Ken Dryden

Russ Freeman/Richard Twardzik/Jimmy Rowles/Clare Fischer: The Pacific Jazz Piano Trios Mosaic Select 19 Clare Fischer Big Band Pacific Jazz Clavo 201408 Clare Fischer Out of the Blue Clavo 201509 I think that one of the above CDs doesn't feature the composer/pianist playing, but I'm two floors above my music library at the moment.

I recently purchased this set and was surprised to see an excerpt of my AMG review of Count On the Coast, Vol. 1 on the back cover. Obviously I had not heard all five volumes in this particular package. Good stuff, in any case.

I've owned Memphis Convention for years and recommend it!

PM sent for the two Kenny Drew CDs

This could be a long list! Bud Shank: He was playing IAJE in Long Beach in 2003, but my wife was with me and wanted dinner immediately. That's the closest I ever got to seeing him play. Eubie Blake: He was part of a Palm Beach Jazz Festival on a Sunday evening in the late 1970s, but my parents had already gotten me a ticket to see Vladimir Horowitz in Miami Beach, there was no way to make both performances. My mother tried to console me and said, "He's getting up there and probably will only put on a token performance." The review in the paper the following day noted the Blake played a long set, followed by 8 encores. I never made it to E.J.'s in Atlanta but was living in the vicinity between 1978-1980. I missed a lot of artists who played there: Milt Jackson, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Dexter Gordon and Teddy Wilson for starters. Gerry Mulligan was part of a Fox Theatre concert in Atlanta in the early 1980s, but my hellacious schedule and distance from Atlanta at the time made it impossible to attend. Dizzy Gillespie was scheduled for an outdoor festival in our city in the early 1980s but was rained out by a furious thunderstorm. Benny Goodman was scheduled for that same festival in 1986 but died less than a week before his set. Lionel Hampton was a last minute replacement with his big band and wowed the crowd with his energy. Charles Mingus played the New Orleans Jazz Festival while I was at Tulane, but it was right in the middle of finals.

Lalo Schifrin's appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is available as a podcast on NPR.org.

alankin: You can find personnel and song lists for many of these shows at http://db.etree.org The only thing is you need to register for an account to make it easier to search the website. Please note that no music is available there for downloading. Also, some folks screw up the dates (particularly Europeans who enter the day before the month, which is not the standard for this website), list incorrect song titles or make wild guesses instead of just listing "unknown title."

Sent my PM for these titles: MULGREW MILLER 1-21-04 IMPERIAL BALLROOM – AUDIENCE MJQ 10-27-83 GERMANY – TWO DISCS FRANK MORGAN CHARLIE PARKER FEST 8-22-04 – AUDIENCE FRANK MORGAN 2-11-03 LUGANO SWITZERLAND JOHNNY GRIFFIN 10-26-73 WARSAW POLAND -TWO DISCS JOHNNY GRIFFIN 1980 HAMBURG JOHNNY GRIFFIN 9-2000 JACKIE MCLEAN 4-13-01 TWO DISCS CHARLAP – WOODS 11-25-02 SET II PETER BERNSTEIN – MIKE LEDONNE 01-01-02 MARCUS PRINTUP 7-1-95 NYC UPPER MANHATTAN JAZZ SOCIETY (Benny Bailey – Charlie Rouse – John Hicks) STUTTGART 6-1-81 MUNICH – 5/29/81

Doc Cheatham's appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz is available as a podcast at npr.org.

Please send me the following: DEX – AMMONS – LAREN NETHERLANDS 7-18-73 DEX – BARRON – SHAW – AMSTERDAM – 8/22/88 DEXTER GORDON – 9/01/87 CHICAGO JOHNNY GRIFFIN – 3/10/80 HAMBURG BOBBY WATSON & HORIZON 9-92 SOUNDBOARD MARCUS ROBERTS OCTET JALC – MUSIC OF MARCUS ROBERTS JALC – MARCUS ROBERTS ELLINGTON & BEYOND MARCUS ROBERTS PLAYS THE MUSIC OF JAMES P JOHNSON ERIC REED, PAQUITO, NICHOLAS PAYTON – JALC BLAKEY IN LONDON 3-81 BLAKEY IN LONDON 3-81 JALC: THE MUSIC OF BUD POWELL Thanks, Ken

Email just sent about these CDs: Akiyoshi, Toshiko – Many Sides of (Verve) Japanese mini-LP $15 Albam ,Manny - Jazz New York (Lonehill) $5 Albam ,Manny - The Jazz Workshop/The Drum Suite (Lonehill) $5 Griffin ,Johnny/Lockjaw Davis – Battle Stations (Prestige/OJC) $6 Griffin ,Johnny – Studio Jazz Party (Riverside/OJC) $8 Dickerson ,Walt – This Is! (Prestige/OJC LE) $8 Dickerson ,Walt – To My Queen (Prestige/OJC LE) Andrew Hill $7

That photo must be of a landfill with unwanted smooth jazz CDs.

