Kevin Bresnahan

I've started approving some recent members but I've restricted their ability to post without mod approval. This way, we can make sure the person is not just a spammer. Although I do suppose they could still play nice for their first few posts and then spam the heck out of us.

Ya think? I've seen her live once on a whim and she can play. I don't get the attire at all.

Yesterday, at the urging of my friend @Tom 1960, I sampled a newer (10/2024) release from drummer Jacob Wendt titled "Silver Street". The band plays in a style that harkens back to The Jazz Messengers and Wendt has said that this was what they were going for so kudos to the band for hitting their target. It's not a copycat tribute but an updated take, so no fear of that. You can sample/download it at bandcamp: Silver Street, by Jacob Wendt . I wanted the Kevin Gray-cut LP version (which is not on bandcamp for some reason) so I ordered that LP from The 'In' Groove. While I was at The 'In' Groove website, I decide to pick up Gray's Chohearant label's latest release from Corey Weeds while I was at it.

Sorry to hear about Fiona. She sounds like a great dog.

The regular LP doesn't fetch big bucks, but there is only one in Fair condition available on discogs, so maybe that one isn't the best to judge value? The CD version looks to be a PD release from the Lake Records label, which I've never heard of. The CD has bonus tracks.

Last night, I picked up a few CDs at my local Bull Moose Music store. Charlie Haden & Quartet West - In Angel City (Verve). I've had Quartet West's 1st CD for decades & saw the band several times but never got around to picking up their 2nd release until now. I also picked up a used copy of Peter Gabriel's latest, "i/o". I got the 3 disc set with a surround mix on BlueRay. I like Gabriel's work so I'm wondering how he'll treat the surround tracks.

They don't usually remove you from Facebook unless you repeatedly violate their rules. They usually just suspend you for a while. I've had a few friends get suspended for weeks or months but never had one booted off entirely.

Laurie is 84 or 85 these days, so running a record label might be a bit much.

I haven't seen Hollyday in a few years but he's still out there. I think I last saw him pre-Covid. He didn't vanish but did bail on the music industry for a few decades because he decided to be a teacher. It sounds like he started going back into the studio in 2018. From his website: In 1993 Hollyday pursued his desire to teach and study composition and arranging at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. It was here that he began studying the clarinet. In 1996, Hollyday relocated to San Diego where he taught high school instrumental music for 13 years. Hollyday completed a masters degree in jazz studies at San Diego State University where began studying flute. He now teaches saxophone at San Diego State University and woodwinds privately from his studio in San Diego.

I like it. I'm going to spin it again before deciding where it sits with reference to the original. I do know that I like Calderazzo's piano playing quite a bit, so at least that's not a problem in comparison.

According to the story at the Real Gone website, Everest bought the tapes from Orrin Keepnews. Doesn't that make it legit or did Orrin not own the rights at that time?

I'm mostly a stout drinker as well. My current favorite is Gunner's Daughter from the Mast Landing Brewery in South Portland, ME. I typically get it on draft at the York River Landing, my favorite local pub. They have 36 taps, with almost all of the beers from local microbreweries.

I have probably had a few Heinekens in the past 10 years. The others? Not in decades.

It's tricky. The biggest problem with a lot of the applicants is that most use a gmail.com e-mail address, which makes googling it near impossible. Also, a lot of the IP addresses appear spoofed or are in the far flung reaches of the globe. I actually don't know if the e-mail verification system works at all because some of them look weird. An to be honest, I've managed to find a few people who were clearly trying to spoof someone else, using e-mail addresses with slight variations from real e-mails.

I check the members log every now & then and we still get new applicants pretty regularly. Today, I approved two new members: jimiayler & esilverm because their application info looks legit. We'll see if I was right or if they start spamming away. I approved a couple last month too but those two users never posted, so maybe it took me too long to approve them? I am toying with the idea of approving a few more, just to see if we can get more posters in here but I'm afraid of setting the spammers free to run wild.

Chris Botti is coming to Jimmy's. Only $257.50 per ticket if you want to be able to see the stage.

I've seen that listed in the discographies but have never seen it in the wild.

I enjoy Joe Lovano's playing. I've seen him in a wide variety of settings, from a trio to a big band, playing everything from bop to free and I've only ever left underwhelmed a couple of times. Granted those couple of times were the last two times I saw him, which means mrjazzman may have just witnessed a similar performance. The last two times I saw Joe was with Dave Douglas playing as "Sound Prints". I just thought Joe was just off his game. Maybe sedate is a better word? I've also seen Joe with his nonet touring in support of his Blue Note recording "52nd Street Themes", with his "out" quartet that toured after "Quartets - Live at the Village Vanguard" and with the trio of himself, Dave Holland & Elvin Jones that played in support of "Trio Fascination". Every one of these shows was excellent stuff. Joe can play, that's for sure. We'll have to disagree on this one. Edited to add that I removed my troll comments...

I saw Moody at Ronnie Scott's in 1999 and he was still playing great. With a backing band like these guys, this could be good.

You like this kind of music, so you should really enjoy that show. I only stayed for one set. Not my kind of music. There were places where they played tunes, but a lot of it was mostly controlled chaos.

I'm heading into Portsmouth tonight to see the Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at the tiny Press Room. I assume there'll be a bunch of people there who wouldn't normally go to a Jazz show, but that's what happens when the guitarist from Wilco shows up in town.

Now playing - Tor Lundvall - Beautiful Illusions (Dais Records). Sometimes I just like to have sounds wash over me as I work on a more-troublesome computer. As I fight with an old Dell laptop that I'm trying to get Ubuntu to load onto, this ambient music washes over me and keeps me from tossing the thing out the window.

Danny D'Imperio - 1st Jazz Gala 1978 (disc 1). Live at the Rum Keg Lounge in the Howard Johnson Hotel in Cortland, NY. With Frank Moser on alto, Nick Brignola on bari, Barry Keiner on piano, Carlos Laguana on bass & Danny on drums. This is smokin' stuff that Danny recorded for his own enjoyment. He sent me CD-Rs of several of these Jazz Gala concerts (two from '78 & one from '79).

I just got in this: