Kevin Bresnahan

Save your money and hook a PC to your stereo :

While I do thoroughly enjoy many of Nickel & Nickel's offerings, I think their prices are too high for what they deliver. It's their business and they're free to run it as they see fit, but in my opinion, they're overpriced. You want a less expensive "Nickel & Nickel" Cab, try their sister label, Bella Union. At $65/bottle, it's still expensive, but it's much cheaper than their single estate wines.

When I saw him, he played keyboards most of the night. I would guess he picked up his trumpet a couple of times. Typical song:

I had a copy of "The Believer". It was a CD-R from his fan club website. It stopped playing years ago and I could never get them to replace it.

Sarah Samuels, Dave Samuels' daughter, has reported, via Facebook, that Dave has died. Although I was never a huge Spyro Gyra fan, I heard it quite a bit during my college years as one of my friends was into them. https://jazztimes.com/news/dave-samuels-1948-2019/

I am pretty sure that I am seeing PMs in search results. I assume that they are PMs and not status updates because when I look at the two posters involved with the message, I see no status updates for either one. I also see people's PM exchanges regarding sales, including E-mail addresses.

I've been surprised by the lack of sales at many of the gigs I've been to lately. I have always tried to buy directly from the artists but I can't if they don't bring any. Perfect example, Bruce Gertz recently played at local club in Portsmouth, NH. I know he recently had a pile of old sealed vinyl going back to the early 80's when he had his own label that he will sell you if you E-mail him. Given the recent resurgence in vinyl sales, you'd think he'd have a box of these with him? Nope.

Although I'll be duplicating a few discs in my collection, these prices are too hard to skip.

Record Store Day was last Saturday, April 13th.

I don't know why you think a 1981 Liberty pressing would sound better than an original Pacific Jazz pressing. I've heard original PJ LPs and the sound isn't bad but I have heard some pretty horrible Liberty pressings from the late 70's-early 80's.

Branford making more friends in the Jazz universe : Why is jazz unpopular? The musicians 'suck', says Branford Marsalis

To the section of Branford's interview posted here, in his first mention of Miles, he says, "It's really interesting when you listen to the [1967] Miles Davis record Sorcerer. On the first song, "Prince of Darkness," Miles gets lost in the middle of the solo and he's a half beat off about the entire second half of the solo". He continues on with, "You can hear the band bring him back to where the beat is; you can hear Tony Williams banging out the tempo. And in the end, they just go where Miles goes. Because he is Miles". I've listened to "Prince of Darkness" several times and I kinda hear Miles twisting the tempo here & there but I don't get why Branford Marsalis thinks that this isn't just something Miles wanted to do.

That you for fixing my typo!! Horrible typo on my part.

Laurie Pepper just sent out an E-mail asking for people on her mailing list to consider contributing to a fund to help Onaje Allan Gumbs, who is very ill and needs financial assistance. The creator of the fundraiser goes on to say that in addition to this Facebook fundraiser, there will be a benefit concert/jam session held on April 23rd at the Williamsburg Music Center in Brooklyn, NY from 7Pm until 11pm. The link she gave: https://www.facebook.com/donate/396450437600640/ I haven't seen Onaje play in a few years but when I last saw him, he was still one of the best pianists I ever witnessed.

You are dramatically mixing up your Kenny G's.

This is the first year I totally skipped it. The eBay flippers have destroyed it. It's no longer about supporting your local record store. It's about how much money you can make by flipping a limited edition LP on eBay. Last year, I saw flippers posting LPs purchased minutes before in the parking lot of the store.

Now they're saying 10-15 years to rebuild it... hmmm... maybe I can see it once more before I go? I don't get why they're concerned with not having the right wood to rebuild the roof's substructure. It's not visible - ever hear of steel beams? https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/notre-dame-fire/h_8dea292b00ff98263f67ce361f637ad9

I'm amazed to see the interior pictures and seeing that the altar is still there. Votive candles were still lit. It looked far more devastating from the outside. However, from the sounds of it, I will be long in the ground before it is restored to its full glory, so I am very glad to have been able to walk through it twice.

Zero on-line presence to this "tour". Ford's website looks like it hasn't been updated in many years.

Damn - I would've loved to catch that band. I've never seen Ford or Altschul and I haven't seen Harris in decades. Are they coming anywhere near Boston? I have two Barry Altschul leader dates:

It is beginning to look like a total loss for the interior. Now it looks like they're just trying to save the shell. I'm very saddened by this. One of my highlights of my visits to Paris.

I really wanted to go to this but I couldn't find anyone to go with and I'm not a huge fan of going solo unless it's someone I just have to see.You are right that show length seems to be going down.

The Bruce Gertz Quartet is playing at the Press Room in Portsmouth NH tonight. Great band: Bruce Gertz, Bass; Mark Walker, Drums; Jerry Bergonzi, Tenor; Phil Grenadier, Trumpet

My questions centers around the "your recent call about a medical brace". If you didn't call anyone about a medical brace, why would you talk to these people? If you did call about a medical brace but it wasn't these scammers, why would you talk to these people? I just don't get why anyone would talk to someone who starts off the conversation with a lie. I have great sympathy for those going through life in pain. My uncle is going through this right now. I was glad to hear that this particular scam got busted. People who prey on those in distress are the worst kind of scum.

Do not hang up! This is not a sales call. We are calling in response to your recent inquiry about a medical brace. Really? Who the hell falls for these things?