Kevin Bresnahan

spiderfriend (on discogs) "special transfers, you know, the copy protected ones, because that is what noise reduction is, just like the R.I.A.A. curve, or HDCD, or K2 Supercoding, they have nothing to do with improving sound quality!" WTF?? What a moron. To equate noise reduction with copy protection, the RIAA curve, HDCD & K2 supercoding shows that this idiot knows nothing about audio at all. I can understand complaining about excessive use of noise reduction, though I have no idea if it's badly done or used at all on this CD from Mosaic, but that is where this complaint should have ended. Can you imagine what records would have sounded like if they never implemented the RIAA equalization in the LP standard? No bass. Too much treble. Records that many turntables would not be able to play. It's just nuts to think that this was a bad idea.

What a poorly advertised Jazz Festival. I've never heard of this venue and I get a weekly E-mail of the area's Jazz shows from Isabelle d'Entremont and she's never mentioned this venue nor this Jazz festival. Very strange to have this sneak up like this. BTW - I see that Sullivan Fortner is playing there Sunday and I thought about going but $104 is a bit much, especially since I'm dropping a few bucks Saturday night for "date night".

Tomorrow night, it's Jaime Baum's sextet at Scullers. Looking forward to this one. Me & the wife are making it a "date night". I even got us a room at the hotel so I don't have to drive back from Boston after the show.

These are from the Pipe Dublin label and are download only. I assume that that the Pipe Dublin name, PD for short, was not chosen blindly. Most of the tracks on these "albums" are from OJC labels (Prestige, Contemporary & Riverside). As an example, "Nocturne Logic" is "Tenor Madness".

I had a long reply written up but I deleted it, as I have fond memories of seeing older Jazz greats, even when they were not playing well. As I said, not every septuagenarian/octogenarian musician can continue to play at a high level. I'll leave it at that.

I've seen several elderly Jazz musicians in recent times that should have been retired. Their playing was not good. One sax player embarrassed himself up on stage. Not every septuagenarian/octogenarian is physically capable of continuing their music career. I wonder why Bobby Kimball retired? He was a great singer with Toto.

Conference Call - Final Answer (Soul Note). Gebhard Ullmann (tenor and soprano saxopjones, bass clarinet); Michael jefry Stevens (piano); Joe Fonda (double bass); Matt Wilson (drums). Not really my kind of music. It's bandcamp Friday, so if you like it, you can buy it today and support the artists: https://gebhardullmann.bandcamp.com/album/final-answer

Did You miss this one? That is not someone exploring ethnic/cultural identity.

I never commented in this thread because I always felt it was just Allen fucking with us. I see he's managing to do it even though he's no longer posting here.

If you call what he does "singing", then sure.

I believe this. But I'd also be willing to bet that if this chart was "Watch a cell phone screen for more than 11 hours per week", it would be totally reversed.

I'm nowhere near 81 & even at my age I can't see myself performing on stages all around the world, night after night. I have enough trouble when we get back to back snowstorms up here in Maine. I am retired and hope to be able to enjoy not working. I heard a story that 81 year old Steve Miller (now 82) backed out of a small tour at the last minute last year and some of the artists involved threatened to sue. I guess you can't even slow down when you get older in the rock world. You can only stop.

I'm thinking about seeing Nick Goumas and Jason Palmer at Arthur's House of Jazz in Methuen Thursday night, but I just saw them at The Press Room a few months ago. Plus, no one seems able to go to this one, so I'd have to go solo.

I seem to remember late (like December) of 1996 but it may have been later. No matter when it started, it wasn't around for very long. I hung out at various Jazz forums back then and even the AAJ and The Jazz Corner forums held on longer than the Blue Note board.

The Blue Note forum was only around for about 7 years (1996-2003), so this forum has outlasted it by quite a bit.