Ken Dryden

One of the funniest moments was when the Braves were playing the Phillies and third basemen Mike Schmidt drifted into foul ground a little behind the bag to catch the ball, with his back to home plate. The Braves runner on third tagged and made a break for home plate and beat the surprised Schmidt's throw. It may have been the highlight of Eddie Miller's rather undistinguished career. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/milleed04.shtml Terry Forster didn't even come to bat 100 times in his 16 year big league career, but he could put the bat on the ball. I remember seeing him come to the plate twice in a Braves game and he got a hit both times, one of which was a double. Usually relievers embarass themselves when batting, though a few starting pitchers could hit. https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/forstte01.shtml

I forget the brand I that I bought earlier this year, but they are branded with the insurance company's name, TruHearing. This set is rechargeable, so that's less of a pain than battery operated hearing aids, which last two weeks max, no matter how little they are used. I wear them most days, except in noisy restaurants, where nearly everything seems amplified and don't dare sit near the kitchen...

I emceed an outdoor Sun Ra concert where Michael Ray came forward to play trumpet and do the vocal chant to "The Stargazer." He suddenly put down his trumpet and began doing cartwheels on the stage. Unfortunately, it had been raining earlier in the day and he landed awkwardly after the second or third cartwheel, tearing loose his kneecap and screaming in pain. The band kept playing except for a pair of members who put down their horns to carry him backstage. I heard that he played the very next night, though his leg was immobilized.

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.