Kevin Bresnahan

Is that for the LP version or both the LP & CD? If it's the LP version, I wonder if this is being affected by the the fire that destroyed the Apollo Masters factory? The Apollo Masters factory was the largest supplier of blank lacquer discs in the world. They were one of only two worldwide LP lacquer plants, the other being MDC, a smaller-scale factory in Japan that has always been booked solid. There is no way they could handle the overflow from that Apollo plant. Now, the LP industry has to wait until someone steps up a fills that void, wait for an opening at MDC or switch over to DMM LP masters, which does not seem to be the preferred way to produce LPs.

Aren't these just gatefold LPs? I never thought of these as any sort cost cutting effort. If anything, these should cost more than a standard tip in jacket. In fact, when Impulse! started up, they advertised their LPs as being housed in "deluxe gatefold" sleeves. When ABC took over, they changed over to regular sleeves as a cost-cutting measure.

Sometimes you can talk to the artist, sometimes you can't. I seem to remember a line of people waiting to shake his hand, get an autograph, etc. I was just glad I actually had this LP for him to sign.

Yeah, but that advice wasn't worth much ~1993. Just a "heads up" - the fact that the 1990 CD was off pitch was not well known. In fact, the Penguin Guide of the day rated "Cool Blues" as one of Jimmy's top-rated CDs at the time. It turns out that this pitch problem was why that CD was deleted in the first place.

I got Billy to sign my copy. I'll have to check to see what label variant I have.

Ford's "Songs For My Mother" has some great playing on it, including another live version of "Pie Crust". It is intense, particularly the title track:

This was recorded in 1999, only a few years after Ford's mother died in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash that also claimed Wayne Shorter's wife, Jon Lucien's daughter and 227 others. She was flying to Paris to visit him. His playing may unintentionally reflect this.

That jives with what I thought. The person who had this Blakey date, played it for me well before he had all of these other unissued Blue Note tapes and that Blakey cassette tape looked very old. It was probably a year later that he called me and told me he finally got a source for the unissued Wayne Shorter date, so it makes sense that he got the Blakey tape from a different source than Belden. I often suspected the he somehow copied the Blakey session himself. BTW - I never did hear the unissued Shorter date, nor the Tyrone Washington "trainwreck" and I really don't need to. Yeah, me too. It'll be nice to hear this material in an official release. Oh hey, I just remembered... It's funny that they chose "Just Coolin'" for the LP title because Cuscuna's discography had that track erroneously listed as "Just Foolin'".

I was lucky to see this band live several times. I probably should pick this up.

By the username of the person who posted those master tape recordings on YouTube a few years ago (now all gone??), I am almost positive it's the person who I got my copies from. He moved away years ago and I lost contact with him so I wouldn't be able to contact him today. I just found that all of those YouTube videos from the Blue Note vaults have all been pulled and the poster's account has been closed due to copyright violation: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcWXaSyAKQKT5k9IoB_nhQ/search?query=grant+green

That's a seriously weird LP title and cover. It amazes me that someone went through so much trouble to draw that.

Bob Belden was not the source for the Ike Quebec date. I don't want to get anyone in trouble as I know the person who got that cassette copy of the best takes from that date, but it definitely was not Bob. The guy I got the copies of the "Gooden's Corner" & "Matador" session reels from did not imply a connection to Belden on those. He did mention Belden for the Tyrone Washington "trainwreck" (which I never got) as well as the unissued Wayne Shorter date. Belden was definitely his source for nearly all of his Miles session tape copies. He had session tapes for several of Miles' Columbia recording sessions. BTW - I no longer even have those Grant Green session tapes. I found them incredibly boring. I guess if I were a musician, particularly a guitarist, like the guy I got these tapes from, I would have appreciated them more. But hearing 6 or 8 takes of "My Favorite Things" really doesn't interest me.

I sold one for $350 and the one before that sold for almost $500. The hardest one for me to find was Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues".

