Kevin Bresnahan

Red Garland - Strike Up The Band (Galaxy). Red with a pretty good band: George Coleman, Julian Priester, Ron Carter & Ben Riley. If you find this in a cheapie bin, give it a try. About the only negative is the lousy bass recording quality, which you'll get with most recordings from 1979.

Bill Cunliffe - The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Take 2

The band was great but what a sad evening of live jazz. I think there were only 12 paying customers in the place. I don't know how this club is going to stay open with that kind of attendance.

Maria Schneider Orchestra - Allégresse (Enja). This is my favorite record from this band. I really enjoy the opening track, "Hang Gliding", especially for the feeling I get from listening to it... like I'm hang gliding.

The internet has put everything at our fingertips. Before the internet, if you wanted to read the liner notes to any LP, you would have to get that item in your hands. Having everything digitized and plunked onto a website has dulled our sense of the work that went into these things and pretty much reduced their value to the point where many people think it's pretty normal to post copyrighted material any time they feel like it. I get that there is fair use at play here i.e. LP covers and possibly LP liner notes. But right now we're talking about the liner notes to a Mosaic box, which is more like a long essay or a short book. This is not a simple "liner note" being posted. I doubt that musicbrainz could claim fair use here. Let me ask you this, if Mosaic decided to publish a book of all of the liner notes from their big boxes, would you consider buying it? I would definitely buy a copy for myself. But would I do that if every one of them was posted in full on-line for free? Maybe not.

But it's up to Bob himself if he wants to monetize his writings for Mosaic. Maybe he's writing a book with all of his liner notes? No matter - it's not musicbrainz's right to steal his writing to enhance their webpages without his consent. A friend of mine is a really good photographer. He takes some incredible shots at the shows we go to. He's not dumb so he'd never go professional. No one wants to pay for photography these days... almost no one. To prove this point, he once got asked to take some candid shots at a concert that a musician was recording for release. He did. The artist released the CD with his photos and the artist not only didn't pay him, he didn't even give him credit in the liners.

But this really isn't about Mosaic per se. Yes, Mosaic's images are being used without them getting paid but it's even worse for Bob Blumenthal. Mosaic paid Blumenthal for those liner notes for the Lou Donaldson box. Mosaic got what they paid for and they honored their side of the deal. They limited the publication of those notes to the booklet. Mosaic hasn't published these notes on-line. It's Bob who is getting ripped off by having his work put on-line for free. He isn't getting paid by musicbrainz and that's the problem. So unless you think every single written word should be on-line at your disposal for free, you shouldn't be OK with this any more than I am. While I am not in the business of writing liner notes, I can empathize with someone doing their job and expecting to get paid but end up getting nothing.

There seems to a kind of blindness to copyrights by many posters here on these forums.

They actually don't have anyone "working there" anymore, since the company went fully remote a couple of years back. They farmed out the warehousing & shipping of their boxes years before that. I don't think Scott would have much access to stock these days, especially if the company they use for their warehouse is not local to Stamford.

Going to see baritone saxophonist Danny Harrington at Arthur's House of Jazz in Methuen. I'm maybe more interested to see/hear Rusty Scott on the piano again. I think it's been close to 30 years since I saw Rusty live. I used to try to catch all of his shows with his regular band back then - Tim Meyer on tenor & Keala Kaumeheiwa on bass. They were a fun band to see back then.

I have read & enjoyed nearly all of Tess Gerritsen's Rizzoli & Isles books so the synopsis of her new one, "The Spy Coast" caught me off guard. A spy novel? About a group of retired spies? Sounds a bit like the movie "Red" right? But it's not. "Red" got me to laugh. This story was not funny at all. Action & intrigue reign here. There's some romance but it's mostly of the flashback variety. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I bought it Monday and finished it late last night. I just couldn't put it down. Highly recommended if you like these types of books.

Coleman Hawkins - The Genius Of Coleman Hawkins (Verve).

Just finished - William Parker - Petite Oiseau (Shortwave/Aum Fidelity) Now spinning - Joe Henderson - In 'N Out (Blue Note 'Classic Vinyl' reissue)

The artwork I posted is from the German MPS CD from 1986. Unfortunately, the only copy on discogs looks to be from a seller who doesn't ship internationally. There's a few for sale on ebay.com.

I've always been a fan of this one... I really need to get my hands on that date that Bias did with Mary Lou Williams.

This link has a double referral in it. First of all, this link was copied from the Steve Hoffman forums and all of their links get a Viglink referral added to them so that forum gets ad revenue from it. Secondly, this promo is for referrals and for this link, someone with a VMP ID of "6NS649GIANLUCA" is getting something from VMP for it.

Lucky you!! That is a show I'd love to see.

Pink Floyd again... although I hardly ever make it through this CD in its entirety. It's kinda boring. I thought this was appropriate since I just read that a neighbor's cow escaped their field yesterday and they still haven't found it. So if you happen to read a story about a cow on York Beach in the coming days, you'll know why. Who knew people still have cow pastures so close to a beach area? .2 acre lots are selling for close to $300K these days, so it's weird to think that someone thinks a cow pasture is worth it.

I sometimes wonder if I'm listening to a story about Roger Waters' issues or if it's a combination of his insecurities with Syd Barrett's mental problems. (I had to re-post this to change the picture)

Never on CD.

Joanne wouldn't appreciate that!

I don't why. but this "pissed off lady" recording always gets me going. "You Oughta Know" is best played loud.

When you click that discogs link, you should see where this 2-CD release is part of SteeplChase's "SteepleChase Mid-Price" series. If you click that link, you'll see a bunch more listed as "2xCD". I would just click through those and see how many of them were originally released as 2 LPs.

Paolo Fresu Quintet - Ballads (Splasch Records). Fresu has a way with ballads that just hits me right.

Chris Botti - Vol. 1 (Blue Note). Jazzier than his usual stuff but still skates really close to the smoother side of things. I am enjoying it but I don't think it'll be put on when I'm looking for some foot tapping.