Ken Dryden

Chuck: One option would have been to quote all of the costs involved in manufacturing a single LP copy of the Charles Tyler session he requested on vinyl, plus a fair profit. Maybe then he would have gotten the message....nah!

In addition to all of the Brubeck-Mulligan compilations, I acquired a few of their European concerts together from broadcasts, including the complete Berlin show excerpted on We're All Together Again For the First Time.

In the recent biography of Django Reinhardt it was mentioned that after his death, all of his possessions were burned, along with his trailer, in the gypsy tradition (a bizarre ritual). What a waste...though it cuts down on family fights over who gets what...

Wendell Marshall's family did end up with Jimmy Blanton's bass. Since Blanton was born in Chattanooga, our local African-American Museum discussed bringing the bass here, though the proposal was not welcomed by Marshall's heirs. Paul Desmond willed his piano to Bradley's, though I've forgotten where it ended up after the club closed. His alto sax was willed to Michael Brubeck.

For a time, Amazon listed jazz pianist Aki Takase's Clapping Music CD as "Crapping Music."

Some of the rockers like Frank Zappa and Emerson, Lake & Palmer simply compiled bootleg records into boxed sets and sold them in new packaging. What's funny it that Zappa likely had originally soundboard tapes of many of the booted shows, but that would have cost more money to create.

I liked what Sonny Rollins did with some live recordings illegally issued by Harkit. He sells downloads on his website.

Ever remember the Home Alone poster parody, with Michael Jackson behind Macauley Culkin? I think I'll go play Frank Zappa's "Why Don't You Like Me." (He's oxygenated, his nose is deflated and he thinks he looks good to you.)

Moon is out of business. They also had some pretty stupid covers as well as stolen music.

What a hilarious cartoon about the emptiness of TV news...

Though I'm saddened at anyone's death, Michael Jackson's music has never been of any interest to me. Much ado about nothing.

Assuming he itemizes...I wonder if he valued each one at a "fair market price", which would be fun to debate with an IRS auditor? Imagine the agent griping, "I don't care that a similar LP sold on ebay a week earlier for $300!" Typically collections are sold off by those liquidating an estate, many times carelessly, unless carefully instructed by the collector in his or her will. Many libraries turn down donations of jazz LP collections for lack of space. Even the Institute For Jazz Studies only keeps what it doesn't have, everything else is sold off, even if it is an original issue if they have a later edition.

Maybe Will just got married or added a new girlfriend. It would be hard to imagine my wife allowing 14,000 LPs in our house unless we had three floors instead of two. Just for fun: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31431

Is it any good? Read this review: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:jxfqxq8gld6e

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.