Kevin Bresnahan

Dexter Gordon - Biting The Apple (Inner City). Like the Art Tatum Pablo LP that I played the other night, this is one where the CD kills the LP. I don't know if the Steeplechase LP is better, but this one isn't that great.

After Sweet Papa Lou, I switched over to a late reissue of a favoite of mine: The Tatum Group Masterpieces - Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Red Callender & Bill Douglas. Anyone that claims that vinyl is always better than CD just needs to plop this on their turntable. The CD versions blow this right out of the water. This recoed is pretty dull and lacking in any high end, Noise reduction? Kevin

Lou Donaldson - Lou Takes Off. A Classic Records stereo pressing. Bernie Grundman did a nice job on these.

Just finishing: Gene Ammons - The Soulful Moods Of Gene Ammons. Van Gelder in the deadwax. Nice date. Up next: Joe Zawinul - Money in the Pocket. Nice purple & red label mono pressing. I heard this at Stereo Jack's and bought it after it finished playing.

Were you able to figure out which tube was making the crackly noise? Does it come from both speakers? If so, check the pre-amp & driver tubes. If it comes from one speaker, check the output tubes on that side. If you wiggle a tube, can you hear the noise? Try to localize it. It may be a tube but it could be a bad socket. BTW, what kind of amp is it? What type of tubes does it use? Do you use NOS or new tubes? How old is the amp and/or tubes? Kevin

A Marley related story... I was in my skin doctor's office this week for my annual checkup and he had me take off my socks so he could check my feet. As he checked them, he said, "You know, Bob Marley died from skin cancer that started on the bottom of a foot". I told him that I thought it was his big toe.

Just finishing: Duke Ellinngton - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins Up next: Joe Henderson - In 'N Out. Nice blue label Van Gelder pressing.

Horace Silver - The Jody Grind. A nice original Van Gelder pressing. Since the master is a needle drop, I guess I have a copy of the master tape.

Hank Mobley - Hi Voltage

From what I have heard, only Grant Green is truly "on" for these sessions. The rest of the band has some trouble. Good, but not great and I can see why Blue Note didn't issue it. So what status and purpose do these original tapes serve now if they will never see the light of day. If Lion and Quebec deemed them rejected at the time, why were the session tapes not destroyed instead of being archived for all these years? To give us something to complain about. Actually, I'd rather them be stored than destroyed like the tapes from Horace Silver's "Live At Pep's" recording session.

George Coleman - Amsterdam After Dark (Timeless)

Never heard before... truth be told, I avoided it, assuming I wouldn't like it much. Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (CTI) VAN GELDER in the deadwax. First VAN GELDER CTI LP I've picked up that didn't have rice crispies. I'm happy. Nice date. I wonder why I was worried about it?

From what I have heard, only Grant Green is truly "on" for these sessions. The rest of the band has some trouble. Good, but not great and I can see why Blue Note didn't issue it.

My problem with these fantasy dinner lists is that I can't get past the fact that most of these older black men would probably not want anything to do with sharing a dinner table with this pasty-white freckle-faced Irish American.

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