Kevin Bresnahan

I'm spinning LP2 right now. It's been a while since I pulled this off the shelf.

I love those Blackhawk recordings for Mobley's contributions. I need to pull this box out again myself.

What's even weirder is that if I follow your link to "No Amps Allowed", I see all 15 tracks listed and when I hover over any of these tracks, I get a pop-up message that says, "Go Unlimited to listen to "Track Name". All 15 tracks have this same pop-up message. If I were to buy Amazon Unlimited specifically to hear all of these tracks, I'd be pretty upset at them for lying like that.

Benito's son Romano was a pretty good pianist. I have his Piano e Forte CD that I picked up from trumpeter Cicci Santucci at one of his local appearances a few years back.

I think they're talking about HD Tracks: http://www.hdtracks.com/stan-getz-with-guest-artist-laurindo-almeida-443352 From what I've heard, the audio quality of these Hi Res downloads is all over the map. It varies from recording to recording. It all comes down to the source and the mastering (as usual).

The Blue Note XRCDs were put out by Elusive Disc: http://www.elusivedisc.com/Audio-Wave-Music-Blue-Note-XRCD24/products/1513/

I doubt that there is any kind of archive manager these, especially since I've heard that they shipped all of the tapes into an Iron Mountain facility somewhere in CA. I imagine at this point, anyone making an inquiry about tape availability is at the mercy of whoever cataloged these tapes before shipping them off to storage.

13 years later, we're going back to Orlando. We'll be there 2/24-3/03/2018. We'll likely be going back to Christini's as I see it's still open. Anyone with some insight into the Jazz scene?

I think Bloom's strength is her ballad playing. One of my favorite recordings by Bloom is "The Red Quartets" with Fred Hersch on piano, Mark Dresser on bass, and Bobby Previte on drums. Most of the tracks can be found on youtube, including this beautiful ballad:

Teddy Edwards - Nothin' But The Truth! (Prestige). Blue label Van Gelder pressing. It's not my favorite Edwards date but I haven't found a lot of his Prestige dates on vinyl. The CDs are usually in the player for his catalog.

Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine (Columbia) Two-eye mono again. I must've bought a pile of these somewhere along the line. I'm not usually a mono guy.

Miles Davis - E.S.P. (Columbia). Two-eye Mono. Beat up, but still plays OK with some surface noise on side 1. Side 2 has a rather large scratch from the edge to the center but my Ortofon 3M Black cartridge plays it with only a little crackle.

I don't think Andre Previn would agree.

I'm spinning this again today. It's a very nice date and one of Rudy's better 80's-era recordings. The bass sounds normal for a change. I wonder if this was done prior to him going all digital?

As mentioned, The Cranberries came to fame in the early to mid-90s, so if you weren't listening to pop/rock during that decade, you never would've heard them. I was still listening to a lot of rock radio back then... and it's not like there has ever been a lot of Jazz radio during my lifetime. You might've heard this song... it got a lot of airplay:

I was a fan of The Cranberries back in their early days. Her Irish lilt singing style irritated some, but I was not one of them. I found it unique.

