Ken Dryden

This is an excellent new tribute CD to Dodo Marmarosa. https://www.discogs.com/release/24283472-Craig-Davis-17-With-John-Clayton-Jeff-Hamilton-Tone-Paintings-The-Music-Of-Dodo-Marmarosa

Michael Bourne was also the host of NPR's "American Jazz Radio Festival," a great mix of 2 hours of live jazz. He will be missed.

I remember reading that he lost a fingertip in his nineties after it became infected from a bite and that’s when he finally quit handling snakes. I remember how pale his skin was from the many snake bites.

You would have thought that having that much snake venom in his body over the years would have destroyed his liver.

I was sent a review copy when this CD was issued and probably haven't heard it since then. One of many shelved and awaiting rediscovery, thanks for the reminder.

Track 3: Correct identification of D'Andrea, Bollani and "Naima." Track 4: Correct song identification. Not a Venus piano trio. Track 8: Correctly identified as "A Sleepin' Bee" by Bertha Hope. Track 11: Correctly identified as Moussorgsky, but which piece? Paul Horn is the alto soloist. Bud Shank and Bill Perkins are present in the group Track 13: Correctly identifed as Svend Asmussen, from a Benny Goodman concert (minus Benny on this song). Track 14: Not "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To", this selection is by someone other than Cole Porter. Not Terry Gibbs nor Cal Tjader.

The latest miscue by this inept “service”: My wife ordered a jacket which was supposed to be delivered to our home outside Chattanooga on Thursday, according to informed delivery. It made it from Knoxville to our local distribution center, then some clown put it on a plane to Denver. Gross incompetence seems to be the norm for package handling by the USPS these days.

None of the recent discussions have resulted in identifying titles or bands. I am surprised that some of them haven’t been guessed, though one or two of them are likely less familiar.

Earl Hines: piano, Red Callender: tuba (track 1), Bill Douglass: drums. What's unusual is there are two takes of Joe Zawinul's "Birdland," the first of which replaces bass with tuba, something not expected from a swing pianist like Hines. Another surprise is the inclusion of Thelonious Monk's "Blue Monk” and Horace Silver's "The Preacher."

One noticeable problem we have had since we moved. Informed delivery says to expect mail that day and it doesn’t show up at all. I imagine that they are one or more carriers short that day and we are a low priority neighborhood in their system.

Finally someone noticed four hands...

None of those artists is featured on “Naima.” Track 11 isn’t Gil Evans.

Try for more air, not Stan Kenton. Not Charlie Mariano.

No Mancini or Nelson.

Given the volume of packages that the USPS has, I can't imagine that they do more than spot check media mail shipments, focusing on packages that look suspicious. It is stated somewhere that they reserve the right to open media mail shipments. If they are opening and inspecting padded envelopes, maybe that explains the empty one I received last year after it bounced around various locations before returning to me empty. Unless you like gambling, I do recommend insuring packages that have more value than you are willing to lose. Stateside Distributors sent a media mail package to me a few months ago and the box was soaked. Oddly enough, the only CD that was damaged was a Red Rodney SteepleChase CD that I had previously returned due to some dealer resealing a CD that had gotten wet. This CD wasn't the same one, as it obviously had factory sealing, it wasn't rewrapped. A package I returned to the same Distributor last year (in Myrtle Beach, SC) took 42 days to get there from Chattanooga.

I guess that Marty Martin didn't have enough immunity built up from previous poisonous snake bites. Bill Haast, who ran the Miami Serpentarium for decades, was bitten over a hundred times and his blood was used as antivenum for snakebite victims. He managed to live to be 100. Somewhere in my boxes of stuff I have a photo of Haast distracting a King Cobra for a paying audience as he moved into grab it from its blind side and milk it for venom. It was an interesting tourist attraction, though the concrete walls seemed too low to me at the time and encouraged sitting on them, not a good idea in case you fell into a snake pit or the crocodile pen. Sure enough, a few years later, a father and son were sitting on the wall throwing stuff at a crocodile, then the son fell it and was killed almost immediately. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2011-jun-21-la-me-bill-haast-20110621-story.html

I just opened the jewel box and the cd is missing…

Correct on all counts. It’s one of Art Farmer’s lesser known albums and a favorite of mine.

No Poles are playing with Art Farmer. Correct leader, composer and song.

Here is a collection of gems parodying bad musicians and vocalist, done by Paul Weston and his wife Jo Stafford.

You're getting closer, but it isn't a Jimmy Heath composition.

Track 11 isn’t Gerald Wilson. Track isn’t “Gnid” nor is it a Tadd Dameron composition.

Correct. I had never heard of this composition until David Grisman & Denny Zeitlin recorded it on their duo album. I think it was written late in Django's life.

You're know you're fat when you sit on the beach and the kids get next to you for the shade. (Dedicated to Chris Christie, the beached whale).

I used to own the LP set but sold it after finding the the 4 CD set for something like $4 to $5. The ep tracks were included in the Clifford Brown EmArcy box, weren't they?