet Sackville 3007 $12 The Ramsey Lewis Trio The In Crowd Verve B0009787-02 Still sealed with scratched barcode $5 M/VG+ One more: Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor Long Tall Sunshine w/Jon Irabagon & Joe Fonda Not Two MW 1012-2 Still sealed $12 M/M I haven't had the time to look up comparable pricing on Discogs for everything (I have checked a lot of them), but most are likely priced lower. If you want to make an offer if you think a title is priced too high, feel free to PM me. The Stan Getz and Tony Purrone CDs have been requested.

I remember writing a nasty review of a Japanese Nat King Cole jazz trio CD featuring tracks that sounded like they were dubbed from a worn LP. To top it off, it was a later reissue that added overdubbed strings. The label owner sent me a snippy email CD claiming that he sourced them from the original master tapes.

Hopefully out of business. I avoided those ugly looking LPs suspecting that they were low budget crap.