Blakey definitely took Golson with the Messengers in 1958. There is plenty of recorded evidence out there. I love that RCA date. From: https://www.jazzdisco.org/art-blakey/discography/ Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan (trumpet) Benny Golson (tenor sax) Bobby Timmons (piano) Jymie Merritt (bass) Art Blakey (drums) "Kurhaus", Scheveningen, Netherlands, November 19, 1958 Moanin' Jazz Band (E) EBCD 2128-2; Bandstand (J) TKCB-30442 Along Came Betty - I Remember Clifford - Whisper Not - A Night In Tunisia - * Jazz Band (E) EBCD 2128-2 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Live In The 50's * Bandstand (J) TKCB-30442 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Live In Holland 1958 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers same personnel "L'Olympia", Paris, France, November 22, 1958 Just By Myself Fontana (F) 680 202 ML I Remember Clifford - Are You Real - Blues Pour Doudou Mercury (F) 6444700 * Fontana (F) 680 202 ML Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - 1958-Paris Olympia = Epic LA 16009, BA 17009 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Paris Concert = Mercury (F) 6444700 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Olympia Concert Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers same personnel Swiss radio broadcast, "Volkshaus", Zurich, Switzerland, December 4, 1958 Now's The Time SOLAR 4569881 The Theme - Moanin' - Whisper Not - Evidence - same session I Remember Clifford - Just By Myself - Along Came Betty - My Funny Valentine - Come Rain Or Come Shine - A Night In Tunisia - * SOLAR 4569881 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Live In Zurich 1958 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers same personnel "L'Olympia", Paris, France, December 17, 1958 Moanin' Fontana (F) 680 202 ML Justice - Blues March Fontana (Du) 460 642 TE; Mercury (F) 6444700 Whisper Not - * Fontana (F) 680 202 ML Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - 1958-Paris Olympia = Epic LA 16009, BA 17009 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Paris Concert = Mercury (F) 6444700 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Olympia Concert * Fontana (Du) 460 642 TE, (E) TFE 17257 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Blues March/Whisper Not Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan (trumpet -1/4,6/10,12,14/19) Benny Golson (tenor sax -1/4,6/8,10/12,14/19) Bobby Timmons (piano -1/4,6/19) Jymie Merritt (bass -1/4,6/12,14/19) Art Blakey (drums -1/12,14/19) Paris, France, December 18 & 19, 1958 1. Generique Fontana (F) 660 224 MR 2. Pierre Et Beatrice - 3. Nasol - 4. Tom - 5. Poursuite Dans La Ruelle - 6. Ne Chuchote Pas (Whisper Not) - 7. Mambo Dans La Voiture - 8. Juste Pour Eux Seuls (Just By Myself) - 9. Blues Pour Doudou - 10. Blues Pour Marcel - 11. Blues Pour Vara - 12. Merlin - 13. Pasquier - 14. Quaglio - 15. La Divorcee De Leo Fall - 16. Suspence - 17. Tom Et Nasol - 18. Des Femmes Disparaissent - 19. Final Pour Pierre Et Beatrice - * Fontana (F) 660 224 MR Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Des Femmes Disparaissent (Soundtrack) Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Lee Morgan (trumpet) Benny Golson (tenor sax) Bobby Timmons (piano) Jymie Merritt (bass) Art Blakey (drums) "Club St. Germain", Paris, France, December 21, 1958 Politely RCA (F) 430.043 Whisper Not - Now's The Time - The First Theme - same session Moanin' With Hazel RCA (F) 430.044 We Named It Justice - Blues March For Europe No. 1 - Like Someone In Love - Lee Morgan (trumpet) Benny Golson (tenor sax) Bobby Timmons (piano) Jymie Merritt (bass) Art Blakey (drums) Kenny Clarke (drums -3,4) Gana M'Bow (congas -3,4) 1. Along Came Manon RCA (F) 430.045 2. Out Of The Past - 3. A Night In Tunisia - 4. Ending With The Theme - * RCA (F) 430.043 Art Blakey Et Les Jazz-Messengers Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 1 * RCA (F) 430.044 Art Blakey Et Les Jazz-Messengers Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 2 * RCA (F) 430.045 Art Blakey Et Les Jazz-Messengers Au Club St. Germain, Vol. 3

I agree with that assessment. I actually told my daughter that the NFL should check Willaims' accounts to see if he got paid for not only missing that tackle, but taking out his teammate. That was the worst defensive play I think I've ever seen.

Can someone do a needle-drop for Hot Ptah? It wouldn't be "stealing" since he owns the LP. If someone near me has a copy, I can needle-drop it.

I was a Patriots fan back when they really sucked. Don't worry, your Browns will eventually turn it around. A couple of lucky breaks is all it takes.

The site says the CD "ships out within 3 days". I would elevate this if I were you.

Seeing Steve Schwartz's name listed there still hurts. Such a sweet man. I really miss him. The Boston Jazz scene won't be the same.

I was at a hot summer party and someone had a cooler filled with Bud Light Lime, Never having tried it, I stupidly decided to pop one. Even stupider, I sucked out a large mouthful, remember, it was hot that day. Urgh. I had to spit it out. Do. not. like. FWIW, the people at the party had a great laugh at my expense. Thankfully, no pictures exist.

I don't care how good it is, in this day and age, selling domestic CDs, particularly self-produced domestic CDs, for $25, is excessive and seems pretty dumb unless the goal is to not sell too many of them. Many new CDs in stores are selling for under $14 (oldies for ~$5) and the used market - forget about it. I've bought a lot of CDs from artists at shows over the years and the only time I paid over $15 was when Harold Mabern had a few copies of his Japanese Venus CDs. Lately, most artists are selling at shows for $10/CD. $25? Nope.

If all of this music hadn't been issued on Japanese CDs shortly before this box set was released, I would think that it would have sold out much sooner. I know that I already had all of the material found in this box on CD before it was issued.