Kevin Bresnahan

I wonder "Bandcamp Friday" works with downloads like these? I highly doubt that Stitt's estate gets anything from it.

Brothers Sun on Netflix was enjoyable. The previews come across as a gangster show, which it is, but it has some humor in it, if maybe more of the gallows type.

Let's see if these images stick...

In my experience, a blue screen of death is often an early warning sign that your hard drive is dying. If you want to keep using that machine, there are (free) programs that allow you to clone your existing hard drive onto a new one. I would not necessarily recommend doing that with a Windows 7 machine, but if that's what you have, that's what you clone. I have two backup hard drives with my current Windows 10 system cloned onto them. If my current hard drive dies, I can still get back up & running.

I asked Michael Cuscuna about this session and he says that the tape for this session hasn't been found. I assume this entry in the discography is from the tape logs.

Pierre Sprey was a whack-a-doodle but this is a great CD.

Searching for Jazz vinyl and I tripped on this one... sexual innuendo has been a part of the blues canon since the beginning but there's not much subtlety here - unless you count the cover shot. https://ebalunga.bandcamp.com/album/my-pussy-belongs-to-daddy After listening to some samples, I'm going to give this a shot - https://wojtekmazolewskiquintet-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-to-all

You are right on that. The 95 year expiration is just for video recordings. I was blinded by Steamboat Willie's recent appearance in the PD. This is what I found for sound recordings: Recordings first published between 1947-1956 are protected for 110 years. For all remaining recordings first made prior to February 15, 1972, protection shall end on February 15, 2067. Recorded after February 15, 1972, 95 years from publication or 120 years from recording date, whichever is shorter. Which is just ridiculous.

Pre-1962 is still bootleg in the US, but public domain in the EU. US PD is currently sitting at 1928.

https://www.mosaicrecords.com/product/the-complete-sonny-clark-blue-note-sessions/ According to this discography, there are a few sessions that have only been available on Japanese LPs as well as several tracks have only been available on 45 rpm singles. Japanese LPs: LNJ (J) 70093 Sonny Clark Quintets GXF (J) 3051 Blues In The Night GXF (J) 3069 The Art Of The Trio 45 rpm session: Sonny Clark, piano; Jymie Merritt, bass; Wes Landers, drums. Hackensack, N.J. November 15, 1958 Tk. 3 Black Velvet 45-1731 Tk. 4 I’m Just A Lucky So And So 45-1730 Tk. 5 Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You 45-1731 Tk. 8 Ain’t No Use 45-1730 Tk. 9 The Breeze And I 45-1729 Tk. 13 I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 45-1729 This discography seems to have missed the recently released LP of "My Conception" in the Tone Poet series.

Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" was one of the first CDs put out by CBS/Columbia during the earliest days of CD production. It was pressed in Japan with a matrix number of DP35 4 and sold in the US in a longbox. I am a huge Pink Floyd fan, so I bought it right away. I had it for years until the Mastersound gold CD was released, which I grabbed as it was advertised as an audiophile CD. I did this comparison way back then and in the end, I sold or gave away the older 2-track CD. Truth be told, I am not surprised that this "The 2 track version is best" stuff started over on the Hoffman forums as I believe that the person who started it either has horrible hearing or his system truly sucks, as his opinion of the audio quality of a lot of CDs has always been really off to my ears.

Just last week, I found a copy of the infamous (and expensive) 2-track CD of this recording. This early CD was released with each LP side being a "track" and the tunes of each LP side were an index. Rumor has it that indexes were originally intended to be how songs were to be placed onto the CD but other than a handful of CDs, that never happened. FWIW, as much as everyone seems to think this 2-track CD sounds incredible, I found that I preferred the Mastersound gold CD version over this. I even did a blind A/B with my wife & daughters and we all agreed that the Mastersound CD sounded better.

Did you ever receive the CD? I never did & I've chatted with Jim about it on Facebook several times. He just hasn't been able to send it for some reason.

Andrew Hill - Andrew!!! (Blue Note). This original BN is probably the last record I bought from Stereo Jack. I do miss that place.

If I hadn't just bought this, I would definitely buy it this Friday.

I know we don't talk much about equipment on this thread but I want to bring up an interesting point about this Perkins LP and why I like the Ortofon 2M Black cartridge. This Perkins LP has a light but visible surface scratch across most of side 1. I could see it but couldn't feel it so I gave it a shot, the reason being that the Ortofon 2M Black stylus seems to go deeper into the grooves and surface scratches like this are not heard. I was right. This LP played perfectly. I like that this nude Shibata stylus design seems to avoid many surface scratches as if they are not there.

As I listen to this Perkins LP, a few things stick out. Perkins seems to have a few instances where it sounds like he was having embouchure issues, as his held notes wafer in places. The second one is very weird... it sounds like the engineer varied the way he recorded the bass. Several tunes have the dreaded twang that's usually a sign of bass direct whereas others sound like the bass was mic'ed. Verdict - worth the $6 for a spin every now & then but maybe not worth recording to CD.

Bill Perkins - Journey To The East (Contemporary). I'd never heard of this one but in general, I've enjoyed Perkins' dates so I figured for $6, I'd give it a try. It looks like it's never been out on CD.

All of this material is on the Art Pepper 4 CD set, "Blues For The Fisherman". According to Laurie Pepper, the track on this LP that is titled "Y.I. Blues" was called "Untitled #34" when they recorded it at Ronnie Scott's that night. FWIW, that is a really good box of music if you don't have it & at only $22, it's a steal.

Junior Mance - Live at the Top (Atlantic). With David Newman on a few tracks. Kind of a funky mix of jazz and blues in a Ray Charles/Cannonball Adderley way. Not bad for $6. LP looks like it was barely played.

In that scene, Bosch was playing "Doxy" from Miles' "Bags Groove".

According to discogs, all hardcopies of this release have that cover. I suppose if you simply download it, there is no cover.

Eddie Higgins' "When Your Lover Has Gone", while not being one of the worst Venus covers, is available on Sunnyside as "Zoot's Hymns" with a very different cover. I think the cover shot of Eva used on Higgins' "It's Magic" was a terrible choice by Venus. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided to use that photo. FWIW, Eva sued her (now late) mother to gain control over the negatives of all of these photos, so I doubt we'll ever be subjected to more of them in the future.

I don't have "Time On My Hands" but the others are all very good, especially the Jobim tribute. "When Your Lover Has Gone" (titled "Zoot's Hymns" on Sunnyside) is also worth hearing. I have to say that I really hate the cover of "A Handful Of Stars". Unlike a lot of Venus' cheesecake cover shots, this is one of Irina Ionesco's photos of her very young daughter Eva. Venus's use of semi-nude women, even if they are considered "art", is weird enough. Using a photo of a partially-nude underage girl is not weird - it's just wrong.

What song is it you want to hear...