Kevin Bresnahan

I always thought that Stitt was pretty good too.

I just don't see a different between the Exact 3 and any other cartridge when it comes to playback. Why would this cart pick up more fuzz than any other cart? Are you sure it's tracking properly? Is the VTF set to 1.75g? On truly gummed up stylus tips, in the past, I would've used a cotton swap with isopropyl alcohol. I never soaked the stylus as they say that can weaken the glue keeping the stylus in place, but a gentle push with a cotton swab soaked in a little alcohol always did the trick.

I got them Covid booster blues The not feeling-so-great but not dying blues Tell your friends, tell your enemies it ain't so bad Otherwise your surviving relatives might be feelin' sad I got them Covid booster blues

Stan Getz - Billy Highstreet Samba (Emarcy). I've skipped over this in the bins for years and years. Today, I thought, "Why not"? Also, in the New Arrivals bin, they had a Christmas CD by Norah Jones. I enjoy a Christmas CD every now & then, so I picked that up too.

People are ready to get sick & die because some person on the TV screen told them it was their god-given right as an American to refuse the vaccine. It's also within their rights to cross the street without looking in both directions, but you don't see them doing that. They are playing a strange version of Russian Roulette. Me? I'll choose getting a proven vaccine over getting sick & possibly dying every time. Every single time.

Six is correct. I got my 2nd in mid-April so 6 months just passed.

For some reason, I always think of the TV show "Bewitched" when I see this LP cover.

Yes, obi wan. Thanks to sonnymax, I learned. And I bought.

If you go to the Walgreens website to make an appointment, one of the selections reads, "Patient is 18-64 years of age and is at increased risk of COVID-19 exposure and transmission due to their work environment, based on individual benefit and risk". I qualify to check this. My wife qualifies to check this. We're both getting our booster shot. And as I said, it's not like there's a shortage of vaccines up here in Maine, so there's no reason to restrict booster shots for those that actually want one. Give it a try on the Walgreens website.

I'm getting my booster specifically because the boonies of Maine are spreading the new variant like a wildfire. 620 new cases yesterday and 7 more deaths. The numbers are almost back to their peak levels in Maine, with many of them in rural areas with very low vaccination levels. Some counties are still only in the 50% range. About the only good thing is that it makes it easier for us to get a booster as these anti-vaxxers refuse to get it.

The Prestige Blues-Swingers - Splasch (LP) & Coleman Hawkins - Bean and the Boys (CD) Has "Splasch" on it.

I've learned that The Prestige Blues-Swingers "Stasch" session is on a Coleman Hawkins compilation called "Bean and the Boys". Who came up with this compilation? It has a bunch of Hawkins 78s from the 40s combined with the 1959 "Stasch" session, which is much different from that earlier material. I bet I picked this compilation up several times and put it back down, figuring I had the older material already and not realizing that the 1959 session was probably a good reason to pick it up.

I'm getting my Pfizer booster Friday.

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.