Kevin Bresnahan

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.

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Plus (Riverside) on the OJC CD. I still can't believe that I don't have this in my CD stacks somewhere. I'll probably find it a few days after I get in the one I just ordered.

"Boss Tenor" was recorded in 1960, so most certainly a stereo master tape. By 1960, Van Gelder's mono masters were fold downs of the stereo masters. I have the later RVG CD of "Boss Tenor", which I kept after doing an A/B to the old OJC. I don't remember which one I had so I can't help you there. 1960 original release LP cover...

Is that the one that got pulled for some reason?

Jazz Profile by Jack Gordon on Fruscella: https://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2020/04/tony-fruscella-by-gordon-jack.html I found it kinda sad to read. The guy clearly had a drug & alcohol problem that pretty much ruined him.

Thanks for pointing that out. I missed that. Good to know he made it through. I was wondering what happened since he posted a lot prior to his Covid episode.

I still consider this one Douglas' best CDs. I haven't played it in a while myself. Maybe time to pull it off the shelf again.

Kirsten Edkins - Shapes & Sound (Cohearent Records). The first (?) release from this label, whose stated goal is to capture Jazz musicians similar to the way it was done in the late 50's & 60's - with minimal miking & all tube gear. As for the music itself. Very nice if a little laid back. The pianist, Gerald Clayton is the only bad member I've heard of but the rest of them hold their own. This is a very enjoyable listen. The reason for the ? after first is because label head Kevin Gray released a Victor Feldman LP called "In My Pocket" back in 1978 on his label, which he called Cohearent Sound. I don't know why he gave the name a little tweek.

What bugs me the most is that one of the posters who does this frequently, who posts under the moniker "Josquin des Prez", did it recently: [QUOTE="Josquin des Prez, post: 31496586, member: 30945"]Yeah, you might have your TT setup wrong. Most people get it basically right, but settle on it too quickly since that works for most things. However, that may not work well for corner cases, like records with greater than average tracking challenges. PoH is one of them, for example. If you listen to large-scale orchestral classical works getting setup fine-tuned and correct is critical. There are some Mahler brass choirs playing fortissimo that are not unlike those sections on PoH where Chet pushes the mic. I'm not in denial about it. Joe and Kevin have addressed the concerns, and Blue Note published a statement about. Ignore or deny it if you want, but the fact of the matter is that PoH does not have a mastering issue.[/QUOTE] I quoted this post and said that it was rather rude to say that and my post quoting this was deleted, not his. On top of that, I clicked the "Report" button on that post and it is still there. It's sad that a forum that claims to be full of audiophiles allows certain posters to say shit like this about other poster's abilities/setups and get a pass. If I did that, they'd kick me off. It's the favoritism over there that really sucks.

Damn - I don't have this on CD! I don't know if I had it and lost it or if I never got around to it. Does anyone know if the new copies available on Amazon are CD-Rs or regular CDs?

Maybe I'm missing your point but I'll try not to be a jerk about it... I have been one of the ones complaining about the distortion on that thread because there are several posters... some being real assholes about it... that keep claiming that the distortion is not due to the record being cut too hot and that my playback problems are due to my setup. My setup is not the problem. The cut is too hot. And I must add that the distortion on my turntables made the track "Plantation Bag" un-enjoyable to listen to so I gave it to Lon. That's how bad it was. The sax & piano broke up loudly and really intruded into the music presentation. I don't know how anyone would want to listen to this again. FWIW, if people would stop saying "It's your setup" on that thread, I would stop politely telling them they are wrong. I'd love to tell them they are full of shit, but I can't over there. So it's simple - they stop telling those of us who can't play that record without distortion that our setup is the problem and we'll stop correcting their misguided statements. But even simpler would be for Blue Note to actually admit it was cut too hot and end this debate. When they came out and said, "We don't hear it". it opened the door to this. If they had simply said, "Yeah, it appears we cut this too hot for some cartridges", I don't think we'd be having this seemingly endless argument over there. Most of us would read their statement and move on. Sure, there would be some calls for a re-cut (and I do believe that it should've already happened) but at least the personal sniping about how inept we are at setting up our turntables would stop.

Where are you reading about people complaining about the music on the Tone Poet LP? I've only read about people complaining about the couple of spots of distortion during playback on the track "Plantation Bag". That was my only complaint. The music was fine. Not my favorite Hill date for sure, but still well worth releasing.

Yeti travel mugs have almost unbelievable thermal retention. I can fill one with hot coffee and after an hour drive, it's still very hot as if it was just poured.. The only drawback to them is that they are pretty expensive.

I went there in the late 90's while vacationing in London. I was pretty disappointed. I went through the whole place and had no luck at all. Now that Tower Records store in Piccadilly Circus... that was nirvana. It was convenient too. Come up the tube escalator, grab a coffee at the Dunkin' Donut shop right at the top of the escalator and then a few steps across the street and bam - you were at a great CD shop. I must've bought 10 Japanese CDs during that trip.

I'm surprised that you haven't gotten the chance to see Ford play live more recently. I'm pretty sure that he is still living in France. I think he's been living there for almost 30 years now. I guess he doesn't tour around Europe much?