Kevin Bresnahan

Yeah, you could mount that F: drive in another machine (or externally to another machine) and get the info off of it. However, if that drive fails, you won't be able to recover that info off of C: unless you have the system set up as a dual hardrive RAID. If these files are that important to you, you should have them permanently backed up on optical (CD-R or DVD-R) media. I recently switched over to DVD-R and I am amazed at how much information I can store in 4.7 GB. However, I have also found (rather painfully) that cheap DVD-R discs fail prematurely. Stick to Taiyo Yuden-made blanks and you should be OK. Kevin

The XRCD of this date is one of the best-sounding CDs ever made. It comes out of my speakers like I'm there. I also picked up a 24 bit-96 kHz DVD-Audio version on an expensive Japanese import and it sounds very similar to the XRCD. BTW, the Pablo CD says "Stereo" but to my ears, it sounds mono. If it's stereo, it's not panned very much. Was Granz experimenting with stereo in 1956? Kevin

No SACD layer just sucks. A label like Mosaic should be doing something to differentiate themselves and SACD is the way to do it. I see no reason to re-buy these sessions. Why would I re-buy Blakey's "Hard Bop"? For stereo? The mono sounds fine, thanks. JJ Johnson's "JJ!" on the Spanish RCA CD sounds very good to me. I just can't justify spending $15 each for these. Now, if these discs had an SACD layer, I'd be pre-ordering them NOW. Kevin

FWIW, effective July 2005, no cell phone service company can activate a cell phone in the US without a GPS locator circuit.

I had an MRI and they let me wear headphones to listen to some tunes. Luckily I anticipated this and brought some of my own CDs. Their "Jazz CD"? Kenny G! I am pretty claustophobic (having two older brothers stuff you into closets/hampers etc. will do that to you) but I just closed my eyes and listened to some tunes... just vegged out. Kevin

If I remember correctly Michael Cuscuna has said that this series won't be revived because of poor sales. I don't think it was Cuscuna who said that the West Coast Classics bombed. It was Tom Evered (tomatbluenote) who said it bombed. Cuscuna is still trying to get the PJ stuff out as evidenced by his work with Mighty Quinn. Kevin

This is one of my favorite CDs. I've been pushing this under people's noses for years. I didn't know it went oop. What a bummer. BTW, the US CD has 4 bonus tracks from a JATP show that adds to it's value over a Japanese reissue that'll likely stick to the original LP track listing. Later, Kevin

Back in the early days of CD, Toshiba/EMI in Japan issued The Beatles' "Abbey Road". I bought a copy since it was the first and only (at the time) release of any Beatles music. Over the years, EMI has released a remastered version of this title and this mastering is copied for every released version of this title all over the world. Well, it turns out that many listeners prefer this old Toshiba/EMI CD. It has a unique "black triangle" design, making it easy to spot. The prices on these black triangle "Abbey Road" CDs began to go through the roof. Of course, now that the value skyrocketed, it caught the eye of the bootleggers. eBay is now flush with these cheap knock-offs. It has gotten nearly impossible to know if you're getting a legit copy or a fake. The price for real copies has gone even higher, once proper legitimacy is established. What has eBay done to the bootleggers? Nothing. No matter how often people point it out to them, they allow these bootleggers to continue to sell their fakes. eBay's feedback system is broken. They refuse to address "feedback hostage taking" incidents. Sellers hardly, if ever, give feedback after the buyer fulfills their end of the bargain. Instead, they wait until the buyer leaves feedback first. That's bass-ackwards. Buyers know that they can't ding the seller for risk of getting a negative right back. One negative is enough to get your future buying ability killed. So bad sellers continue to get away with ripping off sellers. All eBay has to do is put in a system that requires a seller's feedback first. It would be a piece of cake. But eBay won't. They love their "Power Sellers", even if some of them are thieves. All eBay cares about is lining their own pockets. They care not if anyone gets ripped off. Kevin

I really like this date. Mobley shines. Great tunes too. However, the title track has that hi-hat squeek that just annoys the hell out of me. Of course, it might just be my ears. I seem to zone in on it and it just drives me nuts. BTW, I have owned the TOCJ, the JRVG and the US CD. All of them have the squeek. When I compared them all, I kept the JRVG. It's one of Rudy's better jobs.

WOW!! 1000 Yen for these? I paid waaaay more than that for Ervin's "The Book Cooks" back when it was first released in Japan.

Rita, I replied to your request for help over on Jazz Corner. Unfortunately, I am in Taiwan right now and I will be unable to help a lot because I will be in meetings most of the time. Kevin

I know what you mean, Jim... having Land instead of James Clay is not a bad thing at all.

I'm at work so I can't verify, but I believe James is only on one side of this LP. The other side has Harold land.

Yes. That is what I do. I am physically located across the ocean from my CD collection these days. But I already have a good part of it ripped to my hard drive. I just hook a one-pronged to two-pronged chord up from my computer to my stereo and presto! You can do the same thing with an iPod. John, what does "one-pronged to two-pronged chord" mean?? Are you talking about hooking up your mp3 music player? I think what Peter is asking is if you can hook up an external PC's hardrive directly to a stereo. I know of no way to do this. Most external hardrives hook up to the PC using USB, firewire or eSATA. I don't have a stereo that accepts any of these inputs and if it did, how would it "play" the files?

Is this download authorized by Hancock? It looks like a bootlegger's website.

