Ken your writing and journalism skills show in these interviews with fred. Intelligent questions that most of us would like to know the answers to from a respected man in the jazz community. Please do more!
Hey Ken. Once again, another outstanding series from you. I get excited each time I receive an email notification in my inbox from you and rush to open it immediately! Your contribution to the music loving community and jazz in particular is off the chart and I can't thank you enough.
Bravo Sir Ken, you've surpassed yourself with both parts of this brilliant interview with Fred Cohen of Jazz Record Center. Please keep them coming and Happy Listening, my friend!
Great interviews. Loving it. I collect Blue Note records, been collecting for about 10--15 years. It might sound crazy, but I was first drawn to collecting Blue Note records because of the sleeves, not the music! I'm a graphic designer, and always admired the Reid Miles' sleeve designs. Through buying for design sakes, I ended up falling in love with the music!
Loved these two interviews with Fred - he is a true gentleman. He opened up and played a couple of songs off the Thelonious Monk Les Liason Dangereuese album for me when I was there buying a stack of new and used records.
Another good one. Recently finish reading biography on Ellington by Terry Teachout. My take away was Ellington was complicated guy who was misunderstood. Like the a Libertys. Godfather of Jazz?
"DANG!" I knew Fred was going to lay down some industry inside info. So the Liberty copies are the best sounding versions of the old Blue Note pressings. That's helpful info since those copies are reasonably easy to find and usually affordable. "Fingers crossed for PT. 3"
