Kevin Bresnahan

I still have mine. Some original Impulse albums sound far better in their early mono form. I have quite a few of those - the 'Love Supreme' in the HMV imprint is a particular favourite. Got it! (Bought in 1965) Except that these mid-60s mono pressings are fold downs from the stereo master. You can get the same effect by using a y cord. I'm not saying anything about the pressing, just that "Mono" isn't a mix. Now playing: Coleman Hawkins - The High And Mighty Hawk (Affinity). Not the greatest sounding LP I've ever heard. It sounds like Affinity got a late generation tape to cut with.

Billy Bang Quintet - Rainbow Gladiator (Soul Note)

:o :o This is something you should rectify quickly!

Albert Dailey - Textures (Muse)

Huh? Am I listening to a different recording? Pepper is just being Pepper - playing the changes the way he always does, which is a bit unique. I guess if you don't like Pepper's ballad style,,, it's not as pretty as Chet's but it's still got something going for me. Pepper himself tells of the time he soloed in his "normal" way in Stan Kenton's band and had most of the band members thinking he didn't know what he was doing.

Some info here: http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/77001/Pink_Floyd-Wish_You_Were_Here-Hybrid_Multichannel_SACD

The surround sound SACD is a real audio treat (if you like that sort of thing). Actually, the whole package is a real treat. If you like Floyd and like "Wish You Were Here", I'd recommend not waiting until it's gone. It may be one of those expensive discs in the future.

Eric Alexander with Harold Mabern tonight at Scullers. Should be great.

Boston, in particular Scullers Jazz Club, is about to enter an incredible week of Jazz. It starts this Thursday night (6/13) when Terri Lyne Carrington comes to town. Friday (6/14), it's Cyrus Chestnut. Then there's an incredible trifecta of sax with Eric Alexander (with the great Harold Mabern on piano) on Wednesday (6/19), Ravi Coltrane on Thursday (6/20) and James Carter on Friday (6/21). Too many great shows in too short a time!! I have tickets to the Eric Alexander and Ravi Coltrane shows and I may add Cyrus Chestnut to my bill if I can this Friday. Terri Lyne Carrington is doing her version of "Money Jungle", which really has never been a favorite of mine so I'll probably pass.

So tonight's meal was this shredded chicken in a tomato-cheese sauce over Vermicelli noodles. The wine was a 2007 Cakebread Cabernet Sauvignon. Excellent meal. As the tee shirts say: Life Is Good.

These days, I've been having more problems in parking lots than roads! Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. I'll be opening a nice bottle of Cab tonight for sure. Maybe I'll crack one of those 07 Cakebread Cabs?

His current stuff is pretty good and if you get a chance to see him with Joey D on organ, it's a blast. He's playing straight ahead hard bop these days. I guess he made his money off of the smooth stuff and can now go back to the money-losing stuff. You know what they say - "How do you make a million dollars playing Jazz? Start with 2 million."

I've tried to find an affordable version of this on line to no avail. I ain't paying $40 for some CD-Rs, no matter how good the artwork is.

Louis Smith - Prancin' (SteepleChase). I found this sealed in a used bin and when I saw Smith, Junior Cook, Roland Hanna, Sam Jones & Billy Hart filling out the band, I figured this couldn't be too bad. I was right.

Busy night tonight. Herbie Hancock - Fat Albert Rotunda (WB) - with Van Gelder in the deadwax? I didn't even know he recorded it much less cut it. Duke Ellington - Duke's Big 4 (Pablo) Coleman Hawkins - Hawk Eyes! (OJC reissue)

Larry - you're in luck! As your ass has shrunk, fashion has shifted and dictated that all of your shirts must be untucked. So untuck that shirt and drape it over that plumber's crack and you'll be all set.

Go read the controversy section/discussion on Steve Hoffman's page. The Wiki editor refuses to allow anyone to reference the Houston newspaper article that mentions that Hoffman was fired from MCA. It's pretty funny watching the edits go back & forth

In the case of Dell batteries, I always recommend buying from Dell directly. Most of the batteries on Amazon & eBay are refurbished and usually don't last as long. I bought my daughter a refurbished battery and it lasted for about a year. After that one died, I bought her a Dell OEM and it's still going, three years later.

It is much easier than trying to edit the earlier stuff out. The new quoting system sucks big hairy donkey balls... well, that's being harsh to donkeys.

When I was a very young boy, my uncle gave in to my curiosity and handed me his lit cigarette. I took a big huge gulp, turned green, and proceeded to barf for about 5 minutes afterward. My mother was not too happy with said uncle (best uncle ever - let me drive his car while sitting on his lap shortly after the great cigarette experiment). Years went by and I managed to avoid tobacco smoke (though not the alternative smoke) when my grandfather (unfiltered Pall Mall smoker) had trouble with emphysema. I visited him in the hospital when they attempted to pump the tar goo out of his lungs. Seeing that black plastic bag just turned me off from smoking forever. It's an image that's stuck to me to this day. That and hearing my grandfather fight for each breath until his blocks of tar stopped working.

When you have a good memory, as I do about certain stuff, it's easy to forget how much you still forget. Since the JC board is going away, I was looking through some stuff I wanted to save, including a very old humor thread (I forget if it was "Ask steve(thelil)" or another one that I ran my mouth off on) . Anyway,on that OLD thread, I noticed a frequent and funny contributor who from an identical or VERY similar handle I recognized as being the artist who posts here as Jsngry. It was a name I recognized from this week on Organissimo, but had no recollection of from Jazz Corner. Small world. HOWEVER, Since it was an archived JC thread, it is possible that he posted under a DIFFERENT alias, but whose real name showed on the archives. (I know that has happened) I think I went by Jim Sangrey there. That was when I was still thinking that I could have a career in " creative music" by positing on the Internet all day on every site possible and playing a few local gigs a week, and have a happy stable home life by taking the kids to/from school & by positing on the Internet all day on every site possible,& by letting my wife worry about such trivialities as making money and keeping the house clean and fixing most of the non-fast food meals we ate. I'm sure there's a way to make that a winning combination, but it eventually became apparent to me that choices would have to be made, down would have to be pared, so...still got the wife (she's much happier now, as am I), still got one site to call "home", and,,,here we are. Maybe this will bring back memories...Good stuff. http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/thread.php?forumid=16585 You know, I never did get a copy of "Live At The Meat House".

Dress lightly. It's going to be a scoachah this weekend. And if you head north, you should stop in for a glass of vino and some tunes. Are you alone or is your other half along for the ride?

Thank you Jim.

Is there any way we can get Bill Barton off the "Birthdays" list on the sidebar of the forum?

King Curtis plays the Great Memphis what?!?! Oh, hits! At first glance I thought it said something completely different. Ha ha.