Kevin Bresnahan

Definitely from what I've been told of first-hand experiences with Sonny. The guy was way too into the sauce. It made him a pretty unreliable guy.

Let me guess... the other 97% of the time you're thinking about sex, 1% about work and 1% about Organissimo? Kevin

I am listening to the "Funk 'N Fun" session from the Japanese CD version of this session and while I'd say it's "stereo", it isn't very widely panned. Extremely tight soundstage with a lot of bleeding across the two channels. Kevin

I'm very lucky to have a wife who lets me do this kind of crazy stuff. I finally got my "all B&W" surround speaker system in place (LCR 600 S3's in front, 600 S3's in back). Love the sound. I'm glad I finally broke down (financially) to get them. Now, B&W announces a new Nautilus series... and the new 'Nautilus 805s' is supposed to sound better than the old 805 Signature! Yes, I am going insane. They have Alcoholics Anonymous. Do the have "Audiophiles Anonymous"? I have to stop reading the stuff about audio. Kevin

Well, I'm being tempted again... Denon discontinued the DVD-2900 DVD/CD/SACD/DVD-Audio/mp3/jpeg combo player about two months ago. This unit is highly thought of as a video player and it supposedly has some great audio. I almost pulled the trigger on this unit back in November of last year at $600. Now, my local Tweeter store is clearing out their last 4 units for $488. I'm going to listen to one on Saturday. At this price, I think I'll be a goner. But will it be "better" than my Pioneer? I really like my Pioneer. That's why I held back last year. In fact, if this wasn't a 2900 model, which is the last Japanese-built model and the only one with the Silicon Image video chipset, I still wouldn't even consider it. The funniest thing: the main reason I want this player is video... in particular, it has a seamless layer shift for DVDs. My Pioneer has a noticeable layer shift. Another nice benefit of this machine is that you can switch layers on an SACD hybrid disc by a button on the front of the unit. On my Pioneer, it's buried in a set-up screen. So what do you guys think? Am I finally losing it? Kevin

With all the recent happenings here in America, is there a good reason not to? I gave him plenty of warning over the last few weeks, even months, to cool his jets. He chose not to. I agree that SS1 was rubbing Aric a little, but I hardly think that warrants Aric saying he's going to kill him, and all his family. That's not funny. And I do take it seriously. It is a clear violation of the rules that have been posted since day one. I am all for free speech but I will not tolerate threats of physical harm. He will not be allowed back. Jim, we have gone around and around on this. You should take personal threats seriously! However, when it came to Dan Gould threatening to find Greg Maltz and doing him harm, you looked the other way. I do not agree with your moderating style in these two instances. You got it right here. You got it wrong there. To put it this way, if Soulstation1 has resonded to Aric's death threat with a post that said, "Yeah Aric, and your girlfriend is an internet whore... and your mother is too," would you have banned him instead of Aric? Kevin

EDITED: I was reminded about the way Aric was supposed to acquire "Money Jungle" For those of you reading this thread who may be unaware of Soulstaion1's "deal" with Aric that has reverberated through this board and the Blue Note for all these years it was this: Soulstaion1: Burn 6 CDs from the Blue Note box set Aric: Steal a new CD of "Money Jungle" from the Starbucks that he worked at Aric claims the burns arrived and didn't play. He also claimed he was broke so he couldn't buy one. Neither is a valid excuse for backing out of the deal. Aric was a sap for getting into this deal. He agreed to steal a CD for $1.50 worth of illegal CDs. Aric acts like a jerk all the time and I won't miss his posts. However, Soulstation1 screwed up this board royally with this vendetta of his over an illegal deal gone south. A deal in which he was bascially ripping off Blue Note and Dexter Gordon's widow as well as Aric and receiving stolen goods (if the deal had gone down as planned). Aric acts like an immature jerk, but Soulstation1 isn't far behind with his actions. I wonder if Soulstaion1 is still making deals like this? I don't many who would appreciate an offer of a burn for a new CD. Kevin

