Kevin Bresnahan

Wow, RVG made the big 90 yesterday! Happy belated birthday Mr. Van Gelder. Sadly, I hear he is not doing well and isn't receiving visitors. I just hope he is not in a lot of pain.

Cheers (*clink*) - a very nice record indeed! NP: Recorded in '61, w/ G.Green, T. Flanagan, P. Chambers, and Art Taylor This is one record where I find the CD sounds much better than the DMM LP. Great stuff too.

Ray was still playing the local clubs until his death. I just saw him a few months ago at the Sahara Jazz Club. He was one of the few Jazz musicians still making the rounds who played with Charlie Parker. Another piece of history has gone.

John Coltrane's "Dakar" has some nice bari playing from Pepper Adams and Cecil Payne. It's fun to listen and contrast the two distinctive playing styles.

I agree with you on that. I can definitely get more into the outer limits of Jazz in a live setting. But watching/listening to this video just doesn't work for me. Above, someone referred to Gustafssom's playing as a "bayonet charge". Um, I never, ever want to face a bayonet charge. I definitely would not enjoy that at all.

Have fun with this: http://jazzbarisax.com/baritone-saxophonists/ I listen to a lot of bari sax. Nick Brignola, Pepper Adams and Gary Smulyan make it onto my CD player often. Leo Parker's two Blue Notes are very nice. Ronnie Cuber, Serge Chaloff, Claire Daly, Lars Gullen, Cecil Payne, James Carter and Geryy Mulligan all get some air time too. But Mats Gustafsson? Nope. Not for me at all. Stuff like this just isn't very enjoyable for me:

for me the people (Tom and Mark) would be interesting beyond their roles as "suits". I was referring to someone asking for tomatbluenote. If Tom ever came here, he would certainly not use that moniker. But I doubt he would ever come here. He preferred classical music. He told me he enjoyed managing the Angel/EMI classical stuff more than he did the Jazz from Blue Note.

What's funny is that if someone reports them, their listings will be pulled. When you sell on eBay, you can't refuse to accept PayPal. eBay put this rule in place years ago, shortly after they bought Paypal.

Tom Evered hasn't been at Blue Note for a long time (2006). Mark might still be at Verve though.

Welcome, Simon! Thanks Bill. Sadly, I won't be transferring all the Tubby posts over here.....I just don't have time! Do a search... we have had a lot of Tubby Hayes talk here. He's one of my favorites.

You would have to have an extremely heavy platter to affect the start up. A heavier platter is known to improve speed accuracy because of the added inertia. Slight variations in speed won't translate directly to the platter if the inertia keeps it spinning constantly. That's why the expensive turntables typically have heavy platters.

Thanks for the suggestion, Kevin. I took a look at their page. Do you feel strongly that it's a superior platter? I saw a Pro-Ject acrylic platter but did not buy it. It was about $150 and it didn't seem to be worth the money. I bought one of these Tizo Acryl platters sight unseen. It is very hefty and well made. Personally, I like the look better but mine is an etched version that they don't make for the Debut Carbon. This is mine: http://www.acrylteller.com/ACRYLIC-PLATTER-Pro-Ject-Debut-black-polished-surface-finish Maybe it would work on the Debut Carbon?

No, he was 85. If you read his own posts on the page you linked to, he mentions that he was 72 in the year 2000. He also mentions going to shows in the early 1940's when he was a teenager. The newspapers got his age wrong. Either way, a nice guy who rabidly supported Jazz is gone.

José Domingos Raffaelli (his own name). That's very, very sad news. He was always such a nice and friendly person. I'll send his son a message. Thanks for sharing, Kevin. http://bjbear71.com/Raffaelli/jose.html R.I.P José. Thank you very much for your wonderful lessons. That's all I can say at this moment.... According to that web page, he was actually 85, not 77.

