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SF Chronicle Review/Article And we missed the book release party...at City Lights, no less! book release party Four pre-order sources, apparently: Barnes and Noble, Overstock, Buy.com, Deep Discount. Buy.com is cheapest at $24.35+$2.90 shipping.

I probably spent as much time here as I spent in school. I'll be picking this one up for sure.

E-Mail Received Today: A brief hello from the new publisher of Cadence, the Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music. Dear Cadence Magazine Subscribers: Hello, my name is David Haney. I have been a subscriber to Cadence Magazine. I am also a pianist and composer. Some of you may have read reviews of my music in Cadence. Over the past eleven years, I have successfully worked with Cadence to complete 14 albums for C.I.M.P. Records and Cadence Jazz Records. Recording for Cadence/CIMP has been a great boon and I have always appreciated Cadence‘s non-commercial approach. I now face my most daunting task: to maintain the standards of excellence established by the previous publishers, and to steer Cadence toward a new generation of readers in a viable format that ensures the future of Cadence, the Independent Journal of Creative Improvised Music. The content will remain the same, including columns and reviews from many of the existing Cadence writers. The format will change to include an online site hosting Cadence Magazine plus an annual print edition. The new Cadence contains a few new features such as “Jazz Stories - A Video History”; video interviews with living jazz masters. There is also a new section targeting higher educational needs with resources such as lesson plans, crosswords, and contests. I am excited at this new endeavor and hope you will be too. With over 25 years experience in magazine publishing, I have dealt with many of the same difficulties that Cadence has experienced. I am ready to go. I do need your help though. Cadence is a community and in this spirit, I need the readership to step forward. We need financial contributors and we need you to renew your subscription as soon as possible. We are accepting subscription pre-orders for the January 2012 launch date. CADENCE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION PRICES (includes First-Class shipping): Single subscription (online plus annual PRINT edition): One year: $65 / Outside USA: $70 Two years: $120 / Outside USA: $130

I just got a solicitation from Amazon.com, presumably based on their calculations of my "tastes". Subject: Blues & the Empirical Truth (sic) Are you looking for something in our Blues department? If so, you might be interested in these items. Blues & the Empirical Truth by Allen Lowe Price: $41.68 Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites by Jimmie Vaughan Price: $11.68 How I Go (Special Edition) by Kenny Wayne Shepherd Price: $15.78 Curious Case of Paddy Milner by Paddy Milner Price: $30.23 Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues by Wynton Marsalis Price: $9.99 Back to New York City by Popa Chubby Price: $11.68 The Late Show by Barry Levenson Price: $12.85 Low Down & Tore Up by Duke Robillard Price: $13.38 Yep, hard to imagine a more similar bunch of albums than this.

A couple of years ago, I came across a bookstore with a couple hundred old magazines from my formative years (roughly the 1970s and early 1980s): Jazz Magazine, A Different Drummer, Jazz Now, Jazz Journal and a couple of others that survived only a year or two. (Names escape me; they're in storage) I hauled off a hundred or so - all I could carry. I even "re-published" a Chuck Nessa interview from one of them:

Spoke too soon. Monk Day is apparently over. I guess I misunderstood KUVO's use of the term "day". So now we've got Jim Cullum's Riverwalk. Get me a CD!

Monk day on KUVO Denver too. Lucky me, since I have a radio, but my connection is too slow for internet radio. Here there's a bit too much "other people playing Monk", as opposed to the man himself. I'm re-living that not-so-golden moment in jazz history when everyone recorded 'Round Midnight.

Happy Birthday, oh Magnificent one!

Reading Goldmine magazine feature on the Pink Floyd reissue project that began September 27th and continues through February 2012. "Roger Waters and David Gilmour had continuous input into the "Why Pink Floyd" project, but it is (Nick) Mason who rediscovered many of the fine extras in this project, including a version of the song "Wish You Were Here" with the French jazz violinist, Stephane Grappelli, playing an atmospheric part at the song's three minute mark." "Grapelli is to some extent the jewel in the crown..." says Mason. I haven't found an online version of the article. I'm not a big post-Django fan of Grappelli, but I found this interesting.

Sam? You out there? You promised to play at my wedding. (Though I didn't promise to get married.) But seriously, Most is a fine flute player, but seek out some of his tenor work for a real treat. I believe there's some on the album with Mort Weiss, on But Beautiful, an album with Tal Farlow, the "Bird, Monk, Miles" album. Sorry to be short on details; I'm traveling and don't have access to my recordings, particularly those I only have on LP. And, he's a nice guy.

One more time! One more, once.

Well bummer. Just got into Denver. Driving from the airport to work, then work to my hotel, I passed by two of my favorite stores. Or, should I say, where they used to be. Jerry's Record Exchange: gone. Cheapo: gone.* * Or perhaps renamed and relocated - we shall see.

Boots Randolph. A bit more seriously, I'd have to go with Stan Getz. While he came out of Pres harmonically, he had a distinctive tone that many tried to emulate. And then he had the bossa thing that many others got into. (Even Hawk had a boss album.) So thinking strictly in terms of influence ... Dex influenced a few - Ricky Ford comes to mind. So did Wardell, one of the first to successfully blend Pres and Bird (...and a bit of Hawk, at times). Bit the list of Pres-influenced players goes on and on.

Happy Birthday!

Love Budd. My first thought - before I got to your mention on Earl Hines (another "great" in my mind) - I was thinking of one of my favorite Budd Johnson albums - Earl Hines/Budd Johnson. Or check out this onewith Mr. 5X5. I'll limit myself to just one more treasure, in concert. And this touches on just one aspect of a great, long career.

Ground up Charlie Parker 78s (only ones that had been unplayable before grinding).

I smear the foundation of my neighbor's house with peanut butter and Cheez Whiz. I did a quick web search for "cat urine" to see if I could buy some. Seems like everyone wants to get RID of it. Wouldn't a little of this scare off the mice? I guess that's the problem with mice: even the dumb ones are smarter than I.

Must be good. There's a used copy at amazon for $999.99 (plus $2.98 shipping) I refuse to pay shipping.

Another tenor player with a distinctive sound and phrasing is Ned Goold.

In terms of tone (mainly), I find tenor sax man Stephen Riley distinctive and enjoyable.