Ken Dryden

I am up for another one.

The CD version is officially out in January.

My review copy arrived today.

I wrote the liner notes but don't have a copy yet.

There's an earlier book that I bought from someone on this board which has many of the outtakes of that photo shoot, along with some of Milt Hinton's photos from that day, a few of which were taken by his wife Mona, if I remember correctly.

I have patched directly to my CD recorder from my computer or Mac, though the one issue is the possibility of an internet interruption during recording. It always seems to pop up when recording a one time live webcast.

There comes a point when I question why I'm keeping something, particularly if it is a CD by an unfamiliar artist (with equally unfamiliar musicians) playing all originals, that has sat on a shelf unplayed for years. No offense to those who worked hard to write, produce and release a CD, but sometimes it helps to have a hook to get a writer to listen to it with a bit more urgency.

There is a program called youtube catcher which enables you to download both audio and video and listen offline at your leisure. Unfortunately the newer versions of this program are embedded with tons of nasty adware and unwanted b.s.

HutchFan: Did you take a mp3 player to Peru?

I thought Mosaic initially had trouble getting the rights to put together CD boxed sets, which is why some of the early ones were LP only. Of course, they launched prior to the CD era, in 1983.

My big pet peeve was reissues of two LP sets or compilations of two individual LPs with one or more tracks omitted due to the lack of capacity on a single disk. Other things included keeping LP graphics that mentioned side A & B and replacing original covers with inferior or erroneous artwork (the infamous flipped negative on the first CD edition of Kind of Blue). Yet I was thrilled to see many long unavailable LPs reissued intact at an affordable price.

When you are older than dirt, you should know it. Scott Yanow is one day younger than me but didn't...

I had a good laugh when l learned that my friend Scott Yanow was unaware of the joke behind Hefti's "Flight of the Foo Birds."

Being retired doesn't guarantee that I will make significant progress in getting through unheard CDs and LPs on a daily basis. A recent solo drive to Jackson, Mississippi knocked out a fair amount, but I don't spend enough time in my dedicated music library, which is 10 by 30 feet, with 31 feet of floor to ceiling shelving spread over two side walls, prefab units in the center of the room that hold 9,000 CDs (plus DVDs and boxed sets on the top shelves), plus three pieces of furniture that my parents had that I use to store LPs and CDs. I have no idea as to the totals at this time, though I could probably measure using an estimate a friend gave, 3 inches holds around 5 CDs.

John: I am interested in the following CD: Westbrook ,Mike – Mama Chicago (Jazzprint)(2CD) $8 Please ignore the emailed request for the Blue Mitchell, I already have it.

From the Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note 10 CD set.

Ken broke a finger when he grabbed a woman who nearly fell down the stairs on a jazz cruise. He sounded great in May when we heard him twice in NYC with Dick Hyman. If anyone is up early this Saturday, you can hear a radio special I produced to promote the concert, which includes part of an interview from earlier this month. The website is WUTC.org.

We (my wife and I) are producing a concert featuring Ken Peplowski with Chattanooga pianist Danny Sample (an old friend, of Donald Brown and most of the famous Memphis jazz pianists). They are reprising their 1993 meeting in Chattanooga, this time as a duo. The concert will take place at New Monumental Baptist Church at 6 pm EDT on Saturday, October 27th. Tickets are available at EventBrite.com and all proceeds benefit Volunteers in Medicine, which supplies no cost health care to uninsured residents below a certain income level. If anyone would like more details, please PM me. I realize that most of the forum participants may be outside of the area, but if you know of any jazz fans in Atlanta, Nashville, Knoxville, or Huntsville, it might be worth the drive for them.

I have nothing but good things to say about Stuart Kremsky, as I contributed liner notes to several CDs which he compiled or was involved in uncovering from the Fantasy vaults. I have no idea why a conglomerate buys a company dominated by jazz then feels the need to delete nearly everything and start recording and issuing almost anything but jazz. It is the equivalent of buying a four star gourmet restaurant and replacing the menu with greasy fast food.

Don't hold your breath waiting for Concord to issue any vault gems, as they have almost entirely abandoned such projects.

I have an obscurity for you: Jimmy Rowles recorded Branislaw Kaper's "Theme From Arrest & Trial" (an early 1960s lawyer drama, i only remember the promos for it back then). It is on his Kokopelli CD Lilac Time. Of course, Clark Terry recorded "Meet the Flinstones" several times....

The worst umpire in my lifetime has to Eric Gregg, who assured the Marlins a playoff victory over the Braves with an ever expanding strike zone that gave Braves hitters two choices: swing at balls a foot off the plate or take them for called strikes. Thankfully this joker took part in a strike and was not among the rehires.

I have it but I don't remember. I've got to go down two flights to my library, fire up the laptop and check it.

Eubie Blake studied the Schillinger system during the 1940s.