Ken Dryden

I received it as a gift, but since I owned all the individual tracks, I sold it.

Thanks for the tip. I don't even know the contents of the hard drive, so I'm not sure if is worth spending that much money. Thanks for the tip.

I tried to save the show I produced today to a portable hard drive (Seagate, 4 TB) and was unable to do so. Is there any way to salvage the contents before it dies?

Many restaurants should be able to open up to 50% capacity without undue risk, if they can space out the tables. Granted, it will be hard for some jazz clubs to meet such guidelines due to their already compact seating and minimal square footage, but at least discussions should be on the table. I can't imagine how many favorite restaurants and jazz clubs will be shuttered for good by my next trip to NYC.

I am sure that a lot of people are wishing that the bumbling mayors who have ground business to a near halt in their cities soon close their final term in office.

I am saluting Sonny Rollins' 90th Birthday with a special edition of Timeless Jazz this Sunday from 3 to 5pm EDT, webcast at wutc.org. Included will be some excerpts of a phone interview that I did with him in August 2007 for a Hot House feature. Since there is so much great music, I will probably extend it into the following week's program as well.

Sorry, voting is restricted to jazz artists, not jizz artists like the Milquetoast Maestro, the Duke of Puke, the King of Hairdo Music...

I had Neil Swainson autograph my US CD of 49th Parallel when we saw him with George Shearing. He immediately quipped the old comeback, "Oh, so you're the one who bought it!"

Martin Williams?

I don’t buy or review downloads. Feel free to post a cd list.

I wonder if the Monk estate ended up throwing a monkey wrench in it.

I just picked up this LP and the sound is far better than some of the 180 gram LPs that have been hyped as limited edition.

Claire's music is always worth hearing, I'm looking forward to this new CD!

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."