Kevin Bresnahan

The fact that I am not comfortable typing out the word means it is inappropriate. End of discussion. Seriously Dan, if you walked up to a black man and said, "N***** my man," you'd get punched in the face or worse. Yes, I get it that a black man can say this, but because no one else but a black man can say this, it's not something that should be used in today's world. Look, I watch a lot of standup comedy. Almost all black standup comics use the "n-word". Some, like Katt Williams use it excessively. I think they use it at times for the shock value more than anything. I have only seen one white comic use it & he does exclusively for shock value and he has received a lot of flack for it. https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/25/opinions/louis-ck-chris-rock-n-word-debate-love/index.html

Jim - in my profile at that forum, there's a button for "Account Upgrades". When I click on that, I see options for subscriptions. Maybe this forum software offers that? The forum that offers this uses XenForo not Invision though.

My daughter started watching football back in 2001 when the Patriots won their first Super Bowl and she has become a bigger fan than I am. She loves watching the game. I think that the NFL getting more women to watch their sport can only benefit the league going forward. And let's be honest here - a majority of the hatred for Taylor Swift has nothing to do with her new relationship with Kelce and a lot more to do with other aspects of her life which cannot be spoken of here.

This is it in a nutshell. I mean, c'mon, with that scene with Little holding a gun to his head as he says, "One move and the n----- gets it"... I'm surprised that it isn't bleeped. Funny as hell but I highly doubt you'll be seeing that played out on Broadway in today's world.

I don't get why so many people get their panties in a bunch over Taylor Swift. It's not like she was advocating for anything other than her boyfriend's team. The way I see it, she brought a lot of new football viewers, particularly young women, which can only be a good thing for that sport, which has a history of being pretty misogynistic.

When one becomes a forum supporter, they get a banner under their avatar. We used to get a small thank you gift from the team's pro shop, but that only happened for the first few years. I think the reason it works is because it is completely voluntary and simple in its implementation. I don't know that "no ads" is what you want as the benefit here, but you might be able to come up with something like maybe a free song download or two. It's way better than footing the bill yourself if the donations don't keep coming in.

I'm a member of a football forum and they offer an annual subscription for people who don't want ads while they surf the forums. I think it's $20/year and they offer an option to automatically charge you credit card for you. I & many others choose this and that forum has never had to have any fundraisers. Just a thought...

To this topic, Jim has posted on Facebook that the person who was re-doing the main organissimo webpage died suddenly & unexpectedly & she hadn't given him the login to go in a get the page back up. Hopefully he can get it working again. If anyone knows web design & wants to help, just message him.

Rudy used these 7.5 ips master tapes for the additional material, not the stuff that was originally released on LP back in 1957 (and maybe 1983?). He didn't elaborate on which tracks were from what tape but did say that this new set should sound incredible. I'm still thinking I'm going to get this new set.

Michael Cuscuna tells me that he actually found these 7.5 ips masters about 15 years ago and had Rudy Van Gelder use them for his CDs except for the LP master takes. He said the reason they used the 15 ips tape for the original LP tracks was too long to go into but from something Joe Harley said about this new reissue, it sounds like they didn't want to cut up those 7.5 ips tapes to reconstruct the original LP track order. So this new release will be the first time we hear the original LP tracks from these 7.5 ips tapes. It will also be the first time we hear all of them without RVG's mastering, which in itself may be a good thing.

I always considered it a cartoon more than art, although I can see why some would consider it art first.

Barney Wilen - La Note Bleue (IDA)

I have an appointment in May (1st available) with an audiologist followed by a visit with the ENT doc. We'll see what happens.

I'll be picking up the CDs. It turns out that they found the original 7.5 ips tapes and that's what they're going to be using for this reissue. Apparently, Rudy dubs these 7.5 ips reels over to 15 ips reels and those are what they've been calling the master tapes. These 7.5 ips tapes are straight off the soundboard, with no plate reverb added, so that alone has me thinking this is going to sound incredible.

Just finished - Red Garland - Red Alert (Galaxy). Noisy pressing. It looks spotless but plays with quite a bit of low-level crackle in spots. It probably needs a good cleaning but I never did buy one of those things. Now playing: Booker Ervin - Down In The Dumps (Savoy). I found a RVG cut from the late 70s. Record looks unplayed.

I wonder "Bandcamp Friday" works with downloads like these? I highly doubt that Stitt's estate gets anything from it.

Brothers Sun on Netflix was enjoyable. The previews come across as a gangster show, which it is, but it has some humor in it, if maybe more of the gallows type.

Let's see if these images stick...

In my experience, a blue screen of death is often an early warning sign that your hard drive is dying. If you want to keep using that machine, there are (free) programs that allow you to clone your existing hard drive onto a new one. I would not necessarily recommend doing that with a Windows 7 machine, but if that's what you have, that's what you clone. I have two backup hard drives with my current Windows 10 system cloned onto them. If my current hard drive dies, I can still get back up & running.

I asked Michael Cuscuna about this session and he says that the tape for this session hasn't been found. I assume this entry in the discography is from the tape logs.

Pierre Sprey was a whack-a-doodle but this is a great CD.

Searching for Jazz vinyl and I tripped on this one... sexual innuendo has been a part of the blues canon since the beginning but there's not much subtlety here - unless you count the cover shot. https://ebalunga.bandcamp.com/album/my-pussy-belongs-to-daddy After listening to some samples, I'm going to give this a shot - https://wojtekmazolewskiquintet-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-to-all

You are right on that. The 95 year expiration is just for video recordings. I was blinded by Steamboat Willie's recent appearance in the PD. This is what I found for sound recordings: Recordings first published between 1947-1956 are protected for 110 years. For all remaining recordings first made prior to February 15, 1972, protection shall end on February 15, 2067. Recorded after February 15, 1972, 95 years from publication or 120 years from recording date, whichever is shorter. Which is just ridiculous.

Pre-1962 is still bootleg in the US, but public domain in the EU. US PD is currently sitting at 1928.

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/the-complete-sonny-clark-blue-note-sessions/ According to this discography, there are a few sessions that have only been available on Japanese LPs as well as several tracks have only been available on 45 rpm singles. Japanese LPs: LNJ (J) 70093 Sonny Clark Quintets GXF (J) 3051 Blues In The Night GXF (J) 3069 The Art Of The Trio 45 rpm session: Sonny Clark, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass; Wes Landers, drums. Hackensack, N.J. November 15, 1958 Tk. 3 Black Velvet 45-1731 Tk. 4 I’m Just A Lucky So And So 45-1730 Tk. 5 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You 45-1731 Tk. 8 Ain’t No Use 45-1730 Tk. 9 The Breeze And I 45-1729 Tk. 13 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 45-1729 This discography seems to have missed the recently released LP of "My Conception" in the Tone Poet series.