Kevin Bresnahan

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.

Demond Wilson, Lamont on ‘Sanford and Son,’ Dies at 79 I really enjoyed Sanford And Son.

I had forgotten that she was in After Hours. That movie freaked me out when it came out. It just seemed like the things that happened to Griffin Dunne could have happened to any of us back then. As you can imagine, her shouting "Kevin" in Home Alone, hit home for me. I tried Schitt's Creek but couldn't get into it. I'll have to give it another go.

I would love a gray and rainy winter. I hate snow. I hate shoveling snow. I would love to "snow bird" but my wife doesn't want to.

I grew up in Massachusetts & lived most of my life up in New England. This is far from the worst storm I've cleaned up after. In fact, I doubt it would even crack the top 20. Funny thing is, we moved up to Maine near the water to get away from storms like this. This snow was an outlier. We've been here 9 years and never really had a snow storm that dumped anything over a foot. The ocean water temps have generally protected us from this. There have been storms where we've had a slushy mix while 5 miles inland got a foot. This storm was a fluke in that it dumped a bunch of snow because it was over the ocean - a very unusual occurrence.

I'm not surprised. Unlike many Jazz musicians, he's had a good paying job for almost 40 years. His contract runs out (June of 2028) when he's about to turn 67, which is when he's eligible for full social security benefits. If he's managed to stash away enough in his IRA, he might be one of the few Jazz musicians who can actually retire and enjoy life outside of "work". I can personally attest that retirement can be great. I doubt he'll retire, but maybe. Or maybe we'll start to see him touring with smaller groups in local Jazz clubs instead of concert halls with the LCJO. I saw him years ago with a sextet and he was great.

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3 steps to the door. We got over two feet but it drifted, so it's hard to get an exact number. Luckily, it was light and fluffy, so my Honda snowblower ate it up. Honda makes (made?) the best snowblowers. They throw the snow a long way. That's the biggest issue with most snowblowers is they don't throw it far enough.

I had heard he was very ill but I was hoping he could pull through. I only got to see him play once but it was a very long time ago and I don't remember much about it... I think it was with Dave Liebman. His duet album with George Coleman, "Convergence", is really good. One of the better duet albums out there.

This is what I came home to.

I’m at the Fort Lauderdale airport on my way home. It was really good. If anything, it was just a bit too much Jazz. Going to gigs from 9:00 AM to midnight for 7 straight days is more live jazz than I’ve ever seen at any other point in my life. Even Newport is only 3 days. 😀😀 Also, I have to admit, some of these cruise people, especially some of the older women, can be assholes. 😀😀

So the Patriots have beaten the #1, #2 & #5 defenses in the playoffs so far. The Seahawks are #6. https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/2025-nfl-defense-rankings-team-pass-and-rush-stats

If pianist Julius Rodriguez plays at a club near you, I would recommend going. He’s on the Jazz Cruise I’ve been on for the past week and he’s something else. Don’t miss him. He has two releases on Verve that I’ll have to try and find.

I became a Patriots season ticket holders last year. They went 4-13. I thought about giving them up. They aren’t cheap. I am amazed at the turnaround of this team. The season started with a loss to the Raiders. The Raiders who end the season with the worst record in the NFL. They were 1-2 after 3 games, making it look like a repeat of last year. The craziest thing was that their defense was their main weakness. Then the playoffs hit and the defense has been insane. Too bad Super Bowl tickets are running $5K each. I’d love to go to one.

I’m seeing 80 degrees with a chance of improvisation. I’m still on a jazz cruise. 😀 I’m hearing that our area is getting close to two feet. I’ll have a lot of snow to clear when I get home.

I don’t know why you feel obligated to send them the money after you sell it. They’re a fancy bootleg label anyway. They release stuff outside the EU PD date (1962) and don’t license from the artists… at least that’s what Stan Getz’s estate has said.

I leave next Tuesday for a week of Jazz on the Celebrity Summit. I'll be seeing a lot of live Jazz night after night.

I was very happy that Teddy happened to be playing at an LA club during one of my rare business trips there in the late 90s. I got to see him play that one time and he played great. I enjoy all of Teddy's recordings. I have an LP copy of the Pacific Jazz session that birthed this thread - good session. If I were forced to choose one disc as a favorite, it would probably be Teddy in a trio with Christian McBride & Billy Higgins, issued in France in 1995 on the Verve/Gitanes Jazz label titled "Tango In Harlem". It surprises me to see the selling price of this somewhat rare CD, as it costs me quite a lot when I finally found a copy on line. The late bird gets the worm?

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78