Kevin Bresnahan

The Tubby Hates was pretty phenomenal. The LP-only box of the Rendell-Carr material was pretty good too.

I know it's still a little while before the show, but I bought tickets to take my two daughters to see pianist Alex Minasian at Jimmy's in Portsmouth on July 17th. He's bringing in a quintet featuring Craig Handy & Bill Pierce on saxophones, Vince Dupont on bass and Aaron Seeber on drums. Seeber is the only one I haven't seen play live before. There were still plenty of good seats available and unlike many of the shows at Jimmy's these tickets are fairly affordable. Not cheap at $47, but not like some of their prices. Plus, you can always buy a cheap seat at the bar if you don't need to be in the main listening area. Some of those seats can actually see the stage. Link for tickets to see the Alex Minasian quintet at Jimmy's

I've never heard this one. I'll have to find some YouTube videos to sample.

The problem with these stats on discogs is that even if that $125 sale was a partial box, it goes in as a "sale". I'm pretty sure this is what depressed the value of the Buck Clayton Mosaic box. Quite a few partial sets sold over a long period, which not only drove down the Low price but also the Median. Pretty soon, that box that used to regularly sell for over $300 now sells for under $100. Discogs has it's pluses & minuses.

I think only Jim A can do it. I looked into it a while back and i don't have much more ability than Jim S. I can add new members but that's about it.

I have the Clifford Jordan but it's going for stupid money on discogs.com, which doesn't mean it's selling for stupid money on discogs. I literally have no idea what to ask for it.

At 78 (79 in October), it's not hard to believe that he's going to slow down a bit. At least he hasn't gone the route of other aging stars like Benny Golson or Lou Donaldson, whose last 10 years or so of tours were pretty much the same show over & over. Even Johnny Griffin did it to a certain extent.

I have to wonder if you'd get more replies if you told us what you're willing to pay.

Kinda hard to agree with this when this box is impossible to hear. I tried to join IAJE just to buy this and their website was a mess and I couldn't find any way to buy it. There's not even a download available.

I actually really like Springsteen's music but as much as I like to support the guy, the pre-order pricing for this box is nuts. As I said, when the price on the used market gets to around $50, I'm in. Until then, no way.

$37 per CD?!?!?! Are they kidding? https://www.amazon.com/DP/B0F2LCMLBX I'd be willing to pay $7 per CD but there's no way I'd drop $265 to hear sessions that Springsteen wouldn't even release when he cut them.

I finally picked up a copy of Tyner/Henderson Live at Slugs.

Dannie Richmond - The Last Mingus Band A.D. (Landmark/Gatemouth). Great stuff from Jack Walrath, Ricky Ford, Bob Neloms & Cameron Brown.

$200? $40 per LP for records that I've seen in the used bins for under $10 before prices went nuts about 5 years ago? When it gets down to $100, I'm in. I only have a couple of these and they're pretty good, but not $40 good.

Um... why the bump? That site hasn't been updated since 2006.