Kevin Bresnahan

This was originally released in 1964 on the Workshop Jazz label, a subsidiary of Motown Records. I assume this now falls under the Universal umbrella. Fresh Sounds hasn't reissued this since it went back under EU copyright.

I'm in the middle of the 8th Will Trent book, The Kept Woman, from author Karin Slaughter. I am enjoying these books & can recommend them for fans of crime novels. It's a head-scratcher why the show is so different. One of the main characters in the show, Angie Polaski, is a horrible person in the books. One of the books is all about the history of Will's boss Amanda, whose father was a sheriff and a member of the KKK. In the show, Amanda is a black woman. I guess the show will never do an episode about Amanda's father. 🤔

I was lucky to see Geri perform many times over the years. Phenomenal player. She wasn't much older than me, so I was just as shocked as everyone when she passed away. Cancer sucks.

Looks like download only at this time: https://roncarter-thejazzaarfestivalbigband.bandcamp.com/album/remembering-bob-freedman

Dusty's "sale" purchases... Johnny Hammond Smith — Soulful Blues (Ebb Tide/Nasty) Johnny Griffin — Bush Dance – Bush Dance/Call It Whachawana Phil Woods with Red Garland — Sugan Willis Jackson — Legends Of Acid Jazz – Keep On A Blowin'/Thunderbird We'll see if they come through. My luck at this place has been poor to say the least.

I was at this show. It was great. I was able to sit right up in front of Geri Allen at the piano. There are other videos of that show on YouTube but they appear to have been posted by someone who had a thing for Esperanza. The trio was scheduled to return a year later but Geri passed unexpectedly before the show. They brought in Nicholas Payton to sit in the keyboard chair. That show was also very good. It was more of a Geri Allen tribute, so the mood was very different.

It took me a long time to find an affordable copy of Belden's "Princejazz". It's seems to be pretty rare.

I'm not going to order any of these as Dusty's inventory isn't "live", so any orders that come in overnight don't move the CD to "Just Sold Out" until they manually update it when they open for business. Several times in the past, I've ordered CDs and gotten an E-mail saying it was sold the next day. It's happened a lot.

That was Michael, through and through. Because he had other photos from the "Blue Train" session, he figured out that Coltrane was actually sucking on a lollipop & not his reed in the cover shot, so he made sure he gave credit to the lollipop this time. He was such a wise ass... I miss him. BTW - Michael also said that it was Coltrane's sweet tooth that was supposedly why "Ballads" was made for Impulse! He said that there were stories that his teeth hurt from so many cavities that he could only comfortably play ballads.

If we're going to go with rare Japanese compilations, there's always this one: I asked Michael to sign my copy. He refused.

I literally missed seeing him on his last visit to Boston (May 7, 1989) by a few weeks. I was getting heavily into Jazz by the late 80's and started going to shows in the Boston around then. In mid-1989, I saw someone play at The Regattabar and they had schedules on all of the tables. I saw that Blakey's Jazz Messengers had just played there a few weeks earlier. I figured I'd catch him the next year. Nope. In case anyone is scratching their heads wondering about a certain show, there is this: https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/

Which program would do that? If it could possibly block your access, I'd remove it, never mind disable it.

The music is very good but it was mastered "Venus style".

I agree 100% with this. Great stuff from Renee on this label. Ditto Harold Mabern. I have almost all of these two pianists' releases from the Smoke Sessions label. There was a time when I thought I would buy every release from this label - they were that good. But they eventually started releasing more than I really needed to buy, so I backed off from that. Because I've fallen off a bit, most of my favorites, in addition to Renee's & Harold's releases, are mostly from their early days: Vincent Herring - The Uptown Shuffle Harold Mabern - To Love And Be Loved Javon Jackson - Expression David Hazeltine - For All We Know Steve Davis - Think Ahead The Cookers - The Call Of The Wild And Peaceful Heart One For All - The Third Decade Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring - Split Decision I really need to pick up Heads Of State's two releases - "Search For Peace" and "Four In One" as I meant to buy them when they came out and I just realized I never did get myself a copy of either one.

It was reported that Joe Henderson had a major stoke about a year before he died, so not just emphysema for him.

spiderfriend (on discogs) "special transfers, you know, the copy protected ones, because that is what noise reduction is, just like the R.I.A.A. curve, or HDCD, or K2 Supercoding, they have nothing to do with improving sound quality!" WTF?? What a moron. To equate noise reduction with copy protection, the RIAA curve, HDCD & K2 supercoding shows that this idiot knows nothing about audio at all. I can understand complaining about excessive use of noise reduction, though I have no idea if it's badly done or used at all on this CD from Mosaic, but that is where this complaint should have ended. Can you imagine what records would have sounded like if they never implemented the RIAA equalization in the LP standard? No bass. Too much treble. Records that many turntables would not be able to play. It's just nuts to think that this was a bad idea.

What a poorly advertised Jazz Festival. I've never heard of this venue and I get a weekly E-mail of the area's Jazz shows from Isabelle d'Entremont and she's never mentioned this venue nor this Jazz festival. Very strange to have this sneak up like this. BTW - I see that Sullivan Fortner is playing there Sunday and I thought about going but $104 is a bit much, especially since I'm dropping a few bucks Saturday night for "date night".

Tomorrow night, it's Jaime Baum's sextet at Scullers. Looking forward to this one. Me & the wife are making it a "date night". I even got us a room at the hotel so I don't have to drive back from Boston after the show.

These are from the Pipe Dublin label and are download only. I assume that that the Pipe Dublin name, PD for short, was not chosen blindly. Most of the tracks on these "albums" are from OJC labels (Prestige, Contemporary & Riverside). As an example, "Nocturne Logic" is "Tenor Madness".

I had a long reply written up but I deleted it, as I have fond memories of seeing older Jazz greats, even when they were not playing well. As I said, not every septuagenarian/octogenarian musician can continue to play at a high level. I'll leave it at that.

I've seen several elderly Jazz musicians in recent times that should have been retired. Their playing was not good. One sax player embarrassed himself up on stage. Not every septuagenarian/octogenarian is physically capable of continuing their music career. I wonder why Bobby Kimball retired? He was a great singer with Toto.

Conference Call - Final Answer (Soul Note). Gebhard Ullmann (tenor and soprano saxopjones, bass clarinet); Michael jefry Stevens (piano); Joe Fonda (double bass); Matt Wilson (drums). Not really my kind of music. It's bandcamp Friday, so if you like it, you can buy it today and support the artists: https://gebhardullmann.bandcamp.com/album/final-answer

Did You miss this one? That is not someone exploring ethnic/cultural identity.

I never commented in this thread because I always felt it was just Allen fucking with us. I see he's managing to do it even though he's no longer posting here.

If you call what he does "singing", then sure.