Ken Dryden

Maybe we need to revive the worst album cover thread.

Hopefully Monk was amused. I remember reading that someone suggested that Cannonball Adderley be photographed cannonballing into a pool, but that idea was shot down in a hurry.

What, no Archie Sheep: Ba Ba, Blackbird?

I think that Saving Private Ryan took a lot of the fun of kids playing army after seeing the violence depicted on Omaha Beach. There's nothing glorious about a lingering death from being disemboweled by a shell or mission gun

Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy slept with a .45 pistol under his pillow. I remember reading that he also didn't respond well to being awakened suddenly. I can't imagine what horrors combat veterans witnessed and I believe most of them are trying to purge them from their minds versus talking with anyone who never were in combat themselves. I need to revisit the World War II museum in New Orleans, they've added a lot since I toured it when it was still the D-Day Museum.

I saw the update and didn’t add the link promptly. Mea culpa.

Probably the first version I remember hearing was Don Grolnick's Blue Note recording of it.

I owned both of these recordings as LPs, but wanted to upgrade to digital. In Berlin was only issued in Europe on LP.

Here is a complete set list, including the quartet set preceding the octet: St. Louis Blues The Crossing All My Love Porque No? Travelin' Blues Dave discusses the octet Curtain Music Dave talks The Way You Look Tonight Dave talks You Go To My Head Laura Love Walked In Take Five CJF Commentary Take the A Train Dave Brubeck - piano Bobby Militello - alto sax Michael Moore - bass Randy Jones - drums Bill Smith - clarinet (7-15) Eric Schneider - tenor sax (7-15) Audrey Morrison - trombone (7-15) Art Hoyle - trumpet (7-15) Russell Gloyd - conductor (7-15) Taylor Eigsti - piano (11-15) Jeff Lindberg - octet transcriptions

If anyone is interested, I have the Dave Brubeck Octet (recreated for the 2001 Chicago Jazz Festival) broadcast, featuring an original member with dave, Bill Smith. Van Kriedt's charts were presumed lost and had to be recreated from recordings for the concert. Fortunately there are no annoying announcers talking over the music, as the Montreux-Detroit broadcast was notorious for doing at the top of the hour, no matter how famous the artist/band on stage was.

Out June 14.

I have an extensive bluegrass collection, including a lot of Tony Rice. I got to see him twice with Norman Blake, though it was after his voice turned gravelly. He was a fine singer and he died too young. How many bluegrass instrumentalists record something like "Nardis," very few, I would bet.

It's funny how this thread went from rock to bluegrass, though the recordings cited are terrific, especially the Tony Rice Unit.

How not to attend a bond hearing... The judge's reaction to the defendant's answer is priceless. https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-judge-astonished-how-man-shows-up-virtual-hearing-driving-suspended-license-charge

I would rather listen to any of Grant Green’s recordings made for Alfred Lion than the post-Lion funk made after Blue Note was sold.

I remember a cartoon featuring two centaurs waiting out a thunderstorm in a cave with one saying, “Ain’t a fit night out for man and/or beast…”

Good riddance to an Eric Gregg clone whose strike zone was twice the width of his fat ass.

I used to own that DVD set but I sold it. The writing went downhill as the series progressed and the musicians in the bar scenes tended to be more anonymous players than the early episodes. Perhaps the oddest change was the replacement of the opening sequence and theme music with a silly shot of a wide-eyed Johnny Staccato running around the empty streets and shooting his gun.

What a great looking cat... Our black cat Brubeck has always been indoors but has been a little more reserved than the others we have had over the past three plus decades. Tonight he hissed and ran after the youngest cat toppled a couch cushion onto him and he generally stays put in one corner chair, though I do catch him on the couch at times in the afternoon with some of the others.

I had a cat back at our Florida home when was away at college. I brought home a John Coltrane Village Vanguard recording and discovered later that our cat had opened the kitchen sliding glass door, which was easy for him any time it was unlocked. After looking in the usual places, I came out to the living room and found him on the couch, all tucked under, as if he was meditating to Coltrane's music. Somewhere around I think I still have a Polaroid photo that I took of him on the couch when it happened.

John: I'll take: Farlow ,Tal Complete 1956 Private Recordings (2CD)$8 Fuller ,Curtis/Paul Jeffrey Sextet Together in Monaco $4 Fuller, Larry Easy Walker $3

A mediocre World War Il film with issues. One character announces himself on the radio as Major General Bradley while wearing a helmet with four stars. Later Eric Roberts plays a Navy lieutenant giving a rousing speech to his men while a fifty star American flag is in the background. I guess all the budget was spent on the computer-generated battle scenes.

I have been going through a huge stack of boxes of unheard CDs and found this 2019 release that I overlooked. It's a real gem with a number of works by great bassists, many of them not widely known.