Ken Dryden

Drummer Kenny Washington and jazz vocalist Kenny Washington.

Denny Zeitlin told me that there was around another full CD's worth of unissued music worthy of release. Sadly, the original LP has only been reissued in Japan, though I snapped it up to replaced my shopworn used LP that I bought some time in the 1970s.

I am not sure which Jimmy Rushing album I acquired first, though it may have been The You And Me That Used To Be in the late 1970s. I ended up getting all of them in one form or another over the years. Many people forget it was Rushing himself who suggested interest in recording with Dave Brubeck. One thing that was overlooked was Jimmy Rushing's guest appearance on Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual, which was issued on CD, DVD and VHS. It's great seeing him at the piano playing "Trix Ain't Walkin' No More." Today's cancel culture crowd would probably been screaming their purple hair off. To be fair, Rushing's appearance on the program wasn't issued until well after his death and at the time, it would seem unlikely that it was intended as a commercial release.

Maybe his son is running it? You have to admire Susan MIngus' dedication to promoting her husband's legacy. I imagine that she didn't tolerate b.s. from anyone, any more than he did. Nearly $18 for tracked shipping on this set, you would think they could throw in free shipping at nearly $39 per LP.

I was wondering if Boris Rose's daughter ever found someone to buy or license any of her father's tapes after he died. I haven't compared the tracklists, but it looks similar to this 3 CD Hi Hat bootleg:

Likewise, this is an interesting set, but priced higher than I would prefer to pay.

My nephew recent used a program to transcribe my 200 interview with Denny Zeitlin and while it had issues with repeating some sections, it wasn't too difficult to edit. Do any of you have transcribed interviews recommend specific apps, whether free or purchased? Many thanks!

I wonder how he selected on Vanderbilt for his collection, did he attend there or have some special collection. I will look forward to hearing any live broadcasts he had from NYC clubs or jazz festivals.

I just acquired this set with the CDs still sealed. I had most, but not of all the tracks.

This joke should give away my age. A mongrel dog who was new to the neighborhood was making his rounds and encountered two stuffy French poodles. He greeted them and asked for their names. The female dog arrogantly replied, "My name is Fifi, F-I-F-I." The male dog was equally condescending, answering, "My name is Bobo, B-O-B-O." Then the male poodle asked, "Well, what is your name?" The mongrel dog replied, "My name is Fido, P-H-I-D-E-A-U-X..." The joke is funnier told than in print...

I watched one episode of the 1980s revival and hated it, I never watched another episode. It was the idiotic rewrite about the story where a man found a stopwatch that caused everyone to freeze in place. The revised episode had a housewife yelling "Stop talking!" to freeze everything in place, which made even less sense. I figured if the rewrites were going to be that bad, I wasn't going to waste my time with the revived series. Surely Rod Serling wouldn't have approved had he lived. I was fortunate to get to hear Rod Serling in person when he visited Tulane University in 1974, the year before his death. He was absolutely fascinating and he had a great sense of humor as well. One of the funniest memories is when he stepped to the podium and said, "Good evening," there was a vocal response of amazement at hearing his famous baritone speaking voice that so many of us had grown up hearing on Twilight Zone reruns and his narration of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" documentaries. Night Gallery was a mixed bag because he didn't have creative control of the scripts and he hated the blackouts that were inserted as filler. Far better is the one season western he created starring Lloyd Bridge called The Loner, it is available on DVD. I need to watch the rest of the episodes, one guest starred Allan Sherman as a phony Civil War hero appointed sheriff.

If the label had source to the master rapes, it seems short-sighted to use eidted performances just for the sake of putting together a limited edition LP.

Peter Straub has written liner notes for several CDs.

I have a few of their CDs and a Sun Ra I got in trade in a few years ago that I have never opened. Their scattershot approach to reissues is intriguing.

Frank Zappa stuffed his song "Rhymin' Man" full of quotes. He was surprised that I recognized "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" in it and claimed no one in his band knew it and he had to teach them the song. Then he didn't know that piece was a parody of the old hymn "Revive Us Again." He always loved sticking quotes into songs, including Gustav Holsts's "The Planets,"Igor Stravinsky's "Petrouchka" and the hilaious solo in "Let's Move to Cleveland" that opened with the introduction to "The Rite of Spring," with the band playing "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" behind him. I heard that in the 1984 Atlanta concert.

I go a laugh out of that when that CD set was released. Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck would exchange quotes at times during concerts, though Desmond was the master for including obscurities.

I don't really keep track of amusing song quotes, though as I was driving and listening to the Larry Coryell & Kenny Drew, Jr. version of "Moanin'," i got a laugh out of Drew inserting "Theme From Perry Mason" into his solo. Please share some of your recent (or long time) favorites.

I got to hear Eddie Higgins in person at the one Atlanta Jazz Party that he played. I didn't get a chance to interview him but we had a nice chat between sets. I've enjoyed his recordings and I am still trying to track down his second Christmas CD for Venus at a reasonable price.

That album was reissued as a 2 LP Record Store Day set then a 2 CD set with 8 alternate takes and t false starts.

There were plenty of "promising" prospects in baseball who flamed out in record time. Here are some: Look up their stats at baseball reference...

I enjoyed it, it arrived in yesterday's mail. I was serviced with most of the Dreyfus Jazz CDs, but this one may have only been issued in France, so I bought a copy. Philip Catherine was a wonderful interview a few years ago and sent me a nice package of CDs I didn't have.

I am not sure when I last visited an art museum but it was probably MOMA in NYC. I was surprised when my wife suggested it but we went and enjoyed a lot of it. We’ve been to the Metropolitan museum a few times and saw the Vatican Museum in 2001.

I wrote for Cadence near the beginning of my sideline as a jazz journalist. I appreciated Bob Rusch giving me the opportunity but I was exasperated at some of his quirks, like holding reviews for six months or more, while restricting regular contributors voting best of the year releases to the titles reviewed in Cadence during that year, while the editor could choose any release for his list. The miserly compensation ($2-$4 in trade credit, even for a large boxed set, was also a reason that I finally gave up contributing to them. I didn’t know about his troublesome past until reading it in this discussion board awhile back.