Kevin Bresnahan

I haven't heard the CM1's but I do like the 685's. I think they look better too.

I love B&W. I have a pair of Nautilus 805S speakers that you might find used for under $1500/pair but it's gotten harder since B&W's latest 805, the 805D with a diamond tweeter, is almost $6K/pair, making the older models more desirable. These things look pretty sweet: http://www.needledoctor.com/Gamut-Phi-MK-III-Speakers. I wonder how they sound?

Harry Allen's "Day Dream" has some great playing by Tommy. One of the biggest regrets of my Jazz listening life was that I avoided Flanagan's trips through Boston because I am not a big fan of seeing piano trios live. Truth be told, it's not a piano thing, it's that I don't like all the bass solos. After many years of my old friend Rob bugging me to go and telling me I was missing a great show, I finally went. It was awesome. I went the next year as well. Then he was gone. I probably skipped 6 or 7 years of shows. Bums me out to this day and I thank Rob for finally getting me to go that first time.

I would like to find that in a bin someday.

Eddie Lockjaw Davis - Smokin' (Prestige). Dark blue/silver label Van Gelder pressing. It's pretty beat up but plays OK (so far).

Sonny Criss - Out Of Nowhere (Muse) - It looks like an original Bell Sound pressing. I'm not a big fan of the bass sound from this era in recording history. Twang, twang, twang goes the bass.

Chet Baker - Smokin' With The Chet Baker Quintet (Roulette). Chet on flugelhorn and some nice George Coleman on tenor. This is a Roulette pressing with a barcode. I see that it's been issued a few other times. I hope the other issues sound better than this one. Very muffled.

I wonder how Eric Kloss is doing these days. Remember our fundraiser for Eric? (http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17357)

After many, many years of searching for an affordable copy, I finally found a copy of Lew Tabackin's "Angelica" for under $30 at amazon.de. Now I only hope that it comes in. There's even another copy left: http://www.amazon.de/Angelica-Lew-Tabackin/dp/B008Y255T2/ref=sr_1_1/279-0380511-0524428?ie=UTF8&qid=1391624616&sr=8-1&keywords=lew+tabackin+angelica

No. This isn't the only time. There's at least one more - There's a very famous edit in "Blue Train". The issued title track uses the piano solo from a different take. There is no unedited version left of this track. The only "master" left of the issued take is the edited one.

Recording squeaks are not generally not in time.

How about switching your speaker wires over to coat hangers? http://consumerist.com/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-good-monster-cables/

Jazz Loft going out of business finally got me to get off my butt and complete my collection of Paolo Fresu 5et recordings on Blue Note EU. I'm spinning the third one now and it's sounding very nice. I don't think there's a dud in the bunch. Nice, almost too nice jazz, in that the tempos are not cooking a whole lot. They're more of a gentle lope than a gallop. That suits me just fine. I wish Fresu would bring the 5et to the states for a tour (that includes Boston) so I could see these guys live. There are 5 5et CDs out and other titles with the same band but not part of this "series". Kosmopolites P.A.R.T.E. Incantamento Thinking Rosso, Verde, Giallo e Blu

Last night I played Joe Henderson - State Of The Tenor Vol. 1 (Blue Note). This is cut at a very low volume. I had to crank up my amp quite a bit to get it to the same level as my other LPs.

Houston Person - Wild Flower (Muse). I bought this for the cover and the fact that it had "Van Gelder" in the deadwax. The cover is the best part.

Mongo Santamaria - Watermelon Man! (Battle). It's OK I suppose. Not really as Jazzy as I expected. It has a bit of a lounge music sound to it that sounds so dated.

You used to be able to delete your own threads but Jim shut that option off.

I've got one on (back) order. Looking forward to hearing it.

Horace Silver - Finger Poppin' With The Horace Silver Quintet (Blue Note). Blue & white label RVG pressing. Nice date. I used to play this all this when I first picked it up on CD (with Finger Popoin' on the CD spline).

I've never seen these covers. The pictures look like de-capped ICs, which is what I work with every day. I expect to see these in tear-down reports or FA reports but not on the cover of Jazz LP.

It's missing a disc from the US version.

I saw the poster for Nat Adderley's gig in Cardiff in the late seventies the day after. Missed Teddy Edwards like that, too. All because I didn't go into Spillers on the right day. MG Another thing for which the internet has proven to be a godsend. I get my schedules on line and rarely miss good shows.

I was going through some old club calendars that I saved from my traveling days and I found another one that I missed. In late October of 1996, I was in Goteborg, Sweden on a business trip and I bought tickets in advance to see Arne Domnerus in a septet with Bengt Hallberg on piano. I was so looking forward to going. Unfortunately, my customer made plans that night for us and I couldn't back out of it (not a good business decision). The worst thing was that the tickets were pretty expensive. Good thing my company ate the cost and not me. On another business trip to Germany, I was in Berlin and Mal Waldron's trio was playing at a club. I went to go and got completely lost on the subway. Hours later I finally found it but didn't go in. It was late and I was beat. i should have gone.

I've missed a few. I was just getting Jazz when Stan Getz came into town in a duet with Kenny Barron (their Montmartre gigs from this tour were released on "People Time"). I wasn't into the Jazz scene enough then and had no idea that Getz was sick & would soon die. I also missed Art Blakey's last trip through Boston by about 4 months. I was looking for information about when he would be coming through town when I discovered he had died. The lack of the Internet made it tough to get Jazz news back then. It's not like it was reported on the Boston nightly news. (Edited because I found the club's flyer) During a trip to the LA area in July of 1996, I went to the Club Brasserie in the Wyndham Bel Age Hotel that had Teddy Edwards on the bill. I went and had a blast. Absolute blast. Horace Tapscott was on the bill the week before and I was already in town but I had just arrived and was too tired to go. I figured I'd just catch him later. He was gone before I got the chance. Funny thing is, the week after I left, Red Holloway played there. I never got a chance to see Red either so there's two shows I would have gone to if I could have extended my trip. Again as I was just getting into Jazz, Jimmy Smith came into town with Kenny Burrell on guitar and I think Stanley Turrentine on tenor. I wasn't into Jazz organ at that time so I blew it off. I've never seen Kenny Burrell to this day. He's never come back through town that I can recall. I stupidly missed a great show because I wasn't that into vibes: McCoy Tyner & Bobby Hutcherson in a duo performance, I heard about it later that it was an incredible night. One last one that will always haunt me: me & my buddy Rob had tickets to see Jaki Byard in a duet with Michael Marcus. We had great seats and were sitting right in front when the lights went out because of a car accident that wiped out the building's transformer. We were all standing around chatting with Jaki while waiting see if the lights would come back on but they cancelled the show for a couple of weeks. Jaki was murdered a short time later.

Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (Analogue Productions). New vinyl from the (then) new QRP pressing plant, Beautiful sound and dead quiet. Nice record as well.