Ken Dryden

I like 100% of my money going to the beneficiary, period. I've also had some other issues with Gofundme, which I do not care to share.

I didn’t realize that. I don’t use the platform. I would rather make a gift directly.

I remember reading a book review of one of Kurt Vonnegut's volumes, titled "Vonnegut Turn Deserves Another."

I don’t know how close John Clayton’s friend Jeff Hamilton lived to him, I am concerned.

I saw a Canadian drummer named Jeff Hamilton at several jazz parties, he was not the one who worked with John Clayton and also Oscar Peterson.

Most of the rest (if not all) of the issued recording consisted of vocals.

I recorded the music from The Classic Concert Live, featuring Mel Torme, George Shearing and Gerry Mulligan, when it aired on NPR’s Jazz Alive! When I got the liner note assignment out of the blue years later, I was excited, since I had listened to the concert many times over the years. Unfortunately, Concord Jazz chose to omit some great music, including all three Mulligan big band instrumentals, especially a killer version of “K4 Pacific.” There was also a fine piano-bass duet of Sam Jones’ “One For Amos.” I understand why they likely omitted the Willard Robison medley, due to the goofy ending to it by Torme. I posted the unissued songs on archive.org long ago and it is unlikely that this music will ever be officially released. I also have two or three songs from the live Kenny Barron &. John Hicks concert issued by Candid that were not released, but aired on NPR.

On’t overlook his final CD with his New Life Orchestra, which consists of his originals and arrangements, written after cancer treatment damaged nerves in one arm.

I've seen Harry Allen several times over the years, including as a member of Newport Allstars (Howard Alden, John Colianni, Oliver Jackson, Randy Sandke, Frank Tate), plus sets with Judy Carmichael and Chris Flory and one at Feinstein's with Rebecca Kilgore. He's an underrated songwriter as well and a delightful interview. It is amazing how many recordings he has made for release in Japan and Europe.

I only dubbed part of it as it aired live, I remember I ran out of tape during at least one song, while some excerpts were eventually rebroadcast, possibly on Jazz Alive! I still don't have it all recorded. This day was easily one of the highlights of Jimmy Carter's administration.

I am finally getting around to hearing this set:

I did a pair of interviews with Pete, I will have to see what he said about Basra. He deserved more opportunities to record.

I am very sorry to hear of Peter Leitch's passing. I interviewed him after he had undergone hellacious cancer treatments that resulted in nerve damage to one arm, so he focused on writing and arranging. Not long after our chat, I traveled to NYC to hear the public debut of his big band, which played his charts. They made one studio recording, which is worth aacquiring.

Masters of the Air, Chapter 5, on Apple +

In our first house, one day I received a bundle of CDs in padded envelope, along with one that had a book. It was not addressed to me, anyone on our short street, or even anyone in our subdivision, but it had a delivery confirmation sticker. I stuck it in my maiblox the next day and hoped they would get it to the right addressee.

The only Tim Hardin I remember was the junkie folk singer who wrote ”Hang On to a Dream” and overdosed young.

Wasn’t Hawk in pretty bad health by the time Sirius was recorded?

Hopefully they lost a lot of money.

Liebman always has numerous diverse projects in the planning stages, limited only by finding funding, never by finding the right musicians or composing the music for them. The man is fascinating to hear in person and a captivating interview guest, both of which I have experienced.

I’ll have to find my playlist, but I remember including two Ellington tunes, “Track 360,” “Happy-Go-Lucky Local” and Mulligan’s “K4 Pacific,” one of the tunes played by his big band that Concord Jazz chose to omit from his CD with Mel Torme and George Shearing.

It's funny how some titles suddenly jump in price once they are out of print. I get the idea that Uptown was more of a hobby than a business and once the founder died, his heirs had no interest in continuing the label.

I have respect for David R. Adler, a good hire by the new ownership. Hopefully he and his staff can repair the damage done by the group of clowns that ran the magazine off the cliff with their garbage writing.

I am barely into the Dolphy biography, it only arrived yesterday. I am not much on reading e-books, they tire me...