Kevin Bresnahan

9% of Amazon reviews are 1 star, with most of them saying that the drive arrived dead. I worked in the electronics industry for over 40 years and I've been told that a lot of companies (our customers) that were making cheap electronics like this external CD drive, use the consumer for "final test". It's cheaper to have you return it for a new one than it is to test it themselves. I would send it back and get a replacement or a credit. https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07DLRG9VH/ref=acr_dp_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&reviewerType=all_reviews#reviews-filter-bar A little while back, I got a new tower PC with a shit laptop-sized optical drive, so I bought an external case, this one: https://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Generation-Aluminum-NST-540S3-BK/dp/B09SS74KCN/a4b666 And then I bought a highly-rated internal drive. I researched it quite a bit and eventually bought this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G9FRFT7? And yes, I know that Plextor is no longer a company, just a licensed name, but this drive had decent reviews at the time.

Othello appears to be a little overdressed for the occasion.

Scullers in Boston is having difficulty getting asses in seats and has had to cancel a few shows due to lack of sales. It's not looking good for future shows either. For instance, I saw Steve Davis' We See band show up on the schedule and bought tickets in an instant. With this band: Steve Davis – trombone, Eddie Henderson – trumpet, Ralph Moore – tenor sax, George Cables – piano, Essiet Essiet – bass & Lewis Nash – drums; it was a "no brainer". It looks like about 36 tickets have sold for the 7:00 show & about 14 tickets to the 9:00 show: https://www.ticketweb.com/event/steve-davis-and-the-we-scullers-jazz-club-tickets/14172394. If that stays the same, that show is likely going to be cancelled too. Kinda bums me out.

Disc 7 of this Mosaic...

According to Facebook, his son's name is Jacob. Unfortunately, his son does not have a Facebook page himself. If his son Jacob is a musician, this is his bandcamp page: https://bandcamp.com/jacobkart

All of that is true. We can only speculate what is going on in Larry's situation right now. My comment was based on Larry's last words here, which indicated that he & others felt that he was not that far gone to dementia. I think it's safe to say that at this point, we'll likely never know one way or the other.

Larry's last updates did say something along those lines but there were lawyers involved, so maybe his wife was able to move him back permanently. If he was diagnosed officially with dementia, it would be very difficult for him to take back any sort of "control" on his own. To be honest, I'm surprised his lawyer did it that last time. I just don't get that they took away his phone. My mother was suffering from dementia near the end of her life but I was still able to call her every day on her phone and talk to her. If they had taken away her phone, I would have given her another one.

Huh. For quite a while, Dave Douglas' birthdate was nowhere to be found on line. It wasn't in the All Music guide either. I always wonder how old he was. He's almost the same age as me.

Are you talking about Dexter on Blue Note? Just reissuing the earlier box with better mastering would be 6 CDs. Add in Herbie Hancock's "Takin' Off" and it might be 7.

Renee Rosnes (1962)

I'm sad to read that Larry's phone has been disconnected. Being hospitalized or in a nursing home doesn't usually = no phone, so something bad might have happened.

I'm not a fan of the mastering of the material in this box. I dumped it ages ago and kept my individual discs. I'm not missing much going this route. If Mosaic re-did this with improved mastering, I'd strongly consider it but if they do, I'd like to think they could add more from that aborted session with Stitt than just that one tune. Ron McMaster's SBM mastered discs never sounded right to me.

It has to be better than this!

Allen's back to posting on these forums.

Dave Brubeck - My Favorite Things (Columbia). I found a Sony CD (SRCS 9369) in a cheapie bin so I'm giving it a try. What an odd stereo image. Piano all alone in the right channel and the bass/drums in the left, with Desmond split equally when he plays. When Desmond is playing, it sorta sounds OK, but when it's just the trio, the sound it's not good.

I have a lot of the dates mentioned in this thread but it's hard to sort them all out sometimes. Sessions overlap on different CD releases and it's gotten very difficult to avoid buying music you already have. I recently picked up the Ensayo CD of "Gentle Ben" in a cheapie bin & I was worried that I already had the material on another CD.

The early days of the Internet were newsgroups, not message boards. Text was all you wanted on your screen when using a 28.8 kbps modem. Downloading a single picture could take about 5 minutes.

I've seen Rathbun perform many times but it's been a long time since he toured around here. Maybe this is why?

I still keep hoping that soulstation1 posts to this thread but my fear is that he is no longer with us.

Happy 77th birthday to Ron McMaster.

Because of family history, I have to get one every 3 years. They always find a polyp or two, so it never goes up. I shouldn't complain... colon cancer is a whole lot worse than having a colonoscopy every 3 years.

The Jazz Modes - The Jazz Modes Play Excerpts From The Frank Loesser Musical The Most Happy Fella (Atlantic) This one's OK, but it's not grabbing me. I saw Rouse's name on there and figured that was enough. It wasn't.

I just picked up 3 more of these today. I'm looking forward to spinning them over the next few days. I got the Gene Ammons, Red Holloway & another of the Johnny Hammond Smith discs.

Clare Fischer - ONE - to get ready: FOUR to GO! (Revelation Records)

CDs Art Blakey - Chippin' In Ben Webster - Gentle Ben Gene Ammons - Legends of Acid Jazz Red Holloway - Legends of Acid Jazz Johnny Hammond Smith - Legends of Acid Jazz George Kawaguchi - Maiden Voyage - Music Of Herbie Hancock Various Artitsts - Melancholy - Boogie Woogie & Piano Classics (TOCJ-66006) A rare one! Jackie McLean - New Wine In Old Bottles Joe Newman & Zoot Sims - Locking Horns (Roulette) SHM-CD Dave Brubeck - My Favorite Things (Japan) Steve Kuhn with Joe Lovano - Mostly Coltrane Eddie Higgins - Moonlight Becomes You Eddie Higgins - If Dream Come True Junior Cook - On A Misty Night plus 2 CDs that I already have... I hate when this happens Gene Ammons - Soul Summit - This copy has a totally different cover from the CD I already have. Sonny Stitt - In Style - This is the cheesy 32Jazz plastic case version. I already have the Muse CD. LPs The Jazz Modes - The Most Happy Fella (Atlantic) Clare Fischer - ONE - to get ready: FOUR to GO! (Revelation Records)