Kevin Bresnahan

I never got to hear him either. I'm surprised to read Gheorghe's glowing reviews of his live performances as I was told by someone who saw him later in life and they said that every time they saw him, he seemed drunk and was not playing very well.

You seem to miss the obvious reason that cabbies prefer cash. It's pretty much impossible to avoid paying income taxes on a credit card tip.

I managed to find the postcard Billy sent me to thank me for donating to the funds collected to help him with his medical bills. USPS, written checks and thank you postcards... so different from today's Go Fund Me world.

The movie in question can be viewed here: which I learned about from this post by my Facebook friend Jason Rubin, who also mentions a CD recorded during the last few blues weekends.

From Ron... I am currently on a tour that began as The Golden Striker Trio, consisting of Russell Malone, Donald Vega, and Yours Truly. On the 23rd Mr. Malone suffered a heart attack upon completion of our performance at Blue Note Tokyo. Donald Vega and I are completing this tour as a duo … in respect and honor of the memory Mr. Malone … this chair represents his presence. I will issue a statement in the coming weeks, when I can find the words, and I hope our musical community at large, and the individuals contacting me for commentary in articles, understand that I need this time. Ron Carter

I always meant to pick up that Kuhn/Lovano disc but never did get around to it. I haven't seen Joe perform in a long time. The last two times he was with Dave Douglas & the Soundprints band & I didn't enjoy that band's performance as much as I thought I would. They seemed to meander a bit. Since he's getting up there a bit (he'll be 72 this year), I hope he keeps touring. These days, I find myself playing those old Motian JMT CDs with Lovano more than his leader dates.

This is shocking. I was just talking with him in April at Birdland. He had lost a lot of weight and looking great.

I never understood why anyone would get an AMEX card. I always called it the "Wimpy card" because it allowed you to pay for a hamburger on Tuesday that you got today.

For the longest time, credit card companies made businesses sign a contract stating that they could not charge their customers that fee. In fact, they used to pull the ability to accept credit cards if a business charged it. I don't know what happened to make these credit card companies change this policy. It will drive their customers to switch to cash, which is not good for them. If they want to keep their credit card customers, they really should reconsider this change.

I still don't get why Craft reissued this Volume on LP instead of one of the other volumes. Analogue Productions released this volume on LP in 1996 and it sounds incredible. I have no desire to replace that LP in my collection.

Young Men From Memphis - Down Home Reunion (United Artists).

Conrad Herwig - The Latin Side Of Joe Henderson (Half Note). I do enjoy this one, but then again, with Lovano on tenor & Cuber on bari, how could it be bad?

I don't know where that cover art came from. All of the ones I've seen have this cover.

I hope it's better than season 3, which we felt was pretty weak compared to the first two.

And some worry more about the looks than the sound. In context, while this system looks good, my wife would move out if I tried doing that in any room of my house.

I miss Orrin way more than Chris. I find it funny that Chris could say whatever he wanted about Riverside and we were supposed to take him at his word but when Orrin's words are quoted, it was all make believe, even though he ran the place. They both clearly disliked each other but Chris was much more vocal about it. I had several e-mail exchanges with Orrin and he basically said that he didn't want to get into it with Chris. Now that they're both gone, all we have is the stories. Believe whichever one you want.

I was just listening to this a few nights ago. It used to be a tough CD to find. For Fresu playing ballads, I still prefer his playing on Aldo Romano's "Canzoni"

On Windows, you can do a search on file size to find large files hogging drive space. On Windows, one of the biggest files is hiber.sys, which is a system backup file created for the hibernate function. Maybe Apple does something similar?

I'm really bummed out that Wallace retired before I got the chance to see him perform. I almost went to see him in CT but had to back out at the last minute. It turns out that was one of his last live gigs.

I just saw this on the TV and learned that I had been mis-pronouncing her first name all of these years. I always thought it was pronounced Geena but it's actually pronounced Jenna. Her performance in "The Notebook" was pretty incredible. So sad that she had to go through that in real life a few years later.

This Morgan material is on this CD:

Gorgeous day for a bike ride. ~75 degrees with a light breeze and low humidity.

I haven't played this one in a while. I seem to remember it starting out rather sedate for Jaume. I know I've said this before, but Jaume is someone I've always wanted to see perform live. Is he still playing at 83? Is he still playing gigs?

Still baffling to me why this has never made it to CD anywhere in the world.