Ken Dryden

There is little evidence that anyone bothered to proofread or do basic research about songwriters. Three of the songwriters of "Body And Soul" have their last names misspelled, while Johnny Green is omitted entirely. Lyricist Mort Dixon is missing from a vocal version of "Bye-Bye Blackbird." No credit is given to songwriters Nat Adderley and Oscar Brown, Jr. for "Work Song." Benny Carter is listed as Carter King and Irving Mills as Erving Mills for the songwriter credits to "Blues in My Heart." The songwriter of "Just The Way You Are" is given as Billy Joe, not Billy Joel. The liner notes are equally sloppy. It must have been in danger of going overbudget, or someone's in-attentive in-law was put in charge of research. That's true, but the liner note writer, artist or producer should be aware of the difference between the two songs. Ellington's song is far better known than Waller's song. Also don't take as gospel the composer credited by the bandleader. Cyrus Chestnut credited Bill Evans with writing Miles Davis' "Nardis" on a live CD I have.

The life expectancy of a CD-R is limited. I have had at least one that quit playing at all. I have never had that happen to a CD during my decades of collecting them. Alan Grant used CDRs for his bootleg Thad Jones-Mel Lewis release. CD-Rs inevitably have matrix / runouts that are nothing close to the original releases, most have been long strings of numbers. You won't generally see the catalog number, a glass mastering credit, SID codes, etc.

A lot of European labels are putting out CDRs without labeling them as such (Document is one of many), as are domestic labels. I had to return Cal Tjader: Monterey Concert to Walmart.com after discovering it to be a CDR. This is false advertising, CDRs just don't have the lifespan of CDs, nor do I wish to pay inflated prices for them. You have to be careful with Oldies as well. Some of the small labels they carry like Squatty Roo (mostly poorly recorded bootleg reissues) seem to be all CDRs.

I'm sure the easily offended will want "Chattanooga Choo Choo" banned for the line, "Boy, you can give me a shine." Then there is "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny," recorded by both Ray Charles and the Mills Brothers with Louis Armstrong. The reference to darkies is more than a bit dated. It's not like anyone requests this tune these days, so I don't know that it qualifies as a good song. The composer of this song was an African-American. https://www.discogs.com/artist/710668-James-A-Bland

I did a phone interview with her for a Hot House profile, then saw her at The Metropolitan Room while I was in New York City for IAJE. My seat mate was none other than Lee Konitz... I remember Warren Vaché and Tardo Hammer accompanying her.

She has a few hundred CDs of various things, but doesn't listen to music much at home. Generally she likes me to pick jazz for dinner. The car radio is another story, I can't take a lot of the monotonous pop country of today.

I think that I probably have all of them except for one of the early ones. I probably missed it after a move when I didn't update my address immediately with Mosaic. Now to find them all in scattered boxes in the basement and put them in order.

I introduced her to jazz, she joined me to hear Dave Brubeck on our first date. Who would have thought that years later that she would be a part of a choir performing his sacred music with him? She loves telling people that she heard Bill Evans with me back in 1979, though we've attended many (though not all) jazz concerts together, including Denny Zeitlin, Kenny Barron, Lee Konitz, Fred Hersch, Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan, Phil Woods, Bill Mays, Marvin Stamm, Geri Allen and many others.

Were the alternate takes too unpolished to include? I just received my copy today and enjoyed it.

Most university libraries will argue that they have a lack of space, no money to catalog, care for and store such a collection. My alma mater, Tulane, focuses exclusively on New Orleans jazz. Universities with jazz libraries will want to cherry pick or sell off the duplicate/unwanted titles. Of course, once the gift is made, it is typically hard to attach strings, though the Brubeck Archives were transferred from his alma mater to the Wilton Library around the beginning of this year.

That's the record that Dave McKenna told me about, "It's terrible, it sounded like it was recorded in a toilet and I never got paid." The companion album with the rest of the music has almost as ugly a cover, but this one really takes the cake... Unfortunately the piano that Walter Davis played on this CD wasn't much better sounding than this toy piano. It was badly out of tune, especially on "Scorpio Rising."

