Kevin Bresnahan

Too bad CBS/Sony can't get all these out legitimately. I have all three and they're great. I won't be lining the coffers of Bootleg Lonehill though. I'll just keep spinning my vinyl of "Getting Into Something" for now.

is he jerry bergonzi's cousin? No, actually it's his cat!

A recent Jazz club started on the northern Mass/southern NH border, http://www.jockosjazz.com, isn't listed. I've been seeing some great Jazz there. Just saw Gerry Bergonzi there last week.

Hmmm... does AMG have someone here at Organissimo?? When I posted yesterday, they had a picture of some long-haired white guy in Clay's listing. Now it has Clay. Anyway, Hank is selling Clay's hard-to-find Antilles CD, "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" in this thread for 8 bucks! This is a very nice CD. With a rhythm section of Cedar Walton, David Williams, and Billy Higgins, I expected and got some great Jazz. It's certainly well worth $8. Kevin

Check out AMG's picture of Clay!! Morons.

Dang it! Am I ever gonna get my hands on an RVG of "Dippin'"?

I stopped donating to my local library. It seemed like every Jazz CD I'd donate to them would end up on the "For Sale" rack in the front of the place. So I donate them a CD and they sell it for a quarter... what's the point of that? Instead, if I don't trade it in, I give it to someone who's interested in Jazz. I figure that way I have a better chance of creating another fan. Dmitry, go back in a month and see how many of these CDs and DVDs wind up on their shelves. You may be saddened at the result.

FWIW, the Connoisseur CD of "Face To Face" has two alternate takes. Also, I think this is one of Ron McMaster's better remasters. I don't think you'll have any regrets buying this version.

PRICE REDUCED Gotta get these CDs off my trade pile. Shipping in the US is $2. International $3. $10 Baby Face Willette "Face To Face" (Blue Note) - Connoisseur CD. NM all around. *SOLD* $5 each McCoy Tyner "New York Reunion" (Chesky) - with Joe Henderson, Ron Carter and Al Foster Nat Adderley "Work Song" (OJC) - with Wes Montgomery, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones or Keter Betts, Percy Heath and Louis Hayes Jim Ferguson "Deep Summer Music" (A Records) - SACD hybrid (plays on standard CD players). with Chris Potter, Stefan Karlsson and Jim White *SOLD* PM me. Multiple requests will be decided by the time/date of PM. Kevin

I have 3 of them: Another Kind of Blue: The Latin Side of Miles Davis - Conrad Herwig Nonet Live at the Blue Note - Roberta Piket Trio Return to Form - Onaje Allan Gumbs All three are very good but I would give two thumbs up for the Herwig. Well worth picking up. Only negative about it is that it comes in a flimsy digipak. Kevin

This print has been signed by Fred Anderson and Henry Grimes!!! Mark, Being a B&W print, did you get the signatures in silver? I have a few B&W's signed in silver and they look phenomenal. Kevin

Marla, In the start menu, click All Programs->Accessories->System Tools->System Restore Follow the directions and restore your system back to the time before all this stuff happened.

True, but as I said above, be careful... Microsoft seems to think music burning-PC users want their audio "flat" so they futz with the levels to give you what they "think" you want. I can't tell you how many people have used several of Microsoft's "free" (like you didn't paid anything for XP?) burning packages only to find out that the levels are all screwed up. Stick to EAC and you'll be alright. THERE IS NO BETTER .WAV BURNING PROGRAM THAN EAC... and it's free to boot. If you want to burn audio, use EAC. I use Roxio's EZ-CD Creator for data. Kevin

The only tool I use these days to make backup copies of my CDs is Exact Audio Copy. It is really the only app that makes exact audio copies. Beware using Windows Media Player to make back-ups... it defaults to turning on normalization. Makes many CDs sound like crap after. Note: during installation, it asks for a LAME encoder - you do not need to have a LAME encoder, so ignore that. The steps to use EAC are pretty simple. After installing, it goes through and sets up your drives. Stick to the default settings to start. Once it's up & running, simply click Action-> Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet-> Uncompressed. After the disc is backed up to the harddrive, put a blank in your burner and then select Tools-> Write CD-R... This brings up the CD Layout Editor. In this window, click File-> Load CUE Sheet and click on the CUE sheet you created with the first step. After it loads, click CD-R-> Write CD... Remember, after you're done, you have to delete the huge files or you'll run out of disc space pretty quickly. Kevin

