Ken Dryden

When I was in grad school at the University of Georgia from 1976-1977, I had a lot of luck finding a lot of Milestone twofer promos at a newly opened used LP store called Wuxtry, which later opened a store near Emory in Atlanta. But aside from Peaches, before their decline and closing in the early 1980s, the selection of new jazz LPs in other stores wasn't all that great.

The only time I found many of the Columbia jazz LPs issued in the late 1970s when I was living in Atlanta was promo stamped copies in a used record store. They never seemes to reach regular record stores.

I would rather hear a frequently played standard in a live setting or on a record date than some dog-assed piece of crap like "Feelings" any day. Marian McPartland told me she hated "the fucking song" after I interviewed her the first time in 1988 and said that the label she was on insisted on it. I suspect that is the case for a number of musicians, but what Milt Jackson or Monty Alexander saw in it, who knows?

The problem is that many books these days are not edited well at all and full of typos and outright factual errors. My favorite was an author of a jazz book who liked to throw in trivia, like one subject “born in Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jack Daniel’s.”

I do a great job at avoiding Wikipedia, the same way I avoid Google.

Pardon my cynicism, but that All Music review is nothing more than purely sucking up to the record label and I have no idea who wrote it. I reviewed the awful Classics in the Key of G for them when it was released, panned it, got paid and it was never posted. Instead, an editor wrote a fawning review of that obvious piece of crap.

This guy asked for the attention, it didn’t come by accident.

Margarine sax….

I recently uploaded excerpts of sets by Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams as heard on NPR's Jazz Alive! recorded at the 1978 Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival. Evidently there was at least one more show that included other artists but I missed it or was working the night that it aired. You can stream or download it here: https://archive.org/details/Kansas-City-Womens-Jazz-Festival-1978 One number features Marian McPartland leading an all female band that includes Mary Osborne, Janice Robinson, Dottie Dodgion, Mary Fettig Park and Lynn Milano playing "Now's The Time."

For all of the praise that the Atlanta Braves president/general manager received for his trade deadline acquisitions, it will be all for naught if Freddie Freeman is lost to free agency. They should have signed him to a long term contract before the 2021 season got underway. It was foolish to let him get available on the open market, given that he lives in California. The Dodgers will likely make a sizable offer.

That's a thoughtful way to honor your wife's grandparents! I bet it was fun putting together the show.

I won't bother, I never have found slate to be a useful website, pretty much as useless as the Milquetoast Maestro...

I don't buy compilations of previously issued material, unless it is a Mosaic boxed set or a similar package that is comprehensive instead of being a scattershot single compilation of tracks from many albums. I also detest downloads, CDs are always the better option for me.

My copy is the 2 CD set, found here: https://www.discogs.com/release/9504935-Dave-Frishberg-Oklahoma-Toad

At least the goalie hasn’t been credited as a jazz journalist there yet…

I used the Japanese 2 CD reissue, which included the original mix and the later remix requested by Creed Taylor. I can’t believe that I forgot to include the brilliant “I Was Ready.”

This reminds me of some of the contributors on Discogs, who go ballistic if you dare add album to a release without citing a “reliable” source. Somehow allmusic.com isn’t considered reliable yet fan websites and others are.

Wikipedia is a waste of time. Some complete idiot wrote an article about the public radio station where I worked for 26 years. I removed the erroneous material and added the true history of the station. I later found that an editor had restored some of the false information. like the mention of another local station that was booted by NPR for not following its carriage agreement, instead it read that they had agreed to give up the programming. I had the info because another station manager in our university system was on the panel that booted them.

I agree that some of the newer Broadway musicals are less than memorable. I hated Chicago - The Musical, mostly annoyning characters and none of the songs stuck with me. If you aren't humming at least one song as you leave, it was a waste of time and money. My wife and I wrote a parody we called "Send in the Crowns" around 20 years ago when we were facing unplanned dental expenses. We've sung it a few times for people and her dentist has the text framed in his office.

No stealing thunder implied.

I heard about it, but haven’t gotten around to hearing it. I miss Fresh Air when Terri focused on longer interviews with artists and having them perform.

My Timeless Jazz program featuring the music of Dave Frishberg, an underrated pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger, will be webcast at WUTC.org. Since most people don't drop what they are doing on Sunday afternoons to listen to radio, here is a link for streaming or downloading at your leisure: https://archive.org/details/timeless-jazz-11-28-2021-dave-frishberg

I recorded the concert from an NPR broadcast we carried. I have never been to Rochester. I heard Dave Frishberg one year at the Triangle Jazz Party in Kingsport, Tennessee. I am recording a Dave Frishberg tribute tomorrow that will air on 11-28-21.