Kevin Bresnahan

They signed him to their last open roster slot as an undrafted free agent. Quite a classy move by Schiano and the Buccaneers.

They ran out of stereo outer sleeves, grabbed a stack on mono ones and used the stickers. It's not that unusual and I wouldn't expect it to fetch a premium (unless they accidentally put a mono LP in there). You see this all the time with Impulse! LPs. On the Impulse! jackets, they stick out like a sore thumb on the glossy cover and the sticker size & font doesn't even match the cover. See:

Hank is quite the quote master on this live date, quoting tunes left and right in his solos, far more often than I can remember in any other recording. And I agree on the piano sound. Poor Walter Davis Jr. It sounds like a badly tuned upright.

Ben Webster Meets Don Byas (BASF). Kinda sucky pressing. Is the Prestige version of this date any better? This pressing is all crackles & pops, even though it looks mint.

Horace Silver - Silver's Serenade. A very nice blue label LP with VAN GELDER in the dead wax that I found in Bull Moose Music in Portsmouth, NH for $12. I'd never seen used Blue Notes in there before. Glad I looked.

Pepper Adams - The Master (Muse) Up next: Sonny Stitt - Soul People (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). I love this date on CD. Booker Ervin is smokin'.

Yusef Lateef - A Flat, G Flat and C (VAN GELDER in the deadwax). Good stuff except the flute track where Yusef's deep gasps between runs are audible and somewhat distracting.

Personally, I have never had any luck with Logitech proucts, particularly their keyboards. However, if keys are repeating, you may have "sticky keys" accidentally turned on. I have never understood why anyone would want this feature but it comes with Windows and can turn itself on of you accidentally hold down a few keys too long.

Tuesday night at Jocko's Jazz Night At The Sahara in Methuen, NA, I saw Italian trumpeter Cicci Santucci play beautifully in a quartet setting. For a 73 year old trumpeter, he still blows pretty hard and gave us a demonstration of swing-style trumpet that had me tapping my foot like crazy. Before and after the set, his wife was selling some of his CDs. Several of them on Italian labels I've never heard of. I grabbed two of them, one because it was one of Romano Mussolini's last dates (yes, the son of *that* Mussolini). I gather from what I read that Romano was quite a good pianist. Kevin

Record Store Day buys... Pete Townshend - Quadrophenia Demos Vol. 1 & 2

Yeah, if you want to listen to the music on your iPod at the gym. Besides, you can only rip the CD layer but both layers on these AP/Blue Note discs are at a very low level.

And I think the only reason these SACDs do have the bonus tracks is because we made our opinion known on the Steve Hoffman forums. I bet that if we hadn't bitched loud & clear, they would have cut off those extra tracks which would have been a crime (especially) on Grant Green's "Idle Moments". My biggest complaint about the AP/Blue Note SACDs is that they are at a very low level. Not a problem if you have a volume control but a PIA if you rip them to mp3 and put them in a shuffle playlist. Combine these SACDs with Venus CDs and you have a dynamic range nightmare! BTW, if you have the early 90s TOCJ CD, save yourself some money. They sound very good compared to the SACDs. The SACDs sound a bit better but not night & day.

Andrew Hill - Grass Roots (Van Gelder in the dead wax) That went by fast. Continuing with Booker Booker Ervin - That's It (Barnaby pressing)

Just finsished: Jane Ira Bloom - Mighty Lights Now playing: Coleman Hawkins - Blues Groove (actually led by Tiny Grimes). One of Prestige's "Elecronically remastered for stereo" which actually doesn't sound too far from the original mono, unlike many of the horrible Blue Note LPs where this was attempted.

I can't wait to see the June show. I'll probably have 4-6 people from my work going since I've been talking it up so much. I am so looking forward to hearing Billy blow on 'Free For All'.

Ravi Coltrane playing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston tonight. Tomorrow they have James Carter. Next week, it's Jane Bunnett. Busy week!

The contract wasn't screwy, it was very, very old. I know someone who worked at One Way Records (who legitimately re-issued Wayne Shorter's "Moto Grosso Feio") and Applause tried to sell the this "contract". Their reasoning for its legitimacy was that there was no expiration date. Whoever had (has?) the contract is acting like they have a license for these titles in perpetuity. My buddy told me the contract (today) isn't worth the value of the ink on the paper.

Duke Pearson - Prairie Dog (orig mono)

Sahib Shihab - Summer Dawn (1984 reissue)

Damn! The reschedule was a terrible no-show. You know, now that I think about it more, the rescheduled show may have happened but I couldn't make it so it turned out to be a "no show" for me. However, I never did get to see Jaki perform as he died before coming back into Boston again. I'm still bummed out about that power outage to this day. We tried to talk the Regattabar to let them play acoustic but management said that it would violate their liability insurance policies.

Not a "no show" per se, but the result was no show, so I guess it counts... I went to see Jaki Byard and Michael Marcus in a duo performance at the Regattabar in Cambridge. There was a massive power outage so they postponed the show. Jaki was murdered before the rescheduled show.

Just finished - John Lennon - Shaved Fish Up now: Sonny Stitt & Paul Gonsalves - Salt & Pepper (Impulse!)

Where? The usual places don't have them listed.

Joe Henderson - An Evening With Joe Henderson (Red)

Louis Smith - Just Friends (Steeplechase) 1978 EDIT: For such a nice looking record, it sure plays with a lot of rice crispies. How can such a nice looking record play so badly? It's records like this that give vinyl a bad rep.