Kevin Bresnahan

He's from your neck of the woods. From memory, I think he played for tv studios in LA for many years. I had one of his trio cds, on Four Star Records iirc,..capable playing, left me underwhelmed. Just my $.02. Smith plays on two of the dates in Mosaic's Bee Hive box; Brignola's "Baritone Madness" and Salvador's "Star Fingers".

I've yet to find a universal remote that fully duplicates a smart TV's myriad functions. If you're going to use any of the smart TV apps, you might be stuck with the TV remote anyway.

Almost all will exceed 26 minutes if my calculations were correct.

My Dad had a few "Sing Along With Mitch Miller" LPs in the stacks. I did keep a couple of Simon & Garfunkel LPs, although I later replaced them with clean copies. The rest was so scratched, they were basically unlistenable.

My parents offered me their record collection a few years ago. Most were scratched to heck and I didn't even want to hear them.

Given how much music they're going to have to have to stuff onto an LP side to get it all to fit, I would think that this is not one to opt for the vinyl edition. They'll have to roll off the bass to get ~26 minutes to fit on an LP side. See: http://www.themasterdiskrecord.com/2014/06/deciding-long-make-side-vinyl-record/

I don't think Bobby is playing any more.

Not so hard to understand when you realize what most people were using to play them back in the 50's & 60's. I still remember stacking several LPs for playback at my parents' parties. By the time the 4th or 5th LP fell, the playback started back slow as the record slid a bit on the stack below it. We really abused LPs back in the day.

It almost looks like: WILSON LIVE

I've seen Charles Lloyd several times, each time coming away thinking, "Maybe I caught him on an off night". The time I saw him with Billy Higgins on drums was memorable for the fact that it was a band with Billy Higgins.

I wanted to like this one a lot more than I did.

Why didn't they combine "True Blue" and "Silver Blue" onto 1 CD? It would've been less than 79 minutes (78:30 by my calculation) and as we have been noting in another thread, there are 81+ minute CDs being issued these days.

For some reason, I thought it looked like an Atlantic cover but I searched all over and couldn't find it.

Why? Were you using a flash? At all of the shows around here, as long as you don't use a flash or actually record the show, you can take as many pictures as you want.

My family has a whole stack of 3D movies. Some are phenomenal. Some are just OK. And yes, all are much darker than the non-3D version. This wouldn't be true if I were to get a TV that used passive 3D instead of active 3D. Active 3D works on a shutter, which will obviously reduce brightness. If I get another TV, I will try to get one that has passive 3D.

I know that she wanted to show respect to the dearly departed but "my friend" seems a bit of a stretch considering how many times she sued him.

My new Panasonic is a Smart TV. I believe "Smart TV" means that there is a screen full of selectable icons on a screen that allow you to directly link to things like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and You Tube without a computer (as long as you link your Smart TV to a wireless router). On my TV, I have the option of turning the TV on with a "Home screen" filled with these icons or have it simply turn on as a TV (which is what I did). FWIW, I bought my mother a new Smart TV and she doesn't even have an internet connection. I set it up to default to turning on as a TV and she's having no trouble at all. She doesn't have to use them.

Some LGs are supposed to have motion blur, a very annoying fault when watching sports. Since you'll be using it to watch some European football , you'll have to let us know if it works out for you. If you do see motion blur, try turning off all of the motion settings. Also, regarding positive reviews, it depends on where you read the reviews. At some sites, like most manufacturers websites, there is moderation that often blocks negative reviews. And not to scare you too much, but here's a thread for your perusal on the AVS forums (a forum admittedly populated by video lunatics, but worth reading anyway): http://www.avsforum.com/forum/166-lcd-flat-panel-displays/2221762-vizio-m65-uhd-vs-lg-65uf6450-uhd.html Remember, some people only go on line only to bitch, not praise.

Had a blast last night. It was a great show with an incredible drum performance by Marcus Baylor (I think that's who it was - the mics there are not favorable to the spoken word). Unfortunately, said drummer was playing so loudly that the sound guy felt the need to crank everyone else up to pain-inducing levels. You could actually feel the "acoustic" bass thumping your chest. There was an older guy sitting next to me who left early. It was that loud. I went out in the hall for a tune to give my ears a break. My right ear is still complaining shrilly at me today. I am not a fan of loud gigs and there is really no need to do this at Scullers, a club with good acoustics to begin with. The solid wood panels on the walls act like acoustic mirrors, making it pretty loud & bright. A little amplification goes a long way in that space. A note to Kenny Garrett if he reads this - Tell your incredible drummer that he can still play like a maniac without trying to pound the sticks through the drum heads. BTW, I think this was the band I saw. I say "I think" because the pianist was behind a pole. Check out the duet with the drummer starting at around the 21:30 mark. It was even wilder last night (if you can believe it).

Again, it has to be noted that any pleasant "distortion" that vinyl adds is not on any master tape and this could be captured by any CD made if the mastering engineer wanted it. I have done many needle-drops and the resulting digital file captures all of the alterations made by vinyl. It's not the advantages of digital audio that people dislike, it's the shortcomings of vinyl that they do like. And before I got lumped into the "vinyl sucks" camp, I want to add that I am still buying vinyl these days. Mainly because it's fun. Really, that's the main reason.

Quite far from the "only downside". Weight, glare, power hungry... there are several. However, the main reason... well, maybe the only reason I've yet to own a plasma TV is the chance of burn-in. Now don't get me wrong, I agree that as a display, they tend to look a lot better than LCD and I recommended Panasonic plasma TVs to both my brother and sister-in-law (they both love their sets) but I just couldn't bring myself to take a chance that I would be the one to get one that got burned in. I recently bought a 58" Panasonic 4K LCD TV and I think it looks great. Some "flashlighting" in the corners on very dark screens (common with edge lit LCD TVs) but really not noticeable when watching TV, only when switching inputs. I didn't buy 4K for 4K, it was just the best TV that Panasonic was offering at the time. There is very little 4K out there, basically a few streamed shows/movies on Netflix, and there seems to be a format war about how to deliver it via external media but they should have it worked out soon. I do wonder if my current 4K TV will support whatever input format this 4K delivery system will require. BTW, when I bought this TV, I really, really wanted an LG OLED TV because it can display black levels that rival plasma. Go look at one at Best Buy - just gorgeous. But as with plasma, there is also a chance that it could burn in. Shit. So basically if you like plasma, owned a plasma TV that never suffered burn in and are in the market for a new TV, look at OLED.

I am a regular bandcamp user/listener. I have bought some great music from that website.

There's nothing stopping the music suppliers from supplying compressed audio files in HD audio to the end user. If the compression is on the "master", it'll be there no matter how many bits it's chopped into.

Kenny Garrett Thursday night (1/28) at Scullers in Boston.