Kevin Bresnahan

Billy Mitchell - The Colossus of Detroit (Xanadu). I'm playing this from a needle-drop CD-R that I made from my old LP. Not the best audio to begin with so I don't know that I'd ever upgrade if a legit CD came out.

Billy Harper - Soran-Bushi B.H. (Denon)

In my car, I've been playing the contents of Coltrane's "The Complete Prestige" box set and when I got to the sessions with Paul Quinichette, I said to myself, "Man, this guy has such a unique sound", forgetting that his nickname was "Vice Prez" because he sounded so much like Lester Young. I haven't spun any 1950's Lester in a long time so I was thinking maybe I'd forgotten how he sounded so... Now playing: Next up will be "Lester Young With The Oscar Peterson Trio". BTW - the other thing I've gotten out of giving this massive Coltrane box set a full listen is that I really don't like Ray Draper's tuba solos at all.

Let's be real here - obis are strictly so that a Japanese record buyer can store records on a shelf and have the titles on the spines in Japanese. There was no "mythic" reason for them.

Almost sad to watch though... I guess it happens to all of us.

snake in paradise, put up a parking lot.

Weird seeing a thread started by Soulstation1 (Jeff). We haven't heard from him since he got Covid years ago. I wonder if he's still with us?

Does the discogs seller have a good sales history? There are still scammers out there. I had a discogs seller take my money and never ship the discs. I had to go through discogs and PayPal to get my money back. Just the other day, I found a very affordable copy of a CD I've been looking for and the seller's feedback was terrible so I didn't pull the trigger.

Interesting to me is how many of these countries have socialized medicine. So many people forego potential life saving procedures because they can't afford them & that has to factor in here.

The Tubby Hates was pretty phenomenal. The LP-only box of the Rendell-Carr material was pretty good too.

I know it's still a little while before the show, but I bought tickets to take my two daughters to see pianist Alex Minasian at Jimmy's in Portsmouth on July 17th. He's bringing in a quintet featuring Craig Handy & Bill Pierce on saxophones, Vince Dupont on bass and Aaron Seeber on drums. Seeber is the only one I haven't seen play live before. There were still plenty of good seats available and unlike many of the shows at Jimmy's these tickets are fairly affordable. Not cheap at $47, but not like some of their prices. Plus, you can always buy a cheap seat at the bar if you don't need to be in the main listening area. Some of those seats can actually see the stage. Link for tickets to see the Alex Minasian quintet at Jimmy's

I've never heard this one. I'll have to find some YouTube videos to sample.

The problem with these stats on discogs is that even if that $125 sale was a partial box, it goes in as a "sale". I'm pretty sure this is what depressed the value of the Buck Clayton Mosaic box. Quite a few partial sets sold over a long period, which not only drove down the Low price but also the Median. Pretty soon, that box that used to regularly sell for over $300 now sells for under $100. Discogs has it's pluses & minuses.

I think only Jim A can do it. I looked into it a while back and i don't have much more ability than Jim S. I can add new members but that's about it.

I have the Clifford Jordan but it's going for stupid money on discogs.com, which doesn't mean it's selling for stupid money on discogs. I literally have no idea what to ask for it.

At 78 (79 in October), it's not hard to believe that he's going to slow down a bit. At least he hasn't gone the route of other aging stars like Benny Golson or Lou Donaldson, whose last 10 years or so of tours were pretty much the same show over & over. Even Johnny Griffin did it to a certain extent.

I have to wonder if you'd get more replies if you told us what you're willing to pay.

Kinda hard to agree with this when this box is impossible to hear. I tried to join IAJE just to buy this and their website was a mess and I couldn't find any way to buy it. There's not even a download available.

I actually really like Springsteen's music but as much as I like to support the guy, the pre-order pricing for this box is nuts. As I said, when the price on the used market gets to around $50, I'm in. Until then, no way.

$37 per CD?!?!?! Are they kidding? https://www.amazon.com/DP/B0F2LCMLBX I'd be willing to pay $7 per CD but there's no way I'd drop $265 to hear sessions that Springsteen wouldn't even release when he cut them.

I finally picked up a copy of Tyner/Henderson Live at Slugs.

Dannie Richmond - The Last Mingus Band A.D. (Landmark/Gatemouth). Great stuff from Jack Walrath, Ricky Ford, Bob Neloms & Cameron Brown.

$200? $40 per LP for records that I've seen in the used bins for under $10 before prices went nuts about 5 years ago? When it gets down to $100, I'm in. I only have a couple of these and they're pretty good, but not $40 good.

I just finished watching "Sly Lives (aka The Burden Of Black Genius) and I left it feeling a bit bummed out to see his decline laid bare like this. It was a bit weird to hear George Clinton chuckle about him & Sly getting hooked on crack cocaine. Really George? You think that was funny? I never knew Sly was a DJ and a record producer before he formed The Family Stone. I guess that's likely because by the time I was getting into his music, all that was in the news by then was all of his drug arrests. To see what he did in a relatively short period of time was quite eye-opening. I did get a chuckle the first time that Mark Anthony Neal's face showed up on the screen. They say everyone has a doppleganger. Neal's would definitely be retired NBA player Paul Pierce.

They've pretty much taken over Facebook's "reels". Those things pop up in my feed all the time. Stuff like an alligator eating a snake... generally things that makes you go "What?!?! No way!" is likely AI.