Ken Dryden

I pre-ordered both the Herman and Mobley sets and haven;t been informed of a charge. I will have to call them tomorrow.

I will be doing a survey of Sackville Records this Sunday, November 24, from 3 to 5 pm ET on wutc.org. I will post the playlist later tonight.

Since I made the mistake of upgrading to Catalina 10.15 on my Mac, I've been unable to scan with my HP OfficeJet printer. Does anyone know of workaround until the folks at one of these companies gets off of their butts and fixes this issue? I've seen countless complaints on HP's email list and none of the "expert" solutions have worked.

I own all but the first two CDs listed, great stuff!

The publicist at Concord Jazz sent me a copy of this promotional poster when this CD was released.

I've never been on a jazz cruise, but one of my station's members did, got a number of artists who took part to autograph it, then gave it to me some time before I retired in 2015. The sad thing is that i don't remember the full name of the man who gave it to me.

This is a poster promoting Clark Terry with the Statesmen of Jazz, autographed by him for me. This was one of his last performances before he retired from playing. Unfortunately, he was still recovering from a recent bout with pneumonia and he didn't have the lung power that one would expect.

I will be happy to due June, or if another earlier month is available.

The November 10 show, featuring New Arrivals to my library, included these songs, rebroadcasting on Wednesday, November 13, from 10 am to 12 noon ET on WUTC.org. Artist/Band - Album - Song Hour 1 Frank Strozier Quintet with Harold Mabern - What's Goin' On - The Chief (master take) Rob Scheps - Comencio - Message From The Nile Sal Mosca - Recital In Valhalla - No Figs Norma Winstone with John Taylor & Tony Coe - Somewhere Called Home - Prologue Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next BigBand - Listen Up! - This Is For Albert Champian Fulton & Cory Weeds - Dream A Little... - Fly Me To The Moon Billy Eckstine & Helen Merrill - Billy Eckstine Sings With Benny Carter - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To Oliver Jackson Trio - The Definitive Black & Blue Sessions - You Can Depend On Me Johnny Griffin & Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Ow! Live At The Penthouse - Ow! Hour 2 Nat King Cole - Hittin' The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) - Rosetta Nat King Cole - Hittin' The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) - Beautiful Moons Ago (Excelsior alt. take) Nat King Cole - Hittin' The Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) - I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town Cat Anderson - Cat Speaks - Black And Tan Fantasy Cliff Smalls - Caravan - Caravan Al Casey - Jumpin' With Al - Willow Weep For Me Jamale Davis Quintet - ...Who Can Contain Us." - Sweet Blanche Burak Bedikyan - Istanbul Junction - Particles Skip & Dan Wilkins Quartet - Someday - If Someday Comes Again _____________________________________________________ The November 17 show focuses on Jazz Violin from the 1930s to 2007. There are a number of rarities and out of print CDs included. It will rebroadcast via webcast on the HD2 station on Wednesday Novewmber 20 from 10 am to 12 noon ET at wutc.org. Hour 1: Artist/Band - Album - Song - (Record Label) Stuff Smith - 1944~1946 Studio, Broadcast, Concert & Apartment Performances - Desert Sands - (AB Fable) Stuff Smith & Fats Waller Alumni - The Complete Tenor Sax Septets 1937~1942: That Naughty Waltz - The Umbrella Man - (AB Fable) Stuff Smith - Live At The Montmartre - Skip It - (Storyville) Stephane Grappelli & Stuff Smith - Stuff & Steff - How High The Moon - (Gitanes Jazz) Stephane Grappelli & Marc Fosset - Lookin At You - Chattanooga Choo Choo - (JMS) Stephane Grappelli/McCoy Tyner - One On One - Mr. P.C. - (Milestone) Joe Venuti And George Barnes - Gems - Lover - (Concord Jazz) Svend Asmussen Quartet - Fit As A Fiddle - A Night In Tunisia - (Dacapo) Ray Nance - The Complete 1944~1949 Non-Ducal Recordings - The Sheik Of Araby - (AB Fable) Ray Nance - Body And Soul - Take The A Train - (Mighty Quinn) Eddie South Trio - Blows ’N’ Rhythm: The Hottest Bows In Rhythm ’N’ Blues’N’ Rhythm & Rock ’N’ Roll & Fiddle Curiosities 1939~1949 - Fiddlin’ The Blues - (AB Fable) Claude Williams - My Silent Love - My Silent Love - (Black & Blue) Hour 2: Jean-Luc Ponty with Jack Dieval Sextet - Almost Like Being In Bop: Bonus 2005 - Soft Winds - (AB Fable) [A limited edition of just 123 copies, mine is #12] Jean-Luc Ponty - Jazz Long Playing - Au Privave - (Gitanes Jazz) Jean-Luc Ponty - Live At Donte’s - Foosh - (Pacific Jazz) Stephane Grappelli/Jean-Luc Ponty - Stephane Grappelli/Jean-Luc Ponty - Golden Green - (Accord) Turtle Island String Quartet - Skylife - Señor Mouse (Windham Hill Jazz) Turtle Island Quartet - A Love Supreme: The Legacy Of John Coltrane - Naima - (Telarc) Billy Bang with Sun Ra, John Ore & Andrew Cyrille - A Tribute To Stuff Smith - Only Time Will Tell (Soul Note) John Blake - Quest - Moment’s Notice - (Sunnyside) Regina Carter - Motor City Moments - Love Theme From Spartacus - (Verve) Johnny Frigo Quartet - Live At The 1997 Floating Jazz Festival - Lester Leaps In - (Chiaroscuro)

