Kevin Bresnahan

I remember finding this in a used bin, seeing "Coleman Hawkins", and that was that. I agree that it's a great, swinging date and that Hawk is in top form. Not Smokin', but definitely swingin'.

If they did, it wouldn't matter much. Clearly, they dislike this type of jazz as a rule, and give out ratings for it based on the wrong criteria. I'd agree with that John, except for the fact that they seem to like the sessions when they're listed as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin. The three titles listed under Eddie's name get 4, 3 1/2 and 3 1/2 stars. Flip to the two titles listed under Johnny's name, "Lookin' At Monk" and " Tough Tenor Favorites", and the ratings drop to 2 1/2 each. Do they jusy not like Griff? Later, Kevin

You want to know something? I almost didn't buy this because Morton & Cook bashed it in the Penguin guide. They gave it something like 2 1/2 stars and dinged for Griff & Lock going all out on every tune. Imagine my surprise when I played it and found two ballads and 3 other tunes taken at the same tempo Monk used! There is only one screamer, and that was the opening tune. Did the Penguin guys even listen to this CD?

I just picked up "Lookin' At Monk" from Hiroshi. It was just reissued in that very inexperience series last month. Even with shipping, it's around $10. The sound is very good too.

Oh I like this one: Mr. White Chocolate Kevin Flash

I would have bought a lot more of these, but the prices were all over the map. When I first saw them (Tower Records maybe?), they were mid-line priced. Maybe $11.99? I bought a bunch. The next time I saw them, they were stickered "IMPORT" and had $15-20 price tags. I actually bought a whole bunch of the mini-LP versions from Berkshire Record Outlet for around $6 each. I think the mini-LP versions sound pretty nice too and even better, many included extra tracks not found on the jewel-cased versions.

I don't know specifically about "The Jody Grind", but the Japanese master tape of "Sweet Honey Bee" is identical to the US master, clicks and all. When BN decided to do "Sweet Honey Bee" in the US RVG series, I told Cuscuna he had to get the Japanese master because everyone said it had no clicks. Maybe it wasn't a needle drop? Well, according to Cuscuna, whoever did the mastering in Japan for their CD releases cleaned up the clicks. They were there. I assume this would be the same for "The Jody Grind". FWIW, the needle drops are in the BN vaults and apprently have been for decades. I believe the Japanese masters were created in the late 70s-early 80s. If the Japanese dupes have the clicks, the switch had already been made. Later, Kevin

I actually won't mind meeting Chris over on those SH forums. Some of his more obvious methods of dissing people, like intentionally mangling their name, wouldn't be allowed over there. It is good to hear Chris talk about his experiences as a Riverside employee and not about his animosity towards... well... many people. I hope he sticks around there even though politics is verbotim.

I once asked Michael Cuscuna about this. He said Blue Note was very good at documenting their recording sessions. I am pretty sure that it's been determined that "Thinking of Home" was the Blue Note Session Hank was talking about. He mentioned a guitar player and a suite. "Thinking of Home" has both. He said it wasn't released and that was true at the time. What's even weirder is that Hank isn't the only one feels there's a missing session. Guitarist Eddie Diehl remembers another session too. I was once contacted by someone who knew Eddie and he says that Eddie claims, like Hank, that there was another Blue Note session out there. Michael & I talked about this too and he figures both of them must be talking about "Thinking Of Home". I E-mailed the guy asking him to see if Diehl knew about the release of "Thinking of Home", but I never heard back from him. It may simply be that neither of them knew that Blue Note did actually release "Thinking of Home" in 1980, 10 years after they recorded it. If it isn't "Thinking of Home", Blue Note doesn't have it in their records.

But what do you do when you have every session he ever played on? Oh wait, I still haven't picked up that Archie Shepp date. Ha, I'm still not there yet.

Well now I'm really stumped! Peter, most volume controls are variable resistors. If these installers put pots (potentiometers) in series with every pair of speakers, they help increase the total impedance, but they also add noise. So, they did something right, but the resulting audio could be compromised. However, there is probably just as much noise added by a speaker selector box as most of them rely on resistive loading. As I said, it's been years since I've looked into a speaker selector box, but in researching the Outlaw Audio RR-2150, it has the ability to drive two pairs right out of the box and if you add another amp with a Y-adaptor on the pre-out jacks, you could add the others with no resistive loading. In your situation, that's what I'd do, but truth be told, I'm a bit anal about this stuff. I like the cleanest solution. FWIW, my current receiver is a Rotel 1055. If this were to croak tomorrow, I think I'd be buying an Outlaw Audio 1070 receiver. I like the company and their products seem to sound good and perform reliably. And this is even considering that I get Denon gear at a steep discount.

