Kevin Bresnahan

Drinking a nice cup of Kona coffee from the very affordable Gold Star Coffee company out of Toronto. I've been using them for several years now and I've never received a bad batch. Their Jamaican Blue Mountain is also very good a very affordable in quantity. Their straight Columbian is smooth as any coffee I've sipped.

LP manufacturing was put in a tough spot when the last big lacquer disc producer burned to the ground. https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/vinyl-industry-apollo-masters-fire-951903/

Make sure to back up this CD. It's a cheap CD-R under that label.

Amazing to think that two players from this 1954 concert recording, John Williams & Bill Anthony, are still kicking around at 88 & 90.

John Beasley - Positootly! (Resonance). Nice date with Beasley at the keys and a killer band - Brian Lynch on trumpet, Bennie Maupin on tenor & soprano, James Genus on bass and Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. Very nicely recorded too at (the now closed) Bennett Studios. Very glad I picked this one up at the Resonance sale a few weeks back.

That is the title of the CD that came with the two bottles of wine. I had to special order that gift box from a local liquor store. The wine was pretty good too. I soaked off one of the labels and slid it into the CD booklet. BTW - Maria changed the cover when she reissued this via ArtistShare. Original Enja CD cover: ArtistShare CD cover: I don't really get that second one.

I'm looking around my listening space in my COVID office and I just noticed all of the music staring at me. I just got in a huge order from Tommy's Jazz's Video Arts sale, a big order from Resonance Records, several Tone Poet Blue Note LPs, the Cuban Jam Sessions box set, Michael Weiss's Kickstarter LP and several LPs from the Bandcamp "COVID-19" sale. I'm looking at almost 50 CDs & LPs to spin. I don't think I even got through all of those Black Saint/Soul Note boxes from the last Tommy's Jazz sale. Maybe I can wait on this for a bit.

We're such a niche market to begin with. Pricing a new release well above the market, especially when said market isn't that great to begin with, seems like a bad business decision... but maybe she's not in it for that? As I said, I'll probably pull the trigger, but I can't believe that I am the only one who has hesitated on this.

With shipping, the 2 CD set is $41 - over $20 per CD. These days, that's quite a bit. It seems like she wants us to download this session, but even that is $24.95. I really like her previous releases, so I'll probably bite the bullet but I am still on the fence.

I truly believe that sometime before January 20th, Wounded Knee is going to become a hot topic again...

ICU doctor at Baltimore's Mercy Medical Center dies of the Coronavirus he worked to help others overcome

My 30 year old daughter just called to tell me that the husband of her best friend from high school is still debilitated from COVID-19 that he first contracted in March. He's now developed cardiac issues and the doctors are worried about the blood flow in his lungs. He's having trouble walking and often can't get himself out of bed. All of this from a "simple flu". It's "like a cold" . It "only affects the elderly" . It "only affects people with pre-existing conditions". It is "not a big deal". I wish those quotes were made up and people really weren't that stupid and heartless.

They were "bathroom reading material" for many years.

You are right - I flipped that around. There is a thread here where this issue is discussed. From that thread, here is the summary: According to Mosaic Brochure No 10, the following vinyl sets are digital: MR6-120 - Paul Desmond 4tet w/ Jim Hall MR3-121 - Ike Quebec 45 Sessions MR4-122 - Chet Baker Pacific Jazz Studio MR23-123,MR23-128 & MR20-134 - the 3 Commodore sets MR6-127 - Cecil Taylor Candid MR10-129 - Charlie Parker Dean Benedetti MR9-130 - T-Bone Walker MR4-131 - Stan Getz 5tet w/ Jimmy Raney MR5-132 - George Lewis Blue Notes MR12-135 - Count Basie Live Roulettes MR6-136 - Stan Kenton Holman/Russo MR9-137 - Larry Young Blue Notes MR27-138 - Nat Cole Capitols MR5-139 - Otis Spann/Lightin' Hopkins Candids parts of MQ7-153 - Charles Brown Alladins ( LPs 1,2 & side one of LP 3 ) parts of MQ10-155 - Amos Milburn Alladins ( Lps 1,2,3,4 & side one of LP 5 ) parts of MQ6-165 - Illinois Jacquet 1945-50 most of MQ10-163 - Stan Kenton Capitol Studio parts of MQ11-164 - Miles Davis/Gil Evans ( LPs 1,8,9,10 & 11 ) MR5-133 - Grant Green/Sonny Clark Blue Notes(Maybe)

The bots were rampant on the Yahoo comments. It seemed like every other comment was from a bot.

I didn't say they sounded bad. I just think that someone that has the CD version needn't go crazy if they want all analog vinyl. I don't think it's worth the premium over the CD versions. This is why I still haven't bought a vinyl version of the Horace Parlan set yet. When I find one for a decent price, sure I'll pick it up.

I upgraded my PC speakers to Klipsch R-41PM monitors. I don't know about "audiophile", but they sound a lot better to my ears than the PC speakers that came with a recent Dell PC purchase. I should've done this a while ago but until I was forced to sit and listen to them for hours, it wasn't a priority.

This is a great set. I saw that band live several times and this 2 CD set really captures what I heard.

But I've been told that the Princeton Record Exchange prices on the high side. As for the original poster, bemoaning the lack of reasonably-priced mint condition vinyl would seem to indicate that you are new to this game. Welcome to many years of frustration. Since you missed the old days of waiting years and years for your local record shop to get in certain records in any condition, you might not realize how much many of us long-time record buyers love Discogs. I'll also add that the sets in your list with QLP in the description, were cut from the same digital master as the CD set, so if you buy one of them, you're simply playing back the music on your CD set with a needle.

This is what Claire told me: "This CD was on my old website and I hand drew the covers, but the guy who produced my first 2 cds (Donald Elfman) listened to it and offered to put it out."

Claire told me that it was issued on her private label but I never did see it. She said it was only available via her website for a short time. I'm glad someone asked her if he could give it a proper release as it will give me the chance to hear it for myself. I have enjoyed many of her previous recordings, including the ones she did with Joel Forrester's People Like Us.

I was at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA to see Marcus and Byard play as a duet shortly after this disc was issued. The whole of Harvard Square, where the Regattaber is located, lost power, so, for about 45 minutes, Jaki sat out in the lobby chatting with us as we waited for the power to come back on. Eventually, they had to cancel the show. Jaki was murdered a very short time later.

I thought that I read somewhere that the Muse catalog was a mess because of an ugly "business divorce" that somehow divided up the catalog?

I preordered a copy through Claire. Looking forward to hearing it.

I thought one of the problems with the Argo/Cadet catalog was the lack of masters? Many (all?) of the Argo/Cadet sessions that have been released on CD don't have great sound. I've also noticed that on the few releases I do have from these labels, there is often a lack of personnel listed. Maybe the label just wasn't kept in a good enough condition to allow the owner to mine it properly? You can't reissue what you don't know you have.