Ken Dryden

I recall that Barbara Dennerlein recorded a solo organ concert that she issued on CD.

Amazon has it listed for preorder. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DTS6JYHF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It sounds like Jaki Byard on piano, though a little less intense than we are used to hearing. i have been in touch with Jaki’s daughter and she sent me a dub of a cassette labeled 1948, a home recorded acetate that Jaki told me about it in my 1990 interview with me.

Due out April 11 on Liberation Hall, recorded on location by none other than Boris Rose... Two images failed to load, so I tried different links, how do I get rid of the blank squares?

It is published by the University Press of Mississippi and University publishers generally have higher prices on jazz books, but also tend to keep them in print longer.

Con Chapman used ample resources from European archives in order to write this biography. This is not a US-centric biography, at least for the part of Don Byas' life and career in Europe. I don't really want to talk too much more about the book, buy it and learn about this brilliant jazz musician's life.

just did a quick search of the text and I didn't read it this time like I did when I was indexing, for some reason I was thinking about the Amalia Rodrigues recording. Don Byas performed in both jazz and non-jazz settings while in Europe, though he would turn down jazz record dates if he thought they didn't pay what he merited. The recordings issued by Black Lion at the Club Montmartre were some of the first 1960s recordings that I heard by him and they tell me he should have been recorded much more. Pardon me for not remembering Luis Rovira, he was not a major name in the bio.

Since this book is more focused on Don Byas' career as a jazz musician, there is less focus on his non-jazz activities. Each publisher has different standards and the author and index compiler adjust accordingly. Bernard Hilda is mentioned in the footnotes, Luis Rovita is mentioned several times on a single page. There is no mention of "Estrellas de Ritmo y Melodía" after searching the pdf of the draft sent to me.

I just finished the compiling the index for Sax Expat and it is another excellent, well researched book by Con Chapman.

I had most, though not all of the music on the 2 CD reissue, but this LP set has even more music.

Just finishing my first hearing of Disc 3.

I am trying to get my backlog of unheard Mosaics played, most bought new when they were first released and not played until now. I am putting on LP 3 now.

I fail to understand the fascination with first pressings made from a faulty tape with the wrong speed. I quess the obsessive collectors hang them on their walls, I would rather invest in music that I don't already own. I already have Kind of Blue in at least two boxed sets with the correct speed, that's plenty.

A rollicking way to begin the day...

Heb Alpert gave a show in Chattanooga recently and the starting price for tickets was $95. I don't remember what it was for the best seats. Of course, I wouldn't pay $10 to hear him.

If it is a fundraiser for a legitimate 501(c)3, I wonder what portion of the admission is considered to be a donation by the IRS? Back in 2001, I gave $500 to attend the only videotaping of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz at SCETV studios in Columbia, South Carolina, with guest Dave Brubeck. At that donation level, we received admission to the taping, which could have been done far better, as there were two retakes due to technical problems, not mistakes by the pianists. We also received a videotape of the program as aired, a limited edition of 50 or 60, though it can be found on youtube. It was a rather large sum at the time, but given how many comp review copies and comp concert admissions that I had gotten over the years of both artists, I felt the need to do it.

I think this broadcast was issed on DVD, I will have to look.

I think that was the tour where Desmond stayed out drinking late with Herb Geller, overslept and he missed the train to the next gig. That's the one that was issued as a trio LP, and reissued the next year on CD by Brubeck Editions. I would think that the Brubeck family would have recordings worthy of release and hopefully they will issue more in the near future. There's no telling what Columbia did with the session with Bill Smith (titled Witches' Brew) that consisted of Smith's compositions. I guess it is buried in the vaults.

This 6 track CD was made specifically for radio broadcast, none of this music has been included on CDs by either artist. I don't recall our station ever receiving a copy of it, unless the PD kept it. He usually passed on releases like this to me.

Obviously the store owner didn't research to see what this box set sold for online. I acquired it a couple of months ago and I have just been listening to it this week. The audio is excellent.

I Since I am producing my show for my local NPR station as well, where I worked for nearly 26 years heading development, I am simply loading my show as broadcast, minus the underwriting inserted at the end of each hour by automation at the station. Thanks for the tip!

Since my station doesn't offer podcasts of programs as an option for volunteer produced shows, I was using archive.org for mine. After they were attacked in October and still weren't back on line to upload new shows, I thought about looking for another website. Mixcloud was recommended, but there rules do not fit the format of my program at times, as you can only play three tracks by one artist. Sometimes I feel like doing a deep dive into an artist whom I've collected for decades and possibly interviewed as well. Do you have any recommendations?

I bought this DVD from Martin Wind several years ago and just now watched it. A fun concert, Scott Robinson plsys tenor sax, bass clarinet and echo cornet on one song.

When you pay a business for services or products, they get dinged 3%, even if it is coming straight from your bank account.

I used to use Venmo to pay for landscaping, at the owner’s suggestion. When I learned that they took 3%, I started writing checks again. There are options to send money where the recipient (not a business) gets it all.