Kevin Bresnahan

There is a lot of good music in that set. Nothing earth-shattering, just good hard bop dates. On top of the Brignola's sessions, I do like Sal Nisitco's dates (one under his own name and another on Curtis Fuller's LP) but don't sleep on the group led "Hyde Park After Dark" with Clifford Jordan, Von Freeman & Cy Touff in the front line.

I've been reading about this over on the Hoffman forums and I've tried to hold back on posting about it because I'm afraid my attitude might upset a few posters. I think this is awesome. It finally shut up all of the golden eared music listeners who claimed that only AAA can sound good and that they can "hear" analog. I've been saying for years that analog in and of itself does not guarantee great sound but nothing I've said has had any effect on most of them and the Hoffman forums' rules preclude anyone from calling them out on it. Mobile Fidelity finally showed them that the emperor has no clothes.

The owner of the Bee Hive label only licensed out the Johnny Hartman date for release on CD (released as part of the "Bridges of Madison County" soundtrack). The rest of the catalog was never on CD until Mosaic licensed it. I pestered Michael Cuscuna for this release for decades and I'm very grateful that he was finally able to do it. There is some great music in that set. As far as I know, no one else has licensed any of the Bee Hive catalog and I've never seen any single CD releases. I do have "Baritone Madeness" & "Burn Brigade" on CD-Rs that I burned from my LPs back in the day.

If you feel like further supporting Charles, he sells a couple of CDs and a tee shirt at his website. There's even an option to get an autographed publicity shot if you so choose. I bought both CDs from him many years ago. https://charlesmcpherson.com/store/

I have or have had: Music Matters Jazz Mono LP Japanese first issue CD (called a "Black triangle") Original US CD Mobile Fidelity gold CD The Ultimate Blue Train RVG SACD Japanese UCCU CD with the extra take of "Blue Train" ... and yet I still ordered "Blue Train - The Complete Masters" SACD from Japan.

Great news that it wasn't cancerous. I hope you mend quickly.

I might order the SACD of the stereo deluxe set from CD Japan. I just wish it was a hybrid disc.

I saw that too. It's funny that Discogs stops the sale of many bootlegs (like this one) but then allows the listings for some releases like this Muse date, even though it is obviously not legit.

I am thinking about buying the deluxe 2-LP set, but not until I hear that Kevin Gray didn't cut it too hot. He's done it several times and Blue Note doesn't acknowledge the problem at all so if it is cut too hot - say bye-bye to your money. Quite frankly, this new Blue Note team is not that great when it comes to customer service. Nothing like the old days when we would point out a mastering problem with a CD and it almost always got fixed pretty quickly. This group just ignores the problem and hopes that their apologists rise up, which they always do over on the Hoffman forums. Kevin Gray is like a god over there, even though he sometimes cuts too hot and often cuts the grooves too tight, resulting in far too much dead wax, which I have been told by Ron McMaster can result in tracking problems for some turntables.

That's an obvious boot since this session was recorded well after the 1962 cutoff for public domain in the EU. I would not pay $30 for that.

Unless she ran out and doesn't know it, Laurie Pepper is still selling these CDs on her Bandcamp website. FWIW, the Croydon concert is excellent.

I still listen to George Winston's solo piano CDs. I saw him live about 2 years ago. I wouldn't call them Jazz but they are very good dinner music and my wife enjoys them so they get played every now & then.

I stopped reading Stereophile decades ago. They peddle so much snake oil, it's ridiculous. I agree 100% with this. I have never bought speakers without hearing them first.

Eh, not quite my style but whatever...

It's too bad OJC never fixed this CD. ... at least in a way that would allow the buying public to know.

Shouldn't this one be titled something like "Jackie Never Heard It"?

Does Australia have different licensing/trademark laws or are they just less into enforcing them? I have never seen so many album covers available from one website, either authorized or not.

I do like to support Mosaic, who have released some great music over the years that I still enjoy. However, their recent modus operandi on new box sets, which seems to be, "Release material that has been in print for decades but in better sound", came a bit too late for me. My ears aren't good enough these days to care about a better-sounding CD of any of this material, which I have - sometimes in multiple versions - including LP. In fact, I listen to my Q0 VBR mp3 rips more often than my massive CD collection, which really needs to get thinned.

I just posted about this in the Forums forum.

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There is much to misunderstand here so I think I'll have to watch how I say here... a different amplifier cannot make the music louder. Audio amplifiers don't do anything but amplify. If you were turning up the Marantz louder than the Micromega, that's you, not the amp. What was making you turn it up the Marantz more than the Micromega?

I think you mean "enter an integer number".

I donated. I've seen Ken live many times... more times than I can remember. I always left those shows feeling better than when I went in. I only hope that my donation can help Ken feel the same way.

Rough Trade says it's from "Life Goes On": https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/joe-chambers/the-almoravid According to discogs, Life Goes On is a bootleg label: "Record label out of Europe. Releases are comprised of unofficial reissues for out-of-print albums."

I doubt I'd fit in their "L".