Kevin Bresnahan

Hank Jones also played harpsichord on his Impulse! LP "Happenings". I am not a fan of it and from the face Hank made when I handed him the LP to sign, he didn't either, asking me, "Did you really like this"? I replied, "I thought the black part of the cover would look good with you autograph on it". He smiled and signed.

I'm hesitant to use SSDs for long term backups, as I've read that they should stay powered up or they can lose data. It makes sense when I think about it. Currently, all of my SSDs are attached to PCs that I leave on mostly all the time to save wear & tear on the internal hard drive. I've had good luck (knock on wood) with internal hard drives. That being said, I always have a back up HD with my system image on it in case that changes. My third backup SSD drive is not really being set aside as a backup. I have it attached to a Raspberry Pi mini PC that I have Volumio on and I use it as a music player in my main listening area. I access the music using my laptop web browser to access Volumio and it's pretty good. A bit cludgey with my large music collection and it doesn't find every single folder so I won't say it's perfect, but it works well for me. Total cost was about $225, including the external 1 TB SSD.

The links still work if you don't have these tunes. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the 3 Pledgemusic tunes in a recent PC switchover & I never did print out the artwork so that's gone too.

4 TB for under $100: https://www.newegg.com/seagate-ironwolf-st4000vn006-4tb/p/N82E16822185030

The thing that's weird is that the action of playing music off of that external hard drive should be enough to keep it playing anyway. Usually they only go to sleep when there's no activity. I actually used an external hard drive at work in my office for years & I never had an issue with it shutting down mid-play. I did have it "disappear" when I'd go to play some music off of it after a period of inactivity but never when it was playing. On my Windows PC at home, I only use external drives to back up my music & data though. On my Windows mini tower PC (I know - who has a mini tower these days?), I installed a second 1 TB internal hard drive (not RAID) that I use as an internal "external" hard drive that I only use for my music. Because it's on the internal PC bus, it's faster and it never shuts down due to any power saving features. Internal drives like this are really cheap these days. BTW - on my Windows PC, I use the old "Windows Media Player" app to play my music. As dated as it is, it handles a huge library like mine better than any other music playing app I've tried - and I've tried a lot of them.

If this new PC is a Windows machine, you change change the power setting so that the external HD never goes to sleep. It's probably under the USB power setting where it asks if you want to shut off USB ports to save power. You'll get a nag message when you turn it off but just ignore it. I turn off pretty much all of those power savers because of things like this.

Did this ever get released? If it did, I must've missed it. Michael Cuscuna told me that he put out that John Patton Mosaic Select box set to help Thelma pay off some of John's medical bills. I wonder if it helped? And whatever happened to Soul Stream (Mike Flanigin) here on the forums?

I've recently got a Raspberry Pi streamer working in my main listening area with a 1 TB SSD drive that most of my music on it in Q0 VBR mp3 format. I've been using this for about a year now and I'd guess I'm using this more than any other playback mechanism.

The designer of the cover of the original LP, Richard Mantel, clearly didn't honor Don Hunstein's copyright on that photo, as he didn't even give him credit in the liner notes. Of course, he made sure he got design credit.

It was likely taken at a 1957 session?

If you're curious, here's an un-cropped photo.

While there are other pictures of Mobley with that striped shirt, there aren't many pictures of him with glasses. Except...

Just finished spinning Tina Brooks - Minor Move (Tone Poet). Now up, Cannonball Adderley - Live At The Lighthouse (Riverside). This is a good one. I forget how much fun this record is until I spin it again. I'm hearing that the Tone Poet series might be doing some Capitol titles in the coming years. As this is one of the Riverside dates that Cannonball took to Capitol, it would be an excellent choice.

It was closed for a long time. Did they renovate the club at all? Maybe put in some comfortable seats? My first show isn't until next March 9th (Danilo Perez).

Richard "Groove" Holmes - Get Up & Get It! (Prestige). I wanted to like this date more than I did. This is my second time playing it & my opinion hasn't changed much. It has a killer band with Groove, Pat Martino, Teddy Edwards, Paul Chambers & Billy Higgins but they don't always sound like they're on the same page. There are some good things on here. The blues on side 2, Groove's Blues Groove (B2) is nice. The title track has it's moments as does Broadway, but I am really not a fan of their cover of Pennies From Heaven (B3) and from Teddy's solo effort here, it sounds like he wasn't either. It also has some weird multiplexed organ stuff during Groove's solo that sounds awful. It's like Van Gelder split the feed and delayed one channel versus the other but reduced the delay as Groove kept going. And Groove hits this sustain note during the out chorus that makes me think he's just fucking with my dog. The other tune that just didn't sound great was Teddy's original (A2) Lee-Ann. I didn't find it to be a good attempt at a bossa tune & Groove's organ effects (Van Gelder's?) really don't fit the tune. So I guess it's just 2 out of 6 tunes that I wasn't digging.

Great session. I have the vinyl as well but I find myself playing the CD a lot more frequently. It sounds wonderful on CD and the bonus tracks are fun.

I'm kinda glad I stopped following NCAA football years ago. It was stuff like this that did it for me back then. The refereeing in the NFL has me close to dropping them from my watch list these days too.

It has been reported by his daughter Mika on his Facebook profile that board member Mike Schwartz passed away November 13th. Mike was a longtime DJ on KSJS and posted his show's guest list here from time to time: He hasn't posted here since 2014 but I had continued to interact with him on Facebook.

Albert King - Live Wire/Blues Power (Stax/MFSL).

Such a fun CD. I haven't played that in a while.

Open baffle speakers wouldn't work for me. My wife would not be a fan of the open back look. She doesn't like that I have to have speakers in the room at all, so these would definitely not be allowed in my living room. Also, I hope you don't have little children. I had enough trouble keeping dust cones from being pushed in. I can't imagine what they could've done with loose wires hanging off the back.

Gonz (Jerry Bergonzi, Bruce Gertz & Bob Gullotti) - Front End (Not Fat Records). 1988 recording on Gertz's own label and seemingly only released around the Boston area. Gullotti really makes this date go and he is sorely missed around here. I have yet to see The Fringe without Gullotti in the drum chair.

Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet - Dusk Fire (Columbia-UK/Jazzman). Last one from the box. I like this one the best. Don't know why but I definitely felt myself listening a lot harder to this one.

As I type this I'm spinning Benson's "Breezin'", which to me is straight-up smooth jazz. The guitar playing is smooth. The strings are smooth. The vocals are smooth. It sold like crazy, so George made a living playing music, unlike a lot of others. I can't blame him for making a few bucks playing his guitar, though I imagine the rest of career being reduced to playing these same tunes couldn't have been great.

I don't get why everything these days needs to good or bad. It's all I hear about on the news. What is happening to nuance? The world is not binary. I enjoy some of George Benson's vocals. I also dislike some of them. Some are pretty good and others are pretty bland. Do I prefer his guitar playing? Sure, but that doesn't mean that I don't play the vocal tracks.