Kevin Bresnahan

Did you read the article linked in the obit you posted above? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/28/sports/football/nfl-draft-class-1990.html Chilling read. And then read this (a bit more uplifting): https://www.theplayerstribune.com/sports/football/

Weird that they use a 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport in front of a 201X era BMW 7 Series for a CD of Jazz recorded in the 70's.

Great interview with Mickey from a few years back: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/mickey-roker-you-never-lose-the-blues-mickey-roker-by-victor-l-schermer.php?pg=1

Musicians on Facebook are posting of the passing of drummer Mickey Roker this morning at the age of 84. No obit as of yet. I had no idea that he was that old. I thought he was at least 10 years younger than that.

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/news/local/2017/05/19/life-jazz-and-family/333522001/ Dowdy died after a short illness.

That reminds me of the time I wrote an e-mail to Sergio Veschi of Red Records, someone who I used to interact with regularly on-line, to tell him that there were several grammatical errors in the English liner notes for a few of his CD releases. I volunteered to review his English liner notes if he needed a hand for future CDs. I offered to do it for free. His answer caught me off guard, basically saying that their English liner notes were perfect, my inquiry was insulting and no, they would never accept my help. I often wonder if my English E-mail was forwarded to the Red Records label's English translator and that this return e-mail was actually written by the very person whose writing I was criticizing.

I believe that reason they lost the ability to store their boxes on site was because they moved to a much smaller location. I also believe that they laid off the shipping department when they did this. They really had to outsource the shipping and inventory management at that point.

Really? 2014? C'mon Mosaic. You've known about this for 3 years and it's still happening? Is anyone here a database person that would be willing to work for Mosaics?

While I agree that we should not complain too much about the service from a company that is likely short-staffed right now, I disagree that we shouldn't be unhappy with the fact that their system, as set up, can cause waste, something that needs to avoided if this company wants to stay alive. If I hadn't caught Mosaic's shipping error, they would have shipped my order to the wrong house. At a minimum, they'd be out of the money they spent to ship it. Worse case, it gets to my old house and the owner keeps it. Then, they would have been out of the shipping cost as well as the cost of the now "lost" boxes. This will not keep them in business for much longer.

I called Mosaic this morning and got to talk to Scott. It would seem that the on-line ordering system is not linked to either their shipping computer system nor their internal order tracking system. Luckily, I got hold of Scott before my order was shipped and he was able to change my address in the shipping system. Now I'm thinking... I used a new credit card too. Hmmm... did they have my old card on file?

I always wondered about this title. Is the word "smack" being used like I think it is?

So I just got the shipping notice for 3 of the 4 sets I ordered last week. Of course, the shipping confirmation has the wrong address! What the... I checked my order confirmation e-mail and it's correct. How did they get it wrong? My guess is that their ordering computer system and their shipping computer system are not linked properly. So now my old house will be receiving a large box of Mosaic boxes because my forwarding ran out months ago.

I have similar tastes and I have been enjoying Jordan's "Glass Bead Games" for years. I just ordered this Mosaic set to see if the rest of it is as good.

I remember getting cassette dupes of rare Blue Note LPs in the years before CD-Rs became more affordable. I probably had almost 100 of them. Some I got from posters here.

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.