Ken Dryden

I will likely post the reveal for BFT171 sometime between 7 am and 10 am EDT tomorrow morning.

Ouch. I'm still awaiting some guesses on a few tracks in BFT 171. #2 seems to be a stumper, while there are a few I'm surprised no one has identified at least the composition.

My issue with the 3 CD Monk anthology is that one disc never stays put on its rubber spindle. It ranks with the Bill Evans Complete Verve box (with the damned rust outside) and the Charlie Christian Columbia box (4 CDs set in a ceramic like base) as proof that some people have no business designing CD packaging.

A good compilation, but in a poorly designed package. Evidently the designer didn't actually collect CDs.

I've been on a pipe organ kick lately and I finally got around to hearing this CD tonight:

Wait for the reveal or keep guessing...

What do your ears tell you?

Less fun when you don't get any older...

It was close enough that I identified it when I first played the CD, without looking at the track list. That works best for me, as it makes me pay closer attention.

Jazz Messengers has it. I had long wanted to hear it and was unaware of the John Coltrane piece being on it.

You nailed it. I just picked up a Phono CD of this recording. I thought Paul Gonsalves playing a John Coltrane work would be of interest.

He did indeed.

Not Ran Blake on track 2. Track 3 isn't exactly a jazz standard, but it has been recorded a few times, including by one of the other as yet unidentified artists in this BFT.

I agree, I've enjoyed it since reviewing it for Cadence when it was released.

Identify the song and you will find the recording. Keep guessing about track 2...

I finally made it to Smalls but have yet to visit Mezzrow. I have to take my wife to a few Broadway shows, it can't be all jazz...

I am watching a live webcast from Mezzrow featuring Gene Bertoncini and Rufus Reid.

It is Ben Webster on track 14. You have found the correct CD for this version of "The Peacocks." Track 2 is going to surprise some folks. Track 3 is Paul Gonsalves. Now what is the composition? Track 4 is Eric Dolphy on clarinet. Track 7 is correctly identified by title. Track 11 is correct, I had no idea it had been used previously. I went to the link you provided then clicked on the allmusic.com link and was surprised to find my review of this CD attached to a different CD by Toshiko Akiyoshi with a similar title. During my 14 years of writing for them, I found that the data entry folks frequently had no idea what they were doing, while the editors would randomly change star ratings, so a glowing review might end up with 3 stars. Track 13 is Just Friends. Track 14 is Ben Webster, but Art Tatum is not the pianist, this track was recorded after Tatum's death. ________ Keep those guesses and comments coming, everyone!

Having spent a good part of my career in public radio, I understand management thinking but don't agree with it. No matter what you put on a Saturday or Sunday night to replace a jazz program, it will likely draw no more listeners, raise fewer dollars and cost you more to produce, unless you are airing repeats of earlier broadcasts or switch to overnight automated satellite programming. My old station automated the weekends, though there are still a handful of local shows airing. I don't count on them being around much longer given the job description for the new manager they were seeking. He has only been in place a week or two. Glad I retired and got out of that political mess. Any time the university licensee starts to dictate programming, they foul it up...and that's not the word I would use offline.

No.

Phil Woods is playing clarinet on track 8. Track 9 is from an old favorite. I attended a prerelease concert featuring most of the music from this CD. Keep your thinking cap on for the rest of the tracks.

Obviously there is no such thing as a complete jazz discography anywhere. I reviewed one CD-Rom edition of Lord's Jazz discography and bought a couple of later editions and there's always going to be older stuff that is missing or incorrectly listed. For example, when I wrote liner notes for Jaki Byard's The Last From Lennie's, the CD producer sent me all of the leftover music that was not placed on the CD or on the earlier live releases (Live! Vol. 1 & Live! Vol. 2, plus the compilation Live!). None of it was present in Lord's discography at that time.

I bought it from Jazz Messengers recently and haven't had the chance to play it, part of the growing backlog of unheard music.

Most CDs of Beethoven's Ninth easily fit on a single CD that I've seen. The LP era was another issue. Either the movements were spread across two LPs or one was faded midway and faded up on the second side, which was about as enjoyable as the resequencing, fadeouts, omissions or long silences on 8 track tapes, which I never collected in any volume. I do find that second and third tier artists generally wear out their welcome faster and don't generally put out 75 minutes of music worth hearing in one sitting. I am probably due for another purge, especially of all original CDs by artists whom I can't remember playing again since the first time I heard the CDs and made room for them on the shelves. Young artists are repeatedly getting bad advice from their teachers to "record your originals so you don't have to pay royalties." If you are a prolific, compelling composer that is one thing, but most twenty-somethings are hard pressed to have more than two or three originals that hold my attention in a single CD. Thinning out such CDs will make run for the stuff that will stand the test of time.