Kevin Bresnahan

If this limited edition goes off like the Rendell-Carr vinyl box, get your order in early as it will likely sell out quickly - unless they learned from that Rendell-Carr box.

My favorite big Zin these days is the last "real" Seghesio, San Lorenzo. It's the only estate that's still owned & run by a Seghesio (Peter). The family sold the label back 2011 but Peter kept the family's original site. The 2014 was phenomenal. The 2015 was a step down but still good. My favorite wine store is telling me that he may be able to get some of Carlisle's Zins. I have been wanting to try their wines for years, as they always seem to garner high scores. My only concern now is that high-scoring Zins have lately been on the drier & lighter side. The days of a 95 point jammy fruit bomb seem to have retired with Robert Parker. I love Zins that are jammy fruit bombs. Ridge used to fit the bill but since Paul Draper retired, their wines have been dried out and I won't buy them any more.

What is it going for these days? I used to get this from the winery for $30/bottle but the shipping got up to almost $9/bottle, so I dropped off their list years ago. In recent years, I've been able to get it for $39/bottle and I've grabbed several but... I just don't think it's worth it. There are great Zins out there for a lot less money and great high-end Zins for not much more. I still prefer the Juvenile to their other "cheaper Zin", the Old Vine Zin, but again, with what I paid, I expected more. BTW - this wine is the only wine that gives my wife a red face. Weirdest thing. We drink plenty of reds, including many Zins, and this one wine gives her hot flashes and a red face. She won't drink it any more. How was this? I've found these Selects to be good "bang for the buck" wines.

There are quite a few posters over on the Hoffman forums all atwitter about Side 2 of Andrew Hill's "Black Fire", which many are claiming has wow and flutter audible in Hill's piano. The reissue producer, Joe Harley, has already stated that Hill's piano was a bit out of tune and that he plays some rather dissonant chords that may sound like warble, but many of them aren't listening to him. I have this LP but I haven't gotten a chance to spin it. I got one dud pressing so far. Lee Morgan's "Cornbread arrived with a wavy Side 2 label (another label underneath is probably the problem) and it's oversized so I can't put it into an MFSL sleeve. Luckily, it's flat and centered.

I can't believe how cheap that Columbia CD is going for on discogs: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1505081?ev=rb That disc used to sell for well over $50 for years. It is somewhat rare. I have been told that it was actually recalled because someone found that Columbia's contract was invalid. It was only put out because Mike Berniker was running the Legacy reissue program at the time and he was session's original producer. He felt the need to get this material out there. I'm glad he did.

My buddy Bob will be there as usual. He has quite the camera and takes some incredible pictures. He has a few on his website: www.bobfesta.com Although I'm not a huge Jamie Cullum fan, I think this is one of his best from Newport (2016):

I wonder if they'll also find all of his interview tapes? He always said that he had boxes of them. He talked about writing them all up and publishing them but he only as far as posting a few of them on his website for streaming.

Horace played tenor throughout high school. Didn't he play it on his first professional gig? I seem to remember that's what he said in his autobiography.

I think I have all of the ones from this set that I wanted. I have "Return Visit!" as "Tubby's Back in Town" on a gold-plated Smash CD, which appears to have gone up in value these days.

Hasn't most of this material, with the exception of "Grits, Beans & Greens", been out on Jasmine CDs in the past? And why is the NY 1961 session in mono when the session was recorded in stereo? Also, which version of "Tubbs In N.Y." will they release - the original 6 track or the later 8 track version? Plus, the Columbia CD has all 4 unissued tracks from this session. Will all 4 of those tracks be on the CD version but not the LP version?

If it's truly a film on the disc, you should be able to buff that off and get it to play. I have a local record shop, Bull Moose Music, that has a buffer. I think they charge about $1 per disc to buff them.

