Kevin Bresnahan

Shoot, that lineup has me looking up flights and hotels!

Due to a recommendation in another thread: The Jazz Couriers - Live In Morcombe 1959 – Tippin'

After all that David Newman talk these past few days: David Newman - Straight Ahead

Often found in the $1.00 bin at used record stores too. Some of my favorites...

Not sure what you mean. ABC always owned the label. This label: As opposed to this one:

Coleman Hawkins - Desafinado (Bossa Nova & Jazz Samba) - black label Impulse!/ABC with VAN GELDER in the deadwax. I don't find too many with this combination. Most ABC pressings are re-cuts.

Thanks for the recommendation. Kick ass Jazz here. $2.99 at Stereo Jack's - well spent. Norris Turney is pretty awesome on this, Worth the price of admission. Hell, so is Budd... so is Norman Simmons on piano. Nice swing-style Jazz. About the only downer here is the 70's bumble-bee bass sound. If you find this in a used bin a few bucks, grab it. You'll like it.

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 didn't realise this was uncommon, got mine for £8 - it arrived yesterday Finally got a copy in from a French eBay seller. $35 including shipping. The music's pretty good. The pianist is nice but the tenor player is a bit weak.

After moving tubes around per Lon's suggestion, I am beginning to suspect this spray might work. Did you spray into each hole in each socket with the straw attachment or do a more general spray of the socket? Is it more likely the power tubes or the other tubes? I used the little straw attachment and sprayed a little bit of DeoxIT into each socket pin hole and then "worked it in" by inserting and removing a tube a few times. My problem was with one of the output tube sockets but I cleaned all of them. As I understand it, the stuff won't hurt a working socket and can only help one that is marginal. Since I've done this, I haven't heard that faint crackly static since.

Dexter - Ca'Purange I had this on CD and it is a rarity - a Dexter CD that I dumped back in the day. I now remember why. The title track is pretty bad and the rest of the date is very sloppy. The ensembles are terrible. Bleah.

I had this problem and sprayed the sockets with some Caig DeoxIT Gold. Problem went away. Kevin

Coleman Hawkins - Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (Prestige dark blue label, VAN GELDER in the deadwax)

Branford Marsalis' latest (Record Store Day) release, "Four MFs Playin' Tunes"

It certainly gets my vote ! Not mine. I find this date boring and one of Joe Henderson's few bombs.

From the article: "Mr. Was has also initiated two new Blue Note reissue programs: a “Mastered for iTunes” series". :rfr

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