Kevin Bresnahan

This sounds like they're going "up a step" to me. Now, I suppose an argument could be made that maybe even "Old World, New Imports" is really "Up A Step", as it also gives that feeling of stepping up...

I believe "Up A Step" is also credited to the wrong tune. I hear the tune "No Room For Squares" and all I can think is that that tune is supposed to be "Up A Step".

This might be worth looking into.

Hana Horka - Czech singer - dies after catching Covid intentionally

The 12th Annual John Coltrane Memorial Concert (WeJazz). Leonard Brown on tenor & soprano; Billy Pierce on tenor; Bill Lowe on trombone; Frank J. Wilkins on piano; Larry Roland on bass; Tim Engles on electric bass; Keith Copeland or Syd Smart on drums & Sa Davis on percussion. I was at this performance. It was memorable for the music as well as for the day of the recording: Sept. 28, 1991 - the day Miles died. So even though it was a memorial for Coltrane, they opened with a Miles tribute that year. I remember they introduced Coltrane's first wife, Naima, in the audience. It was a very emotional night and performance. Surprisingly, this is available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/12th-Annual-Coltrane-Memorial-Concert/dp/B00000ICKR

She's still friends with Scott Wenzel and Michael Cuscuna on Facebook, so it looks like their parting of ways was amicable. She even has a photo of the Mosaic team posted there (minus Cuscuna, who was probably taking the shot).

So sorry to hear about your mother Michael.

My first order was in the late 80s or early 90's. I remember seeing an ad in Downbeat and called for a catalog. I am pretty sure my first order included the Tina Brooks set, the Freddie Redd CD set and the Ike Quebec 45s CD set. I almost got the Quebec/Hardee CD set but I wasn't too keen on all the alternates as well as the note about the sound quality being only so good. I forget what that disclaimer was. Does anyone remember? FWIW, I was not the only one scared away by that disclaimer as I know at least one other person who skipped for the same reason.

Listening to several tracks from the wonderful recording sessions that produced the tribute to Frank Kimbrough simply titled "KIMBROUGH". You could call it a "digital LP" from Newvelle Records, a company that only did vinyl up to that point (they now offer downloads - due to COVID maybe?). Currently on track 18, "Helix", with Joe Lovano, Donny McCaslin, Ben Monder, John Hébert and Clarence Penn. Hard to define this track. It's like a lament on steroids. You should be able to play it here: https://newvellerecords.bandcamp.com/album/kimbrough What's weird is that there are piano sounds here, so it's either Frank dubbed in or someone is playing it without getting credited.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/garnett-brown-obituary?id=31121608 His Wiki page says that he had been suffering from dementia.

The article seems to imply that the vascular damage happens in bad cases of COVID requiring hospitalization. If you are vaccinated, your chances of that happening go way, way down as unvaccinated people have a 13 to 14 times higher chance of requiring hospitalization than someone who is vaccinated. A vaccinated person has a higher chance of having asymptomatic COVID than getting hospitalized with it. If you get a sniffling nose from COVID, it's probably extremely unlikely that you'd suffer debilitating vascular damage.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/man-claims-his-penis-shrunk-after-contracting-covid/ If you're a man, what more reason could you need to get vaccinated? Potentially dying or having a shrunken dick? One of those two threats really should be enough.

I was given a large collection a few years back. It was one of those, "My son left a bunch of records in his room and he doesn't want them." I said, "Sure"... what could it hurt? They were all classic rock LPs from the 70s. Nearly every big name rocker, the Stones, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin. The problem? They were beat to death. The guy either played them 100's of times, had a beat up turntable or he really didn't handle them carefully. There were probably about 400 records in the pile. I kept a handful that actually played without skipping and took the rest to the dump where they belonged.

$39K? Pshaw! Try $1.2 Million on undocumented expenditures: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2019/12/23/best-stories-of-the-decade-how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/?sh=33a6deec4779 White & rich gets a slap on the wrist. Black & poor gets thrown in jail.

That is a very nice CD. I haven't played it in a while. Maybe it's time to pull it out again?

Many years ago, Mosaic posted the uncropped photo from this cover and I saved it. My favorite Jazz recording...

Probably burned up in that fire.

Gerry Mulligan - LP2 of The Emarcy Sextet Recordings (Mosaic). This LP was originally released as "Mainstream of Jazz" (Emarcy MG 36101). I haven't spin this much since I bought it many years ago. I pretty much bought this by accident as the LP I thought was included here, "Butterfly With Hiccups" (actually on Limelight), was nowhere to be seen. Good accident on my part. Edited to put in a much better image of the "cover" (man, were these LP set covers boring).

Those raves over there are why I bought it. I should have held off. Truth be told, I only bought it because Udiscovermusic.com had a 40% sale late last year. I ended up getting it for around $20. I wasn't even expecting to get it at all because that website's hit rate has been abysmal. Now playing... Blue Mitchell - Step Lightly (Blue Note). I have the LT LP, not that overpriced LP from the fishing box with the scarf. I can't believe what these LT LPs are going for these days.

Curtis Amy - Katanga! (Blue Note). The new Tone Poet version. Maybe I'm having a bad day, but I don't think this sounds any better than the CD versions (Connoisseur CD & Mosaic Select CD) I already have. I'm kinda wishing I'd saved my money for something else.

Told ya... they weren't rich and they weren't white = Jail time.

I have had several of these prints in my cart but i just couldn't pull the trigger. I have tons of autographed photos that I don't have the wall space for so I really don't have the wall space for any of these. I really wanted the one with Coltrane, Griffin & Mobley, even if it was a bit ruined by a cloud of cigarette smoke.

I imagine that Blue Note (currently Universal Music) is buying these photographs. They have been licensing them for use in their Tone Poet LPs and by buying them outright, they avoid those fees. In the long run, it probably works out.

Didn't Phil Woods make a bunch of money guesting on pop tunes like Billy Joel's "Just The Way You Are"?