Makes sense to me, John. If you were to buy an external HD and dumped a ton of important data to it and then shut it off and tossed it into a closet, ten years from now the bearing isn't going to fail. I have had great luck with my home PC hardrive. I never shut off the CPU. I only shut off the monitor. I have read that the most wear & tear on a hardrive is during the boot procedure. I has to grab thousands of files from all over the drive as fast as possible. It's this rapid jumping around that causes failures.

This is simply not true. I have many CD-Rs that are well over 10 years old. I have been using a PC burner since late 1994. I have several music CD-Rs and many system back up CD-Rs from then. I have never had one fail over time. I have had a couple of CD-Rs that failed right away, but both of those were backups done by someone else on cheapo, no-name blanks from CompUSA. One had the metal peel off when I left it in the PC's drive overnight. This is probably true. However, there are something like 6 hardrive makers left in the world and I have never heard of one using better bearings than the other. All of them seem to making their drives cheaper and cheaper. I see no way to know in advance which drive has better logevity than another. Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi, Toshiba... they all seem to have failures in the field. Magnetic media is pretty safe. I wouldn't rely on it exclsuively. It is slow as heck to pull the data off of it though. I wouldn't call it superior. My biggest concern these days is DVD+R media life. I switched my data back-ups to DVD+R a little over a year ago. Recently, I tried playing a DVD video that I had backed up to DVD+R. It kept stopping. It was burned a few months ago. Now I am worrying about my data back-ups. Kevin

Blame Mickey Mouse for the United States' current laws. It's his multi-billion dollar image that keeps getting the number extended. Since "Steamboat Willie" is once again coming up on public domain, you can bet Disney's lawyers are working Congress to get it extended again. Maybe what they should do is simply give Disney a special law to extend their copyrights to "infinity and beyond".

Lately, I've been following the links in the E-mails. I have a blast with them! Username: FUCKUAHOLE Password: EATSHITANDDIE Social Security number: 6666666666 Funny... none of the screens ever come back and tell me that my login information was incorrect. Next time you get one and you're really worried that it may be real, just follow the link and enter garbage. If it takes the garbage, you have your answer. However, E-mails never come from these services asking you to log in. They only point you to their website. Kevin

One time, I was on a Boeing 757 flight to DFW and when we came in, the pilot just floated the thing down onto the runway. It was so smooth, the whole plane broke out into applause. The flight attendant came on and said, "And after that beautiful landing by Captain Hornblower, welcome to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport." Damnest thing I ever saw. The pilot was out shaking everyone's hand as we left. I still don't know how he did it. I mean, it didn't even feel like the plane was slowing down, never mind touching down! It was a piece of work.

Very common coming into Philly. Very common. I swear they vector the planes into that place about 20 times. You wind up taking these huge, wing-dipping turns as you come in and the wind off the water seems to cause nasty turbulance. There was one long flight into Philly were this one woman lost it and it caused a whole section of the plane to lose it too. I was very happy that I was nowhere near her. Kevin

From 1995 to 1998, I logged a lot of flight time due to my job as the world wide apps engineer for a small firm. I have had many plane rides from hell. One of the worst was coming back from Dallas when Boston was having severe thunderstorms. The plane didn't board for almost 2 hours. The held us on the tarmac in Dallas for another 2 hours waiting for clearance at Boston. They should have just grounded us! As we approched Boston... well, an hour away from Boston... the plane was bouncing like crazy. We'd drop hundreds of feet and climb right back up. Stuff was falling out of all the overheads. People were barfing all around me. The smell made it hard to keep down my food. The plane wouldn't stop shaking. We slowly descended into Boston, with the plane shaking like a mechanical bull in a bar. I was swearing that if I ever got on the ground, I would never fly again. As we dropped down out of the clouds and I saw the lights of Boston, I was soooo relieved. Then - Wham! The plane aims straight up, more stuff starts falling out of the overheads, people are yelling "No!!" and we ride a bunch of bumps back into the clouds. The pilot comes on and says, "Well, they brought us in a little tight, we're going to have to come around again." AHHHHHHHH! Get me down! So we come in again, the plane shaking and bucking the whole way down. More people are losing it. The plane really smells... like fear. I swear even the flight attendants were praying. I was supposed to land in Boston at 8 PM. We landed at 1 AM. To make matters worse, the shuttle service stopped. I had to call their service and point out that I paid extra to have guaranteed pick up. I didn't get home until 4:30 AM. Now that was one hellish trip!! FWIW, I have been on many more bumpy rides. A lot of planes seem to have a rough time going into Philly. Some of those flights were pretty rough. I remember a flight back from Taiwan where they didn't allow the flight attendants in the aisles for almost 5 hours. That was so rough my friend got freaked out. But since that horrible trip early on in my flying days, I'd gotten used to turbulance. I just bring lots and lots of books and I keep on reading, no matter what's going on around me. It works. Funny this thread comes up tonight... I'm leaving next Sunday for a trip to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Boston-Chicago-Hong Kong-Kaohsiung out (about 24 hours total travel time) and then Kaohsiung-Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Shanghai-San Fran-Boston back. I am not looking forward to this! I better bring lots of books! Kevin

So Barbara's Kitchen Cafe, 388 Cottage Rd., South Portland, ME and Bridgeway Restaurant, So. Portland, ME are located where?? If you took the time to look at the link posted, you'd see there is Jazz in Southern Maine. Sometimes I just don't get your posts. Do you post these nonsensical things to look funny or something? If so, they aren't always funny.

Too bad CBS/Sony can't get all these out legitimately. I have all three and they're great. I won't be lining the coffers of Bootleg Lonehill though. I'll just keep spinning my vinyl of "Getting Into Something" for now.

is he jerry bergonzi's cousin? No, actually it's his cat!