Kevin Bresnahan

Joe just finished. Now playing: Mal Waldron - The Git Go - Live At The Village Vanguard (Soul Note). Woody Shaw and Charlie Rouse in the front line. What's not to like?

Joe Van Enkhuizen - Back On The Scene (Criss Cross). Nice hard bop date of standards from an relatively unknown tenor player here in the US. Nothing to make you go "wow" but nothing to make go "eh" either. It's never made it to CD which is probably why there aren't many pictures of the cover on the web.

It's too bad you don't live closer. I have an extra Pro-Ject Debut II with an acrylic platter and a Denon DL-160 cartridge that I would let you try and give you a good deal on it if you liked it. I just don't have any packing material for it right now. Kevin

Now on, an album much more to my liking: Woody Shaw - Little Red's Fantasy (Muse). I've always enjoyed this date on CD. To be honest, this sounds great on vinyl. About the only negative would be the twangy bass sound.

David Murray Trio - Sweet Lovely (Black Saint). This is not for me at all. It was in a cheapie bin so I figured I'd check it out. In a lot of places, it sounds like all three of these guys are playing different songs with different beats. And for some reason, I really don't dig this drummer.

Steve Kuhn brings his trio to Scullers in Boston tonight. He is bringing Eric Alexander along as a "special guest".

I don't know who dumped all this stuff. There were a whole bunch of unopened Blue Note CDs from Japan in the boxes too. The seller has already sold most of them. One was the extremely rare Hank Mobley Quartet CD. Sealed. I've never seen one of them sealed before.

It looks like this stuff was found next to a dumpster in San Diego. It appears to be from a bunch of boxes of stuff from when they cleaned out Ruth Lion's apartment when she died. Michael Cuscuna is negotiating with the seller to see what he can do to get this stuff.

Those photos look like Francis Wolff negatives. Mosaic got a copyright for the ones they have. If any of these are dupes, does the seller have to worry about that copyright?

Alright, I might get some grief for this, but... I'm pretty sure Mnytime still posts regularly on this board. I've met Mnytime in real life (several times, actually) and see some posting patterns of a member here that are "unique" to the man I know/knew as Mnytime. I'm not going to "out" this poster, as I'm not 100% sure he actually is Mnytime (more like only 98% sure), and it's really his call to make that announcement anyway. I'm pretty sure I have the right username... isn't Mnytime the guy whose "brother" came onto the Blue Note board to announce that he had died in a car crash? We all tried to get his real name and the "brother" kept avoiding the question. It was truly bizarre.

Whenever I see these old archive pages and see the name Mnytime, I wonder if he really is dead or if he was just a really messed up dude. If it's the latter, is he here on the organissimo forums?

Tonight at the Regattabar in Cambridge, the SF Jazz Collective: Miguel Zenon, alto David Sanchez, tenor Avishai Cohen, trumpet Robin Eubanks, trombone Warren Wolf, vibes Edward Simon, piano Matt Penman, bass Obed Calvaire, drums

Many years ago, I was at a restaurant with a good buddy and we were drinking a nice bottle of wine. I commented on how I always thought they did a good job with their logo by incorporating the ravens into it. He said that in all the years he'd been drinking their wine, he never saw the ravens until I just pointed it out to him.

Jimmy Smith - Cool Blues (Blue Note). Now this is some organ Jazz that I can dig. This LT pressing doesn't sound anywhere near as good as the recent Japanese CD. Like many of these LT LPs, there is a muffled quality to it, almost like there's a blanket over the speakers. Was Blue Note using some sort of noise reduction back then?

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - Gettin' Up (Prestige). This is one beat up record! I don't remember buying it but it must've been in a dollar bin because I never would have bought it for much more than that. I have never heard this date before. Funk Jazz served with a bowl of Rice Crispies. Not really my preferred style of organ Jazz. Edited as I listen to more & more of this... Why don't I like this? It's pretty good music but I can't put my finger on why I'm really not digging this more. The drummer's constant shuffle?

Woody Shaw - Imagination (Muse). Van Gelder original pressing. Steve Turre plays nice on this date.

The Curtis Peagler 4 - I'll Be Around (Pablo). This is a nice enough date and I really can't complain about a record with Billy Higgins behind the drum kit.

Tal Farlow - The Tal Farlow Album (Verve Japan). 1981 pressing that I found sealed in the used bins. Nice clean picking.

So now I'm spinning Kenny Burrell's "Midnight Blue" cut by RVG (dark blue Liberty pressing). A very different presentation. The mids are jacked up on this version compared to the Music Matters version I just spun. I suppose a case could be made for each version. My old ears seem to like a little added EQ on the top but the Music Matters version has a better late night feel.

Kevin how is this? Does it sound really nice? I have the "blue train" and "idle moments" music matters 33rpm reissues and love those but my XRCD of "soul station" sounds so good I'm a bit on the fence as to whether I should get this vinyl? I have the XRCD, the Ron McMaster CD, the RVG CD, the Classic Records mono LP & the King (Japan) LP. I used to own the 1995 LP. This new Music Matters LP is very, very nice. It's the best vinyl version I've heard. Better than the XRCD? Maybe. But certainly not as convenient. If you like vinyl, you won't be disappointed with this one. I bought this new Music Matters LP because I subscribed to the whole series. So far, I haven't been disappointed. In fact, I'm now playing Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (Music Matters). This is a beautiful-sounding hunk of vinyl. Very quiet vinyl (needed with this late night music) with a "you are there" sound. I am very glad I got this. I am going to compare it to my Van Gelder pressing next.

Hank Mobley - Soul Station (Music Matters) New 33 rpm reissue series.

Yeah, one Saturday a month at their "back-alley office with very low rent in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The space is very hard to find, and was previously used as an apartment by a low-profile prostitute." I think if you visited them there, you'd remember it! No interior pictures of the store at 1180 N Milwaukee Ave. that I can find, but here's a street view of the current storefront (they were on the 2nd floor where the "Young Chicago Authors" program is now located: DG historical site. You should've seen some of the CD shops I visited in Taiwan, Korea & Hong Kong back in those days. Back alley? No problem! They are all a bit of a blur by now though. I used to research local CD shops and plan my business trips around the stores' hours, often staying an extra day (Saturday) to get some shopping in. The one place I've always wanted to go to that has eluded me is the Princeton Record Exchange. I really should plan a weekend trip down there someday.

It says that they also used to open one Saturday a month in 1996 and I'm pretty sure I visited them during that time too. Any pictures of the inside of the Wicker Park store?

I don't think so. How often has Dusty Groove moved? Where were they located 1995-99? That would be when I visited several times.