Your recent find of an older Mosaic set at a very low price is an indicator as to why Blue Note doesn't reissue that material too often. It just doesn't sell well enough for the bean counters. It really hasn't. Blue Note's core buyer doesn't buy it, similarly, they don't often buy the more outside dates. Hence these swing sessions as well as the more adventurous dates getting limited reissue opportunities while sessions like "Blue Train" get reissued again and again and again and again...

Jim - if you buy some of the latest Blue Note "BN80" LP cuts, there are several with what I would call iffy cuts resulting in large dead wax areas. Both sides of Johnny's Griffin's "Introducing" have over an inch of dead wax and Side 2 of Dexter Gordon's "Doin' Allright" has over an inch and a quarter. Personally, if I were the cutter, I would have re-cut Side 2 of that Dexter LP. Cutting that compressed probably reduced the dynamic range. On the bright side, I think it proves without a doubt that Kevin Gray is cutting these "all analog" with no digital delay circuit.

I wonder if a reverse image lookup can figure it out?

I have no problem with this as it's the music that interests me. I assume that this version also omits the DVD disc? Again, not a problem, but I was just wondering.

I liked him in Flesh + Blood... um... I mean I liked that he got Jennifer Jason Leigh to get naked in Flesh + Blood. Beside that, it was a pretty terrible movie.

I just happened to look on Amazon today and there it was... $39.95. 1 copy available from "Artistshare". Ordered. Let's see if I get it.

Oh how I loved seeing that band in that space! If only NYC wasn't so far away and so expensive...

I just finished the 23rd Jack Reacher novel, "The Midnight Line" and it seems to me that Reacher may be nearing some sort of end of the line soon. (Spoilers in white - highlight to read) He seems to regret Michelle Chang's departure (Book #20, "Make Me") more than most of the other women he's been with, including Jodie Garber, who was looking like the future Mrs. Jack Reacher for a short while in book #3, "Tripwire". He's also started facing some physical shortcomings, expected as he ages, so he's not winning every fight as cleanly as he did when he was younger. By the end of "Make Me", he was laid up for a few months after getting punched in the head. (End of spoilers) From the book timelines, he looks to be in his late 50's. I wonder if Child will keep him aging as the books move on or will he just start doing flashback books?

I don't think Hess makes a bad wine. They try to keep their prices down, which I like. The 2016 Hess Estate Chardonnay was a phenomenal bottle of wine for $17. This particular 2014 Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon was just OK... for the money. For $50 (on sale from ~$60) I felt it should have been better. Maybe I got a bad cork? It happens. The 2012 vintage was superb. Their single estate Cabernet from their Allomi Vineyard is very good and very nicely priced for a single estate Cab. The Hess Select line is good wine at a good price - typically under $10. I don't know if they have any wines that they only sell there. It's worth stopping by to see.

A reverse image search says that it's Edwina Caroll. It was taken at the London premiere of the movie "Alfie". https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0140809/

Grant might be on fire but the rest of the band really isn't playing that great. As much as I like Ike Quebec, this is not a good date for him.

I think it's odd that this "mp3 is bad" thing continues on & on despite the science that shows that this cannot be used a blanket statement. I now encode my mp3 files with VBR Q0 (used to use Q2). This is the highest quality variable bit rate mp3 and as they say in the write-ups, 99.9% of the people can't hear a difference between this and the CD that was used to create it. I am not one of the .1% and I expect that as the years go on, I will continue to find less & less to complain about when it comes to audio.

I am pretty sure that "Joe Louis" was pseudonym of the guy who had the tape that I got a copy of. The last time I looked on YouTube, he was still there and several session tape videos were still posted. Actually, here he is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJcWXaSyAKQKT5k9IoB_nhQ The "Blues For Mr. Tatum" session is up there in his videos. There are 3 tracks that were not released. Ah - here is one: Here are all of them that he posted: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joe+louis+3-8-59

I have read many stories that Hank wasn't very reliable later in his career and looking at this: https://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1978/friday-14-july/timetable/ it does not appear as if he made it. Even if he was one of the "surprise guests" on Sunday, he would not have been on the main stage, which would probably be where they made their recordings.