Ken Dryden

Press release received today from Concord Records. Both Stan Getz and Carl Jefferson must be turning over in their graves. Kenny G “Legacy [Feat. "The Sound” of Stan Getz]” Impacting November 15 “Legacy featuring ‘The Sound’ of Stan Getz” was created to pay homage to one of the great masters of the saxophone, Stan Getz. Written with his sound in mind, using very advanced modern technology, we were able to sample notes to create this brand new melody never before played by Stan. To say I’m honored to duet with Stan Getz is an immense understatement. I hope people that have not heard Stan’s music before will be touched, as I have been, by the man who’s nickname is “The Sound''.”- Kenny G World-renowned and Grammy-Award winning saxophonist Kenny G, will release his first new album in six-years titled New Standards. Out December 3rd through Concord Records. The 11-song collection of original compositions takes inspiration from the Jazz Ballads of the 50’s and 60’s. “For this album, I wanted to try to recreate those ‘sounds’ but do it my own way, which for me meant that I would have to compose the songs myself. So I set out to compose and perform songs that capture the ‘heart and soul’ of those beloved Jazz Standards and to record them “my way”. It was a wonderful (and painstaking) labor of love and I’m super proud of the end result.”

It was probably a poorly funded independent label that sank like a stone due to its cheapness and shortcuts. I don’t know who owned it or if any artists were paid.

What happens when you have a cheap ass label, you hire the worst designer to create your cover art. I failed to read the guardian link or I would have seen that the first cover made the writer's list, too. Dave McKenna said about these sessions for Honeydew, "They sound like they were recorded in a toilet and I never got paid." No one misses Honeydew Records... Another terrible cover.. .

Here is the link to my interview with Martin Wind. Our call lasted around an hour and I had to omit a lot of text that I would have like to have include. It is found on pages 6 & 12. http://nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr202111.pdf

I interviewed Bill. Harlan for Hot House and he was looking forward to his week of duets at Birdland. I wish I could be there for all of them…

Depends on the brand, premium only, no Blue Bunny or other artificial flavored stuff will be acceptable.

What a great story, thanks for sharing it!

Here is the link to my upload for the Jaki Byard 1992 Chicago Jazz Festival set. I taped it from the satellite download. https://archive.org/details/Jaki-byard-1992-chicago-jazz-festival The tracks were labeled when uploaded, but that info seems to have vanished, here is the set list: Hello, Young Lovers Tribute To The Ticklers Tribute To Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington (Medley): Lush Life > Take The ‘A’ Train > Mood Indigo > Things Ain’t What They Used To Be Medley: Take Five > Cinco Quatro Boogie Chicago The Hollis Stomp Saxophobia For Me European Episode The Man I Love Track numbering includes separate tracks for Byard's remarks between songs.

Add Michael Dease, who was first an all state saxophonist in high school, but he wanted to play trombone. His band director wouldn’t give him an instrument. So he borrowed one and he was all state that same year. He has built a strong discography.

I just uploaded the Jaki Byard solo set at the 1992 Chicago Jazz Festival to archive.org. I will try to add the link tomorrow.

I thought about doing one but didn’t give myself enough lead time. If I do one next year, it will include Mel Torme singing “Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives.”

One solution is to upload radio shows to archive.org, where listeners can stream or download them at their leisure. Of course, studio time may be at premium at WFIU and you may not have the extra time available. My station manager has no problem with my archiving my Timeless Jazz shows elsewhere, so I've been doing that for close to a year. After I produce my show, it only takes a few more minutes to upload each of the two hours. It would be even faster if I only uploaded mp3 files, but I produce my show in WAV, even though it is converted to mp3s by the station before broadcast.

I would add Barbara Dennerlein and Sharel Cassity. Many great players have come forth from Sherrie Maricle's Diva Jazz Orchestra: Ingrid Jensen and Claire Daly, among many others.

Ed Palermo has two female musicians in his big band, Barbara Cifelli (baritone sax) and Katie Jacoby (violin). Claire Daly has won the Jazz Journalist Association's baritone sax of the year in past years.

As I recall, Neal Hefti wrote the theme for the 1960s tv series “Batman.” The royalties must have paid a few bills.

Trumpeter and vocalist Doc Cheatham was still playing gigs when he died a few days short of 92 in June 1997, not long after a gig at Blues Alley. He was 91 when he recorded a CD with Nicholas Payton for Verve in 1996. Eubie Blake was active playing well into his nineties, but I am not sure that he made any new recordings after the mid-1970s. After his death in 1983, supposedly at the age of 100, it was later discovered that he was only 96. The record may be held by Alto saxophonist Benny Waters, who celebrated his 95th birthday with three days of recording at Birdland. As I remember, he was a Jehovah's Witness or Christian Scientist, he refused treatment for a treatable illness and died the following year at 96. .

Liner note author Doug Ramsey attended this recording session and misquoted Phil Woods as saying when it was over, "I'm going to go get me a pear," though he actually said "beer." Woods thought it was so funny, he left it in the notes. That's one of many CDs that I've had since it was released and I've yet to play it... Maybe this week...

It is funny what prompted certain songs, like the road manager’s remark, “Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?” or the outrage shown by European concert promoter Fritz Rau when he saw a lowly roadie dare to take asparagus (which he considered a ‘king’s vegetable’) from the spread for the band, which prompted “Shall We Take Ourselves Seriously?” I still get a laugh out of hearing Zappa in concert open his guitar solo over a vamp of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” with the opening notes of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.”

The Hot Rats set was far more interesting, particularly the extended jams that were edited for the original LP and other albums. But hearing the parts separately isn’t all that interesting to me.

I may have reviewed some of Smith’s CDs and I seem to recall that faster tempi proved challenging to him. Rabinowitz gets the nod over him. He died in December 2015.

A lot of the box seems to be dialogue, alternate mixes and rehearsals. There is at least one song in the movie that is still not a part of the boxed set or original soundtrack. A bit overpriced even for diehard Zappa fans…

When I received a CDR to write liner notes for The Classic Concert Live!, I was extremely disappointed that Concord Jazz omitted all three of the Mulligan big band instrumentals from the 1982 Jazz Alive! broadcast. They were some of the highlights of his meeting with George Shearing and Mel Tormé. I have most of Gerry Mulligan's late work to be of high quality.

The Martin Wind CD is due to be released in February 2022.

I am a Google stockholder, but I hated my Google andriod phone and got rid of it, while I also quit using Google for web searches several years ago. I don't trust Google with my data and opted for DukcDuckGo.

One of his most ominous sounding instrumentals...