The two Live at EJs CD sets are well worth owning and long out of print. According to the former club owner, the artists knew they were being recorded, though the outfit that acquired the tapes never paid royalties to anyone, or for the use of the club logo on their products.

I found it hilarious that he admitted to listening to the Monkees and was embarrassed by listening to ELP. If it was the dreadful Love Beach, then I would understand...

I'm still trying to get the dreadful 1977 film Between the Lines out of my mind, though I walked out after 20 minutes or so of pure crap.

If if his music skills are like his acting ability, one should have low expectations for this CD.

MIchael Cuscuna explained later that he did not have access to the Black Lion vault, so of course, the alternate takes from Monk's sessions were found after the Mosaic boxed set was released.

PM sent: Johnny Griffin - Sal Nistico - Roman Schwaller - three generations of tenor saxophone (JHM Records, 2 CDs recorded Munich 1985) - $13 The Jazztet - Voices All (Toshiba EMI) $11

No need, I'll pass on this one...

I think that the Fresh Air In Concert and The 1986 Floating Jazz Festival CDs are likely the hardest to find. The first was only offered as a public radio premium in the early 1990s, back when Fresh Air focused on covering the arts a lot more than becoming just another news magazine, a huge mistake. The Floating Jazz Festival CD was a bonus if you bought the entire Chiaroscuro catalog at one time. I already owned most of it and Hank O'Neal generously sent me this CD. I don't think it was ever sold separately.

It drove me crazy, because of the number of CDs, the fact it wasn't insured, plus they weren't my CDs.

I now require insurance on all LPs sold due to the damage inflicted by the USPS. I also learned that sending an LP in those small cardboard mailers via media mail is risky, due to the chance that someone may toss a 65 lbs. box of books on top of it at the post office. I now use larger boxes with padding, especially if it is an LP priced $20 or more. I mailed a huge box of CDs to Felser a few months ago and the thing got near his Pennsylvania home before journeying to Memphis, back to Chattanooga, Knoxville then finally his home. I recently tried to forward mail from a CPA firm to a previous owner of this house. Unfortunately, some bozo returned it to us instead of the CPA firm, clearly marked in the return address.

