Kevin Bresnahan

I asked Tom Evered several times to join up here but he wasn't interested. People may not remember, but he got a lot of grief during his time on the Blue Note board. Some of it was warranted, some was totally uncalled for. I didn't blame him for not joining up as it probably would have just stirred up some people. Tom passed away in August of 2024.

I am almost positive I read that Uli passed away on Facebook, but Facebook's search function sucks big time. It's a little fuzzy now, but I seem to remember that the Blue Note board members who joined the AAJ forum when it closed, weren't warmly received there. I think that may even be why this forum became the landing spot for most of those posters. I was a long time member of both the forums and remained a member of the Jazz Corner forum until it closed.

I think Bill Fenohr, who joined pretty early on and posted often until 2005, may have passed away in 2021. You're in at #164. BTW - the search was ordered by date of registration. FWIW, your "member id" is 3, but there is no #1. Weird. All I can figure is that if someone gets totally deleted, maybe the member id numbers didn't reset?

Use3D is in the database at #13.

Unless a member was deleted and is no longer listed, you are actually #2 after Jim Alfredson. First 10 users: Jim Alfredson JSngry Jim Dye Saint Vitus maren Peter Johnson catesta uli Chuck Nessa Philip I'm pretty sure that Jim Dye & uli are no longer with us. I'm #72.

543 users registered between the board's creation on March 6, 2003 & December 31, 2003. Looking at the list, I see quite a few names that still post here, a few that I know have stopped posting and a several that are no longer with us.

I think some of the perception of "hating" vinyl could stem from the fact that many of us, myself included, have built up an extensive collection of digital music and it makes these new reissues less important. I have shied away from Blue Note's LP reissue series because 1) I have ALL of the music already (usually with added material) & 2) I have experienced mastering issues on some of them that Blue Note refuses to fix. That is not me dissing vinyl at all. I'm dissing Blue Note. BTW - these are my reasons for not buying any more of certain titles, not all LP reissues. Heck, I recently bought Eric Alexander's latest release on vinyl, so I'm not opposed to it in general.

Great job with this Mike. If i had one recommendation, I would somehow make the album titles more prominent. Maybe put "Released as:" in front of it or make the title font bold? I'm surprised at how much of his output I have. I'm not a huge fan of organ trios without a horn, so I don't have a few of those but I have almost all of the others. My biggest hole is that Eric Kloss two-fer, "About Time".

I agree with many of your points but I still don't think that equates to dismissing vinyl buyers as Pim seems to be saying here. I often post in digital versus analog discussions and I will come across as pro-digital because, as an electrical engineer, I have studied the subject and firmly believe in the science. This stance is not to show any sort of hate towards vinyl. Pim - if anyone posts something that upsets you and you think is inappropriate or offensive, please report the post and the moderating team can look into it. Hopefully, we can help you with this, especially if it's simply a misunderstanding.

I try to read most posts here on the forums but I have to confess - I missed these "hate vinyl" posts. Where are these posts being made? I can't imagine why anyone would hate a format that's been around forever. I prefer CDs but I own and play LPs as well.

What ever happened to Avery. His debut was on a big deal on Impulse! in 1996 ("My Generation"), with a highly promoted tour resulting in a large crowd at The Regattabar. It was a phenomenal show. Here it is 20 years later and I don't think he's ever played live in my area since and his releases are all on small labels with little to no distribution.

I am pretty sure that I've had Facebook posts blocked with some sort of "Deemed false information by Facebook", which was almost certainly determined by some sort of AI.

Since AI likely creates a majority of them, it would be a bit self-defeating.

@randissimo (Randy Scott March), the drummer for organissimo, used to run a jam session every week. He is active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/randysm You could send him a friend request on Facebook and ask him if he is still doing them.

My thoughts exactly!!