Kevin Bresnahan

The one I have appears to be a 1962 reissue with liner notes by Joe Goldberg. This is the best I could find: It does mention Sonny's 1961 sabbatical, so I think I have the right date. This ebay listing has a nicer shot of the back cover that allows zoom: https://www.ebay.com/itm/SONNY-ROLLINS-MAX-ROACH-RAY-BRYANT-WORKTIME-1962-PRESTIGE-7246-DG-RVG-NM-VINYL/352288771671?hash=item52060c0e57:g:q50AAOSw3sJaj4kX

Eastern Rebellion (Timeless/Muse). What a great record. I play the Impulse CD version of this quite often.

Sonny Rollins - worktime (Prestige). Although it's a later pressing where the title became one word instead of two, it still has Van Gelder in the deadwax. Whoever owned this before me either played the hell out of it or he/she had one of those old-fashioned ceramic cartridges. The vinyl surface is almost white - lots of surface noise. I had to wet clean it to clear some of it. One of my favorite Sonny records. Wow, what a difference between Side 1 & Side 2. Side 2 is mint... looks unplayed. Clearly the previous owner only liked Side 1.

If you're talking about the original Applause LPs, you're right that they were legitimately licensed LPs from an "all but dead" Blue Note. I heard from someone that the whole deal was an accident. Before the mistake was discovered, the LPs were out there. The person answering the phone at the time probably thought, "Hey, some sucker wants to give us money for this stuff? Ha ha ha ha". And Applause seemed to just sling them out there using as little money as they could. They were pretty much an embarrassment to everyone involved. The CDs were another thing entirely. Someone from the old Applause label found the licensing contract and said, "Hey, look, there's no expiration date on this. We can still issue these titles." They shopped this contract around to a few labels before they found a sucker willing to test the legality of it. My friend was working at One Way Records at the time and saw the contract. He laughed them out of the place. There was no way it was valid. He knew it and they knew it. Whoever made these CDs for them certainly had no access to a master tape because they didn't have a valid licensing deal in place.

When I see all of the shows I'm missing in NYC on a regular basis, like George Coleman this weekend at Smoke, I get very jealous.

Considering the international flavor of the posters to this forum, expecting many of us to show up in New York City for a particular show, on a Tuesday night no less, seems to be asking a bit much of us. I have a tough enough time making shows in Boston on a Tuesday night!

Absolute shit sound on those though. It's like they digittized a well-worn Dolby cassette tape. I'll take the LP or a needle drop CD over these crappy bootlegs any day.

Sonny has made it through 87 years. He's already in the "best case scenario" in that regard.

Van harte gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag! Happy birthday Hans.

$10 from CD Japan: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/CDSOL-6324

I kinda need an address to send this too. Can you PM me your details? Kevin

Happy 82nd birthday Victor! It's been a long while since we've heard from you. I hope you're doing well.

With all the weirdness that's been going on, I wonder if people missed my offer here... No takers?

The whole problem here is that there was an oral agreement in place. As this article states, oral agreements are very difficult to get out of: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2017/10/19/thelonious-monk-and-the-perils-of-oral-agreements/#5a0b8d21305e

Bobby Hutcherson - Four Seasons. Nice date. Killer band too - Hutcherson with George Cables, Herbie Lewis & Philly Joe Jones.

TS has done several things to earn some animosity. I prefer the beer to TS Monk as well.

So after looking around, the Jazz scene in Orlando is deader than Boston's jazz scene. At least Boston has a couple of clubs that bring in some good shows. Nothing down there that I could find. So I'll go back to Christini's one night but no Jazz in Orlando. Again.

His obituary has been posted on the funeral home where his services were held: http://www.lovelandfuneralchapel.com/obituary/Mark-Durelle-Combs/La-Grande-Oregon/1774503 Obituary Mark Durelle Combs, 59, of La Grande, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2017 at his residence. A Celebration of Life will be held at Loveland Funeral Chapel on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 7:00pm. Mark was born December 27, 1957 in Norfolk, Virginia to Carrol and Loretta (Milne) Combs. He resided in Virginia; Hawaii; Bellingham, WA; Ludowici, GA; Sunnyvale, CA; Deridder, LA; Cove, OR and La Grande, OR. Mark graduated from high school in Ludowici, GA and attended college in California. After serving on a submarine in the Navy for about 3 years, Mark used his talents to work with a group that designed GPS units. Upon selling his shares, he was able to open and operate a comic book store in California He then worked at Target and worked at the La Grande Safeway Store for nearly 10 years. Mark had an endless love for his cats. He would often say they were his kids. He loved to draw comics, really enjoyed Jazz, playing guitar. He was an avid pipe smoker and tobacco collector. He had a tobacco collection he estimated would take more than 10 years to smoke. He liked jokes and making all of us laugh was possibly his favorite thing ever. He was very interested in history, loved gardening, loved discussing the science of plants, loved reading and had thousands of books - mainly science fiction, but read a bit of everything. He was into so many different things on so many different subjects. Mark is survived by his half sister, Elizabeth Svanberg of Boca Raton, FL; step brother, Scott Bobarger (Margie) of Elgin, OR; step-mother, Doris Combs of La Grande, OR; Uncle, Donald C. Combs of Ludowici, GA; Uncle Durelle Combs of Ludowici, GA; and Aunt, Patsy West of Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his parents Carrol and Loretta.

I've got a stack of CDs that I have been meaning to give away for a while now. Some are dupes, others are just stuff that I didn't dig. Let me know if any of these interest you... Lin Halliday - Delayed Exposure (Delmark) with Halliday, Ira Sullivan, Jody Christian, Dennis Carrol & George Fludas. Billy Higgins - Mr. Billy Higgins (Evidence) with Higgins, Gary Bias, William Henderson & Tony Dumas. Pharoah Sanders - Heart Is A Melody (Evidence) with Sanders, William Henderson, John Heard & Idris Muhammad Pharoah Sanders - Moon Child (Timeless) with Sanders, William Henderson, Stafford James, Eddie Moore & Cheikh Tidlane Fale A two-fer: Various - Soundtrack to The Bridges of Madison County & Remembering Madison County. I picked these up because it used to be the only way to get Johnny Hartman's "Once In Every Life" on CD. All of the tracks from that Bee Hive LP are on these 2 CDs. I'll ship these free to anyone in the US but I have to ask that anyone outside the US to pay for the actual shipping cost. I've gotten sticker shock on some of my international CD shipments these past few years.

I was telling Jim on Facebook that I had to laugh at one of the redirect websites I got today. It was an official-looking "Microsoft Support" website with a serious voiceover telling me that my Windows computer has been compromised and I must immediately call their tech support number shown on the screen or I would be disconnected from the network. I was seeing this while using my Linux/Ubuntu laptop.

Charles Earland - Living Black! (Prestige). Green label RVG pressing. Based on the personnel, I was expecting to like this more than I do. Good reviews too. I think what bugs me most is when Earland plays a sustained single tone for far too long. It's gets to be like an audio ear drill.

I am still getting this on my two Linux machines this morning. Since I've never heard of malware working on a Linux box, I would guess that it's the DNS as well.

A few missing albums or tracks might be "no big deal", but it kinda is when they advertise that they *will* be available if you pay.

Great music but I was never a fan of the bootleg-quality sound.

I would really like to be at that Greenfield show but I'm heading down to Orlando, FL early the next day. I hope he adds a few more dates after I get back.