Ken Dryden

"Children's Icicle Song" appears on a Christmas Jazz anthology I own, perhaps one of the McPartland Piano Jazz Christmas CDs.

The ultimate foul-up by Richard Bock is the mess he made with Jim Hall's Pacific Jazz album. Editing out many of Carl Perkins and Red Mitchell's solos, then adding the overdubbed drums of Larry Bunker for a later edition. Some people should not be allowed anywhere near editing equipment.

It sounds like one of those cases where it is going to depend what was written in the original contract. I'll leave it to the lawyer's as my opinion isn't needed.

I think that ArtistShare offered some bonus download only music with the multi disc Jim Hall set, so if it is still available from them, it might be worth getting it directly from ArtistShare.

If Scarecrow put it out, it would stay in print for years.

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You would have thought this book would have been a perfect fit for Scarecrow Press, which published Terry Gibbs' ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award-winning memoir. The download excerpts of Phil's 'Life in E-Flat' and his terrific Phil in the Gap column for the Al Cohn Memorial Newsletter were very entertaining.

I am reminded of the story of jazz violinist Joe Venuti opening the floor to requests and a woman promptly asked for "Feelings." His response was "'Feelin's'? Why that's the worst $%^&!!! song I ever heard. That's it no more requests!" I am pretty sure that story appeared in Bill Crow's Jazz Anecdotes. "Feelings" has had a lot of competition for worst song over the past 4 plus decades...

Glad I picked up the boxed set years ago before the label deleted so much good stuff.

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.