Kevin Bresnahan

Lon's tiny font posts are practically unreadable on my laptop screen.

I have it all already and my ears would not hear any benefit to a new remaster so I won't be picking this one up.

Jimmy Hamilton - Can't Help Swingin' (Prestige). A two-fer comp of "It's About Time" & "Can't Help Swinging". It certainly swings. Weird trumpet solo on one tune, "Two For One", with trumpeter Clark Terry using something I'd never heard of - a "buzz mute like Frankie Newton used to use". Not sure if I'm a fan... I thought I blew my tweeters.

I think those were sans box/booklet though, right? There's a no box/booklet set on discogs for $30 right now. I actually appreciated the booklet for this set so I'm glad I got the whole package.

Get it before someone else: Dusty Groove - Bob Belden "Turandot" I've never seen this CD in any used bin in my life. I was able to procure a copy from one of the musicians on the session. I've never seen it on line before either.

It's one of my favorite Mosaic sets and I say this as someone who is not a huge fan of big band style jazz. These jams are such fun. I just cannot figure out why the market for this set crashed like it did. It was a very low number print run and it sold out pretty quickly.The CD set was selling for as much as $350 at one point but it crashed and never recovered. Even the LP version is going for a little over $100 these days. That's crazy.

Lucky Thompson - Soul's Nite Out (Ensayo). I also have the Nessa LP version. Nice date. Did you get the SHM-CD with the extra track? That's the version I have.

I have not had any luck E-mailing Don Was at Blue Note. I don't think he reads all of his e-mails or mine got sent to his spam folder - which is more likely. I worked with many people who never read their E-mails, so I'm not surprised with either event.

There's been an official Blue Note club in Tokyo for decades and an unofficial one in Taipei for just as long.

They're their own reissue world over there. Who knows what they're working on. I've never had any insight into their reissue program at all.

This is true that single titles are vinyl only right now. They only seem to be doing CD for the extensive multi-disc release like the latest Kenny Burrell release. I don't think you'll be seeing any CDs of "High Frequency" or "Hipnosis" any time soon. Joe might be able to ask Don Was if there might be a chance and see if he can get a definitive answer there.

Listening to a CD that a friend gave me... not Jazz... not Rock... listed under Classical but not really. I don't know what this is, but it's enjoyable. Lucia Micarelli - Music From A Farther Room (143 Records/Reprise)

I've tried establishing a relationship with Don Was several times with no luck. Your best bet is contacting @Joe Harley. He is a member here, so if you PM him, he should get an E-mail telling him that there is a message here.

The CD being discussed here is a good one. I haven't listened to it in a while. It's too bad that it is so short. In the last year, I picked up a Monterose CD that I was unaware of, titled "Welcome Back, J.R.!", a record he recorded for a Japanese label in 1979 with Hod O'Brien on piano, Teddy Kotick on bass & Jimmy Wormsworth on drums. It's very good. It looks like Wormsworth was still playing as late as 2018. I wonder if he's still playing? Does anyone have "Albany 1990"? I never even knew this existed until I just tripped over it on discogs. It says it's self-released by J.R.

He definitely put out that John Patton Select to help Patton's widow, who was pretty deep in debt due to Big John's medical bills prior to his death. He was disappointed it didn't raise more money in the end.

I love that album. I still can't believe that it's never been on CD anywhere. Not even the Andorrans touched it. My comment about "Tiny In Swingville" was about the others in the band, not Tiny. Jerome Richardson is not a player I think of when I think swing-style Jazz. Yeah, he swings, but not that kind of swing.

Tiny Grimes - Tiny In Swingville (Prestige Swingville). Nice date that... swings. Which is a bit odd given the band, which isn't made up with players typically associated with swing.

I definitely remember Michael Cuscuna saying that he was looking for some way to get that "High Frequency" session out on CD. It's why he didn't add any of it to the CD of "Jacknife". Again, it's likely that he just ran out of time.

I ordered this yesterday. I'll see if it comes in. The place I ordered from is hit or miss, as their website is tied to their store inventory so if someone bought it yesterday before they pulled it for me, I won't get it. It's happened there before.

The first time I heard Van Halen's debut was on an 8-track tape in my buddy's car. Blew our minds, especially "Eruption".

Not my favorite Sanders era. I won't be picking this one up.

I've never heard this one. It looks like her last release recorded in the US with US-based musicians. All of her releases after this were recorded in Japan with Japanese musicians.

The Japanese released both sessions from the US LP of "Hipnosis" as standalone LPs and the earlier of of the two, that they titled "Jackie McLean Quintet", on CD, so it doesn't seem like a timing thing. I have no idea why the "Hipnosis" session has only been on CD in the Grachan Moncur Mosaic Select though. Cuscuna only added the "Jackie McLean Quintet" date to the Connoisseur CD "Vertigo", so he must've felt that was the only way he could get that material out. Maybe he planned to add those other tracks to another McLean CD but ran out of time?

A CD player plays discs in a single pass, correcting any errors "on the fly". If it can't correct it, playback is affected. Many disc drives in computers re-read bad sectors to try and correct errors that a CD can't. This is especially true when ripping CDs to create mp3/aff/flac files using a special program like Exact Audio Copy.