Kevin Bresnahan

Wardell Gray - Memorial Album (Presitige) - 2 LP set. RVG in the deadwax on all four sides. This is a really nice batch of recordings. I never really listened to this stuff in the past, so it's all a first time for me.

The problem I had with the record I bought was that it was ~$25 for a Liberty-pressed Blue Note of a Jimmy Smith date. At that price point with their VG grade, I expected better. Now that I know what "VG" really means to them, I will avoid buying those records.

I once bought a VG record from them and it had a very long and visible scratch across one whole side that resulted in audible clicks throughout the playback. When I asked them about it, they gave me the old "Goldmine grading system says that's VG" line. Well that being the case, I will no longer buy anything VG from them again. Stick to VG++ and NM.

Tonight at Jocko's Jazz in Methuen, MA is Harry Allen with Ken Peplowski. I'm really looking forward to this one. I've seen them go toe to toe in the past and it was a blast. Next Tuesday, Phil Grenadier is playing there so that'll be two weeks in a row that are "can't miss". Kevin

Your sleeves won't protect the records as they're on their way to your house. I hope they changed the packaging and used inners. It's pretty dumb to ship records without an inner liner.

Thanks to Allen for this one...

Sounds a lot like when I went to see McCoy Tyner last year. He looked so frail going up on stage, I was worried that he was going to fall over. And then he started playing and "Wow". After the show, he was in an even more weakened state, needing to be guided down the hallway by two people.

According to this website, a BluRay disc can hold ~50 GB of data which would be enough storage for about 70 audio CDs. BluRay Audio is typically done at a higher resolution (24 bit/192 kHz). When you master audio at high resolution, the resulting files are bigger than CD audio so the number would be much less than 70.

I've seen session logs and heard quite a few session tapes by this time in my life and I cannot think of one date where there weren't several false starts or where someone whiffs on a run. I can see sequential take numbers like this if someone took the master tape and spliced together an "LP master" and gave it new take numbers but I have a hard time believing that these guys hit every one of these takes on the first try. After all, this was not a regular working band, was it? Maybe Chuck Nessa, who has sat in on a few sessions in his day, can tell me I'm wrong.

Every track was laid down in one take?? That doesn't seem very likely at all. I wonder where these take numbers came from?

Tor Lundvall - The Park (Dais). More dark ambient sounds from Tor. One of my solitary pleasures in life. My wife & daughters don't like it at all.

Depending on how well the speakers were stored, re-coning the drivers may not be the only thing needed. My friend had to re-cap the crossovers in an old pair of B&W speakers. The old caps leaked and changed their value. After he changed these old leaky caps, he said the speakers sounded a lot better and that he wished he did it many years earlier.

If you have an Ortofon cartridge, are you running a little heavier than they recommend? I find that my 2M Black tracks better and sounds a bit better when I track a little over the 1.5 gram recommended tracking force.

If I were in the market right now, I would definitely look at the Audeze line, particularly the new EL-8. They make some beautiful-sounding headphones and this new model is significantly less than their previous ones. Worth checking out.

I remember picking up Getz's "Dynasty" 2 CD set after reading a good review in the Penguin guide and being very glad I did. RIP Eddy.

The Jazz LP/CD secondary market continues to trend down, particularly CDs. About the only thing appreciating is original vinyl. CDs in general (all genres) are pretty much dead on the secondary market. I've seen many very rare CDs, particularly Jazz CDs, that used to go for big money, selling for under $10. I am not at all surprised that Mosaic box sets, both on LP and CD, have crashed.

He was always a nice guy on the jazz forums. He will be missed.

So Martha Glaser () is gone and a more reasonable person is now in charge? About time.

Here you go: Blocked by discogs.

John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays The Blues (Atlantic reissue). This reissue doesn't sound all that great on my system. The piano sounds wonky.

Roland Hanna - The New York Jazz Quartet in Chicago (Bee Hive). Nice date. I am looking forward to the Mosaic box. No permanent picture on line. By the way discogs.com - if you are reading this - Fuck you for blocking us from using your images.

He's got 12 different LP sets on Ebay now. Unfortunately, he's upped his starting bid significantly from the last batches. I don't see all of these selling with those starting bids.

The original SABA`s sound is superb .... although the japanese pressing is non less than exzellent .... in this case kept both issues ..... I'm listening to the track "Prompt" right now and while the sound might be "superb", it is very distant. It isn't the greatest recording quality. At times, it sounds like the microphone is in another room. So if I find a reasonable copy, I'll probably pick it up. But I'm not paying the $150-250 the SABA pressing seems to be getting lately.

I think I'm going to open a bottle of 2004 Bertani Amarone with my birthday dinner. I hope it's not corked.

Close, but probably more toward blue. If you do a Google image search for this LP, you get the full color gamut.