Ken Dryden

Ouch! At least he didn't end up like Warne Marsh, who supposedly was playing "Out Of Nowhere" when he collapsed and died on stage.

I remember getting those Landmark CDs, which I haven't heard in some time. I remember that Joe had a fatal heart attack in public transit on the way to a gig.

Morticians' mottos: "All men are cremated equal." "We're the last ones to let you down." Obstetricians' mottos: "Always at your cervix." "We deliver."

Her cheeks look way too puffy, she had a striking look back when the series aired, though I’m sure smoking didn’t help her skin. I always found the captain’s ex-wife so annoying that I kept hoping she would be written out by getting killed off. She added nothing to the show.

I've long owned a copy of the Joanne Brackeen album. I would probably pass on the Paquito D'Rivera because of the presence of Jorge Dalto along with synths. I was once assigned liner notes to a reissue of a pair of Dalto albums and it was all I could do to try to complete them, as the music bored the heck out of me. I may sample the Odean Pope later, but the presence of Gerald Veasley gives me pause.

The Dick Hyman at Maybeck is one of my favorite releases in his vast discography and easily one of the best of the Maybeck series.

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In his first appearance on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, Hyman described how he decided to push two buttons together on the keyboard, creating a bossa nova waltz on one of his Moog albums. Maybe I need to upload that broadcast.

