Kevin Bresnahan

That DoubleTime 2-CD set had 4 tracks of previously unissued material too: You won't get those on the new Tone Poet LP.

And I have no problem with this. But at least you're not saying, "No issues with that for me, so it must be your turntable setup", which seems to be the mantra over at the Hoffman forums. I get that people can play this without issue. Heck, I could play it when I swapped my cartridge. What I don't get is when someone tries to tell me that my $700 Ortofon cartridge on my $1,000 Denon turntable is the problem. I have played thousands of records on that setup without any overload on any other LPs, including the infamous "hot cut" Led Zeppelin II cut by Bob Ludwig. My setup is fine. FWIW, I own Hi-Fi News Analogue Test LP and both of my turntable setups pass the "torture test" tracks and play a majority of the anti-skate tests without distortion.

Not really: https://www.discogs.com/master/351706-Sonny-Stitt-Sonnys-Last-Recordings Just click each picture, right mouse click the cover photo, copy and paste. Took a few seconds tops. BTW - I didn't even include the original cover.

Holy cow, that Stitt at Bubba's stuff has seen a few releases over the years. You know, I've seen a few of these and never thought to pick it up. BTW - Jaws only plays on track 6 & Edison only plays on tracks 3 & 6.

That is certainly true. It's really weird that the artwork on that CD didn't have it in large print on the obi, especially considering that the Japanese just adored RVG. It would've certainly been a selling point, even back in 1986.

I only heard the distortion with my 2 Ortofon 2M Black cartridges. When I switched to my back up cart, a Denon 110th Anniversary DL-103 cartridge, which tracks at almost double the VTF of the 2M Black, it played back fine. Therefore, there is no distortion on that master tape!! You cannot undo distortion! It's just not possible. You can certainly make that distortion play back perfectly, but you cannot adjust it away. BTW - this also means that the distortion I was hearing was being induced by my cartridge. Yes. I say that is true. I've never denied this. It is my setup. But this same setup has played back THOUSANDS of records without any issues. This means that my setup is fine except when playing back one of Kevin Gray's super-hot cuts. I cannot play it back with my regular setup. I should be able to. That's all. And before anyone asks, I sent it to Lon months ago and his turntable is playing it fine so everyone is happy. I just wish Blue Note would admit that it's a hot cut to stop all of these armchair quarterbacks from trying to tell me it's not a hot cut so it must be my setup. My setup is fine.

Wasn't it determined that most of these early CP32 CDs are digital dupes of the US versions of these CDs that were mastered by Ron McMaster? In fact, the first Blue Note CDs sold in the US had CP32 CDs made in Japan with US artwork: https://www.discogs.com/release/12363492-Cannonball-Adderley-Somethin-Else

Since I'm pretty sure my post will get removed, I've decided to drop a comment here for posterity. This is a continuing disagreement I've had with someone named Dean R who claims that he has a copy of the master used to cut "Passing Ships" and that this master has the same distortion. This LP played back with major distortion with 2 out of 3 of my cartridges on my two turntables. I was able to get a clean playback when I switched to a much heavier tracking cartridge. Dean R said: Apologies, either I haven't been clear or you have misunderstood me. When the mix was done it was run off to an analogue tape, and also saved as a digital file. I have a WAV of the raw mix used for the Tone Poet master, before mastering. There is no doubt from listening to that that there is distortion on the saxophone as recorded. And to me it is clear that in mastering for both the Tone Poet that it has been toned down, but to my ears it is still there (but that could be confirmation bias as I know it is there). However it is also clear that in the mix done for the original CD that sax is either mixed or mastered in such away to negate the distortion. It isn't obvious unless you've heard the new mix that really does present what is on the tape, but once you have heard that, it is clear that it has been messed with in some way. Again as far as I'm concerned none of this really matters, all three versions that I have sound great. But if you are hearing the distortion and you don't like it, that is of course a problem. My reply: And again you seem to miss that some people can play the Tone Poet of "Passing Ships" without any distortion at all. If anyone can play it back without distortion, then there is no distortion on the master used to cut it. It can't be any clearer than this: If there is any distortion on a master tape, all playback media will have that distortion. All CDs will have that distortion. All LP cuts will play back with that distortion. You cannot undo distortion by changing your VTF. Look at Art Blakey's "The Witch Doctor" session. There is mic overload on the drums. That mic overload is clearly on the master tape as it shows up on every LP & every CD of this session. Nothing can be done to remove it. If your analog tape copy of the master of "Passing Ships" has distortion, that simply means that whoever made that tape had the recording levels set too high. I'm sure that anyone who has ever made a cassette dub knows that those recording levels matter and if you overload the input, you get distortion.