Hutcherson's "Total Eclipse" was issued on CD in the US fairly early on. Unfortunately, back then the accountants at Blue Note decided which titles got deleted and they did this using some arbitrary number of sales per year. I was told it was "less than 500 copies". Because of these deletions, it made it very hard to find these titles for many years. Most of these early deleted US Blue Note CDs were reissued in the "Collector's Choice" series. This series was Michael Cuscuna's effort to get a bunch of CDs back into print by getting the OK to do a "one shot" pressing, with no changes to the artwork or mastering of the CD (they used the original glass CD masters). They did paint the CD labels white, which is how you can identify them. When those CDs hit the shelves, you had to have your wallet ready. Whatever the number was that they pressed, that was it. I bought a bunch myself. Someone has a list of them on discogs, but I don't know if it is complete: Stanley Turrentine Joyride ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Lee Morgan The Rumproller (Album) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Indestructible ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Kenny Dorham Una Mas (One More Time) ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Bobby Hutcherson Happenings ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) The Three Sounds The 3 Sounds ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Paul Chambers Quartet Bass On Top ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Johnny Griffin Introducing Johnny Griffin ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Stanley Turrentine Look Out! ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Freddie Hubbard Blue Spirits ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Thad Jones The Magnificent Thad Jones ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Jackie McLean One Step Beyond ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Hank Mobley Roll Call ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Duke Jordan Flight To Jordan ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Herbie Hancock The Prisoner ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Ike Quebec Easy Living ‎(CD, Album, RP) Lambert, Hendricks & Ross With Zoot Sims The Swingers! ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Gil Evans New Bottle Old Wine ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) The Jazz Messengers Featuring Art Blakey* Ritual ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Lou Donaldson Quartet / Quintet / Sextet ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Horace Silver Quintet* 6 Pieces Of Silver ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Donald Byrd Byrd In Hand ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Freddie Hubbard Open Sesame ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE) Art Taylor A.T.'s Delight ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Kenny Drew Undercurrent ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Stanley Turrentine Comin' Your Way ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Freddie Hubbard Hub Cap ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Herbie Hancock My Point Of View ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) 'Big' John Patton* Blue John ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Joe Henderson Our Thing ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Grachan Moncur III Evolution ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Blue Mitchell The Thing To Do ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Tony Williams* Life Time ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Kenny Dorham Trompeta Toccata ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Duke Pearson Wahoo! ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Larry Young Unity ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Lee Morgan Delightfulee ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers* Like Someone In Love ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Lou Donaldson Lush Life ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Sam Rivers Dimensions & Extensions ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Hank Mobley Hi Voltage ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) McCoy Tyner Tender Moments ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) The Horace Silver Quintet Featuring Stanley Turrentine Serenade To A Soul Sister ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) The New Elvin Jones Trio Puttin' It Together ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Bobby Hutcherson Total Eclipse ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) McCoy Tyner Time For Tyner ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Elvin Jones Poly-Currents ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) McCoy Tyner Expansions ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Jackie McLean Demon's Dance ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Wayne Shorter Odyssey Of Iska ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Hank Mobley Far Away Lands ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Lee Morgan The Rajah ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Jackie McLean Tippin' The Scales ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Hank Mobley Another Workout ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) The Three Sounds Babe's Blues ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Art Blakey And James Moody New Sounds ‎(CD, Comp, Ltd, RP) Paul Chambers (3) Chambers' Music ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Bobby Hutcherson Oblique ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP) Gerald Wilson Orchestra Portraits ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RP) Bill Perkins & Richie Kamuca Tenors Head-On ‎(CD, Album, Mono, Ltd, RE, RP)

Maybe it is different in Austria, but here in the US, "Bass on Top" was issued several times and fairly easy to find. It was issued as a regular CD in 1987 and reissued in the short-lived "Collector's Choice" series in ~1995. It was part of the RVG series in both the US & Japan. It was also part of the Mosaic Select box if you bought that.

Although I have heard that Belden was the source for a lot of the unissued material floating around out there, the person I got this Blakey session from told me that he traded it with Belden to get some of his unissued stuff, so I would think that Belden was not the source of this one. This guy only traded me a copy because I had a session he didn't have. He said that's the way it worked in those circles.

Are you all adding the free CD with every CD purchased? I already had a couple of those Christian Howes CDs are they pretty good and free is even better. My freebies are: Christian Howes - American Spirit John Beasley - Positootly! Jermaine Landsberger - Gettin' Blazed Donald Vega - With Respect To Monty

I just chatted with Dennis on FB and he says he can't seem to get into our forum, so he gave me this to post: 1. Griot Galaxy – Kins – “Xy-moch” 2. Robin Kenyatta – Girl from Martinique – “Blues for Your Mama” 3. Elton Dean – Boundaries – “Fast News” 4. John Abercrombie – Arcade – “Nightlake” 5. Oliver Lake Big Band – Wheels – “Is It Real” 6. Paul Motian – Tribute – “Victoria” 7. Amina Claudine Myers – Sama Rou – “Call To Prayer” 8. Edward Vesala – Satu – “Ballade for San” 9. Art Lande – Rubisa Patrol – “A Monk in His Simple Room” 10. Jan Garbarek – Runes – “I Took Up the Runes” 11. Arild Andersen – Sagn – “Lussi” 12. Charles Brackeen – Bannar – “Stone Blue”

This used to be pretty hard to find when it went out of print and went for pretty good money for a while. I don't think any Jazz CDs are worth big money today so be patient in your search.

I would certainly not classify this as being from the "classic" era of Blue Note. I would think that from a historical perspective, the classic era ended ~1970, when Francis Wolff stopped producing their recording sessions. I don't think many would consider these George Butler sessions "classic".

The article is not "entirely" political. For instance, if you take the first line and remove the politician's name, it is directly related to this topic. "... newly confirmed US postmaster general ordered the endangered public service Monday to make major cost-cutting changes, which could slow mail delivery." Why it was done is likely entirely political. This article also states that this new postmaster general took his post in May, which seems to be right around when our postal problems really started to rise.

A lot of stuff shows up at discogs when I search for Troubled Waters and none look like something that would cost $30.

I can't help you without more info. I can only think of the Simon & Garfunkel tune myself.

Noah seems to switch labels rather frequently.

I haven't played this material in many years. I remember liking it a lot when I first got it. Maybe later today I can give a another spin.