Ken Dryden

I will not take another Pfizer Covid vaccine after getting well over 100 red welts hours after the injection. I had no problems with the earlier Moderna shots.

The Evans Verve set is the worst of the lot, due to the ridiculous packaging and number of false starts and breakdowns that could be easily omitted. I like alternate takes but order them at the end of the CD following the original album. The Secret Sessions consists of audience recordings, good playing but poor sound. At least the taper provided the tapes to a legit label.

I have no use for false starts and breakdowns being included in the name of completeness.

I will need to find a source to buy this CD. I have a Musidisc LP of Grappelli playing piano recorded in the 1950s, signed and dated by him before entering the studio to tape his appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, plus the My Other Love CD.

Sometimes you can check back in a few days and the item mysteriously reappears. I've had that happen a few times on Decluttr. You have to watch them, their inspection process sometimes leaves a lot to be desired...

I stumbled across a copy offered of the Verve Elite Edition 3 CD set of Lee Konitz Motion here: https://www.decluttr.com/us/store/products/motion-e2e7af8c-c927-40d6-a353-7b2324adc6dc I already own a copy and recommend it!

Two Amazon packages have been listed as out for delivery all day, one expected by 9 pm. They were received by our local post office in the wee hours of this morning. The packages finally arrived last night at 10:37 pm. I feel for the driver who was stuck with such an insanely long shift, though he or she likely racked up the overtime for working a federal holiday. I would think that worker safety should be taken into consideration, as deliveries that late in the evening make little sense. The risk of overnight thefts from mailboxes seems higher as well. The one benefit is there’s less risk from dog bites when a large package requires delivery to a porch.

Labels, artists, producers and liner note writers are often careless about checking data. One of the dumbest things that has developed is skipping writer credits entirely or only making them accessible via download. If a physical product is sold, credits, songwriters and liner notes shouldn’t need to be downloaded.

My CDR is playing so I have no issues. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.

If I can’t play the CDR in a CD player, it is kind of useless to me. I burned a CDR using the mp4 file an hour ago when I couldn’t get Foobar to convert it to an mp3. I will see what happens.

I’ve been using Foobar to download to my laptop so I will try it. Thanks for all the suggestions. it was nice being able to record a Skype call but it was troublesome that it would vanish after 30 days.

I had a delightful interview with David Hazeltine today using Skype. My issue being it is an audio only mp4 and I have been unsuccessful finding a way to burn it to a CDR. I typically have played files like this using the headphone jack on the iMac to connected stereo inputs on my Tascam CD recorder, but I am not hearing anything through the headphones and even the level output isn't showing anything. I also have a laptop capable of burning CDRs. Can anyone help with suggestions?

Although she didn’t typically play in a piano/guitar/bass trio nor did she sing, Marian McPartland told me that Cole influenced her in one way: she used her left foot on the pedal in order to turn slightly toward the audience like he did.

I have these live shows from broadcasts: Chicago Jazz Festival 8/27/1986 Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, circa 1989 Playboy Jazz Festival 6/19/1994 Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center circa 1994-1995

I’ve enjoyed Joe Williams in any setting. I think that I have two or three live concert broadcasts as well.

Two things people overlook about Roger Maris, not to degrade a feat that took 61 years for a non-juiced slugger to eclipse: He had Mickey Mantle hitting behind him, so he got pitches to hit, there were no intentional walks. 1961 was Roger Maris' only home run title.

An underrated LP set, I also snagged a Japanese reissue awhile back. I would love to know who else played but couldn't appear on this set due to contractual restrictions.

It may be interesting to listen to complete sessions once, but the false starts, breakdowns and incomplete tracks get old after that. Too bad that Columbia didn't save the Dave Brubeck/Eugene Wright duet which Joe Morello ruined by walking into the studio and asking "What are you doing?," causing a breakdown amidst much laughter.

It’s always aggravating when a cd gets misplaced. My wife loaned our truck without talking to me. She got the disc out of the player but left the jewel box in it. I got the jewel box back with the truck, but the cd is still missing several years later.

In his autobiography, John Fogerty mentioned that he always made sure that all outtakes and unissued tracks were destroyed after an album was finalized. There is little doubt that the unsavory Saul Zaentz would have issued everything that he could find after the breakup of CCR.

Gerry Mulligan felt the same way, even about the Mosaic box which restored Dick Bock’s edits to his Pacific Jazz recordings. Artists now know that if you don’t want alternates, false starts and breakdowns issued, have them destroyed once an album has been completed and released. Though sometimes the master take selection seems a bit arbitrary and a case can be made that another take is just as good, if not superior to a master take.

I can't remember the last time I played a Joshua Redman CD, while it's been awhile for Brad Mehldau as well. Neither of them have made a major impression on me as composers, though I think that Mehldau is the more creative of the two as an improviser and arranger. My only chance to hear Brad Mehldau in person was when he was touring in Christopher Hollday's quartet circa the late 1980s.

Bill Evans claimed credit for writing "Blue In Green," as indicated in Orrin Keepnews' liner notes about his Riverside recording of it. Of course, Evans had already left Miles by the time Kind of Blue was recorded, but he came back to take part in the sessions. He probably wasn't interested in touring with Miles at that point.

I don’t know how quickly is typically restored in Glorida these days after a storm, but if you can afford it, a wired in generator gives one peace of mind. We bought one after the 2020 Easter tornado that hit our community. Some people we knew were without power for 10-12 days.

The Braves had an unusual situation in tonight’s win over the Nationals. They appealed three calls at first and all were overturned in their favor. The replays clearly showed the ump was wrong on each of them, but that is never a guarantee with the erratic judgement of those reviewing the plays in New York.