I wonder how Cuscuna & Van Gelder got involved with this release? I can't think of many other CDs from this era that had Van Gelder's mastering. The masters were in California by then and most of the Japanese CDs from the CP32 series were mastered by Ron McMaster in California.

One of my favorite autographs...

He's got Yoron Israel on drums scheduled for his visit Thursday. It's a rhythm section of Berklee professors. I was actually hoping he would have brought Barry Altschul, his usual drummer in France, with him on this tour, I've never seen Barry.

In for these but obviously, if "Jazz Sahara" is already gone, not that one. Did Colin ever get back to you on that title? Abdul-Malik, Ahmed Jazz Sounds of Africa $8 Abdul-Malik, Ahmed Jazz Sahara $8 Adams, Pepper Encounter! $6 Adams Pepper Conjuration $6 Adderley, Nat Branching Out $7 Adderley, Nat In The Bag $7 Adderley, Nat That's Right! $7 Allen, Geri General Music Project $8 Allen, Harry Blue Skies $4 Ashby, Dorothy In a Minor Groove $10

I am watching the weather this week, as Ricky Ford is making his first trip to the Boston area in many years on Thursday (2/23) when he is scheduled to play at Arthur's House of Jazz in Methuen. They are currently predicting an ice storm. Shit. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw Ford play live but I'm thinking it was sometime in the late-90s. I'm a bit surprised that he's chosen to play at Arthur's, as it is a rather small club and I have to wonder if he wouldn't pull a crowd at one of the larger venues in the area. Maybe he wants to go small?

This thread is weird... I assume there were posts edited or removed because it doesn't make much sense now.

2020 US traffic deaths: 38,680 2020 US gun deaths: 45,222 And this was 2020, when less people were driving on the roads due to the COVID pandemic. It's not political to say that guns are a problem. It's political when you talk about how to solve that problem.

I dropped cable several years ago and switched to YouTubeTV but back when I did have it, I listened to Music Choice's Real Jazz channel many times and I chuckled when they played organissimo one day.

I always wondered how OJC decided which CD release would get called limited. The only real difference was the price. Those limited edition releases were about $3 more. But they were never limited. They were in print for as long as they made OJC CDs.

Also available on a 2 CD set with this cover: The audio was so terrible that I didn't even rip it to my hard drive before I sold it. The sound of the Kelly/Mobley Left Bank recording is better but rather "thin" sounding, meaning not much bass & Mobley's sax is little recessed in the soundstage but still worth keeping for this Mobley fan.

I have this record and while I haven't played it in a while, I remember it being pretty good. Not a fan of the cover art though. It seems fitting that the artist, Rich Sigberman, also does artwork for children's books. Herb Wong died in 2014. I wonder who is running the Quicksilver label now?

This morning, I looked at discogs and I would swear that there was only 1 CD copy of "In The Idiom" less than $20. Now, there are like 6 copies under $15!

Valerie died in 2017 but I don't think she would have been compensated anyway. She was Walter Bishop's ex-wife, not his widow.

Damn... I'm entering old fart territory. I've only heard of one of these leaders.

I enjoyed "In The Idiom" on Denon from Japan. Killer band.

I saw him last year and he did play "Happy People" for what seemed like a half hour at the end of the set and I thought it was fun. I think he only played piano on one tune at that show though. I wasn't that impressed by it so I doubt I would have wanted to a whole set with it. I suppose if it's working for Nicholas Payton, maybe Garrett can make it work too?

"Hotel California" certainly seems to get overplayed but maybe not when considering classic rock playlists these days. I swear, most classic rock stations cycle through the same songs every 3 or 4 hours. So while you will hear "Hotel California" quite often, you'll also hear several other songs on repeat. And BTW, the surround sound version found on the DVD-Audio disc sounds pretty incredible. It's one of those mixes where they put in the middle of the band. It's pretty cool.