Kevin Bresnahan

From https://www.easeus.com/resource/does-ssd-need-power.html "Overall, if SSD is not getting power for several years, it may lose data. According to research, an SSD can retain your data for a minimum of 2-5 Years without any power supply. Some SSD manufacturers also claim that SSD can save data without a regular power supply for around 15 to 20 years." I'd rather not find out that the researchers were right so... BTW - I just left Analog Devices after 21 years, with almost 40 years in the electronics industry, so I always err on the side of caution when it comes to volatile memory. I've had EPROMs lose their data enough times to realize that it's not something I want to happen to my music files. FWIW, this is also true for USB or thumb drives. They use the same technology as SSD drives so they should not be used for long term storage. They are even less reliable than external SSDs and I have had the data in a thumb drive go bad after being in a drawer for a few years.

JJ Johnson - Pinnacles (Milestone). I heard "Cannonball Junction" from this album on the Jazz channel on my Sirius/XM app the other day and thought it might be worth hearing the whole thing. I was not 100% correct. Not as good as I would've expected with this band.

I have 3 Samsung 1TB SSD drives. They're pretty cheap and have good ratings. I will say that none of mine have ever failed. I have my music files backed up onto all 3 of them. Two of them are attached to my tower PC that I leave on at all times. The 3rd one is attached to my Raspberry Pi mini-computer that I use as a music server on one of my listening systems. This mini-computer is also left on all the time. I also have an internal 1 TB HDD that is a mirror of my main internal HDD. I did not go with a RAID configuration. Lazy or techno-averse? I've never gone RAID yet. I also have 3 HDDs in external cases that have all of my music on them but they are stored in various locations in the horrible event that I have a house fire. External HDDs use magnetic material to store the 1's & 0's and don't need to be powered up to stay in that state. Of course, sitting idle for years isn't good for the mechanics either.

That's quite the interesting signature. I didn't realize that Fresu was a medical doctor.

The answer to "How much has the Regattabar changed?" is "A lot". The club itself is almost the same except that they moved the tables very far back from the performance space which has created a large empty space in front of the band. It's looks weird & it seems rather dumb as there must be at least another 20 seats they could fit into that empty space. On the other hand, the Charles Hotel itself has changed quite a lot. The most dramatic change is that the two elevators that flanked the club's entrance are gone. Several bathrooms are moved/gone. A lot of the areas around the club are now closed off for events. It seems as if the hotel underwent a complete renovation during the Covid shutdown. However, the biggest change was the club staff. There was only one waitress that was there before Covid. I used to know a lot of the staff there, if not by name than at least by familiarity. All in all, I felt rather old last night. I guess at my age, I am old, but it really sunk in last night when I realized that I had been going to that club for almost 35 years. Many (most?) of the artists I saw there have passed away. Now the club is totally different. It's like the old Regattabar passed away too. As for the show. Danilo Perez put on a wonderful performance. There was a mix of acoustic & electric jazz and it was very well integrated, with Perez playing a synth with his right hand while playing the acoustic piano with his left. The last 3 tunes of the set were dedicated to Wayne Shorter & the first tune, simply titled "Wayne", reminded me of late-period Pink Floyd. Perez created synth washes for Patitucci to play the upper strings of his electric bass in a sound that really had me thinking David Gilmore. My View for the night:

I think George Braith is still alive.

I have had this happen many times over the years. One thing I've noticed is that seems to happen more often when copying from/to a mechanical HD. It doesn't happen as frequently with solid state HDs. But the thing with SSD drives is that they should be powered up if you want to avoid data corruption. I would not backup a hard drive to an SSD and toss it in a drawer somewhere. I'd also add that a few of the corrupted files I found were not the result of a copy process but were created with those glitches. Even with Exact Audio Copy, stuff gets through. Another thing I've learned is it's better to minimize computer activity while ripping my CDs. I think most of the glitchy files were created while I continued to do my thing on the computer. The biggest problems seemed to occur when I played music files while ripping. These days, I shut down any music player app and stop surfing the web while I rip.

I'm heading out early tomorrow morning so I may not be able to post... I am seeing Danilo Perez with John Patitucci & Adam Cruz at the Regattabar tomorrow night. This is my first show at the Regattabar since they reopened post-Covid. I wonder how much it has changed?

I have this one: It looks to be one his only jazz recordings. Most of his other recordings were done with country bands/singers.

Queen - A Night At The Opera (DCC Gold). I forgot how much I don't like this record. Other than "Bohemian Rhapsody", a lot of the songs have such pretentious lyrics. Just not for me.

I don't know why anyone would pay that kind of money. The music is available on LP and CD in great sound - probably better sounding than an original pressing too.

Tor Lundvall - A Strangeness In Motion: Early Pop Recordings 1989-1999 (Dais Records). Lundvall has moved into more of a dark ambient genre these days and you can hear it in his whisper-like vocals on this compilation of his early pop recordings. You can hear it on bandcamp.

I don't know why, but they seem to believe the creator of the page knows everything about it so you cannot correct any mistakes. I guess only the original submitter can do that. You can add onto that original listing (like adding pictures) but they seem to balk at corrections.

I've tried to correct a few release dates in discogs and they've been rejected by the site's editors.

Unusual seeing an Eric Alexander date without Farnsworth in the drum chair.

I always liked Smith's mellow blues disc, "BlueSmith" on Linn.

Richie Kamuca - Richie (Concord).

Celtics-Warriors game last night was quite the eye-opener. The Celtics led 82-38 at halftime, with Curry going 0-9 from 3 while scoring 4 points. The Warriors sat Curry, Green & Thompson in the second half, conceding the game. In the end, the Celtics bench outscored the Warriors bench and the Celtics beat them by 52, becoming the first team in NBA history to win 3 games by 50+ points in a single season. Now watch the Celtics lose their next 3 games because of this. Their season has been like that. Total Jeckyl-Hyde stuff.

Seldon Powell - Seldon Powell Sextet (Roost). This another one of those Japanese CDs I found in the piles at a store the other day. I was told they were from the estate of a huge jazz fan. It made me a bit sad going through his stuff as I could picture someone else doing this with my collection at some point in the (hopefully distant) future.

I have the first set from this night and there are only two tunes that weren't issued on the released CD, "One Less Bell To Answer" & "Make It Easy On Yourself".

In this pile of rare CDs, there was an unusual Hutcherson/Land CD called "Blow Up" on JMY that I had never seen before. Discogs lists it as an "Unofficial release". This is very good stuff. Some of the tracks sound like they were recorded in a studio. Why wasn't this released back then? This is really good stuff. Highly recommended. And I must be losing it because at one point when I was listening to it, I had to check the discogs listing again because I could swear that the tenor player was Joe Henderson.

Now playing - another Stitt CD from that pile of Japanese rarities, "Rearin' Back" (Argo). Another good Stitt date with some early Ronnie Matthews at the piano that's only been out on this Japanese CD.

I never did pick this up. Notable for having John Abercrombie's major label debut on the second session, "Nasty!".

Sonny Stitt - Sonny Stitt Swings The Most (Verve). I found this in a pile of Japanese CDs at a local shop. I hadn't even known it came out on CD in 2012 until i found this one. Nice date.

Weird timing, but just yesterday morning I started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm and I am really not liking it much at all. I laughed at Seinfeld at times. I didn't find myself laughing at all during the first episode. When Richard Lewis popped onto the screen, I thought to myself, "Didn't he die?". A bit of Twilight Zone thing there, for sure.