Kevin Bresnahan

I've seen Bobby Watson live many times. Too many to count. You should definitely catch him if he comes through your area.

What is the story behind this cover? It's not your typical Impulse! cover. Was it Roy's idea?

I can see a few in there that interest me. Jack Wilson's "Easterly Winds" is one I'd like to hear done right. But as is usual, I will wait until they come out to make sure I don't buy a bad cut. I was surprised the other day when I watched a video interview of Joe Harley and he said that Kevin Gray was the same age as he was. Joe is 72. I thought Gray was much younger than that.

Oooo... a skinny hinge SACD! Don't break that jewel case. They are almost impossible to replace these days.

The one that had 14 x 14 B&W Francis Wolff photos are great to hang on the wall. The later ones, one color & one B&W are smaller (~12 x 12) but can still look good if you can frame it without the hole they put through the top of each picture.

Not a fan of this, I'll pass.

I ordered this based on the recs here. I am a sucker for anything that Higgins plays on. Cedar Walton seals the deal.

How is the sound on the quartet material on Disc 2? I am a lot more interested in that than the big band stuff.

I wish I were that big of a fan of Mayall's music. If I bought this, I doubt that I'd get from start to finish.... ever.

It is done mainly for 5.1 (surround) audio but it is also considered "high resolution" as they can encode the audio uncompressed at 24 bit/192 kHz. If done right, it can sound really good. I've been buying some rock releases that include a BlueRay audio disc, like John Lennon's "Imagine", Pink Floyd's "Animals 2018 Remix" and The Beatles "Abbey Road", and they sound really good, particularly in my surround system. Your mileage may vary.

The one on my bucket list is the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. I've wanted to go to that festival for years. I did go to the Marciac Jazz Festival in France many years ago (~1998) and that was not something I'd repeat. Many, many years ago, I booked myself & my wife on a Jazz cruise. Gerry Mulligan, who I never saw, was the headliner. Life interceded so I had to cancel and it turned out to be Gerry's last few shows before he died. I've still yet to go on a Jazz cruise. Maybe someday.

Too much for me, to be honest.

Have people actually received this? Seems too good to be true.

Glad to hear it is able to re-open so quickly. I just hope they didn't cut too many corners to get open so quickly. They mention water damage. Water damage needs to be repaired the same as fire damage or it can cause problems in the future. Wet wood & sheet rock molds and rots. Black mold can cause health problems and rotted wood can fail. If they don't fix the water damage at some point, they might eventually find themselves in bigger trouble later.

Ok then... this brings up the obvious question as to why they felt the need to cheapen the look of their Jazz Heritage releases so dramatically. They owned the MuiscMasters material so why not just release it using a different label for your music club members? I always thought those black & white Blue Note covers looked like bootlegs. This look dramatically reduced their resale value too. I don't think I've ever paid more than a few bucks for any used Jazz Heritage CD. Doesn't this look like a bootleg?

A thank you to this thread as it allowed me to discover that David Binney put out a CD of all ambient music called "Where Infinity Begins" this past March. I enjoy playing ambient music on the headphones while I'm working and this one was worth picking up after listening to it via bandcamp.

I wonder why they chose to play Binney's track "Solo" from "Third Occasion" instead of the title track? The album is streaming on bandcamp: https://davidbinney.bandcamp.com/album/third-occasion I think the title track is pretty good. It's certainly not "free" and likely would not have gotten Lou all riled up.

I only bought a couple of Lloyd's ECM CDs and that was because he had Billy Higgins playing drums. I remember liking "The Water Is Wide" quite a bit back when I first heard it but have not played it in a while. So far, I am not digging his latest releases from Blue Note (A Trio of Trios). I have listened to the first two trio records and they are pretty boring. I should get in the 3rd and final trio LP soon. I don't expect much.

Stock losses also seem to have little to do with the health of a company's business. I work at a large company and I can't tell you how many times our stock price has dropped after they reported record earnings, mainly because some stock weenie decided that the record earnings weren't as high as they wanted. Stock values are too closely tied to growth. A company can kick major ass and report billions of dollars in revenues and still get killed in the stock market because they didn't meet the market's growth expectations. I think it's ridiculous that a billion dollar company can be considered "failing" because their growth is in the single digits. This "grow or die" mentality is really messed up.

I am pretty sure that all Jazz Heritage (Society) releases are licensed from other labels. These Brubeck releases are licensed from MusicMasters. They were budget releases available mail order to JHS members. They usually convert the LP/CD cover to black & white to differentiate them from the original.

Wretches & Jabberers Motion Picture Soundtrack (Rumor Mill Records)

This was never released on LP except for the Jazz Heritage LP that came out in 1994.

A full digital recording from 1992? Just pick up the cheap CD version. No need to pay big bucks for the vinyl.

Or Cleopatra with bad gas.