Kevin Bresnahan

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.

I used to hear stuff like that Gideon tune above all the time in Newbury Comics and it never did anything for me. I do like some heavy metal stuff, even stuff with "scream-singing" but I hate those guttural screams like I hear here. They sound like someone in pain.

God, I really hate those metal bands with the lead that sounds like he's having problems in the bathroom. Constipation metal - that's it.

Man, we're getting old, aren't we? I can't believe that Jim is already 61.

I drive an hour each way since I moved to the beach so I got Sirius/XM. I switch between 70's on 7, 80's on 8, Classic Rewind, Classic Vinyl, Deep Tracks, Real Jazz & Comedy Central Radio. Sometimes if the mood strikes, I may put on The Coffeehouse. At home, I sometimes use their app and play The Bridge and Yacht Rock Radio, especially in the summer on the back deck. Lately, I've installed their app on my Roku box and I'm using that for Christmas music when the mood strikes. Since I'm driving 60+ miles each way, I bought a plug-in Prius (called a Prius Prime). I'm getting almost 65 mpg with it.

That font - and the monochrome - almost looks like a Mosaic.

Wow, I didn't know they had any digital recordings from the 60's.

Ahhh... Merci. I forgot about that.

When I click that link, I get £57.89, which is $74.75 before shipping. I am not seeing $69 shipped to a US address.

I came so close to buying one of these...

Matthew, you have quite the cellar! Lucky man.

When I saw Reeds & Deeds, I thought it would be Eric Alexander & Grant Stewart's band: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3340436-Reeds-And-Deeds

Damn, these Steeplechase CDs are expensive. At a time when CD sales are tanking and most issues are ~$10, these are clocking in at $20. Makes me wonder how long they'll be around with that price point. Even Mosaic Records, at the top of the CD price range only charges $17 per disc. Having said that, I'm thinking hard about the new Cuber & Smulyan CDs.

That corporate flow is right but when Rykodisc was sold, something happened to their catalog. For instance, both David Bowie & Frank Zappa got their masters back. Maybe Carter's estate got his back too. We'd probably have to find someone on the inside to find out.

2015 Bucella Cabernet Sauvignon. It was excellent.

David Murray did quite a few recordings for India Navigation that are now out of print... if they've ever even been in print on CD? Actually, Chico Freeman did quite a few for India Navigation as well. That's one I would be interested in.

Only two labels - Black Saint & Gramavision. I don't even know who owns Gramavision these days. They were part of the Rykodisc labels and many of their recordings reverted back to the artists after they folded. I also don't think that a John Carter 5 CD box set of his Roots & Folklore series would sell well. Most fans of this music will have the 5 original CDs already. I suppose if they offered them on vinyl, they might pull in some owners of the CDs to drop the money for an LP set. But if they simply reissue those 5 CDs, I don't see a lot of us buying it.

Nope. Not in my neck of the woods. There were no hip hop stations back then. Not a one. And yes, I used to spin the dial quite often back then. In the late 70's/early 80's it was mostly Top 40, Oldies and AOR. You still had talk radio. Sports radio. Public radio was mainly big band and classical. Not even many country stations like there are today. Oh, and there was always a few classical stations up & down the dial. But hip hop? Nope. And again, after Run D.M.C., I listened to some of it. I may even have bought Run D.M.C.'s "Raising Hell", but I was not a fan of most of it. Having said all this, I still do love Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" but like Run D.M.C.'s "Walk This Way", this (and the follow up, "Funky Cold Medina") got a lot of radio play on rock stations because it sampled rock tunes.