Kevin Bresnahan

Mine came in today... I'm spinning disc 1 now. Damn, the audio on the first session (Jo Jones Trio) sounds wonderful. This first session has some really great music.

I managed to catch Dave's quintet for several years in a row at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA and they never failed to amaze me. Year in and year out, the music was incredible. I was so bummed out when Dave broke that group up.

Speed goes too far out for my tastes. I haven't caught one of his gigs in a long while because of it. I was a bit bummed out that Javon Jackson canceled his 3/22 Boston appearance due to lack of ticket sales. I still think part of the reason was that it was advertised as a project with the late Nikki Giovanni, implying that it would be a melding of Jazz and poetry. While I don't have a problem with that, a lot of purists do, so I am not surprised that sales lagged. He should have advertised it as his quartet interpreting her lyrics but he didn't want to do that. Instead, it was canceled.

The Zoot Sims record with Buddy Rich is also a stone cold classic, going under the name of "Nirvana", "Featuring Buddy Rich", "Somebody Loves Me", "Send In The Clowns" (so appropriate), "A Summer Thing" & "Europa Jazz". I have it with this cover:

I never did get around to getting any of those. I do have the Lucky Thompson dates on LP though.

For some reason, these two labels have somehow managed to attain permanent "low budget" status on the used market. There is some great music in their catalog too, which makes it even weirder. Don't sleep on those Lucky Thompson dates.

Even weirder is that there was a US CD version released in 2000 on the OJC label and it only duplicates the Japanese LP track listing and omits the alternate/extra tracks from the US LP when they could have easily fit on the CD.

My copy just came in. I haven't spun it yet nor perused the cookbook, but I hope to in the next few days. I'm the cook of the house for the next few weeks/months as my wife recuperates from surgery so I'm hoping there's an interesting (and easy) recipe in here. Now spinning - David Weiss Sextet - Auteur (Origin). David with a killer band of Myron Walden, Nicole Glover, David Bryant, Eric Wheeler & E.J. Strickland. Really enjoying the playing on this. Strickland is quite the drummer, with fun little accents here & there. I'm a bit bummed that I missed this band when they played at Scullers a little while back, but I had previous commitments. I hear it was a good show.

So after many many years of searching, I have finally gotten my hands on this CD. It's great to be able to hear more music from these sets at the Up/Over. I wonder if Mike LeDonne recorded the band the night I saw him there around the same time? If I remember correctly, he had Jim Rotondi, Eric Alexander, Nat Reeves & Joe Farnsworth in his band. That was a fun night for sure.

While in Florida... Woman drowned dog in airport bathroom after being denied boarding, police say

If Allen wants back in, he needs to contact Jim A. As I understand it, he did ask to have all of his posts removed when he decided to leave and since we just had someone delete their entire post history a few weeks before, Jim A decided he didn't want that again so he blocked Allen. Since Jim A has since decided that he wanted to avoid anyone from deleting their entire posting history so he turned off that ability. I see no reason that he couldn't turn Allen's account back on if Allen requests it. And again, Allen asked Jim A to delete his account, so this is not the result of any moderation event.

It might be in your local record shop. It was reissued on CD & LP in 2017.

The last few batch of covers posted to that "Sexiest Covers" thread were not anything like "All Smiles". They were soft core porn shots from Jane Birkin LPs - cover shots that they don't even show on discogs.com. On top of that, as I understand it, the mods had to delete a bunch more like these earlier. If that thread hadn't gone that route, who knows if it would have been dumped? In the end, moderating it became a PIA and it wasn't worth the hassle. And I would note that neither Jim S nor I deleted the unmodified cover of "All Smiles" posted in this thread.

I don't get what that has to do with my comment. I was not commenting about the nudity. I was commenting that an album titled "All Smiles" has a woman clearly not smiling. And we all know why that thread was pulled. It got out of hand and people wouldn't reign it in.

Never understood that cover anyway... maybe if the woman was smiling.