Kevin Bresnahan

For new arrivals here at the Big O board, you should know about organissimo's Christmas tunes. These links still work as far as I can tell. Ho ho ho.

When I was a kid, I had a paper route. They had a contest for adding new customers. I won. My prize was a GE AM transistor radio. This was the radio:

She's still on Facebook and seems to be posting.

I wear my late father's 80s-era Rolex Datejust every day.

The put 3 of the 6 tracks on the compilation "A Stranger in Town". I didn't release this CD had material that wasn't on other CDs, so I never even thought about picking it up.

Christine McVie has died at the age of 79. I was a big fan of Fleetwood Mac for quite a while. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/christine-mcvie-keyboardist-singer-fleetwood-194810349.html

Hino has seemed to disappear or retire since that unfortunate incident with his student back in 2017. I had always hoped to get a chance to see & hear him play. That looks unlikely now.

It's on this CD: The same track soulpope refers to above is found in the 7 CD box set called "Live Trane - The European Tours". It's actually from Stockholm in 1962, not 1963 as the YouTube video title says. I think they are the same recording though.

It doesn't look like any of the Heath Brothers' 4 Columbia LPs have ever been on CD, even in Japan. Weird.

How does a federal agency get away with having a secret committee? Given that there's money involved, you don't want the word "secret" attached to it. Seems weird.

George played great but he's not in good physical shape. He's not mobile at the moment. Hopefully he can regain his feet in the future.

I saw The Cookers last night in Portsmouth. Good times with a lot of my local Jazz buds. The band was cooking. Eddie Henderson, David Weiss, Billy Harper, Donald Harrison, George Cables, Cecil McBee & Billy Hart. The only negative was that my ears were ringing for quite a while after the show due to Hart's incessant use of his cymbles. I forgot he was in the drum chair... I usually bring an ear plug for my right ear when Billy's playing.

How do "we" get Michael Cuscuna nominated for an NEA Jazz Masters Award? Does a nomination have to come from someone in the industry or the press?

Even if you use one of these cloud servers, you should still have a local back-up of your most prized files. These is nothing in your service contract with any cloud company saying, "We will never go out of business".

At least she has clothes on while she plays.

I almost think that Davis sounds drunk or something. He's so far behind the beat in places he makes Dexter Gordon look quick.

It really bums me out to re-read this thread after the years have passed and see most of the great artwork is gone. I actually used one of the covers from this thread for some CD artwork in my collection. It was so well done, there was no way i was going to improve on it. I really do wish that I had saved all of them so I could re-insert them now. There were so many great covers in here. Edit to change "all" to "most"...

I'm listening again to this and I do have to agree with Chuck that it's probably Charles Davis' playing that has kept this date from being released. But now that Michael Cuscuna is gone and Blue Note seems more willing to release stuff like this, I suspect we all might get a chance to hear this on a official release someday.

I've never been able to catch Alden live. It seems like every time he plans to play in the Boston area, something happens and he has to cancel. The last time was many years ago now. I wonder if he'll ever make back this way?

I'm seeing that it can be streamed but I can't seem to find a CD copy anywhere. What I'm hearing sounds very nice.

Just finished: David Schnitter - Thundering (Muse). Now playing: Woody Shaw - Lotus Flower (Enja)

I have enjoyed this CD for many years. I picked it up on release mainly because he used Renee Rosnes on piano and back then, I bought everything she was on. I also seem to remember that it was a featured CD in the BMG Music Club flyer and I am pretty sure i got it from that.

Jackie McLean - Tippin' The Scales (Blue Note). This is the new Tone Poet LP and it does sound really good. But this is one of McLean's Blue Notes when he hits those sour notes every now & then. I am not as much of a fan of that sharp stuff but the band does cook. This LP also has the benefit of addition by subtraction. The CD has 3 alternates and they never did sound different enough to my ears to make them worthy of inclusion.

But again, requiring a paid subscription goes against the wishes of the Carter family. And I do have Amazon Prime Music, but on November 1st, they rendered that service pretty much useless when they removed the ability to stream specific tunes, only allowing for a "random" playback. A few days ago, I clicked on a Joe Chambers tune from his Horace Silver tribute CD and got a tune from a gospel singer.

Selfies have been killing people at an alarming rate for quite a while now. It's no surprise that Tik-Tok is right there with them. I once went to the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland while visiting on business and there was a space where you could walk right up the edge and look down. The guy I was with went out there and stood to look out. It was windy as hell and I told him he was crazy. I crawled out on my hands & knees and peeked out near the edge. Couldn't do it. It was too much for me. After we left, we were telling someone at the hotel about our trip and they were saying that those winds blow people off the cliffs quite frequently. I hear it's about 10 people per year. I've been told that they have been putting up a berm in front of the viewing path, with a fence along the top so this number is likely to go down now... although I'm sure some idiots will climb over the fence for that selfie.