Kevin Bresnahan

Such a bummer. He was a great contributor here. RIP Uli. He was only 70. Too young in this day & age.

I was told it was the 1989 LP pressing: https://www.discogs.com/Hank-Mobley-No-Room-For-Squares/release/3822832

If you are talking about the German ZYX CDs from the late 90's, they were almost universally panned for their poor sound. The only CD versions of "Smokin'" I could find were one on Roulette, which also wasn't known for issuing the best-sounding CDs and a recent Italian release, which I've never heard.

I found this on a sale page many years ago and grabbed it. A very nice trio date.

That was a killer band! I remember going to one of their gigs not knowing that Wyands was on piano and being amazed at his playing. He was the one you found yourself watching more than any of the others.

Several Jazz artists and publications are reporting that pianist Richard Wyands passed away last Wednesday (9/25). https://www.weldonfh.com/book-of-memories/3977118/Wyands-Richard/obituary.php

Nothing yet but in searching around Facebook, I got even more bad news from Mike LeDonne's FB feed: Mike LeDonne 18 hrs · Something very bad is happening in the universe right now because some of our greatest artists/people are dropping like flies! Just this morning I found out that Larry Willis and Richard Wyands have both passed away. These were old and dear friends of mine that were also my heroes. I'm still reeling from losing Harold Mabern and now this. I really have no words to express how I feel except to say that this is a very sad time. Losing these 3 masters so close together is very weird and feels very heavy.

Many are reporting on Facebook that pianist Larry Willis died this morning at the age of 76.

A stopwatch would seem to be a necessary item when recording during the LP era. It's not like they had digital timers on the tape machines.

"Best of? Ha!! One hit and they still put out a Best Of CD.

I had an E-mail dialog with him many years ago. In his written word, he was extremely nice and seemed to remember a lot of stuff from back in the day. I wish i saved those E-mails as I don't even remember all the stuff we talked about. I did mention Chris Albertson to him once and he didn't say anything bad about him so on his side at least, there didn't seem to be any rancor.

Chris utilized a stopwatch at a session that had no involvement with Bob Weinstock. Does that mean that Chris had no ears to recognize a good or bad take? It's never good to generalize. Look, we all know Chris hated Keepnews but whatever happened, it was personal between the two of them. At the same time, I've read of plenty of musicians who liked working with Keepnews. Jimmy Heath comes to mind. Both of them are now gone so there's no reason to continue this feud in their stead.

I believe the stopwatch was actually held by Chris Albertson, as was necessary in those days to make sure that your takes didn't go beyond what would fit onto an LP side. BTW, in Chris's own words, he continued to use a stopwatch for his own productions, so the use of the stopwatch itself was an accepted practice. Somehow it has come to be applied to Orrin Keepnews as some sort of negative thing he did. For instance, from Chris's old "Stomp Off" blog: "The exception was a flamenco session Bob (Weinstock of Prestige Records) asked me to do on a few hours notice—to this day, it is my only non-jazz/blues effort. It featured a Spanish Flamenco group, Los Morenos, that seemed to have come out of nowhere on a two-way ticket. I don’t know how good or authentic this group was, but its five members arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on time, complete with a roll-out dance floor and a routine as tight as any I had seen. They whipped out their castanets, stomped and attitudinized with an impressive flair for the dramatic while I practiced a lesson taken from Orrin’s a&r manual: worked the stopwatch. Unless it was a glaring goof, how would I know when to call for another take? Sound of Flamenco, should you ever come across it, is a self-produced affair." The blog entry: http://stomp-off.blogspot.com/2009/

Didn't it win some sort of award for best packaging or some such thing? Best graphic design maybe?

I had that one up too but then I wondered about "hit", We never heard either of Dexy's UK hits. As I said, "one hit wonder" is very difficult to define. As I understand it, Dexy's is still a fairly big draw in the UK.

True "One Hit Wonders" are hard to find. I can't tell you how many times I thought a band only had one hit when I search and find some low charting minor hit listed. For instance, I consider this a "One Hit Wonder": But when I look them up, they had 2 hits in the UK and another very minor hit in the US ("The Celtic Soul Brothers"). Still a great tune to post anyway.

I don't know if it's too many problems or overly picky buyers. I have been buying vinyl for a very long time. There are problems inherent with the medium that should be expected. You learn to live with these problems because quite honestly, they were in most pressings. A lot of the buyers over there see a slight defect and return it, regardless of whether or not it affects the sound. Pressing vinyl is an inexact science. Off-center pressings happen. Warps happen. Underfill happens. Double labels happen. Yes, the pressing plant QC should catch these, but they probably only catch gross defects. I have bought maybe 10 of these Tone Poet/80th Anniversary LPs and only one had a problem and that was a double label. If you're a Kenny Burrell fan, you should try that Tone Poet LP. It sounds pretty damn good.

I think it's hilarious that there are so many over on the Hoffman forums praising this series while at the same time talking about being on their 3rd copy of one title and their second copy of another two titles and then they'll be upset when Blue Note discontinues it. As it is, given the number of "on my 2nd copy" and "on my 3rd copy" comments I've read, I can't imagine them even continuing it with the titles they've already announced.

Binky isn't alone. Do we really want to go down this rabbit hole again... and again... and again...

As I said in the other thread where phone memory was mentioned, you can put a 256 GB Micro SD card in the Samsung Galaxy. You don't need to buy it up front like you do with a iPhone. Does the iPhone require you to use iTunes to get your music onto the phone? I simply stick the MicroSD card into the card reader slot (with an SD adapter) on my PC and copy the music files over. No special tools or apps required. I do not want iTunes on my PC. I hate that app.

Is there a reason why it has to be an Apple iPhone? I am on my 4th Samsung Galaxy and I have been extremely happy with all of them. My daughters buy iPhones and I've used their phone occasionally. I guess I just don't get the love affair with them. To me, they are just another smart phone.

Two questions before I buy the (likely very expensive) LP set: Will the LPs contain all of the music or will there be more material on the CD release? Will the LPs be cut analog? If the answer to both of these questions is "yes", I will probably buy this. Otherwise, I'll wait for the CDs.

I thought that Jim doesn't want us to post entire articles as it is a copyright violation and he doesn't want the hassles that could bring?

BTW - even with Trump's threats to de-fund the National Endowment For The Arts, their budget has steadily increased in each of the past 5 years. 2015 $146,021,000 2016 $147,949,000 2017 $149,849,000 2018 $152,849,000 2019 $155,000,000 And in case you are wondering, $75,000 is .048% of their budget.

Up to 7 artists can be elected each year. They never elect 7. So yes, they did save money. They were budgeted for $175,000 and they only spent $100,000. They saved $75,000.