Kevin Bresnahan

I saw that too. I was a bit surprised at the piano player though. Jon Batiste is not a name that first comes to mind when I think of a current Jazz pianist on the scene. I certainly don't have any of his recordings. Funny take - When the band was playing on stage, I thought to myself, "That sounds like Kenny Garrett". As I watched the credits (and waited too fucking long to find out who the musicians were!) I saw that it was Tia Fuller, who I have seen live many times, so I wondered why I thought Garrett. Maybe she was his student, right? I Googled "Tia Fuller Kenny Garrett" and found a couple of articles where Fuller mentions that she has had people compare her to Kenny Garrett so I guess I am not the only one who thought that.

Me & my family watched Pixar/Disney's newest release on Disney+ the other night. It's called "Soul". It's a story about a Jazz musician in a fictitious city that looks a lot like New York. The big jazz club is called the Half Note but it looks just like the Village Vanguard, right down to the red awning & red door as well as it being in a basement with a stage backed by red velvet drapes. Herbie Hancock was a consultant on it as the lead character was a pianist. I found a story on the NY Times about how they made it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/movies/soul-jazz-animation.html Truth be told, I found it a bit depressing. It's tough for me to discuss why it depressed me without giving away too many spoilers so I'll wait to see if more people see it before doing that. When you see it, you'll have to decide for yourself which side you fall.

I believe that "Happenings" is scheduled for release in the Tone Poet series in 2021.

That is the opposite of a "chick magnet". My wife made gagging noises when I showed it to her. She didn't balk at the idea of the throw, just the comforter.

This cover always makes me think it's a Mobile Fidelity record, with a tiny cover inside a black surround. All it's missing is the banner on top. Great CD.

I picked up a couple more of these LPs today and they continue to make me wonder why Kevin Gray can't seem to get the cutting speed right. I opened Pete LaRoca's "Basra" and saw that side1 looked "normal" i.e a normal amount of dead wax. About a half inch. Played nicely too. I thought that he finally figured it out. Then I flipped it over and saw that side 2 had about an inch and a quarter of dead wax. Both sides run ~20 minutes. Dude - whatever angular velocity you used on side 1, use on side 2! Even worse - the tighter cut on side 2 resulted in underfill on track 1. Great.

What's fucking crazy is that we were in the single digits this past summer.

Does anyone see the need to get this in print over the Kindle version? I can get the Kindle version for $10. The paperback is $22.

I prefer "Yip-ee ki-yay mudda fuccah" with a fake German accent. RIP Professor Snape.

Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 PC speakers for $90 with free US shipping. These were $150 less than a month ago. I don't know if they're clearing them out or if they're just heavily discounting them. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Klipsch-ProMedia-2-1-THX-Computer-Speakers-Two-Way-Satellites-3-Midbass-Drivers-and-6-5-Subwoofer/591789309

Shrugs is on Facebook under his actual name. Todd Irzyk is there too.

Now how about this one?

Stanley Cowell has died at age 79. https://www.wbgo.org/post/stanley-cowell-pianist-composer-and-educator-kaleidoscopic-view-jazz-dead-79#stream/0

Now that I've seen so many pictures of Morgan after the unfortunate burnt scalp incident, I wonder if that's why the top of his head is cropped out of this picture?

Won't help. Since I moved to this beach house, I have no place to stack milk crates. Plus, I have a wife who would kill me if milk crates started getting stacked all over the place.

My biggest problem recently has been these new Tone Poet and 80th Anniversary LPs that Blue Note has been putting out. Many of them sound great but they are vinyl and I'm quickly remembering why I hated the stuff back in their heyday. It's like buying a lottery ticket where the jackpot is you get one without underfill, offset centerholes, warpage, double labels or scratches. My latest saving grace is that Universal Music's web store has the worst customer service I've ever encountered. I ordered 8 LPs from them and they dropped the ball so many times that I finally cancelled the entire thing. I doubt I'm going to buy them at all now. I just went to put away my last LP purchases and they won't fit into my LP rack.

I have nearly all of Hank Mobley's recordings. My only holes are his earliest dates with the Paul Gayten & Dizzy Gillespie Orchestras, mainly because Jazz orchestras have never really been a favorite of mine, particularly with a vocalist like those Gayten dates. Somewhat like Lon, as I've gotten older, my attitude towards completeness has changed. It looks like my attitude is trending the opposite of Lon's however. As I've gotten older, I've felt much less compelled to own every recording player X is on. In fact, I've come to the realization that I already have far too much music to truly appreciate all of it. I notice this especially when I am perusing my music library and see a title I really liked and then think that it's been years, sometimes even a decade, since I last played it. I literally have too much music.

Hey - it's only $902.81 on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Home-Holidays-JOEY-DEFRANCESCO/dp/B00NBB9YJ8

I think it's pretty funny that the purported "Jazz detective" missed all those edits for his CD release. I get making those cuts for the LP, but inexcusable for the CD.

It still may after Christmas. The numbers are still very high and until the vaccine gets widespread distribution, they will likely stay high.

I still haven't managed to pick up that Joey DeFrancesco Christmas set yet. I should see if I can find it this year.

Kenny G(orelick) - Miracles: The Holiday Album (Arista). Ahhh... Christmas pablum at its finest. I feel like I'm in a Starbucks.

I still haven't mustered up the courage to head down to Stereo Jack's yet. I've popped into the Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth a couple of times but it was pretty much empty, so I wasn't too uncomfortable. That grunge you get on your fingertips after browsing the racks for a while takes on a whole new meaning now though. I've always felt "dirty" after browsing the used racks but after doing it in this world, I feel infectious. Thank god for the copious hand sanitizer jugs by the entrance/exit.

Bronzing may happen with CD-Rs but I've only seen it on a manufactured disc. The one I had it on was made in England at the Nimbus factory, It looked like this: And I guess PDO? https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/pages/bronzed.asp Here's a Nimbus pressing:

I have some CD-Rs that I burned almost 25 years ago, so they can last. The problem with most modern CD-Rs that I've gotten from labels is that they use the cheapest blanks they can get and I have had at least 4 of the cheapie CD-Rs from record labels fail. I have only had one manufactured CD fail and that was an early Nimbus CD made in the UK that "bronzed", which was a known manufacturing issue that was cleared up quickly. These were the best CD-Rs in those days: