Ken Dryden

Fantasy mucked up a number of releases combining 2 LPs on a single CD, especially on Prestige.

An equal headache is when labels combine two LPs and leave off tracks, or even worse, re-sequence the tracks, as was due to the horrible CD Jaki Byard: Solo/With Strings.

The three LP set is due out April 22, the two CD set on April 28, the latter I just received.

I don't know if WCMU is a joint licensee with a local public TV station, but that kind of crap happens a lot. Local programming is sacrificed and they either run repeats from earlier in the day or rebroadcast audio from TV programs. A great way to turn off donors to radio. I have never supported the local public TV station, they've pulled too many stunts, including trying to sneak around us to get the university to give us away o them. It would have been an idiotic move, as the broadcast frequency alone is worth a small fortune.

I got this CD set a week or so ago and have only begun to play it. Glad it is coming out on a legit label where the musicians' estates will get paid.

He also has a new Cellar Music release coming out soon, just got the press release from Lydia Liebman.

With the recent storms, I've had two orders delivered in soaking wet boxes by the USPS, like they had been sitting in a bin with water on the bottom. One was a brand new book that I returned to Amazon ($25 for wavy pages, no thanks!), the other was a boxed set purchased from another board member, though thankfully there was no damage to the set. I get the idea that they leave these bins in the rain instead of loading them under awnings. Package according when shipping, even a taped up grocery bag may make a difference, though I tend to use budget zippered bags...

If I can find some of vintage 1970s clippings from the Miami Herald, they had a knack for adding funny captions to photos.

I emceed a show featuring Sun Ta and His Arkestra. There wasn’t a free microphone so they loaned me June Tyson’s mike and the moment that I finished my brief introduction the band started playing as I frantically tried to put the mike back into its stand and get the hell off of the stage.

My wife has joked about selling everything for a buck after I’m gone. She won’t need the money or the storage space but she might want to rethink that.

I was just attempting to listen to a vintage broadcast of Horace Silver at the 1994 Perugia Jazz Festival and the idiot who was the radio host consistently talked over Silver's remarks and the start of every song and also felt the need to interrupt Silver's solo in the first song with his babble. Was he told to do so or did he feel the need to share his unique knowledge of Silver's music? The same issue came up every year that we aired the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival on Labor Day weekend. When the top of the hour was reached, the co-hosts started jabbering at length about nothing important, even though the artists were still performing, this seemed to happen every set, even during the night's headline act. This must have been an executive decision from above, as I can't believe that any jazz fan who worked in radio would feel the need to talk over a live broadcast. On the other hand, I never noticed that problem when we aired the Chicago Jazz Festival, people waited for sets to end to talk. I have the same feeling about emcees, the less said, the better, get off the stage, nobody came to hear you. In the late 1980s I witnessed a hapless emcee who was not with our station (we were Jazz 88 then) take so long to introduce Ahmad Jamal that the pianist finally took the stage and started playing and the clueless guy was still talking into the mike. I've emceed a few local shows and I try to keep my remarks brief, thanking sponsors, sharing house rules about not recording, turning off cellphones, etc. I try to take no more than 30 seconds to do so, less if at all possible. I'd love to hear some of your horror stories about bad radio hosts and emcees.

HutchFan: Wasn’t Luis playing with Miguel Zenon when we saw him at Ga Tech?

I am in the process of uploading the appearance that Burt Bacharach made on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz . It was recorded in Los Angeles on November 4, 2004 and first aired by NPR on April 9, 2005. The files are complete, they can be found at this link, the program can be streamed or downloaded. https://archive.org/details/marian-mcpartlands-piano-jazz-with-burt-bacharach

I need to explore her music, but that it a bit pricey to start.

It is fun exploring archive.org and its live jazz offerings. Last night I streamed the Gerry Mulligan Quartet at the San Francisco Jazz Festival 10-27-1995. Although he had only a few months to live, he sounds as great as ever. https://archive.org/details/casfjazz_000129/casfjazz_000129_t01_access.m4a When I identify one more song, I will add the set list.

I will have to see if it is indexed, it may be one long track on a cdr.

I will take the Django Reinhardt.

A pretty fair price for limited edition sets that were $45 each new and pretty much all are out of print. Glad I bought them when they were first issued.

Marian McPartland loved the arrangement he wrote of her song “Ambiance” for the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra.

We have had free trial offers of Sirius on the last two cars we bought and never activated them. Although retired after 26 years in public radio, where I still produce a weekly jazz show, I rarely listen to radio unless my wife is driving or Ian checking to see that the station staff loaded the correct program, which they have messed up at least once. There are far too many new releases and acquisitions for me to spend time listening to radio in the car.

Benny Green had some nice things to say about Walter Bishop, Jr. Bishop vouched for the teenager and called himself his “New York father.”

I never caught the Eagles bug and avoided their LPs. By the time of their emergence my focus was shifting to jazz and almost completely away from rock.

He appeared as a guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. I may upload the show to archive.org if it is not still available to stream on NPR.