Kevin Bresnahan

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.

It's been a year and a half, but Friday night, Scullers Jazz Club in Boston reopens with Kenny Garrett. I'll be there in the front row.

I am so glad I got to see him live several times, once at the famed Village Vanguard, which was absolutely incredible. At the Vanguard, he told a joke that had most of us laughing pretty good. I wish I could remember it now. RIP Lonnie. You delivered the goods.

I'm glad I bought these last year. The list price bumped up to $499 and there are not many discounts on them. My $249 purchase looks like a steal. The Klipsch Pro Media speakers still seem to getting decent reviews. The Klipsch website has them for $129: https://www.klipsch.com/products/klipsch-promedia-2-1-thx-certified-computer-speaker

After reading Frank's comments about publishing rights, I was happy to read this article: https://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2011/07/26/128245676/jazzman-frank-foster-finally-wins-copyright-of-his-most-famous-song I was also saddened that it happened shortly before he died and even sadder, after he had had a stroke rendering him unable to play. I didn't know he had a stroke in 2001. I used to wonder why he never seemed to tour in the late 90s/early 00s. Now I know.

I think this is the only time I've ever seen Art Blakey's Islamic name on an album cover. Wasn't he back to using Art Blakey 100% by this time (1964) though?

My LP from Amazon got delayed to next month.

This past Summer I took our 10 year Golden Retreiver, Auggie, to see & hear some live music. He was smiling for me.

I use Facebook but they do something weird with picture URLs. They must do it to discourage people from linking to them. I have posted many pictures here from my Facebook account and a few weeks later, it disappears. The picture is still in the same place on Facebook, but Facebook somehow rotates the URL. I haven't tried in many years, but there was a time when I went to upload a picture and I got an error saying that I had reached my max limit for uploads. I had to go delete an old post with a picture so that I could upload a new one. After a few times having to do that, I stopped trying. I'll have to see if I can do it again now. I just tried uploading a 66 kB picture of my dog and it blocked me, saying "You are only allowed to upload 102.4kb". As I said, I stopped trying to upload pictures here a long time ago.

As a moderator, you might have added capabilities. I cannot upload another photo here unless I delete one I uploaded earlier.

Tommy's latest E-maI offer is from Metropolitan Records so I ordered: Haunted Melodies- Music of Rahsaan Roland Kirk MR 1114 Sterling Place All Stars- featuring Vincent Herring MR 1117 Memories of New York- Through Jazz and Photography MR 1118 A Jazz Christmas- That Special Time of Year MR 1125

My sister-in-law got her Pfizer booster shot today. I'll be in line as soon as they open it up to my age group. I hope it doesn't take as long as it took to get the first one.

Billy Harper - Soul of an Angel (Metropolitan Records) Another Metropolitan release that I've been spinning for many years. If you are on Tommy's E-mail list, you might want to pick this up. Excellent music.