[Stanley Turrentine and similar Masters]

His wiki page is pretty detailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Turrentine

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

43 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

Now spinning:

Stanley Turrentine - Jubilee Shouts (Blue Note, rel. 1978)
Side 3 & 4 - with Tommy Turrentine, Kenny Burrell, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, and Al Harewood

Subsequently issued on CD as Jubilee Shout!!!  (minus the LP's final "s" on Shouts; plus 3 exclamation points). 

One of Mr. T's finest BN sessions, I think. 

 

The CD was issued as "Jubilee Shout!!!" because it had been given a catalog number (84122) and had album art made up back in 1963 but for some reason, it didn't get released until 1978 on this two-fer. I guess Cuscuna figured that he'd use the original title when he finally got the chance.

[RIP Colin Powell]

Kinda hard to keep this "non-political" since he was best known as one, so I'll just say RIP General Powell.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

17 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Julian Priester And Marine Intrusion - Polarization [ECM, Germany 1977]

Revisiting this and I was prompted, maybe for the first time, to check who was playing saxophone - Ron Stallings, now I need to find out more about him.  So how did someone more used to playing with Elvin Bishop, Southern Comfort and later Huey Lewis get this gig I wonder?

I wonder how Priester is doing these days? Both medically and financially, he's had it rough these past 20 or so years, from having no retirement funds, to requiring expensive medication due to his liver transplant, which caused kidney failure & dialysis and his wife dying unexpectedly last May.

[Compact stereo system advice]

17 hours ago, jazzbo said:

I bought my wife a Bose CD player/radio unit as she can't figure out my stereo system(s) or care to. It actually fills a large living room area with decent sound, especially when you get the polarity of the power cord right (it wasn't in right for a while, it uses a "C" type connector to the unit and the one supplied was not polarity specific; when I reversed the connection to the original way the sound improved.)

I would suggest that there is something else at play here.  Flipping the hot/neutral should not alter the sound. The AC hot/neutral wires go into a transformer on the other side of the back panel and by design, a transformer works with the neutral and hot on either pole.

And in truth, AC is not technically polarized. The "polarity" on a polarized AC plug is there to indicate the hot & neutral feeds mainly as a safety feature. The wide blade is the neutral and the smaller blade is hot. Doing this allows the manufacturer to put their power switch in the hot feed. With a polarized plug, you open up the hot feed with the power switch when you turn it off. If the manufacturer shut the unit off using the neutral feed, there is a chance that the hot feed could still inside the unit and could cause a shock if someone was working inside and accidentally provided a ground path to that hot node.

[Compact stereo system advice]

Larry - buy a pair of Klipsch powered speakers, either the R-41PM or the R-51PM. I have a pair of the R-41PMs that I am using for my computer speakers. I am using USB from my PC . It also has Bluetooth (to allow you to play music from your phone - try the Sirius/XM app if you subscribe) and two analog inputs (one RCA & one submini)  that can even be switched to a phono input, using the a built-in phono preamp.

All of the inputs can be controlled from the remote, which also has a volume control.

 

[Is anyone here a server specialist / software person?]

I wish I could help you with this. I'll ask my daughter if she has worked with something like this. She works on the coding behind web pages, so this might be similar.

[What's on your wall?]

"You are only allowed to upload 102.4 kb"

I can't post a picture here with that limitation.

[Is anyone here a server specialist / software person?]

I don't know if Jim is checking here anymore, but does anyone know if this ever got done? The board started getting very slow late last week and today, it's been locking up with most clicks. I think the database might need to be re-indexed or maybe the forum software is glitching.

[Mabern Plays Coltrane]

This was recorded live January 5, 6 & 7, 2018, at SMOKE Jazz and Supper Club, NYC. Smoke Sessions already released some of this material on CD last year:

I'll have to pick up these two CDs. This is a great band.

If you prefer to just hear the trio, there's this release from a few years ago:

[What to play for a new born child?]

One thing I can say is that if you do continue to play Jazz when you listen to your music, your children almost have to absorb some of it. To this day, both of my daughters can identify "So What" about 10 notes into the intro and they usually sing, "So what" in unison at the right spots.

[What to play for a new born child?]

Congratulations Pim. I remember when my 2nd daughter was born. Two children does not just double the work for one - it triples it.

In my experience, it didn't matter much. They still listened to what they wanted to when they got older. I'm just happy they know a few Jazz tunes when I play them.

[Unknown Artist - Untitled]

They're trying to make it look like it's one of those LPs that Joe Blow could walk in off the street and cut in an hour "back in the day" but when you hear it (https://tramprecords.bandcamp.com/album/untitled) it sounds like a modern recording. Seems like a marketing thing to me.

