Kevin Bresnahan

So true!!

Well, he is 82, so he'll have a few unexpected health issues from time to time. It comes with the territory.

I was taking a friend for drive in my Toyota Prius Prime while in electric mode and I got to a busy intersection with a stop sign. I said, "Watch this", and gunned it. We flew through that intersection. It's very fast off the line.

He posted to his Facebook page on May 16th and thanked everyone for birthday wishes back in February.

Blue Note owns Roost and Universal owns Blue Note so.... Why don't they own Roost?

Local Boston legend, the singer Rebecca Parris, passed away recently, shortly after performing at a local club. The Boston Globe just published her obituary: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2018/06/18/rebecca-parris-jazz-singer-uncommon-range-and-emotional-depth/KLkhLdtZAoAsoMsvtnkFyM/story.html As a side note, Rebecca Parris is the mother of one of our regular posters here on the organissimo forums.

My latest commuter car is a 2017 Toyota Prius Prime. It's a plug-in hybrid. I've been averaging over 68 mpg with it.

You really can't shop from home for used LPs. I've only ordered a few used LPs on line and they weren't in a condition that would have gotten me to buy them if they were on a store shelf. I won't buy a record with a scratch I can feel. Not worth it to me when I can just play the CD in most cases.

Ayinger Hefeweiss.

Stock is way down at all of the stores I go to these days. Too many buyers. Not enough sellers.

That may be true, but if an artist was under contract to a record label, the owner of the recording would have to get permission to release this for it to be legal. I believe that technically, the artist's label owns the rights to release it.

Regarding the Club Baby Grand recordings... according to Cuscuna: "I really don’t remember, but I think I never found the Baby Grand outtakes. Most likely, the material is not in the can. Whatever I got for discography listings probably came from Alfred’s session notes".

Thanks everyone. I had a great night with my girls.

No "Fire And Love" in this list... I'm surprised they didn't go for a few of the real rarities in here like Joe Lovano's "Tenor Time", Benny Green's "Blue Notes" (or "Funky") or Renee Rosnes' "Face To Face" (unfortunately only an EP). I do like George Adams' "Nightingale" where he proves that he can wrangle a Jazz ballad out of "Bridge Over Troubled Water". Although all of George's somethin' else CDs are worth hearing. Ralph Peterson's "V" (I think "5" is a typo) is an excellent recording. I may have to pick up Phil Woods' "Cool Woods" and maybe that Hino disc for Greg Osby.

What a great show that must have been. You're lucky you got to see that. I never got to see Lacy or Land.

I don't like paying vinyl prices for an LP pressing that's basically using a CD as the source. If it's full analog, I'll pay the extra money. If not, tell me and I'll buy the CD. Renee Rosnes' latest release came out on vinyl. When I found out that it was full digital, I just ordered the CD. I still get to hear it, just not on vinyl. The vinyl resurgence should die quickly if all they keep cutting is a vinyl representation of the CD.

If they would say how the vinyl is cut (analog or digital), I would order that. But like most vinyl today, no one wants us to know. I am not buying an LP of a track played back digitally. I'll buy the CD instead.

I asked Phil how he was doing with his emphysema at one of his shows and he said that he wished that he had never smoked. He said he had trouble taking a breath and that he needed oxygen when he got off stage. At his later shows, he started playing with an oxygen tube.

Good catch. Phil is not smoking in that picture.

You should digitize them before you send them anywhere. If you ship them and they get lost or destroyed, they are gone forever. If you at least back them up before you send them out, they can live on in digital land.

Yeah, but the rest of the band is not.

"Mess Of Blues" is not a favorite of mine. I didn't like the audio quality and I didn't like the music much.

Isn't that the Resonance Records model though? I have read several stories about the amount of work required to acquire the rights to issue just one of these dates. Wouldn't it be incredibly difficult to do so with enough material for a Mosaic box? Also, if someone somewhere has issued any of it, there goes another potential customer. We are already a dwindling breed - every sale matters.

I don't know how many LP sets were made but the rumor mill has always been that some deep-pocketed Japanese buyer bought up most of them for resale in Japan.

I really dug those bagpipes back in the day. I used to sit in the quad and listen to the guy play. The combination of the sun setting and the dirge-like nature of the guy's playing just made it feel like a funeral for the day. Call me weird, but I liked it.