But Weizen, it's only 8 cups! My wife and I go through 8 cups in no time. I have to decide on our next machine soon. Our beloved Krups Crystal Aroma is nearing the end of the line and they no longer make it. When we bought this machine many years ago, I researched it on-line and this maker came out ahead due mostly to it's high-temperature water heating system. There seems to be a correlation between using very hot water and extracting the flavor out of the beans. How hot is the coffee right after being brewed with the Capresso MT500? Kevin

Hank Mobley's "Dippin'"? Finally! I have come so close to buying this from Japan so many times. One of my favorite Mobley dates. So funky and fun.

I can't pass up a chance to hear how RVG made "Further Explorations" sound... at least for $18. PM sent. Kevin

Aunt Ester? That looks like uncle esther in drag to me!

So what happened? Did "Rolling With Leo" find a new home? Kevin

Californian wine fan here... Although I do enjoy the Beaujolais Nouveau. I didn't relaize it needed to sit. I was always told to drink it asap as it would only go downhill after bottling. Hmm. Maybe I should pick up a couple of bottles and stash them?

As I sit here typing, I'm listening to mp3's of "Rolling With Leo" off my PC. Hey, I had to have these tunes at work. They lift me up when I'm sick of work. These Leo Parker Blue Note dates swing like mad. My foot starts 'a tappin' from the opening beat and by the end, I'm smiling. Parker's affinity for the blues helps a lot. The slower tunes don't come across as funeral dirges but real head-nodding blues vehicles. Play "Talkin' The Blues" and tell me your head ain't bobbin'! Play it, Leo, play it! Of course, it could be that I just love Leo's bari sound. He plays a bit like Hank Mobley plays tenor... just a hair behind the beat. Yeah, that's it... Leo's the "Hank Mobley of baritone". "Rolling With Leo" didn't sit in the can because it was a bad date but because Leo Parker died shortly after it was recorded, at least according to the liner notes. It even had a Reid Miles cover designed and it appeared on other LPs' inner sleeves showing upcoming releases. Later, Kevin Oh, I just love "Talkin' The Blues". Blow them blues, Leo!

I heard back from Ron McMaster that he has not used Sonic Solutions for nearly three years which would put the Grachan Moncur set (issued in 2003) right near or at the point he changed over to a Pyramix Mastering System. He mentioned a lot of other stuff but I didn't get his OK to post it all. One thing he did mention that I don't think he'd mind repeated is that when he remasters a tape he likes "staying all analog except for the very last part and that is the analog load into the computer with all of the eq settings etc. done in analog." So what I think Ron is saying is that he queues up the master on the machine and plays it back to adjust the sound he wants off the analog tape. After he tweaks it to make it sound right, he digitizes it using the Pyramix Mastering System. He doesn't futz with the sound in digital. Kevin

If I didn't have it, I'd buy it in a second for $20. This sucker never shows up in the used bins! And I must say, it's one of my favorite Blue Notes... well, both Parkers are up there for this bari sax fanatic. If you decide not to buy it, yes, it will eventually get reissued. However, it won't be for many months in the least. $20 is cheap for a rarity like this when you consider that many new releases sell at a $17.99 list. Heck, I once paid $32 for a Japanese Blue Note that I really, really wanted. BTW, the Japanese CD will be missing a bonus track. Kevin

It made sound like No Noise was used, but it wasn't. I asked Ron McMaster about this back when we debated last January. Ron told me, "The version that you hear on the Mosaic Select is from the original RVG master tapes. The track (as well as all the others on this release) are just ever so slightly eq'd so as to sound as they did when they were originally recorded. They contain no NoNoise processing of any kind. This is the closest to the original as you can get". Quite honestly, I don't think the Mosaic Select sounds bad at all, but then again, everyone's system is different so we are comparing apples to oranges. I should pick up this RVG to hear it. Rudy seems to do a nice job with Hutcherson's vibes. Kevin

Thank you... thank you... thank you!! I thought I was going crazy! I tried every note I could and couldn't help but think "How the hell would someone transcribe this?" Next time I listen, I'll see if I can hear the two tones. Of course, with rumors rampant that almost all radio stations are using mp3 files for their playback medium, I may never hear it on the radio. Kevin