How do you "run 5 pairs"? Do you simply twist all 5 wires together and stick them into one terminal or do you run the + to speaker 1 and the - of speaker 1 to the + of speaker 2 etc? If you want to do a set-up like that right, you should look into a speaker switch box. It's been years since I looked into one, but Niles used to make a decent, inexpensive speaker box. If you're going to drive 5 parallel pairs of speakers out of an amp designed to drive 2, don't be surprised if it fries. If you've been doing that for 15 years with your NAD, it definitely makes sense to bring that amp into a service shop and get it fixed. It's a good one. The pairs of wires are twisted together. This was all professionally installed by Audio Emporium, THE high end audio store in the Milwaukee area. Peter, by capitalizing "THE", I assume you are implying that they are the best and wouldn't do something wrong. I would disagree. I bet if you read any amplifier owner's manual, it would not recommend this at all. Most amplfiers have been designed to drive a minimum of 4 Ohms. I would never do this. I should think that Audio Emporium should not have either. They should have recommended a speaker selector box. Maybe they didn't sell one so they ignored your problem?

How do you "run 5 pairs"? Do you simply twist all 5 wires together and stick them into one terminal or do you run the + to speaker 1 and the - of speaker 1 to the + of speaker 2 etc? If you want to do a set-up like that right, you should look into a speaker switch box. It's been years since I looked into one, but Niles used to make a decent, inexpensive speaker box. If you're going to drive 5 parallel pairs of speakers out of an amp designed to drive 2, don't be surprised if it fries. If you've been doing that for 15 years with your NAD, it definitely makes sense to bring that amp into a service shop and get it fixed. It's a good one.

Peter, I asked above but it's key to know if you plan to drive all of those speakers at the same time. The load all of those speakers would present is very low unless you have some of the wired in series and some in parallel. However, I have never been a fan of speakers connected in series. There is noise added by each speaker in the chain. Kevin

In the liner notes, I believe Shew talks about why he chose to do this record. I believe he says that he used to play in salsa bands in the New Mexico area and that he never lost his love of it. This is a really good CD. I believe it's been out of print for a long time so it may not be easy to find. FWIW, it's encoded with HDCD which may be part of the reason why it sounds so good. It's an audiophile recording. The brass is bright & edgy but not painfully harsh. If you play it back loud, it screams. I always crank this one up when I spin it, so obviously I don't spin it when the wife is home.

Two sides is correct. Belechick's side from a Boston Globe interview: http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patr..._on_2006_season Asked about the scene after the game, when it appeared he brushed off Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, Belichick said: "I talked to Tony [Dungy] after the game and congratulated him. Peyton, I didn't see, he kind of grabbed me, it all happened really fast. I saw Tony, I saw Adam [Vinatieri], wished him well. Saw [Dan] Klecko, wished him well. Ask any of them what happened after the game." As for the team's postgame celebration in San Diego that drew the wrath of Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson, Belichick said: "In San Diego, I honestly didn't see what happened. I had seen some clips after the game, but still don't know what happened. They show LaDainian coming in and Reche [Caldwell] is there, he pulls him in. I didn't see it. I still don't know what happened."

Another reason to go with a "vintage" amp. The aforementioned Sansui has both MC and MM phono stages. BTW it sold for $800 new in 1979. If you don't want to go vintage, Denon's and Outlaw's two-channel receivers have phono inputs. Peter, if you're considering vintage gear, why not just bring your old NAD into the shop for a tune up?

I've used Audacity (from www.download.com) for years. It's great and it's free. Chops up .wav or .mp3 files. I used it to make ring tones for my cell.

This Verizon FIOS screeeeeeeeeeeeeeams! They offered it to me to replace my DSL and at first I said no, because DSL was fast enough and the lowest-price FIOS plan was $20 more. Then, they offered a 5 Mbps down/2 Mbps up plan for $5 more than my DSL plan. Hey, $5 to eliminate the crappy audio on my landline telephones and increase my speed by 5X? Why not? Now if they'd only offer me FIOS-TV. I'd love to tell Comcrap to stick it. Kevin

An eBay seller who was "backordered"?? That's bogus. Was the seller caiman? An eBay seller should not be able to "sell" something not in his hands.

All at once? I hope you're using a good speaker box! The Polks alone would load your amp down with a 2.7 Ohm load. Add in the other two, and you're talking a 1.6 Ohm load (assuming all of the speakers are 8 Ohm). Most amps would burn out driving a 1.6 Ohm load. Assuming you have a good speaker selector box, if you're looking for good, two-channel receivers, try Denon, Onkyo or Outlaw Audio. The Outlaw Audio is a nice unit.

If you actually buy a Mosaic, buy the Johnny Hodges. Great, great set with lots of unissued material. You should appreciate more than the Bird set, especially since it doesn't have any 23 second tracks.

The one that sticks in my mind was Jimmy Smith's "Cool Blues". I read the Penguin review and I just had to have it. OOP! Ahh. I searched the used bins for several years and finally found a copy at some on-line shop in Florida. I paid almost $30, which I thought was a steal. It came in and I put it on. Good stuff. Nice Tina Brooks. When it was done, I thought to myself, "Hell, 'The Sermon' is better than this".

Some of the earlier CDs from Japan sound pretty good. Many are flat transfers of the master with no EQ and almost all of them were mastered at a much lower level than anything done later. In this list, I could see wanting to check out the old Impulse! CDs but those old Columbia/CBS/Sony Miles discs? Yuck. Older CBS masterings almost always sound harsh & tinny to me.

I've been meaning to get that one. I wouldn't wait too long. I think it's been oop for quite a few years now. It isn't hard to find now but it may start disappearing, especially if enough people reading this thread start looking for it.