Kevin Bresnahan

I ordered the Woody Shaw, Clifford Jordan, Gerry Mulligan & Roland Kirk sets.

"But at this point, some sets which are temporarily out of stock may not be pressed again." Damn, I waited too long on that Clifford Jordan set!

The first part of my post was straight from Scott at Mosaic. They stopped ordering the full run of CDs years ago and went with JIT inventory management to minimize stock in hand. The second part of my post, regarding the CD pressing plants, may be more in line with what you're saying. But that wouldn't explain the fiasco where a pressing plant closed and threw out Mosaic's CD masters. If the CDs were already pressed by the label, as you suppose, this wouldn't have resulted in the set going OOP instantly like what happened then.

I was once told that the reason for all the back orders was because it was cheaper to order CDs from the pressing plant in large batches so Mosaic decided to switch to a JIT (Just In Time) business model. I hear that they still order most the paper items up front (boxes/booklets) because they are relatively inexpensive and there is little cost advantage to ordering those later. Then they wait until there are enough orders for a particular set before ordering the more expensive CDs. The money they would've spent on ordering them early is able to stay on the corporate books as cash and not as "stock on hand". It's the classic JIT business model. Generally most companies like to go this way as it allows the company to stay fiscally healthier (for accounting purposes, cash looks better on the books than stock) but it runs the risk of problems with your customers if you cannot order the needed stock far enough in advance to meet the demand. I imagine a further complication is that most of the remaining CD manufacturing houses likely operate under a business model where they service their bigger customers over their little ones like Mosaic, since that's where the money is. So when Mosaic finally does place an order, it probably gets put at the end of the line.

Michael posts here under his real name. You could ask him if he knows that the acoustics are that bad. He could also clue you in on the drummer.

I would be at this show in a second if I lived close enough! Killer band!

This is my fist time being able to get in since last Saturday.

Up until as late as last year, you could still get this pressing when you purchased the OJC LP. They used the DCC stampers for many years after this LP was deleted. They simply scratched out the DCC info in the deadwax and scratched in OJC info.

Gary Larson was an amateur Jazz guitarist. He did this album cover in exchange for lessons from Ellis.

I once caught a show at a place called The Brick Room near the intersection of Live Oak St and Skillman St. That must be long gone too. Hey, at least the Blue Note in Taipei is still going from what I hear. So some of the clubs I went to back in the day are still booking Jazz.

I found an old flyer from Sambuca and scanned it into my PC but the forum software won't let me upload it. It says it can't be any bigger than 102.4 kB. The file is 96 kB. What's up here?

Unless Joey D played the Jazz Connection with Marchel more than once, we were there the same night. The club with the runway behind the stage was in Addison so it must've been Sambuca. It was pretty cool at night when a plane would take off behind the players. The planes lights would shine onto the players' backs. I don't remember seeing Fathead Newman there though. I used to travel to several big semiconductor companies in the DFW area in the late 90's. Back then, I used to scope out all the brew pubs and Jazz clubs before jumping on the plane. DFW was one of my favorite places to visit.

I've been to the Elbow Room several times but I'm a little vague on it as it was almost 20 years ago. Is that the place with the exposed brick wall interior that caused nearly every band to sound bright & loud? I seem to remember that they had more blues bands than jazz bands when I visited. When visiting DFW, I always preferred the one where the airport runway was behind the stage. They brought in some great bands back in the 90's. I saw Marchal Ivery there a couple of times. The Jazz Connection (?) a couple of other times.

I searched for these for years to no avail. I don't think the Japanese manufacturer is around any more.

What's weird is that Bull Moose almost always has the lowest prices around here for new CDs. This is clearly an anomaly. For example, they have all the latest Xanadu CDs for $13.97.

The J. Geils Band was my favorite touring band back in the days of my youth. I must've saw them 5 or 6 times. They always rocked out the joint, often playing 3-4 hours of non-stop foot-stomping rock. One thing I don't understand about the news coverage of Geils's death is the statement that "Centerfold" was their first hit. That's just weird. "Give It To Me" and "Must Of Got Lost" were both hits well before Centerfold. In fact, in the early days of FM radio, the live version of "Must Of Got Lost" from the incredible "Blow Your Face Out" double LP, got extensive airplay in the Boston area. It got to the point where everyone could do the intro rant with Peter Wolf word for word. I think this wooba-gooba can still do it today. RIP to a great guitarist. I will always remember his band.

Bill - Why don't you post the list here? If you have it in a file, it should be pretty easy to post it.

So Bull Moose Music wants $30 for a single CD! Ouch! That's even worse then. I haven't paid $30 for a new single CD release in decades. Used rarities, sure, but not for a new CD. I think I'll pass.

I was spinning some of this box today and it got me thinking again about the review Iverson did on his Do The Math blog. So I went to check to see if he revised it a second time and discovered that it got revised out of existence. Now this thread makes us look like doofusses as we debate over a dead link.

I just saw this 2 CD set at Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth for $29. My first thought was, "Why are these two dissimilar recordings packaged together". My second though was, "WTF! The Sonny disc is 24 minutes and the Horace disc is 35 minutes. If you're going to package two dissimilar recordings together, why not put them on one 59 minute disc!!"

So Jaws not only corked up some keys, he played with an insanely hard reed? No wonder he got such a unique sound. I still say that any Jaws fan needs to own a copy of "Oh Gee! Live In Manchester".

I got this e-mail and checked the prices and got the same sticker shock you did. No way can I afford this. Have these cruises become the provenance of the wealthy? They didn't use to be this way. I once booked a Jazz cruise but had to back out at the last minute (mistake - Gerry Mulligan's last appearances were on that cruise) and the ocean view cabins were only around $2,300/couple.

I checked into Potter's May visit to Boston and was surprised that it wasn't his quartet. http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/event/celebrity-series-aziza-featuring-dave-holland-chris-potter-lionel-loueke-and-eric-harland?delta=0 Dave Holland, bass Chris Potter, tenor saxophone Lionel Loueke, guitar Eric Harland, drums Hmmmm... Might have to check that one out.

The old TV that this LG OLED is replacing is an 11 year old 46" Mitsubishi 1080p LCD TV that has done very well by me. It's likely to move up into my daughter's room as a gaming monitor. I'm pretty amazed that it's lasted this long since they were notorious for power supply failures. I still have my TC-58AX800U 58" Panasonic 4K LCD TV in the living room upstairs. I'm not giving that up.

When I posted about Roy's recent trouble here in Boston, it was not about "Don't Mainline And Drive". It was about "Don't Mainline And Die". From what my friend saw, he's not doing well along these lines. I hope we aren't reading his obit soon.