In the mid-90s, I had a friend who bought a case of complete sets of Fleer baseball cards. The individual sets were packed in a plain cardboard box with plastic tape that had "Fleer" written on it. He was told to never open it because it was worth more that way. He paid some outrageous price but said it would appreciate. I looked at the box, looked at him and said, "You just bought a cardboard box". Crazy. He assumes that what is supposed to be in there is in there. It'd be funny if it was just someone with access to a Fleer tape roll. As for stamps, I used to collect stamps so I know what happened to that market. The "bible" for stamp values, Scotts, decided that since everyone automatically discounted their "book price" by 20% to get actual value, they simply reduced all of their book prices by 20% so that their book would be correct. The market continued to take their book price and discount it by 20%!! In the end, it was better to mail your unused stamps than to sell them. I remember using stamps issued throughout the 70's and 80's as postage for almost a year. Later, Kevin

I believe Abouttime.exe is a spyware program. That's the one that loads when you go to a website and a pop up window comes up saying "YOUR CLOCK MAY BE WRONG". BTW, I see where you have DirectCD loaded. Unless you really use this application to make formatted CD-RW discs for temporary storage, I'd recommend dumping it. It's a resource hog and interferes with your burner drive boot properties. I wish I never installed that POC software back in the old days. Kevin

Oh, I guess my post didn't come across right... I have this date and I like it. What I meant with my post here was that if I had known it was rare, I would have bought it for trade bait. I usually buy hard-to-find stuff and put it in a rack above my PC. When someone posts a "looking for" thread, I usually pm them telling them I have it. I used to go the eBay route but I got sick of the hassles. Besides, I'd rather get it to fellow board members. Thanks for thinking of me though. Now, if you ever come across a reasonably priced Shorty Rogers Mosaic... Definitely drop me line! Kevin

I bought a bunch of music yesterday. Charles Mingus - Ah Um (SACD) Art Blakey - Drums Around the Corner Duke Ellington - Piano in the Background (yourmusic.com order) and some rock stuff The Zombies - Greatest Hits (SACD Hybrid) Aimee Mann - Bachelor # 2 I'd been thinking about getting those MoFo SACDs by Mann and this title is one of them. I wanted to hear some of it first... eh, it's OK... certainly not worth MoFi money! I think I liked Mann better on the 'Til Tuesday discs. The Duke date is very nice. "Piano in the Foreground" is also in my yourmusic.com queue. BTW, I had to move "Piano in Background" to the top of my queue because yourmusic.com sent me a notice that it was going away so anyone thinking about this title should hurry up. "Drums Around the Corner" is a very nice date. I have avoided Blakey's drummer discs because I figured they'd be boring. I'm glad I got this one. Lee Morgan plays some steamin' solos. I also picked up the Connoisseur of Frank Foster & George Wallington for connoisseur series500. I'm glad I found someone that wanted that... I hated seeing that sitting there. I grabbed a bunch of oop Connoisseurs for trade bait but I still have to think about what to do with them before posting a list. Later, Kevin

Jim, the graphics look new and there appear to be extra features, but at the bottom of the screen, it still says V1.3 final. Shouldn't that say V2.0?

Can someone explain to me these two statements: "The fidelity is superb,with no intrusive distortion, pops, clicks,or background noise of any kind." and "This copy is unplayed!" Not even that great of a date in my book. I do know that Tome Evered once told us that Jutta's records have always sold well in Japan.

