Kevin Bresnahan

I find that quality of the source and phono amplification has nothing to do with vinyl's shortcomings. You can have the best of everything and still have a crappy LP. On top of that, nothing in your playback chain will make up for the fact that they have to modify the music to put it onto the LP and that the resulting specifications for that LP playback are all well below 16/44 PCM's specs. Signal-to-noise is much worse. There is wow & flutter. There is rumble. There is RIAA equalization. There are limits to how much bass can be cut. The list goes on & on. No such restrictions for digital... which brings me to: I blame the assholes mastering CDs these days for their downfall. CDs can capture everything. But this ability to capture and modify everything also gave mastering engineers the ability to muck it up badly, particularly with regards to dynamic range. There are so many poorly mastered CDs out there, particularly in the past few years, that people forget that there are a lot of incredible-sounding ones out there as well. That said, I know where you are coming from with regards to vinyl playback. But as I've said many times, if a mastering engineer wanted to create a CD that sounded like an LP, all they would have to do is playback that record and convert it to 16/44 PCM and you would hear exactly what you hear when you play that record. 16/44 PCM can capture it all... including any warts that cause you to enjoy LP playback more than CD playback. I have many needle drop CDs and I can attest that they sound exactly like the LP it was made from, right down to the pops & clicks in all the same places.

I don't regret selling any of them. I hated vinyl back in the day. Poor pressings. Scratches. Pops. Hum. Rumble. Warps. Wobble. I am only buying it these days for fun. I still prefer CD. Sometimes I think we look at vinyl with rose-colored glasses. Vinyl was a pain in the ass and there was a reason we all dumped our records. We've just forgotten a lot of the worst of it.

I do like that one. Another one is Buddy DeFranco's "Blues Bag".

I've never had this happen before. I'm going to have to call Scott tomorrow to see if they "lost" my order. Not the best time to start missing orders. Edit: I just found my order confirmation from Mosaic. I ordered on February 18th, which would appear to be right around the day they announced it.

I pre-ordered this Mobley set shortly after it was announced and I've yet to receive a shipping notice.

You can't really "correct" that without removing the music occurring simultaneously to that bottle clinking around the floor and yes, I am hearing that it is still there in this new LP.

Michael Cuscuna tellls me that these Tone Poet LPs are selling incredibly well, so I imagine we'll be seeing more & more of them... well, until they don't sell. The thing I wonder is if "sell" = "number of LPs pressed" as I bet with all the returns I've read about, they are pressing a lot more than they're selling.

Larry - if they use your notes again, do they have to pay you for that use? I mean, you did this for BN Japan, right? Can they use them here in the US without paying you?

If it's on lacquer, get on this seller to make sure it's packed properly before shipping it, otherwise, you may get a box black dust. This seller sounds like he/she doesn't know much about 78 rpm records, so if it's lacquer, you really need to make sure they know how fragile it is.

Given how Kevin Gray seems to cut "small" (meaning he leaves a large area of dead wax), he should be able to cut these longer sides no problem.

Over a year later and Blue Note is still offering a signed deluxe edition and yet, a search of the web yields no pictures of a signed edition. Very odd.

Malcolm Addey has mastered many Blue Note CDs already so you know how it's going to sound. To my (old) ears, he seems to go for a more neutral sound. I don't hear a lot of EQ going on like some mastering engineers. I think he's a lot like Ron McMaster in this regard.

Are you talking about it being in session order for the first 3 sessions or are you talking about the order of the tracks within each of these first 3 sessions? I would think that after all the crap Michael Cuscuna got from the re-sequencing of "No Room For Squares", "The Turnaround" & "Straight No Filter" that putting them out in straight recording order takes that all away. In that regard, it makes sense to me.

I was once told by someone who knew Mal that the smoking bans in the US are why he stopped touring there. I once had a chance to see him in Berlin when i was there on business but the business side of things ran over. I regret that I never did get to see him play.

From the "Ray Charles Presents David Newman" discogs entry for the Speakers Corner LP:

Thread title taken directly from the article: https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2019/11/can-music-stores-indie-labels-survive-the-big-distribution-debacle.html?fbclid=IwAR3wLQUNFo505XOkFfriWamd10VkHlZwaTMghMIzi9aty-mbFhnRWFmNByQ It sounds pretty bad. I am curious to hear from any board members with first hand knowledge if this is true.

Sorry, but my CD is autographed. I am not giving that one up.

I always threw out obi strips. In fact, for my first purchases of TOCJ CDs, I pulled out the staples from the booklet and threw out the Japanese liner notes and just kept the folded up paper with the English liners. I don't do that anymore, but at the time, they just made the booklet thicker and harder to pull out so I got rid of them.

I only know of Joe McQueen from his 2006 recording "10 at 86", which is a very enjoyable date. I have since learned more about McQueen from his obituary that Mark Sheldon posted to Facebook: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/12/08/jazz-legend-joe-mcqueen/?fbclid=IwAR3Kl4j1N2ZMU2In4c8jKCEZIamFc2nxp2lLCbN7o9OHWpICTZj93cmtjHA Apparently, he was a pioneer for equal rights as well as a nice swing saxophonist.

I use a Roku for YouTube TV. I also have access to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu & Disney + through the Roku if I want to use those apps.

I recently moved to Maine and the cable monopoly here is Spectrum. I got the "New customer deal" to sign up... I think it was $149/month for a "Triple play" (cable/internet/phone). After a year, it went up $20 so I called to switch over to the next "deal", a game I played with Comcast for decades. Their answer - "No deals. Only new customers get deals". So I stuck it out another year. And another year. This year, my bill was going to be $202/month. No way. I tried You Tube TV for a month and it worked fine. Cloud DVR works great. All the local channels. $50/month. Switched to Spectrum internet for $70/month, dropped my landline and now I'm down to $120/month total. Bye bye cable TV. Bye bye landline.

C.M. Waggoner's "Unnatural Magic": C. M. is the niece of an old Jazz buddy of mine, Jeff Waggoner. Jeff may be here on the forums but I remember him more from the Blue Note & Jazz Corner forums.

It still bugs me that the NO police department classified Ruiz's death as accidental from a fall. I guess in New Orleans, people accidentally fall and bash their heads onto a curb 3 or 4 times before they lapse into a coma all the time. https://www.knkx.org/post/sad-and-mysterious-death-hilton-ruiz

Wow - that last post broke my browser. WTF happened?

I can never look at a Boyd Raeburn disc with Ginny Powell on it the same way ever again. Aric's granpa.