Kevin Bresnahan

I never realized how many CDs are listed under the band name "The Prestige All Stars" on The Discography Project's webpage. I have several of them filed under a single leader because that's how I thought they should be filed. For instance, who knew that Coltrane's "Dakar" was originally a Prestige All-Stars session? Ditto Paul Quinichette's "Basie Reunion" & Herbie Mann's "Just Wailin'" - the CD spine says their name right there. But a deeper dive seems to indicate that me filing "All Night Long" & "All Day Long" under Kenny Burrell's name might have been the wrong move. Nor should "The Cats" be filed under Tommy Flanagan's name. Hmmmm... do I fix them? And thank you @sonnymax for bringing this up. I seem to have misplaced "All Day Long" & "Roots". This query also got me to find a Prestige Blues-Swingers LP that I never knew existed ("Stasch")... and it's got Coleman Hawkins on it! I picked up a copy to hear. Anyone wondering the titles, here they are: OJC CD Name (Leader listed on CD spine) 2 Trumpets (Art Farmer/Donald Byrd) Tenor Conclave (Mobley/Cohn/Coltrane/Sims) All Night Long (Donald Byrd/Kenny Burrell) All Day Long (Kenny Burrell/Donald Byrd) Earthy (Farmer, Cohn, Burrell, Waldron/Prestige All-Stars) Three Trumpets (Farmer/Byrd/Sulieman) Four Altos (Woods, Quill, Shihab, Stein) Olio (Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Teddy Charles, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Elvin Jones) 2 Guitars (Kenny Burrell/Jimmy Raney) Interplay For 2 Trumpets And 2 Tenors (Coltrane/Jaspar/Sulieman/Young) Coolin' (Idrees Sulieman/John Jenkins/Teddy Charles/Mal Waldron) The Cats (Flanagan, Coltrane, Burrell) Dakar (John Coltrane) Curtis Fuller And Hampton Hawes with French Horns (Curtis Fuller and Hampton Hawes) After Hours With Thad Jones/Kenny Burrell/Frank Wess/Mal Waldron/Paul Chambers/Arthur Taylor (Thad Jones/Kenny Burrell/Frank Wess) Wheelin' And Dealin' (John Coltrane/Frank Wess) Roots (Prestige All-Stars) Just Wailin' (Herbie Mann) Basie Reunion (Paul Quinichette) Very Saxy (Davis/Tate/Hawkins/Cobb) And the Prestige Blues-Swingers: Outskirts Of Town (The Prestige Blues-Swingers) Stasch (The Prestige Blues-Swingers With Coleman Hawkins)

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I was just cleaning out a closet and I found a shipping tube from Mosaic Records with two of their posters in it. The Art Blakey & Sonny Rollins posters to be precise. I've searched the web and this forum & I can't find any references to them. Does anyone know the size of these posters? I am thinking about getting frames but I don't want to unroll these suckers to measure them because putting them back into the tube is difficult. Alternatively, is anyone really looking for these posters? In reality, I don't really have the wall space anymore, so framing these might not be a great idea either. I know the Blakey looks like this: But I can't remember what the Rollins looks like.

Frank Foster & Frank Wess - Frankly Speaking (Concord). The Japanese CD was expensive, so I picked up an LP copy from a discogs seller. The seller listed the artwork as "Mint". Mint? With initials/writing on the back, a smell of cigarettes and faint ring wear on the front cover? Really? Whatever... the LP is mint and that's what really matters. The music is nice so far. Reid is really forward in the mix... too much bass to be honest.

Blakey and the Messengers "Free For All" makes me want to stand and wave a lighter around.

Nice date. I have the vinyl.

His wiki page is pretty detailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Turrentine

The CD was issued as "Jubilee Shout!!!" because it had been given a catalog number (84122) and had album art made up back in 1963 but for some reason, it didn't get released until 1978 on this two-fer. I guess Cuscuna figured that he'd use the original title when he finally got the chance.

Kinda hard to keep this "non-political" since he was best known as one, so I'll just say RIP General Powell.

I wonder how Priester is doing these days? Both medically and financially, he's had it rough these past 20 or so years, from having no retirement funds, to requiring expensive medication due to his liver transplant, which caused kidney failure & dialysis and his wife dying unexpectedly last May.

