Ken Dryden

I couldn’t either, I will have to find the email of it Terri sent me

Alternately, Milkowski may be talking about Shorter’s final recording as a leader, though your point is valid. In any case, it is far better than the mess made by the JT editor.

A strange reason to kill someone...it must have bugged her. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2023/3/22/466102/Attorney-Says-Fatal-Stabbing-Came-After.aspx It will be interesting to see how this case turns out. If the defendant company hadn't used the word Tennessee, they might have avoided the lawsuit. Given that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is usually the most overturned court, I have my doubts that VIP will win this case.

I own all of the above titles, including the Chuck Florence CD, and wrote the liner notes for The Last From Lennie's from that date. The producer sent me the leftover unissued takes. I've yet to hear a bad or even mediocre Jaki Byard recording.

Far better is Bill Milkowski's Downbeat obit: https://downbeat.com/news/detail/in-memoriam-wayne-shorter-1933-2023

Did anyone else read "Wayne Shorter: In Memoriam" by the new "Senior Editor" at Jazz Times? I've never heard of her. If it is typical of this professor's writing, I don't imagine that the magazine will last for long under the new ownership. Wayne Shorter deserved a better sendoff from someone like Mark Stryker, Ted Panken, Willard Jenkins or practically any better known jazz journalist whose work has been established for decades and is cited by board members. Publicist Terri Hinte shared it with me and told me how negative the reaction was on Twitter (which I don't use, though I saw some of the remarks). Needless to say, I am not rushing to subsidize this substandard writing by subscribing. https://jazztimes.com/features/tributes-and-obituaries/in-memoriam-wayne-shorter/

Thanks for sharing this website. Somewhere around I have a medley of songs that Dave McKenna recorded especially for Fresh Air. I did get to see him once at the old Triangle Jazz Party in Northeast Tennessee.

Another pet peeve is the condensing of excellent liner notes on CD reissues. I guess the extra page and ink were just too expensive...

I think it is a historic LP issued for the first time. I haven't actually loaded it yet, due tonight.

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.