Kevin Bresnahan

I still wear mine every now & then but it's definitely showing serious signs of age. The gold plating is far too thin. I'm also on my second replacement watchband. I don't drink whiskey. Can't stand the smell of the stuff. But from what I understand, whiskey stones are a much better way to chill your whiskey.

I enjoy the music here. I have it some of it on the LP version issued on Record Store Day. I managed to snag one of the signed copies. I was a bit bummed that this LP didn't come with a download card. I was even more bummed when the CDs came out and two of the tracks on the LP release that were supposed to be "exclusive" came out on a CD version shortly afterward. And truly, even if these are alternate takes of these two tunes, then why release a double CD set titled, "Foursight: The Complete Stockholm Tapes"?

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.

83 is a good run. I hope to make it that long, Has The Youngbloods self-titled LP really only been issued on CD twice, once in the UK in 1988 and again in 2014 in Japan? That seems unbelievable.

Allen Lowe is not coming back unless he works something out with Jim A. Edited to add that it was Allen's decision to leave. Jim A. just made it so that he couldn't delete all of his content when he left.

A moderator's job here on organissimo forums has never been defined by Jim A. We've had several through the years that have done a decent job of deescalating arguments. It's fine line between deleting/editing inflammatory comments and censorship. Jim S seems to allow almost everything to go on for a lot longer than other moderators, likely because he expects things to work out in the end. This may be why some people don't like his style. In the absence of Larry Kart, Jim A. recently asked me to help out. While I enjoy a good debate, I am less inclined to let them get as nasty as Jim has on a few occasions. Hopefully our two moderation styles can co-exist here and we can make this a good place to visit for everyone.

I'm pretty sure that Mnytime was playing us with a long con, although I don't know what his endgame was. He sounded like he had connections in the industry, but quite a few of my connections at the time didn't think he was right with everything he reported. For instance, he reported that Columbia couldn't wait to get rid of Wynton Marsalis but everyone I asked said that their connections at Columbia didn't have any problems with him and that his discs sold OK, though they faded in the end. Then the story changed and it was his girlfriend that was working at Columbia and she didn't like Wynton. Then his girlfriend became his wife. Then it was his ex-girlfriend. The story seemed to change and change. His untimely demise was also very weird. At first, he was sick (was it cancer?). Then he had a car accident. Then his "brother" came on using his account to say he died, yet his brother wrote exactly like Mnytime did and seemed to have the same insider connections. It just sounded like a story concocted to kill off his persona. On top of that, his brother disappeared when he was asked about his brother's services. All in all, it didn't sound like he was being honest with us.

Part of the problem with regular posters like soulpope choosing to leave is that we aren't getting new members, so whenever any of us leave for an extended period, it creates a bit of a void. FWIW, there is a huge waiting list of people wanting to get on the forum but a cursory look at the applicants' info shows that it's faked and the applicant is simply looking to spam the heck out of us, so I skip approving them. Again, if anyone knows of someone legitimately trying to join the forum, contact me with their E-mail address. BTW - the biggest problem with trying to screen these applicants is that almost all of them use gmail e-mail addresses. A gmail E-mail is almost impossible to Google to find a real person so I generally skip over them.

If you read his Wiki entry, his downward career path was probably due to his addictions, rather than bad luck. He died at 38 from cirrhosis.

I was at the Up/Over Jazz Cafe for one of the nights James recorded enough music for two self-released CDs, "Blues Up And Over Vol. 1" & "Round To It Vol. 2". I was pretty excited to hear these CDs, as I remember that night being pretty fantastic. I bought "Blues Up And Over" right away, but to this day, I have never found a CD copy of "Round To It" and missed this thread back in 2005. I see that James is now offering a download of "Round To It". It's a bit steep (as downloads go) at $18, but I may have to bite the bullet to finally re-hear this music. https://jamesspaulding.bandcamp.com/album/round-to-it

The entire "Heavy Metal" soundtrack isn't really a bunch "heavy metal" musicians, so Blue Oyster Cult fits fine. From the track listing, maybe Black Sabbath fits the bill, but most of the others are "What the heck are they doing on there?" musicians. Donald Fagen? Cheap Trick? Stevie Nicks? Devo? Sammy Hagar – Heavy Metal Riggs – Heartbeat Devo – Working In The Coal Mine Blue Öyster Cult – Veteran Of The Psychic Wars Cheap Trick – Reach Out Don Felder – Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride) Donald Fagen – True Companion Nazareth – Crazy (A Suitable Case For Treatment) Riggs – Radar Rider Journey – Open Arms Grand Funk Railroad – Queen Bee Cheap Trick – I Must Be Dreamin' Black Sabbath – The Mob Rules Don Felder – All Of You Trust – Prefabricated Stevie Nicks – Blue Lamp