Kevin Bresnahan

Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, so if you're thinking about buying anything from there, tomorrow is the day.

His website says that he played on the Botti At Sea Jazz cruise in February of this year, so it looks like he is still playing. His label, Blues Back Records, went belly up in 2011 but he seems to have a few more recordings on his website and bandcamp pages. Two of the CDs in the Signature Series box on his website don't seem to appear anywhere else, so you might want to check that out. I have no idea if any of these recordings are recent as they don't list recording dates for a any of them that I can find.

I pre-ordered the CD version of an LP that hasn't been reissued in a long time and never on CD:

Planet Jazz - In Orbit (Sharp Nine). This was the debut recording for Planet Jazz. The also cut a live date for the SmallsLIVE label that I never did pick up. This incarnation of Planet Jazz is Joe Magnarelli (tp), Grant Stewart (ts), Peter Berstein (g), Spike Wilner (p), Neal Miner (b) and Joe Strasser (d).

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Allégresse (Enja). This is my favorite recording by this phenomenal band, who I still try to see whenever they come to Boston. The opening track, "Hang Gliding" is just perfect in the way it evokes the feeling of flying through the sky.

Could have been timing too... I was just entering high school in 1976 but my older brother Patrick was graduating and he was my main music influence. I used to play his records for years before I started buying my own. He was into Zep, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, etc. but never Sabbath. You know, thinking about it, it might have had something to do with their faux "devil worship" shtick, which would have been frowned upon by our parents. I remember bringing home a 45 rpm single of Zep's "Whole Lotta Love" and cranking it up on my family's console only to have my mom storm in, rip it off the turntable and force me to return it. It wasn't until many years later that I learned why she was so upset at 8-year old me screaming, "Gonna give you every inch of my love".

Maybe it was a New England thing or a Massachusetts thing, but I didn't know anyone that had "Paranoid" in their LP racks. If they had any Sabbath, it was usually the compilation, "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll".

Not that I'm personally bothered by it because I was never a fan, but why on earth would they not include the 6 extra tracks from an earlier edition in a 3 CD 50th Anniversary edition????

I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but it was a pretty incredible night when I got to see Hutcherson, McLean, Hill, Higgins & Scott Colley at Aaron Davis Hall in 2000.

https://www.rothamel.de/en/artists/nguyen-xuan-huy/paintings.html?cat=0&art=2825 It's yours for the low price of 23590 Euro (~$28K).

Someone posted that they were listening to the SF Jazz Collective recording from 2005 that had Bobby playing on it and for some reason, I googled Bobby just to refresh my memory of this era of his playing. I tripped over an interesting discussion on reddit: The interesting quote from his daughter was that "The song "Ummh" paid for his house in Montara. I live in his house to this day, raising my kids Ruby and my son Bobby". I did not know that Hutcherson's "Ummh" was some sort of moneymaker for him. Does anyone know how this one tune made him enough money to buy a house? Was it some sort of jukebox hit that I never knew about?

What a great story. I was in HS about 7 years after you & I don't think I ever heard any band cover Sabbath even then. I only remember a few rock concerts that disappointed me. One was the Rossington-Collins Band, formed by the surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. I went expecting so much after hearing their debut LP but they stunk up the place, with the lead singer, Dale Kratz, basically screeching through the songs. I wanted to leave early but I was the driver that night so I had to stay to the end.

I picked up the vinyl version of this. I liked the fact that he used Tim Ray on piano. Tim is a Berklee prof and plays in the Boston area almost weekly so I've probably seen him live close to a hundred times by now.

I was never much of a fan of his music, other than when they played "Crazy Train" before the New England Patriots came out of their tunnel, but he was a riot in his family's reality show. i used to watch it all the time.

I haven't ordered from them in a long time. I used to get great deals on small label Jazz CDs & SACDs but I bet my last order was close to 15 years ago now.