Kevin Bresnahan

Harry Allen is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club up in Methuen, Mass tonight. Harry always swings his ass off. Should be a good night.

There's something very wrong here... why is an "orig. tape! not a copy" in a box from the United Artists Recording Studio in LA? Plus, that's an Ampex Grand Master Gold 499 tape box - a tape that was around in the 1990's.

Carl Hiaasen - Razor Girl Funny as hell (as usual) with the expected gross caricatures, That's what I like the most about Hiaasen. He has characters do the stupidest things, but by the time they do these stupid things, you almost expect it because he'll have crafted their character flaws to the point where you go, "Yeah, he'd do that".

George Garzone is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club in Methuen, MA tonight. I've managed to catch him the last few times he's played there and it's always interesting to see/hear him play this club as it compares to his gigs with The Fringe. At the Sahara, he's straight down the middle. Nothing like his work with The Fringe.

I'm trying to see if I can get Scullers Jazz Club in Boston to bring Heid in for a gig. I don't know if he's ever played Boston, but if he did, it was either a long long time ago or at some venue far off the beaten path. Kevin

Aw hell... I knew this was coming soon but it still sucks. Thanks for all those great recordings Rudy.

Most memorable for me as the pianist on Nick Brignola's "Baritone Madness". Hard to believe that he was 85.

I'll never forget the concert I caught at the Aaron Davis Hall in June of 2000. The Times reviewer panned it a bit, but other than the corny rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, I thought it was incredible. The lineup? Bobby, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, Scott Colley & Billy Higgins!

How do you make a million dollars selling Jazz records? Start with two million.

No blame intended. Just remember that back in the early days when Hoffman was working with them on "The Sidewinder", they also brought up this "found" master tape. FWIW, they did find the lost master for Dolphy's "Out To Lunch" and their LP pressings are superb. So there is a chance that they aren't making this up.

Let's hope that this "newly discovered master tape" isn't like the time when Music Matters "discovered" the master tape for Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder".

Always a fun show when Toots was on the bill. He was 94? I would not have known he was that old. The last time I saw him, he was still pretty good.

I used to love the Red Sox radio broadcast so much that I used to play the radio while watching the TV with sound turned off. The delay made it even more fun. I used to do the same thing with the Celtics... there was nothing like hearing Johnny Most call a Celtics game.

The thing that's weird is that the year he lost his card, 1967, was the last year you needed one. They abolished that system later that year. So if he had hung around NYC a little longer, he could have played in clubs again. But then again, he wouldn't have made all those great recordings with Harold Land so...

My music collection is no longer for sale (for now). As a result, I'm packing up way more than I wanted to. I really thought I'd get more people asking about buying my collection of CDs and LPs. I guess everyone is purging their hard copies and going digital? Now I have to figure out where to put all of this stuff in my new (little house). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> original offer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After several years of looking, my wife and I finally found a place up near Long Sands Beach in York, ME. Unfortunately, it's quite a bit smaller than our current house in Southern NH, just over the border from Haverhill, MA. I've sold quite a few CDs over the past few months but I still have waaaaayyy too much stuff to move. If anyone is in the area and would like to talk about coming over and buying a large chunk of music, contact me and I will go over the specifics. I probably have ~700 straight-ahead Jazz LPs (not many originals though) and probably around 3,000 straight-ahead Jazz CDs. I would be willing to part with most of it and I would give a large discount to someone who buys "in bulk". If I can clear out a lot of it, I'll also have a large Can Am CD storage unit and an Ikea Expedit LP storage unit for sale. Jack, I know I could just haul them down to Cambridge but that's what I'm trying to avoid. Drop me a PM if you are interested. Kevin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Yeah, that happens to me too. My Dad was a huge Boston Bruins fan and every time they are in the news, I wonder what he would think of it.

It was "Sweet Honey Bee" that has a master tape that's a needle drop, not "Wahoo".

What are you talking about? Isn't that Tommy James? Funny how James actually wrote "Tighter, Tighter" for Alive 'N Kickin' after he decided not to give them "Crystal Blue Persuasion" because he wanted to record that song himself.

I highly doubt that the guy fasstrack is talking about wants any of his father's compositions pulled from youtube. He wants to get paid when they're played is all. In fact, if he was getting paid when they're played, the last thing he'd want is to have them pulled,

Back in the days Jim is talking about, all of my music came from 56 HYN in Springfield, MA. They played the top 100 pretty religiously. No variation. You heard the same songs all the time... until they fell out of the top 100. I remember in the summer of 1970 when our family took our annual trip to Lincoln, ME, we must've heard Alive 'N Kickin's "Tighter, Tighter" about 30 times in 8 hours.

Thank you. As I said, even though it's been 10 years already, I still miss the guy. Even crazier, I still grab the telephone every now & then with the intention of calling him, I usually call Mom when that happens.

I got that too. I figured it was typo. This set can't be running low already, can it?

I vividly remember being in my parents' car on a hot summer night and hearing the AM radio pick some distant station out of Ohio or some such faraway place. AM radio could be dramatically affected by the atmosphere and the atmosphere on those hot & humid summer nights allowed for some very long distance transmissions. I actually won one of these from the Springfield Republican newspaper company. I was a paperboy and they had a contest to see who could sign up the most new customers. I won.

And now you get my Dad!! He was funny as hell. He had some "old indian tricks" on his computer too.

I was doing a search of forums for something about Bobby Hutcherson and this thread popped into the search results. Weird in that it doesn't mention Bobby but maybe it was a sign... Amazingly, it's already been 10 years since my father died. I still miss him like hell. I've been thinking about him recently too. As we prepare to move out of our NH house to head to the shores of Maine, I am finding things that I have to remove that my Dad helped my install. One was a clasp that he rigged up to hold my wire wine racks to the basement walls. As I said, Dad could fix anything. Often, he figured out ways to get things to work that most people would've just given up on. For many of his unique fixes, he used what he would call an "old indian trick" (Dad meant Native American Indian here). Here's one of his old indian tricks... You find a wood screw where the hole is stripped. Screw won't hold. Usually happens to door jambs and latches. The old indian trick? Get some wooden toothpicks and stuff them into the stripped hole. Snap them off so they're just below the surface. Drive wood screw back into hole. Fixed. Worst case, you may have to add some wood glue to the toothpick pieces before inserting them. If you're using this trick right now to fix that latch plate in the hallway closet door, you're welcome.