Ken Dryden

Daedalus' jazz offerings have shrunk considerably ub the past couple of years and most of the time their inventory is dominated by European gray market versions of music I already own released or reissued by the real owners.

It's been awhile since I've had the opportunity to visit a German restaurant. There used to be a terrific pastry shop owned by two German brothers in New Orleans, but they finally sold it and retired, now it's a satellite store for a larger bakery and it isn't the same.

Interesting website, reasonable prices, but I have everything in their jazz section that I need. It's worth revisiting in the future.

It reminds me of a certain jazz magazine that I contacted about becoming a contributor. I was rebuffed by the younger editor. Then they printed a review by an incompetent writer who didn't recognize a song on the CD he reviewed that was labeled as "Dolphin Dance" by Herbie Hancock was actually "Passion Dance" by McCoy Tyner. I wrote a rather nasty letter to the editor which ran unedited. I allowed my subscription to lapse after that incident.

I received my order from the upcoming open house sale. The Woody Shaw CBS set, which I had neglected to buy. Hope to listen to it this weekend after I finish transcribing and editing my interview with Jim McNeely.

I remember going into Tower Records in New York City and picked up a number of releasably priced Japanese jazz reissues, but there overall selection didn't blow me away compared to what Peaches had in a typical Southeastern store when they first opened in the mid-1970s. I think I only made it to J&R once and I can't remember what I bought there, but I doubt that I left empty-handed.

I was notified that a Mosaic order shipped yesterday. If you can't attend the open house that is coming soon, ask about getting a partial list of what they have available. Michael Cuscuna read my post here and emailed me a list, which I greatly appreciate. I guess that the Teddy Wilson is en route.

I think he played the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1976, when I was at Tulane. Unfortunately, the festival was scheduled right in the middle of final exams, so I never made it. These days I wouldn't bother, since the jazz has been pushed out of the limelight. An artist like Bruce Springsteen as a headliner has no appeal to me.

They sound so easy until you learn about how drawn out the process is, even for one.

Grace Kelly has been recording for her own label since the beginning, PAZZ.

I don't think Lee Konitz or Phil Woods would have bothered to record with Grace Kelly if they didn't see something in her playing. Woods was very complimentary of her when I interviewed him ten or so years ago. I met her at IAJE very early (she had just released her second CD) and she has sent me a lot of her work over the years, though her recent focus toward more pop-oriented music and vocals haven't been as interesting to me.

Too bad they aren't putting some of these listings on line for those of us who live farther away and can't make it there on such short notice.

I own all of them, don't let these bargains pass you by...

June, August or September would be workable for me. There's no shortage of music at my house and hope to include a few surprises.

I did a phone interview with him in 2007 prior to his 50th anniversary concert and he told me he inhaled quite a bit of dust in his home in lower Manhattan on 9/11 and during a visit to it afterward. That's a very nice interview, thanks for sharing it.

About the only Ellington song I don't like was "One More Time For the People," a piece that would cause Cootie Williams to storm off stage when Duke called for it, according to Mercer Ellington's biography of his father. When I finally heard this feature for vocalist Tony Watkins in a concert DVD, I understood why. The piece was supposed to be targeted to young audiences and it just didn't fit the diverse yet timeless Ellington book all that well. It is little wonder that it never turned up on any of the posthumous Ellington albums over the decades since his death in 1974. After looking over some of the Squatty Roo label releases featuring Duke Ellington and others, a lot of them seem to be CDrs, which I am hesitant to acquire. I also noticed a few bootlegs that had rather wretched sound in their LP incarnations and I can't imagine thet they would be any better on CD or CDr.

I just made a gift targeted to him through Jazz Foundation of America.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/an-npr-jazz-christmas-with-marian-mcpartland-and-friends-ii-mw0000918584 This is the link to the first recorded version of Randy Weston's "The Icicle Song," with my review. It probably was retitled for this new CD.

I own all of the Mosaic Selects and none of them that I recall were marked promo. Some of my large boxed sets had promo hand written in them when I received them from Mosaic, but not always. Hoppy T. Frog: I have always found that talking directly to your credit card issuer gets results on substandard products. The only time I recall a problem on ebay was with a se3ller who sent a DVD boxed set of DVDrs that were obviously home made and tried to claim that they were legit. I made him refund me for the purchase price, shipping and return shipping to send them back. Try ebay and paypal resolutions first, but never use a bank account with pp, give yourself an extra layer of protection.

My music library is two floors down, so it may be an hour or two before I can check.

"Children's Icicle Song" appears on a Christmas Jazz anthology I own, perhaps one of the McPartland Piano Jazz Christmas CDs.

The ultimate foul-up by Richard Bock is the mess he made with Jim Hall's Pacific Jazz album. Editing out many of Carl Perkins and Red Mitchell's solos, then adding the overdubbed drums of Larry Bunker for a later edition. Some people should not be allowed anywhere near editing equipment.

It sounds like one of those cases where it is going to depend what was written in the original contract. I'll leave it to the lawyer's as my opinion isn't needed.

I think that ArtistShare offered some bonus download only music with the multi disc Jim Hall set, so if it is still available from them, it might be worth getting it directly from ArtistShare.

If Scarecrow put it out, it would stay in print for years.