Kevin Bresnahan

I am tempted to go see the Bad Plus at the recently re-opened Press Room in Portsmouth, NH but I think I'm going to pass. If it was Friday or Saturday night... probably... but with a 4:45 AM wake up alarm tomorrow, nah.

Did you find a tag editor for Mac? I downloaded several freebies back when I had this problem and I think Mp3tag was the one I kept. https://www.mp3tag.de/en/ I was actually having an additional problem with some mp3 tags and that was my car was showing the wrong album artwork. It turns out, album artwork is found in several places in these tags and with Mp3tag, I was able to find the offending artwork and delete it. It fixed a lot of files that had the wrong artwork but it took many hours of editing to do it. Good luck.

Oh, I know that series well. I have several Ben Webster & Coleman Hawkins titles from it. But I have never seen that particular cover. I find that the vinyl isn't the best quality with them. If memory serves, there's a lot of surface noise even when the discs look mint. Truth be told, not many Verve pressings are all that great in the audio department. But I still wouldn't be without this Modern Jazz Sextet session. Great music however you're playing it back. I think I have Japanese pressings, both on LP & CD, of this date.

Again - I have never used iTunes before. I just know that I had issues with using the wrong tag type before and this sounds similar. It may not be this but it's worth checking.

WTF is that?!?! That is some weird shit. I prefer this one:

It sounds like you may have accidentally turned on the wrong tag format in iTunes. There's V1 tags and V2 tags. You may have the wrong one turned on. If this is the problem, I can't help you. No iTunes here. I had this happen once in Exact Audio Copy. It screwed up all my music files for months. In Windows, there are tag editing programs. I fixed my broken tags this way. Maybe you can find one for Mac?

If this thread doesn't belong in the "Artists" forum, we're really misinterpreting the word's meaning.

I was hoping they would get in a copy but I got sick of waiting and ordered it today. Let's see if they get it. I may add the Beatles latest 50 anniversary box set of the White Album to the list but at $160... ouch.

This is so frustrating... so many people are saying that Roy Hargrove's drug problem was common knowledge. He was even arrested for it. Did he ever get help? Did his drug use cause his kidneys to fail? Did his drug use cause the cardiac arrest that killed him? Could this have been prevented? So many unanswered questions. I am so bummed out about this. I was so hoping he was going to be around for a long time. There's another hole in my Jazz calendar and it sucks.

I'm going to miss seeing him on his annual tour through the Boston area. Whenever I saw him play, he kicked ass. He always had a killer band, especially the last time, when he had Jimmy Cobb subbing on drums.

Several members of his band are posting on Facebook that he has died. I would have started an RIP thread in the Artists forum if I found it on a news service.

I am reading on Facebook that we will be reading Roy's obituary soon. Bums me out. I've seen him so many times, I've lost count. Terrible tragedy if true.

Your "point" as I understood it from your initial post was "to see if one could glean any insights as to how new musical forms appear - and thus an insight into how Jazz might have appeared." My counterpoint is that you can't glean any insights from rock's appearance any more that you can glean why Bollywood became popular in India. It just did. It's not a thing that can be gleaned. FWIW, I have never heard anyone credit the Beatles with kicking off rock & roll's popularity. Rock did not start with the Beatles. It started way further back than that. Chuck Berry is often credited as the first rocker and even that isn't true. As much as Wikipedia isn't a real encyclopedia, their rock & roll write up is very good and shows some real research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

I don't think I've ever heard "The Pantagon" by Cedar Walton. From the YouTube videos, it sounds OK if a little dated with rinky-dink piano & fuzzy bass. Is the consensus that it's worth picking up... for $8.87?

It was a night of sonic sludge. I wasn't expecting much along these lines but this was even worse than my lowly expectations. The bassist was just blumb, blumb, blumbing his way along, with no attempt to actually play single notes until his one solo. The drummer was pretty good and looked just like a young Oliver Platt. And let's face it, we shouldn't expect these 70 year old singers to sing like they used to... but if you can't hit the notes, it's time to hang it up guys.

Lou is 92. One of the last beboppers still (?) playing.

Biggest selling single in Japan in 1964:

When discussing how musical genres are "born" or created for the first time, I find it pretty funny that we center on Rock, a mainly UK/US creation. Back when the UK/US kids were spinning the Beatles, other countries were spinning vastly different records. Even today, pop on a Japanese radio station or an Indian radio station or a Chinese radio station etc. and hear a whole other world of popular music, some of which has been around as long as Rock. In general, people often take a rather myopic view of the musical world.

Blue Öyster Cult is at the Blue Ocean Music Hall in Salisbury, MA tonight. I don't go to many of these "classic rock" shows any more as they are usually just tribute bands with few or no original members. This band seems to have the original singers, so I thought I'd give it a go.

Recorded by board member Ted O'Reilly too.

Front row Green Monster seats are harder to get these days. I took the first one I could and went on April 11th to a game they lost to the Yankees. It was 42 degrees at game time and got colder and windier as the game progressed. It was so cold, I had to buy winter hats for me & my daughter. Surprise, the stadium kiosks were selling them. This was obviously before we had to don our winter hats but note we already had on our winter coats.

1975 Reds? The team that was practically gifted a win by umpire Larry Barnett for failing to call an obvious catcher interference on Ed Armbrister? Yeah, I know that MLB continues to say it was correct. Bunk. The rule states it's not interference "Barring an intentional action on the part of either player". Ed Armbrister intentionally stopped in front of Fisk. There was nothing unintentional about it. He says he wanted to see if the ball was fair or foul. Where does the rule say that you can intentionally block a player if you think the ball may be foul? It doesn't. FYI - that call soured me on MLB for years. That sure looked like the fix was in on that one. I still barely watch the games on TV, preferring to catch a game or two at Fenway every year. This year, I saw my first game up on the Green Monster. Bucket list box checked.

"DIGITAL RECORDING" - WTF?

Use a sniping service or wait until the last few seconds of the auction and bid the most you are willing to spend. Don't do it until the very end. Snipe it yourself.

Weren't these special LPs? I've been told that it was a miserable failure. Supposedly, the records skipped on bumps and after about 10 plays, the record was white from the tracking force needed to keep the needle in the groove.