Ken Dryden

I've downloaded a about twenty or so sets and I'm just beginning to hear them. Maybe I need to start sharing some of the live broadcasts that I recorded over the years there.

25 cents plus tax...

By all means, post a list. You may have some things not readily found that some of us in the US may pay the extra postage to buy. I use Discogs, but their shipping policy that they instituted last year causes some confusion. Be sure to get someone to make a test order without sending it of four or five titles to make sure the shipping charges match what you want to add. I had a recent order that calculated $3 for insured media mail for four discs, I told the buyer that I couldn't send them for that and he was willing to pay the extra money to get them. I have since revamped my shipping calculator and the Discogs people say it should work the way I want.

The artwork on the LP looks typical for a Boris Rose LP, though I have no clue if Enigma is one of the many labels that he created for his radio broadcasts that he taped.

It is doubtful. Squatty Roo is a rotten bootleg label which specializes in bootleg reissues that are typically audience recordings. I remember buying a Duke Ellington LP on the original bootleg label and saw that it is among the titles Squatty Roo has reissued on CDRs. The only two Squatty Roo CDRs I have purchased have crappy homemade packaging and terrible sound, complete with the taper coughing and jostling around the microphone of his sureptitious recorder. Obviously this clown isn't paying royalties to anyone and keeps his expenses to a minimum, probably making a higher percentage profit than Boris Rose ever did.

Thanks for the reminder about Hamilton Books. I used to get their catalog in the mail but I found it so poorly laid out that I never did buy anything. Daedalus rarely interests me anymore since they dropped music after focusing on all the European P.D. sets instead of offering bargains of US CDs and boxed sets. Hamilton's book selection is far better than what Daedalus has offered over the past year or so. I just placed my first order.

From publicist Jim Eigo: Jazz Pianist Sarney Norman Simmons Has Passed October 6, 1929—May 13, 2021 The Great Sarney Norman Simmons Chicago born Jazz pianist, composer, accompanist, arranger, educator, author, thought provocateur and icon has transitioned at the age of 91. We who love and cherish Norman Simmons gather in a consciousness of gratitude to have known this great man who lived his life by his own terms as an artist. As a bandleader, Norman made significant recordings and started Milljac Publishing Company. His recordings as a leader are: Norman Simmons Trio (Argo, 1956), Ramira The Dancer (Spotlite, 1976), Midnight Creeper (Milljac, 1979), I’m The Blues (Milljac 1981), 13TH Moon (Milljac 1986), The Heat and The Sweet (Milljac, 1987), The Art of Norman Simmons (Savant, 2000), and with Eric Alexander, Manha De Carnaval (Soundhills, Japan) 2002. Norman accompanied Jazz icons Betty Carter, Carmen McRae, Ernestine Anderson (who raised him on the road), Anita O’Day (who gave him marquee billing) and Joe Williams (who elevated Norman’s status), Etta Jones, Carrie Smith among many others. Among the last musicians to have performed with Charlie Parker at the famed Beehive Jazz Club in Chicago, Norman mentored, played piano, arranged, accompanied and guided several bands and musicians. They include Houston Person, Henry Johnson, Johnny Griffin’s Big Soul Band, Winard Harper & Jeli Posse, Joe Farnsworth, The Duke Ellington Legacy Band under the direction of Edward Ellington and Virginia Mayhew and The Norman Simmons Group which included his longtime loyal partners Paul West and domestic partner Sheila Earley, Lisle Atkinson, Al Harewood and Vernel Fournier, whom with Norman worked out amazing rhythms later used in Vernel’s recording of Poinciana. Some of Norman’s music is held with Don Sickler’s Jazzleadsheets.com by Second Floor Music, BMI, and other publishing houses. Current vocalists who perform, record, and sing from Norman Simmons vast Songbook include Cynthia Scott, Melissa Walker, Kate Baker, Antoinette Montague, Karen Frances, Nancy Reed, Kameelah Harper, Gillian Margot and Shoko Amano. They proudly pick up Norman’s musical spear and speak his name reverently as they continue in the artistic life. As Norman would encourage each of us at the end of a lengthy, complex conversation, “Straight Ahead.” During this incredible season, may we all be uplifted and blessed. Submitted with light and love on behalf of Norman Simmons family of choice, friends, musicians, singers, fans, community of Jazz, neighbors, and the sparkling universe. We pray that Norman’s spirit will realize his beliefs about the next chapter. Norman Simmons lives in our hearts. We urge you to check out his rich musical inheritance. We honor his powerful request for no funeral or memorials. However, consider a collective moment of silence on Sunday, May 16 at noon wherever you may be. Contributions in Norman Simmons’ honor may be made to the Norman Simmons Foundation, near to Normans heart, Jazz House Kids, Jazzmobile and or The Jazz Foundation of America. https://jazzleadsheets.com/composers/norman-simmons.htm

I finally got a delivery confirmation for the 5 CDs that I returned. It only took 43 days for the box to get from Chattanooga, TN to Myrtle Beach, SC. It tracked a total of once, four days after I mailed it.

The reissues I've seen listed given 1967 as the recording year.

Nigel Kennedy Yehudi Menuhin Itzak Perlman

Just missed a copy posted to SwapaCD.

Amazon in the US is out of stock right now.

Charlie The Tuna Charlie Weaver Doodles Weaver

Yoko Miwa Junko Onishi Toshiko Akiyoshi

I would have sold, traded or given away Rickie Lee Jones’ Pop Pop instead. Her voice is grating, while Sheila is always lots of fun.

Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel 132.1 proof, neat.

Veronica Swift Swifty Lazar The Flash

It is kind of confusing, there has been a good bit of discussion of them on Discogs. I was briefly serviced by the labels until they ceased operations some time after Albert Marx's death. Bill Mays called Albert Marx the lost Marx Brother, "Cheapo..."

Gore Vidal Al Gore Al Lewis

Zappa had little patience with interviewers who didn't do their homework or asked stupid questions. He got a kick out of my recognizing his quote of "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" in his song "Rhymin' Man" ("Nobody knows that song!") and that I told him it was a parody of the hymn "Revive Us Again." But our station soundboard did not have sufficient volume for a phone interview in 1989, so I caught hell about that issue, even though I had no control over it, being a mere volunteer program producer at the time. Frankly, I had more problems dealing with Herb Ellis and Ruby Braff being a bit too full of themselves compared to Zappa, I erased the Ellis interview without bothering to hear it.

Thanks for the tip, I just preordered it.

Newport, TN

Over a two day period I received about 15 calls with the same area code and prefix as our cellphone provider, all but the last one was junk and went immediately to voicemail. But it turns out the last call was someone I knew, as I found a voicemail, so I had to go back and unblock him.

I saw Zappa 3 or 4 times in concert between 1974 and 1984, I would have attended the 1988 Atlanta concert if the band hadn't self-destructed in Europe. I can't think of any rock musician who got so much out of his instrumentalists and the ability to switch gears mid-concert into different arrangements on the fly was unusual.

Sydney Greenstreet Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall