Kevin Bresnahan

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.

It looks like Downbeat agreed with me. There was ballot stuffing last year. Why else would they be limiting the vote to subscribers this year? They looked at the numbers and realized there was someone, somewhere, with a bot that skewed the vote. Makes last year's vote that much worse. Funny thing is, I dropped Downbeat after last year and now even I can't vote for Hank!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/a-jazz-legend-said-he-was-in-desperate-need-of-money-his-friends-had-questions/2019/07/10/440e76ec-99b6-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html?utm_term=.75733296cd34 I am not feeling so good about donating to this fund. I am most upset at the Jazz Foundation for not doing their homework before issuing their statement confirming the Burrell's financial situation. Oh well, live & learn.

Celebrating my 32nd wedding anniversary tonight so I'm opening up a 2014 Pahlmeyer Red. James Suckling gave it 97 points but then went on to say that it has a nose of iodine. WTF? I mean, really WTF??? Drinking iodine is at about the same level as running with bulls in my book of "things to avoid".

Boston rush hour traffic is thick but not slow at all. Brakes here and there but usually you can cruise along nicely. What threatens my life on a regular basis is the distracted driving, usually texting while driving, that has become a huge problem. I've witnessed these idiots (who probably think running with the bulls would be fun) driving down the road with both hands and both eyes glued to their cell phone screen. It's why I gave up my motorcycle.

It always strikes me as odd when people voluntarily risk their lives for something as dumb as this - running with bulls? Why? As a matter of principal, I tend to avoid things that could result in death. I don't swim with piranhas or alligators. I don't run through lightning storms with a metal rod in my hand. Generally, I avoid things where one of the possible outcomes is "death" and this is from someone who drives in Boston rush hour traffic on a daily basis so I know of what I speak. I avoid death nearly every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_of_the_bulls "Overall, since record-keeping began in 1910, 15 people have been killed in the bull running of Pamplona, most of them due to being gored." Year Name Age Origin Location Cause of death 1924 Esteban Domeño 22 Navarre, Spain Telefónica Goring[15] 1927 Santiago Zufía 34 Navarre, Spain Bullring Goring[15] 1935 Gonzalo Bustinduy 29 San Luis Potosí, Mexico Bullring Goring[15] 1947 Casimiro Heredia 37 Navarre, Spain Estafeta Goring[15] 1947 Julián Zabalza 23 Navarre, Spain Bullring Goring[15] 1961 Vicente Urrizola 32 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo Goring[15] 1969 Hilario Pardo 45 Navarre, Spain Santo Domingo Goring[15] 1974 Juan Ignacio Eraso 18 Navarre, Spain Telefónica Goring[15] 1975 Gregorio Gorriz 41 Navarre, Spain Bullring Goring[15] 1977 José Joaquín Esparza 17 Navarre, Spain Bullring Suffocated in a pile-up.[7] 1980 José Antonio Sánchez 26 Navarre, Spain Town Hall Square Goring[15] 1980 Vicente Risco 29 Badajoz, Spain Bullring hit[15] 1995 Matthew Peter Tassio 22 Glen Ellyn, Illinois, USA Town Hall Square Goring[16] 2003 Fermín Etxeberria 62 Navarre, Spain Mercaderes Hit by a horn[17] 2009 Daniel Jimeno Romero 27 Alcalá de Henares, Spain Telefónica Goring[18][19]

NFL Football is different today - at least at the Patriots' stadium. There are cameras everywhere and if you get caught doing something wrong, they pull your season tickets. There is a 20 year waiting list. This stopped a lot of the fights. I agree that they were bad in the old days but modern technology seems to have cleaned it up a bit.

The 2014 Savant was still phenomenal. The Hess was... eh. I expected a lot more for the price.

14 Justin Savant. Large group so if that runs out, up next is the 2014 Hess Collection Cabernet Sauvignon.

"Jeez, I brought my frames into that eyeglass store to get them adjusted 5 or 6 times. They're closed. What the heck happened there?"