Ken Dryden

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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Wanda Landowska was the first harpsichord player that I heard, my dad had one or more of her LPs. I got this one from his collection:

I have my track selected, let me know when to submit it.

I am finally getting around to listening to this, what a backlog!

I loved his recordings and his excellent autobiography. Somewhere I have his appearance on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. I missed an opportunity to see him in our city with Dwike Mitchell, which I have long regretted.

I am happy to see Red Records active again, I missed this release when it was first issued.

Jaki Byard plays both piano and organ on "Music To Watch Girls Go By." Folks of my generation an older remember this song being used for a Pepsi commercial, though obviously not Byard's version!

FSU players who entered the transfer portal or declared early for the draft were wimps. I still think that UGA would have beaten them, but now we will never know what FSU would have done with a fuller squad. The transfer portal start needs to be moved to the day after the championship game and it should be limited to one use per player.

Voclaist Judy Niemack told me that Jay Clayton was in hospice care for cancer a few weeks ago. Judy also sent me a CD collaboration that she did with Jay Clayton, which was issued near the end of the year: It was likely one of Jay Clayton's last recordings.

I I own both the Billy Taylor and Ken Peplowski releases. Ken told me sold his record collection some time back.

Love his albums One Foot in the Gutter and Two Feet in the Gutter, along with his Gerry Mulligan records.

Good lucking cats, our first, Mingus, lived to be 18.

I was surprised when I brought up Richard Bock's editing of tapes with Gerry Mulligan in a 1995 interview. I recall that Mulligan was not in favor of restoring the edited portions, as Mosaic did for the boxed set of the early quartet recordings for the label. The mess that Bock made with Jim Hall's LP, particularly adding Larry Bunker's overdubbed drums for a later reissue, was a travesty, along with his discarding of the master tapes of Chico Hamilton's The Ellington Suite with Eric Dolphy, who was inspired on that session.

Lively discussion. Ellis acted from the beginning like he was forced to do the interview and it just never got off the ground. Previn was a jerk, he only wanted to give ten minutes, not enough time for the word count I needed. His publicist interrupted my dinner with an angry call about contacting his bassist for the gig, which she called “her artist,” like I violated rules by emailing him without going through her. If it hadn’t been well past the deadline for a cover story, I would have told her and Previn where they could go. The funny thing is the cover feature was completed and published, then Previn got sick and missed the gig.

One of my favorites was my second Clark Terry interview, which began at 1 am due to his having company stay later on a weeknight. But he made it worth it when I asked him how he premiered his routine of alternating between trumpet and flugelhorn during a solo, something that wasn’t included in his autobiography. I never know when a question will strike gold but even with a veteran interviewed many times over the decades, it does happen. I will have to admit that both Herb Ellis and Andre Previn were miserable experiences. I erased Ellis’ tape without playing it. Previn’s demands were ridiculous and he postponed scheduling it so long that the magazine couldn’t substitute another cover feature. But everyone else has been a joy and it helps when they are well represented in my collection. I know in advance that jazz books don’t generally make a lot of money, but that’s okay. It’s not like I am expecting a university press to publish it.