Ken Dryden

A local used music store is purging classical. Most CDs are 95 cents, as are LP boxed sets.

Yeah, Ralph Gari is rather versatile. I’ve never heard of the sidemen as well, but it is a fun session.

Two of several obscure LPs that I found yesterday in a local store.

I caught him at Iridium on a Sunday after IAJE ended. His set was a lot of fun and he later recorded an Arbors CD there.

A hidden gem, with an original soundtrack by Oscar Peterson... Christopher Plummer steals the show, of course!

I saw my first live jazz in over a year plus on August 12 in Chattanooga. Pianist Keith Brown (Donald's son) led a trio with brother Kenneth on drums and a bassist from Knoxville (Cliff ?). A lot of the songs were on Keith's third Space Time CD African Ripples. Like his father, he's got plenty of chops and he is a strong composer.

Eric Reed released a Christmas CD that ended with a depressing lyric that began, “Won’t you stay until after the holidays…” Nothing like ending a CD with a downer song.

Which publicist is working this CD? Usually Braithewaite & Katz handle Capri Records releases, but I haven't seen an email about it.

This info was on the master release page for this music: Compiles: The Modern Art Of Jazz Modern Jazz Festival (Tony Scott tracks) Free Blown Jazz My Kind Of Jazz

Don't forget to pick up Live! Vol. 2 and The Last From Lennie's to complete the set. When I was working on the liner notes for the latter CD, the label sent me the remaining unissued music from the date, which will never see the light of day. It included several rehearsals of "King David" and other tracks from the gig.

I was fortunate to be on the label's mailing list for most of the CD era. I did purchase earlier titles, so I think I own most, if not all Uptown CDs. I must have missed some of their LPs that were never reissued on CD.

I was on the press mailing ist and also attended Dr. Taylor's IAJE set.

PM sent for several LPs.

Dr. Taylor was a regular at the IAJE conference every January until he retired. One year his trio gave a performance and it was later issued on CD. He always took time to speak to anyone who approached him. He was very underrated by many folks.

Art Tatum O'Neal Spencer Freddy Martin Denny Zeitlin

My retirement wasn't forced but bribed. Those of us who took the university's offer of 6 months pay to retire by June 30 were amply rewarded. They also paid me for two months of unused annual leave, plus I had a total of 9 months of other annual leave and accumulated sick leave that added 9 months credit to calculating my pension. I've been retired for six years and love it!

Sorry to see you have to sell so much stuff because of your forced early retirement. All the best!

Generally I think you can credit both the composer and lyricist when the song is initially published with a lyric. Oscar Hammerstein Il wrote the lyric before his collaborators wrote the music. But when an instrumental has a lyric added later, there is no need to credit the lyricist unless there is a vocal on the track. That said, Marian McPartland always introduced her ballad “Afterglow” as “In the Days of Our Love” after Peggy Lee wrote a lyric for it, even when she performed or recorded it as an instrumental. Bill Evans, Carol Hall and Jim Hall are all credited on “The Two Lonely People” on the CD that I mentioned. There are often inconsistencies in the credits to an album, some songs include lyricists, others omit them, even when all songs are instrumentals.

Japanese collectors pay insane prices for many first edition Blue Note LPs from the 1950s. I don't care what pressing it is as long as it in good shape and relatively clean. I'm not about to invest $2000 in one vintage LP.

Graphic designers who not only use a tiny, hard to read font, but also use all lower case for the text. That combination made reading Neil Tesser's liner notes for the Bill Evans Trio: On A Friday Evening an endurance test. Not to mention, who is responsible for crediting Jim Hall as co-writer for "The Two Lonely People" on that CD? Evans wrote the music, though Carol Hall later added a lyric.

Bob Brookmeyer stated during the event honoring him as a NEA Jazz Master that he thought about "...not accepting the award, because George W. Bush's name was on it." I always found that to be ironic, since President Bush was the one who appointed Dana Gioia, the man who asked for and got more funding for NEA Jazz Masters during his time in that position... I was present in the auditorium when it happened, so it's not an anecdote I heard from someone else.

I had a chance encounter with her during a Denny Zeiltin gig at Kitano, probably in 2011. I think that I took a picture of her with another vocalist whose name is escaping me at the moment. I've admired the recordings of hers that I have purchased.

There has never been any logic to the awarding of NEA Jazz Masters. You think that it would go to deserving artists in their seventies and eighties who have long since proved themselves without any doubts, while they are still with us. I too, am underwhelmed with the choice of Cassandra Wilson.

Great music, with some noticeable deterioration in the source material. As for graphic design, the wrong person was hired for the job. A tiny, all lower case font is extremely tiring to read. Also, someone didn't do proper research. Jim Hall had nothing to do with writing Evans' "The Two Lonely People," though Carol Hall did add a lyric later.

Very nice, I'll try to look over your playlist. I imagine nearly all, if not all of the music is long out of print.