Kevin Bresnahan

Although there doesn't appear to be any formal confirmation of this, he had been ill for quite a while, so it is not unexpected. I consider myself lucky to have seen so many Jazz greats - and Ray was one of them. He was a force on the bass. I've been meaning to pick up a few more of Ray's Arabesque CDs. I have "Vignettes" and it's really nice. I'll have to play that in his memory.

I saw Gumbs once when he was in his straight ahead phase in the early 00's, but he was off my radar for most of his other visits to the Boston area, when he was more on the smooth side of things. He was quite the pianist that one time I saw him.

We have a family of deer in our neighborhood.

Recorded In Englewood Cliffs, NJ; January 4, 1971 (#1-5) and July 9, 1971 (#6-11). #1-5 originally released as Turn It On! (Prestige 10012); #6-11 as Black Vibrations (Prestige 10032).

I just bought a copy at the Bull Moose store in Portsmouth, NH for $7.

I always appreciated brownie's posts. He was such positive presence here.

I have quite a few of the Legends of Acid Jazz CDs. The graphics suck, especially if you want to actually read what's written in front of said graphics. For instance, on this CD: This is the back of the booklet: Have fun reading that. I'm spinning this now and it's pretty darn good, crappy graphics and all.

I have a ton of Stitt's records but I never got around to that "Legends of Acid Jazz" CD, mostly because Stitt plays with a varitone attachment on this session & I am not a big fan of that sound. It's now going for over $20 on the used market, so I'm out. If I find one in the cheapie bin, maybe. Especially since, as I said, I have a ton of Stitt already.

I've been meaning to pick up a copy of this for a while. I'll have to rectify that one of these days.

I was a season ticket holder with the Boston Celtics for close to a decade and in the old Boston Garden, they most definitely had a "basketball organist".

Alan Dawson & Richard Davis were locked and loaded for quite a few years with Booker Ervin for his "books".

Gheorghe - I missed that your wife had died. I am so sorry to hear this. 47 is too soon to be taken away.

Fixed it for ya...

This is a bummer. Such a great player. Subtlety at its finest.

Church organ and roller rink organ are two very different breeds. Church organ makes me think slow, somber held notes. Roller rink organ is not slow or somber and lightly held notes. But that's just me. Catholic churches were dark & somber in general, so it makes sense that I'd think that about the organ playing. Best church organ song ever:

That's funny - that's exactly how I described it. Michael Cuscuna was not amused when I used it when talking with him about it.

This is a comp of Cecil Payne 's "Performing Charlie Parker Music" & "The Connection", both on the Charlie Parker Music label. I have a CD of "Performing Charlie Parker Music" but not this version of "The Connection". Weirdly, this version of "The Connection" has nothing to do with the other two versions by Freddie Redd. Are they supposed to be related at all?

I tried contacting them last year about this but they never responded. Their loss. I love Christmas Jazz. I typically buy one or two titles each year. They are making it hard to do now. Kinda fucked up.

I was never able to buy this Christmas album. I see that Amazon is still selling the 6 separate tracks for $1.39 each. Do they think this is the best way to sell this music? Is it working?

Maybe - but I only get one shot at this thing called life and if I'm wrong, I could end up dead sooner rather than later. Since I already have heart issues, I am just a bit more concerned with a study showing even a slight increased risk of heart attack from THC use. I've already dodged cancer once. Maybe I can dodge this heart thing too.

You might also be unaware of the Mobile Fidelity fiasco. They have been producing hundreds of titles advertised as "straight from the analog masters", while doing the exact same "unprocessed and untweaked" transfers of the analog masters at 24/192 PCM or high sampled DSD and still calling them fully analog LPs (the old AAA). They were not. The uproar over this move continues today. There was a class action lawsuit over it, resulting in Music Direct (MoFi's parent company) settling for something like $10 Million in credits to buyers. There are a lot of unhappy buyers. Personally, I think most of the people who are really upset are just pissed because this showed that "the emperor has no clothes" when it comes to analog vs. digital. There were quite a lot of "analog can't be beat" reviewers that looked really bad when the LPs they were holding up as the best-sounding versions of certain recordings were actually processed in the digital domain. They then looked stupid when they changed their reviews to say that they thought they sounded bad because they were digitally mastered. I have zero respect for anyone who pulled this. I don't think this A/D conversion is a bad thing myself, as I am very aware of digital audio's ability to replicate the full audio spectrum, particularly when done at 24/192 (PCM) or even better when done using high sample rate DSD. It's a whole lot of noise over nothing.

From the samples out there, it sounds pretty good to me. BTW - another reason to maybe go for the CD version - Side A has almost 29 minutes of music on it. This means that it had to be cut with some bass reduction to allow the cutter to tighten up the grooves to fit them onto the side.

If someone is looking for a real medical study showing an actual link between THC and health risks, this one should do the trick: Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack It certainly got me to re-think the use of THC gummies to help me sleep. I have several friends who swear by 5 mg gummies before bed but given this new study, it's not worth it for me.

I don't know what you're missing. He also said: They were transferred by me, personally, at The Mastering Lab at 24/192, and those files remained UNPROCESSED and untweaked throughout the digital steps for LP production. Maybe you're unaware that 24/192 is a digital term? Even if you are, he clarified that when he talked about "digital steps" & then bluntly stated, "What you hear on the LP is those flat 24/192 files". He digitized the analog tapes to 24 bit/192 kHz digital, period. 24/192 is digital - it's not analog. Given this info, I don't see why anyone would buy the LP. Although at my age, I do appreciate the large LP artwork.

If you look into this Free Press article. they cite a study that has little backing for their conclusions. Their article is based on an internet-only study with no clinical follow-up: https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(25)00018-6/abstract Basically, they had an online survey where they asked a bunch of people who claim to smoke a lot of marijuana if they get sick and based on their answers, made a conclusion that marijuana smoking is the only reason for their problems. A study like this could be done for almost any medical condition.