Ken Dryden

I found the two CD version a couple of years ago for around $5. Great music!

I have no use for buying overpriced Tone Poet LPs of music I've owned on CDs for years with bonus tracks. My money is better invested elsewhere, as there is plenty of music I haven't heard that awaits me, even after a half century as a jazz collector. Artists are frequently fed up with subsequent owners of labels issuing material they rejected at the time, John Fogerty has the right idea, as he destroys all unissued takes when they don't meet his standards. That way he will know that he won't be dealing with unapproved issues of rejects, unless he has a crooked engineer with a hidden hard drive or tape machine on the payroll, which is very unlikely, since it would make the engineer liable for future lawsuits.

I can't say that I listen to a specific recording over and over these days. Between the new releases and purchases, there is always lots of music awaiting a first hearing.

This was the only occasion when Yusef Lateef performed in the city of his birth, Chattanooga. I remember Avery Sharpe played bass, but I have forgotten who else joined him for a memorable set.

The one thing that might have made Africa / Brass more interesting would have be featuring other soloists. It is a masterpiece, in many case.

I suspect that you already know the answer to your query about George Lane. 😁

There's a story about Slam Stewart having a bit too much to drink during an engagement and Art Tatum ran him through the ringer with his technique as punishment. The late George Ziskind got ahold of some unreleased Art Tatum but didn't feel like he could share it, evidently due to an agreement with whoever supplied him the music. He never went into any details about what he had. Of course, that was the same situation for the late Art Tatum discographer Arnold Laubich.

I can listen to Art Tatum in any setting, this will be a treasure. I wonder why the family didn't approach a label sooner rather than risk something happening to these precious tapes? Maybe the club owner died and they were packed away and not immediately discovered.

One of the things that drove me crazy was the amount of incorrect data entered, probably by minimum wage workers at the home office who knew nothing about the music. Writers didn't submit the song lists, composers, musician credits, etc., unless there was a release not in the database that was approved for us to review. I tried to look over them before submitting reviews. When Scott Yanow was editor, he tried to purge as many errors in jazz entries that he could find time to do, but it seemed like a low priority for the powers that were in charge. The fourth and final edition of the All Music Guide to Jazz was a disaster, with many of the errors Scott had corrected reappearing in the book, while the excessive, frequently over the top reviews by Thom Jurek that helped make that volume forgettable. Read his ridiculous review of Keith Jarrett's Koln Concert, one of his most amateurish reviews . Another time I had an artist contact me and ask why my glowing review of his CD was only given 3.5 stars, which wasn't the rating I had assigned. I contacted the editor and was told I gave too many 4 and 4.5 star reviews. My response was I didn't enjoy wasting my time pitching reviews of mediocre and terrible releases, due to the high volume of worthy new releases, plus the back catalog I was pitching. They also had a policy of not allowing 5 stars unless it was a landmark release that had stood the test of time. Once in a while, there is a release that merits five stars. I've lost count of the number of times it has been sold but anyone I was in contact from at Allmusic.com has long since left. At least none of the checks had issues clearing....the money was good for a time until they cut back the assignments to a handful each week.

I doubt that I would have made it through the entire set.

That's one of many reasons I don't subscribe to HBO / Max. I am sick of the whiners who are constantly offended by everything, what we used to call the pc mob. Mel Brooks ought to make a movie about these people, he doesn't believe in sacred cows, everything is a target for his humor.

I contributed as a free lancer to Allmusic.com for fourteen years, but the last few years were pretty sad. It didn't help that the last of us freelancers were dropped near the end of 2012. It seemed like they ignored jazz for the most part after that time, other than the best known artists. I rarely visit the site any more.

It was one of the high points of the Carter administration, along with the performance of Vladimir Horowitz, which was also broadcast live.

Disc 2

Drummer Kenny Washington and jazz vocalist Kenny Washington.

Denny Zeitlin told me that there was around another full CD's worth of unissued music worthy of release. Sadly, the original LP has only been reissued in Japan, though I snapped it up to replaced my shopworn used LP that I bought some time in the 1970s.

I am not sure which Jimmy Rushing album I acquired first, though it may have been The You And Me That Used To Be in the late 1970s. I ended up getting all of them in one form or another over the years. Many people forget it was Rushing himself who suggested interest in recording with Dave Brubeck. One thing that was overlooked was Jimmy Rushing's guest appearance on Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual, which was issued on CD, DVD and VHS. It's great seeing him at the piano playing "Trix Ain't Walkin' No More." Today's cancel culture crowd would probably been screaming their purple hair off. To be fair, Rushing's appearance on the program wasn't issued until well after his death and at the time, it would seem unlikely that it was intended as a commercial release.

Maybe his son is running it? You have to admire Susan MIngus' dedication to promoting her husband's legacy. I imagine that she didn't tolerate b.s. from anyone, any more than he did. Nearly $18 for tracked shipping on this set, you would think they could throw in free shipping at nearly $39 per LP.

I was wondering if Boris Rose's daughter ever found someone to buy or license any of her father's tapes after he died. I haven't compared the tracklists, but it looks similar to this 3 CD Hi Hat bootleg:

Likewise, this is an interesting set, but priced higher than I would prefer to pay.

My nephew recent used a program to transcribe my 200 interview with Denny Zeitlin and while it had issues with repeating some sections, it wasn't too difficult to edit. Do any of you have transcribed interviews recommend specific apps, whether free or purchased? Many thanks!

I wonder how he selected on Vanderbilt for his collection, did he attend there or have some special collection. I will look forward to hearing any live broadcasts he had from NYC clubs or jazz festivals.

I just acquired this set with the CDs still sealed. I had most, but not of all the tracks.

This joke should give away my age. A mongrel dog who was new to the neighborhood was making his rounds and encountered two stuffy French poodles. He greeted them and asked for their names. The female dog arrogantly replied, "My name is Fifi, F-I-F-I." The male dog was equally condescending, answering, "My name is Bobo, B-O-B-O." Then the male poodle asked, "Well, what is your name?" The mongrel dog replied, "My name is Fido, P-H-I-D-E-A-U-X..." The joke is funnier told than in print...