I would suggest that there is something else at play here. Flipping the hot/neutral should not alter the sound. The AC hot/neutral wires go into a transformer on the other side of the back panel and by design, a transformer works with the neutral and hot on either pole. And in truth, AC is not technically polarized. The "polarity" on a polarized AC plug is there to indicate the hot & neutral feeds mainly as a safety feature. The wide blade is the neutral and the smaller blade is hot. Doing this allows the manufacturer to put their power switch in the hot feed. With a polarized plug, you open up the hot feed with the power switch when you turn it off. If the manufacturer shut the unit off using the neutral feed, there is a chance that the hot feed could still inside the unit and could cause a shock if someone was working inside and accidentally provided a ground path to that hot node.

Larry - buy a pair of Klipsch powered speakers, either the R-41PM or the R-51PM. I have a pair of the R-41PMs that I am using for my computer speakers. I am using USB from my PC . It also has Bluetooth (to allow you to play music from your phone - try the Sirius/XM app if you subscribe) and two analog inputs (one RCA & one submini) that can even be switched to a phono input, using the a built-in phono preamp. All of the inputs can be controlled from the remote, which also has a volume control.

I wish I could help you with this. I'll ask my daughter if she has worked with something like this. She works on the coding behind web pages, so this might be similar.

I don't know if Jim is checking here anymore, but does anyone know if this ever got done? The board started getting very slow late last week and today, it's been locking up with most clicks. I think the database might need to be re-indexed or maybe the forum software is glitching.

This was recorded live January 5, 6 & 7, 2018, at SMOKE Jazz and Supper Club, NYC. Smoke Sessions already released some of this material on CD last year: I'll have to pick up these two CDs. This is a great band. If you prefer to just hear the trio, there's this release from a few years ago:

One thing I can say is that if you do continue to play Jazz when you listen to your music, your children almost have to absorb some of it. To this day, both of my daughters can identify "So What" about 10 notes into the intro and they usually sing, "So what" in unison at the right spots.

Congratulations Pim. I remember when my 2nd daughter was born. Two children does not just double the work for one - it triples it. In my experience, it didn't matter much. They still listened to what they wanted to when they got older. I'm just happy they know a few Jazz tunes when I play them.

They're trying to make it look like it's one of those LPs that Joe Blow could walk in off the street and cut in an hour "back in the day" but when you hear it (https://tramprecords.bandcamp.com/album/untitled) it sounds like a modern recording. Seems like a marketing thing to me. By the way - it's already sold out, so their marketing ploy seems to have worked.

Nick Brignola - This Is It! (Priam). I have been looking for this very rare LP for many years but never came close. I never even saw the cover until a friend sent me a link to listen to it. It's pretty good for a private recording. There even seems to be some overdubbing (unless someone uncredited is playing bari alongside Nick). Nick is credited with Bari Sax, Alto Sax, Saxello, Flute & Acoustic Bass. The rhythm section is Reese Markewich on piano, Glen Moore on bass & Dick Berk on drums. Whoever needle-dropped this had a very clean record or access to the master. Ne'er a click to be heard. I wonder what happened to this tape? Wasn't Priam Brignola's private label? Maybe his estate has the tape?

Eddie Daniels - First Prize! (Prestige mono). Daniels with Roland Hanna (p); Richard Davis (b) & Mel Lewis (d). This is a very nice date by Daniels, who surprisingly only plays clarinet on 3 of the 8 tracks. On the remainder of the tracks, he plays tenor sax and sounds pretty good doing it. As good as he is on the clarinet I'm surprised he didn't stick with it.

George Benson/Jack McDuff (OJC/Prestige). A 1977 Prestige two-fer of "The New Boss Guitar Of George Benson" coupled with "Hot Barbeque" that would appear to have been designed to capitalize on Benson's recent popularity. While the Benson date has been issued as a standalone CD in the OJC series, this is the only way to get "Hot Barbeque" on CD unless you get one of the harder-to-find Japanese CDs.

The numbers are going up everywhere due to the Delta variant. Also, the Northern part of Maine is very rural and due to a large right-leaning population up there, has a much lower vaccination rate than the Southern end of the state. As a result, they are seeing a lot more cases and a lot more cases requiring hospitalization, which is putting a strain on their hospitals as they have a lot less ICU beds up there to begin with. For instance, York County, the Southernmost county where I live, has a population of ~208,000 people and has had 721 cases from Sept. 16-29. Penobscot County, which has a population of 152,000 has had 1,541 cases during that same time period.

V. S. O. P. - Five Stars (Columbia).

This cover still gets me to laugh at myself. I'm getting old. I used to see this cover and check out the woman. Now I always see that car and I think, "I wonder what one of those costs today?"

Maine's Covid numbers, normally pretty low compared to neighboring states, are at January levels and still climbing. It's getting pretty crazy out there. Maine is almost out of ICU beds.