Kevin Bresnahan

So does this mean that Frank Lloyd Wright's family can get royalties whenever one of his buildings is re-sold? That seems to be what's implied here.

I still don't understand how the courts are granting ownership to someone who doesn't own the item. If they can do this for valuable artwork, what's to stop them from doing it with something like real estate? People make millions & millions of dollars on real estate. Are builders going to start getting a cut?

Is that really a thing? How could anyone claim rights to something they don't own? Once I buy something, it's mine, not the previous owner's. If this is a thing, what's to stop record labels from getting money on used sales?

These Apple Music compilations are head-scratchers to me. I guess I don't see why they think a compilation will get more plays than the actual LPs that they pulled the music from (in this case, "Grant's First Stand" & "Stop & Listen")... unless it's a way to avoid paying mechanical royalties to the artists?

What happened was that he decided he wanted to make money. He made a lot of it playing clarinet and pumping out smooth jazz for GRP. Who can blame any of these smooth jazz guys for riding a gravy train? If he had stuck playing "Joe Henderson", I highly doubt he'd be as rich as he is today.

I'm not surprised that he's not touring. He's 81 and at this point has likely made a bunch of money during his "smooth jazz" days.

The crazy money for "Cool Struttin'" has been the result of some sort of fetish for that album in Japan. Is it the music or the cover? Who knows. As for Jackie's playing back then... it was an acquired taste. I can understand the allure as well as the disdain. I'm kinda in the middle myself.

I wish I got to see him more often. His shows were fun as hell. He always brought high energy to the stand. You never worried about being bored when he was at the piano. RIP Eddie and thanks for the music.

A contract signed for a recording being made for radio broadcast is just that... they had the legal right to broadcast it over the air. Those contractual rights don't mysteriously become "We can do whatever we want with this tape". If Stan Getz's estate i.e. Bev Getz, hasn't been compensated for a commercial release of this, then it likely isn't legit. No matter though - it's certainly not legal for sale here in the US at all, as Getz was under contract with Verve in 1966. Have we all forgotten the fiasco around the Monk "Palo Alto" release, where Impulse! tried releasing it without getting a release from his record label of the time? Same thing here. Michael Cuscuna & I talked about this label quite a bit and he acknowledged (as I do) that many are important musical artifacts that should be heard. But he was also very aware of how many of these labels like Lost Recordings release stuff like this without any compensation to the artists, which he felt was very wrong. @Chuck Nessa - Do you know if a contract to broadcast a performance extends to a commercial release of the recording?

My bank offers "rewards" on their credit card. My last two iPhones were bought using Apple gift cards that I "purchased" using these rewards. So basically, I've been getting a new iPhone every few years for free. If your credit card company has a rewards plan, check to see what gift cards they offer. Typically, you get "more bang for your buck" choosing gift cards over using them as a credit to your account.

I know Bev Getz was looking into this... I'm somewhat surprised it's still out there. PD cuts off at 1962 in the EU so 1966 is way outside of that so when the estate of a musician questions a release, that's usually all it takes to get it pulled.

My CD has this cover/title: It's not your French pressing. There are times when Jordan sounds like he's playing in the other room. It likely has to do with the extreme stereo spread. The left channel is piano/bass and the tenor is hard right. It does give a weird feeling that the piano is front and center.

I hadn't spun this in a while, so I have it playing now. The music is really good but the audio has that overly-bright/lousy bass recording that you get sometimes from recordings made in the late 70s/early 80s. The bass sounds particularly whiny here. It's too bad because Joe is really something.

Well, that's pretty eerie... please don't go towards the light Joey. We'd like you to hang around a bit more.

This is his second Blue Note release. His first was "Where Are We".

I rip to VBR Q0. It results in smaller files than CBR 320 mbps and I cannot hear the difference.

Buck Clayton - The Complete CBS Buck Clayton Jam Sessions (Mosaic). Disc 1 is up first. I get the urge to play these jam sessions every now & then and they never disappoint. Such a fun set. Your feet tap no matter your mood. It's the kind of music where I wish I could've been in the studio to see these Jazz greats in action.

The biggest PITA with some of these "WAV" downloads from bandcamp is that they don't compress to mp3 using Exact Audio Copy because they are not a standard WAV format. They give them to you at a higher bitrate WAV. I have to edit them with Audacity and save them as 44.1 kHz WAV and then they convert.

My bandcamp order: I got the LP version of "Split Decision" & it comes with a download. I went digital on the others because the shipping from outside the US is just too expensive.

I have a copy of the LP and even when I bought it, I used a fingernail to make sure it wasn't a sticker.

The Heavy Hitters - The Heavy Hitters (Cellar Jazz). Listening to this on bandcamp & it's bandcamp Friday, so I may just pull the trigger.

Whenever I see this LP, I always think that they did the artwork and forgot Harold's name, so they stuck a sticker on it.

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Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, so if you're thinking about buying anything from there, tomorrow is the day.