Kevin Bresnahan

Duvall's character in the first Reacher movie was probably the only saving grace in that movie.

I try to see Smulyan play whenever he is in my area. He's a great bari player.

Jaleel Shaw is bring a band to Jimmy's in Portsmouth, NH Thursday night (2/19). Even though the club is very close to my house, I don't go to Jimmy's very often because the shows are usually pretty expensive. This show was under $40, which is pretty cheap for this venue.

This seems like an odd CD title. I wonder if it is a bit of a joke. That certainly doesn't look like the setting for an "audiophile" recording and I highly doubt that an upright piano was used for it.

Bill Heid - Dark Secrets (Savant) I love the back cover photo.

Yes. Jerry Roche, the founder of Mighty Quinn Productions, worked at Mosaic for 13 years. He had the bad luck of diving into the CD reissue game right as the market was loosing steam.

I would have suggested Connelly's Bosch books but they seem like very good examples of murder mystery novels to me.

If you want detective series with a twist, try the first Glen Cook Garrett P.I. book, "Sweet Silver Blues". Garrett is a human detective living in a world populated by gnomes. I read them (there are 14 of them) a long time ago and remember enjoying them.

How was the attendance? I know he stopped touring for a while due to the Berklee controversy. It will be interesting to see if he tours the Boston area again.

Emmet Cohen has posted on Facebook that Ken suffered a heart attack a few hours after leaving the stage after a performance on the last night of The Jazz Cruise. If you have a Facebook account, Emmet has posted a short video of one Ken's clarinet solos last night. Ken was doing what he loved to the end. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DSRHs5HxY/

Most of this one: I think I was at this one... I've seen Yoko at Scullers many times so I've forgotten a few of them. I'm pretty sure that some of the music I saw is on this CD but i have been told that there were tape issues on the night I went, so maybe not.

This sucks. Ken will be missed and not just for his playing. I was lucky to see him and talk with him between sets at the old Jocko's Jazz Club in Methuen, MA. He played there solo as well as part of a "Four Brothers" front line. What wonderful memories.

Now playing - probably one of the more unusual sax/guitar duet CDs - André Jaume & Raymond Boni's "Pour Django" (CELP). Boni often uses his guitar it to shade Jaume's sax rather than harmonize with it, giving it a rather "atmospheric" sound in places. I've mentioned this before, but I tried to see Jaume perform live for over 30 years, but he never came anywhere near me - at least in a way that I heard about it. During my first months of retirement a couple of years ago, I actually looked into taking a trip to France just to see him, but I couldn't even find him performing there, making me wonder if he has retired from performing entirely. He is 85, so I shouldn't be too surprised if that's the case.

My brother Patrick decided to snow bird in Myrtle Beach, SC like my parents did for close to 20 years. Yesterday they got 5 inches of snow. I imagine they'll be shut down for a while. It's not like they have a cadre of snowplows down there.

My first box sets were classical LP boxes. I think they were Time/Life boxes... one was maybe a Beethoven box? My first Jazz box sets were my first order from Mosaic. I know that the Tina Brooks box was in that order. Maybe the Freddie Redd CD box as well.