Kevin Bresnahan

Sadly, most of the local used record stores near me put nearly all of their Mosaic boxes up on eBay. I can't remember the last time I found a large used Mosaic box on a store shelf.

10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo

My first order from Discs Japan (via discogs) Gerald Clayton - Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard Pepper Adams - Twelfth & Pingree Eric Alexander - Chim Chim Cheree Eric Alexander - Just One of Those Things

It's on Bandcamp right now. I found it when searching to see if there was something to buy for Bandcamp Friday, when all of the profits go to the artists. I thought it was funny as hell. BTW - the music is actually pretty good. Pianist Milton Keanes is really Sabbath's current keyboard player, Adam Wakeman... oh, hey... wow. He's Rick Wakeman's son. Did not know about him at all.

Is this a modern day version of Buck Hammer? The back cover tells the "story":

The Side Door is an Inn too? Maybe that is something my wife might be up for. Are there any art museums nearby that we could check out the next day before heading back to Maine? We do love art museums.

Damn - I was hoping to get to see them one more time. They were fun to see/hear live. But then again, Lake is 79, Workman is 84 & Cyrille is 82, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise.

I would never bet on a game in today's NFL. The referring is horrible and there have been far too many games where their bad calls have dramatically changed outcomes. It makes the NFL a much more random thing than it should be. The only sport where this is worse is basketball, where fouls are often called based on the name & number on the back of the jersey rather than any actual violation.

Those RVG CDs have some of Rudy's best work in that series. They sound very good.

I had an E-mail conversation with Joe Harley, who is the producer of the Tone Poet series for Blue Note, and he assured me that these LPs are not limited in any way. There have been massive delays at the pressing plants though, so many titles appear to be going out of print. Just be patient and they will come back into stock.

I don't think that is around the Hackensack studio. Not enough trees around there:

The Bills should have pooched the kick off. They would've run time off of those 13 seconds that way. By kicking it through the endzone, no time went off the clock. To compound that mistake, they played soft on D and allowed two throws in front of them. Yeah, you want to protect from a long throw/TD, but you don't have to give up 20 & 22 yard passes to do that. As for the Chiefs yesterday, the main question is what was Andy Reid doing at the end of the first half? You take the points there. That was really stupid.

Any personalized autograph I've ever gotten never included my last name. Does anyone personalizing autographs do that?

Lonnie Smith - Drives (Blue Note). I have a label variant that someone on discogs dates to 1971/72. The LP artist/title and track info is printed in black ink. It sounds fine. Still uses the Van Gelder stamper. Not my favorite Lonnie Smith date. While the playing is fine, the tunes are not that great. Sign o' the times I guess. I'd rather hear the Blood Sweat & Tears version of "Spinning Wheel". My cut corner is on the opposite corner.

Playing this one again. I forgot I had it stuffed into the rack.

Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack (Blue Note). The new LP from the Classic Vinyl Series. Stan the Man on sax makes this date for me. I really like Jimmy & Stanley. These Classic Vinyl Series LPs sound very nice. I hear that some buyers have been having more QC issues with this series (pressed at Optimal in Germany) as opposed to the Tone Poet LPs (pressed at RTI) but I've actually had more issues with the Tone Poet LPs.

Willis Jackson - Shuckin' (Prestige). Quite the band behind Mr. Jackson on this date. Kenny Burrell & Jose Paulo on guitar, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Eddie Calhoun on bass; Roy Haynes on drums and Joe Montego & Juan Amalbert on congas & timbales. With all that behind him, it still comes off as a typical Prestige blowing session.

You don't find that it's a bit sedate? It's like a cool Jazz recital. I guess I'm just not hitting it off with it just yet. ... or I'm just missing the piano comping in the background? But I think not as I dig a lot of dates without a piano.

Next up - Lee Konitz Plays With The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (World Pacific/Tone Poet). I ordered this as a filler during an order that required a certain dollar amount to get free shipping. Not my favorite Konitz of Mulligan to be honest. It's almost too polite. I should've picked another record. Jeez - is this LP short. I think it's only about 35 minutes long.

Nick Brignola - Northern Lights (Discovery). Discogs seller failed to mention the slight warp. Playable, but still. Not the best studio recording. Never heard of the "UCA Recording Studios" in Utica, NY. Brignola's bari sounds like an alto in places and the bass is recorded in that buzzy style common in the late 70s-early 80's. The picture of a young John Lockwood on the back cover is pretty fun to see. Lockwood was a regular in my area before COVID and I probably saw him 10-15 times a year in various ensembles at Jocko's Jazz Club in Methuen. He looks very different now. Don't we all? This is the John Lockwood I'm used to seeing...

I would think this kinda deserves it's own thread somewhere in these forums.

Do we have to do this again? Some of us like PC's bowed solos and some of us loathe them. It's time we all agree to disagree on it. No need to beat that dead horse.

LP only... thinking about pulling the trigger on this.

Looks like a killer band. That's a strange looking instrument on the cover. I wonder if that's some sort of valve trombone? There's a picture on the back of the CD:

From: One of the last times I saw Jackie McLean was at the Aaron Davis Hall in NYC during a "Jazz Corner Hang" on June 9, 2000. Several Jazz Corner forum members went while another group went to the Knitting Factory. The line-up was killer: Jackie with Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Scott Colley & Billy Higgins. For some reason, I remember it as being "off". It might have been the odd "Star Spangled Banner", that I seem to remember being done as a march, or just the fact that they didn't play like a "band" but more like a collection of players.