Kevin Bresnahan

@Milestones Did you ever get an external optical drive that worked for you?

I'm actually anticipating it will have even less jazz content as has been the case for most "jazz" festivals these days.

I'm up for the Henderson date on CD. My days of buying new vinyl when there's a CD option are slowly going away. I already have too many LPs that I don't have room for.

I saw this band on tour at the time. It was a fun show. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to remember Hutcherson stealing the show. I'm pretty sure I also Tyner & Hutcherson play a set as a duet in support of the CD, "Manhattan Moods", but it's been a while so my memory is a bit fuzzy on that.

My wife and I used to really like the show "Elsbeth" on CBS. But it has gotten ridiculously repetitive. Even worse, the mysteries are always "insta-solved". The latest one we watched, she gleamed the murderer in less than 30 seconds. I know we're supposed to believe that Elsbeth is very good at detecting, but this one was absolutely insane - the husband had already confessed to the murder.

But a turntable is already analog. I wouldn't think there would be any benefit to converting it to digital for playback purposes. I could see using that digital output from my turntable to make a digital file for future playback but not when straight-up playing LPs.

We had a good thread going on these a while back:

I watched Nobody 2 on Netflix today. Nowhere near as good as the first film.

Lon - what do you mean by "I used to use it with my phono preamp which outputs DSD via HDMI into the DAC"? When you say phono preamp, are you talking about your turntable preamp? That would be an A>D to a D>A conversion. I could see a phono preamp having a DSD output so that you can needle-drop LPs to a DSD file. I use a standalone CD recorder for my needle drops. I would probably use the DSD format if I had this available to me.

This is a nice recording. Joe Henderson shines. I wish that band had stayed together and toured. I would have loved to see them live.

And from what we've been told in the past, no royalties to the musicians either.

My late uncle had two bypass operations before he turned 45. His son decided it would be a good idea to get a calcium scan. His score was 750. They then followed up with a cardiac catheterization and they found several severe blockages. Within two weeks of getting his cardiac calcium score, he had a quadruple bypass. It was his story that got me to finally get one. Good thing I did. My results were pretty bad but not bad enough (yet) to require bypass surgery. Strangely enough, my older brother got a score of 0, which blows my mind. I think a lot of it has to do with high cholesterol. My cholesterol has been high for much of my adult life, even while taking statins.

I just wonder which one of us is the horse?

Billy Strayhorn - Cue For Saxophone (London). This used to be a tough CD to find but looking at discogs these days, maybe not so much any more.