I have no idea which forum this belongs so Miscellaneous Music seems as good as any... My Facebook friend Pete Cherches learned that an old Internet friend of mine from the Jazz Corner forums, Jose Domingos Raffaelli, died in April in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro at the age of 77. I had a fairly long E-mail chat with Jose once. He was a very nice guy who knew more about Brazilian music than anyone I ever met. His obituary can be found here: http://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/morre-aos-77-anos-critico-jose-domingos-raffaelli-12311791#ixzz3GFhRwnXO but it's in Portuguese. A Google translation brings up this: RIO - died on Saturday at age 77, the music critic José Domingos Raffaelli, considered one of the most important names in Brazil in the analysis and dissemination of jazz. According to his son Flavio, music critic struggled against a tumor on my spine. He was buried on Sunday at 16h, in St. John the Baptist Cemetery, in Rio de Janeiro neighborhood of Botafogo. Instrumental music enthusiast, Raffaelli learned to value and point out new trends. According to the Brazilian Press Association, it was the first article on the bossa nova published in newspaper ("Last minute") in 1959. As a journalist specializing in jazz, appeared in GLOBE, from 1987 to 2002 also wrote for the "Jornal do Brazil" (1972-87) and "Time", from Belo Horizonte, between 2002 and 2003, as well as collaborating with several national publications and foreign magazines. Closely followed the Brazilian instrumental scene as drummer Pascoal Meirelles remembered on his Facebook page: "Our Raffaelli was one of the most important people to embrace the work of the performer, encouraging, positive weaving every critical work released, appearing in all concerts on his meager time allowed." Raffaelli also had a long career in radio, producing programs and debates. His dedication to jazz earned him awards as granted by the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) in 1999 as the best critic of country music outside the United States, and another at San Martin Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, in 1989. In 1976, he won a competition of international scope of the American magazine "Down Beat", a leading publication dedicated to jazz.

If you do go for an acrylic platter on the Debut Carbon, you might want to consider one from Tizo Acryl out of Germany. I bought one from them a few years ago and it's a heavier platter that looks very nice. It's about the same price as the Pro-Ject one. http://www.acrylteller.com/epages/es122814.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/es122814_acrylteller/Categories/ACRYLTAUSCHTELLER/fuer_ProJect/Debut__Line Remember to subtract 19% (VAT) from their prices for US customers.

That was a hard one to find.

They're running a special. Find 2 other discs and you get a 30% discount on the Gonsalves. The shipping for the US is the same whether you buy 1 CD or 3. It is 1600 Yen either way. I added a couple of Venus CDs and the 3 discs were about $56 total.

I came home to a package from HMV and I'm happy to say that after 7 years or searching, I am finally spinning Paul Gonsalves' "Boom-Jackie-Boom-Chick". It came to ~$20 with the discount, including the shipping. It sounds very good to my old ears. The piano sounds out of tune or like some rinky-dink piano in a couple of places but that's probably on the master.

Pardon my French, but I'll stick to my opinion that this is merde. I've tried to get into these two dates many times and I've just given up. To my ears, they really aren't very good at all.

I've always been a fan of "The Book Cooks" on Bethlehem (which is what my copy is called). Of course, I love the blues and this disc has several great ones, particularly the opening "The Blue Book". I remember having to search for this CD for many years and finally paying quite a bit of money for it. Even paying more than I should, I've never been disappointed in the purchase.

This is a bit confusing so let me ask a few questions to (maybe) clarify some things. Are the masters no longer available? If they are not, who has issued the best sounding versions of these sessions? If they are not, what versions were used to make this set? Were they "masters" from another company's release? Which company? When were they mastered? What did this company use for their sources? If most of this material was issued on 78 rpm discs, why wouldn't these become the new "masters"?

The flipside - oh man... gack, gack: http://wanted-records.com/blogs/daily-discovery/10681085-do-not-disturb-by-don-snyder-jazz-vocals-45

I know RVG CDs seem to have fallen out of favor among most of us, but I found that this Sonny Clark set sounds great. Much better than the old Ron McMaster versions. Of course, YMMV. I'm still looking for an affordable copy of the double RVG of JJ Johnson's Blue Note recordings.

I got an e-mail notice that my CDs were shipped. Yeah, I said CDs, plural. It turns out that they're having a sale and if you buy 3 CDs of a certain type, you get 25% off. I added a couple of Venus CDs and they all came to less than $60 including shipping - less than $20 each!