Kevin Bresnahan

I never thought about this before, but I guess in the region where I grew up, we pronounced the 't' in often but not always in oftentimes. The 't' is always silent in words like listen or glisten. Of course we had our own linguistic variations. For instance, if you're from there, you drop the 'y' when you pronounce Holyoke, Massachusetts. We also added an 'r' to the end of idea. Weird one, that is. I've had a tough time breaking that habit. The first time I went to the store after I moved to New Hampshire, I heard an announcement for a special on Starkist tuna packed in water. The announcement said, "Special today - Starkist tooner in watah". I cracked up.

I wish that Fresu box was out before I paid big money for all those Italian Blue Note CDs back in the day. Great stuff by the way. As an added bonus, your mentioning of Fresu got me to finally get off my butt and order "Ensalada Musica" and "Ballads", two CDs I've been planning to buy for decades but never got around to it. I also found out that Fresu put out a Christmas CD a few years ago so now I'll have that to listen to during the upcoming holiday season.

I heard back from Cuscuna that the last he knew, the masters for that October 13, 1970 session were still in the vault, but he also added, "They will never come out unless Wayne’s says so. Not a good session at all."

Speaking if SNL, funniest skit in years...

I've never heard that the tapes were destroyed, just that the session was "Duke Pearson's idea of a fucking record" (Shorter's words paraphrased by Cuscuna). I agree with Lon that we will probably never hear them as long as Cuscuna has any say. Although I have heard rumors that there are dupes of the master tapes floating around in the collector universe.

What a great show last night at The Ragattabar in Cambridge, MA. Eric Alexander brought in Harold Mabern, Nat Reeves & Joe Farnsworth and they delivered an incredible set. I haven't enjoyed a show this much in a while. My feet never stopped moving. It might've helped that I had great seats.

Many years ago, I was talking with the record buyer at a now-defunct record store in Northampton, MA who worked with Sonny and he said that Sonny was such a heavy heroin user that it was not a question of how he would die, only when it would happen.

Denon makes a couple of nice "micro" units, the D-M40SBK and the (discontinued but currently still available) D-M39S. Both have a built-in CD player and FM tuner. The D-M39S seems more in line for your iPhone as there are a couple of comments that it works with them. Amazon sells the D-M39S for $398.88: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-D-M39S-Component-Discontinued-Manufacturer/dp/B008PQAB3C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 and the D-M40SBK for $479: http://www.amazon.com/Denon-DM40SBK-D-M40-Ultimate-System/dp/B00ZVBMF10/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462969301&sr=8-1&keywords=denon+dm40 FWIW, if I were doing this, I would look at the PS Audio Sprout integrated amp (with a Phono input for only $500) and build from that. You can get a decent pair of bookshelf speakers and a small CD player for ~$500 and stay under your $1K budget. And you can hook up a laptop as mjzee mentioned above and play all your apps. Plus, if somewhere in the future you decide you want a turntable, you have that phono input.

Funny - I am ever closer to moving to Maine myself. Of course, if I do, it will be in the York Beach area, not East Nowhere where Allen lived.

Apparently, this was a Kickstarter project and it looks like there is no way to order this now that the Kickstarter project has closed.

When I click that link, my computer won't even allow me to enable scripts. I guess all.vn (Vietnam) URLs are banned.

Although my experiences with his music were limited to "1999" and "Purple Rain", they were fun experiences and I still spin them in the car quite often. I'm reading that this may be opiate related. If so, the opiate epidemic claimed another one. He will be missed.

I got a Sparton pressing of Coleman Hawkins "Wrapped Tight" that was pressed with RVG stampers and it sounded OK to me.

I wonder if these will make their way across the Atlantic? They certainly weren't on any shelves for our Record Store Day.

I never did understand why they messed with the playing order of this LP when they reissued it on CD as "Happy Days".

Tom Harrell - Play Of Light (Blackhawk). Not really digging this one much, especially the guitarist, Poor Eddie Gomez's bass sounds terrible.

I did not know it was a boot or a CD-R when I bought it either. I read that Grant was the emcee so I assumed he acquired rights to release that stuff. When it came in and I saw that it was a CD-R, I figured it was a boot.

Don't be surprised if you find that old Grant CD-R and it won't play anymore. My original copy died a long time ago. Luckily, I had it backed up.

I forgot about this thread... 13 years ago! No wonder I forgot about it, However, I think I remember that Guy ended up being unable to place a nice headstone on Larry Young's grave. I believe that his family denied it due his Muslim faith not allowing things like this.

He also produced several hit albums for the group America.

We had that "fund raiser" for Eric Kloss here a few years back... I wonder how he's doing these days? Did anyone ever hear anything after we sent him that money?

Jorma Kaukonen solo acoustic guitar tonight at the beautiful Shalin Liu Performance Hall in Rockport, MA. http://rockportmusic.org/jorma-kaukonen/ I love this stage.

Can I ask why you are upping this? The single show you linked us to has passed. Is this a tour that will continue? I was hoping to see it in Boston. Also, poking around Pharoah Sander's website is disappointing. His "Tour" link lists shows from 2013.

Cecil Payne - Brookfiled Andante (Spotlite). OK audio for a so-so live date. Lower your expectations and everything's fine. Cecil is in good form. The record sleeve came completely unglued and had to be taped. The guy at the record store said he doesn't tape record covers because "some people complain that I should leave them original". I said, "Oh, so letting the record fall out onto the ground is more original'.

Frank Wess - Frank Wess Quartet (Prestige/Moodsville 8). A new purchase I found in a "New arrivals" bin at a local store for $8.00. AN original RVG pressing too.