To give you an idea of my Dick Hyman collection: CDs. including various artists, compilations & billed as co-leader Dave Brubeck/Roland Hanna/Dick Hyman Jazz Sonatas Angel Dick Hyman/Derek Smith/Ralph Sutton: The Piano Giants at Bob Haggart's 80th Birthday Party Arbors Bix Beiderbecke Centennial All Stars Celebrating Bix! Arbors Dick Hyman: Genius at Play/Lou Levy: Solo Audiophile Dick Hyman/Ralph Sutton/Jay McShann/Mike Lipskin/Harry Sweets Edison Stride Piano Summit Milestone Dick Hyman/Urbie Green/Milt Hinton/Butch Miles/Derek Smith/Buddy Tate/ Warren Vache/Joe Wilder: The Kingdom of Swing & The Republic of Oop Bop Sh'Bam Jazz In July Live at the 92nd St. Y MusicMasters Dick Hyman/Roger Kellaway/Jay McShann/Marian McPartland/Derek Smith/ Ralph Sutton/Dick Wellstood: Piano Players & Significant Others MusicMasters Evan Christopher/Dick Hyman Delta Bound Arbors Meral Guneyman & Dick Hyman Playful Virtuosity Rykodisc Dick Hyman & Ruby Braff Play Nice Tunes Arbors Dick Hyman Trio Cheek To Cheek Arbors Dick Hyman & John Sheridan Forgotten Dreams Arbors Ruby Braff & Dick Hyman America, the Beautiful Arbors Dick Hyman & Tom Pletcher If Bix Played Gershwin Arbors Dick Hyman & Randy Sandke Now & Again Arbors Dick Hyman Dick Hyman's Century of Jazz Piano Arbors Dick Hyman House of Pianos Arbors Dick Hyman Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festivals 1983-1988 Arbors Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski Counterpoint: Lerner & Loewe Arbors Maxine Sullivan/Dick Hyman Sullivan Shakespeare Hyman Audiophile Dick Hyman & The Group The Soulful “Mirrors” Sound!/Sweet Sweet Soul Blue Moon Hyman/Braff Music From My Fair Lady Concord Hyman/Braff Music From South Pacific Concord Hyman, Dick Music of 1937 (Maybeck) Concord Dick Hyman & Ralph Sutton At Maybeck Concord Hyman/Kurtis Runnin' Ragged Fanfare Dick Hyman A Waltz Dressed in Blue Four Star Dick Hyman & Niels Pedersen Elegies, Mostly Gemini Ruby Braff/Dick Hyman Fireworks-The New School Concert 183 Inner City Dick Hyman/Derek Smith They Got Rhythm! xJass Dick Hyman & Louis Mazetier Barrel of Keys* Jazz Connaisseur Dick Hyman There Will Never Be Another You* Jazz Connaisseur Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays Variations on Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hart) Jazz Heritage Society Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays Variations on Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hammerstein) Jazz Heritage Society Dick Hyman & Roger Kellaway Live At Michael's Pub JazzMania Dick Hyman An Evening at the Cookery June 17, 1973 JRB Dick Hyman/Judy Hyman Late Late Summer Left Ear Hyman, Dick Live From Toronto's Cafe Des Copains Music & Arts Hyman, Dick Cincinnati Fats Musical Heritage Hyman, Dick At Chung's Chinese Restaurant Musical Heritage Hyman, Dick Face the Music Musical Heritage Hyman/Braff Manhattan Jazz MusicMasters Hyman, Dick Plays Harold Arlen MusicMasters Hyman, Dick All Through The Night MusicMasters Hyman, Dick The Gershwin Songbook: Jazz Variations MusicMasters Dick Hyman Gulf Coast Blues Omega Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo Moon Gas/Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman Omni Dick Hyman September Song: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Kurt Weill Proscenium Dick Hyman Noel Coward-Mad About the Boy: Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Noel Coward Proseenium Dick Hyman Autumn in New York-Dick Hyman Plays the Music of Vernon Duke Proseenium Dick Hyman Scott Joplin: Piano Works 1889-1904 RCA Victor Hyman, Dick Plays Fats Waller Reference Hyman, Dick Plays Duke Ellington Reference Hyman, Dick From The Age Of Swing Reference Dick Hyman Swing Is Here Reference Dick Hyman In Recital Reference Dick Hyman Thinking About Bix Reference Dick Hyman/Ralph Sutton Just You Just Me Sackville Dick Hyman & Dick Wellstood Stridemonster! Sackville Dick Hyman In Concert at the Old Mill Inn Sackville Dick Hyman Knuckles O'Toole Greatest Ragtime Hits & Bridey O'Toole & the Boys in the Back Room Siggnal Sounds Dick Hyman Willie the Rock Knox/Slugger Ryan Siggnal Sounds Dick Hyman Music From the Motion Picture Bullets Over Broadway Sony Classical Dick Hyman Sweet And Lowdown (Music From...) Sony Classical Dick Hyman Jelly & James Sony Masterworks Dick Hyman Moog The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman Varese Sarabande Dick Hyman Trio You're My Everything: The Music of Harry Warren Venus Dick Hyman & Ray Kennedy What is There to Say?* Victoria Dick Hyman & Chris Hopkins Teddy Wilson in Four Hands Victoria Dick Hyman & Shelly Berg Meeting of Minds Victoria Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski E Pluribus Duo Victoria Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski …Live at the Kitano Victoria Roger Kellaway/Dick Hyman Two Pianos: Roger Kellaway & Dick Hyman at the Jazz Bakery Jazz Bakery Heather Masse & Dick Hyman Lock My Heart Red House Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with Dick Hyman The Jazz Alliance Bucky Pizzarelli/Dick Hyman/Jay Leonhart Lost Songs of 1936 Victoria Molly Ryan w/ Dick Hyman Let's Fly Away Loup-garous Bob Wilber & Dick Hyman A Perfect Match Arbors Bob Wilber/Dick Hyman Kenny Davern Tribute/Bob Wilber's 80th Birthday Salute Sidney Bechet Society LPs: LPs: Clark Terry/Harry Edison/Kai Winding/Urbie Green/Zoot Sims/Budd Johnson/Flip Phillips/Dick Hyman/James Moody: Colorado Jazz Party BASF Hyman/Hanna/McPartland/Jones The Jazz Piano Quartet: Let It Happen RCA Dick Hyman & the New York Jazz Repertory Company Satchmo Remembered The Music of Louis Armstrong at Carnegie Hall Atlantic Dick Hyman Dick Hyman Plays the Keyboard Classics of the Nostalgia Years Cadence Dick Hyman/Ruby Braff Fats Waller's Heavenly Jive x Chiaroscuro Dick Hyman Themes & Variations on A Child is Born x Chiaroscuro Dick Hyman Charleston: The Songs That Made The Twenties Roar x Columbia Dick Hyman Provocative Piano x Command Dick Hyman & His Orchestra Provocative Piano Vol. 2 x Command Dick Hyman And His Trio x Command Dick Hyman Fabulous x Command Dick Hyman Brasilian Impresssions x Command Dick Hyman A Zillion Strings x Everest Dick Hyman/Ruby Braff Fireworks-The New School Concert 1983* Inner City Dick Hyman/Derek Smith At Van Wezel Hall Jazz Club Sarasota Dick Hyman Scott Joplin (Soundtrack) x MCA Dick Hyman Trio The Dick Hyman Trio Swings x MGM Dick Hyman The Unforgettable Sound of the Dick Hyman Trio x MGM Dick Hyman Beside a Shady Nook x MGM Dick Hyman Red Sails in the Sunset x MGM \ Dick Hyman-Leonard Feather Orchestra Hi-Fi Suite x MGM Dick Hyman 60 Great All Time Songs Vol. 5 x MGM Dick Hyman Trio Plays Lerner & Lowe's Score From Gigi x MGM Dick Hyman Oh Captain! x MGM Dick Hyman Swings Music From Whoop-Up x MGM Dick Hyman Trio After Six x MGM 3827 Dick Hyman Genius At Play x Monmouth-Evergreen Dick Hyman/Max Morath/Danny Barker/Clifford Jackson Don't Give The Name A Bad Place x New World Dick Hyman Piano Solo x Project 3 Dick Hyman Plays Ragtime, Stomps & Stride x Project 3 Dick Hyman Scott Joplin-The Works For Piano x RCA Dick Hyman Kitten on the Keys: The Music of Zez Confrey x RCA Dick Hyman Scott Joplin-16 Classic Rags x RCA Dick Hyman Ensemble Music of Jelly Roll Morton x Smithsonian Dick Hyman Gulf Coast Blues Stomp Off Dick Hyman & the Perfect Jazz (Repertory) Quintet Say It With Music World Jazz Dick Wellstood & Dick Hyman I Wish I Were Twins x Swingtime That doesn't count his sideman appearances not billed on the covers...