I'll take: ART BLAKEY LIVE AT KIMBALLS 4-10 & 4-12 1985 – TWO DISCS LOU DONALDSON 1-28-05 PARIS – TWO DISCS ROY HARGROVE QUINTET – MONTREAL JULY 2001 GILLESPIE – STITT QUINTET 10-24-74 COPENHAGEN CURTIS FULLER SEXTET – 4-3-04 NEUBERG GERMANY KENNY BURRELL TRIO 6-10-94 BURLINGTON VT STANLEY TURRENTINE – DOUGLAS BEACHHOUSE MIRAMAR CA 2-20-94 2 DISCS NICHOLAS PAYTON QUINTET RUST GERMANY 6-12-99 TRUMPET LEGENDS – HARGROVE, WEISS, BRECKER, STAFFORD – 6-16-03 CLIFFORD BROWN JAZZ FEST WILMINGTON DE LOU DONALDSON OSLO SWEDEN – TWO DISCS LOU DONALDSON W. HERMAN FOSTER – 5-91 LOU DONALDSON VILLAGE VANGUARD 10-18-97 JOHN LEWIS TRIO – TANGLEWOOD JASS FEST – 7-12-96 KENNY BURRELL – LAS VEGAS – 1-21-91 Thanks!

The USPS has lost: several CDs that were mailed to me or sent by me, a mortgage check, a car note payoff check, two consective payments to the same doctor's office, among other things. One funny thing was a book put in my box with a bunch of CDs, but it wasn't addressed to me, anyone on my street or in my subdivision. It did have a delivery confirmation sticker...

There are too many to list who are nice guys or gals. Whether it has been a phone interview, a rare in person interview, or just meeting with someone after a set, there has been only one who was difficult. I had the opportunity to talk or hang out with Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland and Bill Mays many times (Oh, the stories Bill would share at the bar during IAJE!). David Liebman couldn't be more gracious and helpful. Clark Terry was a hilarious interview on both occasions, though he put me off for a few hours the second time and I ended up talking to him at one a.m. on my birthday in the middle of a work week. By the time I met him in person, he was rather ill and it was one of his last (if not the last) public performances. Ken Peplowski is a very funny guy. Lorraine Feather is a delightful lady. And it is still a nice treat to get a thank you letter or email from an artist for an article or review, not something that is expected, but I still appreciate it. I shouldn't have forgotten Milt Hinton, who was a joy to talk to and very cordial.

My cover feature on Dave Liebman is in the May issue of The New York City Jazz Record, viewable here for those of you outside of NYC: http://nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr201605.pdf HutchFan and I just saw Liebman's Expansions in Duluth, Georgia last week. It was a great show, though poorly attended. The upside is that Liebman was very pleased with the sound technician and he had the concert recorded. He told me today that he will likely issue some of it on an upcoming live CD for Whaling City Sound. My full interview (which was around 70 minutes) may also be appearing on Dave Liebman's website some time in the next few weeks.

It was great to run into HutchFan and his friend, though the crowd was sparse. I guess Atlanta jazz fans don't want to drive 10-12 miles outside of the I-285 perimeter on a weeknight. It was worth the drive for me and we heard an all electric set. Dave Liebman was so pleased with the soundboard engineer and venue that he had Expansions recorded.

I've received two shipments of great stuff at incredible prices. Thanks, Bill!

I'm going to the Duluth show on Thursday, not the Athens show tonight. Your text had me worried, I prepaid for the hotel and I probably can't cancel it at this point.

Thanks for sharing that info. I just did a phone interview with Dave Liebman in February for a cover story in May's issue of The New York City Jazz Record. He told me about his Nashville gig, but I think that Duluth would be a lot easier for me to attend.

The Nice burned a flag during a performance of Leonard Bernstein's "America" and royally pissed him off.

If you still have these, I'd like them: 50th Anniversary Massey Hall - Hancock, Garrett, Hargrove, Holland, Haynes - Toronto 5-15-2003 Kenny Burrell 10-17-1977 Sandy's Jazz Revival Beverly MA Charlie Parker Legacy Band 10-8-2005 Sweden, Terrell Stafford, Jesse Davis, Grant Stewart, Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond, Jimmy Cobb Johnny Griffin 9-2000 Denmark (2 Sets) Russell Malone Quartet, 1999 Edmonton Art Blakey, July 1985 Montreal Jazz Fest Benny Golson - 6-10-2000 Jazz Baltica 2000 Salzau Germany George Coleman Quartet 11-12-1979 880 Club Hartford CT (2 Sets)

1201 Music made Charles Tolliver's Paper Man available as a download, I wrote the uncredited notes to go with it on line.

I reviewed the Alan Grant release and had no idea it was a boot until the planning of the Resonance release was revealed. The packaging on Grant's CD was cheesy, with a number of photos of him with other musicians that had nothing to do with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, reeking of an ego trip, just like his annoying announcing for his Four Queens Jazz Night From Las Vegas radio series.