Kevin Bresnahan

I'd like this one please. Kevin

I'm spinning this again and it's weird that they only list Oliver Nelson on tenor when it's obvious that he's playing alto on a couple of tunes.

I was told many years ago (by Cuscuna maybe?) that the Atlantic fire only destroyed the 8 track masters because the LP masters were stored somewhere else. It would seem that not all mono LP masters were stored in the same place as the stereo ones.

I wonder how she got the rights for this recording? Didn't Concord get them when they bought OJC or did Galaxy just license them for their box?

I'm reading where these mono masters are made from the same 8 track recording as the stereo masters. So it's going to come down to how different the mix is. I think I'm going to pass.

I wonder how he's doing these days. A few years back, there was a fundraiser to raise money to help him with a medical issue. I haven't heard anything about him in many years. I hope the money they raised helped get him through his medical crisis. Here it is: https://www.youcaring.com/help-a-neighbor/please-help-julian-priester/38293 There's an update from 2014 that says that Julian had a successful kidney transplant. I do hope that he is doing well at 81. He's only a little older than my father who's been gone for almost 11 years now.

Usually what fails in a crossover is the caps. When they fail, not only does the capacitance change, which changes the cut-off frequencies of the crossover, it usually adds DC resistance. No matter the use in the crossover (shunt or series), added resistance could affect the load being presented to the amp. Not always, but usually. In a bad cap failure, you could see a short in that cap, and that would likely wreak havoc with your amp, especially if it's a shunt element. When my friend rebuilt the crossovers in his B&W speakers, he found that the old caps were very resistive and the capacitance was way off. When he swapped them out, he was amazed at how much better they sounded. I don't think that's what's going on here, but it's easy to check by Ohm-ing out the speaker terminals to see if there's a high resistance or a short.

I didn't mean to imply that a failing crossover is the culprit here. I agree that it is probably his amp. i was just pointing out a possible speaker problem that could be affecting his amp. His amp might be fine until he hooks up speakers with messed up crossovers. I also agree that if he puts new tweeters into his existing setup, he's probably just going to blow them again if everything stays the same, which is why I listed some things to check before doing that. Something has to be causing those tweeters to fail. Personally, i would replace the amp and carefully check the speakers (both internally & externally) as well as the speaker wires and interconnects before cranking it up again. About tweeter resistance... I think most speaker's impedance is measured ~400 Hz, well below the tweeter's operating frequency, so the tweeter's resistance is not usually anywhere near the speaker's rated impedance. I was under the impression that most tweeters run up around 12 Ohms of resistance. A tweeter's impedance can be as high as 40 Ohms at higher frequencies. The voice coil of a tweeter is several winds of very fine wire which will have more resistance than a low frequency driver. Besides, the impedance a tweeter presents to the amp is not the tweeter by itself. It's the tweeter hanging off of the crossover. This circuit combines to present the load to the amp. FWIW, this is why I would never run my amps into a blown speaker or a speaker missing drivers (like tweeters). Without all of the drivers or damaged drivers, who knows what load that speaker is presenting to the amp? Believe me, I've seen more than one amp fried after a speaker blew. It's usually accompanied by horrible-smelling smoke.

Thanks for the additional information but this information does add more questions... 1) How are the speakers wired? One pair to Speaker Out A and the other to Speaker Out B or did you wire them out of one output? If they are wired out of one output, are they in parallel or series? 2) Which tweeters crackled to indicate that they were blown? The little speakers on top, the big ones on the bottom or both? 3) How old are the speakers? If you have to crank up the bass so you can hear it, the woofers may need to be re-foamed or they may be blown too. As I mentioned above, the crossover circuit may need to be re-built. My buddy re-built an old pair of B&W tower speakers and after he was done, he was amazed at the change in sound. 4) What is the impedance of these speakers? 4 Ohm or 8 Ohm? If any of them are 4 Ohm and they're hooked up in parallel, either out of one output or two, the combination could be stressing your amp. Worse case (all speakers 4 Ohm hooked up in parallel) puts a 2 Ohm load across your amp output. Not many amps can drive a 2 Ohm load continuously without problems. 5) What "music" or sound do you believe is blowing your tweeters? Every piece of audio equipment is designed to reproduce any signal in the audible range. No audible signal played back at a reasonable power level should be able to blow your tweeters. If there is such a signal, I would have loved to have known this in my younger days. There were some neighbors stereo systems that I would have liked to have been able to silence with the simple gift of a certain piece of music. For what it's worth, before I put anything new into this set up, I would look at the wiring. Check that your speaker wires are connected well. There have been several times I was told by someone that their system distorts at low volumes, usually clicking sounds, only to find that at the speaker wire terminals (either end) there was a single strand of speaker wire that didn't quite get into the hole and that single strand bridged across the two terminals. That one strand isn't a dead short, but it seriously messes with the whole relationship between the amp & speakers. It often results in blown speakers. I've also seen a broken i.e. almost shorted RCA interconnect cables cause big problems during playback. Does the speaker always blow using the same music source? Consider swapping the RCA interconnect.

