Kevin Bresnahan

If there was, be careful if ordering on the used market. My one fanclub CD-R stopped playing years ago and after several e-mails to the fanclub, I've come to the conclusion that I'm SOL (shit-outta-luck) with this disc. Needless to say, I won't ever use that avenue again. Kevin

I always wondered if these simple step/step down converters do anything with the frequency and if this affects audio gear at all. The US uses 110-120 AC Volts at 60 Hz. The UK uses 230-240 AC Volts at 50 Hz.

Can you really use the word "mixed" when describing the sound of a majority of mono Blue Note recordings? If something is a simple fold down, there's no real mixing involved, is there? Don't most fold downs "center" the music?

It seems weird to see a recording studio with a wall of glass windows in it. Isn't that a bit too reflective for a studio or do the baffles around the individual players prevent these windows from coming into play?

There was some talk that this would also be issued on vinyl. I wonder if that was cancelled?

I don't know about that. I have found many Prestige pressings from the mid-60s, like the one you're talking about, that look absolutely terrible. Some of them have been practically new and still look terrible. "Orange peel" and bubbles in the vinyl are quite common for these pressings. Orange peel: Bubbles:

Same stampers and probably the same shitty pressing quality. Were there any bits of paper showing in the vinyl? How about orange peel? Non-fill?

Harry Allen is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club up in Methuen, Mass tonight. Harry always swings his ass off. Should be a good night.

There's something very wrong here... why is an "orig. tape! not a copy" in a box from the United Artists Recording Studio in LA? Plus, that's an Ampex Grand Master Gold 499 tape box - a tape that was around in the 1990's.

Carl Hiaasen - Razor Girl Funny as hell (as usual) with the expected gross caricatures, That's what I like the most about Hiaasen. He has characters do the stupidest things, but by the time they do these stupid things, you almost expect it because he'll have crafted their character flaws to the point where you go, "Yeah, he'd do that".

George Garzone is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club in Methuen, MA tonight. I've managed to catch him the last few times he's played there and it's always interesting to see/hear him play this club as it compares to his gigs with The Fringe. At the Sahara, he's straight down the middle. Nothing like his work with The Fringe.

I'm trying to see if I can get Scullers Jazz Club in Boston to bring Heid in for a gig. I don't know if he's ever played Boston, but if he did, it was either a long long time ago or at some venue far off the beaten path. Kevin

Aw hell... I knew this was coming soon but it still sucks. Thanks for all those great recordings Rudy.

Most memorable for me as the pianist on Nick Brignola's "Baritone Madness". Hard to believe that he was 85.

I'll never forget the concert I caught at the Aaron Davis Hall in June of 2000. The Times reviewer panned it a bit, but other than the corny rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, I thought it was incredible. The lineup? Bobby, Jackie McLean, Andrew Hill, Scott Colley & Billy Higgins!

How do you make a million dollars selling Jazz records? Start with two million.

No blame intended. Just remember that back in the early days when Hoffman was working with them on "The Sidewinder", they also brought up this "found" master tape. FWIW, they did find the lost master for Dolphy's "Out To Lunch" and their LP pressings are superb. So there is a chance that they aren't making this up.

Let's hope that this "newly discovered master tape" isn't like the time when Music Matters "discovered" the master tape for Lee Morgan's "The Sidewinder".

Always a fun show when Toots was on the bill. He was 94? I would not have known he was that old. The last time I saw him, he was still pretty good.

I used to love the Red Sox radio broadcast so much that I used to play the radio while watching the TV with sound turned off. The delay made it even more fun. I used to do the same thing with the Celtics... there was nothing like hearing Johnny Most call a Celtics game.

The thing that's weird is that the year he lost his card, 1967, was the last year you needed one. They abolished that system later that year. So if he had hung around NYC a little longer, he could have played in clubs again. But then again, he wouldn't have made all those great recordings with Harold Land so...

My music collection is no longer for sale (for now). As a result, I'm packing up way more than I wanted to. I really thought I'd get more people asking about buying my collection of CDs and LPs. I guess everyone is purging their hard copies and going digital? Now I have to figure out where to put all of this stuff in my new (little house). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> original offer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After several years of looking, my wife and I finally found a place up near Long Sands Beach in York, ME. Unfortunately, it's quite a bit smaller than our current house in Southern NH, just over the border from Haverhill, MA. I've sold quite a few CDs over the past few months but I still have waaaaayyy too much stuff to move. If anyone is in the area and would like to talk about coming over and buying a large chunk of music, contact me and I will go over the specifics. I probably have ~700 straight-ahead Jazz LPs (not many originals though) and probably around 3,000 straight-ahead Jazz CDs. I would be willing to part with most of it and I would give a large discount to someone who buys "in bulk". If I can clear out a lot of it, I'll also have a large Can Am CD storage unit and an Ikea Expedit LP storage unit for sale. Jack, I know I could just haul them down to Cambridge but that's what I'm trying to avoid. Drop me a PM if you are interested. Kevin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Yeah, that happens to me too. My Dad was a huge Boston Bruins fan and every time they are in the news, I wonder what he would think of it.

It was "Sweet Honey Bee" that has a master tape that's a needle drop, not "Wahoo".

What are you talking about? Isn't that Tommy James? Funny how James actually wrote "Tighter, Tighter" for Alive 'N Kickin' after he decided not to give them "Crystal Blue Persuasion" because he wanted to record that song himself.