Ken Dryden

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.

I don't recall any duplications, as I think OverTime was a follow up book that focused on photos not in Bass Line. There is also a third hardback book, Playing The Changes, that was published after Milt's death, that does duplicate some of the photographs from the first two volumes.

I am in the process of reading this book for a review. I've enjoyed it immensely! I got a review copy when it came out and Milt Hinton signed mine during a Jazz Party. $10.70 is a huge bargain, as I think it is long out of print and listed for around $30 to $40 when it was published.

Thanks for the tip. I haven't had any issues with CDRs getting scuffed up, but I usually print a booklet, so I can put each CDR inside the bifold booklet that I print.

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

I couldn’t find them on Amazon, maybe I was using the wrong description.

I have previously purchased clear plastic CD sleeves to store CDs that have a foldover flap to keep the CD in place. I can't seem to find any on line. Any suggestions of where to look are appreciated. I'm not a fan of the paper sleeves with the circular plastic window.

I have learned to use priority mail or FedEx with Dusty Groove. Chicago is one of the notorious phantom zones where packages disappear for weeks or months.

The bigamous lives of Charles Lindbergh and Charles Kyralt come to mind as well. Let’s not get started on politicians…

One of the first times that I interviewed Ken Peplowski in the early 1990s I asked him which vocalists he enjoyed playing with and Carol Sloane was the first one he named. R.I.P.

BFrank: I'm wondering the same thing. I took advantage of my writer's discount with Fantasy before Concord Jazz bought it and gutted their catalog, routinely spending several hundred dollars per order and getting a lot of what I wanted, though I missed a few things, too.

Denny Zeitlin shared his interpretation of Jimmy Rowles' timeless ballad "The Peacocks," with a peacock video by Bret Primack. View it here:

Ben Hur and The Sound of Music had intermissions.

No shipping notification yet… 😟

I don’t think the tour was all that boring, particularly the Amsterdam concert that was broadcast and appears on various bootlegs. I got a laugh out of the tv theme quoted at the end of “Ms. Pinky.” But some of the material recorded in that era was pretty bad, especially “Dumb All Over” and the forgettable “Jazz Discharge Party Hats.”

The only thing that is a royal pain is when limited edition 2 LP sets have tracks missing from the CD versions. Anything to get us to spend more money.