Wow. I have never blown a tweeter in my life. Typically, tweeters fry if you send a bunch of "audio mud" through them. If you're blowing your tweeters, chances are that you're asking your amplifier for way more power than it is capable of delivering cleanly. Tweeters generally present a higher impedance than the woofer, so they usually handle more power. What they don't handle well is clipping. Do you need tweeters? Well, since you've blown them out a few times, how does the subsequent music sound to you without tweeters? If you like what it sounds like, leave the blown tweeters in there and keep enjoying what you have. If you don't like the sound, get new speakers (or tweeters). Either way, what it sounds like you really need is a new amp. One that can deliver a lot of power into whatever load your speaker is presenting. The other option is that your speaker's crossover circuit is damaged or failing. If the speaker is older, you may need to re-cap the crossover. Old caps fail.

HDD is fine as long as you back it up... maybe even multiple times. HDDs fail and when they do, it's almost always catastrophic. I have my HDD music backed up on two separate hard drives. I used to have it backed up on another drive at work too, until my company decided to encrypt any files attached to a work computer. It's always good to have one back-up drive located outside of your house in case of a house fire. Also, if you use a solid-state hard drive, it still needs to be backed up. There are stories that solid state drives may lose data with time, especially if it's not connected to a power supply. If you do have a solid state hard drive, make sure that you have automatic defragmentation shut off. First off, you don't need to de-frag a SSD. Secondly, the defrag process involves shuffling data around for several hours. Each "bit" in an SSD is rated for hundreds of thousands of flips from 1 to 0 (or vice versa). You don't want to use yhem all up needlessly defragging the drive.

I have had several cheap brands of CD-R fail with time. I have never had a Mitsui or Taiyo Yuden fail, particularly the archival gold discs. Memorex and Verbatim CD-R blanks used to be manufactured by Taiyo Yuden but both switched over to cheaper suppliers a long time ago. If you use Exact Audio Copy as your burning program, you can find out who makes any blank. It's in the "Tools">"Write CD-R" sub-menu labeled "CD-R".

I always buy Mitsui (MAM-A) or Taiyo Yuden blanks. I usually order them from American Digital (http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/catnew.asp?c=2212 ). Choose gold or Aluminum depending on you budget.

I had a tough time finding "Cue For Saxophone" on CD back in the day. It's a great date, as is "The High And Mighty Hawk" if only for the 11+ minute "Bird of Prey Blues".

Another year sails by... man, how time flies. Feeling old this year. I just hired a new college grad. He's 22. My youngest daughter is 24. When did I get this old?

I spun Heid's "Dark Secrets" yesterday and I have to say, I like "Wet Streets" much more. Don't get me wrong, "Dark Secrets" is a very good date, but it didn't get me moving like "Wet Streets" did.

My last 2 cartridges have been Ortofon 2M Black cartridges. I love the way they track not-so-perfect records and they do sound nice to my old ears, which means they probably have a high frequency hump.

*I* would not play this on a "long lonely drive"! Depending on the hour of night, I might wake up in a ditch on the side of the road.

Jim Sangrey is the one who mentioned this in one of his earlier posts. I seem to remember reading it myself but don't remember where I read it. Maybe Jim can recall where this was said? It was probably one of the many interviews with Michael Cuscuna.

As I sit here crunching data into pivot tables, I'm spinning "Am I Blue" and trying like hell to stay awake. I think it's Patton's long sustains that's doing it. I mean, I really love slow blues, especially with Green - the aforementioned "Idle Moments" comes to mind. Turrentine's "Blue Hour" and Burrell's "Midnight Blue" never do this to me. Can it be that organ with its drone-like sound? I can also see why Lion liked to listen to this "on his deathbed". It had to make it easier to let go and fall asleep that one last time.

So yesterday morning on my way out the door, I grabbed a random CD from the rack. It turned out to be Heid's "Wet Streets" on Savant. What a fantastic CD! This sucker cooks. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a disc from front to back like I did this one. Great playing all around. Listening to this got me thinking about this thread and how I always meant to pick up Heid's "Dark Shadows" and "This Is My Rifle". Well, "Dark Shadows" is now ordered ($4.50 from Amazon) and I am in the hunt for "This is My Rifle".

I never thought about this before, but I guess in the region where I grew up, we pronounced the 't' in often but not always in oftentimes. The 't' is always silent in words like listen or glisten. Of course we had our own linguistic variations. For instance, if you're from there, you drop the 'y' when you pronounce Holyoke, Massachusetts. We also added an 'r' to the end of idea. Weird one, that is. I've had a tough time breaking that habit. The first time I went to the store after I moved to New Hampshire, I heard an announcement for a special on Starkist tuna packed in water. The announcement said, "Special today - Starkist tooner in watah". I cracked up.

I wish that Fresu box was out before I paid big money for all those Italian Blue Note CDs back in the day. Great stuff by the way. As an added bonus, your mentioning of Fresu got me to finally get off my butt and order "Ensalada Musica" and "Ballads", two CDs I've been planning to buy for decades but never got around to it. I also found out that Fresu put out a Christmas CD a few years ago so now I'll have that to listen to during the upcoming holiday season.

I heard back from Cuscuna that the last he knew, the masters for that October 13, 1970 session were still in the vault, but he also added, "They will never come out unless Wayne’s says so. Not a good session at all."

Speaking if SNL, funniest skit in years...