Ken Dryden

Could the saxophonist on the left be Patience Higgins? Ken Peplowski recorded on a Madonna album, though she wasn't present when he made his contributions. He laughed at her wretched vocals.

I am a bit surprised that the Stuff Smith Mosaic set doesn't sell for more. Mosaic had to quit offering it before their lease was up due to some contract issue. I guess he is too much of a fringe artist for jazz collectors today. Of all the high priced Mosaic Vinyl, the only one I bought was the Miles Davis Plugged Nickel when it was initially issued. I don't think the Columbia/Legacy box was out at the time. It is hard to justify paying premium prices for vinyl sets when I have the music on easier to use CDs. Maybe the next new thread idea: At what age do you plan to stop acquiring music and start selling it, if you don't have any heirs who would want it?

What puzzles me is how many people upload complete CDs that are still in print to websites like archive.org. I don’t know if we will see a massive FBI investigation of those individuals or not, but it is not worth the risk or the time to me.

The Nat King Cole definitely has an inflated price compared to its Discogs sale history. Mosaic was authorized to press 10,000 copies. The Mosaic boxed set market is like other collectables, many of them are thinly traded so if you want to sell them quickly, as when liquidating an estate, you might not even get what they have sold for on average. That said, the Maynard Ferguson has been selling for $400 to $500 and more for some time. I get the idea that Mosaic didn't come close to selling their allotment before their license deal expired. Years ago I was in Jazz Record Center in NYC and Fred Cohen had all three volumes of the Commodore Recordings priced as a set for $2400. Since then I've seen both the Cole and a single volume of the Commodore set sell for under $200 on ebay. Anytime I have anything to auction, I feel that I need to set a floor price to protect my investment. I bought a long out of print Japan-only Clark Terry LP for $1.99 plus shipping from Japan, there were no other bids. It easily should have fetched $20 or more.

I've always considered this cover low budget by a third rate artist. Both men look like post-nuclear mutants and are shown playing guitar left handed.

The founder of the label died of a sudden heart attack and the label was soon after sold to Mack Avenue Music Group. It became one of those many legacy labels that will see no more new releases. I think that most of the piano CDs are still in print, though I am not too sure about the vocal CDs.

Maybe we need to revive the worst album cover thread.

Hopefully Monk was amused. I remember reading that someone suggested that Cannonball Adderley be photographed cannonballing into a pool, but that idea was shot down in a hurry.

What, no Archie Sheep: Ba Ba, Blackbird?

I think that Saving Private Ryan took a lot of the fun of kids playing army after seeing the violence depicted on Omaha Beach. There's nothing glorious about a lingering death from being disemboweled by a shell or mission gun

Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy slept with a .45 pistol under his pillow. I remember reading that he also didn't respond well to being awakened suddenly. I can't imagine what horrors combat veterans witnessed and I believe most of them are trying to purge them from their minds versus talking with anyone who never were in combat themselves. I need to revisit the World War II museum in New Orleans, they've added a lot since I toured it when it was still the D-Day Museum.

I saw the update and didn’t add the link promptly. Mea culpa.

Probably the first version I remember hearing was Don Grolnick's Blue Note recording of it.

I owned both of these recordings as LPs, but wanted to upgrade to digital. In Berlin was only issued in Europe on LP.

Here is a complete set list, including the quartet set preceding the octet: St. Louis Blues The Crossing All My Love Porque No? Travelin' Blues Dave discusses the octet Curtain Music Dave talks The Way You Look Tonight Dave talks You Go To My Head Laura Love Walked In Take Five CJF Commentary Take the A Train Dave Brubeck - piano Bobby Militello - alto sax Michael Moore - bass Randy Jones - drums Bill Smith - clarinet (7-15) Eric Schneider - tenor sax (7-15) Audrey Morrison - trombone (7-15) Art Hoyle - trumpet (7-15) Russell Gloyd - conductor (7-15) Taylor Eigsti - piano (11-15) Jeff Lindberg - octet transcriptions

If anyone is interested, I have the Dave Brubeck Octet (recreated for the 2001 Chicago Jazz Festival) broadcast, featuring an original member with dave, Bill Smith. Van Kriedt's charts were presumed lost and had to be recreated from recordings for the concert. Fortunately there are no annoying announcers talking over the music, as the Montreux-Detroit broadcast was notorious for doing at the top of the hour, no matter how famous the artist/band on stage was.

Out June 14.

I have an extensive bluegrass collection, including a lot of Tony Rice. I got to see him twice with Norman Blake, though it was after his voice turned gravelly. He was a fine singer and he died too young. How many bluegrass instrumentalists record something like "Nardis," very few, I would bet.

It's funny how this thread went from rock to bluegrass, though the recordings cited are terrific, especially the Tony Rice Unit.

How not to attend a bond hearing... The judge's reaction to the defendant's answer is priceless. https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-judge-astonished-how-man-shows-up-virtual-hearing-driving-suspended-license-charge

I would rather listen to any of Grant Green’s recordings made for Alfred Lion than the post-Lion funk made after Blue Note was sold.

I remember a cartoon featuring two centaurs waiting out a thunderstorm in a cave with one saying, “Ain’t a fit night out for man and/or beast…”

Good riddance to an Eric Gregg clone whose strike zone was twice the width of his fat ass.