Kevin Bresnahan

What's old is new again. Kinda like vinyl records.

The Muse Records catalog is owned by Concord and I thought I read somewhere that they aren't keen on licensing so I doubt Mosaic would get to work with them.

They're still making those things?? I had a friend who a CT90 back in 1973. It looked a lot like this new one...

I used a full-face helmet for years. It wasn't until my last year riding my Victory Cross Country that I bought an open-face helmet because the Cross Country had a windshield so I didn't need the face shield. I was living in NH when they repealed their helmet law. It was at the tail end of my initial riding days. I took a short trip to a local store and I thought I'd see what it felt like to ride without a helmet. I not only felt "naked", even with glasses on, my eyes watered so bad that I could barely see. Helmets for me.

https://15questions.net/interview/jim-snidero-about-improvisation/page-1/ Snidero: "There’s often a misunderstanding when it comes to jazz improvisation, that somehow you’re making it all up as you’re going along out of thin air. I am part of a tradition established by the greatest jazz improvisors - Bird, Miles, Coltrane, Rollins, etc … - which is that there is plenty of pre-conceived material that is used when improvising. You hear it time and again on recordings of jazz greats, the same language on multiple recordings. The trick is to be in the moment, listen, react, and most importantly, be musical." I read this as Snidero saying that every good improvisor has their favorite licks and sounds - not that they solo the same all the time. I think I know what he means because when I listen to music on the radio, I'm always trying to figure out who is playing and it's often a sound or pet lick or a combination of the two that gives me the clues as to who it is. This doesn't mean that they repeat themselves, just that they often use the same devices that make them sound like they do.

Two of these discs were sealed. Can't get more mint than that. I could swear that I owned Jimmy Smith's "Angel Eyes" but it's not in the racks. However, I don't remember it having a brown smoke tinted jewel case. Was that how it was released?

On to the next PREX purchase - Jack Montrose - Jack Montrose Sextet (Pacific Jazz). Red vinyl is cool looking but hides the fact that this record has an off center Side 1 and is crackly as hell. Only $5, so can't complain to much, especially since side 2 is in much better shape.

Johnny Hodges & Earl Hines - Stride Right (Verve). An original RVG pressing for $4 at Princeton Record Exchange. I'm digging this one. Notthing earth-shattering but fun swinging Jazz. I'm very glad I picked this one up. I wonder how Richard Davis ended up playing bass on this date?

Good god, that audio is atrocious!! If that's what the CD sounds like, I'll pass. Maximized to the point of pain. Those sibilant cymbals and s sounds hurt. And I like the Replacements, so it's not the music.

To my ears, the other 3 tunes from that session, "Blues For Mr. Tatum", "The Sleepwalker" & "The Chief", sound as good as the ones released on The Sixth Sense.

There were a few stretches of country road but mostly it was pretty busy, with plenty of areas with multiple businesses. I was on it for about a half hour before I got dumped onto 295.

That's the way Waze sent me, so yes I did.

Worth the trip! I must've walked in on a day when they got in a large collection because the vinyl new arrival bins were pretty full. I ended up buying 11 LPs and 3 CDs. One of the LPs is toast though - I played it when I got home and it skips in an area where it looked rough. I almost bought a Mosaic. The had the Shorty Rogers Atlantic LP box. I brought it up front to have them open it to check the records out and we found CDs inside of a an "MR5" box. I did not buy the CD set.

I was just chatting with Dmitry about these UA blue & black 'b' reissues' prices on another thread. I just can't believe that they are going for $100+ all over the place. I bought a bunch of these just a few years ago for less than $20 each. I think my days of shopping for BN vinyl are just about over anyway, so no biggie for me. But if I were just getting into this... wow. It'd be painful.

Sounds like it’s worth the detour. I’m not exclusively into LPs but my CD collection is pretty extensive, so I often skip the used CD sections these days. It sounds like I’ll be there a while. I figure it’s about 6 hours from there to my home in York, so I’ll have to try and time it right. But Waze hasn’t let me down in finding the fastest route home in a while. Thanks for the advice.

