Kevin Bresnahan

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.

It still hasn't sunk in yet that I won't see Ralph randomly show up in the drum chair at a Jazz set in the Boston area. We were all a bit spoiled that a player like Ralph could be called in when someone needed a drummer. Ralph drove the band from that drum chair. I will miss that guy.

I imagine Monty Python will be next. They'll excise the "Spot The Loony" sketch because loony is offensive. And you can't make fun of a man with 3 buttocks because that is making fun of someone with a handicap. And forget about the argument sketch!

I would go to see him at the R'bar, but I recently bought tickets to see him play with One For All at Smoke in New York on March 15th. I may go to the Warren Wolf show at Scullers instead.

That's what I get for using Wikipeda instead of discogs for my research. I have almost all of the recordings he made with Lars Gullin. I never did pick up the Getz material from Sweden though.

I have the double SACD/hybrid version that appears to go for big bucks these days. Spinning it now.

I believe this is the only recording of his that I own... RIP Mr. Riedel. I initially thought this topic was about the glass maker & I was wondering why it was in the Artists forum.

Edited to reflect that I was replying to Eric's comments about the way Don Was is running the reissue program and NOT anything negative about any upcoming release from Wayne Shorter's archives. While I think a lot of the reissues coming out are really well done, I think the loss of the personal connection to a lot of the artists as they continue to leave us is going to result in more rejected sessions seeing the light of day. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, time will tell. But I do think it's a bit sad that some of these late artists' wishes are no longer being followed. For instance, Donald Byrd told Michael Cuscuna that he didn't want the live material from Montreux released but the current team decided it was a good idea to ignore those wishes and put it out. A lot of fans of his work from that era are very happy and sales seem to be good, so Blue Note did the right thing from a business perspective. I guess I wrongly thought that Blue Note was different. I have to wonder if Wayne's rejected session is on the way now.

Ha ha ha ha... really... last word? Okay.

That's where you're wrong... you clearly want to "argue back & forth" with me as you always have an comeback for me. If you really don't want to go back and forth, just drop it.

Clearly? The cover has "Joshua Redman where are we" in large letters at the top, with "featuring Gabrielle Cavassa" in much smaller font down the bottom. I don't think that's an indication that she's on all of the tunes. I was expecting her to be on one or two tunes, not 9 out of 12.

It's not a matter of liking it or not. In general, I'm not a huge fan of vocals, so when I see a saxophone player listed as a leader, I expect that this saxophone will be the lead voice during the record. In this case, he's part of her backing band. And to clarify, as a vocalist, she's pretty good and I can understand why you like this. I just think it should be a Gabrielle Cavassa CD, not a Joshua Redman CD. It's really almost a slight to her, like they needed Redman's name on there to sell it.

I bought this expecting a Joshua Redman date. Instead, I got a Gabrielle Cavassa date. While "not a bad thing", it was not was I was expecting or wanted.

On the positive side of things, if his name really is Bill F, that name isn't appearing anywhere on line where we wouldn't want to see his name.

From what Bill has written here in the past, he would appear to be in his 80's at this point, so a long absence is likely not a good thing. Hopefully he's just on vacation.