By the way - it's already sold out, so their marketing ploy seems to have worked.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

Nick Brignola - This Is It! (Priam). I have been looking for this very rare LP for many years but never came close. I never even saw the cover until a friend sent me a link to listen to it. It's pretty good for a private recording. There even seems to be some overdubbing (unless someone uncredited is playing bari alongside Nick). Nick is credited with Bari Sax, Alto Sax, Saxello, Flute & Acoustic Bass. The rhythm section is Reese Markewich on piano, Glen Moore on bass & Dick Berk on drums. Whoever needle-dropped this had a very clean record or access to the master. Ne'er a click to be heard.

I wonder what happened to this tape? Wasn't Priam Brignola's private label? Maybe his estate has the tape?

 

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

Eddie Daniels - First Prize! (Prestige mono). Daniels with Roland Hanna (p); Richard Davis (b) & Mel Lewis (d). This is a very nice date by Daniels, who surprisingly only plays clarinet on 3 of the 8 tracks. On the remainder of the tracks, he plays tenor sax and sounds pretty good doing it. As good as he is on the clarinet I'm surprised he didn't stick with it.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

George Benson/Jack McDuff (OJC/Prestige). A 1977 Prestige two-fer of "The New Boss Guitar Of George Benson" coupled with "Hot Barbeque" that would appear to have been designed to capitalize on Benson's recent popularity.

While the Benson date has been issued as a standalone CD in the OJC series, this is the only way to get "Hot Barbeque" on CD unless you get one of the harder-to-find Japanese CDs.

[COVID-19 III: No Politics For Thee]

9 hours ago, medjuck said:

Why?  (I always think everything in Maine should be compared to the neighbouring province New Brunswick, where I'm from. )

The numbers are going up everywhere due to the Delta variant. Also, the Northern part of Maine is very rural and due to a large right-leaning population up there, has a much lower vaccination rate than the Southern end of the state. As a result, they are seeing a lot more cases and a lot more cases requiring hospitalization, which is putting a strain on their hospitals as they have a lot less ICU beds up there to begin with. For instance, York County, the Southernmost county where I live, has a population of ~208,000 people and has had 721 cases from Sept. 16-29. Penobscot County, which has a population of 152,000 has had 1,541 cases during that same time period.

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

V. S. O. P. - Five Stars (Columbia).

[So, What Are You Listening To NOW?]

2 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

Disc 1 of the 2CD Verve set. 

This cover still gets me to laugh at myself. I'm getting old. I used to see this cover and check out the woman. Now I always see that car and I think, "I wonder what one of those costs today?"

[COVID-19 III: No Politics For Thee]

Maine's Covid numbers, normally pretty low compared to neighboring states, are at January levels and still climbing. It's getting pretty crazy out there. Maine is almost out of ICU beds.

[What live music are you going to see tonight?]

It's been a year and a half, but Friday night, Scullers Jazz Club in Boston reopens with Kenny Garrett. I'll be there in the front row.

[RIP Dr. Lonnie Smith]

I am so glad I got to see him live several times, once at the famed Village Vanguard, which was absolutely incredible. At the Vanguard, he told a joke that had most of us laughing pretty good. I wish I could remember it now.

RIP Lonnie. You delivered the goods.

[Speakers for desktop computers]

On 6/15/2020 at 3:31 PM, bresna said:

My old PC speakers died and I found a pair of Klipsch R-41PM speakers on sale at Best Buy for $249 (normally $399), so I grabbed a pair. They sound very nice and I'm glad I got them. I even like the dynamic bass boost that everyone complains about.

I'm glad I bought these last year. The list price bumped up to $499 and there are not many discounts on them. My $249 purchase looks like a steal.

The Klipsch Pro Media speakers still seem to getting decent reviews. The Klipsch website has them for $129: https://www.klipsch.com/products/klipsch-promedia-2-1-thx-certified-computer-speaker

[Frank Foster]

After reading Frank's comments about publishing rights, I was happy to read this article: https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2011/07/26/128245676/jazzman-frank-foster-finally-wins-copyright-of-his-most-famous-song I was also saddened that it happened shortly before he died and even sadder, after he had had a stroke rendering him unable to play. I didn't know he had a stroke in 2001. I used to wonder why he never seemed to tour in the late 90s/early 00s. Now I know.

[What vinyl are you spinning right now??]

17 hours ago, sidewinder said:

I think this is the only time I've ever seen Art Blakey's Islamic name on an album cover. Wasn't he back to using Art Blakey 100% by this time (1964) though?