I’m down in Delaware visiting the in-laws. This year, I drove down by myself and I’ll be driving back to Maine by myself tomorrow as well. I’ve always wanted to stop at the Princeton Record Exchange and this looks like a perfect opportunity to see what it’s all about. But is it worth the detour? They don’t post any listings online so I have no idea what their stock is like. They’ve never sold online either, so I have no idea how they grade their records or if they sell records that belong in a dumpster. So should I go? If I do, where do I park? Is there a decent place to eat nearby if I get hungry?

I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse with my daughters when they were very young and thought he was great. Mr. Rogers is a perfect comparison. I also thought his death scene in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" was great.

I thought I read that the reverb at CBS' New York studios was done using an echo chamber? I seem to remember reading that they had one in the basement that they pumped the music into and picked up the reverb'ed sound using a single mic. From this topic over on the Steve Hoffman forum: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/history-of-cbs-records-30th-street-studio-nyc-many-pictures.388186/page-19 "Directly below 30th Street's recording room sat a simple concrete storage room that Laico and CBS head Mitch Miller transformed into one of the finest natural acoustic chambers in the world. 'After a few years, producers from around the world began visiting, wanting to know what we were doing in order to get that sound,' notes Laico. 'When in reality it was just this concrete bunker with a speaker, a U-47, and a bare lightbulb!'" Also in that thread: "Frank said that after they built the chamber and made it operational, it never really sounded right until Les Paul told them that the key was to separate the wet sound from the dry sound in time by adding a delay. In those days the only way to accomplish that was to record the signal onto tape on a machine with separate record and playback heads and then pick the recorded signal from the playback head and feed it back into the console, thus introducing a time delay. By adjusting the speed of the tape you could adjust the time delay. That simple trick "made all the difference in the world", in Frank's words, and was the key to the success of their reverb chamber."

I just got back from the Harvest Ridge Winery in Marydel, DE where I sampled several of their red wines and their one rose. All were very good. I picked up quite a few bottles for drinking at a later date. My favorite was their Cabernet Sauvignon.

I always wanted to like this one more than I do. I could never quite figure out why either. These tunes with Ben Webster are my favorites from the first Hodges Mosaic box. It's unfortunate that the majority of the material from that first box never made it to a legitimate CD release. There are those bootlegged Fresh Sound CDs but I never dropped my money on them. The vinyl Mosaic will have to do.

11 CDs with shipping for $24.85. Not too shabby. A few I've owned in the past but lost track of them so I figured I'd add them back in at these prices... Flying Colors - Joe Lovano & Gonzalo Rubalcaba $0.79 Dear Sir: Tribute To Wayne Shorter - Dale Fielder Quartet $1.27 Telepathy - Cindy Blackman $1.90 Deep Purple - Arnett Cobb $5.07 When Larry Met Harry - Larry Goldings | Harry Allen $1.69 Night Birds - Harry Allen/Totti Bergh/George Masso $2.53 With European Friends - Stan Getz $0.75 Jonas Plays Gullin – Bertil "Jonas" Jonasson $1.06 Are You Having Any Fun? - A Celebration Of The Music Of Sammy Fain - Harry Allen-Keith Ingham Quintet $2.11 Andalucia - Kevin Hays $1.06 Angel Eyes Ballads & Slow Jams - Jimmy Smith $1.06

He mentions this at around the 12:30 mark. He has to edit it down for a paperback version. He also mentions it won't be called "Reflectory".

The Gonzales brothers & their Fort Apache band were a blast to see live. They cooked on that stage. Both gone far too soon.

I would have passed too. $200 is way more than I would have been willing to pay. The last few Liberty Blue Notes I bought cost me less than $25, which I know is not reasonable today but $200 is crazy.