Ken Dryden

Regardless of how one acquired such a collection, 14,000 LPs in a Manhattan apartment is impressive. Unlike CDs, most of which can take up less space after the substitution of the vinyl replacement sleeves, there is no downsizing the space required for LPs unless you get rid of some. Relatively few of my LPs are promos (I didn't start reviewing until 1988), but I have picked up a few promos in stores over the years, many of which were titles that never seemed to make it to retail shelves where I lived. At this point I have no idea what percentage of my CD collection consists of promos, but I easily have 14,000 at this point. Who has time to count? BTW, I have a copy of the Torme/Whiting Verve LP.

Not all stations are fortunate to get on-air hosts who are so passionate about the music that they collect it extensively and did so for years prior to coming on board. I think you'll find that's an exception everywhere, rather than the rule. You can tell the difference especially when you listen to a show producer conduct an interview with an artist.

I have no use for commercial mindless funk either. There was too much of it in the 1970s posing as jazz.

I was notified by Amazon of the availability of a Count Basie release today. Check this one out while it is still posted: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002CQUDS...12352790_snp_dp $950 for a CDR on demand??? That's the funniest thing I've seen on Amazon since they mis-listed an Aki Takase CD as "Crapping Music."

I've enjoyed Herbie Nichols' recordings, too, but welcome any artist who records any of his compositions that he never had the opportunity to record himself.

I got rid of most all of my Neil Young records years ago. Journey Through the Past may still be lurking somewhere.

I must have missed something...

Gee, just what I want to do. Drive 90+ miles to find a Borders store and then walk out empty handed. My previous experience with their stores includes high prices and ROTTEN selection in their jazz CD section.

Don't forget the Jazz Piano Masters live CD on Chiaroscuro, featuring solo sets by Hopkins, Teddy Wilson, Dill Jones and the show-stealing Eubie Blake.

Gene Harris told me that he got fed up with playing that style of music, that's why he retired to Boise for a few years before returning to play acoustic piano for the rest of his life.

One would hope that jazz fans would come through with donations and buy tickets to this interesting concert, if KCSM only needs $40,000. I wonder about Chuy Vadela's knowledge of jazz or the reporter's quotes of him. Zeitlin has not scored the soundtracks to any other films besides "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (I've interviewed Zeitlin several times, so it would have turned up), while I don't think "He's kind of an old-schooler" is an appropriate way to describe Zeitlin's music. Every publicly funded university's radio station is potentially in danger, as academics demand that "non-essential" departments take major cuts, while football (even when the team struggles to win games, achieve any meaningful attendance and runs a huge deficit) is untouchable at most universities and colleges due to outspoken alumni.

I acquired a copy of what's supposedly Creedence Clearwater Revival's Woodstock set, which was never released, no doubt due to Fantasy not wanting to give up rights to their biggest selling act of the time. Not all of the songs are complete, but it seems like a soundboard sourced recording.

Supposedly an obscurity outside of Europe: Arnvid Meyers Orchestra: Right Out of Kansas City 1959-1973, issue by Sundance Music in Denmark. Guests include Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Don Byas, Vic Dickenson, Coleman Hawkins, Buck Clayton, Charlie Shavers, Brew Moore and others. 5 CDs + a DVD

The one who got shafted was the poor slob that sold them too cheaply to the store!

The problem is if you pick a peculiar hiding place then die or end up in a coma, no one will know where you stashed your cash and valuables. We had a friend who died in a fire last Christmas Eve. He was fighting it with a water hose and overcome by smoke. Later it was discovered he had tens of thousands in cash in a closet that he was trying to protect. It is often told that W. C. Fields didn't trust banks, created numerous accounts under pseudonyms and died without complete records of where the money was. While we're on this subject, how many of you have left detailed instructions to tell your heirs how to dispose of your jazz collection? I'm working on mine.

There are a couple of CDs that had quick cover changes. Dave Brubeck's Moscow Night originally had a daytime photo of Moscow, but when the label learned of Chris Brubeck's striking night time photo of the pianist, they switched to it. Brubeck told me only the first couple of hundred copies had the older photo. The Dick Hyman Trio: Cheek to Cheek featured a sketch of the pianist by Rossie Newson, but Hyman didn't like it and it was removed. Other than promo copies and possibly a few early sales, it is fairly rare. Mat Domber of Arbors shared this information with me.

Gene Clark could be a good songwriter, though I've always laughed about "Home Run King" and the unrecorded "Hula Bula Man" (from a BBC show broadcast featuring groups led by Clark, Hillman and McGuinn, plus a brief encore reunion, which was eventually issued). The former contained the weak lyrics "You're either just the newspaper boy/Or you're either Babe Ruth, the Home Run King..."

I saw The Byrds in concert near the end, in the fall of 1972. John Guerin had replaced the fired Gene Parsons on drums. It was an incredible show. White was amazing and it was a tragedy he died so young. The damned pregnant drunk who killed him and injured his older brother Roland didn't even get any jail time (which Roland told me in person a few years ago). I think Crosby's ego got in the way ("Triad" is a rather lame song in my view), though he did add nice harmonies to the group. The Byrds were uneven at times on some albums and most of Battin's compositions haven't stood the test of time that well. But I really like Untitled/Unissued and even managed to acquire a few live broadcasts of various lineups.

Isn't this just a pared-down two CD set rather than the full six CDs first issued on Warner Bros. in 1996?

I can't imagine Monk wanting to have Morello on drums behind him, since he liked drummers with a very stripped down kit.

Art Tatum comes to mind

Louis Armstrong All-Stars Maynard Ferguson Shorty Rogers

It seems strange that it lists this title as one disc....

PM sent on Ray Kennedy.

I pretty much have the ones I want. Some, like the Getz, were later reissued individually or in small boxes by the original labels, though without the detailed Mosaic liner notes and array of photos. I managed to snag a few of the long oop sets on ebay when I was flush with cash, though I regret missing the first Louis Armstrong box.