Ken Dryden

After a painter completes a portait of a lady, she looks at it and says, "You know, that's a really ugly work of art." The painter responded, "Well, I had a really ugly work of nature to work with..."

Fortunately I don’t have to use a storage unit, but I woul be careful using one to store anything of value. Unless it is an indoor unit with, heat, air and security, it is far too easy for someone to cut a lock and empty a unit. I had a co-worker whose unit suffered that gate.

The strangest choice for a Pablo title track was when Milt Jackson recorded that pos "Feelings." I can't imagine what he heard in the song... Oscar Peterson recorded several Pablo albums of original music as I recall, though some artists don't think of themselves as composers, unless they improvise a blues. There are far too many albums of all jazz originals that are pretty forgettable, even if I make it through the first hearing.

During a break between sets, a musician asked Lester Young, “Lester, when was the last time we played together?” Young responded, “Tonight.”

When i interviewed Joe Pass by phone in 1993, he credited Norman Granz with getting him to play solo guitar. I believe he is also responsible for introducing him to Oscar Peterson. There are some disappointing albums on Pablo, though a few of them happened after Granz sold Pablo to Fantasy. But it is pure joy every time I listen to the Oscar Peterson Jam at Montreux, with Dizzy, Clark Terry and Lockjaw Davis on fire...

I signed up for USPS informed delivery a month or so ago, so I knew that I had a package due to arrive. It supposedly came while I was at lunch. When I got home, there wasn't a package in the mailbox, though the rest of the mail was there. This is what I don't understand about the USPS: packages seem to bounce around at random with no logic whatsoever. It was shipped from LaVergne, TN on Mar 18, arriving in Smyrna, TN, the same day. Then off to Morrow, GA (just below Atlanta) on Mar 21, then Jacksonville, FL (WTF?) on Mar 24, Memphis, TN on Mar 26, then supposedly arriving early this morning, Mar 28, at our post office outside Chattanooga and delivered today. I know it was lost locally, but why in the heck is a package going in so many directions instead of just shipping it across the state? I don't even know who sent it, though I presume it is a CD.

When I moonlighted in a French restaurant, I recorded music from my jazz collection that the owner played for ambiance. No complaints from customers, while today's restaurant's too often sound like music from a millenial or generation X club, the pits.

The graphic design was pretty generic for the Montreux ‘77 LP series, the photos used for the CD reissues was a great improvement. I doubt that rehearsal was needed given the veterans who took part in many Pablo releases, while more originals wouldn’t necessarily make a difference.

The Art Tatum sessions that Norman Granz produced have always been in mono. I’ve never been a fan of pseudo stereo reissues.

Someone sent me the performances of the 1972 Ljublijana concert a few years back, here is the setlist: Very Early Gloria's Step Re: Person I Knew How My Heart Sings TTT What Are You Doing For the Rest of Your Life Nardis Waltz For Debby "Nardis" was issued on the Enja compilation Live At The Festival, but I am unaware of the other tracks appearing commercially.

They will have to have better audio. The Westwind bootleg CD sounds like it was dubbed directly from the Yellow Note bootleg LP set, as groove noise is apparent.

The fact that Norman Granz started the Pablo label and recorded so many valuable artists so frequently is enough for me. What I also appreciate is that he bought the masters to his Art Tatum Solo and Group Masterpiece series from Verve when he learned that they had let them lapse from print and duly reissued them. I do think that listening to the Tatum solo performances in their original order in the CD set makes more sense than to Granz' sequencing on the LPs.

I ran a jewelry catalog showroom back in the mid-1980s and I remember hearing Stephane Grappelli and also Meade Lux Lewis on the easy listening station that we played in the store in place of Muzak.

I hope this doesn't count as a political post... Stay tuned...

I haven't seen anything in the Blue Note Tone Poet LPs series that is of interest that I don't already own on CD or earlier LPs. I have had problems with various new pressings from labels like Newvelle and Storyville, with LPs that had skips or repeats due to manufacturing defects, though I got playable replacements. When I interviewed the owner of the German label Edition Longplay, which specialized in 500 copy limited editions, he explained his issues with pressing problems, which he thought was caused by the overuse of the machinery and the fact that many of the people who were most knowledgeable in the use and maintainance of it had retired or died. Amazon is the pits for their lack of packing for LPs and boxed sets, no padding at all, dropping products into sealed plastic bags.

Sorry, missed that CDs or downloads were wanted. Most of the listings had rather banal pop songs, I doubt that anyone is interested in reissuing them.

Some of them are listed for sale by Discogs sellers, click on each album link to see if the ones you want are listed: https://www.discogs.com/artist/931123-Rob-McConnell-The-Boss-Brass

I agree that the recording quality and performances are outstanding.

That LP was my introduction to Luckey Roberts. It is a shame that he did relatively little recording as a solo pianist.

Listening to disc 1 now, great sound, superb Mingus!

It arrived yesterday and I’m looking forward to hearing it this weekend.

Add Joe Williams, who recorded several albums for RCA in that period.