Kevin Bresnahan

When I was at UMass/Amherst in the mid-80's, there was a guy that used to play his bagpipes in the parking garage at dusk. It reverberated in there just right and you could hear it almost everywhere on campus. It was almost like taps. Sun goes down - bagpipes play.

Cheap too: https://www.ebay.com/p/Baptist-Beat-by-Various-Artists-CD-Jan-2014-EMI/177440384?iid=292546688579&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIM.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D50544%26meid%3Db09e32f2d3cd4060ac09848e09c974a6%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D132607403445%26itm%3D292546688579&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851

Do you know of this LP/CD: https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Baptist-Beat/release/3304735

If only Mosaic had let it slip that they were working on this box, they would have saved me some money and earned themselves another sale. I'm a huge fan of Mobley's music so when the Japanese started reissuing these dates, I paid big bucks to import them all. Big bucks that I would have gladly sent Mosaic's way if I only knew. This was one time when Mosaic's secrecy backfired on them - with me at least. Oh, and I have to add that I did buy the Mosaic later anyway, just so I could read the booklet and to see if the sound was better than what i had. After I compared the sound, I preferred the Japanese CDs so I eventually sold the Mosaic. What I should have done was ordered the LP set. Then I'd still have this box & booklet.

From https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4818 most of Southern Florida is only about 32 feet above sea level. If sea level rose 33 feet, there would be a very different coastline and a new island.

Just finished - Zoot Sims - Suitably Zoot (Pumpkin Productions 108) - Al Cohn (tracks: A1, A2), Richie Kamuca (tracks: A1, A2), Zoot Sims (tracks: A1, A2, B1, B2); Bob Brookmeyer (tracks: B1, B2); Dave Frishberg (tracks: A1, A2), Roger Kellaway (tracks: B1, B2); Bill Crow (tracks: B1, B2), Tommy Potter (tracks: A1, A2); (tracks: B1, B2), Mel Lewis (tracks: A1, A2) This is another decent record from Pumpkin Productions, which I assume was a bootleg label in from the late 70's. They appear to have modeled their back artwork on the Xanadu label. Were they related? Flimsiest vinyl though... it's like one of those records you used to punch out of the back of a cereal box. Now playing - Duke Robillard - Swing (Rounder) - Duke Robillard (g, v), Scott Hamilton (ts), Chrisy Flory (g - "Glide On"), Jim Kelly (g - "Jim Jam"), Mik LeDonne (p), Phil Flanagan (b), Chuck Riggs (d). Nice try by Robillard but to my ears he sounds better in a straight blues setting, rocking it out a bit. This is a bit tame.

I wonder why Patrick Roques didn't fill in the openings in "LARRY" like he did for the rest of the text there?

Not that it matters a whole lot, but where is it written that Gearbox is paying the artists for these recordings? I believe that this recording is technically in the public domain in the EU, so there is no reason that Gearbox would have to contact the estate or make any payments. I'd be pleased to find out that they do.

Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars' "Modern Jazz a la Lighthouse" (LAJI-01) looks like this: Here's a tiny picture of the cover to Howard Rumsey's "West Coast Rarities": And here is the backer:

Regarding Tyrone Washington's "Natural Essence" - have you sampled the music before paying big money for the CD? I've owned it twice and dumped it twice. I just don't find it very good.

Did you ever get this CD or your money back?

Because Puccini died in 1924, Belden believed that Turandot was out of copyright. Unfortunately for Belden and Blue Note Japan, it was completed by Franco Alfono, who died in 1954, so it is still under copyright until 2024. The Puccini estate did not give Belden permission to issue his Jazz version of Turandot, so until 2024, it will remain out of print.

I was told that they didn't sell well at all. I got the impression from talking to Cuscuna that they were historically poor sellers. In the end, I doubt that he was given any "atta boys" for reissuing these titles. Personally, I think they got caught up in that pressing plant theft where tons of certain titles showed up in all the stores with saw cuts. I remember when they were issued, there were more copies on store shelves with saw cuts than ones without saw cuts. It's hard to get good sales on a new CD title when the market is flooded with cheap saw-cut promos.

While I am not a fan of this saw solo, the version on the US CD with it edited out sounds stupid without it. If they wanted to edit it out, just cut the whole section.

