Kevin Bresnahan

According to the story at the Real Gone website, Everest bought the tapes from Orrin Keepnews. Doesn't that make it legit or did Orrin not own the rights at that time?

I'm mostly a stout drinker as well. My current favorite is Gunner's Daughter from the Mast Landing Brewery in South Portland, ME. I typically get it on draft at the York River Landing, my favorite local pub. They have 36 taps, with almost all of the beers from local microbreweries.

I have probably had a few Heinekens in the past 10 years. The others? Not in decades.

It's tricky. The biggest problem with a lot of the applicants is that most use a gmail.com e-mail address, which makes googling it near impossible. Also, a lot of the IP addresses appear spoofed or are in the far flung reaches of the globe. I actually don't know if the e-mail verification system works at all because some of them look weird. An to be honest, I've managed to find a few people who were clearly trying to spoof someone else, using e-mail addresses with slight variations from real e-mails.

I check the members log every now & then and we still get new applicants pretty regularly. Today, I approved two new members: jimiayler & esilverm because their application info looks legit. We'll see if I was right or if they start spamming away. I approved a couple last month too but those two users never posted, so maybe it took me too long to approve them? I am toying with the idea of approving a few more, just to see if we can get more posters in here but I'm afraid of setting the spammers free to run wild.

Chris Botti is coming to Jimmy's. Only $257.50 per ticket if you want to be able to see the stage.

I've seen that listed in the discographies but have never seen it in the wild.

I enjoy Joe Lovano's playing. I've seen him in a wide variety of settings, from a trio to a big band, playing everything from bop to free and I've only ever left underwhelmed a couple of times. Granted those couple of times were the last two times I saw him, which means mrjazzman may have just witnessed a similar performance. The last two times I saw Joe was with Dave Douglas playing as "Sound Prints". I just thought Joe was just off his game. Maybe sedate is a better word? I've also seen Joe with his nonet touring in support of his Blue Note recording "52nd Street Themes", with his "out" quartet that toured after "Quartets - Live at the Village Vanguard" and with the trio of himself, Dave Holland & Elvin Jones that played in support of "Trio Fascination". Every one of these shows was excellent stuff. Joe can play, that's for sure. We'll have to disagree on this one. Edited to add that I removed my troll comments...

I saw Moody at Ronnie Scott's in 1999 and he was still playing great. With a backing band like these guys, this could be good.

You like this kind of music, so you should really enjoy that show. I only stayed for one set. Not my kind of music. There were places where they played tunes, but a lot of it was mostly controlled chaos.

I'm heading into Portsmouth tonight to see the Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at the tiny Press Room. I assume there'll be a bunch of people there who wouldn't normally go to a Jazz show, but that's what happens when the guitarist from Wilco shows up in town.

Now playing - Tor Lundvall - Beautiful Illusions (Dais Records). Sometimes I just like to have sounds wash over me as I work on a more-troublesome computer. As I fight with an old Dell laptop that I'm trying to get Ubuntu to load onto, this ambient music washes over me and keeps me from tossing the thing out the window.

Danny D'Imperio - 1st Jazz Gala 1978 (disc 1). Live at the Rum Keg Lounge in the Howard Johnson Hotel in Cortland, NY. With Frank Moser on alto, Nick Brignola on bari, Barry Keiner on piano, Carlos Laguana on bass & Danny on drums. This is smokin' stuff that Danny recorded for his own enjoyment. He sent me CD-Rs of several of these Jazz Gala concerts (two from '78 & one from '79).

I just got in this:

I've never heard of this one. That's a killer band. I have Romano's "Canzoni" & "Non Dimenticar" with that same band, How is it? I see that there are synths listed in the credits on discogs. How would you describe the music? Synths can mean anything from fusion to funk to new age.

Paul Gonsalves - boom-jackie-boom-chick (Vocalion). I have this on a Japanese CD from 2007. Great music on this disc. Too bad it has had such poor distribution. It seems to be available on a new-ish reissue label called Monkey Dog Entertainment that doesn't appear to have survived long - 6 titles in 2017/18. This CD was from my last order from Hiroshi Tanno. I miss that guy.

Brad's Deals is not a retailer. It's one of those sites that collates sales pages from retail websites that they consider "deals".

The Gonsalves/Ashby session, issued in England & Denmark in 1961 as "Tenor Stuff", has never been issued in the US in any form. Is there a reason for this? It sounds like a session I'd like to hear.

I've never heard of this wine. By the name, i would guess that it was from an Australian wine company. I see that it's from Oregon. I don't think I've ever seen it on any shelves around here so maybe they are not distributed out this way?

I haven't played that one in a while. Great stuff. I've never seen that cover. I'm used to this one...

Pharoah Sanders - Crescent With Love (Evidence). Playing disc 1 now. The opening track could turn off some, as Sanders' take on 'Lonnie's Lament' is a very direct imitation of Trane's version, with William Henderson doing a superb imitation of McCoy as well. While I appreciate this, others will probably "Been there, done that" this type of approach. In context, as a ballad collection highlighting Coltrane tunes, I think it fits. And FWIW, I could also see someone thinking 2 CDs of ballads could get boring. But there is a time & place for discs like these and as I sit down to dinner with my wife, this time & this place is one of those. I'd also add that I appreciate that Evidence toned these Venus dates down for their CDs. Venus CDs are mastered really loud.

I have been playing the Cables CD a few times this past week and it is as advertised: Jazz for the cocktail hour. Nothing breaks the rules... just lightly swinging piano to sip a drink to. I also got the Barron disc (after two tries to get the package with the CD and not just the cookbook. This I like quite a bit.

I differ a bit with you on those Sanders recordings. I really like "Crescent With Love", a 2 CD release from Evidence that combines two Venus sessions ("Ballads With Love" & "Crescent With Love") into one package. I play these CDs quite often. I got to see this band live at the Regattabar shortly after these were released and thoroughly enjoyed the music. I do remember Pharoah giving the bassist a bit more solo space than I would have preferred. 10 minute bass solos might be fine for the leader but seemed a bit much for a Pharoah Sanders gig. You've just reminded me that I haven't pulled it off the shelf in a while.

I can't see it being any less sanitary than an ice cube tray. Does everyone sanitize their ice trays when they refill them? I'm guessing not.