Ken Dryden

I shared a few broadcasts by Jaki Byard with his surviving daughter, she appreciated it. One was a solo set at the Chicago Jazz Festival. I love documentaries but always want to hear complete performances.

I just reviewed Chris Byars' new CD, it will be online only in April at http://nycjazzrecord.com. Like all of his earlier work, this one is a strong session. Glad I got to hear this sextet at Smalls last year.

Acquired today for 89 cents in trade. Chet Atkins, Hank Garland and a 17 year old vibraphonist named Gary Burton.

That, too. My wife has threatened to have a yard sale....

They are probably seeing a lot of long time donors dying off and their heirs have other interests.

I still have bad memories dealing with that arrogant organization when we carried their broadcasts on our non-classical station, because the classical station's religious beliefs took precedence over airing opera. Their longer operas would pre-empt part of Whad'Ya Know and run over the Saturday All Things Considered. Stations were not allowed to tape delay the broadcast or interrupt any part of it for underwriting or pledge breaks. The broadcast couldn't be shut off during their overly long curtain calls until the final outcue was given. The Arbitron ratings continuously showed that no significant audience below 65 tuned into the series. We dropped it once in the early 1990s and forced to carry it again a few years later because of a major donor to the university (but not the station) leaned on the chancellor. The last straw was when the Met sent an email to stations informing them that since they couldn't get the copyright for webstreaming a modern opera, so stations would have to turn off webstreaming during its broadcast. We dropped the damned series for good at the end of the season. Good riddance!

Thanks for asking, yes, I still have one. I attended this record date, done on a Sunday afternoon/evening, following the Atlanta Jazz Party. They are all pulled.

I finally went through everything and also lowered prices on some of the older listings. If you think a price is out of line, drop me a line with an offer. This lists includes duplicate purchases, things from my mother's estate, etc. Please note that all Venus CDs are from Japan, not South Korea or Russian bootlegs. Most open CDs are Near Mint, though I will review condition before confirming. New items are factory sealed and unmarked unless indicated. I also have jazz LPs if you would like a list, though I haven't seen as many posts about them on this board in awhile. I mail to US addresses only. Postage: $3.50 for the first CD, $.25 for each additional title. All packages sent with a tracking number. I will be happy to review any trade offers. Please PM me and post a reply to the forum with your requests. Payment via PayPal, any mailing will be to the PayPal confirmed address. New Additions 3/13: Ella Fitzgerald Twelve Nights in Hollywood 4 CD box set Verve/Hip-O-Select out of print limited edition $34 + $6 shipping Dexter Gordon Our Man in Amsterdam Fuel 2000 $6 sealed w/punched upc Burton Greene Trio On Tour ESP Disc 50th Anniversary reissued edition $5 sealed Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen Live! GAC $12 sealed David Hazeltine Quintet How It Is Criss Cross Jazz $10 Eddie Henderson Quintet Reemergance Sharp Nine $7 sealed Milt Jackson to Bags…With Love Pablo $2 punched upc Clifford Jordan Quartet Glass Bead Games Harvest Song $18 sealed Duke Jordan Trio Changa a Pace SteepleChase $10 Frank Kimbrough & Joe Locke Saturn’s Child OmniTone $8 Jed Levy Evans Explorations SteepleChase $10 Giuseppi Logan More ESP Disk 50th Anniversary remaster $6 sealed Hank Mobley Third Season Blue Note Connousseur $10 sawcut Hank Mobley A Slice Of The Top Blue Note Connousseur $ 10 Ivo Perelman Strings 3 Leo $10 sealed Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp Ineffable Joy Leo $7 Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp Efflorescence Vol. 1 4 CDs Leo $24 sealed Ivo Perelman Strings 4 Leo $10 sealed Houston Person & Ron Carter Now’s The Time Muse $6 Houston Person The Lion and His Pride Muse $6 punched upc Houston Person & Friends Santa Baby Savoy Jazz $5 sealed Tito Puente & His Latin Ensemble with George Shearing Mambo Diablo Concord Picante $6 Spike Robinson/George Masso w/Ken Peplowski Play Arlen Hep Jazz $9 Randy Sandke’s NY Allstars The Bix Beiderbecke Era Nagel Heyer $8 sawcut Matthew Shipp Trio Signature Leo $7 Ralph Sutton More Ralph Sutton at Cafe Des Copains Sackville $6 Lew Tabackin Trio Soundscapes sr/ $12 sealed 1032K That Which Is Planned Live in Buffalo & Rochester Pasin’ Thru $8 sealed w/Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Kevin Ray, Andrew Drury Ed Thigpen Trio Live at Tivoli Copenhagen You And the Night and the Music/Ed Thigpen Master of Time Rhythm & Taste CD + DVD Stunt $16 sealed Trio Da Paz 30 Zoho Music $7 sealed, cracked jewel box Gerald Wiggins Trio Wiggin With Wig BlueMoon sealed $12 Phil Woods & His European Rhythm Machine Alive and Well in Paris Pathe (Japan) mini LP sleeve, no OBI $20 Phil Woods Quintet Live at the Deer Head Inn Deer Head sealed $10 - the last band with Lynch, Mays, Gilmore & Goodwin March 2020 Additions: Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis The First Day Blue Note $6 Buddy Collette: Many of Many Parts OJC $9 > $8 punched upc Marc Copland/Dave Liebman Duo Hatology $7 Sir Roland Hanna Round Midnight Town Crier solo piano $8 > $6 a few nicks, plays fine Jimmy Heath Nice People OJC sawcut $3 Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with Dick Wellstood $5 brand new Ken Peplowski/Johnny Varro/John Cocuzzi/Joe Ascione (The Shoeless John Jackson Quartet): A Tribute To Benny Goodman Progressive $5 (recorded in the studio after the Atlanta Jazz Party) Bud Powell In Paris Discovery $7 Classical Jean Guillou, Organ: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Stravinsky: Three Dances From Petrouchka Dorian $9 …not to be missed if you are a fan of pipe organ Older lists: Bill Anschell Rumbler Origin $4 > $3 Nicholas Bentzon Trio Live at Montmartre Storyville new/unopened $9 > $7 Gerald Cannon Combinations s/r $3 Louis Armstrong All Star - Live In Zurich, Switzerland 18.10.1949 TCB 43072 $12 > $10 > $8 new Bob Dorough Duets COTA Jazz $10 > $8 new Dave Frishberg Quality Time Bloomdido $5 punched upc Eddie Higgins w/Kevin Eubanks & Rufus Reid I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me (jewel box) Venus TKCV-35352 new $20 Dick Hyman - Dick Hyman Plays Variations On Richard Rodgers (Rodgers & Hart) (Jazz Heritage) 5186061 $5 Ali Ryerson et al: Broadway Music From West Side Story Stanza USA $4 > $3 a few marks that don't affect play Loren Stillman Quartet How Sweet It Is Nagel Heyer new/unopened $5 > $4 Ed Thigpen Rhythm Features w/Joe Lovano, Carsten Dahl & Jasper Bodilsen The Element of Swing Stunt $12 .> $10 (duplicate purchase, played once) The Billy Taylor Trio* - Custom Taylored (Fresh Sound) $12 > $10 > $9 Classical: William Bolcom: Darius Milhaud Piano Music Elektra/Nonesuch $6 > $5