Venus Records has also issued some titles as CD-Rs. I was browsing a used CD bin one day and saw a few cheap Venus CDs. I pulled them out and found out why they were so cheap - they were all CD-Rs.

There was a big problem at a CD pressing plant. I believe that the pressing plant closed and they threw out the CD stampers, making it expensive for Mosaic to re-press certain titles as they would have to re-cut CD masters at another plant. I know that the Stuff Smith set got caught up in this but I don't about any other titles.

Yes, that's true - but this still has to have given a juror "reasonable doubt" that the "she said" part of this trial was believable. I could never sit on a jury for one of these trials. As a father of 2 daughters, I hate to think of a man taking advantage of them like this - I want to throw him jail. On the other hand, as a man who has seen a woman lie about an encounter simply to get a man arrested, I hate to think of a woman taking advantage of anyone like this - and I'd want to see her thrown in jail. Then there's that reasonable doubt thing... again, it's tough to try a "He said, she said". There's usually little to no physical evidence, which is usually necessary to convict. It all comes down to who is more believable. You know, it doesn't matter what the denizens of this forum think. It's done. He's guilty in court.

Dan - don't interpret this as a defense - but Cosby never acknowledged using quaaludes to drug women prior to sexual encounters without their consent. The media has made it out to be that way, but if you read the actual statements, he often stated that the women consented. These "he said, she said" trials are tough to try in court. I personally think he did rape these women but I did not hear any testimony at this trial, with this woman, that would remove my "reasonable doubt", especially after hearing the testimony that she told a friend she could sue him for big money by lying.

"In a criminal case this evidence is admissible only if the probative value of the evidence outweighs its potential for unfair prejudice." And the judge allowing this testimony into evidence likely gives Cosby a better chance for his appeal. I thought it was a strange move by the prosecution. It's almost like they set themselves up for a "Well, we tried" defense if the verdict gets thrown out during appeal. My guess is they thought it was the only way to get a guilty this time.

According to the news reports coming from the trial, several defense witnesses, one of whom successfully got the last trial to end in a mistrial, were prevented from taking the stand this time. Conversely, other accusers were allowed to take the stand this time - something I thought was a big no-no in the US justice system.

They have the rare Hank Mobley Quartet date here: https://www.amazon.com/Hank-Mobley-Quartet/dp/B00W6IQ5GW/ref=sr_1_25?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1525283625&sr=1-25&keywords=CM+BLUE+NOTE&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011 It's missing the 2 alternate takes found on both US CD issues (Mosaic box & BN CD). Why? Wait - Donald Byrd's "Byrd In Flight" is missing 3 additional tracks found on the CD release. Why are they doing this?

Thanks David - my CDs arrived yesterday. Now I've got to find the time to listen to them all.

Yes - my point exactly. Ford demonstrated that they had no intention of working toward 54.4 MPG. There was no way Ecoboost was going to get them there. Smaller vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles are what they needed to do. Ford has improved their fleet average quite a bit in the past decade, but they wanted to be allowed to sell trucks, bigger trucks and huge trucks because they are easier to sell, have bigger margins and require no engineering skills to make. Screw the economy. Screw the environment. Screw our reliance on oil. They just want to make money. FWIW, most car companies are no different. Toyota sells a lot of trucks so that even though their product line is filled with vehicles that get over 35 MPG, to as high as 54 MPG, their fleet average is only 25.1, a little over Ford's 24.83. So Toyota is happy too. Who knows - maybe Toyota will make this announcement next? Look, I get that the CAFE MPG standards were going to be tough to meet. But it seems like many car companies, Ford in particular, had no intention of even trying. They've been crying "Woe is me" since the day these standards were announced. At the same time, Volvo announced that their entire line will be electric or hybrid electric by 2020, including their SUVs. Go Volvo. They get it. I'd like to add something here too... During the last surge in gas prices, I lost count of the times I had people come up to me as I filled up my Toyota Prius and ask me how I liked my car and how many miles per gallon it got. Again, if gas prices spike, people will regret that they have to gas up their land barge.

BTW, the gold plated CD from Analogue Productions of this title sounds incredible. It's too bad it's so damn expensive these days.