Kevin Bresnahan

I am not usually a fan of thread necrophilia, but I am thinking about picking up a CD of Dickerson's "Impressions of a Patch of Blue" from the Verve Elite series. What are the thoughts on this CD? It's going for about $20 right now but I'm on the fence after sampling some tunes on YouTube. Seems rather sleepy.

Not tonight, but tomorrow night - The Cookers at Scullers in Boston. I've caught this band on every swing through the area. This is a "can't miss" event for me. I'm posting a little early because there are still a few seats left to both shows. I'll be right up front for the first set.

For the original release in Japan in 1966, they clearly tried to capitalize on Shorter's presence:

I wish I was into getting stuff signed back in the days when I saw Mulgrew on a semi-regular basis.

Oh - so this is a live date? From what I read in Dusty Groove's blurb about "the mix", I thought it was recorded in a large hall purposefully for release. BTW - Phil's website has a video of this from the same year (2005) recorded at the Marciac Jazz Festival in pretty good sound: https://www.philwoods.com/discography/item/400-phil-woods-bird-with-strings

Why didn't this get released years ago? It was recorded almost 18 years ago (June, 2005) when Phil was still with us. It might have been nice if he could've made a few extra bucks back then.

Here's a fun write-up on Ronnie's Steeplechase dates (written in 2018 so it's missing a few of the last ones): https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2018/09/cuberquest-ronnie-cuber-on-steeplechase.html

That was my impression as well. I assume you meant Xanadu or Steeplechase and not Muse though.

From the Mosaic Select box... Curtis Amy & Paul Bryant - The Blues Message (Pacific Jazz). Nice blues here. Unusual in that it has a bassist with an organ player which honestly anchors these blues tunes a bit more. I love a nice walking bass line on a slow blues tune. This would make an excellent Tone Poet LP.

My favorite Strayhorn date is "Cue For Saxophone"

All someone has to do is start a label in Switzerland and release a bunch of Beatles or Rolling Stones LPs on "Switzerland PD" CDs and watch how quickly they change those rules. It's never a problem to screw with the "little guys"... not when you mess with the money.

I have learned that because these Ezz-thetics CDs are being issued in Switzerland, which is not part of EU, they fall into some sort of PD black hole. I thought that was only true for Andorra, but apparently not. So these may be PD in Switzerland unless someone can tell us otherwise. This will change quickly if Ezz-thetics decides to start releasing Beatles CDs.

So Steeplechase is going the PD route now too? Although I suppose they could have negotiated with the estate. The thing I wonder about these deals with musicians' estates is if these family members ever consider if these musicians even wanted these sessions released.

I actually didn't keep "The Scene Is Clean". It was a long time ago, so I don't remember why but it definitely wasn't something I would play repeatedly. It's not like I don't have enough of Ronnie's CDs though. I still have 15 other titles.

Shit. This really sucks.

Bumping this up... How about $30?

Yup. He ragged on free jazz too. I imagine his raps are somewhere on YouTube but I really don't need to hear them again.

I only saw Lou with an organ player. A couple of times with Dr. Lonnie Smith and another couple of times with Akiko Tsuruga in the organ chair. I swear that he played the exact same set, song for song, every time I saw him and he often had the same chats between the songs. Funny one time, a chuckle for the second time and then, "Really Lou?" by the third time. I do agree with Gheorghe on Foster's block chord playing. On "Forgotten Man", it does get very repetitive and is part of the reason why I said it was not bad but not great. At one of those shows, I got one of my favorite autographs.

Is there any sort of listing of the ones that were destroyed? It's such a shame too, as some of my favorite LP titles never made it to CD, like Billy Mitchell's "Colossus of Detroit", Sam Noto's "Notes To You", Ronnie Cuber's "The Eleventh Day of Aquarius", several Al Cohn dates or the "Live At Montreux" sessions, not to mention a bunch of titles that I was only to find on Japanese CDs. I've done needle-drops of most them by now but it would've been nice to get clean digital music from the master.

Given the sheer size of the OJC catalog, I don't think we'll ever see them all done this way.

If you have SACD playback capability, there is that option (and it has all of those bonus tracks too).

Benny Carter - Jazz Giant (Contemporary/Craft). This is the new LP that just came out a few months ago. It sounds very good. The covers on these Craft LPs are so much better than the ones made for Blue Note's "Classic Vinyl" releases, which sell for around the same price. Blue Note should emulate these covers rather than the cheap Rainbo knock-offs.

Dexter Gordon - Jive Fernando (Chiaroscuro Records). The sound isn't great on this. Gordon goes on & off mike in places. I bought this because I figured it was legit (Chiaroscuro right?) but it looks like it's not. "Jive Fernando" is really "Fried Bananas" and "Montmartre" is mis-titled as "Momadua". They even got the bass player's name all wrong. What a mess they made of this. This is going into the trade/sell pile.

Lou Donaldson - Forgotten Man (Timeless). Typical "Lou plays like Bird" LP but with the added bonus of twangy early-80s bass sound. It's not bad but I wouldn't call it great either. Not a huge fan of Lou's singing either. It's not terrible, but I think he might have better off sticking to the sax.