Timeless Jazz webcasts on Sunday from 3 to 5 pm ET at wutc.org. There is a second feed on the HD-2 station the following Wednesday from 10 am to 12 noon ET. No podcasts are available yet, though I have all the shows from this year downloaded to a portable hard drive. I am going to try to post playlists in advance for Timeless Jazz on a more regular basis. The program for November 3 focuses on Collectives, Anthologies, Tributes and Rarities. Artist/Band / Song / Album Paris All Stars / Steeplechase / Homage To Charlie Parker Contemporary Piano Ensemble / Valerie / The Key Players Howard McGhee, J. J. Johnson, Harold Mabern, Sonny Stitt, Arthur Harper Jr., Max Roach / Wee / Tribute to Charlie Parker Mel Tormé / Dat Dere / Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Open Country / Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual Dave Brubeck / Thank You (Dziekuje) / Piano Grand! A Smithsonian Celebration Donald Byrd, Curtis Guller, Julius Watkins, Sam Rivers, Cecil Payne, Tadd Dameron, Paul Chambers, Philly Joe Jones / Aloof Spoof / Blue Note Presents The Lost Sessions Kenny Burrell, Gene Bertoncini, Ted Dunbar, Rodney Jones, Jack Wilkins / West Coast Blues - Three Quarters Of The House / Project G-7 Tribute To Wes Montgomery Vol. 2 Joel Forrestor / Dr. Real / Fresh Air In Concert Timeless All Stars featuring Bobby Hutcherson / My Foolish Heart / At Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, 1982 Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Max Roach, Percy Heath, Hank Jones / Confirmation / The Bop Session Jimmy Rushing / Trix Ain't Walkin' No More / Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual Svend Asmussen, Tal Farlow, Howard Alden, Chris Flory, Bob Badgely / Nuages / The 1986 Floating Jazz Festival Bobby Watson, Fred Hersch / Soul Eyes / Last Night When We Were Young - The Ballad Album Dave Liebman & Richie Beirach / After The Rain/Naima / Tribute To John Coltrane - Live Under The Sky

HutchFan: I look forward to your upcoming blog. No matter how long any of us have been collecting, there are bound to be releases of interest that we never got to hear, overlooked or didn't know that they even existed at all.

Between 2003 and early 2019 I recorded a number of phone interviews with artists for transcription or articles. There's only so much space and I often have enough interview material and music to create 2 or 3 two hour programs. The hardest thing has been finding available studio time, as I can't do digital editing at home and the station has an active news department, student producers and staff competing for studio time..

I interviewed Harold Mabern in the past year or so and need to put together a program with his music. His enthusiasm was contagious.

I was present for both sets, Bill Charlap joined them on piano for set 2. Lots of fun, the audience at set 1 included George Wein, Rachel Domber (Arbors Records), Gwen Kelley (Hot House publisher), i had great fun. My first night in NYC I saw Kendra Shank wtth Frank Kimbrough and Dean Johnson at Mezzrow. Great music, though two airheads kept talking midway back in spite of several requests to shush. Kendra even left the band stand to address the issue. If Spike Wilner had been there he would have thrown those two airhead women out, the guy on duty was either clueless or lazy. I saw Dan Tepfer at an unusual midday session centered on meditation where he played several Bach inventions then improvised on them. The mediation was difficult, as the hard shell plastic chairs were uncomfortable and the leader was so soft spoken I could barely hear him, but I was there for the music. It's a shame that Dan didn't record the brief set, as one improvisation really stood out. My last light in town I was back at Dizzy's for both sets by Rufus Reid's big band. Reid's oriignals were a treat and the band was superb including: Vic Juris, Steve Allee, Scott Robinson, Steve Wilson, Ryan Keberle, Tim Hagans, Freddie Hendrix, Ingrid Jensen, Chris Beck and conductor Dennis Mackrel (the names that I remember). Too short a trip, but lots of stuff needing to be done back home. An added bonus: I was first in line and ended up with a front and center table, then I was joined by Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano and Kate Baker (vocalist and Vic Juris' wife) during the first set.