Kevin Bresnahan

Peter - it looks like all of the pictures you posted yesterday were done mostly (all?) as attachment files. I have been experiencing random disconnects from the forum while viewing & posting here. If you are uploading pictures and a disconnect happens, it won't upload. And not to beat a dead horse, but I think your problem will go away completely if you try the copy & paste method. To give you a better understanding of the issue here (is it an issue?), if I view the "What Classical Music Are You Listening To?" thread right now, your last post has a picture of Yuan Sheng's "Bach - French Suites". If I hover over that CD cover and hit the right mouse button, then click "Open link in new tab", I see your album cover and the URL for it is 'https://www.organissimo.org/forum/uploads/monthly_2026_10/91BwtU8rL._AC_UY436_QL65_.jpg.4906bc8377a318e019298b605877c86a.jpg. This means that this picture resides on the organissimo.org/forum server. If I do the same thing with a picture in T.D.'s earlier post in that thread of Bela Bartok's "Complete String Quartets", I get 'https://musicandarts.com/wp-content/uploads/CD-covers/CD-1169.jpg So you can see that both posts display the picture, but your picture resides here and T.D.'s picture is still on the musicandarts.com's server. FWIW, I started doing this years ago when this forum had attachment upload limits. This was how I got around those limits.

BTW - anyone posting pictures would probably benefit avoiding the attachment function as it adds to the forum's data storage requirements. In the old days, Jim A limited the amount of data storage each forum member could use. He has since removed that restriction - I don't know why he did that - so you can add as many attachments as you want now. But eventually, the server's drive will get full and Jim A will have to pay for more server storage space. Using the copy & paste method leaves the picture on someone else's server. FWIW, I don't even use the attachment function for personal photos. Instead, I upload them to imgur ( https://imgur.com/upload ) and then copy & paste them from there. In the past, I've visited other forums that don't allow attachments at all for this very reason.

I have not had any issues pasting pictures into posts in that topic. As Jim mentions, images from discogs.com work well but I've also used images from a Google image search. Looking at your profile, it looks like you sometimes use the attachment function to add a picture. If this is true, this might be a problem. Attachments reside on the forum server. If you use copy & paste from another website, the picture still resides on their server and won't get bogged down when this server has issues (like its been having lately). If you are not familiar with pasting pictures, its pretty simple. Hover over the picture, click the right mouse button and then click copy. Go back to the post you're making and press CTRL and v to paste it into the post.

I haven't seen Lew in a long time but he's been great up on stage every time I did see him. If he makes it back to Boston, I'll be there. This Saturday night (10/31), I'm bringing my wife and daughters to see the Artimus Pyle Band in Rochester, NH. I saw them back in April and they were great so I figured my wife and daughters, who also like Lynyrd Skynyrd's music would like to go. This was in April:

Shatner & Takei are the only ones left and rumors are that they absolutely hate each other.

It's great to have friends and family around to help lift you up. I hope your remission sticks and you're able to stick around a lot longer.

From what I have been told, it's hard to keep playing trumpet in your later years. Miles Donahue, who is a local Jazz musician around here, used to play tenor sax & trumpet at all of his shows. The last two or three times I saw him, he played tenor exclusively. Benny Carter was the same. The first time I saw Carter, he played trumpet on a few tunes. The last two times I saw him, there was no trumpet on stage.

In anticipation of going to see the Artimus Pyle Band on Saturday in Rochester, NH, I am playing my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd LP... One More For From The Road. I saw them this past April and they were great.

I follow George Takei on Facebook. George has just reported that Walter Koenig has passed away at the age of 90. ABC News is reporting it as well. https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/star-trek-actor-walter-koenig-dies-90-137576960 I've always been a huge Trekkie. Watched the original Star Trek shows over & over as a boy. Watched all of the movies & follow-up series (Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space 9, etc.) but none ever held the joy & wonder of that first series. Thank you for all the memories Chekov.

For many years, I hoped that Tucker would join someone on tour or go on tour himself, but it looks like he rarely came back to the US after moving to Australia in 1989, which he attributed to the stress of a friend being accused of murdering two women in his building. I wonder if he still plays? Now playing - Elvin Jones - Midnight Walk (Atlantic). Great music but the audio quality of this session on the Collectibles two-fer CD is not very good. I think I have this LP in my racks. I'll have to go pull it out later and compare. It is especially bad with regards to the piano sound. Even on solos, the piano sounds like it's in another room.

Sorry to hear this Dana. I hope the docs caught your leukemia early enough to give you a shot at beating it.

Terri Lynne Carrington - TLC And Friends. Pretty good debut recording by Carrington with some nice blowing by George Coleman. I have a needle-drop of this but I see it was (finally) put out on CD by Candid in 2023. I missed that release entirely.

Tom Skerritt, Star of M*A*S*H, Picket Fences, and Alien Dies At 93

Phil Woods - Floresta Canto (RCA). Eh... it's pretty good but maybe a bit too "sweet" for me, especially the strings.

Is this the one where it sounds better if you play it in mono?

I stopped buying Experience Hendrix releases a long time ago because they were using way too much compression for my taste. I this one any better in that regard?

We’re in Valletta, Malta today.

i just left Barcelona on a cruise ship. Our hotel in Barcelona was the Sercotel Rosellón, which has a rooftop bistro with this beautiful view of the Sagrada Família. My iPhone 16 Pro takes very good pictures, even in low light.

I’m hoping to see/hear Houston on the Jazz Cruise in January. He’s scheduled to perform on it. I haven’t seen him on stage in many years.

Only 300 copies?? Ouch. I guess CD sales really are bad these days.

True, but it basically means that you're paying $500 for a bunch of digital files & not the special fancy USB stick. It also means that it has zero resale value, which is not important to most music fans but IS important to someone who buys it as a collectible item worthy of resale. Why else plate it gold and limit the number if not to make it a collectible? The other thing that makes me smile about the people buying it as a collectible is that they won't be able to sell it on discogs.com. Discogs doesn't allow the sale of digital files of any type.

The dumbest thing about this USB thumb drive is that it isn't permanent memory. These files will be written to volatile memory, which needs to be powered up and written to every now and then or it will fail. Most write-ups I've read estimate that they're good for about 10-15 years before you start losing data. Google "how long can a usb thumb drive keep data?"

We're booked on an Alaska cruise next August. We haven't booked any excursions or bought flights yet.

Andre Jaume - Giacobazzi "Autour de la Rade" (CELP). It's been a long while since I've played this. Too funny - my daughter just barged into the room where I'm listening to this to ask, "What are you listening to? It's sounds like a bunch of high schoolers practicing." I told her it's called dissonance.