Ken Dryden

My older cousin served three years in the Army during the Vietnam war. He described a situation in boot camp where the drill sargeant was harassing the men excessively. He got into one soldier's face and said with a grin, "I bet you'd like to piss on my grave." The recruit responded, "No sir! After I get out of the Army, I'm never standing in line for anything!" Patient to psychiatrist: "My doctor sent me to see you, he thinks I have kleptomania." Psychiatrist to patient: "What are you taking for it?"

I remember Sidran pointing that out in a broadcast. I also remember his book of interview transcriptions, with Denny Zeitlin spelled Denny Zeitland throughout the hardback edition. I guess he didn't have any time or interest in reading the galley proofs...

There were a few duds ammong the many guests, the worst of which was Paul Shaffer. McPartland told me that when invited, he said he was familiar with the program, but they only played one duet and Marian had to carry the music alone the rest of the way. Dick Phips, the show's original producer, was bad about pushing his friends to be on the show, regardless of their playing chops. She declined to invite them. At one point there were some Piano Jazz shows that were downloadable, but that seems to be in the past. One problem with the online versions is that some of them have been truncated. The Ruby Braff program was ruined by an unnecessary voiceover added by the modern announcer on the last song that was not present in the original program, it seem all of the digitized shows available online have been truncated to around 57 minutes, whereas they could be up to but not over 59 minutes for NPR. PIano Jazz might have the artists accidentally comment over the intro or outro to a song, or respond verbally to something the other played, but voiceover on top of performances has always pissed me off. No one tunes into a jazz show to hear an announcer interupting music.

That reminds me of a joke about a woman in an ice cream shop that will be appreciated by anyone who has ever worked in retail. i used to joke that people didn’t or wouldn’t read signs unless they contained one of three words: Free, nude or sex.

No love for the many Ruby Braff collaborations with Dick Hyman?

I found the pdf database of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz artists, which include most recording dates, initial broadcast date and some repeated schedules by quarter only. The database is neither 100% accurate or inclusive of every show, but it is very thorough for the most part. Thanks to McPartland's biographer Paul de Barros for sharing this information with me. Please note there are no music files within this link, just the schedule by artist. Among the shows omitted are the special fundraising shows with a single artist that were not compilations or repeats of previously broadcast music. Feel free to ask any questions, I'll try to be of help. https://archive.org/details/piano-jazz-index It seems to be both viewable on line and downloadable.

At the Jazz Journalist Awards show one year, Soupy Sales was a guest host. He said he was in a self-help group, “Sex Without Partners.”

I recently posted the Piano Jazz database that gives recording dates, some broadcast scheduling and guest artists with anyone who wants it. There are some errors and omissions as I checked off my collection against it. None of the fundraising shows featuring a single artist seem to be listed. There is a separate header with the link to archive.org.

I was introduced to her music through the Maybeck solo CD. Over time I've acquired a lot of her discography, while her Jazz Focus CDs are getting harder to find. I think she had to give up performing due to health issues, one of which was back problems.

Braves fans are not going to be happy about ownership being cheaper than Herman Lubinsky when it came to contract talks with Freddie Freeman. He was the franchise…

I owned The Rosdmaster LP when it was issued in the 1970s. Some Gene Clark songs are clunkers like “Home Run King” and the dreadful “Hula Bula Man,” which is on a bootleg of the Clark/Hillman/McGuinn/Byrds BBC broadcast. But all the whole he was an underrated songwriter.

I recorded a tribute to Marian McPartland for Valentine's Day, but skipped her many Piano Jazz CDs, though I have all of them. So my focus for the next broadcast is Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, mostly duos, but one McPartland solo from a CD issued by NPR Classics. March 20 would have been her 104th birthday. Here is the streaming/download link: https://archive.org/details/timeless-jazz-3-20-2022-marian-mc-partland-birthday-piano-jazz-excerpts

He had some great performances, but The Big Chill was not one of them. I couldn't sit through it again at gunpoint, due to the dumb script. RIP.

I am more of a fan of Mosaic than Anita O'Day. It's a shame she abused herself so much that her voice was shot by the time she recorded her last dreadful CD for Pablo. An artist who worked with Hank Jones told a funny story at IAJE. Hank was having unnecessary difficulties with a singer during a tour of Japan, so after his trio played an instrumental to open a set, he announced to the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Onita A'Day!" She must have been a real terror to cause a seemingly mild mannered artist like Hank Jones to deliver such an introduction.

I think is was just the single. Chris Hillman was primarily a mandolinist and guitarist, he was still getting used to playing electric bass at the time of the session.

This is the CD that Yusef Lateef gave me. I need to check out more of his classical music.

This photo of Yusef Lateef & yours truly was taken during his sole concert in the city of his birth. I know that Avery Sharpe was his bassist, but I have forgotten who the pianist and drummer were that night. I had the date with the photo file, but neglected to label it when I transferred it. He gave me a copy of a CD he wrote of classical music, played by a solo pianist.

Sorry, it looks like I confused Ron Miles with Ron Horton, though I will have to check my file drawers downstairs. It's not present in my etreedb.org database, though that is far from complete.

The last I heard he was having short term memory issues, though I believe he was still playing as of his late eighties. Here is the link to the birthday tribute that I broadcast earlier today: https://archive.org/details/timeless-jazz-3-13-2022-roy-haynes-97th-birthday

Byrdmaniax and Farther Along were extremely uneven due to too many weak songs, made worse by Terry Melcher’s overdubs of horns on the former. Obviously their time had passed.

Every technical article I’ve read says that CDRs lack a protective layer that manufactured CDs have. My experience has always been total failure when a CDR develops problems, I’ve never had that issue with a CD.

My birthday salute to him is airing right now on Wutc.org. I will post the downloadable link later today.

I haven’t played it yet but that cover is the pits.

Sounds of Yesteryear also sells CDRs, not CDs. A cheapskate operation like Acrobat.

I have all of The Byrds recordings, though the band I saw in concert in 1972 featured Roger McGuinn, Clarence White, Skip Battin and John Guerin, the last a replacement for the recently fired Gene Parsons. Every lineup had its good and weak points, while some songs stand the test of time better than others. I’ve never liked “Triad” and don’t blame McGuinn for omitting it. But it is hard to beat The Byrds in the last years as a live band, even with the occasional clunker in the set list. Untitled has long been a favorite. It is sad that Clarence White died at 29 after being hit by a drunk driver after a gig. It would have been interesting to see what directions he would have taken over the next few decades.