Ken Dryden

I talked to Jill Goodwin when we met at the Deerhead Inn in October, where I also met Bill Goodwin. Phil's autobiography is being edited with additional material rewritten (I've forgotten who is doing it, but it may have been Ted Panken), the plan is to release it as an e-book. Bill is at work digitizing a number of unissued concerts featuring Phil's quartets and quintets, though I think he is taking the oldest ones first.

I once sold a CD on Amazon, mailed it and the buyer didn't receive it. I had affixed postage and skipped a trip to the post office for a tracking number. After asking permission to wait a couple of more weeks for it to show up, I granted a full refund including postage. About two months later, the buyer told me that the package arrived with uncanceled stamps. Who knows what the USPS did with it for all that time.

At least your not getting a FB friend request or link request on LinkedIn from someone who has passed away....

I definitely have interest in all but Cardiff Rose, as I already own the Sundazed reissue. I've got some new jazz I haven't posted here, if you're interested, including a duplicate Cedar Walton I bought in error on HighNote. Let me know.

I only received one download (volume 2). I prefer physical CDs with liner notes instead of having to burn CDrs and create my own booklets. i almost never listen to music through a computer.

I'm also no fan of reissues with slapdash unrelated tracks added. Or lousy labels that claim music is previously unreleased when it can be found on earlier releases. Drummer Pete "La Roca" Sims sued when his album Turkish Women At the Bath was reissued under Chick Corea's name. I don't know how many others have taken similar action.

Maybe the Goodman estate enjoys getting 100% of nothing vs. the money they want.

I always enjoyed talking to Phil Woods. When it came down to it, he had no tolerance for b.s. or for bad music. About the only people I've interviewed who never had a bad word to say about working with Benny Goodman were Bucky Pizzarelli and Ken Peplowski, though there were at least a couple of Goodman musicians whom I never asked about working with him.

i've been sharing Bill Crow's extended article for a long time. So many hilarious (and sad) moments... You know the Phil Woods anecdote after Benny Goodman's death was announced? He called someone and said, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is Benny Goodman died. The bad news is that he died in his sleep." After the way Woods was treated on that tour, I can understand his anger at Goodman.

I found used LPs very cheaply which turned out to be autographed by Manny Albam and Stan Gets.

Brubeck was unhappy with The Last Time We Saw Paris.

It is still available in the US on this website but only ships domestically: http://www.thadmelvjobook.com/us-pre-order

$200 for so little music and a lot of add ons make this set of no value to me.

I just received the email the other day and I'll pass. It's horribly overpriced with a lot of non musical fluff to justify its hefty price tag. I doubt that I will regret missing out on this limited edition, there are plenty of jazz releases more deserving of my cash.

One of Leonard Feather's oddest moments occurred in liner notes for a Phil Woods album. He said that the Woods' song title "HUK2E" "doesn't mean anything." I knew that expression, a favorite of my father's, back in the 1960s. It always helps to ask the artist when he or she is available.

I can't find the file of a great Steve Kelley cartoon which asks "What will O.J. do when he comes face to face with Nicole's killer?" The answer was "shave."

I know that Ray Spencer died awhile back. I exchanged a few emails with Arnold Laubich years ago. A 2001 NYT article described him as a retired real estate attorney. Laubich told me there were some things he had in his collection that would remain unissued. I had a friend who evidently had dubs of some of them but he has since passed away.

You might try posting some of them here. I'm sure there are more than a few classical fans among us. I don't know how much classical sells on Discogs, but that may be worth a shot. Decluttr.com buys a lot of CDs, though like Dusty Groove, they have to be in flawless condition. Prices they pay vary greatly, but they do provide prepaid shipping if you sell them 10+ CDs.

Sorry to hear this sad news. I always enjoyed his playing.

Dick Gregory was a part of a panel discussion on humor at my alma mater, Tulane, around 1974. Russell Baker was the moderator and the rest of the group included Jimmy Breslin, Art Buchwald, along with an obscure feminist comedian named Robin Tyler who had everyone puzzled as to why she merited being in such austere company. I'd love to have an audio tape of that evening.

There are also some radio broadcasts on that website. I've recorded a solo concert by Roland Hanna and a performance of the music of Edgard Varese, emceed by Frank Zappa.

I wrote a series of liner note bios for a series of European compilations. Unfortunately I never saw the playlists or personnel, otherwise I would have made a lot of corrections for them. Nearly every liner note job I've had has had either spelling mistakes, missing instruments, wrong or missing song titles (like a medley that omits a song), incorrect or missing composers/lyricists in the information provided to me by the label or artist. Since my name is going on the final product, I like everything to be correct. Of course, if we talk jazz books, no one seems to beat Stuart Nicholson for typos and outright errors.

She played some piano when she appeared on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, one of the few dozen broadcasts issued on CD. https://www.amazon.com/Marian-McPartlands-Piano-Carmen-McRae/dp/B00006EXDP

I'm glad somebody bought that obscure Joe Lee Wilson album. It was a nice surprise among a package deal of liner notes for 6 CDs, though I wasn't too crazy about the Jorge Dalto reissues.