Ken Dryden

I have all but three or so. I don't have the organ release, I sold my Art Farmer after it was reissued in a Mosaic box and I think I'm missing one other one. I saved my outer sleeves. Awhile back I found the Hank Jones online for a ridiculously cheap price new at Tower, so I snapped it up and resold it. Had I held onto it, it would have brought a lot more today.

In a slightly different non-Michael Jackson area, I was surprised by One For All's version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," a piece I have never liked. I always found Gaye's record monotonous and a bit insipid, One For All proved there was a good melody hidden within it.

I really don't have much use for most of the songs Michael Jackson wrote or covered, though I have a few of the CDs mentioned in this thread. Perhaps I'll have to revisit them. I remember a Morganna King version of "Human Nature" that was laughable. I played it on the answering machine of a local jazz musician and he called back to say, "What was that? It was horrible!"

All of my promo Mosaics, when I get them, come intact with box and booklet. Sometimes marked "promo" instead of numbered, and the Lee Morgan had saw cuts on the individual jewel boxes. I know of at least two people who discard Mosaic boxes to save space. One lives in a tiny Brooklyn apartment that can't be over 800 square feet. I bet that kills the resale value...

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...