Kevin Bresnahan

Oliver Nelson - More Blues and the Abstract Truth Those two Ben Webster tracks make the session worth picking up.

My return visit after my trial period is in December. She had no openings before then. She doesn't do walk-ins either so I'm stuck playing with the settings on my own for now. But here's the thing. When you go to your optometrist, you get your eyeglass prescription, allowing you to go to any eyeglass maker for a pair of glasses. Why aren't hearing aids the same? Why is my audiologist able to hold onto my "prescription" for my ears? I'd really like to see what the corrected EQ is for my ears - if only so I know what I have been missing all these years and so that i know what to listen for with the hearing aids. Instead, I'm left guessing.

I have those 3 tracks on the Paul Chambers CD "Chambers' Music". So I guess maybe one or two tracks are missing from this unissued LP? Because the 3 issued tracks total 27 minutes.

Didn't Wilson sell the masters of the Transition label back in the 50's? Even if he kept this one, he's been gone since 1978 so if there were any tapes in his possession, you would think someone would have done something with them by now. Was the Pepper Adams session from TRLP8 ever released on another label?

I have the Oticon Companion app on my iPhone. It has a minimum ability to change my settings. Why would your audiologist advise against tweaking those settings? The audiologist merely facilitated me getting hearing aids and setting them up for the initial use. It's up to me to make them work in a way that is right for me. I am really not happy that I cannot tweak the EQ myself. As I said, my right ear has the highs boosted up too much to the point where I hear too much hash noise in that one ear. But I cannot permanently change that EQ setting to what is comfortable and what I can do, lowering the High setting, affects both ears. I imagine that part of the reason this bugs me so much is that I am an engineer & engineers in general want to tweak things to make them work right. I don't like the fact that there isn't even a way to switch to a mode in the app to allow that. This app is like "Hearing aids for dummies". I am not a dummy.

These Oticon haring aids have a customer replaceable domes and tips, which they call "wax guards". Swapping them seems pretty easy to do. They gave me a bunch of replacement domes & tips when I got the aids. So far, I am not at all pleased with Oticon's software. First off, these hearing aids are mine, not my audiologists, so why can't I 1) see my own hearing equalization, 2) have access to a finer adjustment for that equalization for each ear & 3) allow me to change the default/power on settings and save them to these hearing aids. Instead, All I can do is power them on and constantly change the settings to where I'm comfortable, which is a major pain in the ass. The worst thing about the EQ being applied across both aids is that my right ear has wickedly boosted high frequencies while my left is pretty good. When I lower the EQ of "High" (only 3 EQ levers Low, Mid & High), it lowers both ears when I really just want to lower the right one. Weirdly, they do allow volume changes for each ear. What's up with that?

The only reason those extra two tunes didn't make it was because of Michael Cuscuna didn't feel they were up to snuff. Considering how the current Blue Note is run, I would not be surprised to see that whole session released. If you really want to get it released, just point it out to Zev. He seems to be able to get this type of stuff released.

What his niece said was, "I checked with my cousin and if it’s a studio recording they don’t have it." This does seem to imply that there might be more live recordings. Maybe one of those "live" recordings is a mislabeled studio date?

Unreleased bootleg material from Lee Morgan with a one-off band? I'll pass. I didn't even keep that live bootleg from Fresh Sound that claimed to be from the Lighthouse because the sound was terrible. Plus, I already have "Sonic Boom" on CD & vinyl. No need for this new pressing in my mind. Though I'm still not a fan of that LT cover.

Sorry to say, but Patty Migliori's niece & nephew say that they have not found any more studio recordings of their uncle. So if this tape was given to Jay, he didn't keep it anywhere with the rest of his tapes.

Day one with my new Oticon hearings aids. My right ear has an almost constant whoosh/hiss because they had to boost the high frequencies so much. I have to turn that ear down a lot so that it isn't the only thing I hear. They come with a pre-programmed "Music Mode" that actually makes the music sound worse. Let's see how this goes. I have a 30 day trial period now.

I just realized that it's almost 30 years ago that he died. Time sure does fly.

I'm still waiting to hear back (again) from Jay's niece. She has replied a few times via Facebook but has gone silent.

Dan has posted pictures of some damage to his barn on Facebook but other than that, he sounds like he weathered it ok. He says, “Horses and people ok”.

WCVB out of Boston has this on their weather page: A storm surge of 10-15' is possibly around Tampa Bay south to Fort Myers. If it hits Tampa it will be the worst storm to hit there in the past 100 years. Edit to add: The right side of the track is typically where find the strongest winds. On the left side its the torrential rains. Over a foot is possible. Tornadoes are also likely when a hurricane moves inland.

Not trying to be an alarmist, but I've read a couple of reports that say that Milton strengthening so far off shore with the expectation that it would weaken before it makes land is much worse, because it causes the hurricane to widen dramatically and intensifies the storm surge, which makes Tampa Bay very vulnerable. I've read one report that said that over 50% of Tampa Bay is less than 10 feet above sea level. Tampa Bay could be in serious trouble.

I know about 3 people that are going through it again right now. It's still a problem but just not as deadly a problem. I'll be getting another booster in a few weeks as they roll them out with the latest variants covered.

Funny... if this was released on one of Boris Rose's LPs, you couldn't sell it on discogs. But when Jordi puts it out on Fresh Sounds, it's fine. Still a bootleg. 1981 is way way out of the public domain is Spain, where this CD set was released. Too bad Sal's family couldn't get a cut of this. They could probably use it.

While still a fun night of bari sax, I was pretty bummed out that both Charlie Kohlhase & Allan Chase came down with Covid and couldn't make the gig. Get well soon guys. I was also a bit saddened to learn that Claire Daly couldn't make it because she is in the middle of a new treatment for her cancer. Today is Bandcamp Friday - if you like bari sax, go check out Claire Daly's music there and buy something to try and throw a little love her way.

Eddie Higgins - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Venus). Higgins in a quartet with Scott Hamilton. Beautiful playing all around.

I would not enjoy this live at all. To my ears, this is not enjoyable. https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glass-triangle FWIW, I was playing this and my wife asked what the hell was playing. "That's terrible," sayeth the wife.

Must be me, but "chaos" & music don't seem to fit together.

I've had this CD for years and always enjoyed it. I think I bought it because it said that Perkins played baritone on it and I almost always buy something with a bari on it. Turns out that he only plays the bari on two tunes, and one, 'Groover Wailin'', is one of the songs where Feldman plays some sort of organ that sounds weird to me. I'm not keen on it.

I'm going to leave this thread up here for one more day before I close it & move it over to the Steve Hoffman forums. I'm pretty surprised that I didn't get much interest here. I hope I get more interest over there. This was the first selloff of what I was hoping would be a clearing out of a bunch of CDs in my racks so I'm now wondering if there is any market out there.