Kevin Bresnahan

I used to laugh off the Q-anons, thinking that these are like the loonies that everyone crosses the street to avoid. But social media has allowed these pariahs to go mainstream. I see normal-looking people on Facebook, not some drugged-out homeless dude on a milk crate, spouting bullshit about Satanic pedophiles uniting against Trump. I keep hoping to see everyone just laugh at these morons but then, like Lon, I start seeing window stickers and tee shirts. It makes me wonder what would have happened if there was social media when Kennedy was assassinated. I know one thing, if I see a group of Q-anon protesters while walking down the street, I will still cross the street to avoid them. After all, rabies can kill you.

Me & my brother have tried to stay away from politics but the election results finally slid into our most recent conversation. We've agreed to disagree. I just had it out with my cousin on Facebook too. She's been spouting some wacky, almost Q-level stuff recently, and the election results seemed to push her over the edge. I tend to doubt I'll be one of her FB friends soon, especially since I told one of her friends who was joining in with his own wacky take on several topics to stop watching Fox News.

That was probably 2000: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/14/arts/jazz-reviews-not-quite-a-jazz-festival.html Weird concert though. They played an odd version of the Star Spangled Banner. I do remember some of the people in the car being nervous in your car. Some people freak out about NYC traffic. Looked a lot like Boston traffic to me. I did see Jackie McLean at the Village Vanguard in 1999, but I don't remember you coming to that one. Josh Heisler & I went to that one. Back to motorcycles... I work with a group of guys that still ride together on weekends. They're always on me to get back on a bike. That is one aspect of riding that I miss the most. The camaraderie of a bunch of people out riding. My wife loved it too. I did quite a few charity runs back then. The main thing I didn't like about those charity runs was that they often ended at a biker bar. Seeing a bunch of motorcyclists drinking beer in preparation for jumping back on their bike usually had me driving back solo. A lot of the bikes in those packs had straight pipes. Nothing worse than riding behind a guy with straight pipes. They're not only loud as hell, they smell terrible as the straight pipes bypass all anti-pollution controls. Shortly after I stopped riding (2014), there was a charity ride near me and a co-worker was riding in it. She asked if I wanted to ride with her group. I almost borrowed a bike to do it. Some drunk driver swerved into the pack, took out 2 bikes and killed one of the riders. My co-worker was 2 bikes back in the pack. It's these stories that keep me off. I nay have to someday as my wife really misses it.

Check out the funny review of this set on discogs: https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Hodges-The-Complete-Verve-Johnny-Hodges-Small-Group-Sessions-1956-61/release/2870305

I started riding dirt bikes when I was very young... probably around 10 or 11. My first bike was a Hodaka ACE 100cc, noteworthy for having the gears go 1 up & 4 down. After that, there was a Honda SL125 followed by a Yamaha DT175, both enduro bikes (designed for on & off road). I had a blast riding through the woods. I ranged all over Western Mass in those days. By the time I turned 15 and could drive on the roads (legally), I moved to straight street bikes with a Honda CB350. After that, I moved up to a Honda CB360 (10 more ccs!) because I got a great deal and it was almost brand new. I once drove that CB360 from Holyoke, MA to Glen Burnie, MD - about 350 miles - in one day. When I got off, my hands vibrated for hours.:) In college, I bought a Honda CB400F, dubbed a "Super Sport". A 400cc 4 cylinder. That thing flew. Then I had a kid. My cousin was a nurse and she started calling me a living organ donor, their nickname for motorcycle riders. That helped push me over the edge. I stopped riding. Over those years when I stopped riding, I did get my fix every now and then by taking my dad's Kawasaki Voyager 1200cc out every now & then. In the late 90's, I rented a BMW touring bike and drove around Germany, Austria & Switzerland for a weekend tour with my Dad. When my Dad died in 2006, I started riding his Voyager myself but it bummed me out too much. It was his bike, not mine. I figured it was time, so I bought a 2008 Victory Kingpin, rode that for 2 years and then my last bike, a 2010 Victory Cross Country. Now I'm done. I thought I'd miss it more, but in my daily commute I see so many terrible drivers out there, I just can't get it out of head and get back on. BTW, right near the end of my riding days, I was cruising down Route 93 South. I drive a motorcycle much more conservatively that I do a car, so I was keeping my usual space between myself and the car in front of me. I was also driving in the car tire "ruts" in the lane. There's less junk there. I always avoided the middle of the lane. Then I see something up ahead as the car in front drives over it. It's an aluminum ladder laying the long way in the middle of my lane. I was luckily able to slide over and avoid it. Another near death there, one of several, avoided due to my added caution.

He's very active on Facebook. You could try him there.

You are lucky that he was stopping and that you were stopped. Getting hit on a motorcycle is not usually what kills you. It's what bring your body to a stop or another car hitting you that is usually the deciding factor. Moving accidents, especially on a highway are where your chances of escaping serious injury start going down. When I was a kid, my father got cut off by a car turning into a parking lot in front of him. He hit the back of the car and flew over the trunk. His kneecap was shattered and he was laid up for several weeks recovering. The thing that saved him was the car behind him also hit the car that cut him off so he couldn't get run over by that car.