Damn, for that kind of money you should just find someone to bur... oh, never mind. As Michael Cuscuna always tells me, don't worry, it will get reissued. Everything does. All it takes is time. If you just "have to have it", $75 is what it takes on half.com. However, I'm betting a copy would go for less on eBay. You know what's the worst about this being on half.com? If someone had it in their "wish list", it could have been sent out by the seller already. How does that work if the price is too high anyway? Am I the only one who thinks a CD on "half.com" should be sold at a discount? What does the "half" mean here? I didn't know this was that rare. I have seen it around but didn't pull the trigger. I guess next time I'll grab it. Kevin

I will apololgize if you tell us all what the result of these "offers" were. Tell me I'm wrong and you got someone with a used copy that you're buying and I'll gladly apologize. The responses in this thread don't look like offers to sell. My skin may be thin on this issue. As I've said, lately there have been a lot of people looking for stuff that aren't "looking" for it. I can over-react.

And my last reply to this... connoisseur series500 replied that at least one of these two titles is available cheaply. Clearly from the ignoring of his post, it wasn't "cheap enough". Likely what is "cheap enough" is $0.19, or, the price of a CD-R. I have a copy of "Brown Sugar". I don't particularly dig it. Had the tone of this thread not turned the way it did, I would have likely offered it at a price far below what I paid. Once it became clear that this would likely have been uneeded, I didn't send that pm. BTW, I have been seeing this practice a lot lately. People post looking for a CD title, I pm saying I can get or have a copy available and the usual response has been "Thanks, but I got a burn".

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more? so you are against trading? Trading CD-Rs? Of available music? No, I'm not into this practice. I have exchanged CD-Rs with people of LP burns and I'll probably continue to do this. Jim asked people to stop doing this. Just because this thread has it all with the "wink-wink-nudge-nudge you know what I mean" kinda stuff, we all know what's going on.

and if you bothered to read my first post you would have seen me say: "import prices are outrageous" Then don't buy it! And guess what? You won't have it! You are not "entitled" to this music just because you want to hear it. If it's too expensive, then you can't own it. I'd love a Ferari. As Jim said in a recent thread, "Swap" does not mean "swap CD-Rs". It never did mean that.

For sale or to burn? Doesn't anyone come on this board looking to buy these things any more?

Eric, PM member John L. John has relocated from the US to France, back to the US and is now in Russia. He should know a thing or two... or three or four. Good luck! BTW, hope you don't have any wine to transport. That was one of John's biggest headaches. Kevin

Why the frowning face? I did say it was down the street...

. ..good deal on the Watkins!!! There's one in a used bin in a store down the street from from me but I looked around on eBay and didn't see a demand. Is there one? This place also has the Frank Foster Conn. Kevin

Wow, "But Not Farewell"... not often seen. Very good Greg Osby and Robin Eubanks on that. I'd grab that in a second if I didn't have it. Kevin

If it's that live date from Copenhagen, I have a tough time even hearing Mobley during some of those solos! I still think the guy who recorded that date was a big NHOP fan. He seems to have NHOP way up front in the mix and from the sounds of it, he was taking it off a soundboard so he could have done it differently. Those grunts and moans in between notes also appeared in Jackie Macs solos around that time. I wonder if these effects weren't simply "in vogue" around then?

Jim, I think I hear the Mobley that you're talking about on the Wynton Kelly two-fer from the Left Bank Jazz Society date. I've been spinning this date a lot lately. This is where I hear Mobley stretching beyond his normal style, like he does a bit on "Third Season". However, unlike on the "Breakthrough" date, he doesn't seem to chop off each riff with a gasp that sounds like he's out of steam. The chopped off riffs are there, but they are agressively bitten off and spit out. As I said, Cedar is still with us, maybe someone can ask him if Hank was a little loaded. He most certainly wasn't high, if we are to believe his quotes in John Litweiler's 1973 DownBeat interview. I still think comparing the solos on "Breakthrough" with the solos on something like "Live at the Left Bank" give the impression that Hank couldn't sustain the notes. Out of breath, drunk, whatever... maybe even on purpose. I still don't consider this a high spot for my favorite tenorman. Bertrand, that's a very interesting observation about Lee's death. That had to reverberate with these guys. They played on so many dates together during the previous 15 years. It had to be tough.