Kevin Bresnahan

The Tubby Hates was pretty phenomenal. The LP-only box of the Rendell-Carr material was pretty good too.

I know it's still a little while before the show, but I bought tickets to take my two daughters to see pianist Alex Minasian at Jimmy's in Portsmouth on July 17th. He's bringing in a quintet featuring Craig Handy & Bill Pierce on saxophones, Vince Dupont on bass and Aaron Seeber on drums. Seeber is the only one I haven't seen play live before. There were still plenty of good seats available and unlike many of the shows at Jimmy's these tickets are fairly affordable. Not cheap at $47, but not like some of their prices. Plus, you can always buy a cheap seat at the bar if you don't need to be in the main listening area. Some of those seats can actually see the stage. Link for tickets to see the Alex Minasian quintet at Jimmy's

I've never heard this one. I'll have to find some YouTube videos to sample.

The problem with these stats on discogs is that even if that $125 sale was a partial box, it goes in as a "sale". I'm pretty sure this is what depressed the value of the Buck Clayton Mosaic box. Quite a few partial sets sold over a long period, which not only drove down the Low price but also the Median. Pretty soon, that box that used to regularly sell for over $300 now sells for under $100. Discogs has it's pluses & minuses.

I think only Jim A can do it. I looked into it a while back and i don't have much more ability than Jim S. I can add new members but that's about it.

I have the Clifford Jordan but it's going for stupid money on discogs.com, which doesn't mean it's selling for stupid money on discogs. I literally have no idea what to ask for it.

At 78 (79 in October), it's not hard to believe that he's going to slow down a bit. At least he hasn't gone the route of other aging stars like Benny Golson or Lou Donaldson, whose last 10 years or so of tours were pretty much the same show over & over. Even Johnny Griffin did it to a certain extent.

I have to wonder if you'd get more replies if you told us what you're willing to pay.

Kinda hard to agree with this when this box is impossible to hear. I tried to join IAJE just to buy this and their website was a mess and I couldn't find any way to buy it. There's not even a download available.

I actually really like Springsteen's music but as much as I like to support the guy, the pre-order pricing for this box is nuts. As I said, when the price on the used market gets to around $50, I'm in. Until then, no way.

$37 per CD?!?!?! Are they kidding? https://www.amazon.com/DP/B0F2LCMLBX I'd be willing to pay $7 per CD but there's no way I'd drop $265 to hear sessions that Springsteen wouldn't even release when he cut them.

I finally picked up a copy of Tyner/Henderson Live at Slugs.

Dannie Richmond - The Last Mingus Band A.D. (Landmark/Gatemouth). Great stuff from Jack Walrath, Ricky Ford, Bob Neloms & Cameron Brown.

$200? $40 per LP for records that I've seen in the used bins for under $10 before prices went nuts about 5 years ago? When it gets down to $100, I'm in. I only have a couple of these and they're pretty good, but not $40 good.

Um... why the bump? That site hasn't been updated since 2006.

I just finished watching "Sly Lives (aka The Burden Of Black Genius) and I left it feeling a bit bummed out to see his decline laid bare like this. It was a bit weird to hear George Clinton chuckle about him & Sly getting hooked on crack cocaine. Really George? You think that was funny? I never knew Sly was a DJ and a record producer before he formed The Family Stone. I guess that's likely because by the time I was getting into his music, all that was in the news by then was all of his drug arrests. To see what he did in a relatively short period of time was quite eye-opening. I did get a chuckle the first time that Mark Anthony Neal's face showed up on the screen. They say everyone has a doppleganger. Neal's would definitely be retired NBA player Paul Pierce.

They've pretty much taken over Facebook's "reels". Those things pop up in my feed all the time. Stuff like an alligator eating a snake... generally things that makes you go "What?!?! No way!" is likely AI.

Not a bad cover as covers go...

I think Blue Note's business model is to make money and to do that in today's music market, vinyl is it. I don't and can't blame Blue Note for the CD market's slow death. I actually blame the loudness wars and the audiophile market more than anything. Far too many never accepted that a CD can sound better than an LP, no matter what people do to show them this. Once the overly-loud CDs started appearing, it was the foothold these people needed to say, "See! CDs sound like shit," never mind that it was the result of shitty mastering and not the digital medium. The latest kerfuffle over Mobile Fidelity using hi res DSD files as their masters for LPs showed that this mistaken disdain for all things digital is never going to go away. Even though these LP releases were pretty much universally lauded by everyone who heard them, the dyed-in-the-wool audiophiles are still howling over being fooled and are now claiming that they sound terrible. The emperor has no clothes.

Kenny Burrell - On View At The Five Spot - The Complete Masters. Disc 2 is taking forever to rip. It's like there's something weird going on with the disc. It's been on track 6 for about 5 minutes.

Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge (Capitol). Spinning the new Tone Poet LP. I love this album so I just had to get this new cut to see how it came out. So far, I'm digging it a lot. Great bass on this but that's to be expected with a Kevin Gray Tone Poet LP. He definitely pushes the limits for bass response for these LP cuts.

I practically wore out my LPs of "Endless Summer" when I was younger. We played it all the time when it was hot out. Summer music for summertime. I only saw The Beach Boys once and it was a long time ago. I don't remember it being very good. I wish I got to see them in their prime.

I got an order in from Euclid Records. First time I've bought from them in a long time. Junko Onishi - Baroque (Verve) Benny Carter - BBB & Co (OJC) Cornell Dupree - Bop 'N Blues (Kokopelli) Dannie Richmond - The Last Mingus Band A.D. (Landmark)

Lon's tiny font posts are practically unreadable on my laptop screen.