I rode for decades. Loved it. My last two bikes were Victory cruisers. I stopped riding in 2011 and sold my 2010 Victory Cross Country. The idiots texting while driving got out of control and has not gotten any better. There is no such thing as a "fender bender" on a bike. You get in a minor accident on a bike and you have a good chance of ending up dead. Until they come up with a law that makes it painful to get caught texting while driving or even better, shut off texting while the phone is moving (easy with today's phones), I'll stick with my cars.

If correcting the pitch adds 3 minutes to the tune, we now know why it was sped up in the first place. It was already clocking in at 25:00, which is pretty long for an LP side. Bumping that up to 28:00, would have been unmanageable without completely removing a lot of bass and even then, the grooves would be tightly packed and prone to skips.

Dexter Gordon is not the only player who kept to a script. I've seen several shows where the set list is almost the same as the previous time I saw the person. Benny Golson, Lou Donaldson, Johnny Griffin and JJ Johnson played similar sets year after year. In his last few shows, Jackie McLean seemed to require 'Little Melonae' in his set. Bobby Hutcherson always seemed to play 'Little B's Poem' and Jimmy Heath liked to play 'Gingerbread Boy'. Donaldson & Griffin even told the same stories between the tunes.

That has the full Half Note recording. It used to be the only place to get that recording in its entirety.

Always a great bargain and the 2017 got even higher scores. The only disappointment for US buyers is that between the tariffs and the value of the Euro, this wine has gone up ~50% in price in just a few years.

His first recording date as a leader. He had been on a Charles Earland date, "Unforgettable", 8 months earlier.

No, I was asking if it was so expensive but he just died? In my experience, Fresh Sound LPs generally don't fetch big money. This one appears to be an exception.

That's one expensive LP for such a little known leader. Is it because he just died?

My wife was just informed that due to the recent rise in cases and following CDC guidance, her New Hampshire school is going back to full remote on Friday (Nov. 6). My wife is not looking forward to this again. It is very difficult to teach her special needs kids remotely. Thanks again, covidiots. It's because of you that we're in this situation again.

Covidiots right down the road from me.

But it's just like having a bad case of the flu... so says the covidiots.

I have a co-worker who's son is at Clemson and COVID-19 is rampant down there. My co-worker's son got as has all of his dorm roommates. They have all recovered, so my co-worker is kind of like, "No big deal". I do hope that there are no long-term effects from COVID-19 on these young adults. I've read that a few develop heart issues. We won't know the full effect for a while and then it'll be too late for a lot of them.

Someone paid $1,000 for that? OK then... I guess PT Barnum was right.

She's lucky to still be open. Masks are mandated in Maine and they have closed places for not enforcing it. Our numbers are climbing every day because of places like this. We're becoming the state with "COVID weddings" as we're on our second super-spreader wedding. One more and got a hat trick!

I have bought several of these BN80 LPs for under $18 during sales. $18 for an audiophile LP is pretty much unheard of these days. Bottom feeders are screwed. No such thing as a "cheap" Blue Note LP. Even used 70s cuts go for $15-20 these days. These Kevin Gray cuts will be much better than those. The artwork might not be, but does that really matter? No, I am looking at the right handed one but I couldn't find a picture of one of those mounted on a wall.

Not if you're looking for audiophile LP cuts of these classic titles. The Music Matters LPs are out of print and going for big bucks. Vinyl is in and these fill a niche. I'm thinking about buying a wall mounted Pro-Ject VT-E turntable and these inexpensive records would be great to play on this not-so-great turntable. I can play these classic titles and not worry about ruining an expensive record. Play them, wear them out whatever - get another.

Blue Note is bringing back some of their best selling titles on vinyl in a new series, dubbed the "Classic Vinyl Reissue Series". These will be budget priced (~$25 list) cut by Kevin Gray and pressed at Optimal in Germany, like their recent 80th Anniversary LPs. These should sound very good but don't expect to be impressed by the LP sleeve - the 80th Anniversary titles had iffy (being generous) reproduction on the cover art. Gray cut all the Music Matters Jazz LPs as well as the higher-end Blue Note Tone Poet LPs on the market today. Classic Vinyl Reissue Series – Release Schedule: December 4, 2020 Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy January 15, 2021 Horace Silver – Song for My Father Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil February 12, 2021 Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else Joe Henderson – Page One March 12, 2021 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’ Hank Mobley – Soul Station April 9, 2021 Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’ Jimmy Smith – Back At The Chicken Shack May 14, 2021 Dexter Gordon – GO! Eric Dolphy – Out To Lunch June 11, 2021 Grant Green – Idle Moments Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue July 9, 2021 Freddie Hubbard – Ready for Freddie Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage