Kevin Bresnahan

Sheila will be performing at the Mad Monkfish in Boston on December 16th. As an added bonus, she will have Yoko Miwa's great piano trio backing her. There will be a 7:00 & 9:00 show. Try to buy tickets early and get a table near the stage. The Mad Monkfish is a restaurant as well as a jazz bar, so not everyone there is into the music - if you get my drift. I wish I could make it. I have a prior commitment.

I guess they figure that if it works for Fresh Sound, why not?

When did Hat Art/ezz-thetics go full bootleg? This stuff isn't anywhere near PD in Switzerland and there's no mention of "licensed from" on the CD art:

Bumping this to the top... I was perusing a "What are you listening to now" thread and Kloss' name came up. Does anyone know how he's doing?

Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles (A&M). Followed soon by: Sting - ...Nothing Like The Sun (A&M)

While I was a bit too old for Sesame Street, my sister watched it all the time, and with only one TV in the house, I watched it a bit too. Looking back at it now, I realize it was "pre-school" before that was a thing and Bob McGrath was a big part of it.

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?