I wonder if the Tapscott family can get the University of Nevada/Las Vegas to loan them this broadcast recording for release: Horace Tapscott 03/16/92 Four Queens Hotel, French Quarter Room, Las Vegas, NV Lino's Pad Oleo Akirfa One For Lately Little Africa Horace Tapscott: piano, Roberto Miranda: bass, Fritz Wise: drums I dubbed a copy from the satellite feed when it aired in 1992.

Damned autocorrect...

Yet another jazz great has passed on, he will be greatly missed. I saw McCoy Tyner with his sextet back in the 1970s and heard his trio with Avery Sharpe and Aaron Scott in 1991. I'm glad I had the opportunity to do a phone interview with him as well.

I saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Bill Smith several times, including a set in 1992 where an oud player sat in with them for several tracks. I think that Smith was the last surviving member of the Brubeck Octet.

From publicist Lydia Liebman: Dot Time Records will be releasing Lennie Tristano: The Duo Sessions, a collection of exciting never-before-heard duo recordings by the jazz luminary, on March 19th. These particularly momentous recordings highlight the pianist's stellar creative output after his final public appearance in 1968. The Duo Sessions features Tristano in duet with tenor saxophonist Lenny Popkin, pianist Connie Crothers (the only piano duo ever recorded by Tristano) and drummer Roger Mancuso. Tristano presents original compositions as well as standards of the jazz idiom, documenting the further sonic exploration of one of the architects of the artform of jazz.

Sorry, but I haven't had a very clear head this month, for reasons I don't want to share here. I don't have the Philip Clark book and won't be reviewing it. I confused it with another book on Brubeck that focuses on Time Out. I have deleted the earlier posts to try to clean up my mess.

I will have to look up the publication date. I either covered it for the local newspaper or Cadence. In any case, it is not worth buying. As I understand from people who have had access to it, it ended up being more of a journal instead of giving background to landmarks in Dave's career, inside stories, etc. There were also things that Dave and Iola would discuss with friends, like issues with Desmond, Mulligan and Morello, but not with journalists, unless they chose to keep the information to themselves. It is a shame that the public won't get a finished book, as there was plenty of potential, given the many facets to Brubeck's career and Iola's excellence as a writer.

Hall's book was a joke, it was a fan's idea of a bio. Dave and Iola were working on their own book, which will not be published, according to their family, but they knew he would publish his whether or not they co-operated. They did but asked for the galley proofs to review. They were never sent and Hall's book is a disaster. There are numerous mistakes by Hall, many of which I cited in the review I did at the time, probably for the local paper. Professor Clark, on the other hand, was covering a much narrower period in Brubeck's career and he seems to have checked his work very closely.

More Jimmy Heath will air on February 2, including dates as a sideman, guest and leader, along with excerpts from my September 2011 interview with him.

Kenny Barron Quintet at Spivey Hall tonight. Meeting up with HutchFan. Great show with Michael Rodriguez, Dayna Stephens, Kiyoshi Kitagawa and Johnathan Blake. One the biggest surprises was Richie Beirach’s “Elm.”

19 Crimes 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon.

I have collected broadcasts of live shows for a long time and have frequently offered copies to artists whom I have interviewed. Dick Hyman enjoyed a BBC show of his 1998 Brecon Jazz Festival concert enough that he has been trying to find the source tape. Sadly I only had one of the two broadcasts and one song was joined in progress.

The one that I owned was Big and Warm.

I recall that Sonny Rollins was selling downloads of some Harkit bootlegs.

Years ago I was given a copy of an LP by Big Nick made for India Navigation. I didn’t care for it at the time and I wonder if I should have held onto it.

The St. Louis club you mentioned was called Just Jazz around 1991-1992 and we briefly carried a live series recorded ther around that time. I made it there twice with friends who had a private plane and we heard George Shearing with Neil Swainson and the McCoy Tyner Trio there. i think the name has changed since then.

It happened to my Sonny Stitt and one of the Basie sets is peeling.