Ken Dryden

Maybe the writer could have gone on to credit Rodgers & Hammerstein with writing "Naima."

I have the Freddie Redd Piano Jazz, too. Anyone interested should pm me. NOT FOR SALE.

If you mean this one, I don't think it has been issued on CD. 1201 Music is selling a download of a portion of the original 2 LP set. http://www.1201music.com/store/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=598%3Amarion-brown--duets-vol-1&catid=52%3Aalbums&Itemid=73

I'm interested in these CDs: Newman, Joe I Feel Like a Newman Black Lion 9 Newman, Joe Jive at Five Prestige/OJC 7 Newman, Joe & Page, Hot Lips Hot Trumpets Prestige cut out 7 Pepper, Art Val's Pal Tampa/VSOP 15 Polcer, Ed The Magic of Swing Street Blewz Manor great cd with Peplowski et al 7 Wess, Frank The Long Road Prestige 7

One of the best and most thorough jazz bios out there. What else would you expect from a veteran journalist like Doug Ramsey?

A used copy is for sale here: http://www.ebay.com/...=item1e7544afc1

I hope it's not as bad as the wire service copy where a hapless writer referred to "Lush LIfe" as being a popular Ellington theme song. I'll take your word for it and pass.

Well, I think the past 30 years has certainly borne that out, with the "note perfect" recreations of the Miles Davis classic quintet sound, etc. Have heard a few thousand mainstream CD's from the last three decades that are technically proficient, but ultimately sound bloodless to me. Started with the rush by the majors to find the next Wynton Marsalis, and then extended to the first Wynton Marsalis when he decided that his recordings should be history lessons pulling in 60 years of styles (yawn...). I love "Live At Blues Alley", but everything since then has been different degrees of problematic. And the majors were looking for well-trained youngsters in spiffy hats, and a lot of pretty good musicians were recording as leaders years before they should have (Antonio Hart, Geoff Keezer, Javon Jackson, Roy Hargrove, David Sanchez, Joey DeFrancisco, the list goes on and on and on). All technically proficient, all ultimately dull in those recordings. Interestingly, one young guy who did catch my ear, Christopher Hollyday, instantly faded away into oblivion. And another group that seemed above it was Blanchard/Harrison, because Blanchard is such a good writer. But overall, something has been lost by academia replacing the apprentice system. Of course, there probably aren't enough opportunities to play anymore for the apprentice system to work. But I look at how strong someone like an Eric Alexander has been on his leader dates, and remember that he spent years playing with Charles Earland, etc. before recording as a leader. I emceed a show in Chattanooga around 1990 when a young Brad Mehldau was playing with Christopher Hollyday (both men were born in 1970, so it might have been 1989 for the performance). The alto saxophonist burned out his audience by playing everything uptempo, he didn't know how to pace a set but displayed show technical mastery and played some good solos. Mehldau made a greater impression on me that night.

I used to own the he 2 lp Ulysse/East Coasting 2 LP set, but several minutes of a Mingus solo were excised to fit it onto LP. The Mosaic set restores it.

The first time I went to NYC (1997), I got to hear Pete sitting in for Bill Goodwin with the Phil Woods Quintet. He was a terrific drummer, it is shame he had only sporadic opportunities to work after his continuous rants against fusion.

PM sent for: Leahey, Harry & Gilmore, Steve Silver Threads OmniSound Leahey, Harry Trio Still Waters OmniSound Lesberg, Jack Sextet with Eddie Millery and Dick Cary Famous Door various Xanadu Montreux Vol 1 Xanadu various Xanadu Montreux Vol 3 Xanadu HANNA, ROLAND PLAYS ALEC WILDER INNER CITY

Shipping is $2.50 for the first CD, 50 cents for each additional title. I can also do bulk mail if you prefer. I'm also open to trades. Payment preferred in Amazon gift cards. Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan/Stan Getz & others Topeka, Kansas 2/55 Jass oop $9 Pepper Adams Hollywood Quintet Sessions Fresh Sound $10 Toshiko Akiyoshi Toshiko At the Top of the Gate Denon (Japan) $20 Louis Armstrong All-Stars Live in Switzerland 10/18/49 TCB sealed $10 Louis Armstrong: In Scandinavia, Vol. 3 (Storyville-import) $8 The Bad Plus The Rite of Spring Masterworks $7 Chet Baker Chet Riverside 20 bit $10 with sleeve Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers 's Make It (Universal Japanese Mini-LP gatefold CD reissue of original Limelight release, with English liner notes inside) oop/rare $60 Eddie Condon & His Allstars Town Hall March 11, 1944 Jass $ Larry Coryell Heavy Feel Wide Hive $8 Bill Evans/Monica Zetterlund Westwind $15 Art Farmer Quintet At Boomer's #2 (Eastwind-Japanese import) oop $30 rare, no OBI Victor Feldman The ARrival of Victor Feldman w/Scott La Faro & Stan Levey OJC $6 Mitchell Forman Lost and Found Marsis Jazz solo piano, Gerry Mulligan co-producer, 3 Mulligan songs $4 Jake Fryer/Bud Shank Quintet In Good Company Capri $5 Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band Blue Reverie Sackville new $12 Hank Garland Move! The Guitar Artistry of Hank Garland 2CDs Euphoria w/Joe Morello, Gary Burton, Joe Benjamin $15 Dexter Gordon Quartet Zeta Live 1981 rare $25 Stephane Grappelli Shades of Django MPS $6 Stefon Harris & Blackout Urbanus Concord mint $6 Eddie Higgins Quintet w/Scott Hamilton & Ken Peplowski It's Magic Venus $16 Japan Yusef Lateef The Centaur and the Phoenix OJC sawcut $6 Marian McPartland All My LIfe Savoy (five unissued alternate takes) $5 Joe Newman I Feel Like a Newman Black Lion $9 Ken Peplowski (tenor sax) When You Wish Upon a Star Venus $16 Japan Enrico Pieranunzi/Scott Colley/Antonio Sanchez Stories CamJazz $8 George Robert Jazztet w/Randy Brecker Remember the Sound TCB sealed $7 Teddy Wilson Sextet Complete Associated Transcriptions 1944 Storyville $10 Teddy Wilson The Teddy Wilson Trio Storyville $ 8 Teddy Wilson Revisits the Goodman Years Storyville (later reissue with 18 songs) $12

