Kevin Bresnahan

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.

This one is not behind a paywall: https://www.salon.com/2020/07/15/disturbing-memo-reveals-trumps-usps-chief-has-slowed-delivery-amid-calls-to-expand-voting-by-mail/?fbclid=IwAR1oP4KkSBnDQPR4Fcsg_vzazW3Sf7msEweIeKLYW-DSEKIFzWDnkCQhm8c

This CD contains Gonsalves & Ashby's album "Two From Duke", not "Tenor Stuff".

Is the "warbling piano" effect still there on the mono LP? I have a mid-70's RVG stereo cut and it's there but much less noticeable than the new Tone Poet LP, which really bugged me when I heard it.

CJ - does it say that Ron McMaster mastered these digital files? Ron retired quite a while back so it is unlikely that he did this unless its been "in the can" for many years. It's more likely that they used someone else at Capitol Mastering.

Is it just me or are these ensembles bad? Plus that CD is going for over $50!

Each place had a different seller name but they might the same company. I ordered from Prime_Goodies on Amazon and trom decluttr_store on eBay.

I am still trying to acquire a copy of this CD. I order one from Amazon and I got in "Ballads by Four". I returned that and ordered it from an eBay seller. Yesterday, the package arrived and when I opened it, I found... you guessed it... "Ballads by Four". Clearly they don't even look at what they're shipping:

Charlie Daniels - Fire On The Mountain (Epic). What a fun LP. I forgot how much fun this was until a friend posted on FB that he was spinning it in memory of Charlie. "Trudy" is a kick-ass tune. Since we're on the "tribute trail" for musicians who have recently passed, next up is The Moody Blues - This is the Moody Blues (Threshold). RIP Ray Thomas, the player on one of the most famous rock flute solos.

I still prefer Mary Ann.

For the first time in about 10 years as an Amazon Prime member, I had a package disappear. I ordered a couple of internal 1TB hard drives and an external SSD hard drive and they failed to get here. I wonder if it is because of their value? Did someone steal them? Amazon was great about it and they're sending a replacement order with next day delivery. Even better, if the old order ever does arrive for some reason, they said to keep it. Which really makes you wonder about their mark-up.

I have this LP and as I said in another thread, the sound quality varies for each recording date. I didn't think the sound was terrible and it's certainly worth hearing. That CD is a straight-up bootleg of a bootleg LP. It's probably a needle-drop of the LP. I would not pay $20 for a CD-R of a needle-drop of an LP.

If you have the US Blue Note CD or the Analogue Productions hybrid SACD of McLean's "Jackie's Bag", you have all of this music.