Kevin Bresnahan

I seem to remember those Firestone & Goodyear LPs in my parents' record stash. My brother might have all of those Christmas records. I was offered them when my parents passed but they were very heavily played on an old console record player, probably with a ceramic cartridge and usually with them stacked 3 or 4 LPs high. I actually did take one home - Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" but it was so scratched up, I could barely hear the music. Record care was not a thing back then.

When I was a kid, my parents played Mitch Miller & the Gang's "Holiday Sing Along With Mitch" quite a bit. I remember singing along with my family, although singing might not be the right word... more like screaming along with Mitch.

The Go Fund Me to help Richie is still live if you feel like helping him: https://www.gofundme.com/f/coming-together-for-the-great-jazz-pianist-richie-beirach

I'm still surprised that this 2-CD set has never been reissued. It's virtually gone on the market. There's been one for sale on discogs for crazy money for several years and the history shows only one sold. You would think Joey's estate would put this out. I think this year I'm going to have to bite the bullet and buy the mp3 downloads from Amazon.

That's what it feels like when I take a bunch of CDs into a used store.

I'm going to leave this up here for another day then I'm going to move it over to the Hoffman forums to see if I can move more out over there. I have to get these off my shelves. I have CDs laying all over the place these days and it's got to stop.

Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring - Spli Decision (Smoke Sessions). Excellent live date from these two sax players.

I really like "Night Lights" but his date with Webster gets a lot of play time in my house. I have the Mobile Fidelity gold CD version and the 2CD "complete" version. I tend to pull out the MoFi disc more often these days.

I saw Hill with his big band at Birdland and I had him sign this LP for me. It's hard to photograph something in a frame covered with glass.

I just ordered a copy of this myself. I think I have a different cover though.

I have the OJC CD and the 1996 LP released by Analogue Productions, which sounds pretty great, so I have no need to pick up this new one. I agree that the music is very nice. I don't agree on getting by the cheesecake cover. I always got a chuckle from it.

While "Live" on Pye has not been reissued on CD, the Ronnie Scott's Jazz House label did release 3 additional tracks from that live date on a CD titled, "Playing Changes".

Levy was one of the scummiest of scumbags. I don't know that I'd want to read a book about his life.

These are sold. M-/M- Bill Barron – A Swedish-American Adventure (Dragon) DRCD-343 (Sweden) M-/M- John Coltrane – Coltrane (Presitge) VICJ-60270 (Japan) Mono. 20 Bit K2. Includes insert. No obi. VG+/VG+ John Handy – No Coast Jazz (Roulette) TOCJ-60149 (Japan) (o) Obi has tab crunches. M-/M- Charles McPherson – From This Moment On! (Prestige/OJC) (OJCCD-1899-2) Billy Harper - Soran-Bushi B.H. (Billy Harper Fan Club). THIS IS A CD-R. I cannot guarantee it will play on all players/drives. These are sold. M-/Exc Frank Foster – Fearless Frank Foster (Prestige) UCCO-9476 (Japan) (o) (MLP). Faint scratch near edge of CD. VG+/Exc John Hicks – Naima’s Love Song (DIW) DIW-823 (Japan) (o) With Bobby Watson. Numerous light scuffs. M-/M- Grant Stewart – Recado Bossa Nova (Birds Records) XQDJ-1008 (Japan) (o) I will update the list later today.

These are sold.