Ken Dryden

I guess most of my jazz shirts are jazz promos from labels or Downbeat (for voting in the critic's poll), though I bought a few festival and venue shirts. I don't think my wife will be seen with me if I wear this shirt out of the house.

Our cat Dolphy not only peed in our dining room but also on the carpeted landing on the stairs to the basement innour first house. We never figured out what caused him to do it. Since then cats have been exiled in the basement of both of the houses we’ve owned after we left the first one.

I used to have issues with Euclid Records, not with LPs, but CDs. They would not grade them and they would frequently have scratches meriting VG grades and writing in the booklets.

I bought the entire series a few years back, I need to revisit it.

Arrived today, it is a cdr. Cost cutting is evidently necessary for such a small batch.

It is the Muse CD.

That it is.

Track 2 is identified correctly. Tracks 9 & 13 wee previously identified by JSngry. Tracks 14 & 15 were previously identified by JSngry.

I have been trying to pick up a few older titles, but this is the first one I've encountered on SteepleChase. It is almost like Coca-Cola's substitution of "New Coke" before they redesigned a new label to indicate the substandard product with the drastic formula change that left long time customers furious.

Tracks 7 i & 8 are correctly identified. Not Al Haig on track 10. Not Sonny Stitt on track 11. All songs and musicians are as you stated, obviously not Oscar Peterson as you compared the pianist to, an unusual comparison for the artist. Good job, Jim.

How do people make any money selling a limited edition CD of 100 copies? Maybe they expect to see a lot of downloads.

There are about 2 acts per day that I feel would be worth my time, the rest leave me underwhelmed.

I thought it was implied that the jewel box was left in the truck, though I enjoyed the laugh.

My filing system is almost foolproof, but occasionally CDs have vanished without explanation. Often I find them after grabbing the wrong stack as I conduct a periodic massive shift to file all new acquisitions (which often approaches 300 titles by the time I get to the Zs). But there are times when they are just missing and I definitely didn't sell them. I think that I may have left a CD behind in the studio once or twice, but I haven't been downtown to record my weekly radio show in over two years, since I've been producing it at home. Perhaps the most frustrating is when my wife loaned our truck without asking me, removing a CD from the player but not the jewel box from the storage compartment. By the time I got the truck back, the CD was nowhere to be found to put back in the jewel box. About the time that I buy a replacement copy, it will turn up.

Here's my BFT for August. Hope you enjoy it and discover some music of interest. https://thomkeith.net/blindfold-tests/current-tests/

I just learned that NIls Winther is repressing certain older titles as CDRs in small batches that are slower sellers. Too bad they aren't marked as such, I would probably look for a real CD on the open market.

It doesn’t sound like the Five Spot piano, it is too well tuned. Great album, in any case.

Jack Daniels black label, neat.

I have always hated chess programs with board views at an angle. I need to delete both garage band and chess.

I have never seen a listening booth during my 54 years as a record buyer. I do remember a local used bookstore that had several CD players with headphones for auditioning used CDs but they were removed at least 20 years ago.

It happened several years ago, but I think the LPs in question were in a box, so the customer was off base in thumbing through them.

Fred has a second desk near his check out desk at the door that he evidently uses for purposes like sorting and packing auction LPs. I am pretty sure that this guy who grabbed this LP didn't even think for a second that it might command $1000 or more in an auction on line. Frankly, I am not interested in simply acquiring first editions for bragging rights or display. I'd rather buy a greater volume of music than tie up that much money in one rare, mint first pressing.

Fred Cohen at Jazz Record Center will happily let you browse his store and be helpful, just don’t touch anything you find up front that isn’t priced. On one visit, he snapped at a customer for picking up a first edition 1950s Blue Note LP and asking the price, it was being prepared for auction. If a store reeked of tobacco smoke I would turn around and leave.