Kevin Bresnahan

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!

A recent Jazz club started on the northern Mass/southern NH border, http://www.jockosjazz.com, isn't listed. I've been seeing some great Jazz there. Just saw Gerry Bergonzi there last week.

Hmmm... does AMG have someone here at Organissimo?? When I posted yesterday, they had a picture of some long-haired white guy in Clay's listing. Now it has Clay. Anyway, Hank is selling Clay's hard-to-find Antilles CD, "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" in this thread for 8 bucks! This is a very nice CD. With a rhythm section of Cedar Walton, David Williams, and Billy Higgins, I expected and got some great Jazz. It's certainly well worth $8. Kevin

Check out AMG's picture of Clay!! Morons.

Dang it! Am I ever gonna get my hands on an RVG of "Dippin'"?

I stopped donating to my local library. It seemed like every Jazz CD I'd donate to them would end up on the "For Sale" rack in the front of the place. So I donate them a CD and they sell it for a quarter... what's the point of that? Instead, if I don't trade it in, I give it to someone who's interested in Jazz. I figure that way I have a better chance of creating another fan. Dmitry, go back in a month and see how many of these CDs and DVDs wind up on their shelves. You may be saddened at the result.

FWIW, the Connoisseur CD of "Face To Face" has two alternate takes. Also, I think this is one of Ron McMaster's better remasters. I don't think you'll have any regrets buying this version.

PRICE REDUCED Gotta get these CDs off my trade pile. Shipping in the US is $2. International $3. $10 Baby Face Willette "Face To Face" (Blue Note) - Connoisseur CD. NM all around. *SOLD* $5 each McCoy Tyner "New York Reunion" (Chesky) - with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Al Foster Nat Adderley "Work Song" (OJC) - with Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones or Keter Betts, Percy Heath and Louis Hayes Jim Ferguson "Deep Summer Music" (A Records) - SACD hybrid (plays on standard CD players). with Chris Potter, Stefan Karlsson and Jim White *SOLD* PM me. Multiple requests will be decided by the time/date of PM. Kevin

I have 3 of them: Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis - Conrad Herwig Nonet Live at the Blue Note - Roberta Piket Trio Return to Form - Onaje Allan Gumbs All three are very good but I would give two thumbs up for the Herwig. Well worth picking up. Only negative about it is that it comes in a flimsy digipak. Kevin

This print has been signed by Fred Anderson and Henry Grimes!!! Mark, Being a B&W print, did you get the signatures in silver? I have a few B&W's signed in silver and they look phenomenal. Kevin

Marla, In the start menu, click All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->System Restore Follow the directions and restore your system back to the time before all this stuff happened.

True, but as I said above, be careful... Microsoft seems to think music burning-PC users want their audio "flat" so they futz with the levels to give you what they "think" you want. I can't tell you how many people have used several of Microsoft's "free" (like you didn't paid anything for XP?) burning packages only to find out that the levels are all screwed up. Stick to EAC and you'll be alright. THERE IS NO BETTER .WAV BURNING PROGRAM THAN EAC... and it's free to boot. If you want to burn audio, use EAC. I use Roxio's EZ-CD Creator for data. Kevin

The only tool I use these days to make backup copies of my CDs is Exact Audio Copy. It is really the only app that makes exact audio copies. Beware using Windows Media Player to make back-ups... it defaults to turning on normalization. Makes many CDs sound like crap after. Note: during installation, it asks for a LAME encoder - you do not need to have a LAME encoder, so ignore that. The steps to use EAC are pretty simple. After installing, it goes through and sets up your drives. Stick to the default settings to start. Once it's up & running, simply click Action-> Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet-> Uncompressed. After the disc is backed up to the harddrive, put a blank in your burner and then select Tools-> Write CD-R... This brings up the CD Layout Editor. In this window, click File-> Load CUE Sheet and click on the CUE sheet you created with the first step. After it loads, click CD-R-> Write CD... Remember, after you're done, you have to delete the huge files or you'll run out of disc space pretty quickly. Kevin

But Weizen, it's only 8 cups! My wife and I go through 8 cups in no time. I have to decide on our next machine soon. Our beloved Krups Crystal Aroma is nearing the end of the line and they no longer make it. When we bought this machine many years ago, I researched it on-line and this maker came out ahead due mostly to it's high-temperature water heating system. There seems to be a correlation between using very hot water and extracting the flavor out of the beans. How hot is the coffee right after being brewed with the Capresso MT500? Kevin

Hank Mobley's "Dippin'"? Finally! I have come so close to buying this from Japan so many times. One of my favorite Mobley dates. So funky and fun.

I can't pass up a chance to hear how RVG made "Further Explorations" sound... at least for $18. PM sent. Kevin

Aunt Ester? That looks like uncle esther in drag to me!

So what happened? Did "Rolling With Leo" find a new home? Kevin

Californian wine fan here... Although I do enjoy the Beaujolais Nouveau. I didn't relaize it needed to sit. I was always told to drink it asap as it would only go downhill after bottling. Hmm. Maybe I should pick up a couple of bottles and stash them?

As I sit here typing, I'm listening to mp3's of "Rolling With Leo" off my PC. Hey, I had to have these tunes at work. They lift me up when I'm sick of work. These Leo Parker Blue Note dates swing like mad. My foot starts 'a tappin' from the opening beat and by the end, I'm smiling. Parker's affinity for the blues helps a lot. The slower tunes don't come across as funeral dirges but real head-nodding blues vehicles. Play "Talkin' The Blues" and tell me your head ain't bobbin'! Play it, Leo, play it! Of course, it could be that I just love Leo's bari sound. He plays a bit like Hank Mobley plays tenor... just a hair behind the beat. Yeah, that's it... Leo's the "Hank Mobley of baritone". "Rolling With Leo" didn't sit in the can because it was a bad date but because Leo Parker died shortly after it was recorded, at least according to the liner notes. It even had a Reid Miles cover designed and it appeared on other LPs' inner sleeves showing upcoming releases. Later, Kevin Oh, I just love "Talkin' The Blues". Blow them blues, Leo!

I heard back from Ron McMaster that he has not used Sonic Solutions for nearly three years which would put the Grachan Moncur set (issued in 2003) right near or at the point he changed over to a Pyramix Mastering System. He mentioned a lot of other stuff but I didn't get his OK to post it all. One thing he did mention that I don't think he'd mind repeated is that when he remasters a tape he likes "staying all analog except for the very last part and that is the analog load into the computer with all of the eq settings etc. done in analog." So what I think Ron is saying is that he queues up the master on the machine and plays it back to adjust the sound he wants off the analog tape. After he tweaks it to make it sound right, he digitizes it using the Pyramix Mastering System. He doesn't futz with the sound in digital. Kevin

If I didn't have it, I'd buy it in a second for $20. This sucker never shows up in the used bins! And I must say, it's one of my favorite Blue Notes... well, both Parkers are up there for this bari sax fanatic. If you decide not to buy it, yes, it will eventually get reissued. However, it won't be for many months in the least. $20 is cheap for a rarity like this when you consider that many new releases sell at a $17.99 list. Heck, I once paid $32 for a Japanese Blue Note that I really, really wanted. BTW, the Japanese CD will be missing a bonus track. Kevin