Kevin Bresnahan

It looks like we just got updated to 3.3.4. It looks very different. I'll have to get used to this. Kevin

I just got the E-mail announcing this new LP set and I see that this one is limited to 2,500 copies. The other Mosaic Singles 4 LP sets were all limited to 5,000 copies.

Pete LaRoca - Tribute concert Dear Jazz musicians and fans, I have the sad task of informing the Jazz community that Pete (LaRoca) Sims is gravely ill at Kateri Residence on the Upper West Side. He is suffering from advanced lung cancer. The family is organizing a Tribute Concert on his behalf, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 29th 8 pm at St. Peter's Church, 54th & Lexington Ave. If you are interested in playing at the event, kindly contact: Randa Kirshbaum h 212 866 2204 c 646 596 0231 randafay212@gmail.com

Manny Albam - Solid State Soul Of The City (original Soild State heavy vinyl) I bought this because many years ago I picked up a copy of "Something New Something Blue" on Columbia which had some of Albam's work on it that I really liked. This isn't as good as that date.

Bobby Hutcherson - San Francisco featuring Harold Land (UA Van Gelder pressing). First time I've heard this. Eh. Although Hutch and Harold play their asses off, it isn't doing much for me. The funk/trippy beats are pretty dated.

The Beatles - Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (late 70's two box UK pressing) I have slowly converted most of my Beatles vinyl over to UK vinyl. Sadly, they're almost universally better than equivalent US pressings. As an added bonus, many of them have extra tracks.

I ordered it. It's supposed to ship in a few weeks. I have the Stan Getz set and it sounds fine. I assume that this one will be too. I've never heard of the mastering engineer. Hopefully he doesn't futz with the EQ too much. I was just told that my Monk set (ordered in early February) will also ship soon. Apparently RTI is backed up.

Those are the real covers. No idea why Mosaic chose to call them "Singles" either. They should be "LP Selects".

I find it strange that they have introduced and are shipping a new LP box set when they still haven't shipped "The Complete Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club" set that I ordered on February 2, 2012! :lol:

What does this mean? 'Wally' Traugott - who mastered the Blue Note vinyl in the 90's (from the digital files acccording to info at the Hoffman forums). Stop And Listen - 'Wally', $25 near mint Stop And Listen - ' RVG', $500 near mint it's the monetisation of vinyl Nobody on the Hoffman forums knows if this was cut from digital files or not. From what I was told the first or maybe the first & second batches of Connoisseur LPs were *probably* cut from a digital master. However, they switched to all analog somewhere along the way. I was never able to get the breakdown. I like the sound from these Wally cut LPs. FWIW, Wally is etched in deadwax going back for years. Wally cuts are the best sounding Bob Seger LPs too. Pre 1977 Wally Post 1977 Wally

John Lewis - 2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West (Pacific Jazz King Records Japanese pressing)

I imagine the model number is actually DM602. The DM602 is a larger, ported bookshelf speaker. Depending on when he bought them, they could be DM602, DM602 S2 or DM602 S3 (series 2 & series 3). They are pretty good speakers but are a bit bass shy, even with the port. However, I find that B&W speakers are the best speakers out there for acoustic bass, making them perfect for Jazz. You just won't be cranking that bass out of these at any volume. I have an entire home theater set-up with B&W 600 Series 3 speakers, I have DM603 S3's for the front L&R, an LCR600 S3 for a center and DM601 S3's for the surround L&R. They sound very good. I can recommend DM602 S3's but I don't know about S2's or the originals. Kevin

Buddy Tate - Groovin' With Buddy Tate (original Moodsville).

Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt with Brother Jack McDuff - Soul Summit (green label Prestige with RVG side 2). It's funny to read Bob Porter's 1966 liner notes where he spends most of the time saying that a blowing session with Ammons & Stitt is somehow better than anyone else's when in reality, it isn't. Pretty much just a plain ol' jam session. LP was stored in a basement too. Musty basement smell that just won't go away. BTW, Ray Baretto goes uncredited on this reissue. Was he credited on the original?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/hurricane-sandy-strikes-east-coast-gallery-1.1194577 50 people dead (so far). Nowhere near Katrina numbers but still pretty bad.

I am pretty sure I have all of Hank Mobley's commercially released recordings with the exception of Archie Shepp's "Yasmina, a Black Woman", which I never got around to getting and don't seem to miss yet.

Harry Allen will be playing in a quartet setting at the Sahara Jazz Club in Methuen, MA tonight. This will be the 5th or 6th time I've caught Harry at this out-of-way little club and I've had a great time at every show. You can't go wrong for $10. Kevin

Pianist Ray Santisi is playing at the Sahara Jazz Club in Methuen, MA tonight. I want to go, after all, how many more chances do you get to see someone who played with Charlie Parker perform? Unfortunately, the last time I saw Ray (with Charlie Mariano in Cambridge), he was pretty bad, playing some sort of "doo wah" setting on his electric piano.

I got in 7 of these CDs yesterday and I've been spending some time comparing a few. One of the first ones I popped for comparison was Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues", one of my favorite Jimmy Smith dates. Surprisingly, the RVG CD holds up better than I thought it would have. The RVG is a bit louder and it's definitely EQ'ed up on the high end. Whether this is better for your ears or not may have a lot to do with your age. The last time I listened to the RVG CD, I thought it sounded brash with too much high end. Maybe it's this cold I have or maybe my ears are starting to fail me, but the RVG CD sounded a bit more detailed. However, you really can't turn up the RVG CD. It hurts at volume. Not so with the LT CD. The other two that I have been able to compare are two of Stan Turrentine's sessions that are found in the Mosaic box, "In Memory Of" & "Mr. Natural". Both of these sounded better on the new Japanese LT CD. A bit softer but again, much better at volume. Lots of midrange on Ron McMaster's Mosaic CDs that makes the studio echo much more pronounced and a lot less bass. I get a lot less fatigued listening to the Japanese masterings than Ron's Mosaic masterings. So far, these new LT CDs from Japan are typical of Japanese-mastered Blue Notes - faithful to the original LP sound with maybe a bit of bass EQ to warm it up. I am not disappointed. Kevin

My order of 7 of the new LT CDs from Japan came in and it included Dexter Gordon's "Landslide". As I type this, I'm spinning it. It sounds very nice. It isn't as "in your face" as many of today's CD reissues, which helps a lot with the cymbals. In fact, it sounds just a bit muted almost like one Ron McMaster's old CDs. There's seems to be very little EQ at all. Flat transfer of the master tape maybe? Kevin

The plural of vinyl is vinyl. The plural of LP is LPs.

Art Blakey - "Child's Dance". Green label Prestige with RVG in the deadwax that looks mint but plays with snap, crackle & pop throughout. Good thing it was cheap. Edit: It has to be mentioned how crappy the bass is on this LP. "Bumble bee bass" is being kind.

I'm surprised that they didn't add the two Blue Mitchell dates that were excluded from the Mosaic box, "Collision in Black" & "Bantu Village".

I wonder if the band was playing "Out Of Nowhere"?

Now we know why he slept through the rest of the concert.