Ken Dryden

Here are the Duke Ellington DVDs I own. I have no idea which ones are still readily available: Duke Ellington Love You Madly & A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral Eagle Eye Media 39100 Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald Duke: The Last Jam Session Eagle Eye Media 39069 Duke Ellington The Big Band Feeling EForFilms 2869037 Duke Ellington Reminiscing in Tempo Gary Keys Productions adv Duke Ellington In Hollywood - Swing Era Idem 1029 Duke Ellington Copenhagen 1965 - Parts 1 & 2 Image 9548 Duke Ellington Live at the Tivoli Gardens 1971 - Parts 1 & 2 Image 9550 Duke Ellington The Intimate Duke Ellington Image 9551 Duke Ellington Berlin Concert 1969 Impro-Jazz 509 Duke Ellington Rare Video Footage (1929-1962) Legacy Entertainment 5004 Duke Ellington Memories of Duke MVD 855 Duke Ellington Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 1929-1943 Storyville 16033 Duke Ellington Montreal 1964 Video Artists International 4358

I have the following LPs available. If you are interested in any of them, let me know. I haven't had time to price them, though they will be reasonable. I am open to trades as well. Offers welcome, though a thorough description of LP and jacket conditionwill be provided on request. Clark Terry Quintet/Coleman Hawkins Quartet: The Eddie Costa Memorial Concert Colpix Charlie Byrd/Chuck Wayne/John McLaughlin/Bucky Pizzarelli & George Barnes/Joe Beck/Tiny Grimes: The historic Town Hall Concert Columbia 2 LPs, promo copy Paul Quinichette/Benny Green/Frank Foster/Joe Newman/Hank Jones/Kenny Clarke/Eddie Jones/Johnny Smith (Sir Jonathan Gasser) Jazz Studio 1 Jasmine (UK reissue) Coleman Hawkins/Roy Eldridge/Pete Brown/Jo Jones, All-Stars The Newport Years Vol. 4 Verve Xanadu Montreux Vol. 1 (Sam Noto, Ronnie Cuber, Dolo Coker, Sam Jones, Frank Butler, Sam Most, Ted Dunbar) Xanadu Xanadu Montreux Vol. 3 (Sam Most, Ronnie Cuber, Barry Harris, Al Cohn, Billy Mitchell, Dolo Coker, Sam Jones, Frank Butler, Ted Dunbar) Xanadu —— Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra feat. Lew Tabackin & Frank Wess Wishing Peace Ascent Eubie Blake Tricky Fingers Quicksilver Ran Blake Suthfield Gothic Soul Note Paul Bley Tango Palace Soul Note Bob Brookmeyer Quartet Oslo Concord Jazz Ted Brown Trio w/Hod O’Brien and Jacques Schols Criss Cross Jazz Doc Cheatham The Fabulous Doc Chetham Parkwood 104 Al Cohn Four Brass, One Tenor: The Jazz Workshop RCA France (Jazz Line) Chick Corea & Freidrich Gulda The Meeting Phillips (live) (Holland) Larry Coryell & Michael Urbaniak A Quiet Day in Spring Steeplechase Don Ellis New Ideas Prestige w/Jaki Byard, Al Francis, Ron Carter, Charlie Persip Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Ella And Louis Again Mobile Fidelity 2 LPs Carl Fontana The Great Fontana Uptown Chico Freeman The Pied Piper Black Hawk Terry Gibbs Espirit de Jazz Interlude 1007 Benny Golson Just Jazz! w/Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Ron Carter, Eric Dolphy & Grachan Moncur Audiofidelity 6150 Stephane Grappelli Tribute To Europe 2001 Johnny Guarnieri Gliss Me Again Classic Jazz 105 Jim Hall Live in Tokyo Paddlewheel/King (Japan) no OBI Sir Roland Hanna/George Mraz/Ben Riley This Must Be Love Audiophile Roland Hanna The New York Jazz Quartet in Chicago Bee Hive (w/Frank Wess, George Mraz & Ben Riley) Eddie Higgins By Request Statiras Dick Hyman Trio The Unforgettable Sound Of MGM Shelly Manne & His Men Jazz Gunn Atlantic Shelly Manne Plays Richard Rodgers (w/Lew Tabackin, MIke Woffford & Chuck Domanico) From the Broadway Musical “Rex” Discovery Warne Marsh All Music Nessa Jay McShann A Tribute to Fats Waller Sackville 3109 Charles Mingus Music Written For Monterey 1965 Not Heard… JWS/East Coasting J. R, Monterose Live in Albany Uptown Oscar Peterson Digital at Montreux Pablo Live Oscar Peterson + Harry Edison + Eddie Cleanhead Vinson Pablo Astor Piazzolla & Gary Burton The New Tango Atlantic (live at Montreux) Andre Previn, Herb Ellis, Shelly Manne, Ray Brown 4 to Go Columbia Red Richards & Friends (Norris Turney, Buck Clayton) In a Mellow Tone West 54th Sam Rivers Involution Blue No seam split, cut cornerte 2 LPs previously unissued at that time Hilton Ruiz Something Grand Novus sticker on cover Hilton Ruiz El Camino (The Road) Novus Phil Sunkel’s Jazz Band Every Morning I Listed to Phil Sunkel’s Jazz Band ABC-Paramount (cheesecake cover) Sissle & Blake’s Shuffle Along (archival re-creation through 1919-1921 recordings) New World Sonny Stitt & The Giants Night Work Black Lion cut corner w/Howard McGhee, Walter Bishop, Tommy Potter, Kenny Clarke Buddy Tate/Humphrey Lyttleton Kansas City Woman Black Lion cut corner Art Tatum Song of the Vagabonds Black Lion Art Tatum Pieces of Eight Smithsonian Billy Taylor Live at Storyville West 54th Clark Terry It’s What’s Happenin’ - The Varitone Sound of Clark Terry impulse! Lennie Tristano Quintet w/Warne Marsh & Billy Bauer Live at Birdland 1949 Jazz Records Eddie Cleanhead Vinson I Want a Little Girl Pablo Lee Wiley sings the Songs of George & Ira Gershwin & Cole Porter Audiophile 1 Billy Taylor Trio with Candido OJC/Prestige reissue, cut corner Denny Zeitlin Shining Hour - Live at the Trident (w/Charlie Haden & Jerry Granelli) Columbia cut corner

June works for me....

The booklet with the Dolphy set is comparable to Mosaic sets, but with many rare photographs that few people have likely seen as well. I hate to think how long it has been since I've played either one of his Douglas LPs, this music deserves wider recognition.

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.