It arrived today, but it is the Chicago USPS to blame for the slowness, not Dusty Groove. Next time I'll splurge for UPS.

I've done business with Dusty Groove off and on over the years, but Chicago and/or the USPS must have mucked things up. My order shipped June 10 and it didn't make it out of the Chicago area until arriving in Nashville 20 days later. Maybe it was lost in a back corner of a distribution center... Maybe it is too dangerous to venture out in a mail truck in Chicago these days.

It is posted as available to download on this website, though I don't know that it is worth the risk, it looks like it could be a fishing expedition for your data... https://avaxhome.unblocker.xyz/music/duke_ellington_jazz_violin_session_MDD008_2016_flac.html I checked out the French website but it is frustrating because when you convert a page to English then go to the page to join and click on English, it reverts back to the list of recordings in French. I guess they aren't wanting U.S. members...

Not long after Scarecrow Press published the George Duvivier oral history/discography Bassically Speaking in 1993, I asked James Williams about his unissued duo session with the bassist, which was evidently one of Duvivier's final recordings. Williams told me that his own playing didn't measure up and that the music would not be released. I understand that William Paterson University inherited Williams' music archives after his death in 2004 and an inquiry to see if these recordings was included in the collection was never answered. I also learned from a Concord Jazz publicist that Harold Mabern recorded a solo concert at Maybeck Recital Hall, but the music was rejected for release. I never brought it up with Mabern as I figured it might be a touchy subject, it is hard to imagine him having an off day.

Bill Mays recorded an entire CD of summer themes: https://www.discogs.com/Bill-Mays-Trio-Summer-Sketches/release/10425157

Evidently liner note writer Mark Gardner doesn't bother with checking the composer credits on a number of SteepleChase CDs for which he has written liner notes. "Old Folks," composed by Willard Robison, is only credited to the lyricist, Dedette Lee Hill, though her name is misspelled on several CDs where this song appears, either as Dedate Hill or Dedate Lee Hill: SteepleChase Jam Session Vol. 1, Vol. 9, Vol. 14 I'm trying to remember the SteepleChase CD where John Coltrane's "Locomotion" is credited to Thelonious Monk, another with liner notes by the hapless Mark Gardner. One of the biggest howlers was the Paris All-Stars Tribute to Charlie Parker on A&M, which misidentified the opening track as Dizzy Gillespie's "Birks' Works," nearly every reviewer knew that it was Charlie Parker's "Steeplechase."

If you used a credit card through PayPal, that gives you two more methods to get a refund. I haven’t gotten anything from Japan ebay but they seemed to grossly underestimate the shipping time back then.

In our part of Tennessee, most restaurants require staff to wear masks and gloves. Some are using disposable paper menus, others are immediately disinfecting them after use. Nearly all are using real flatware and plates. Most restaurants are spacing out the seating,, cutting capacity by half. I did see a Mexican restaurant packed to capacity on Cinco de Mayo. Containers for sweeteners, salt & pepper shakers and bottles have been removed from the tables, for the most part. Aside from one day when I stayed home, I've either gotten food to go or eaten in a restaurant daily since this shutdown.

Scott followed up with an email today, I got a shipping confirmation from him and later from the warehouse, I am supposed to get in on Thursday. It will likely jump ahead of much of the backlog of new music I have awaiting a first hearing.

Now Doug Ramsey has shared that Mosaic says its new Paul Desmond set is SOLD OUT. https://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2020/05/paul-desmond-his-canadians-the-complete-set-at-last.html That must be a record for them, this will be a definite case of "If you snooze, you lose!"

Turns out I was billed May 3, not April 30. Still wondering where it is...

I am very disappointed in the warehouse serving Mosaic's customers. Charged 4/30, no shipping notice yet... I ordered it the day it was announced. I also paid for UPS...

Charged on 4/30, no box yet and no shipping notice... Sigh...