Kevin Bresnahan

Cannonball Adderley - And The Poll Winners (original Riverside pressing)

My favorite LP: Hank Mobley - Soul Station (King pressing)

I imagine recovery from a major surgery like a hip replacement is very difficult for a 79 old. Just like everything else when you get older, it takes a lot longer to heal.

Selling used vinyl on line is very tricky, particularly if it's not "Mint". I rarely do it because the only safe way to grade them is by playing them. Otherwise, you run the risk that someone won't like the way your visually-graded "very good" sounds on his deck and you have to start issuing refunds. BTW, the common stuff you find at Goodwill are a dime a dozen and it's doubtful that anyone is going to buy this stuff from you on line, especially if they're beat up.

Well, they did... I don't believe it said that back in February. In fact, Scott told me I shouldn't have been able to order it during the "Free shipping" sale because it was on backorder but he looked it up and my order was in the system. If the website had said "This set is currently on backorder", I wouldn't have even wondered where it was. I would've just waited it out. But wow! 9-10 months to get it back in stock? Are things that bad out there? Should I expect that I won't even get it if they don't get enough orders to justify another press run?

Back during this sale, I ordered the Thelonious Monk "Complete Live At The It Club" vinyl box. Today, I got to thinking... where the heck is it? It's been a month. So I called Mosaic. Turns out it's on backorder. No problem. They expect it back in stock by the end of this year.

In my neck of the woods, sometimes the 7th series didn't even make it to all of the stores. I distinctly remember 1970. Rico Petrocelli was my favorite player and in 1970, his card slipped into the 7th series. I went to the W.T. Grants department store in downtown Holyoke, the only place in town that had 7th series packs, and bought a whole bunch of packs just to get Rico. I got a lot of other hard to find cards because of that. We sold all our cards decades ago, but I still have that 1970 Rico card.

I just had some bad luck with grading from Dusty. An LP they graded as "Very Good" came in with both sides having rice crispies throughout & had several large, visible scratches that showed up as clicks and pops, some of them very heavy. I'll be a little less likely to use them for used vinyl in the future. I've had better luck with Euclid. Let me know if you want to sell it someday.

not your average Pepper Adams session, pretty energetic with Altschul moving things round nicely. Pianist Siegfried Kessler is excellent I've been trying to find an affordable copy of this LP for years and years. They rarely show up, especially on this side of the pond.

I have a Grado model SR80 at home and while it sounds fine, it is very uncomfortable. Then I had to replace the foam ear cups. I went with yellow replacements that are actually for Sennheiser headphones to see if these pads would improve the comfort. Result - much more comfortable. Anyone that has Grado SR60 or SR80 and isn't comfortable, try a pair of these (cheap) Sennheiser replacement pads. You may be very happy. At work, I used to use Sennheiser's HD201 because it was recommended by a lot of users on head-fi.org but I thought this headphone was pretty terrible sounding and extremely uncomfortable. Since I get a great deals on Denon products, I ordered Denon's AH-D1001. This headphone is very comfortable and better yet, sounds very nice. I might even prefer the sound to the sound from the SR80 cans but I've never compared the two "head to head". Kevin

Just finished - Buck Clayton "The Huckle Buck & Robbins Nest". 6 eye mono that I picked up at Jacks today. Now playing: The Cats (dark blue Prestige label with RVG in the deadwax). Sounds great.

C'mon, we know what's going to happen. The commissioner (an avid Jets fan) is going to take away their 1st round draft pick in the upcoming draft. What? The Saints traded that to the Patriots? So what. We're still taking it away.

There was an interview with Benny a few years back and it stated that Benny has been able to live pretty well off of the royalties of his compositions. I forget where it was but I was happy to read that. It was a far cry from what others told me about getting paid for recording for Blue Note.

Donald Byrd - Fuego

Bobby Hutcherson - Dialogue up next: Freddie Hubbard - Blue Spirits

Art Blakey - Roots And Herbs

For some weird reason, I read this title as "Feces" at first!

My uncle took out a Craig's List ad to give away a dog he inherited when a neighbor died. Some guys from the next town over showed up to take him but my uncle got a bad vibe from them so he told them no. He found out later that these guys take these dogs and use them to train fighting dogs. They're basically used for live combat training to give their dogs the taste of blood. There are some sickos out there.

When I was a kid, my mom used to make me peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. They were great. The saltiness of the bacon complemented the saltiness of the peanut butter.

Damn, you beat me to it! Keith Jarrett whines. Errol Garner and Junior Mance are the grunters.

Was it live or was it Memorex?

A pressed CD, like the one you buy in a store, is made of hard plastic that's coated with a thin layer of aluminum. Unless you've somehow entered the Twilight Zone where plastic and aluminum are magnetic, there is no way any kind of magnetic storm could erase the information embedded there. I don't see a "smiley" so I have to assume you're serious here. Really? The only way a magnet could "wipe out a cd" is if you scratched it over the label side to the point where you scratched off the metal layer. There is nothing in a CD that can be magnetized. Geek addendum: Maybe you're confusing a pressed CD with a CD-RW? CD-RW technology works with a combination of magnetism and laser light. A small magnetic field is applied to the CD-RW to make the reflective layer pliant so the laser can deform the layer, making 1's & 0's. I imagine that a strong magnet *might* cause some of these little bumps to flatten, but I have never heard of it. Simply having a magnetic field in the absence of a laser should not be enough to erase even a CR-RW disc.

I understand your preference for analog LP. I do. In fact, for the fun of it, I've been buying more & more vinyl. But please stop with this whole "CD only gives a sample of the music" stuff. It's flat-out wrong. It's just the latest CD debunking theory making the rounds of the internet. If you take an LP and record its output into an analyzer and simultaneously record it to a CD-R, when you compare the analog output of the CD-R's playback to the analog from the LP, from 20-22,000 Hz, it will match perfectly. The sampling rate is good enough for 20-22,000 Hz. Nyquist's Theorem has been proven many times. I've been able to fool those who insist that "CDs suck" by simply playing a CD-R of an LP and comparing it to the CD. The surface noise identifies the "LP" to their ears. For it's ardent fans, it's all about the ambient sounds in LP playback. A CD-R of an LP can and will sound identical to the LP. Bad sounding CDs are usually because of bad mastering. What's on the CD is what the mastering engineer wanted on there. If they wanted to boost the highs, the highs are boosted. If they wanted to crank up the levels, the levels are cranked. If they want to make a near-perfect flat transfer of the master tape at a listenable level, they can do that too. If they want the CD to sound exactly like the LP version, they *have* to create that CD from the LP because it's the only way to get those ambient sounds onto a CD.

Red Garland "Soul Junction" dark blue label with RVG in the deadwax.

Curtis Counce - You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce (Analogue Productions Revival Series) 180 gram pressing Sounds great and such a beautiful LP cover. One of my favorites.