Kevin Bresnahan

Quite far from the "only downside". Weight, glare, power hungry... there are several. However, the main reason... well, maybe the only reason I've yet to own a plasma TV is the chance of burn-in. Now don't get me wrong, I agree that as a display, they tend to look a lot better than LCD and I recommended Panasonic plasma TVs to both my brother and sister-in-law (they both love their sets) but I just couldn't bring myself to take a chance that I would be the one to get one that got burned in. I recently bought a 58" Panasonic 4K LCD TV and I think it looks great. Some "flashlighting" in the corners on very dark screens (common with edge lit LCD TVs) but really not noticeable when watching TV, only when switching inputs. I didn't buy 4K for 4K, it was just the best TV that Panasonic was offering at the time. There is very little 4K out there, basically a few streamed shows/movies on Netflix, and there seems to be a format war about how to deliver it via external media but they should have it worked out soon. I do wonder if my current 4K TV will support whatever input format this 4K delivery system will require. BTW, when I bought this TV, I really, really wanted an LG OLED TV because it can display black levels that rival plasma. Go look at one at Best Buy - just gorgeous. But as with plasma, there is also a chance that it could burn in. Shit. So basically if you like plasma, owned a plasma TV that never suffered burn in and are in the market for a new TV, look at OLED.

I am a regular bandcamp user/listener. I have bought some great music from that website.

There's nothing stopping the music suppliers from supplying compressed audio files in HD audio to the end user. If the compression is on the "master", it'll be there no matter how many bits it's chopped into.

Kenny Garrett Thursday night (1/28) at Scullers in Boston.

That's what happens when you step on a few...

As a bonus, I believe that these records were cut by RVG from his master tapes so they sound pretty good.

These two sessions were very well recorded and should sound great since this set is coming from the recording engineer's master tapes. The recording engineer runs Resonance Records (the label releasing this music).

It will be good to get an official copy of this, especially since the (unknown at the time) bootleg Alan Grant sold me back in 2000 stopped playing completely through without skipping many years ago. It turned out to be a CD-R. The first CD-R I ever had fail on me (I've had several more since).

One of my favorite Beatles tunes. Jim, will you be using Kickstarter or another fund raising venue this time around?

Most of the reviews of this date have me classifying my enjoyment of it as a "guilty pleasure". It seems to get panned more often than not.

Eric Alexander is supposed to be bringing a quartet to the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA this Saturday night (1/23) but it may hinge on his ability to get out of NY before this blizzard hits. I hope he makes it. He's bringing One For All pianist Dave Hazeltine and I haven't seen Hazeltine play in a while.

I was only able to get that material on CD as part of an Affinity two-fer with Max Roach entitled "The Hard Bop Academy". I actually bought it for the Roach date. As I said above, really terrible sound quality. I don't know if it's the source tape or the mastering.

I was listening to several of Dockery's Jazz Messengers recordings yesterday and one thing that struck me was how badly recorded most of them were. It's too bad that they never made it into RVG's studio.

Great album, strange cover. Is that a bird or did Richie's toupee blow off?

Reading his obit, it would seem they got the date a bit wrong for his meeting with Blakey's Jazz Messengers. It was more likely in 1956, not 1953. I wonder why he stopped playing/touring in 1991? He would've only been 52 in 1991. RIP Mr. Dockery.

Walt Dickerson - Vibes In Motion (Audio Fidelity). Eh... It's OK but certainly not likely to get onto the turntable too often.

I just saw a facebook post referencing Rickman's performance in "Bottle Shock". I completely forgot about that one. I guess when I said that, "Rickman's characters are often one of the first ones you think of", I wasn't thinking about this movie.

In reading all of the tributes to this great actor, one of the things that struck me was that he didn't start acting in film until he was in his 40's. That's pretty incredible. All of these great movies were all made in a 26 year span after decades in theater.

He was one of those actors that made every character he played memorable... like Hans in "Die Hard", Professor Snape in the Harry Potter movies, Alexander Dane (Dr. Lazarus) in "Galaxy Quest" and Elliot Marston, the evil ranch owner in "Quigley Down Under". When you think back to these movies, Rickman's characters are often one of the first ones you think of.

What a great artist. He certainly did one of the most striking farewells in my memory:

Mosaic is listing these as "Mosaic Singles". Are they a Mosaic product or a Sony product?

Renee Rosnes?

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I too had a lot of trouble extracting the second disc from these fatboy jewel cases. I swapped all 4 of them out with older fatboy cases I had laying around.

From his obit: Pat Metheny told my colleague Doug Fischer some years ago that his life was changed by Bley’s All the Things You Are solo on Sonny Rollins’ 1963 album Sonny Meets Hawk. “When I heard Paul Bley’s piano solo, a whole new universe of harmonic possibilities opened up from me,” Metheny said. “All these decades later, I still of it as one of the greatest solos in jazz history. Starting at 3:13