Ken Dryden

I watched one episode of the 1980s revival and hated it, I never watched another episode. It was the idiotic rewrite about the story where a man found a stopwatch that caused everyone to freeze in place. The revised episode had a housewife yelling "Stop talking!" to freeze everything in place, which made even less sense. I figured if the rewrites were going to be that bad, I wasn't going to waste my time with the revived series. Surely Rod Serling wouldn't have approved had he lived. I was fortunate to get to hear Rod Serling in person when he visited Tulane University in 1974, the year before his death. He was absolutely fascinating and he had a great sense of humor as well. One of the funniest memories is when he stepped to the podium and said, "Good evening," there was a vocal response of amazement at hearing his famous baritone speaking voice that so many of us had grown up hearing on Twilight Zone reruns and his narration of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" documentaries. Night Gallery was a mixed bag because he didn't have creative control of the scripts and he hated the blackouts that were inserted as filler. Far better is the one season western he created starring Lloyd Bridge called The Loner, it is available on DVD. I need to watch the rest of the episodes, one guest starred Allan Sherman as a phony Civil War hero appointed sheriff.

If the label had source to the master rapes, it seems short-sighted to use eidted performances just for the sake of putting together a limited edition LP.

Peter Straub has written liner notes for several CDs.

I have a few of their CDs and a Sun Ra I got in trade in a few years ago that I have never opened. Their scattershot approach to reissues is intriguing.

Frank Zappa stuffed his song "Rhymin' Man" full of quotes. He was surprised that I recognized "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" in it and claimed no one in his band knew it and he had to teach them the song. Then he didn't know that piece was a parody of the old hymn "Revive Us Again." He always loved sticking quotes into songs, including Gustav Holsts's "The Planets,"Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" and the hilaious solo in "Let's Move to Cleveland" that opened with the introduction to "The Rite of Spring," with the band playing "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" behind him. I heard that in the 1984 Atlanta concert.

I go a laugh out of that when that CD set was released. Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck would exchange quotes at times during concerts, though Desmond was the master for including obscurities.

I don't really keep track of amusing song quotes, though as I was driving and listening to the Larry Coryell & Kenny Drew, Jr. version of "Moanin'," i got a laugh out of Drew inserting "Theme From Perry Mason" into his solo. Please share some of your recent (or long time) favorites.

I got to hear Eddie Higgins in person at the one Atlanta Jazz Party that he played. I didn't get a chance to interview him but we had a nice chat between sets. I've enjoyed his recordings and I am still trying to track down his second Christmas CD for Venus at a reasonable price.

That album was reissued as a 2 LP Record Store Day set then a 2 CD set with 8 alternate takes and t false starts.

There were plenty of "promising" prospects in baseball who flamed out in record time. Here are some: Look up their stats at baseball reference...

I enjoyed it, it arrived in yesterday's mail. I was serviced with most of the Dreyfus Jazz CDs, but this one may have only been issued in France, so I bought a copy. Philip Catherine was a wonderful interview a few years ago and sent me a nice package of CDs I didn't have.

I am not sure when I last visited an art museum but it was probably MOMA in NYC. I was surprised when my wife suggested it but we went and enjoyed a lot of it. We’ve been to the Metropolitan museum a few times and saw the Vatican Museum in 2001.

I wrote for Cadence near the beginning of my sideline as a jazz journalist. I appreciated Bob Rusch giving me the opportunity but I was exasperated at some of his quirks, like holding reviews for six months or more, while restricting regular contributors voting best of the year releases to the titles reviewed in Cadence during that year, while the editor could choose any release for his list. The miserly compensation ($2-$4 in trade credit, even for a large boxed set, was also a reason that I finally gave up contributing to them. I didn’t know about his troublesome past until reading it in this discussion board awhile back.

Welcome back. Larry!

Plase hold these CDs for me: Davis , Charles Blue Gardenia $4 Cochrane , Michael Lines of Reason $4

I knew that I had some tinnitus, but what sent me over the edge was wearing headphones during a membership drive. The nearly stone deaf board up punched a prercorded spot by a staff member previously in commercial radio. She recorded it at tooo high a volume and he had her potted too high. I tore my headphones off with that volume, but the damage was done, my ears have been ringing contnuously at much louder level since that incident. No amount of wax claening will undo the damage.

I've been wearing hearing aids for a few years. though more consistently since switching from the ones requiring battery changes every two weeks, whether you used them much or not. My use bluetooth to connect to my iphone, which is a great convenience. If you'r on Medicare, your plan may cover part of the cost, though most insurance for working folks usually don't cover hearing aids for adults, just kids.

I used to have the Bluebird Fats Waller twofers and I thought that they made it to volume 4 plus a twofer of piano solos, but I don’t own them any more.

I just reviewed this CD for The New York City Jazz Record, it was published in the January issue. Great music, several works were recorded for the first time.

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