I think I did my first phone interview around 1990, but I am unsure if I dubbed it to cassette before editing portions into my show. I finally realized it was better to save an unedited master for myself. I told Dick Hyman about some CD reissues of things he had recorded under a pseudonym and he bought copies for his library.

You must be a lipreader, or they play the TV very loud and your homes are very close... The meanest man in a town died. The family was unable to get any pastor to speak at the funeral service, so they finally asked the rabbi, who agreed to do it. He began his eulogy with, "His brother was worse..." True story: There was a hated Hollywood mogul who died (Louis Mayer?) and there was a large turnout for his funeral. One person who attended said, "Everyone wanted to make sure that he was dead." Red Skelton had an idea about what caused the large crowd for the service: "You know the old Hollywood axiom: Give the people what they want and they'll turn out!"

Dick Hyman also no longer plays organ, he told me that in a phone interview a few years ago.

I've got them but opted for acoustic piano, except for a couple of theatre organ pieces. I've got a lot of LPs that haven't been reissued on CD that I would have to digitize in order to share them on air. Maybe I'll acquire a second turntable for that purpose, because making CDRs for broadcast from LPs is a bit time-consuming and wasteful.

I'll probably pass on this release as well. The big mystery to me is Miles' Warner Bros. albums, as Marcus Miller's compositions bore the hell out of me. Too much vamping and the solos are uniinteresting.

Ponty's debut as a leader was recorded for Philips and released in 1964: LP image: CD image:

Joe Pass performed three solo sets in the French Quarter Room of the Hotel Four Queens, Las Vegas. Selections were aired one time only from these sets on Four Queens Jazz Night From Las Vegas. Brian Sanders, who engineered the show, told me that Pass was a bit difficult and insisted on being given the master tape after it aired, so it was not rebroadcast. Hi Hat bootlegged this broadcast, but the uploaded copy is from the satellite feed to our station. I'm not sure, but I may have edited out the annoying host, Alan Grant, who always sounded like he was trying to be too hip and cool. Enjoy! https://archive.org/details/20220228_20220228_2319 Here is the playlist: Come Rain Or Come Shine All The Things You Are Beautiful Love Joy Spring I Concentrate On You Daquilo Que Eu Sei Corcovado When You Wish Upon A Star Mack The Knife Cherokee Here is the link to an article that I wrote about this broadcast: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/joe-pass-live-at-the-four-queens-hotel-las-vegas-1988-joe-pass-by-ken-dryden#.UQBFDCqF9eI

I've got a fair amount of Dick Hyman's discography, so I saluted his 95th birthday with a sampling of his recordings. It streams live on Sunday, March 6, on WUTC.org at 3 PM ET, though most will find it easier to stream or download at this link: https://archive.org/details/timeless-jazz-3-5-2022-dick-hyman

This is easily my least favorite Ponty album, as it is more like his band is backing Anderson, while Anderson’s lyrics are often nonsensical. Ponty, however, was very enthusiastic talking about this tour and enjoyed working with him.

I don't remember if I bought this set via mail order or lucked out and found it at Peaches. Very few record stores I patronized carried much in the way of European jazz releases back in the mid to late 1970s.

Not sure which jokes you attribute to these women.

I bought this 2 LP set reissue back in the late 1970s. It has been reissued by Take 5, though I suspect that may be a bootleg label. Hopefully MPS will reissue it on CD, as my LP has a scratch from a needle drop.

Squatty Roo is a piece of shit bootlegger recycling a lot of old audience recordings. I made the mistake of buying 2 or 3 of the LPs years ago, issued in cheaply produced jackets by The Old Masters, two of which had some of the last live recordings of Johnny Hodges with Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington Opens The Cave). The graphics and paper quality of Squatty Roo CDs look like the cheapskate owner printed them on his home printer. Don’t waste your money.

Out February 25, 2022 :

The problem with political jokes is that all too often, they get elected.

Judge: Have you been up before me? Prisoner: I don’t know, what time do you get up? Woman to her husband’s psychiatrist: My husband thinks he’s a refrigerator. Doctor: You shouldn’t worry, that seems harmless. Woman: But he sleeps with his mouth open and the little light keeps me awake.