Andre Previn: Sound Stage A steal, priced at a used music/book store at five cents.

I hope so, the format seems to have disappeared from the airwaves in many cities. No eulogy needed.

PM sent Sam Jones - The Soul Society (OJC)

I've got six of these Leslie Dame 1500 Cabinets full, too, plus I use the top shelf for long boxes, CD cube boxed sets and jazz DVDs. Don't forget to include them in your "I want" list to your wife. Of course, there can be consequences.

Alphabetically by artist, then by label and catalog number within the artist. Compilations are in a separate section at the very beginning. Larger Mosaic size boxed sets are stored in the center section of the LPs, long boxes and cubes like the Roland Kirk Complete Mercury Recordings are stored on top shelves of the six free standing units. I'm afraid I'd have to take a separate photo to show where the Kirk stuff is.

Updated with lower prices.

I also have Anthony Braxton Six Compositions: Quartet (Antilles) VG small stain on booklet $11

Uptown's releases of vintage previously unissued recordings have long been a treat, accompanied by detailed liner notes and period photos. A cut above many labels which issue historical recordings. I'm hoping that the Wess/Coles reissue has bonus tracks, I've enjoyed my LP.

$2.50 shipping to US addresses, plus 50 cents for each additional disc. Trade lists are welcome All CDs in excellent shape, unless noted, questions welcomed. Large Ensembles: Basie/Sarah Vaughan/Stan Getz & others Topeka, Kansas 2/55 Jass oop $6 Brass: Louis Armstrong All-Stars Live in Switzerland 10/18/49 TCB sealed $10 Louis Armstrong: In Scandinavia, Vol. 3 (Storyville-import) $8 Art Farmer Maiden Voyage Denon out of print, great shape $22 Art Farmer Quintet At Boomer's #2 (Eastwind-Japanese import) oop $30 rare no OBI Dizzy Gillespie Jivin in Be Bop-Complete Original Soundtrack Jazz Up oop $10 Pianists: Bebop (Japanese trio) Venus (no OBI) $15 Bill Evans/Monica Zetterlund Westwind $13 Mal Waldron/Steve Lacy Sempre Amore Soul Note $9 Teddy Wilson Sextet Complete Associated Transcriptions 1944 Storyville $10 Teddy Wilson The Teddy Wilson Trio Storyville $8 Teddy Wilson Revisits the Goodman Years Storyville (later reissue with 18 songs) $12 Teddy Wilson The Noble Art of Teddy Wilson Storyville $9 Reeds: Dexter Gordon Quartet Zeta Live 1981 rare $25 Haze Greenfield Five For the City w/Tom Harrell (Owl) oop $9 Bill Holman/Mel Lewis Quartet Jive For Five VSOP/Andex $8 Steve Lacy At Jazzwerkstatt Peitz Jazzwerkstatt sealed $12 solo soprano sax Steve Lacy/Mal Waldron Commuique Soul Note $7 Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band w/Zoot Sims En Concert RTE 2 CDs sealed $12 Drummers: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers 's Make It (Universal Japanese Mini-LP gatefold CD reissue of original Limelight release, with English liner notes inside) oop/rare $60

Chuck, I have no idea what percentage of my collection consists of promos. I've been collecting jazz since 1973 and didn't start writing about jazz until 1988. I do get hundreds of CDs sent to me each year, but I easily spend $2-3k annually on jazz CDs and LPs. I'm not trying to get into a contest with anyone, as there are plenty of people with bigger budgets and writers who have been serviced by more labels for a longer time. Relatively few of the LPs are promos and I have around 45-50 feet of shelf space dedicated to them.

To answer both of your questions, the shelving on the left is custom built in my basement, a friend designed it and we built it together over a series of weekends circa 1996. It is floor to ceiling at 8 feet, and 21 feet long. The bottom two rows are for LPs and large boxed sets, while there are nine rows of CDs in each section. I overflowed it long ago. I also have six pre-fab CD shelving units that have an official capacity of 1500 CDs each. I use the unofficial space on the top shelf of each unit to hold cube boxed sets, long boxed sets, DVDs, etc.

I know the feeling...

I'm open to reducing prices on some items. Make me an offer if you are interested. Thanks, Ken