Kevin Bresnahan

A contract signed for a recording being made for radio broadcast is just that... they had the legal right to broadcast it over the air. Those contractual rights don't mysteriously become "We can do whatever we want with this tape". If Stan Getz's estate i.e. Bev Getz, hasn't been compensated for a commercial release of this, then it likely isn't legit. No matter though - it's certainly not legal for sale here in the US at all, as Getz was under contract with Verve in 1966. Have we all forgotten the fiasco around the Monk "Palo Alto" release, where Impulse! tried releasing it without getting a release from his record label of the time? Same thing here. Michael Cuscuna & I talked about this label quite a bit and he acknowledged (as I do) that many are important musical artifacts that should be heard. But he was also very aware of how many of these labels like Lost Recordings release stuff like this without any compensation to the artists, which he felt was very wrong. @Chuck Nessa - Do you know if a contract to broadcast a performance extends to a commercial release of the recording?

My bank offers "rewards" on their credit card. My last two iPhones were bought using Apple gift cards that I "purchased" using these rewards. So basically, I've been getting a new iPhone every few years for free. If your credit card company has a rewards plan, check to see what gift cards they offer. Typically, you get "more bang for your buck" choosing gift cards over using them as a credit to your account.

I know Bev Getz was looking into this... I'm somewhat surprised it's still out there. PD cuts off at 1962 in the EU so 1966 is way outside of that so when the estate of a musician questions a release, that's usually all it takes to get it pulled.

My CD has this cover/title: It's not your French pressing. There are times when Jordan sounds like he's playing in the other room. It likely has to do with the extreme stereo spread. The left channel is piano/bass and the tenor is hard right. It does give a weird feeling that the piano is front and center.

I hadn't spun this in a while, so I have it playing now. The music is really good but the audio has that overly-bright/lousy bass recording that you get sometimes from recordings made in the late 70s/early 80s. The bass sounds particularly whiny here. It's too bad because Joe is really something.

Well, that's pretty eerie... please don't go towards the light Joey. We'd like you to hang around a bit more.

This is his second Blue Note release. His first was "Where Are We".

I rip to VBR Q0. It results in smaller files than CBR 320 mbps and I cannot hear the difference.

Buck Clayton - The Complete CBS Buck Clayton Jam Sessions (Mosaic). Disc 1 is up first. I get the urge to play these jam sessions every now & then and they never disappoint. Such a fun set. Your feet tap no matter your mood. It's the kind of music where I wish I could've been in the studio to see these Jazz greats in action.

The biggest PITA with some of these "WAV" downloads from bandcamp is that they don't compress to mp3 using Exact Audio Copy because they are not a standard WAV format. They give them to you at a higher bitrate WAV. I have to edit them with Audacity and save them as 44.1 kHz WAV and then they convert.

My bandcamp order: I got the LP version of "Split Decision" & it comes with a download. I went digital on the others because the shipping from outside the US is just too expensive.

I have a copy of the LP and even when I bought it, I used a fingernail to make sure it wasn't a sticker.

The Heavy Hitters - The Heavy Hitters (Cellar Jazz). Listening to this on bandcamp & it's bandcamp Friday, so I may just pull the trigger.

Whenever I see this LP, I always think that they did the artwork and forgot Harold's name, so they stuck a sticker on it.

PM me your Facebook name and I'll go there and hit the "Invite" button.

If something happens to this forum and you happen to be on Facebook, Michael Weil started a group there to update people about outages. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1884381011698498 Kevin

Tomorrow is bandcamp Friday, so if you're thinking about buying anything from there, tomorrow is the day.

His website says that he played on the Botti At Sea Jazz cruise in February of this year, so it looks like he is still playing. His label, Blues Back Records, went belly up in 2011 but he seems to have a few more recordings on his website and bandcamp pages. Two of the CDs in the Signature Series box on his website don't seem to appear anywhere else, so you might want to check that out. I have no idea if any of these recordings are recent as they don't list recording dates for a any of them that I can find.

I pre-ordered the CD version of an LP that hasn't been reissued in a long time and never on CD:

Planet Jazz - In Orbit (Sharp Nine). This was the debut recording for Planet Jazz. The also cut a live date for the SmallsLIVE label that I never did pick up. This incarnation of Planet Jazz is Joe Magnarelli (tp), Grant Stewart (ts), Peter Berstein (g), Spike Wilner (p), Neal Miner (b) and Joe Strasser (d).

Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra - Allégresse (Enja). This is my favorite recording by this phenomenal band, who I still try to see whenever they come to Boston. The opening track, "Hang Gliding" is just perfect in the way it evokes the feeling of flying through the sky.

Could have been timing too... I was just entering high school in 1976 but my older brother Patrick was graduating and he was my main music influence. I used to play his records for years before I started buying my own. He was into Zep, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, etc. but never Sabbath. You know, thinking about it, it might have had something to do with their faux "devil worship" shtick, which would have been frowned upon by our parents. I remember bringing home a 45 rpm single of Zep's "Whole Lotta Love" and cranking it up on my family's console only to have my mom storm in, rip it off the turntable and force me to return it. It wasn't until many years later that I learned why she was so upset at 8-year old me screaming, "Gonna give you every inch of my love".

Maybe it was a New England thing or a Massachusetts thing, but I didn't know anyone that had "Paranoid" in their LP racks. If they had any Sabbath, it was usually the compilation, "We Sold Our Soul For Rock & Roll".

Not that I'm personally bothered by it because I was never a fan, but why on earth would they not include the 6 extra tracks from an earlier edition in a 3 CD 50th Anniversary edition????

I mentioned this earlier in the thread, but it was a pretty incredible night when I got to see Hutcherson, McLean, Hill, Higgins & Scott Colley at Aaron Davis Hall in 2000.